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Muhammad Ikbal – indyjski teolog muzułmański, mistyk, filozof, działacz polityczny, poeta i prawnik; obywatel Wielkiej Brytanii.

Urodził się w Sialkot. Studiował w Trinity College na Uniwersytecie Cambridge i w Monachium. W 1908 r. został członkiem palestry. Powrócił do Indii, aby podjąć praktykę prawniczą i został mianowany profesorem filozofii. Zdobył pozycję czołowego poety tworzącego w językach urdu i perskim. Uczestniczył w konferencjach okrągłego stołu w 1931 i 1932 r. Był mistykiem przybierając imię „Ja” i Jedności Boga. Jego wykłady zebrane w tomie Odbudowa religijnej myśli islamskiej , wydanym w 1934 r., odegrały ważną rolę w umacnianiu wiary we własne siły wśród społeczności muzułmańskiej. W programowym przemówieniu do członków Ligi Muzułmańskiej, której był aktywnym działaczem, podczas jej konferencji w Allahabadzie, przedstawił koncepcję oddzielnego państwa muzułmańskiego, o charakterze republiki islamskiej, w północno-zachodnich Indiach. W kwestii tej dyskutował m.in. z Mahatmą Gandhim. Doczekała się ona jednak realizacji dopiero 9 lat po jego śmierci w postaci państwowości pakistańskiej. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Listopad 1877 – 21. Kwiecień 1938
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Muhammad Iqbal słynne cytaty

„Współczesny człowiek, to znaczy współczesny Europejczyk, przestał żyć duchowo, a więc wewnętrznie.”

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Rekonstrukcja życia religijnego w islamie (1928)
Źródło: Bruce Lawrence, Koran. Biografia, Warszawa, Warszawskie Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2008, str. 146

„My, muzułmanie, usunęliśmy brud fałszu ze stronic historii.
Uwolniliśmy ludzkość z więzów niewolnictwa
Ziemię wokół Al-Kaby omiotły nasze czoła,
Koran, który zesłałeś, przycisnęliśmy do piersi, ale teraz
Twoje błogosławieństwa spłynęły na domostwa niewiernych i obcych.
A tylko na biednych muzułmanów Twój gniew spada jak błyskawica.”

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Źródło: Bruce Lawrence, Koran. Biografia, Warszawa, Warszawskie Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2008, str. 144

„Przełamałem czar współczesnej nauki.
Schwytałem przynętę i rozbiłem pułapkę.
Bóg jeden wie, z jaką obojętnością
Jak Abraham siedziałem w jej ogniu!”

Muhammad Iqbal

Źródło: Bruce Lawrence, Koran. Biografia, Warszawa, Warszawskie Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2008, str. 145

„O ile grecka filozofia bardzo poszerzyła myślenie muzułmańskich myślicieli to jednak zaciemniła ich spojrzenie na Koran.”

Muhammad Iqbal

Rekonstrukcja życia religijnego w islamie (1928)
Źródło: Bruce Lawrence, Koran. Biografia, Warszawa, Warszawskie Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2008, str. 146

„Przy odradzaniu się islamu konieczne jest zbadanie w niezależny sposób, jak myślała Europa i w jakim stopniu osiągnięte przez nią wyniki mogą nam dopomóc w zrewidowaniu i – o ile to konieczne – w zrekonstruowaniu myśli teologicznej islamu.”

Muhammad Iqbal

Rekonstrukcja życia religijnego w islamie (1928)
Źródło: Bruce Lawrence, Koran. Biografia, Warszawa, Warszawskie Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2008, str. 146

Muhammad Iqbal: Cytaty po angielsku

“Democracy is a system in which heads are counted but not weighed.”

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Quoted from Elst, Koenraad. Hindu dharma and the culture wars. (2019). New Delhi : Rupa.

“From love's plectrum arises
the song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
love is the fire of life”

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“people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.”

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“The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass
But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint

Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain”

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“My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”

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Educational Thinkers http://books.google.com/books?id=O6Fp2zaQVVMC&pg=PA151&dq=Muhammad+Iqbal+Brahmin&hl=en&ei=hJQaTKPPKMewcfnqzIEK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Muhammad%20Iqbal%20Brahmin&f=false

“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.”

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Stray reflections http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/strayreflections/index.htm

“The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled”

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“"Heart – “It is absolutely certain that God does exist.””

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stray reflections http://www.allamaiqbal.com/

“"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, 'AbdulQuddës 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 the prophetic and the mystic types of consciousness. The mystic does not wish to return from the repose of "unitary experience"; and even when he does return, as he must, his return does not mean much for mankind at large.”

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The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/reconstruction/index.htm

“Would we have played with our lives for nothing but worldly gain?
If our people had run after earth's goods and gold,
Need they have smashed idols, and not idols sold?…
Fake gods that men had made, who did break and shatter?
Who routed infidel armies and destroyed them with bloody slaughter?
Who put out and made cold the sacred flame in Iran?”

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Shikwa. https://archive.org/details/ShikwaJawabIShikwaIqbalsDialogueWithAllahTrKhushwantSinghIqbal
Shikwa & Jawab Shikwa : The complaint and the answer : the human grievance and the divine response

“A community which is inspired by feelings of ill-will towards other communities is low and ignoble. I entertain the highest respect for the customs, laws, religious and social institutions of other communities. Nay, it is my duty, according to the teaching of the Quran, even to defend their places of worship, if need be. Yet I love the communal group which is the source of my life and behaviour; and which has formed me what I am by giving me its religion, its literature, its thought, its culture, and thereby recreating its whole past as a living operative factor, in my present consciousness.”

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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 http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html)

“What if the song be Indian, it is Hejazi in its verve.”

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Shikwa. According to some sources, a more literal translation is: "No matter if my idiom is Indian, my spirit is that of Hejaz." C.f. Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 343.
Shikwa & Jawab Shikwa : The complaint and the answer : the human grievance and the divine response

“I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.”

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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 http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html)

“I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism.”

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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 http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html)

“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.”

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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 http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html)

“What if the pitcher be Persian, from Hejaz is the wine I serve.”

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Shikwa & Jawab Shikwa : The complaint and the answer : the human grievance and the divine response

“Shah Alamgir, that high and mighty king,
Pride and renown of Gurgan Timur’s line,
In whom Islam attained a loftier fame
And wider honour graced the Prophet’s Law,
He the last arrow to our quiver left
In the affray of Faith with Unbelief;
When that the impious seed of heresy,
By Akbar nourished, sprang and sprouted fresh
In Dara’s soul, the candle of the heart
Was dimmed in every breast, no more secure
Against corruption our Community
Continued; then God chose from India
That humble-minded warrior, Alamgir,
Religion to revive, faith to renew.
The lightning of his sword set all ablaze
The harvest of impiety; faith’s torch
Once more its radiance o’er our counsels shed.”

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The Secrets of Selflessness, Emperor Alamgir and the Tiger

“All land belongs to the Muslims, because it belongs to their God.”

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Źródło: Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1992). Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam.

“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.”

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These are the words of a great Muslim saint, 'AbdulQuddës 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 the prophetic and the mystic types of consciousness. The mystic does not wish to return from the repose of "unitary experience"; and even when he does return, as he must, his return does not mean much for mankind at large.
Źródło: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/reconstruction/index.htm

“Would we have played with our lives for nothing but worldly gain?
If our people had run after earth's goods and gold,
Need they have smashed idols, and not idols sold?”

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Źródło: Shikwa. https://archive.org/details/ShikwaJawabIShikwaIqbalsDialogueWithAllahTrKhushwantSinghIqbal

“O water of the river Ganges, thou rememberst the day
When our torrent flooded thy valleys...”

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Źródło: quoted in Annemarie Schimmel - Gabriel's Wing_ Study into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1989, Iqbal Academy) also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.

“Every land which belongs to God is our land.”

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As quoted in Islam and Nationalism, Dr. Ali Mohammed Naqvi . Also translated as: "All land belongs to Muslims, because it belongs to their God. in : JPRS Report: Near East & South Asia, 93067 Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1993 https://books.google.com/books?id=rki6AAAAIAAJ

“Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.”

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Źródło: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Reconstruction_of_Religious_Thought/uCh14nl09jkC?hl=en (1930), p. 42

“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.”

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Źródło: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Reconstruction_of_Religious_Thought/uCh14nl09jkC?hl=en (1930), p. 14