Muhammad Iqbal Quotes - Page 3

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.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

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

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

I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

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

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

I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.

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

The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.

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

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

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

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

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