Allama Iqbal

Allama Iqbal Quotes 

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

2

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.

3

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.

4

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

5

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

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6
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

7
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

8

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

10

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

11

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

12

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

17

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

18

God is not a dead equation!

19

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

20

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

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