Man Is Primarily Governed By Passion And

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

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.

A Wrong Concept Misleads The Understanding; A Wrong Deed Degrades The Whole Man, And May Eventually Demolish The Structure Of The Human Ego.

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.

Preserve Your History And Become Everlasting; Receive New Life From The Times That Have Gone By.