The critical sense of the people has now...

The critical sense of the people has now, more or less, been awakened, and gradually they are beginning to differentiate between the manifestations of progress and advancement, which are the outcome of the blooming of the scientific and intellectual forces, and the manifestations of corruption and perversion, though their source is in the West.

The people of the Muslim world have now, more than ever, become conscious of the value of the teachings of Islam, and have realized that they can lead an independent life only by following them. They are not going to give them up, at any cost. The vigilant Muslims know that the propaganda against Islamic laws is nothing but an imperialistic fraud. Thirdly, the exponents of this thesis should know that Islam, when powerful, withstands any other system, whether it is atheistic or not.

Islam wants to dominate the society as a philosophy of life, and does not want to be confined to the ‘Mosques’ and other places of worship. The Islam which will be restricted to the places of worship, will vacate the field, not only for the Western ideas, but it will vacate it for the anti-Western ideas and doctrines as well. The penalty which the West is paying, in certain Muslim countries, is the result of its not realizing this fact. Man is not the only living being which leads a social life.

Many animals, especially insects, are gregarious. They follow sensible but fixed rules of co-operation, division of labor, production and distribution, and giving and receiving orders. The bees, and certain kinds of ants and termites enjoy such superb systems, that it will take man, who considers himself to be the prince of creation, years, even centuries, to reach that level.

Their civilization, contrary to the human civilization, has not passed through such periods as the forest age, the Stone Age and the atomic age. They, from the very beginning, have had the same civilization and the same system as they have today. It is man who started his life from a scratch: Vide “Man was created powerless”(2) and is marching forward towards infinity. For the animals, the requirements of life are always the same. For them, modernity and new fashions have no meaning.

The ancient world and the modern world do not exist for them. So far as they are concerned science does not make new discoveries every day. The latest products of light and heavy industries do not come to their market; why? Because, they live by instinct, and not by reason.