The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 105
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Mercjful SIXTH FRIDAY SERMON NOVEMBER 16, 1990 THE GREATEST DANGER FACING MANKIND TODAY After reciting the Opening Chapter of the Holy Quran, AI-Fatiha, Hazoor said: PREJUDICES AND SELFISHNESS The greatest threat to world peace today emanates from prejudices and selfishness, which, unfortunately, reigns over the minds of most of the politicians of the world. A politician, whether from the East or the West, white or black, generally coordinates his politics with his cunning moves in such a way that the question of tangibility of moral values and politics does not arise. It is only Islam where politics is free of deceptive moves and that is what constitutes true Islamic politics. Otherwise to profess that Islam is our faith and our politics and then to detach political values from Islamic values is inconsistent. At the moment, the ideal system of Islamic politics is not seen anywhere in the world. The mode of politics is the same in countries that are Islamic and in those that are non-Islamic, and selfishness is ruling politics. Prejudices, as opposed to principles, are ruling it. As such, the greatest threat to the world is from prejudice and selfishness. At the start of the new revolutionary period of peace between Soviet Union and America the politicians of the world looked at the future with great hope. They started to say that now a new period of peace had begun. In actuality, this is a thought found only in dreams; in ignorant dreams. There have been certain benefits as a result of these revolutionary changes. However, there have also been certain setbacks and among the setbacks, the greatest one is that as a result of the ideological division of the East and the West, the prejudices that were hitherto suppressed, have now emerged before us in clear terms. 105