Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

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.