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.
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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.
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People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.
The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.
Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.
A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.
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