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Philosophy Of The Quran by Al Haj Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar

PHILOSOPHY OF THE QURAN

The ideas on which this book is based are easy to understand. Whatever a man can think to be of the highest worth or value, be it Goodness, Beauty, Truth, Perfection, Harmony, Love, Energy, Holiness, Majesty, Power, one and all of these values, or any others that there may be, have their source in God (or The Real) who is Infinite and Eternal and who manifests them as, when, and how He pleases.

He is the Vital Principle of the Universe.

This book is nothing but a commentary on the first verse of the Qur-&n: M All praise belongs to God, Lord (or Vital Principle) of all the worlds.” The word praise includes all the values.

The next idea is that God is not Static. He is ever Active. But none of his activities are in vain.

 He is not like a potter who makes his pots and breaks them as he pleases. He is not like a being who gives birth to others and these others become his equals, or relations or partners. He is free from imperfections. He is also not like a spadix from which life emerges and which itself ceases to exist.

 All such similitudes are bound to fail in His case, for we are finite and cannot * comprehend the Infinite. We have to be content with the ideas of Eternity and Infinity in Him