"Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities"
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Iqbal smuggles a metaphysical revolt into the language of geometry. He starts with the familiar thrill of cosmic travel - "infinite varieties of space" sounds like modernity's expanding universe, the mind racing ahead of the body, science multiplying horizons. Then he yanks the ladder away. The destination is not more distance, not a bigger map, but "Divine space" that is "absolutely free from all dimensions". The point is surgical: if you keep treating reality as extension, measurement, and coordinates, you will never reach what actually matters.
The subtext is both philosophical and political. Writing in an era when colonial modernity arrived wearing the prestige of Western science and rational systems, Iqbal doesn't reject the infinite; he reframes it. The "meeting point of all infinities" is a deliberate paradox, a way of saying that spiritual experience is not the opposite of reason's vastness but its completion. Infinity, for him, is not a number line that keeps going; it's a pressure that collapses the ego's need to quantify.
As a poet-philosopher shaped by Islamic mysticism and German idealism, Iqbal is staging a critique of passive contemplation, too. "Passing through" implies motion, striving, ascent. The dimensionless Divine isn't an escape hatch; it's an invitation to a different mode of knowing, where the self stops being a spectator of endless space and becomes accountable to a center that can't be plotted.
The subtext is both philosophical and political. Writing in an era when colonial modernity arrived wearing the prestige of Western science and rational systems, Iqbal doesn't reject the infinite; he reframes it. The "meeting point of all infinities" is a deliberate paradox, a way of saying that spiritual experience is not the opposite of reason's vastness but its completion. Infinity, for him, is not a number line that keeps going; it's a pressure that collapses the ego's need to quantify.
As a poet-philosopher shaped by Islamic mysticism and German idealism, Iqbal is staging a critique of passive contemplation, too. "Passing through" implies motion, striving, ascent. The dimensionless Divine isn't an escape hatch; it's an invitation to a different mode of knowing, where the self stops being a spectator of endless space and becomes accountable to a center that can't be plotted.
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