This book is, offered to the non Muslim as much as to the Muslim, to the believer in God as to the agnostic, to the bishop as to the sinner, to the Capitalist as to the Socialist, to the Imperialist as to the Democrat, to the man who is regular in worship as much as to the man, who never says his prayers. And, therefore, it is the Author's earnest hope that the reader, whatever his views of Life and Death, whether he expects to sit upon a cloud singing hymns or roast in the fires of Hell, or be decomposed into a million atoms, electrons and alpha particles, or transmigrate through beast and insect to ultimate happiness, whether he wants to be eventually buried, incinerated or eaten by vultures, he will find, within these pages, a stirring account of a common man, who found and divulged much happiness around him and to the generations that have succeeded him.
