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“Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle

Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai.”
― allama iqbal

“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”
― Allama Iqbal

“From love's plectrum arises
the song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
love is the fire of life”
― Allama Iqbal

“Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!”
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

“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.”
― Allama Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

“Failure is not fatal until we surrender
trying again is the key of glorious victory”
― Allama Mohammad Iqbal

“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.”
― Allama Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

“But only a brief moment
is granted to the brave
one breath or two, whose wage is
The long nights of the grave”
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

“I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky,
And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.”
― Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

“قیودِ شام و سحر میں بسر تو کی لیکن
نظامِ کُہنہ عالم سے آشنا نہ ھوا”
― Allama Iqbal, Bang-e-Dara / بانگ درا