Muhammad Iqbal Quotes on Life
Sir Muhammad Iqbal was an Indian-Pakistani Islamic philosopher, poet, and political thinker of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, widely regarded as the spiritual father of the modern state of Pakistan and as the most influential Muslim poet of the South Asian subcontinent. This page collects quotes attributed to Muhammad Iqbal on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“It cannot be denied that Islam , regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity – by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal – has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India . It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.”
Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, 29 December 1930 (from University of Columbia website ) -
“Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, 29 December 1930 (from University of Columbia website ). Quoted by Zafar Anjum in Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician (2014).”
The principle that each group is entitled to its free development on its own lines is not inspired by any feeling of narrow communalism . There are communalisms and communalisms. A community which is inspired by feelings of ill-will towards other communities is low and ignoble. I entertain the highest respect for the customs, laws, religious and social institutions of other communities. Nay, it is -
“Would we have played with our lives for nothing but worldly gain? If our people had run after earth's goods and gold, Need they have smashed idols, and not idols sold?”
Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa | Shikwa. [4] -
“My forefathers were Brahmins . They spent their lives in search of God. I am spending my life in search of Man .”
Educational Thinkers [1]