In fact, the Noble Qu'ran insists over and over upon the ultimate significance of the question of the genesis of the cosmos for the religious life itself, and directs all veritable Islamic thought to concern itself, after the study of the Divine Principle, first of all with the question of the origin of the world before turning to the possibility and manners of its study.

We are told at the very outset that Augustine had no idea of "a single divine principle crossing all religions.

His response in action shows a willingness to give up the near and dear on behalf of founding a nation on divine principles, not on human ties and desires.