[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [State papers](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin) › [Āʾīn-i Akbarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari) › [The Ain i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett) › 128.1 # The Institutes of Akbar 128.1 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 128.1 - **Language:** English ### [128.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.128.1) God, the Giver of intellect and the Creator of matter, forms mankind as He pleases, and gives to some comprehensiveness, and to others narrowness of disposition. Hence the origin of two opposite tendencies among men, one class of whom turn to religious (dín), and the other class to worldly thoughts (dunyá). Each of these two divisions selects different leaders, and mutual repulsiveness grows to open rupture. It is then that men’s blindness and silliness appear in their true light; it is then discovered how rarely mutual regard and charity are to be met with. But have the religious and the worldly tendencies of men no common ground? Is there not everywhere the same enrapturing beauty which beams forth from so many thousand hidden places? Broad indeed is the carpet which God has spread, and beautiful the colours which He has given it. The Lover and the Beloved are in reality one; Idle talkers speak of the Brahmin as distinct from his idol. There is but one lamp in this house, in the rays of which, Wherever I look, a bright assembly meets me. - [Previous: 127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.127) - [Next: 128.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.128.2) - [Up: 128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.128) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.128.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.128.1) · Pramāṇa