"If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy."

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When Muhammad Iqbal speaks about art, it invites us to pause and reflect on our own journey. How often do we consider the subtle impacts of art in our daily lives? This thought-provoking perspective challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of ourselves.

About Muhammad Iqbal

Sir Muhammad Iqbal was an Islamic philosopher and poet. His poetry in Urdu is considered among the greatest of the 20th century, and his vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British India is widely regarded as having animated the impulse behind the Pakistan Movement. The honorific commonly refers to him as Allamah and is widely considered one of the most important and influential Muslim thinkers and Islamic religious philosophers of the 20th century.

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