1/8 🪐 Iqbal [1877–1938] was an important Muslim poet-philosopher while Hawking [1942–2018] was a famous physicist-cosmologist in the secular West. In 2008, the journal Iqbal Review📔 released an article:"Iqbal’s Idealist Critique Of Hawking’s Materialist Concept of Time" 👇
2/8 Author ✍️ Asad Shahzad’s introduction : "This article considers some very significant aspects of Iqbal and Hawking’s concepts of time. It basically gives Iqbalian assessment of Hawking’s psychological arrow of time."
3/8 Hawking’s Concept of Time: "Hawking has striven to unite the philosophical and scientific concepts of time in his work. It is in this spirit that he has not restricted his study of time to its physical aspect only […]"
4/8 Iqbal’s Concept of Time : "For Iqbal, the secret of time does not lie in stars, moons, and galaxies; it lies within human consciousness."
5/8 Two Points of Agreement between Iqbal and Hawking: "Both Iqbal and Hawking are found to have unanimity on the significance of holistic interpretation of reality."
6/8 Sectional Character of Hawking’s Approach: "Hawking’s time in fact is not time as psychologically and intuitively felt but rather time as mechanically and electronically remembered; this time can be remembered even by inanimate objects like computers […]"
7/8 Inadequacy of Hawking’s Essentially Scientific Approach: "Hawking’s mechanical psychology cannot be the equivalent of the free creative consciousness that human beings possess […] Hawking’s approach at the core, is in line with that of Newton’s and Darwin’s […]"
8/8 Conclusion: "Iqbal’s concept of time reveals the sectional character of Hawking’s approach that, in fact, is based on physicalism that presents the creative psychological arrow as mechanical arrow of time."