The age-old dream of the human caravan is not to send astronauts in their orbit in outer space.. it is to send its individuals - every single individual in his orbit of self-realization. It is high time that this dream be thus reinterpreted. It is also the sacred duty of every man and woman to help intelligently reorientate human endeavour towards the culmination of this pilgrimage.

Mahmoud Muhammad Taha - Answers to the questions of Mr. John Voll - 17.7.1963

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The Challenge Facing the Arabs

Jews Fighting Jews


Allah has guaranteed the triumph of Islam unconditionally: “It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to make it prevail over all religion. And sufficient is Allah as Witness” (48:28).
However, He did not guarantee victory to the Arabs unless they fulfilled two conditions: that they believe in Him and that they support Him within themselves: “O you who have believed, if you support Allah, He will support you and plant firmly your feet” (47:7).
Islam is not in need of the Arabs, but the Arabs are certainly in need of Islam. There is a warning from Allah directed specifically at the Arabs that should break hearts: “And if you turn away, He will replace you with another people; then they will not be like you” (47:38).
Who knows? These “other people” might be the Children of Israel.
We must be clear: The Arabs today have been led astray in their religion and have distanced themselves from it. They are fighting Zionist Israeli racism with Arab racism. Jews fighting Jews!
Did the Prophet not say: “The nations will soon invite one another against you just as diners invite each other to a dish.” His companions asked: “Will it be because we are few in number that day, O Messenger of Allah?” He replied: “No, you will be many in number that day, but you will be like scum on the surface of a flood. Allah will have no regard for you.”
More striking than that, did he not also say: “You will follow the ways of those before you, inch by inch, and step by step. Even if they entered a lizard’s hole, you would enter it as well.” They asked: “Do you mean the Jews and Christians?” He replied: “Who else?”
When the Arabs confronted the Israelis on their battlefield, they were defeated by them three times. This was due to many reasons, the most important of which are two:
First, Israeli racism - unlike Arab racism - is deeply tied to Jewish religious beliefs. Therefore, the Israelis fight with the zeal of religious fanatics, whereas the Arabs fight with hollow hearts and empty minds.
Second, the Israelis live off the core of Western mechanized civilization and excel in modern warfare. The Arabs, by contrast, live off the superficial aspects of this civilization. They neither design nor manufacture machinery, nor do they maintain or use it effectively.
Thus, they lack the insight necessary for modern scientific warfare.