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THE CONCEPTION OF GOD AND THE MEANING OF PRAYER BY Dr. ALLAMA MUHAMMAD IQBAL

-We have seen that the judgement based upon religious experience fully satisfies the intellectual test. The more important regions of experience, examined with an eye on a synthetic view, reveal, as the ultimate ground of all experience, a rationally directed creative will which we have found reasons to describe as an ego. In order to emphasize the individuality of the Ultimate Ego the Qur’an gives Him the proper name of Allah, and further defines Him as follows: ‘Say: Allah is One: All things depend on Him; He begetteth not, and He is not begotten; And there is none like unto Him’ But it is hard to understand what exactly is an individual. As Bergson has taught us in his Creative Evolution, individuality is a matter of degrees and is not fully realized even in the case of the apparently closed off unity of the human being.‘In particular, it may be said of individuality’, says Bergson: ‘that while the tendency to individuate is everywhere present in the organized world, it is everywher