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Muhammad Iqbal

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Muhammad Iqbal

Religion

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Muhammad Iqbal is saying that advanced religion is fundamentally about seeking a deeper, more meaningful life through personal experience. He points out that religion understood the importance of experience as its basis much earlier than science did.

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