QSI: The Science and Reality of Life Within and Life Without the Body- Class #22

The mystic‘s condemnation of intellect as an organ of knowledge does not really find any justification in the history of religion. … The organic relation of feeling and idea throws light on the old theological controversy about verbal revelation which once gave so much trouble to Muslim religious thinkers. Inarticulate feeling seeks to fulfil its destiny in idea which, in its turn, tends to develop out of itself its own visible garment. It is no mere metaphor to say that idea and word both simultaneously emerge out of the womb of feeling, though logical understanding cannot but take them in a temporal order and thus create its own difficulty by regarding them as mutually isolated. There is a sense in which the word is also revealed.” Iqbal “The Reconstruction of Religious Thought”