Intellectual Struggle (as-sira' a ul-fikri) -- Page 2
The intellectual struggle between Islam and the remaining kufr
civilisations is a factual reality; and it is obligatory upon Muslims, even
when the kuffar did not initiate the struggle against them. The Messenger
of Allah initiated it in Makkah before the State and after the secret
stage. The situation remained thus until our time and it will remain until
when Allah wills. It is quite apparent even if it is obscured to some
people. Whoever studied the books of 'Creeds and Sects' (Al-Millal wan-
Nihal) will find intellectual struggle therein with all the thoughts that
Muslims knew.
This struggle between the Western civilisation and Islamic civilisation
is manifested in many styles including:
1. Dominance over the media apparatus and directing them for the
benefit of the Capitalist civilisation.
2. Dominance over the education syllabi at all its levels in order to
spread the Western concepts, distort and fight some of the concepts of
Islamic civilisation and forge the history of Muslims.
3. Establishing schools and universities directly supervised by
Westerners.
4. Setting up parties that adopt Western civilisation and call for it, and
which are protected by the West and its moderate progressive friends.
5. Sponsoring those whom they call the elite, educated and intellectuals,
focusing light upon them and promoting them, so that they become the
leaders of thought in the countries of the Islamic world.
6. Funding the educational scholarships and courses in their various
types, to choose those suitable to become their intellectual or political
agents, or agents i.e. spies.
7. Founding institutions, clubs and centres specialised in spreading
their poison, and spending generously upon them.
8. Fighting the Arabic language and reviving non-Arabic languages,
and inciting nationalistic and patriotic agitations.
Even what is called struggle for interests (sira'a ul-masalih) is originally
founded upon intellectual differences, and then it is followed by
intellectual struggle. -------------------------------------- PAGE 2