Quotes from Muhammad Iqbal

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

God is not a dead equation!

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.