خلاصه ماشینی:
Islam is a religion which specifically aims at human progress, and shows the proper way of it in a number of commands and prohibitions covering every avocation of man's daily life, his social life and politics as well as every prompting of his mind and spirit.
The other life has its begin- ning now, and not at death, for all who perform the act of Al-Islam-the Self-Surrender to the will of God-which the Holy Prophet meant when he advised us: (View the image of this page) " Die before you die.
So long as the natural laws stand firm and certain consequences, good or evil, follow certain acts of men and nations, so long must stand the need for man to recognise in human life a higher will and purpose than his own and to expect a higher judgment than his own ; so long must stand the need of man's surrender to that higher will and purpose-which is Islam, as the Quran teaches-if he would succeed.
It is their falling away from pure Islam which has brought ruin to the Muslims : their acceptance of something indistinguishable from a priesthood-or, in the words of the Quran, their " taking others for their lords besides Allah "-their pleasure in scholastic quibbles, their neglect of the advice to seek knowledge every• where as a religious duty, their denial of free thought and their distrust of reason.