If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

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.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.