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
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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.
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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.
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.
Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.