Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 725
ATTEMPTS TO PHILOSOPHICALLY JUSTIFY. THE FINALITY OF NON-LAW-BEARING PROPHETHOOD 'Once one said God when one looked upon distant seas; but now I have taught you to say: overman (superman). 'God is a conjecture; but I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. '1 'Could you think a god? But this is what the will to truth should mean to you: that everything be changed into what is thinkable for man, visible for man, feelable by man. You should think through your own senses to their consequences. "² 'God is a conjecture; but who could drain all the agony of this conjecture without dying?"2. The long and short of Thus spoke Zarathustra is a rebellion of Nietzsche against a conjectural god which in fact is the Christian idea of God, and to understand. Zarathustra clearly as to why he rebelled against God, one must read the chapter Retired. ³ But for our purpose it should be sufficient to note that the oracle of Nietzsche's wisdom sets man free from being guided from on high. The maturity of his faculties is sufficient to guide him. . This exactly is the. Iqbalian philosophy against the need of a prophet after man has matured to the maximum of his faculties. . Instead of employing this borrowed philosophy for a categorical rejection of the need for God, 'Allamah Iqbal neatly trimmed the maturity concept to suit his purpose within the framework own. IQBAL. NEITZSCHE. Abbasi 683