Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din

“ Our whole life is spent in securing means to gratify our natural requirements. All that we call civilization solely sprang from men's efforts in this direction. To secure happiness and to avert pain is the great problem of life. But is not proper satisfaction of our natural desires the climax of pleasure? Is not an ungratified need a great misery ? We cannot ignore the existence of two things in Nature: our needs and the existence of means in the universe to satisfy them. ”

“ Does it not exhibit beauty and beneficence, even in its smallest particle ? Do not its variegated beauties excite our admiration and praise ? Is it, then, unnatural to feel grateful after enjoying its blessings ? But we never give our thanks to dumb, inanimate things. ”

“ We want good drinks and delicious eatables, and we have explored the whole world to find them. We experience higher cravings as well, and we spare no pains to meet their demands. We experience feelings of love, mercy, and generosity. We must find some occasion for their exhibition, though at any cost. Similarly do we not possess the faculty for admiration, praise and thanksgiving? Do we not give expression to them when once these sentiments are aroused in our breast ? Beneficence and beauty are the only factors to give rise to these noble feelings in us, as they only consumate human happiness. ”

“ Our very nature looks for an intelligent benefactor to whom we may tender our thanks whenever we derive some benefit. Blessed be the Prophet Mohammad, to whom these mysteries of human nature were revealed. ”

“ Nature is on its way to evolution, but under some marked course. It obeys certain laws, and so secures its progress. Its very utility to the whole world around it depends on its submission to the procedure fixed for it. The violation of its law means destruction and loss. Every day the sun rises and sets, with no deviation from its prescribed course. The whole solar system, the atmosphere, the earth and the things thereon are all tending to progress, but under given rules and regulations. The day and the night never overlap each others province. ”

“ Science creates nothing : its whole province is confined to the discovery of laws that guide the forces of Nature. Such discoveries were impossible, and futile too, if there be no certainty as to the unchangeable nature of the laws, and the obedience thereto by Nature. ”

“ Had all these heavenly systems no designer they would soon have been disorganised and ruined. The vast mass of matter rolling in space without disturbing each other's motion demonstrate contrivance and design by the regularity of their motions, and hence the Designer. ”