The Religious Urge In Man Is Not

...i Suddenly Felt In Myself All The Weight Of Europe: The Weight Of Deliberate Purpose In All Our Actions. I Thought To Myself, 'how Difficult It Is For Us To Attain To Reality... We Always Try To Grab It: But It Does Not Like To Be Grabbed. Only Where It Overwhelms Man Does It Surrender Itself To Him.

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.

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.

We (muslims) Have No Right, In Our Present Misery, To Boast Of Past Glories. But We Must Realise That It Was The Negligence Of The Muslims - And Not Any Deficiency In The Teachings Of Islam - That Caused Our Present Decay.

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.