So Long As Muslims Continue Looking Towards

All Cultural Imitation, Opposed As It Is To Creativeness, Is Bound To Make A People Small.

All The Answers Are But Waiting For Us While We, Poor Fools, Ask Questions And Wait For The Secrets Of God To Open Themselves Up To Us: When They, All The While, Are Waiting For Us To Open Ourselves Up To Them.

So Long As Muslims Continue Looking Towards Western Civilization As The Only Force That Could Regenerate Their Own Stagnant Society, They Destroy Their Self-confidence And, Indirectly, Support The Western Assertion That Islam Is A "spent Force".

It Is Not Enough To Say, 'we Are Muslims And Have An Ideology Or Our Own': We Must Also Be In A Position To Show That Our Ideology Is Vital Enough To Withstand The Pressure Of The Changing Times, And To Decided In What Way The Fact Of Our Being Muslims Will Affect The Course Of Our Lives: In Other Words, We Must Find Out Whether Islam Can Offer Us Precise Directives For The Formation Of Our Society, And Whether Its Inspiration Is Strong Enough In Us To Translate These Directives Into Practice.

...the Muslims Of Recent Times Had Fallen Very Short Indeed Of The Ideals Of Their Faith, ...nothing Could Be More Erroneous Than To Measure The Potentialities Of Muhammad's Message By The Yardstick Of Present-day Muslim Life And Thought - Just As He [shaykh Mustafa Al-maraghi] Said, 'it Would Be Erroneous To See In The Christians' Unloving Behavior Toward One Another A Refutation Of Christ's Message Of Love...'