1. To provide a genuine forum, engaging leading literati in the field of Fikr-e-Iqbal, to define and elucidate the Iqbalian ideology to the contemporary world.
2. To use Fikr-e-Iqbal as a valid instrument for awakening of the Muslim world from decadence and lethargy and help creating dynamic movement in their thought and action.
3. To help realize the vital role of exercising "Ijtihad", with special reference to Iqbal's "Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam", keeping pace of the Islamic thought at par with the fast-changing world.
4. To help realize Iqbal's vision of Pakistan as a model of true Spiritual Democracy embodying equality, solidarity, freedom, justice, security, and tolerance, thus paving way for uplift in the religious, intellectual, social, political and economic lives of the people.
5. To provide the youth with a platform to acquaint genuinely with Fikr-e-Iqbal for the formation of a desired creative Islamic character that can stem the tide of time, and the one that can dictate in global forums on its own terms.

یہی مقصودِ فطرت ہے یہی رمزِ مسلمانی
اخوّت کی جہاں گیری محبت کی فراوانی

This alone is the creation's objective, this alone is Islam's secret
That there should be universal brotherhood, abundant love!

Dabistan-e-Iqbal aspires to play a global role as a world class centre of excellence in conceptualizing, elaborating, disseminating and expanding the intellectual, poetic and philosophical works and message of Allama Mohammad Iqbal with a view to create a tolerant and a humane society based on the principles of universal EQUALITY, SOLIDARITY AND FREEDOM.