The Islamic Review July 1939

S. d. Islam to East and West The Ideal Prophet The Sources of Christianity Towards Islam Threshold of Truth The Secret of Existence Islam and Zoroastrianism. Open Letters to the Bishops of Salibury and London The Religion of Jesus and the Tradtional Christianity Islam and the Muslim Prayer.. Al-Islam Five Pillars of Islam Four Lectures on Islam. The Threshold of Truth (Pamphlet).. [...] The "marriage feast" of the imagery of the Gospel can be no other than a reference to the final reconciliation of the Platonic with the Cosmic element of religion. [...] How unlike the spirit of Qur-an which sees in the humble bee a recipient of Divine inspiration and constantly calls on the reader to observe the perpetual change of the winds the alternation of day and night the clouds the starry heavens and the planets swimming through infinite space! Asa true disciple of Socrates Plato despised sense-perception which in his view yielded mere opinion and [...] He doubted the odsence of the external world; he doubted the existence of the self he doubte'd the existence of God and even when he proved the existence of any one of these the man-ithe-street failed to understand him. [...] The kingdom of man is not cofined-to land and sea; it has been extended to the realni of air; and the conquest of the Mars if accomplished may be the stepping-stone to the extension of man's power over the heavenly bodies.