Plants And Minerals Are Bound To Predestination.

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.

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.

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.

Be Not Entangled In This World Of Days And Nights; Thou Hast Another Time And Space As Well.

When The Thinking Of A People Becomes Corrupt, The Pure Silver Becomes Impure In Its Hands.