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The ultimate message behind alamaIqbal's thought is re-awakening of

the True Spirit of Islam in Muslims

as it was practised by the Truthful

Messenger of Allah(saw).In his book

' The Reconstruction of Religious

Thought in Islam' outlines the

foundations of his message and the

path to self realisation(khudi) in

three phases: spirituality, knowledge

and understanding of Nature and

insight into History all which are

taken from the Quran.

Spirituality is no better defined in

the Muslim kalma tayeba( declartion

that there is no God but Allah and

Mohammad(saw) is his prophet).The

more one dwells and believes in it

and believe truthfully,setting asideall manners of doubts the more one

as fully immersed in this belief and

finally lets nothing deter one from

this line of total belief; purifying of

the soul is achieved through the

Divine Truth that is the Quran.this

spirituality makes man understand

the desirable behaviour that is

required of him in all social norms,the difference between virtue and

vice and the ulimate code of conduct

in life preparing him to embark on

the next step towards fully realising

his potential.

The Quran says " The believersdwell on the wonders of Allah's

creation and say surely our creator

has not made all this meaningless"

which means true believers think

about the formation of the Universe

and percieve ideas which give them

substainable knowledge into how

things work in the Universe lending

itself to the various sciences of life

such as

technical,biological,chemical,physic

al etc and how and why these

sciences are important to mankind

and how they can best be of service

to humanity.The first Muslims based

in the initial Islamic State Medina

adhered to these lines and there was

no field of nature which Muslim

scholars left untouched, being

constantly aware of the changes in

their and the world's environment

and adopted and developed new

ideas regularly by experiments and

practise being always aware of

Islamic values and rules on virtue

and vice.These early Muslims were

never satisfied with singular

methods but kept on developingnewer and more efficient ones like

the devlopment in the West today

EXCEPT uppermost in the Muslims

minds was to serve mankind not to

enslave,degrade or destroy it

Alama Iqbal and the re-awakening of Muslims

By: I f t ikhar Kho khar


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because Islam condems harrasment

and killing of humans for political or

personal gains.

The third important phase outlined

by Alama Iqbal was History.History

is experience manifolded and in it

one finds guidelines and

wisdom,errors of humanity and their

solutions and the development of

new thoughts in Islam and in the

non-Islamic world.An era cannot last

for ever or a nation stay in total

satisfication if it is not aware of its

circumstances and move forward to

combat the various difficulties that

invariably will come to endanger

it.If it fails to keep its present

developments in tact with progress

in the world and fail to adopt itself to

modernity,with due regards to its

moral and religious obligations,it

will become

decadent,backward,stagnant and loseits grasp of reality.Islamic history is

rich in eras of greatness,in

knowledge,wisdom and

prosperity,and Depravity.A serious

student of history will take heed of

the values which made an era great

and ponder on the eras which ended

in depravation and enslavement.

Alama Muhammad Iqbal believed

that all three phases contribute to

the healthy welfare and continious

good future of Muslims; that all

three phase are inspired by the

unerring and total belief in Allah

and the Message of hisProphet(saw) which give

greater,realistic and humane scope

to humanity.Alama Iqbal believed

in the great Islamic truth that

Muslims are one unit devoid of

colour ,creed,land,race.language or

blood ties,that all men are equal inthe eyes of Allah and that it is the

birthright of all humans to live infreedom and for the Muslims where

they can freely,without foreign

influence practise their religion and

develop and better their

social,economic and tradional

values.Hence the Pakistanideology.Pakistan meant the

Muslims will safeguard Islam in

Asia, awakening to the urgentproblems surrounding the Islamic

brotherhood in India and by those

three well defined phases establish

a model Islamic state which willgive inspiration to Muslims in the

world so that they become

independent also and being

independent will pave the way to

becoming ONE ISLAMIC UNIT inthe world and re-establish the great

glorious truth that is Islam

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