Muhammad Iqbal Quotes


Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.


Citations

Iqbal, Muhammad. The Secrets of the Self (Asrar-i-Khudi). Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, Macmillan and Co., 1920, p. 7.

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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".)