Muhammad Iqbal Zitate auf Englisch

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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

God is not a dead equation!

Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

Muhammad Iqbal

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

Muhammad Iqbal

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Muhammad Iqbal

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

Muhammad Iqbal

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Muhammad Iqbal

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

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

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.

Muhammad Iqbal

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Muhammad Iqbal

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

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

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

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

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Muhammad Iqbal

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Muhammad Iqbal

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

Muhammad Iqbal

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

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

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Muhammad Iqbal

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Muhammad Iqbal

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

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

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 inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Muhammad Iqbal

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

Muhammad Iqbal

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

Muhammad Iqbal