"But the aspiration of religion

 soars higher than that of philosophy. Philosophy is an intellectual view of things; and as such does not care to go beyond a concept which can reduce all the rich variety of experience to a system. It sees Reality from a distance as it were. Religion seeks a closer contact with Reality. The one is theory, the other is living experience, association, intimacy. In order to achieve this intimacy thought must rise higher than itself, and find its fulfillment in an attitude of mind which religion describes as prayer - one of the last words on the lips of the Prophet of Islam.

  -Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, pg.61