77 Top Quotes By Muhammad Iqbal
Popularly known as the ‘Spiritual father of Pakistan’, Sir Muhammad Iqbal was a renowned poet, philosopher, barrister and politician from Lahore, British India. As a result of his prolific work in Urdu and Persian Literature, he was tagged as the ‘Poet of the East’. Iqbal is the one who coined the ‘Two Nation Theory’ which eventually led to the partition of India and Pakistan. He was a key member of the All-India Muslim Leauge, and his famous speech at the Allahabad session is widely considered as a breakthrough moment for formation of Pakistan. Along with Jinnah, he spearheaded the founding principles of Pakistan Movement. His notable works include Asrar-e-Khudi, Rumuz-e-Bekhudi, Payam-e-Mashriq, Zabur-e-Ajam and Javed Nama. He was also the author of popular Indian hymn ‘Saare Jahan se Achha’. Iqbal was knighted by King George V in 1922, which granted him the title of ‘Sir’. We have collected Iqbal’s most famous quotes from his speeches, articles, poems, books etc. Let us take you through these quotes from the Father of Pakistan.
Failure is not fatal until we surrender trying again is the key of glorious victory
People who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
The new world is as yet behind the veil of destiny In my eyes, however its dawn has been unveiled
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
God is not a dead equation!
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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.
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
