The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. – Muhammad Iqbal
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. – Muhammad Iqbal
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. – Muhammad Iqbal
Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities. – Muhammad Iqbal
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
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
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. – Muhammad Iqbal
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
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. – Muhammad Iqbal
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. – Muhammad Iqbal
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. – Muhammad Iqbal
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
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? – Muhammad Iqbal
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. – 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
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. – Muhammad Iqbal
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
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body. – Muhammad Iqbal