By Imitating The Manners And The Mode

By Imitating The Manners And The Mode Of Life Of The West, The Muslims Are Being Gradually Forced To Adopt The Western Moral Outlook: For The Imitation Of Outward Appearance Leads, By Degrees, To A Corresponding Assimilation Of The World-view Responsible For That Appearance.

I Conceived From The Outset A Strong Objection To Zionism. I Considered It Immoral That Immigrants Should Come From Abroad With The Avowed Intention Of Attaining To Majority In The Country And Thus To Dispossess The People Whose Country It Had Been Since Time Immemorial.

The Religious Urge In Man Is Not A Mere Passing Phase In The History Of His Spiritual Development, But The Ultimate Source Of All His Ethical Thought And All His Concepts Of Morality; Not The Outcome Of Primitive Credulity Which A More "enlightened" Age Could Outgrow, But The Only Answer To A Real, Basic Need Of Man At All Times And In All Environments. In Another Word, It Is An Instinct.

For, According To The Teachings Of Islam, Moral Knowledge Automatically Forces Moral Responsibility Upon Man. A Mere Platonic Discernment Between Right And Wrong, Without The Urge To Promote Right And To Destroy Wrong, Is A Gross Immorality In Itself, For Morality Lives And Dies With The Human Endeavour To Establish Its Victory Upon Earth.

Of All Religious Systems, Islam Alone Declares That Individual Perfection Is Possible In Our Earthly Existence.