[ 56 | “He be praised who is Controller of this carth, who has created life and death to prove existence and who is all powerful. He be praised who created the seven heavens, who is all-powerful buł merciful. Look iowards the heavon of thal merciful God, you will simply be asionished and you will find no fault in His creation." (Selections from the Quoran, Chap. VI). Thus far about the leaching of belivors and believing people; but os course it is diferent with non-believers, people vho do not believe in Atma, i.e., in the Soul or the Supreme Being. The Buddha, addressing his disciples, says ; "when we speak of the world as void or emply what we mean is that there is no soul therein. There are the senses, thoro are the media ihrough which the senses operulo, but there is no such thing as the soul. Such being ihe case, is it noi idle io say that the soul is clernal 2" - The Buddha believed in perishable gods, but not in the existence of ihe imperishable sout ; for him this universe of visible shings and phenomena had evolved naturally out of nothing. But whether we turn to believers or non-believers ... there is little difference as regards the origin of life; Al/y sancere thanks are duc fo A7hazz /Sahadur J/idayat J/ussain, sormerly principal, Calcutta Madrassa, who kindly he/sca/ me by lending a copy of the Quoram.
