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may be in the direction of greater integration or of disruption. They may or may not be conducive to "spiritual" health. The req ...
if a nation adopts a wrong course of action, it may be years before it begins to experience its effects. The law may operate slo ...
Chapter 9 SALVATION I. Religion and Salvation EVERY human activity is directed to some end. The end may be clearly formulated or ...
doomed to a life of misery. It is because in the previous life the former had lived virtuously while the latter had committed si ...
ceasing to exist. The wise man, therefore, aims at annihilation, non- existence. Nirvana is not a state of positive happiness bu ...
in choosing the one which is likely to prove most fruitful. Islam gives its approval to the forward-looking attitude and to the ...
and man. The Qur'anic concept of salvation is of a different kind, and, as it will become clear in the course of this exposition ...
variety of pernicious germs which tend to destroy it. As long as man lives, he keeps up the fight against these destructive forc ...
that the path he has been following is taking him farther away from his real goal. If he is wise, he will not merely sit down an ...
misplaced notion of man's nature and from a misconception of his relationship to the world. It throws man into the turmoil with ...
self-development and self-realisation. When he is making progress towards this goal, he feels happy and knows that he is on the ...
Whenever in their anguish they desire to come forth therefrom, they shall be turned back into it (22:22). The inmates of Jannah ...
impoverishes the self, curtails its freedom, jeopardises its independence and weakens its urge for development. To react to it b ...
Chapter 10 SURVIVAL: INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE I. Man’s Passion for Life THE longing for immortality is deep-rooted in man. He c ...
their ultimate fate. Every moment was to be filled with pleasurable experience and the thought that death was round the corner, ...
had its origin in the union of parental life-cells. For a number of years it continued to develop through the processes of matur ...
the world: that everything will pass away which had its authorized place only in a transitory phase of the world's course.” (1) ...
which it developed and starts on an independent career. It all depends on the degree of development achieved by the ego: And wha ...
which the unfit were ruthlessly weeded out and the fit were permitted to flourish. Man cannot now depend on natural forces to mo ...
direct opposition to each other: Do those who commit ill deeds think that We will make them as those who believe and do the righ ...
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