Teleological

"If your heart is not deceived by the mirage, be not proud of the sharpness of your understanding; for your freedom from this optical illusion is due to your imperfect thirst."
Urfî

The notion of purpose cannot be understood except in reference to the future. The past, no doubt, abides and operates in the present; but this operation of the past in the present is not the whole of consciousness. The element of purpose discloses a kind of forward look in consciousness. Purposes not only colour our present states of consiousness, but also reveal its future direction. In fact, they constitute the forward push of our life, and thus in a way anticipate and influence the states that are yet to be. To be determined by an end is to be determined wy what ought to be. Thus past and future both operate in the present state of consiousness, and the future is not wholly undetermined. A state of attentive consiousness involves both memory and imagination as operation factors. on the analogy of our conscious experience, therefore, Reality is not a blind vital impulse wholly unilluminated by the idea. Its nature is through and through teleological.

Muhammad Iqbal - The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam