The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Interpretation
Religious experiences are personal and cannot be fully expressed or understood by others.
In this quote, Muhammad Iqbal emphasizes the uniqueness of individual religious experiences, suggesting that one's understanding of Reality through faith is deeply personal and cannot be accurately conveyed to others. This underscores the notion that spiritual insights are inherently subjective, and what one perceives as truth based on religious experience may not resonate with another, highlighting the complexities of communication in matters of faith.
In practice
In a discussion about spirituality, one might say, 'As Muhammad Iqbal noted, the standpoint of those who rely on religious experience must remain individual and incommunicable.'
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
I have always been ahead of my time.
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
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