Khudi is the pivotal concept of Iqbal's thought. Being rooted in the tradition of Islam both Khudi and religious life are interconnected in his thought so the stages of religious life are also the stages of development of Khudi. According to Iqbal contrary to philosophy and poetry, Religion is neither mere thought, nor mere feeling, nor mere action; it is an expression of the whole man. Thus, in the view of religion the universe cannot be regarded as an independent reality standing in opposition to Almighty Allah where God and the world are two separate entities confronting each other. Here the proximity is achieved through prayer. The act of prayer at its highest is much more than abstract reflection. Like reflection it too is a process of assimilation, but the assimilative process in the case of prayer draws itself closely together and thereby acquires a power unknown to pure thought. This article explores that space and time are interpretations which thought puts upon the creative activity of the Ultimate Ego and this provides the possibilities of development for Khudi." 

3D Allama Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, IIC, 2-Club Road, Lahore, 2006, p-143.

4D ibid, p-4.

5D ibid, p-2.

6D I have conceived the Ultimate Reality as an Ego; and I must add now that from the Ultimate Ego only egos proceed. ibid, p-57.

7D In the history of religious experience in Islam which, according to the Prophet, consists in the 'creation of Divine attributes in man', this experience has found expression....... In the higher Sufism of Islam unitive experience is not the finite ego effacing its own identity by some sort of absorption into the infinite Ego; it is rather the Infinite passing into the loving embrace of the finite. ibid, p-88.

8D ibid, p-52-53.

9D ibid, p-71-72.

10D ibid, p-51.

11D ibid, p-51-52.

12D ibid, p-88