The Indian Review September 1925 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of All Topics of Interest

MUHAMMAD YAKUB M. L. A. the opponents of the Allies the well-known British diplomacy succeeded in seducing the Shariff Husain to shake off the yoke of allegance to the Khalifa's Government and it is authoritatively stated that with the help of the British Government the \Valli or the Turkish superior officer and his small heroic garrison at Mecca were killed and other acts of cruelty and s [...] But in order to keep up the prestige of the House of the Prophet the Turks entrusted the local administration of the Harmain to the hands of a represetative of the Hashamite family whose official title was the Shariff and who held a position somewhat analogous to the ruling princes in India. [...] He completed the work for Indian Theism that was begun by the author of the Bhagwad Gita setting the corner stone upon the structure and establishing it in a position of strength such as it had not previously possessed in the midst of the ebb and flow of the religious thought and feeling of India. [...] The followers of Bhakti are naturally opposed to the haughty Vedanta creed' and hold that the way of faith ' is higher than the way of knowledge '. They assert that it is necessary to appeal on all the high concerns of man's moral and religious life from the intellect to the heart for 'out of the heart are the issues of life.' The cult of knowledge can only be comprehended by the intellectuall [...] Before the advent of higher criticism and the enunciation of the law of evolution as a method of explanation and investigation the student of the Bible in Europe allowed his crude and primitive ideas to determine his attitude towards the canonical literature of the Old and the New Testament.