Consider this one example out of a thousand and see the degrees in the instruction given by the genius of philosophy and guidance of the Qur’an. In reality, the two  sides proceed in the manner described above, but the degrees of people in guidance  and   misguidance  differ,  and  the  degrees  of  heedlessness  differ.  Not everyone can perceive  completely this truth in every degree, because heedlessness numbs the senses. In the present age it has so deadened them that the civilized do not feel this grievous pain and suffering.  However, sensitivity is increasing and rending the veil of heedlessness due to developments  in science and the warnings of death which every day displays thirty thousand corpses. Utter  abhorrence and a thousand regrets  should  be  felt  for  those  who  take  the  way  of  misguidance  due  to  the Europeans’ idols and the natural sciences, and for those who  follow  them in blind imitation!

O sons of this land! Do not try to imitate Europeans! How can you reasonably

trust  in  and  follow  the  vice  and  invalid,  worthless  thought  of  Europe  after  the boundless tyranny and enmity it has shown you? No! No! You who imitate them in dissoluteness,  are  not  following  them  but  unconsciously  joining  their  ranks  and putting to death both  yourselves and your brothers. Know that the more you follow them in immorality the more  you lie in claiming to be patriots! Because to follow them in this way is to hold your nation in contempt, to hold the nation up to ridicule!

God guides us, and you, to the Straight Path.

Sixth Note

O you unhappy person who is alarmed at the great numbers of the unbelievers and their agreement in denying some of the truths of belief, and as a result is shaken in his faith! You  should know that value and importance do not lie in quantity and number. For if man is not  a true human being, he is transformed into a diabolical animal, and the more he increases in animal greed, the more animal he becomes – like some Europeans and their imitators. You can see that in number, men are extremely few in comparison to the countless animals, and yet they are sovereign rulers over all the animal species and vicegerents of the earth.

The harmful unbelievers and those depraved wretches who follow in their way

are a vicious species among Almighty God’s animals which the All-Wise Maker has created for the development and prosperity of the world. He has made them a unit of measurement in  order to make known to His believing servants the degrees of the bounties He has bestowed on them, and finally will consign those animals to the Hell they deserve.