The Philosophical Test of the Revelations of Religious Experience

The second lecture in Iqbal’s Reconstruction is titled “The Philosophical Test of the Revelations of Religious Experience.” The lecture is divided into two main section. In the first, shorter section, Iqbal looks at one of the most significant past efforts to apply the philosophical test—scholastic arguments for the existence of God—and declares that project to…

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…