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This paper examines the status and the role of philosophical discourse in the religious thought developed by Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938). First, it shows that philosophical concepts mediate the divine revelation and the natural phenomena. This mediation between Qur’anic signs and natural signs can be seen as a metaphorical process of translation to identify the divine Reality from which these two semantic orders both derive. Second, we shall see that philosophical thought also has the task of opening to divine Reality through mystical experience. This Reality is defined as a “creative flow”. For Iqbal, the true mediation between Qur’anic signs and natural signs is accomplished in the assumption of this permanent creativity that irrigates the universe. But this cosmological dimension can only be reached through mystical experience, supported by the work of philosophical translation.