Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
The question, therefore, is how is it possible to solve the problem of Muslim poverty?
Ironically, this has been the central problem in the Islamic world ever since. Turkey which became a modern secular state has largely emerged from poverty, and there are a few small oil-rich monarchies that are not poor. But no Islamic religious state has ever developed substantially and emerged from poverty.
Muhammad Iqbal, 1877-1938, Urdu Poet & Politician, President, All India Muslim League Letter, May 28, 1937
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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".)