Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal

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Muhammad Iqbal, an Islamic philosopher and poet, has become one of the most frequently quoted voices on subjects that matter. Muhammad Iqbal's observations on Experience are as sharp as their thoughts on Religion, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Our collection holds 38 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal, each offering a different angle on Experience, Religion, Poetry, Nature, and Knowledge. To get a sense of their style, try: "But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge."

“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Nature

All Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal

“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Experience

“Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Poetry

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

Power

“The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Health

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

Faith

“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.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Truth

“Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Experience

“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Nature

“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.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Men

“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.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Alone

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

Poetry

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

Motivational

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

Poetry

“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.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Experience

“Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Experience

“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Experience

“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Nature

“God is not a dead equation!”

— Muhammad Iqbal

God

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

Freedom

“Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.”

— Muhammad Iqbal

Experience