The Review of Religions. October 1921

The fight of to-day rivals the day of Ohad in distress and misery and I shall Inaimain the tradition_ my illustrious father and shall strive to protect the Shamam a hill in Arabia is likened to the attainment of a lofty object and the ascension of a high altitude."S88 THE REVIEW OF RELIGIONS. [...] The conception of the universe as the veil of God is easily recognised in the sufi poems and writings where the Deity is concieved as overruling nature above and yet within all things of them and yet beyond them in a transcendental sense and the aim of the mystic is to identify himself with God as a drop of water is merged in the ocean so the soul of man merges into and is identified with th [...] The identification of the self with the self of nature the realization of the nearness of God to man and the merging of the spirit of man with the Infinite was intensifi d by religious exercis: s fasts pilgrimages repetitions of prayers and ceremonial. [...] The drawing down of the Divine Life to the material plane and at the same time the elevation of the mind and th3 spirit to the contemplation of the Divine perfections and attributes is characteristic of mystics. [...] This book deals with the following five fundamental doctrines of religion from the Muslim point of view The physcial moral and spiritual conditions of man (2) the state of man in the after life (3) real object of the existence of man and the means of its attainment (4) the effect of actions in the present life and the life to come (5) the sources of Divine knowledge.