The Immediacy Of Mystic Experience Simply Means

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.

Another Way Of Judging The Value Of A Prophet's Religious Experience, Therefore, Would Be To Examine The Type Of Manhood That He Has Created, And The Cultural World That Has Sprung Out Of The Spirit Of His Message.

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.

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.