Whenever We will anything to be, We but say unto it our word "Be" and it is. Al.Quran 16/40; 40/68

This highly elliptic sentence has a fundamental purport on the import of the Quran as whole. In many places the Quran stresses the fact that the Prophet Muhammad, despite his being the last and the greatest of God’s Apostles was not empowered to perform miracles similar to those which earlier Prophets had to reinforce their verbal messages. His only miracle was and is the Quran itself- a message perfect in its lucidity and ethical comprehensiveness, destined for all times and all stages of human development, addressed not merely to the feelings but also to the minds of men, open to everyone, whatever his race or social environment, and bound to remain unchanged forever.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is one nevertheless an intellectual vice. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of other virtues. For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the leaning of the suspended judgment the best discipline is Metaphysics. The Journal "Takveen" has been conceived in the welter of conflicting fanaticism, where one of the few unifying forces is scientific truthfulness by which I mean the habit of basing our beliefs upon the observations and inferences as impersonal and as much divested of local and temperamental bias as is possible. The habit of careful veracity thus acquired can be extended to the whole of the human activity, producing, wherever it exists, a lessening of fanaticism with an increasing capacity of symphony and mutual understanding.

In the articles to appear in this magazine, we intend keeping the espirite decorps of the KSS intact. Instead of taking refuge in symbolism and surrealism, we would elicit contributions from those whose writings are not a sedative but an irritant, a catalyst provoking men to change the world in which we live and so doing, change themselves. By adopting this role the contributor ensures the content of his work will avoid sterile dogmatism, and by anticipating the point of view of the potentially free reader, he frees himself. This process of catharsis is dialectal and reciprocal. All prospective contributors may write on any field of Science keeping the spirits of our journal always in mind.

We end this Inaugural Editorial by quoting Aeraclitus (as cited in Delphi, 1901). "The Master of Oracle at Delphi does not say anything and does not conceal anything. He only hints."