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" Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. "

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" It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. "

" The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. "

" The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. "

" Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. "

" Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? "

" The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real. "

" Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. "

" I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. "

" People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. "

" Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. "

" The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. "

" Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities. "

" The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. "

" 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. "

" Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. "

" Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. "

" Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. "

" That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance. "

" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" 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. "

" But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. "

" The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. "

" I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. "

" Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? "

" The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. "

" I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. "

" It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. "

" Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. "

" It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. "

" But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. "