The roots of materialism are, according to Iqbal, in spirituality, "so there is no such thing as a profane world."
"The service that modern thought has rendered to Islam, but also to all religions, lies in the critique of what is called material or natural."
Muhammad Iqbal, New Formation of Islamic Thought, Sixth Lecture.
Modern thought has elevated the ranks of religion. Since "absolute reality is spiritual" it is expressed in matter, or in other words, Iqbal's "absolute spirit" is the perfect expression of Hegelian spirit. Matter is secular in nature, as Feuerbach made clear in the 19th century. The revelation of the Absolute Spirit in the material universe is the negation of the "Absolute Spirit", because the Absolute Spirit does not exist but is the Spirit, which does not come into sensory observation but only into the intellect.
According to Iqbal, "there are no two separate worlds in Islam, spiritual and temporal."
Sixth lecture.
Iqbal further writes in the third lecture that "Reality is basically the soul."
According to Iqbal, there is no concept of duality in Islam. The meaning of the Creator and the creatures in the Qur'an, according to Iqbal, does not exist. Therefore, all the sciences that have served Islam and other religions form a whole, which is based on spirit and expression in matter, these are the concepts under which matter as a secular formation is sacred. Because all the sciences that have served religions, including Islam, have a secular tendency.
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