Quotes from allama iqbal

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.

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

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

The new world is as yet behind the veil of destiny In my eyes, however its dawn has been unveiled

From love's plectrum arises the song of the string of life Love is the light of life love is the fire of life

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.

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.

The ultimate aim of an ego is not to see something, but is to be something.