Muhammad Iqbal On Ego, Religious Experience and Life Conception

Muhammad Iqbal is one of the most prominent contemporary Muslim thinkers.The philosophy of the self ‘Khudi’ that he worked to develop has a great impact on modern Islamic thought. In his study of religious thought, Iqbal focuses on transforming the human perspective in order to be engaged in the love of the infinite. Religious experience, according to Iqbal, is a situation of awareness that cannotbe clarified. It is only a sense of acknowledgement, which is the content that cannot be conveyed. In this article, I argue that Muhammad Iqbal has shed light on religious experience in Islam, and his contribution in this field is very important to understand this part of religious thought in Islam.