Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

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

Muhammad Iqbal

A community which is inspired by feelings of ill-will towards other communities is low and ignoble. I entertain the highest respect for the customs, laws, religious and social institutions of other communities. Nay, it is my duty, according to the teaching of the Quran, even to defend their places of worship, if need be. Yet I love the communal group which is the source of my life and behaviour; and which has formed me what I am by giving me its religion, its literature, its thought, its culture, and thereby recreating its whole past as a living operative factor, in my present consciousness.

Muhammad Iqbal

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

Muhammad Iqbal

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Muhammad Iqbal

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

Muhammad Iqbal

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.

Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal

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Born: November 9, 1877

Died: April 21, 1938 (aged 60)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

The Secrets of the Self (1915)
The Call of the Marching Bell (1924)
Javid Nama (1932)
The Development of Metaphysics in Persia (1908)

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