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Six Lectures on the Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

1930

How unlike the spirit of the Quran which sees in the humble bee a recipient of Divine inspiration and constantly calls upon the reader to observe the perpetual change of the winds the alternation of day and night the clouds the starry heavens and the planets swiming through infinite space ! As a true disciple of Socrates Plato despised sense-perception which in his view yielded mere opin [...] It is a reality to be reckoned with : " Verily in the creation of the Heavens and of the earth and in the succession of the night and of the day are signs for men of understanding ; who standing and sitting and reclining bear God in mind and reflect on the creation of the Heavens and of the earth and say : " Oh our Lord ! Thou hast not created this in vain." (3 : 188). [...] With all his fail-"15 ings he is superior to nature inasmuch as he carries within him a great trust whiCh in the words of the Quran the Heavens and the earth and the mountains refused to carry : Verily We proposed to the Heavens and to the earth and to the mountains to receive the trust (of personality) but they refused the burden and they feared to receive it. [...] Let me quote here a few verses: Assuredly in the creation of the Heavens and of the earth ; and in the alternation of night and day ; and in the ships which pass through the sea with what is useful to man; and in the rain which God sendeth down from Heaven giving life to the earth after its death and scattering over it all kinds of cattle ; and in the change of the winds and in the clouds that a [...] Just as the movement of the point the line and the surface in a direction not contained in them gives us the ordinary three dimensions of space in the same way the movement of the three dimensional figure in a direction not contained in itself must give us the fourth dimension of space.
philosophy religion
Pages
255
Published in
Pakistan
SARF Document ID
sarf.142857
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii Mohammad Iqbal view
Preface
i-ii Iqbal view
Lecture I. Knowledge and Religious Experience
i-36 unknown view
Lecture II.The Philosophical Test of the Revelation of Religious Experience
37-84 unknown view
Lecture III.The Conception of God and the Meaning of Prayer
85-130 unknown view
Lecture IV.The Human Ego—His Freedom and Immortality
131-170 unknown view
Lecture V. The Spirit of Muslim Culture
171-202 unknown view
Lecture VI. The Principle of Movement in the Structure of Islam
203-249 unknown view

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