There is consensus in Pakistan that the two role models of enlightened Islam in South Asia were Allama Iqbal and the Quaid-e-Azam. The great Iqbal’s views on Islam were shaped by an in depth study of the religion, its culture and its history, as well as his knowledge of contemporary Western philosophers and Western culture (during his stay in Europe).
Thus, his ideas on Islamic thought were original and he was able to mould Muslim public opinion in India. He articulated KHUDI to restore the self-belief of the Muslims of the subcontinent, which had taken a battering under colonial rule and which today remains stunted under the rule of their surrogates.
Iqbal’s concept of spiritual democracy foresaw the problems facing a Western civilization based on secularism that destroyed time-tested religious values.