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Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal

Pakistani Poet

Born: Nov 9, 1877

Died: Apr 21, 1938

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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

People Liberty Thought Men Animals Thinking Ruined Immature Over Likely Becomes Method Hold Process Converting Who

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Muhammad Iqbal

Politicians Born Poets Prosper Hearts Hands Die Nations

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. Muhammad Iqbal

Life Best History Culture Law My Life Leader Islam Party Best Part Follow Given Lead Part Study Polity Literature Careful

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. Muhammad Iqbal

Man Passion Primarily Instinct Governed

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

Life Faith Religion Lost Adhere Security No Life Him Does Who

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. Muhammad Iqbal

Plants Faithful Minerals Only Divine Bound Predestination Orders

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

Truth Heart Philosophy Poetry Becomes Gets Burning Then

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. Muhammad Iqbal

Nature Prayer Kind Seeker Mystic Observer Scientific Act

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. Muhammad Iqbal

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. Muhammad Iqbal

Life Soul Universe Analogy Touch Divine Contact Body Whole

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. Muhammad Iqbal

Love Heart Made Mirror First Flame Rose Sight Pluck Since Like Instrument Hang May Apart Fierce Your

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. Muhammad Iqbal

Will Islam Destiny Itself Suffer

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. Muhammad Iqbal

God Experience Other Related Immediacy System Mutually Objects Having Entity Mystic Simply Know Concepts Another Reference Mathematical Just Means

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. Muhammad Iqbal

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. Muhammad Iqbal

King Wing Crow Him Falcon Cemetery Brings

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

Art Men Object Prophecy Poetry Make Heir Then

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. Muhammad Iqbal

Will Become Dust Air Throw Glass Stone Thee

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. Muhammad Iqbal

Ego Stage Evolution Sexual Only Self-Restraint Preliminary

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. Muhammad Iqbal

Alone Knowledge Achievement Man Master Other Once Must Born Environment Inductive Makes His Which Modes Reason Reinforced Growth

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. Muhammad Iqbal

Knowledge Experience Only Source Human Human Knowledge Inner

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