" The major task before the Muslim leaders and thinkers today is to rekindle the flame of faith in the hearts of Muslims. They should do all that the early preachers of Islam did, and at the same time avail themselves fully of all opportunities the modern age has put into their hands.The Quran and the Sunnah can still revitalize the withered arteries of the Islamic world. Their study and influence still fire one with the desire to smash the citadel of Ignorance. They have a rousing quality about them that can spur a slumbering people into new life. There will then be born in every Muslim home good men who will fully correspond to the description contained in the following verse of the Quran:
"They were youths who believed in their Lord, and We advanced them in guidance. We gave strength to their hearts; behold, they stood up and said: 'Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth; never shall we call upon any god other than Him; if we did, we should indeed have uttered an enormity.'" al-Kahf 18: 13-14
The world will then again see living specimens of the religious earnestness and sacrificial spirit of Bilal and 'Ammar, Khabbab and Khubaib, Suhaib and Mus'ab ibn Umair and Uthman ibn Maz'un and Anas ibn an-Nadir; the gentle breeze of faith will once again kiss the face of the earth and a new world quite different from the one we know will come into existence. "
Sayyed Abul Hassan 'Ali Nadwi
Islam and the world
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