مطالبہء اقلیت کا عالمی پس منظر

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81 صرف ان کے مغربی اور اشتراکی تخیلات کا خودساختہ ملغوبہ ہے۔فرماتے ہیں۔A Prophet may be defined as a type of mystic consciousness in which, “unitary experience", tends to overflow its boundaries and seeks opportunities of redirecting or refashioning the forces of collective life۔In his personality the finite centre of life sinks into his own infinite depth only to spring up again, with fresh vigour to destroy the old, and to disclose the new directions of life۔This contact with the root of his own being is by no means peculiar to man۔Indeed the way in which the word Wahy (inspiration) is used in the Quran shows that the Quran regards it as a universal property of Life; though its nature and character are different stages of the evolution of life۔The plant growing freely in space, the animal developing a new organ to suit a new environment, and a human being receiving light from the inner depth of life, are all cases of inspiration varying in character according to the needs of the recipient, or the needs of the species to which the recipient belongs۔Now during the minority of mankind psychic energy develops what I call prophetic consciousness--a mode of economizing individual thought and choice by providing ready-made judgments, choices, and ways of action۔With the birth of reason and critical faculty, however, life in its own interest, inhibits the formation and growth of non-rational modes of consciousness through which psychic energy flowed at an earlier stage of human evolution۔Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct۔Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an