Muhammad Iqbal
Bornin Sialkot, Punjab, PakistanNovember 09, 1877
DiedApril 21, 1938
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Sir Allama Mohammad Iqbal also known as Allama Iqbal was born in 1877 in Sialkot, Punjab, in British Ruled India, now Pakistan, and was educated in the local school and college in Sialkot, before going on the university in Lahore. There he studied Arabic and philosophy as an undergraduate, then in 1899 did an M.A. in philosophy (being ranked first in the Punjab, and awarded a Gold Medal). He was appointed to a Readership in Arabic at the Oriental College in Lahore, and over the next few years became well known as a poet, as well as writing his first book (in Urdu), The Knowledge of Economics (1903). 
Iqbal's mother, Imam Bibi who died on 9 November 1914. Iqbal expressed his feeling of pathos in a poetic form after her death.
In 1905 he travelled to Europe to continue his philosophical studies, first at Cambridge, then at Munich, where he obtained his doctorate with a thesis entitled The Development of Metaphysics in Persia. From 1907 to 1908 he was Professor of Arabic at the University of London; during this period he studied for the bar, becoming a barrister in 1908, when he returned to Lahore to practise law. While practising as an advocate at the Lahore High Court he continued to a part-time academic career as professor of philosophy and English Literature, being appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Government College, Lahore in 1911. He was knighted in 1923.
Despite his law practice, his philosophical work, and his gradual entry into politics, first as a member of the Punjab Legislative Council and later as president of the All India Muslim League, Iqbal was probably best known and respected as a poet. Nevertheless, his other activities brought him some measure of fame, especially six lectures that he gave at Madras, Osmania University at Hyderabad, and Aligarh, which were later published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930). During the early thirties he travelled extensively in the Middle East and Europe, participating in international political conferences, meeting philosophers and politicians, and writing.
His political view was that in theory a Muslim state wasn't desirable, as he held to the ideal of a world-wide Muslim community; nevertheless, he held that, at least in the short and medium terms, the only way for Indian Muslims to be able to live according to the tenets of Islam was in such a state, and he campaigned accordingly. He died in Lahore in 1938, some nine years before the creation of Pakistan, where his birthday is celebrated as national holiday.
Iqbal's philosophical work involved bringing various philosophical influences, including Leibniz, Hegel, and Nietzsche, to his Islamic scholarship, thus holding out the promise of a revival of genuine Islamic philosophical thought — a return of Islam to its place in the philosophical world. That promise has yet to be truly fulfilled, though it remains in place.
"To exist in pure duration is to be a self, and to be a self is to be able to say 'I am'." (The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam p.56)
Sir Allama Mohammad Iqbal also known as Allama Iqbal was born in 1877 in Sialkot, Punjab, in British Ruled India, now Pakistan, and was educated in the local school and college in Sialkot, before going on the university in Lahore. There he studied Arabic and philosophy as an undergraduate, then in 1899 did an M.A. in philosophy (being ranked first in the Punjab, and awarded a Gold Medal). He was appointed to a Readership in Arabic at the Oriental College in Lahore, and over the next few years became well known as a poet, as well as writing his first book (in Urdu), The Knowledge of Economics (1903).
In 1905 he travelled to Europe to continue his philosophical studies, first at Cambridge, then at Munich, where he obtained his doctorate with a thesis entitled The Development of Metaphysics in Persia. From 1907 to 1908 he was Professor of Arabic at the University of London; during this period he studied for the bar, becoming a barrister in 1908, when he returned to Lahore to practise law. While practising as an advocate at the Lahore High Court he continued to a part-time academic career as professor of philosophy and English Literature, being appointed Professor of Philosophy at the Government College, Lahore in 1911. He was knighted in 1923.
Despite his law practice, his philosophical work, and his gradual entry into politics, first as a member of the Punjab Legislative Council and later as president of the All India Muslim League, Iqbal was probably best known and respected as a poet. Nevertheless, his other activities brought him some measure of fame, especially six lectures that he gave at Madras, Osmania University at Hyderabad, and Aligarh, which were later published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930). During the early thirties he travelled extensively in the Middle East and Europe, participating in international political conferences, meeting philosophers and politicians, and writing.
His political view was that in theory a Muslim state wasn't desirable, as he held to the ideal of a world-wide Muslim community; nevertheless, he held that, at least in the short and medium terms, the only way for Indian Muslims to be able to live according to the tenets of Islam was in such a state, and he campaigned accordingly. He died in Lahore in 1938, some nine years before the creation of Pakistan, where his birthday is celebrated as national holiday.
Iqbal's philosophical work involved bringing various philosophical influences, including Leibniz, Hegel, and Nietzsche, to his Islamic scholarship, thus holding out the promise of a revival of genuine Islamic philosophical thought — a return of Islam to its place in the philosophical world. That promise has yet to be truly fulfilled, though it remains in place.
"To exist in pure duration is to be a self, and to be a self is to be able to say 'I am'." (The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam p.56)
MUHAMMAD IQBAL’S BOOKS
"خرد مندوں سے کیا پوچھوں کہ میری ابتدا کیا ہےکہ میں اس فکر میں رہتا ہوں، میری انتہا کیا ہےخودی کو کر بلند اتنا کہ ہر تقدیر سے پہلےخدا بندے سے خود پوچھے، بتا تیری رضا کیا ہےمقامِ گفتگو کیا ہے اگر میں کیمیا گر ہوںیہی سوزِ نفس ہے اور میری کیمیا کیا ہےنظر آئیں مجھے تقدیر کی گہرائیاں اس میںنہ پوچھ اے ہمنشیں مجھ سے وہ چشمِ سرمہ سا کیا ہےاگر ہوتا وہ مجذوب فرنگی اس زمانے میںتو اقبال اس کو سمجھتا مقام کبریا کیا ہےنوائے صبح گاہی نے جگر خوں کر دیا میراخدایا جس خطا کی یہ سزا ہے وہ خطا کیا ہے؟"― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
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"Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle
Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai."
― allama iqbal
"individuals who have no hold over their course of reasoning ara prone to be demolished by freedom of thought."
― Allama Iqbal
"Countries are brought into the world in the hearts of artists, they succeed and kick the bucket in the possession of lawmakers."
― Allama Iqbal
"The chemist of the West has transformed stone into glass
Be that as it may, my speculative chemistry has changed glass into stone
Pharaohs of today have followed me to no end"
― Allama Muhammad Iqbal
"Ki Muhammad se wafa toonay to ham teray hain
Ye jahan cheez hai kiya lauho qalam tere hain"
― Allama Mohammad Iqbal
labels: iqbal, islam, muhammad
"The new world is at this point
behind the cloak of fate
In my eyes, but
its day break has been revealed"
― Allama Iqbal
labels: dreams, future, iqbal, verse, upheaval, visions
"My progenitors were Brahmins. They spent their lives looking for god. I'm going through my time on earth looking for man."
― Allama Iqbal
"From affection's plectrum emerges
the melody of the line of life
Love is the radiance of life
love is the fire of life"
― Allama Iqbal
labels: iqbal, light, ylove, poetr
"Take a gander at the wrongs of your general surroundings and shield yourself from them. Our instructors give every one of some unacceptable messages to our childhood, since they remove the normal flare from the spirit. Take it from me that all information is futile until it is associated with your life, in light of the fact that the motivation behind information is only to show you the qualities of yourself!"
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
labels: quotes39 likesLike
"Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi
Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi
Azan yet sounds, however never now Like Bilal's, profoundly;
Reasoning, conviction-less, Now grieves its Ghazzali"
― Allama Mohammad Iqbal
labels: ghazzali, iqbal, islam, muslim, philosophy
"The uncovered and spiritualist writing of humanity bears adequate declaration to the way that strict experience has been too persevering and prevailing throughout the entire existence of humankind to be dismissed as simple deception. There is by all accounts not an obvious explanation, then, at that point, to acknowledge the typical degree of human experience as reality and reject its different levels as supernatural and profound."
― Allama Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
labels: human-experience, deception, otherworldliness, religion
"Disappointment isn't lethal until we give up
attempting once more is the key of radiant triumph"
― Allama Mohammad Iqbal
"وممات الحي فقدان الرجاء
يُطفئ الشعلة فِقدان الهواء"
― Muhammad Iqbal, The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944
"The secretive bit of the ideal energizes and supports the genuine, and through it alone we can find and attest the ideal."
― Allama Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
labels: reality, the-ideal23 likesLike
"The heart resembles a mirror. Try not to keep it from being broken. It's breakage is more dearer in seeing its producer [Allah], than its security. All-powerful Allah being to be sure the Maker"
― Muhammad Iqbal
"maa tujhe salaam
pher lete hai nazar jis waqt bete or bahu..
ajnabi apne greetings ghar me hae boycott jati hai maaa.."
― Allama Iqbal verse
labels: etc
"The extraordinary point in Christianity is the quest for a free satisfied for profound life which, as per the experiences of its pioneer, could be raised, not by the powers of a world outside to the spirit of man, yet by the disclosure of another world inside his spirit. Islam completely concurs with this understanding and enhancements it by the further knowledge that the light of the new world subsequently uncovered isn't an unfamiliar thing to the universe of issue however pervades it totally.
In this way the certification of soul looked for by Christianity would come not by the renunciation of outer powers which are as of now saturated by the brightening of soul, however by a legitimate change of man's connection to these powers considering the light gotten from the world inside."
― Allama Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
labels: christianity, islam, realism, spirituality20 likesLike
"I have seen the development of the ligaments of the sky,
Also, the blood flowing in the veins of the moon."
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
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"Yet, just a short second
is allowed to the bold
one breath or two, whose compensation is
The long evenings of the grave"
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
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"Diyar-e-Ishq Mein Apna Maqam Paida Kar,
Naya Zamana, Naye Subah-o-Sham Paida Kar;
Khuda Agar Dil-e-Fitrat Shanas De Tujh Ko,
Sakoot-e-Lala-o-Gul Se Kalaam Paida Kar;
Mera Tareeq Ameeri Nahin, Faqeeri Hai,
Khudi Na Baich, Ghareebi Mein Naam Paida Kar
Work in adoration's realm your hearth and your home;
Construct Time once more, another sunrise, another eve!
Your discourse, in the event that God provide you with the fellowship of Nature,
From the rose and tulip's long quietness weave
The method of the recluse, not fortune, is mine;
Sell not your spirit! In a poor person's clothes sparkle."
― Muhammad Iqbal, Baal-e-Jibreel
labels: motivation, venture, life-lessons
"For quite a long time Eastern heart and acumen have been invested in the inquiry � Does God exist? I propose to bring up another issue � new, in other words, for the East � Does man exist?"
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
labels: quotes
"خرد مندوں سے کیا پوچھوں کہ میری ابتدا کیا ہے
کہ میں اس فکر میں رہتا ہوں، میری انتہا کیا ہے
خودی کو کر بلند اتنا کہ ہر تقدیر سے پہلے
خدا بندے سے خود پوچھے، بتا تیری رضا کیا ہے
مقامِ گفتگو کیا ہے اگر میں کیمیا گر ہوں
یہی سوزِ نفس ہے اور میری کیمیا کیا ہے
نظر آئیں مجھے تقدیر کی گہرائیاں اس میں
نہ پوچھ اے ہمنشیں مجھ سے وہ چشمِ سرمہ سا کیا ہے
اگر ہوتا وہ مجذوب فرنگی اس زمانے میں
تو اقبال اس کو سمجھتا مقام کبریا کیا ہے
نوائے صبح گاہی نے جگر خوں کر دیا میرا
خدایا جس خطا کی یہ سزا ہے وہ خطا کیا ہے؟"
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
labels: uplifting, urdu16 likesLike
"The fact that gleams briefly makes me anyway as the flash,
His consuming flame consumed me - the moth;
His wine overpowered my flagon,
The expert of Rum changed my earth to gold
Also, set my remains burning."
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
labels: quotes
"let this be our lovely takeoff from stagnation; let our brains wake up; enter another aspect; go past the stars anxiously battling to see that as... which our unaided eyes didn't know existed; rise like a hawk destined to take off and not be distant from everyone else except be available among others."
― Muhammad Iqbal
labels: poem
"The writer's temperament is all looking, maker and nourisher of want; the writer resembles the heart in a group's bosom, a group without an artist is a simple pile of dirt. Assuming that the reason for verse is the designing of men, verse is moreover the beneficiary of prescience."
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
labels: quotes
"كفنا ألقت بخيط الوحدة
كم تري فى أمرنا من عُقدة ؟
قد مضينا كنجوم حائرة
إخوة لكن وجوه نافره"
― Muhammad Iqbal, The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944
"What is the person and general design of the universe wherein we live? Is there a long-lasting component in the constitution of this universe? How are we connected with it? What spot do we possess in it, and what is the sort of lead that befits the spot we possess? These inquiries are normal to religion, reasoning, and higher verse"
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal
labels: quotes
sLike"قیودِ شام و سحر میں بسر تو کی لیکن
نظامِ کُہنہ عالم سے آشنا نہ ھوا"
― Allama Iqbal, Bang-e-Dara/بانگ درا
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"كل من فى نفسه لا يحكمُ
هو فى حُكم سواه مُرغَمُ"
― Muhammad Iqbal, The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944
"Ich hört' in meiner Bücherei des Nachts
Sanctum Bücherwurm cave Schmetterling befragen:
"Ich habe mein Nest in Ibn Sinas Blättern,
Receptacle in Farabis Manuskript beschlagen -
Sanctum Sinn des Lebens hab' ich nicht verstanden,
Ganz sonnenlos leb' ich in finstern Tagen!"
Wie schön sprach darauf der halbverbrannte Falter:
"Nach diesem Punkt darfst du nicht Bücher fragen:
Nur Fieberglut kann neues Leben bringen,
Nur Fieberflut gibt deinem Leben Schwingen!"
― Muhammad Iqbal
labels: bücher, deutsche-sprache, gedicht, ibn-sina, leben, leidenschaft, poesie
