If One Cannot Live The Life Of

I Have Already Indicated To You The Meaning Of The Word Religion, As Applied To Islam. The Truth Is That Islam Is Not A Church. It Is A State Conceived As A Contractual Organism Long Before Rousseau Ever Thought Of Such A Thing, And Animated By An Ethical Ideal Which Regards Man Not As An Earth-rooted Creature, Defined By This Or That Portion Of The Earth, But As A Spiritual Being Understood In Terms Of A Social Mechanism, And Possessing Rights And Duties As A Living Factor In That Mechanism.

The Intellect Of Two Thousand Asses Cannot Bring Forth A Single Man's Thought.

From Your Past Emerges The Present, And From The Present Is Born Your Future.

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 Standpoint Of The Man Who Relies On Religious Experience For Capturing Reality Must Always Remain Individual And Incommunicable.