Europe Between Technology & Spiritualism

	Introduction:	Scientific Approach \| Need for a Belief \| Creator's Existence \| Prophecy (Message)
	What is Islam:	Basics of Islam \| Women in Islam \| War in Islam \| Politics in Islam \| Muslims & World
	Terrorism Issues:	Sept. Attack & Who's behind it? \| Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
	Nations:	Europe Between Technology & Spiritualism

Question: Why are all the Moslem countries backwarded as if there were an adherent connection between them and backwardness?

The reason for that could be briefed in one factor: Divergence. This divergence changed into disintegration and then to collision. In this case, no matter how glorious the civilization is or how huge the power or riches are, they will vanish by means of this aloofness and disintegration; hence appears backwardness. The question is: Why the countries, in question, are separated?
As a matter of fact, there are certain plots aiming at this divergence. These plots, however, could not have been succeeded had the Islamic world not been descending. If so, no one can ever separate brothers one from the other. But when hearts headed for more worthless gains, more money an worldly positions where people furiously competed for, Islam’s antagonists made use of this Achilles heel and broke through.
Muslims, nonetheless, will come back o their previous progress, only when the worldly love is elevated to the love of God rather than of others. This love will boost them to challenge and hence all aspects of retardation will vanish for ever.

Question: The West is boosting his civilization, scientific achievements, liberty and the respect for others’ opinions, boosting social equity.. how could we imagine that the west will quit all this and head towards what seems to backwardness of Muslims on a large scale?

The person who asks this question might have been taken by outward appearance that would make the Westerners dunk rather than happy. I would ask you, brother, to look into the heart of the matter, because if you ask every single person in the West about the extent of happiness with the civilization you described, s/he will give you a similar answer. The best example to this is the people who were living this glittering material civilization then converted to Islam. If you ask them today how happy they were, they may give out deep sighs or ask you not to remind them of the tragedies they were set free from.
One of these people is the American scholar Geoffrey Lang who converted to Islam eight years ago, I read his book “Struggle to Surrender” or "Struggle for Islam" in which he expressed his resentment at traditional Christianity he was involved in that led him to atheism which, in turn, distressed him and only in Islam he found out the happiness he was looking for. Going through his book, I came across a chapter in which he says: “When I converted to Islam I was careful to do the five prayers only congregationally, and familiarized myself with its rules and beliefs, particularly those prayers that said in a loud voice. One person asked me once, out of curiosity, “why are you so keen to share prayers with others and you do not know Arabic?” I answered him in another question: “Why would a baby feel at ease when hearing its mum’s voice though the baby can understand nothing?” Similarly, I deeply feel such a relation between myself and this heavenly speech”.
This sort of speech confirms what I said earlier, and pretty soon will find more evidences about what I am talking about. Likewise, when Westerners honestly take on to Islam, they will not end up in the same backwardness we are suffering from. It is going to be something completely different.

Question: How do you feel about the Arab and Muslim young people resorting to the West so as to enjoy what is called human rights protection over there? This reflects the phenomena you discussed and it reminds us of the saying: I went west and found Islam without Muslims and I went back to find Muslims without Islam. So what is the control factor to this phenomena?

The phenomena you are pointing out could assure what we said earlier. When we see an inclination in the West to ethics and respect for human right, we realize that the graphic line is heading up to get rid of the shackles the West was deeply suffering from. Nonetheless, I do not agree that the West, strategically, cares for human rights. However we can say: Yes indeed there are some individuals in the Western world that advocate human rights. But when politics and politicians are concerns; Western purposes come first and everything else could be sacrificed for them so that to achieve these purposes. Besides, this contradiction between individuals and leaders constitute, at present another factor which would push people to the West to look for an outlet from the ordeal they are going through; the vent is Islam indeed.
On the other hand, the person who asked this question may want to defame the Islamic Arab world of wronging human rights. Never! Islam preserves human rights, but it is hindered from implementing such preservation and bringing it into effect, and the reason is obvious to all of us.

Question: Do you think that Muslims in the East are doing their best to give the chance to the birth of Islam in the West?

The birth of Islam in the West will not be ascribed to Muslims inhabiting the East, this is mainly ascribed to God Who says: “If you turn back (from the path), He will substitute you with other people; then they would be not like you”.
I said earlier, it is not a matter of efforts or plans exerted by us, Muslims, those Muslims who are living in the West are unfortunately busy arguing with each other and they often need the police to compromise between them. Nonetheless, people in the West are having a deep sigh looking for Islam.

Question: The Muslims thinker Rougee Garoudi said in one of his lectures: “The question that always recurs in the West is: how, When and Why?”
In other words, the West is looking for the means and ways not for the ends. Such as:
How can we make the nuclear bomb?
How can we reach the moon?
How can we clone humans?
That is, the West are not looking for the ends behind these achievements. Therefore, reaching such material achievements must have been accompanied with human catastrophes! What do you se about that?

I think my Lecture was an explanation for this subject. There is nothing wrong about what you have said. Fougee Garoudi is one of many who eagerly want to liberate the West from the retardation it suffers under the name of civilization. Yes, indeed, I think that what we see today of clashing and conflict between the democracy of Garoudi and the tyranny of other European departments is a phenomenon of conflict in which Islam will be the winner; i.e. for human development in the West. I think I do not need to add more of what I have mentioned.

Question: Are we supposed to wait until Islam is born in the West? And do you mean, in your lecture, the magnetization of Muslims’ role in the world particularly the Arab one?
Answer: I have not said that Muslims should lie down and sleep until sleep until the West wakes up and takes on to Islam?.

I have never said that Muslims should be as example for dependence and Laziness. There are two sections in the World: The Islamic World that has been afflicted with lots of things, and the Western World for which I expressed my view and expectation which I do not think that I was exaggerating. However, neither the Islamic renaissance in the West for our falling behind it would be of any avail or harm to us. The way is safely carved before us and the call of God is audible. Hence, there is no justification whatsoever for Muslims to get jet lag, lazy or dependant, or even wait for the West to go ahead of us in this field.

Question: Dear Dr. Bouti, don’t you think that the broken bridge you talked about during your lecture will get connected by means of the establishment of the Islamic state rather than science or sentiments that are not a big deal when the state of Islam has been established?

In an answer to this question. I would like to put a question across:
Is the state of Islam a gate and entrance to Islam or a product of the domination of Islam over individuals?.
Though the answer to this question is so simple, some of our Muslims brothers are quite ignorant of it!.
Some say: The state of Islam can sort out the problem of calling for Islam, identify it and solve other problems as well. I say: Islamic state is the last stage along the way of Islamic commitment. First of all, Islam should be deeply rooted within Muslims, truthfully grown in their minds and sentimentally in their hearts. Muslims come together embody God’s words:
“Believers are brothers, so reconciliate between your brothers” (Surat Al-Hujurat 49/10)
So Islam, orchestrated in truthful loyal Muslims, will not emanate from the state or its system, it is rather the Islamic state which would emanate from the depth of this reality.
This conception laid by the questioner is strange and rather reversed. Muslims in Islam, historically speaking, first started as individuals, then next got together an loved each other, then form within this coalition and loved each other, then from within this coalition and Islamic course, the state emanated.

Question: How would the Islamic renaissance com out from the West whereas Muslims are dispersed in different directions?

Dear brother, who says that God will only guide Westerners to Islam merely for the sake of Muslims?! Who says so!? We would go too far if we imagined that the West will not wake up from its coma nor will know Islam unless a hand from the Islamic World stretches forth to help it out. What about God’s hand, His might and light of guidance! In the way God made you love faith? He can make it loved by others.
This is clear, do not put yourself as a mediator between God and His people.

Question: If we consider the theory that says: “Unsuccessful experience bears the seeds of its antipode.” Why would then not the Islamic renaissance emanate from the East as it reaches a deadlock with its bitter experience?

This rule applies in the East as well as in the West. I would like, in this context, ask a question: “Where has the Islamic wakefulness come from”? The answer to this question is that it has come out as a result of unsuccessful experience that did last for quite a long time. There is no doubt that an Islamic awakening is looming large over our Islamic environment. This awakening rings the bell for full alert in the West for the danger of this over the Western part of the world.
In this occasion, I would like to mention something I haven't not intended to say: I read a report from the National Security Council in America issued in 1991 regarding the danger of Islam on the West, This report goes on to set out the rules to articles and combat the danger of contradictions among Muslims, and causing troubles between them, others are not worth mentioning. In other words, this fear is a result of the Islamic wakefulness in the Arab and this wakefulness is the fruit of the above mentioned rule: “Unsuccessful experience bears the seeds of its antipode.”

Question: Referring back to your lecture about abandoning the concept of “absolute time” and Newton’s scientific instructions, don’t you think this is the normal development for science? And why do you call theories of science as conceptions whereas you are not against science? And as for uncertainty, don’t you think that it leads to certainty, which is the door of belief?.

There is a difference between “scientific research” and “scientific conclusion”. Someone may be realistically called a scientific researcher when trying to reach scientific truths by virtue of scientific course and means. However, it is not necessary that every scientific researcher would reach and acknowledged/ firm scientific truth. For example, a researcher in the origin of man through the comparative embryology and fossils is undoubtedly a scientific researcher, but the conclusion s/he reaches is not necessarily a firm scientific truth.
This researcher, through the course of his research, may or may not reach the scientific truth. This could be clearly embodied in Mark and Darwin, both of them are unquestionably scientific researcher, but neither could ever reach a firm scientific truth through his researches about the origin of man, over which both Europe and America bear witness.
Thus, Newton was a brilliant researcher in science, through which he did reach lots of truths, however he could not at the same time reach a truth through science in some other matters. Newton did acknowledge “time” as having “an absolute existence”, but this has been later refuted when scientists agreed that “time” i.e. time is a moving shadow of events. In the light of this, can we call Newton’s conception of “time” a scientific truth as he imagined it now that it has been refuted? Had we been able to do so, right an wrong would have become equal, and both would have been scientific truths with no difference in between.
Since Newton’s time up to the present day, it is the mentality of the scientific researchers that developed rather than science itself. Otherwise, it would mean that “time” at Newton’s era had an absolute existing entity then this entity vanished to become the fourth dimension of the space which, of course, can not be acknowledged by any scientist.
As for the uncertainty. It is unquestionably the incentive that leads to certainty. Dubiety is a sort of disease or an alert of a disease that could be cured by scientific research which, in turn, would gradually set the people who carry it free from this disease an elevate them to certainty.
This is actually what Imam Ghazali meant when he talked about the uncertainty which came over him and Ied him to set of for certainty. Likewise, Dickart’s course about “uncertainty” is similar to that of Ghazali’s.
In this occasion, I would like to point out to the Tunisian historian scholar Sir. Osman Al-Ka’ak, he said in a lecture delivered during the 10th anniversary of the Islamic intellectual meeting in Algeria, where I was a participant, that he visited the Library of Dickhart and found out a translation of a book of al-Ghazali’s called “The Savior from Deviation”, he went through it to find a comment written by Dichart himself reading: “To be transferred to our approach”.

Question: What is the connection between the literate an illiterate, taking into account that illiterate would not know he is so sometimes. “So how can he become aware of his ignorance, an how can he find someone trustworthy enough to guide him o truth? And what is the criteria that could be followed to acquire knowledge”.

Imam Malik says: “Knowledge is a religion, so watch out where you get your religion from”?

Someone may ask: “is priority then for religion or for knowledge”? Whoever asks such a question should stand before someone impartial who deals with the true knowledge with no prejudice whatsoever on either science or religion. This is what God commands as saying: “And pursue not that of which thou has no knowledge: for surely the heating. The sight, the heart, all of those shall be questioned for” Al-Isra’: 17/36)
By resorting to a knowledgeable person, you should pay attention to something important, i.e. if the person in question talks about knowledge, he should be sincerely doing so without using knowledge as a means to win victory for perceptions he is calling for.
Upon achieving this, this dear brother, that person will help take you out of the darkness of ignorance into the light of knowledge, and then this light of knowledge, in turn, will take you to faith and Islam; because true belief in God and what follows of rules and principles is an end along the way of knowledge.
Consequently, everyone who completes his/her scientific journey to the end would be delivered by knowledge to the truthful religion, i.e. Islam for which all God’s Prophets and Messengers have been sent since Adam up to Muhammad “God bless him”.

Question: If we look around in the West, and in the light of social and religious changes. We can see initiatives, and rather conflicts, between the spiritualists and materialists, and between the spiritualists themselves throughout the numerous religions and the spiritual doctrines that are increasing day by day. The question is: Will Islam emerge after all that bitter conflict?

This is actually taking place. It is, as mentioned between materialists and spiritualists and among spiritualists themselves, and indisputably religions such as Buddhism and Yoga play a significant role in this conflict.
What, on earth, is the reason of this conflict among people who are all suffering form the pressure of materialism and yearning for a refreshing spiritual world?”.
The reason for this conflict is that as much those people yearn for spiritual life, they grasp the scientific methods and yet insist on not to diverge from the balance of science. This is because. They have been brought up on science and under its wings, In this case, neither of them would accept to take on to spiritual life as an alternative to get on with civilized life. Hence. The conflict rises between yearning for spiritual life and that for science so as to keep up with the civilized course and to maintain scientific gains. The question is: Who will put an end to this conflict and compromise between spiritualism and science?
It is Islam which, unlike any other religion that flooded Europe, would make Man enjoy the beauty of spiritualism and at the same time adjust him within the boundaries of scientific methods and rules.
The spiritualism of Islam is the fruit of practicing science truths and keeping to its path. It is not hoaxes or astray dreams. Converting to Islam would not lead people to sacrifice science, it rather encourages them to delve more into the depths of science and walk all the way along. Contrastively, taking on to other new- coming man- made religions is linked up to giving up science and surrendering to superstitions and imaginations. As a conclusion, the only way to survive from the conflict taking place in the West is to take on to Islam Besides, this conflict will compose a major factor to embark on Islam which is considered the only solution to this problem.