Traditional man in Islamic society lives according to divine lawa. . .theis relationship between the Truth, the way and the Law is best expressed through the Symbol of the cirecle. The Law is the circumference, the way is the readii leading to the center, and the center is the Truth. . .The central postulate of the Way is that each thing has an inner and an outer meaning. Every external form is complemented by an inner reality which is its hidden internal essence in the way that ordinary langurage reflets the partial knowledge attained through reason and sense whereas symbolism is gnosis.. Symbols themselves are theopanies of the absolute in the relative. Nader Ardelan L. Bakhtiear/. A bird does not sing a song becuase is has an aswner it sings becuase it has a song. -- Chinese proverb/. Enthusiasm originally meant God within/. Religion gives the support that a crutch give to the cripple, but it is not after all man's natrual condition to be lame! Philosophy is a game of the mind which. may keep yo uplaying with ideas about life instead of adventruing into action toward liberation. Religion and phylosophy may therefore sometimes hinder more thatn they help, fo both are crystalizations, formalizations, inherited from te past. . . knowldege is the harvest o f the mind, but not so wisdom, which is true understanding. --Krishnamurti