Muhammad Iqbal Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.”

“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.”

“A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.”

“I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.”

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

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