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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 Alchemist Of The West Has Turned Stone Into Glass But My Alchemy Has Transmuted Glass Into Flint Pharaohs Of Today Have Stalked Me In Vain

Democracy Is A System Where People Are Counted Not Weighed.

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.

I Have Seen The Movement Of The Sinews Of The Sky, And The Blood Coursing In The Veins Of The Moon.