Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
When earlier that year, Charles Darwin had published his, "On the Origin of Species". For many, the new ideas undermined the role of God. For some thinkers, the thesis of evolution as then promulgated was discouraging in that it undermined the role of man in creating change—–especially reform and progressive change. Herzen, however correctly perceived that the two were quite compatiable.
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".)
