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Muhammad Iqbal Philosopher

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: British Raj
  • Born: Nov 9, 1877
  • Died: Apr 21, 1938

Sir Muhammad Iqbal, widely known as Allama Iqbal, was a philosopher, poet and politician in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages.

Iqbal is admired as a prominent classical poet by Pakistani, Indian, Iranian, and other international scholars of literature. Though Iqbal is best known as an eminent poet, he is also a highly acclaimed "Muslim philosophical thinker of modern times". His first poetry book, Asrar-e-Khudi, appeared in the Persian language in 1915, and other books of poetry include Rumuz-i-Bekhudi, Payam-i-Mashriq and Zabur-i-Ajam. Amongst these his best known Urdu works are Bang-i-Dara, Bal-i-Jibril, Zarb-i Kalim and a part of Armughan-e-Hijaz. In Iran and Afghanistan, he is famous as Iqbāl-e Lāhorī, and his poetry enjoys immense popularity among the masses, as well as strong support from ideologues of the Iranian Revolution.

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

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

God is not a dead equation! God

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

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

Words, without power, is mere philosophy. power

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

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

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

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

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

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

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. experience

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. experience & knowledge