Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 09. November 1877 |
Geburtsort | Punjab_Province_(British_India) |
Todesort | Punjab_Province_(British_India) |
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Beschreibung | Sir Muhammad Iqbal Kt (Urdu: محمد اقبال; 9. November 1877 - 21. April 1938) war ein südasiatischer muslimischer Schriftsteller, Philosoph, Gelehrter und Politiker, dessen Gedichte in Urdu zu den bedeutendsten des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts zählen und dessen Vision eines kulturellen und politischen Ideals für die Muslime im britisch beherrschten Indien den Anstoß zur Gründung Pakistans gab. Er wird gemeinhin mit dem Ehrentitel Allama (aus dem Persischen: علامہ, romanisiert: ʿallāma, wörtlich "sehr wissend, sehr gelehrt") bezeichnet. |
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
God is not a dead equation!
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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.
