[49] I know of no religion which does not say, "Do good and avoid evil" and I consider it no religion which does not say, "Live well and happily." [50] Ghalib: [Urdu: * Hum ko ma'loom hai jannat ki haqiqat laikin * dil kay khoosh rakhnay ko ghalib ye khiyal achcha.] [51] See p. 24 above. [52] It supplies the best motive for overcoming the perversity of human nature to which St. Paul directs our attention in these beautiful words: "The good that I would, I do not: and the evil which I would not, I do."--Rom. vii. 19. [53] Read Draper's "Conflict between Science and Religion" which is a historical account of how some scientific ideas had to contend with religious prejudices--a book which, by the way, disproves the charge that Caliph Omar destroyed the great Library at Alexandria. [54] God reveals Himself to everybody at every instant of his life. It depends entirely on the spirituality or spiritual capacity of each individual to what extent he knows God and God's ways. The "spiritual capacity" is partly inherited from one's ancestors and partly acquired by faith and devotion, as well as by right conduct and good works. [55] [Persian: Neest bar lohe delam joz alefe ghamat yar * che konam harf degar yaad nadad ostadam] The _Alif_ of the Loved One's form is engraven on my heart, No other letter did my Shaikh ever to me impart--_Hafiz_. [56] See Note 2. [57] I have neither time nor space to explain the full significance of the Qur'anic verses I have quoted here. [58] Some would call this Reality, God; but others would say that God is greater and higher than the Reality which manifests itself in different forms. He is above all that any man can think of or imagine. [Arabic: Au bar taraz khiyal wa qiyas guman wo waham.] [59] Vol. ii. 748. You have to read the book itself to understand this. I cannot explain it in a short note. [60] I have neither time nor space to explain the full significance of the Qur'anic phrases I have mentioned here. [61] "In the world there is nothing so great as man. In man there is nothing so great as mind"--_Sir William Hamilton_. "In the mind of man there is nothing so great as the idea of God"--_Islam_. [62] This is quite different from the Christian doctrine of Atonement. [63] It was the spirit of co-operation which Islam engendered among wild and unruly Arabs, that enabled them to put aside their tribal feuds, to unite and conquer more than half the known world in the first century of the Hijri era (= the 7th century of the Christian era). It was the lack of that spirit in the next two centuries that dismembered the Muslim Empire. [64] I say "_the_ Islam of our ancestors", because the Islam of _some_ of our contemporaries, called Muhammadanism, is not quite the same. Read Prof. Gregory's _Discovery or the Spirit and Service of Science_.