Muhammad Iqbal Quotes


But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.


Citations

Iqbal, Muhammad. Poems from Iqbal. Translated by V. G. Kiernan, John Murray, 1955, p. 55.

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Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal
  • Born: November 9, 1877
  • Died: April 21, 1938
  • Nationality: British, Indian
  • Profession: Poet

Sir Muhammad Iqbal was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan. He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama (from Persian علامه ʻallāma, "very knowing, most learned".)