{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_kas_kas02_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_kas_kas02_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_kas_kas02_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/kas/kas02.htm","summary":"THE Translator has ventured to entitle a \"Lay of the Higher Law\" the following composition, which aims at being in advance of its time; and he has not feared the danger of collision with such unpleasant forms as the \"Higher Culture.\" The principles which justify the name are as follows:--\nThe Author asserts that Happiness and Misery are equally divided and distributed in the world. He makes Self-cultivation, with due regard to others, the sole and sufficient object of human life. He suggests\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Kas\u00eedah of H\u00e2j\u00ee Abd\u00fb El-Yezd\u00ee: To The Reader","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":149}