The function of the idea is to open up fresh vistas of knowledge in the domain of man’s inner experience. Just as the first half of the formula of Islam has created and fostered the spirit of a critical observation of man’s outer experience divesting the forces of nature of that divine character with which earlier cul- tures had clothed them. Mystic experience, then, however unusual and abnormil, must now be regarded by a Muslim as a perfectly natural experience, open to critical scrutiny like other aspects of human experi.nce.
Studies in Islamic Economics
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The function of the idea is to open up fresh vistas of knowledge in the domain of man’s inner experience. Just as the first half of the formula of Islam has created and fostered the spirit of a critical observation of man’s outer experience divesting the forces of nature of that divine character with which earlier cul- tures had clothed them. Mystic experience, then, however unusual and abnormil, must now be regarded by a Muslim as a perfectly natural experience, open to critical scrutiny like other aspects of human experi.nce.
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