Muhammad Iqbal Quotes on Knowledge
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 knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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 -
“Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the warp and woof of our conscious experience.”
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930), p. 42 -
“Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, 29 December 1930 (from University of Columbia website )”
It cannot be denied that Islam , regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity – by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal – has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India . It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups,