Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, widely known as Allama Iqbal, was a poet, philosopher, and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is called the "Spiritual father of Pakistan". He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth9 November 1877
CountryPakistan
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.
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.
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.
It is absolutely certain that God does exist.
The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.
The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.