that he can carry over to a higher plane than to the material goods
which he will have to leave behind when he dies. Goethe has
expressed the idea beautifully thus:
That man is dead even in this life who has no belief in another.(18)
The process of the development of human personality, the
Qur’anic economic order and the life hereafter will all be discussed
further in subsequent chapters.
References- E.S. Brightman, A Philosophy of Religion, op, cit., p. 196.
- Nicolas Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom, p. 8.
- Quoted by W.M. Dixon in The Human Situation, p. 384.
- A.C. Campbell, On Selfhood and Godhood, p. 99.
- Philosophical Theology, Vol. I, p. 70; cf. Campbell, p. 120.
- Dixon, op. cit., p. 377.
- Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, p. 320.
- George Galloway, The Philosophy of Religion, pp. 565-6.
- E. Schrodinger, What is Life, pp. 91-2.
- P.D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, p. 101.
- Campbell, op. Cit., p. 109.
- Ibid., p. 120
- Dixon, op. Cit., p. 425.
- Berdyaev, op. Cit., p. 47.
- A.N. Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 309.
- M. Iqbal, Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, pp. 108-109.
- G.G. Simpson, The Meaning of Evolution, pp. 281-4.
- Quoted by Dixon, op. Cit., p. 428.
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