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Is Spiritual (direct) Contact With God The Purpose Of Religion?
Quoting from Reconstruction of religious thought of Iqbal , Is religion possible ?
“Broadly speaking religious life may be divided into three periods. These may be described as the periods of ‘Faith’, ‘Thought’, and ‘Discovery.’ In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. This attitude may be of great consequence in the social and political history of a people, but is not of much consequence in so far as the individual’s inner growth and expansion are concerned. Perfect submission to discipline is followed by a rational understanding of the discipline and the ultimate source of its authority. In this period religious life seeks its foundation in a kind of metaphysics – a logically consistent view of the world with God as a part of that view. In the third period metaphysics is displaced by psychology, and religious life develops the ambition to come into direct contact with the Ultimate Reality. It is here that religion becomes a matter of personal assimilation of life and power; and the individual achieves a free personality, not by releasing himself from the fetters of the law, but by discovering the ultimate source of the law within the depths of his own consciousness. As in the words of a Muslim Sufi – ‘no understanding of the Holy Book is possible until it is actually revealed to the believer just as it was revealed to the Prophet (pbuh) ”
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Is Spiritual (direct) Contact With God The Purpose Of Religion?
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There is no such tangible concept of direct contact with God what our Mystics assume. We accept God as a reality and worship Him and hope to earn His pleasure here and the hereafter.
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