Quotation by
Muhammad Iqbal
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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Iqbal is saying that religion aims to guide a person’s inner growth and future self beyond just improving the society they currently live in. This personal evolution is more crucial to the individual’s true purpose than simply maintaining social order or morality around them.
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