It is interesting to study the part played by Allama Iqbal directly as an educational reformer. Iqbal suggested the establishment of male and female cultural institutes in all big towns of India. These institutes as such should have nothing to do with politics. Their chief function should be to mobilize the dormant spiritual energy of the younger generation by giving them a clear grasp of what Islam has already achieved and what it has still to achieve in the religious and cultural history of mankind.

The progressive forces of a people can be roused only by placing them before a new task calculated to enlarge the individual and to make them comprehensive and experience the community, not as a head of isolated fragments of life but as a well defined whole possessing inner cohesion and solidarity. And when once these forces are roused, they bring fresh vigor for new conflicts and that sense of inner freedom, which enjoys resistance and holds out the promises of new self. Iqbal flings a spiritual challenge to the Muslim world when he says that the Indian Muslim has long ceased to explore the depths of his inner life. His solution for this defect of spiritual education in Muslims deserves serious consideration on the part of educationalists of Pakistan.