In the 18th century, Goethe (1749 - 1832)) had recognized that the "East and the West" were inseparable. Iqbal (1877-1938), an Indo-Pak thinker and philosopher in the early part of 20th century had said, "the East has the heart and the West had the head and they must wed in order to make this a new world." He had further said that the purpose of true Islamic faith was to extract and instill universal principles, values and endeavor to realize them into a definite, humane and durable civil society (Jameah Madani like) in history. Based on the prophetic saying, "The whole of earth is a mosque," and "all that is secular is therefore sacred in the roots of its being "for " all this immensity of matter constitutes a scope for the self realization of human soul". The twin pillar of state and civic society in Islam is Prophet-hood of Muhammad (pbuh) and the doctrine of tawhid. The prophet taught human society the faith that gives it unity. ..."
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