Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

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.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

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".