Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

“Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya HaiWhat should I ask the sages about my origin:I am always wanting to know my goal.”

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

“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.”

“Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.”

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

“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.”

“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”

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

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

“Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.”

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

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

“In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.”

“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.”

“Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.”

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

“Diyar-e-Ishq Mein Apna Maqam Paida Kar,Naya Zamana, Naye Subah-o-Sham Paida Kar;Khuda Agar Dil-e-Fitrat Shanas De Tujh Ko,Sakoot-e-Lala-o-Gul Se Kalaam Paida Kar;Mera Tareeq Ameeri Nahin, Faqeeri Hai,Khudi Na Baich, Ghareebi Mein Naam Paida KarBuild in love’s empire your hearth and your home;Build Time anew, a new dawn, a new eve!Your speech, if God give you the friendship of Nature,From the rose and tulip’s long silence weaveThe way of the hermit, not fortune, is mine;Sell not your soul! In a beggar’s rags shine.”