Iqbal
– A Great Thinker of Modern Muslim World
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article mainly aims at the way how we can change the way
of thinking of our younger generation. Dr. Allama Muhammad
Iqbal’s core contribution to Muslim regeneration
lay in giving his people an idea, something to live and
die for. In tandem, it also lay in fostering in them the
moral fiber and the determination to realize that idea.
That fostering was inspired by his hugely productive life;
he had assumed the role of an ideologue, besides being
the national poet.
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"The
Muslims are about to enter the same phase of intellectual
transformation which began in the European history with
Luther." |
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Towards the intellectual and political emancipation
of the Muslims Iqbal’s contribution was fourfold. Through
the powerful medium of poetry, he had drawn the attention of
the people to the depths of degradation to which they had fallen.
He also elaborated that, during last three hundred year, the
Muslim world had been intellectually mostly inactive and the
younger generation of Muslim Ummah not being satisfied with
old interpretation were interested in a fresh orientation of
Islam. Iqbal believed the system of education introduced by
the Europeans in the Muslim world, which was under their influence
they had begun to think that so long as the Islamic teaching
are not conformed to the stander of science. Islam would not
be able to face the challenge of the modern age. This perception
is totally wrong; actually after the destruction of Baghdad
in 1258 the door of Ijtahad is closed for forever and not only
that our ’Molana’s’ usually likes to make
us confused by their own descriptions.
Likewise, on 18th March 1926, he addressed to Mulana Suleyman
Nadvi, he say, “The Muslims are about to enter the same
phase of intellectual transformation which began in the European
history with Luther”. According to him the modernization
of Islamic law was feasible but only in the condition that
the world of Islam approaches it in the spirit of UMER the
second caliph. Iqbal combine in his teaching the spirituality
of the east and dynamism of the west and this to him is a
real Islam.
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