Muhammad Iqbal

Poet, Philosopher

Muhammad Iqbal was a prominent philosopher and poet in British India, known for his influential works advocating for self-discovery and freedom.

Born
November 9, 1877
Died
April 21, 1938
Quotes
89
Rank
#4558

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul."

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"It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal."

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"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."

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

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"The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain"

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"Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings."

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