Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Iqbal, Muhammad. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Stanford University Press, 2013, p. 2.
The Founding Fathers represented a wide range of religious beliefs from orthodox Christians to Agnostics and Atheists. Most considered themselves Christian, but having studied the terrible results of European religious dissention in Government were careful to keep government and religion separate. In New York City, for example, when George Washington was first inaugurated as President, there was no religious ceremony in the government buildings. However, the President and all the Congress then went to Trinity Church close by and had a religious service. The earliest example of separation of church and state was a separation of official religion—not an elimination of religion.
Sir Muhammad Iqbal was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan. He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama (from Persian علامه ʻallāma, "very knowing, most learned".)
