Muhammad Iqbal Quotes on Mind
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), the South Asian philosopher-poet whose Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930) and the long Persian and Urdu poetic corpus gave the modern Muslim world one of its most influential philosophical voices, developed across his career an explicit philosophy of khudī — the dynamic creative selfhood whose progressive intensification through discipline, love, and engagement with the world is, on Iqbal's analysis, the proper goal of human existence. The framework draws on Bergson, Fichte, Nietzsche, and the classical Sufi inheritance (particularly Rūmī) to defend a vitalist metaphysics of the ego that frames mind not as a passive registration of an external order but as the active, world-shaping power through which the human person participates in the divine creative activity.
Quotes
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Attributed to Muhammad Iqbal:
“Khudi, the self, is the proper category through which Islamic philosophy must be renewed.”
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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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“Muhammad of Arabia ascended the highest Heaven and returned. I swear by God that if I had reached that point, I should never have returned.” These are the words of a great Muslim saint, ‘ Abd al-Quddūs of Gangoh . In the whole range of Sufi literature it will be probably difficult to find words which, in a single sentence, disclose such an acute perception of the psychological difference between t”
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930), p. 99 -
“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, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.”
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 ) -
“Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism.”
Stray Reflections