Muhammad Iqbal

“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.”

“But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.”

“That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.”

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

“But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.”

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

“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.”

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

“Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.”

“Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.”

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

“I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.”

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

“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.”

“From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire of life”

“The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled”

“Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.”

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

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