Iqbal started his intellectual career as an ardent Indian nationalist. However, his stay in Europe enabled him to foresee the disastrous direction in which the political doctrine of territorial nationalism was driving the world. He realized that territorial patriotism would circumscribe human vision to parochialism. Humanity was in need of a just socio-economic political system which could enable it to form a peaceful comity of the nations. At this point, Iqbal's poetry and thought stirred the Muslim India. Renowned Irani scholar Ali Shariati reconsolidated Iqbal's vision through his writings. Both Iqbal and Shariati resisted the imperialist strategy of the West and offered a better solution to the world for peaceful co-existence.