This paper analyzes the possibility of discursive language as media for explaining religious as
well as mystical experience and how discursive language has position in the experience. This
paper is based on Iqbal’s thought of religious experience as the main study as found in his
masterpiece, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Qualitative-descriptive method
and philosophical perspective on language were used to elaborate problems of religious and
mystical experience in order to find the solution. The result of study shows that there are two
aspects that must be considered to understand religious and mystical experience. The first is
language of religious or mystical experience which discusses the religious or mystical experience
as something uncommunicable, untransformable, and unconceptualized. The second is language
about religious or mystical experience which discusses the religious or mystical experience as
something communicable and conceptualized through discursive language
