Imaniyaat

Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an
Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May
I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the
position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different
tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books.
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It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite
plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That,
it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe
marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the
mysterious force that sways the constellations. [ Interview published in 1930 in G. S. Viereck’s book Glimpses of the
Great]

Faraez w Manhaj

It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite
plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That,
it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe
marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the
mysterious force that sways the constellations.