Muhammad Iqbal Quotes on Mind
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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
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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“The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930), p. 14”
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. 42”
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. 99”
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 -
“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 )