The Islamic Review August 1939

THE SECRET OF EXISTENCE OR The Gospel of Action In this volume the author seeks to rstore religion to its place in daily life putting it once more in the one pespective in which it can neither milead nor disappoint The author teaches men that the secret of life vitality and prosperity lies in the power of action as the thriving of a garden depends upon water. [...] The mind of the Muslim has in the course of history expressed itself in every culture-field--in the field of action of thought and of creation. [...] And looking to the masses 0 the most obvious symbols of 'Muslim Culture' seem to be : a particular type of pyjamas not too long and not too short a particular way of shaing or clipping the moustache but allowing the beard to grow and a iota with a special kind of snout just as the corresponding Hindu customs are the wearing of dhoti the possession of a toknot and a Iota of a different [...] The aim is the thing; and it is this aim the nature of it or the outlook on life that makes the difference between the culture of one people and that of another. [...] (2) They deny the right of the heir to deprive the widows of their dowry unless they were guilty of hatred and desertion of the husband or of doing harm to the husband and his family.