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.”

“Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.”

“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.”

“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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