The Standpoint Of The Man Who Relies

In The First Period Religious Life Appears As A Form Of Discipline Which The Individual Or A Whole People Must Accept As An Unconditional Command Without Any Rational Understanding Of The Ultimate Meaning And Purpose Of That Command.

Destiny Is The Prison And Chain Of The Ignorant. Understand That Destiny Like The Water Of The Nile: Water Before The Faithful, Blood Before The Unbeliever.

I Tell The Truth: Your Enemy Is Also Your Friend-his Presence Makes Your Life Fuller And Richer.

It Cannot Be Denied That Islam, Regarded As An Ethical Ideal Plus A Certain Kind Of Polity - By Which Expression I Mean A Social Structure Regulated By A Legal System And Animated By A Specific Ethical Ideal - Has Been The Chief Formative Factor In The Life-history Of The Muslims Of India. It Has Furnished Those Basic Emotions And Loyalties Which Gradually Unify Scattered Individuals And Groups, And Finally Transform Them Into A Well-defined People, Possessing A Moral Consciousness Of Their Own.

The Revealed And Mystic Literature Of Mankind Bears Ample Testimony To The Fact That Religious Experience Has Been Too Enduring And Dominant In The History Of Mankind To Be Rejected As Mere Illusion. There Seems To Be No Reason, Then, To Accept The Normal Level Of Human Experience As Fact And Reject Its Other Levels As Mystical And Emotional.