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
But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
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.
When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.
Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.
Thou doest not know thy own destiny and doest not know that it gets its worth from thee - otherwise the luminous ruby is only a piece of stone.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.
I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.