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.
I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that is like.
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
We really suffer from a hot-take disease, wanting to be the first one who has the hottest take.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.