Muhammad Iqbal Quotes on God
Sir Muhammad Iqbal was an Indian-Pakistani Islamic philosopher, poet, and political thinker of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, widely regarded as the spiritual father of the modern state of Pakistan and as the most influential Muslim poet of the South Asian subcontinent. This page collects quotes attributed to Muhammad Iqbal on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Muhammad Iqbal:
“The mind that is most alive is the mind most in contact with God.”
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Attributed to Muhammad Iqbal:
“Islam is not a finished system; it is a continuous engagement of the believing self with the world.”
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Attributed to Muhammad Iqbal:
“The reconstruction of religious thought is the proper labor of every generation of Muslims.”
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“The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience .”
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930), p. 14