Ali (Muhammad)

Rare autograph letter signed ('Muhammad Ali') to Phyllis Clark, featuring a quote of Hazrat Inayat Khan that reads "God is the ideal that raises mankind to the utmost reach of perfection. As man considers and judges his dealings with man in his conscience, so the real worshipper of God considers his dealings with God. If he has helped anybody, if he has been kind to anybody, if he has made sacrifices for anybody, he does not look for appreciation or return for his doing so to the people to whom he has done good; for he considers that he has done it for God, and therefore, his account is with God, not with those with whom he has dealt. He does not care even if instead of praising they blame him; for in any case he has done it for God, who is the best judge and the knower of all things. There is no ideal that can raise the moral standard higher than the God-ideal, although love is the root of all and God is the fruit of this" and adding "I hope you will recuperate to the best of health", two pages on blue lined notepaper, toning and wear consistent with age, occasional fraying to margins, 4to, unusually bearing Ali's address in Chicago below the signature n.d.