Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

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

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

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.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

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

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

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

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

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

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

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

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

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.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

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.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

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

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

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

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

God is not a dead equation!

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.