Knowledge harmonizes the world with man, faith harmonizes man with himself.

Knowledge harmonizes the world with man, faith harmonizes man with himself. The need of man to both knowledge and faith has attracted the attention of religious as well as secular thinkers. Dr Muhammad Iqbal says: "Humanity needs three things today, a spiritual interpretation of the universe, spiritual emancipation of the individual, and basic principles of a universal import directing the evolution of human society on a spiritual basis.

Modern Europe has, no doubt, built a realistic system on these lines, but experience shows that truth revealed through pure reason is incapable of bringing that fire of living conviction which personal revelation alone can bring. This is the reason why pure thought has so little influenced man while religion has always elevated…