Science and Religion Studies

Science and Religion Studies

Allameh Iqbal on Personal God and Impersonal God

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Author
Ali Naqi Baqershahi
Imam Khomeini International University, Department of Philosophy
10.30465/srs.2019.4172
Abstract
The present article is an attempt to explore Allameh Iqbal's view of personal and impersonal God. In his view in Islam God is considered to be both personal and impersonal. This view of God can satisfy both religious tents and philosophical questions of philosophical as well. Under the influence of Hegel, Mc Taggart holds that ultimate reality is absolute so it cannot be called by a self, but Iqbal disagrees with this view of Hegelian philosophers to the Ultimate Reality. Iqbal also disagrees with the traditional arguments for proving God's existence for these arguments fail to. In this regards he refers to the notion of intuition and holds that by intuition it is possible not only to unravel the nature of world and man but also realize God. Intuition is a term that is approved even by certain Western philosophers like Bergson as well. In Iqbal's view this path even is approved by the Quran. Accordingly, Iqbal seeks to substantiate it and used the term "self" for man and "infinite self" to God.
Keywords
Allameh Iqbal
personal God
impersonal God
self
infinite self
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