A BOLD BUT SUCCESSFUL STEP
Your Excellency,
After all the foregoing, it would be inexcusable for us to turn aside from the path of truth, that of Islam, and to follow the path of carnal desires and vanities – that of Europe. Along the path of Europe are to be found enticement and glamour, pleasures and luxuries, laxity and license, and comforts that captivate the soul, for all of these things are loved by the soul, as the Almighty says:
‘Made beautiful for mankind is the love of material desires: women, and children, and heaped up mounds of gold and silver, and branded horses, and cattle, and tilled land. That is the comfort of this world.’
(Surat-aal-Imran (3), ayah 14)
But the path of Islam is one of glory and fortitude, truth, strength, blessing, integrity, stability, virtue, and nobility. Take the nation along this path, may Allah grant you success!
‘Say: “Shall I inform you of something better than that? For those who are God-fearing in the presence of their Lord, there are Gardens beneath which rivers flow, they being in them forever, and purified spouses, and the approbation of Allah . Allah is aware of His worshippers.’
(Surat-aal-Imran (3), ayah 15)
Luxuries only annihilate nations, all that destabilised Europe was pleasure and greed:
‘And when We wish to destroy a city, We command its men of wealth, and they commit transgression in it, and the sentence against it is justified, and We destroy it utterly.’
(Surat-aal-Imran (3), ayah 16)
Allah (SWT) sent His Apostle as a mercy to the world, and with him He sent His Book as a light and a guidance until the Day of Judgement. The leadership of the Apostle (PBUH) survives in the form of his Sunnah, and the authenticity of the Qur’an is strengthened by the validity of its arguments. Humanity is marching inevitably towards them both, with the might and the humility, from near and from far, so that Allah’s Word is fulfilled;
‘That He may make it triumphant over every religion.’
(Surat-at-Tawbah (9), ayah 33)
Be the first to come forward in the name of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH), with the healing provided by the Qur’an, to save the tormented, sick world! It is a bold step, but one crowned with success, Allah willing (SWT), for Allah is victorious in His affairs:
‘Then the believers will rejoice in Allah’s succour. He gives success to whom He wills, for He is the Mighty, the Merciful.’
(Surat-ar-Rum (30), ayah 45)
Source: Islamic Basics by Hasan Al-Banna
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