Islam and Western Society: Arefutation of the Modern Way of Life

This collection of ten essays, is intended for the English-speaking, modern-educated Muslim in Muslim lands specifically and for the intelligentsia in Asia and Africa generally, in order to warn them of the fatal pitfalls of modernization; that to copy the West blindly and uncritically in everything does not provide any remedy for the social problems of the so-called under-developed, poor countries of the east but rather will only aggravate the predicament in which they now find themselves in addition to crating numerous new troubles exported by the West under the slogan of modernity. Since in these chapters, there is much overlapping of the various aspects of the same subject dealt with here, repetition could not be avoided. I only hope that the effect of this repetition on the reader will serve the purpose of emphasis rather than monotony. The adoption of Western culture and values by increasing multitudes of Muslims is the greatest menace to the survival of the Islamic way of life (and by analogy, all non-European cultures) in history. Our very identity as Muslims and the entire foundation of our faith in Islam is being undermined by the combined technological weapons of Western ideological propaganda. The worship of Allah and submission to His will through wholehearted obedience to Divine revelation, is rapidly giving way to a new idolatry of the crudest sort, as more and more of us prostrate ourselves at the feet of the contemporary deities of Change, Modernization, Development and progress. Thus our attitude towards modernity is no academic matter of tedious research. It is for us no less than a question of life or death!