Allama Iqbal's intellectual reincarnation after his travel to Europe (March 1907):

The crucial turning point was a year and a half after his arrival. 'March 1907' is a date he didn't want to be overlooked by any future biographer of his mind; he wrote the date at the top of a ghazal that didn't need any heading, and he counted back his intellectual reincarnation to this year in numerous letters, speeches and statements.

He had now discovered that the Muslim thinkers had not rebuilt an already existing body of science and philosophy; they had constructed a new, grand and magnificent edifice of thought. 

Iqbal's renewed confidence in the intellectual gifts of the Islamic revelation must have also led him to believe that a system of law better than the modern one was possible – indeed that reconstruction became his central focus towards the later part of his life. His study of the British law even in those days must have been moderated by a strong bias towards the superiority of an Islamic law – not the law that existed in the antiquated books of jurisprudence tampered by whimsical monarchs of the medieval times, but the undiscovered law whose seeds were contained in the Quran (later, on more than one occasion, he would suggest that the true potential of Islam has not yet unfolded). This undiscovered law of Islam was one of the many alternate worlds that the Holy Book could offer and the idea was outright thrilling (the concept of an alternate world – any alternate world – could stir deepest emotions in Iqbal at any given moment in his life).

The Quran, is a source of intellectual reincarnation for every human being. The choice is with us if we wanted us to be intellectually extinct or intellectually reincarnated.