The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its founder, could be elevated, not by the forces of a world external to...

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally...

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

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

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.

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

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

If your liver becomes blood through this your destiny, then ask God for another destiny. It is possible that you request from God another destiny.

let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that… which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like...

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

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

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

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Ki Muhammad se wafa toonay to ham teray hainYe jahan cheez hai kiya lauho qalam tere hain

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.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na RahiFalsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na RahiAzan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully;Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings

Iqbal, in seinem Poem “Die Moschee von Cordoba”- ein paar Verse daraus: Stein sei es, Farbe, sei’s Ton:Wort sei es, Stimme, sei’s Ton – Jegliches Wunder der Kunstwächst nur aus Herzensblut – seht!Ja, durch den...

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

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

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

he philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this...

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

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

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to...

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...

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

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

Thou doest not know thy own destiny and doest not know that it gets its worth from thee – otherwise the luminous ruby is only a piece of stone.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

God is not a dead equation!

The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

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

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...

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.

From love’s plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire of life

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

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

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