Words, Without Power, Is Mere Philosophy.

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.

In The First Period Religious Life Appears As A Form Of Discipline Which The Individual Or A Whole People Must Accept As An Unconditional Command Without Any Rational Understanding Of The Ultimate Meaning And Purpose Of That Command.

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.

The Immediacy Of Mystic Experience Simply Means That We Know God Just As We Know Other Objects. God Is Not A Mathematical Entity Or A System Of Concepts Mutually Related To One Another And Having No Reference To Experience.

Since Love First Made The Breast An Instrument Of Fierce Lamenting, By Its Flame My Heart Was Molten To A Mirror, Like A Rose I Pluck My Breast Apart, That I May Hang This Mirror In Your Sight.