Top 100 Iqbal's Quotes
#1. Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
Iqbal Quadir
#2. The heart is like a mirror. Do not prevent it from being broken. It's breakage is more dearer in the sight of its maker [Allah], than its safety. Almighty Allah being indeed the Maker
Muhammad Iqbal
#3. 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
#4. Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.
Muhammad Iqbal
#5. Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Muhammad Iqbal
#6. The causality-bound aspect of Nature is not the whole truth. Ultimate Reality is invading our consciousness from other directions as well, and the purely intellectual method of overcoming Nature is not the only way.
Muhammad Iqbal
#7. Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
Iqbal Quadir
#8. Every hardship is relief,there is one hardship with two relief so one hardship can't over come two relief
Iqbal Ahmed
#9. Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.
Iqbal Quadir
#11. We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
Iqbal Quadir
#12. This was different, spontaneous, unrestricted. This was what dancing was supposed to feel like - like freedom.
Anam Iqbal
#13. The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.
Iqbal Quadir
#14. What makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions?
Usman Iqbal
#15. Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Muhammad Iqbal
#16. 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
#17. Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi
Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi
Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal's, soulfully;
Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali
Muhammad Iqbal
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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.
Muhammad Iqbal
#21. The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal
#22. 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.
Muhammad Iqbal
#23. Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
Iqbal Quadir
#24. Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya Hai
Ke Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya Hai
What should I ask the sages about my origin:
I am always wanting to know my goal.
Muhammad Iqbal, Sir
#25. Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
Benazir Bhutto
#26. The Angel of Death had sworn retribution, and she wasn't going to stop until she'd killed them all.
Anam Iqbal
#27. Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
Muhammad Iqbal
#28. During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
Iqbal Quadir
#29. From love's plectrum arises
the song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
love is the fire of life
Muhammad Iqbal
#30. British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.
Muhammad Iqbal
#31. The highest stage of Man's ethical progress is reached when he becomes absolutely free from fear and grief.
Muhammad Iqbal
#32. 13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands.
13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.
Zadie Smith
#33. Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
Muhammad Iqbal
#34. All the power
in the
Cosmos
Exists
Inside You
Seek it not elsewhere.
Gabriel Iqbal
#35. Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.
Aravind Adiga
#36. Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
Muhammad Iqbal
#37. At the heart of the universe
is a musical note
If you care to be silent
you can hear it.
Gabriel Iqbal
#38. The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.
Muhammad Iqbal
#39. Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
Muhammad Iqbal
#40. If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal
#41. I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
Muhammad Iqbal
#42. Alas for a love whose fire is extinct,
A love that was born in the Holy Place and died in the house of idols!
Muhammad Iqbal
#43. Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions ... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal
#44. Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Muhammad Iqbal
#45. 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
#46. Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
Muhammad Iqbal
#47. Failure is not fatal until we surrender
trying again is the key of glorious victory
Muhammad Iqbal
#48. Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
Muhammad Iqbal
#49. That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
Muhammad Iqbal
#50. 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
#51. 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
#53. Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
Muhammad Iqbal
#54. I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates
Tamim Iqbal
#55. The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammad Iqbal
#56. The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
Iqbal Quadir
#57. Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Muhammad Iqbal
#58. What is love? Love is not a collection of words, a sonnet, music or art.
Love is the act of you not existing so that someone else can.
IQBAL
#59. Become nothing...
hurry .... dissolve ...
end the fire ...
Drown in the ocean of love...
Disintegrate...
Become like water
No even lighter
Ethereal Vapour
Bellow across the hearts
Embalm spirits
Create Bliss.
Gabriel Iqbal
#60. I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
Iqbal Quadir
#61. It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Muhammad Iqbal
#63. A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal
#64. In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
Iqbal Quadir
#65. You that performs all day
When will you remove that mask.
Gabriel Iqbal
#66. A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
Iqbal Quadir
#67. Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
Muhammad Iqbal
#68. He philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy.
Muhammad Iqbal
#69. 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
Muhammad Iqbal
#70. As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people.
Iqbal Sacranie
#71. Arise and pour pure wine into my cup,
Pour moon beams into the dark night of my
thought,
That I may lead home the wanderer
And imbue the idle looker-on with restless
impatience;
And advance hotly on a new quest
And become known as the champion of a new
spirit
Muhammad Iqbal
#72. 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
Gaze you therein
Muhammad Iqbal
#73. 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
#75. I spend these days in confusion, trying my best to fathom the significance of that shade....
Trying to fathom the suitable answers to my ambiguities, if they can be called as such." - Basil
Amna Iqbal
#76. I am a gardener
I plant hearts
I have no other knowledge
No language now
Close the language door and
open the heart portal
Where everything connects as ONE.
Gabriel Iqbal
#77. I said, "The thing we quested after is never attained."
He said, "The unattainable - that thing is my desire!
Muhammad Iqbal
#78. He was the one for her. She somehow knew that no one could make her feel the way did. Not if she lived for another hundred years.
Anam Iqbal
#79. -To Javed-
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth;
Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.
Muhammad Iqbal
#80. I am an Ultimate," she vowed, the walls of her heart quaking with ferocity and determination. "And I have the
power to do the impossible.
Sheeza Iqbal
#81. 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
#82. I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky,
And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
Muhammad Iqbal
#83. The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.
Iqbal Sacranie
#84. People who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.
Muhammad Iqbal
#85. In order to harness the power of love
You have to learn to love first
It grows in return with due measure.
Gabriel Iqbal
#86. I miss your fragrance, sometimes I miss it this much that I can clearly smell you in the air.
Qaisar Iqbal Janjua
#87. A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
Iqbal Quadir
#88. The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
Muhammad Iqbal
#89. You are
What you are looking for
In fragmented mirrors
Stop looking
Be Still
End the mind-noise
Silence Now
Eyes shut
Heart wide-open
And then you see
Everything!
Gabriel Iqbal
#90. I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
Muhammad Iqbal
#91. Let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that ... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.
Muhammad Iqbal
#92. 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
#93. The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.
Muhammad Iqbal
#94. Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
Muhammad Iqbal
#95. Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.
Muhammad Iqbal
#96. The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
Muhammad Iqbal
#97. 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.
Muhammad Iqbal
#98. I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.
Tamim Iqbal
#99. Close all the books
Open the Heart's book
Read out loud and clear
And then you shall BE the TRUTH
And you shall be a mighty kindness.
Gabriel Iqbal
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