Muhammad Iqbal
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"Sir Muhammad Iqbal" (}}) (9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938), widely known as "Allama Iqbal" (}}), was a philosopher, poet, mystic and politician in British Raj/British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian language/Persian languages.

Iqbal is admired as a prominent classical poet by Pakistani, Indian, Iranian peoples/Iranian, and other international scholars of literature. Though Iqbal is best known as an eminent poet, he is also a highly acclaimed "Muslim philosophical thinker of modern times". His first poetry book, The Secrets of the Self/Asrar-e-Khudi, appeared in the Persian language in 1915, and other books of poetry include Rumuz-i-Bekhudi, Payam-i-Mashriq and Zabur-i-Ajam. Amongst these his best known Urdu works are Bang-i-Dara, Bal-i-Jibril, The Rod of Moses/Zarb-i Kalim and a part of Gift from Hijaz/Armughan-e-Hijaz.

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Set not the chain of Fate upon thy foot. There is a way beyond this rolling sphere.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Art is a sacred lie.

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

If your liver becomes blood through this your destiny, then ask God for another destiny. It is possible that you request from God another destiny.