The
Reconstruction of religious thought in Islam
is a very complicated philosophical reflection endowed with different
levels of interpretation. Due to its programmatic character, some of
the points of Iqbal philosophical speculation seem to be obscure
because of their density and the reference to both the philosophical
and spiritual tradition of Islam and the West.
However
I think that the key to interpret the text is the philosophic one,
even when there are several references to Sufism interpreted as a
direct experience of a close relation with the divine, which truly
speaking appear to be quite problematic in its nature. In the
Prefaction
Iqbal is critic towards the methods of traditional Sufism because
seems to be unable to fulfil the spiritual needs of man living in the
modern world: “The more genuine
schools of Sufism have, no doubt, done good work in shaping and
directing the evolution of religious experience in Islam; but their
latter-day representative, owing to their ignorance of the modern
mind, have become absolutely incapable of receiving any fresh
inspiration from modern thought and experience”.
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