15 Quotes by Allama Iqbal

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

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

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 to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikleyIn this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,They go down on one side to come up on the other.

Fareb-e-nazar hai sakoon-o-sabaatTarapta hai har zarra-e-qayanaatThehrata Nahin Karwaan-E-WajoodKe Har Lehza Hai Taza Shaan E WajoodSamjhta Hai Tu Raaz Hai Zindagi Faqat Zauq-E-Parwaaz Hai ZindagiAllama IqbalSteadiness is a deception from our eyes,Every particle in this universe pulsates with a revolution.Caravan of the existence does not rest,Every moment life renews itself.You might think life is a mystery,Whereas life is merely a flight of desires.*Translation by Jasz Gill

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.

Since love first made the breast an instrumentOf fierce lamenting, by its flame my heartWas molten to a mirror, like a roseI pluck my breast apart, that I may hangThis mirror in your sightGaze you therein.

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,His burning candle consumed me - the moth;His wine overwhelmed my goblet,The master of Rum transmuted my earth to goldAnd set my ashes aflame

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment, His burning candle consumed me - the moth; His wine overwhelmed my goblet, The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold And set my ashes aflame