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.
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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.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.
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