Talk:Muhammad Iqbal

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• Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
• Given character and healthy imagination, it is possible to reconstruct this world of sin and misery into a veritable paradise.
• It is time that I reopen the tavern of Rumi: the shaikhs of the Kaaba are lying drunk in the courtyard of the church..
• Death does not exist. It is life that is a predominant reality, not death.
• 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.

Allama Iqbal said "But inner experience is only source of human knowledge" "Nation are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians" (Iqbal)

Counted not weighed

This source https://iqbalurdu.blogspot.com/2011/04/zarb-e-kaleem-169-jumhooriat.html?m=1 not a reliable source, gives the full quotation of an entry here as:

"A certain European revealed a secret,
Although the wise do not reveal the core of the matter
Democracy is a certain form of government in which
Men are counted but not weighed."

And as a note the source says that the "certain European" who is being quoted or paraphrased is Stendhal.

- IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 03:32, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Seems like Iqbal is more likely referring to Schiller:

"'Twere meet that voices should be weighed, not counted.
Sooner or later must the state be wrecked,
Where numbers sway and ignorance decides."

from Demetrius.[1] IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 13:52, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

German text:[2]
"Man soll die Stimmen wägen und nicht zählen;
Der Staat muß untergehn, früh oder spät,
Wo Mehrheit siegt und Unverstand entscheidet." IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 14:03, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Alternate translation:[3]
"Votes should be weighed, not counted.
Sooner or later, the state will be wrecked
In which majority rules, and ignorance decides." IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 14:03, 9 November 2024 (UTC)