Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
Iqbal, Muhammad. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Stanford University Press, 2013, p. 155.
1st Baron Verulam. Inscribed above the figure of Philosophy in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress
He was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for figuring out that the earth revolved around the sun which was contrary to church teaching at the time.
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".)
