Allama Iqbal with his son Javed Iqbal in 1930

Muhammad Iqbal (November 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938), widely known as Allama Iqbal (علامہ اقبال), was a poet, philosopher, and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar in British RajHe is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature,^[1] with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages.

Quotes

• "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)

• "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 my duty, according to the teaching of the Quran, even to defend their places of worship, if need be. Yet I love the communal group which is the source of my life and behaviour; and which has formed me what I am by giving me its religion, its literature, its thought, its culture, and thereby recreating its whole past as a living operative factor, in my present consciousness."
  • 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)

• "I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India."
  • 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)

• "I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism."
  • 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)

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

• "Muhammad of Arabia ascended the highest Heaven and returned. I swear by God that if I had reached that point, I should never have returned." These are the words of a great Muslim saint, 'AbdulQuddës of Gangoh. In the whole range of Sufi literature it will be probably difficult to find words which, in a single sentence, disclose such an acute perception of the psychological difference between the prophetic and the mystic types of consciousness. The mystic does not wish to return from the repose of "unitary experience"; and even when he does return, as he must, his return does not mean much for mankind at large.
  • The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

• Democracy is a system in which heads are counted but not weighed.
  • Quoted from Elst, Koenraad. Hindu dharma and the culture wars. (2019). New Delhi : Rupa.

• "Nations are born in the hearts of poets;they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.
  • Stray reflections

• All land belongs to the Muslims, because it belongs to their God.
  • Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1992). Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam.

• "Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism"
  • stray reflections[http:www.allamaiqbal.com.htm]
• "Vision Without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture"
• "Heart – “It is absolutely certain that God does exist.”

Head – “But, my dear boy! Existence is one of my categories, and you have no right to use it.” Heart – “So much the better, my Aristotle!”

• • stray reflections

• Shah Alamgir, that high and mighty king,
  Pride and renown of Gurgan Timur’s line,
  In whom Islam attained a loftier fame
  And wider honour graced the Prophet’s Law,
  He the last arrow to our quiver left
  In the affray of Faith with Unbelief ;
  When that the impious seed of heresy,
  By Akbar nourished, sprang and sprouted fresh
  In Dara’s soul, the candle of the heart
  Was dimmed in every breast, no more secure
  Against corruption our Community
  Continued ; then God chose from India
  That humble-minded warrior, Alamgir,
  Religion to revive, faith to renew.
  The lightning of his sword set all ablaze
  The harvest of impiety ; faith’s torch
  Once more its radiance o’er our counsels shed.
  • The Secrets of Selflessness, Emperor Alamgir and the Tiger

External links

• Quotes Page