Abstract
Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s philosophy and theory of revolution has emerged from his dynamic concepts of God, universe, history, individual and society. Rejecting the metaphysics based on the static concepts of God, universe, history, individual and society, he made a re-statement of metaphysics which emphasized dynamism and activism. Iqbal adjudged all static ideologies of inaction and quietism, which had crept into the Muslim society from the Greek and particularly Plato’s ideology of maxims, and static philosophy, as contrary to the Holy Qur’an. Making them the target of his severe criticism Iqbal adjudged them contrary to the spirit of the Holy Qur’an. He declared in the very first sentence of the preface to his Reconstruction“The Qur’an is a book which emphasizes deed’ rather than‘idea”.Though the metaphysics of dynamism and activism created by Iqbal is present in his verse, its comprehensive explanation exists in "The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam". Consequently, the topics of “Lecturesl_ themselves show that, discarding the hypothetical methodology based on deductive logic, and basing on the study of nature, history and the individual’s own personal states, he establishes such a soiled sense-oriented methodology on the foundations of knowledge which is rooted in ligic’s inductive style. Therefore, in the thought and intuition created by this inductive methodology the Allama
Dr. Syed Ali Abbas. (2019) Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s philosophy and theory of revolution, Paygham Ashna, Vol 19, Issue 1.
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