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.
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The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.
The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.
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