Muhammad Iqbal > Quotes
Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle
Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai.”
people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.”
“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”
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”
The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled”
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”
“Ki Muhammad se wafa toonay to ham teray hain
Ye jahan cheez hai kiya lauho qalam tere hain”
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”
“The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”
