Islamic Culture Jubilee Number Part I (January April July October 1951)

The praise of the gods the attitude of humble devotion to them and the prayers for pardon which the Rigveda contains as well as the conception of rta the moral and cosmic order of the universe mark off the religion of early Hinduism as far and away the most ' religious ' of all the polytheistic religions of the world. [...] The search for unity in the created world.---When Newton linked up the falling of an apple to the ground with the revolution of the moon round the earth as following the same physical law of gravity he made one of the first great steps towards the discovery of a uniform system of law in the physical universe. [...] Thus the nutrition and life of the whole sponge is dependent on the movement of the whips of the specialised cells which thus act for the benefit of the whole animal. [...] It must eventually be realised that the determined striving of man for unity and harmony between men and nations and with the eternal God has some relationship with the intellectual search for the undelying unity of the universe and with the belief in the unity of God which has been the subject of divine revelation and of the religious quest. [...] They also point towards a unity of the human race which is yet to be realised "1951 THE CONCEPTION OF THE UNITY OF GOD IN ISLAM AND 17 OTHER RELIGIONS IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN SCIENCE The hindrance to the present unity of the human race within itself as also the hindrance' of human fellowship with God is sin.