Islam Rediscovered
1. Search for Truth
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3. The mystics can broadly be divided into two
groups. Those who believe in God and those
who do not. Non-believers in God assert that
there is a hidden treasure in the centres of our
souls. The task of the mystic is to discover this
hidden treasure. But this is only a supposition.
None of them has ever been able to define this
hidden treasure or to explain it in
understandable terms. Tagore has thus
expressed this claim made by the mystics:
“Man has a feeling that he is truly represented
in something which exceeds himself.”
But this is only a subjective statement
unsupported by logical proofs. That is why, in
spite of its great popularity, no school of this
mystical thought has so far produced any
objective criterion by which one may rationally
ascertain that the existence of such a hidden
treasure within the human soul is a reality, and
not an illusion. On the other hand, no well-
defined
law,
or
step-by-step
practical
programme, has been introduced by any
individual or group that might help the common
