Hadeel

“The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its founder, could be elevated, not by the forces of a world external to the soul of man, but by the revelation of a new world within his soul. Islam fully agrees with this insight and supplements it by the further insight that the illumination of the new world thus revealed is not something foreign to the world of matter but permeates it through and through.
Thus the affirmation of spirit sought by Christianity would come not by the renunciation of external forces which are already permeated by the illumination of spirit, but by a proper adjustment of man's relation to these forces in view of the light received from the world within.”
― Allama Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

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

“My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”
― Allama Iqbal

“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”
― Noam Chomsky