One of the conclusions of the first lecture in The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is that the content of religious experience cannot be communicated, except indirectly in the form of judgments, otherwise known as “revelations.” Starting from this point of departure, the arguments of the second lecture produces the following conclusions:
Having shared an overview of the first lecture in Muhammad Iqbal’s major work, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, I would now try to summarize the contents of that lecture. Summarizing is a useful learning activity because it forces the reader to differentiate between what’s central and what’s peripheral in a given text. It…
At the end of Lecture I, Iqbal summarizes the gist of his conclusion, as follows: Religious experience… is essentially a state of feeling with a cognitive aspect, the content of which cannot be communicated to others, except in the form of a judgment. Muhammad Iqbal. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, p. 21. If…