Documents of the Right Word

delightful and pleasing life of a cruel minority. The Pyramids in
Egypt, too, were masterpieces at one time. Can we point out signs
of social welfare in the factories and rockets, which were built on
the blood and corpses of millions of people and with the money
grabbed from hungry, wretched workers and labourers with the
view of satisfying the desires of a despotic minority? Displaying
the means as the aim of life is treacherous to life itself.
We wonder if some writers or others could even utter one per
cent of what they write or say now, were they in a communist
country?
O, Youth! Your pure hearts and green souls are quite
susceptible to the enchantment of such illusive promises. But you
will repent for it later.
The only remedy for protecting humanity against the calamity
of communism is not to fall for its sweet poisons and varnished
filth. And this, in turn, requires people to have a firm faith, an
unbending trust in Allâhu ta’âlâ, a peaceful heart, and to live in
justice and freedom. But this can come about only by following a
divine, unyielding and unchangeable book, and by purifying the
morals and intentions. This purity can be provided by Islam,
which is free from all sorts of prejudices and oppression. Islam
supplies perfect social justice, a strong shield to protect people
against the claws of the dragon of communism. Destruction of
communism can be achieved by serving Islam. Islam and
communism cannot stay together. It is a known fact that some
dictators, who have appropriated power and preside over Muslim
nations, have given their states such names as “The Socialist
Islamic Republic.” The word “Socialism,” used as such, is a term
not for Muslims, but for communists. Their putting this word and
Islam side by side is one of the traps devised for deceiving
Muslims, for Islam and socialism cannot stay together. A Muslim
cannot be a socialist. It is for this reason that communist
barbarians, in order to make the people of the Muslim countries
they capture communists, first attack Islam, laying much stress on
it. The same reason lies under communists’ enmity towards the
religion.
In every nation, there exist ignoble, irreligious, immoral, and
base people who may be tempted, deceived and cajoled into
becoming communists. Through the tricks prepared by red and
yellow centers, they may plot a communist revolution. Protection
of the nation against the bursting and spreading of such a dark and
bloody revolution can be accomplished by instructing the youth
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