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The Sage of"Many will He mislead by such parables and many guide: but none will He mislead thereby except the wicked..." (43)Ghazná (41) told the mystic story
To his veiled hearers, in an allegory:
If those who err see naught in theQur'án
But only words, it's not to wonder on;
Of all the sun's fire, lighting up the sky
Only the warmth can reach a blind man's eye. (42)
It is certain that the greatest of instrumentalities for
achieving the advancement and the glory of man, the
supreme agency for the enlightenment and the redemption
of the world, is love and fellowship and unity
among all the members of the human race. Nothing
can be effected in the world, not even conceivably,
without unity and agreement, and the perfect means
for engendering fellowship and union is true religion.