The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.