Islam and Modern Life — Page 25
ISLAM AND MODE RN LIFE 25 Iran, Afghanistan, West Pakistan, the Southern Soviet Union, the Northwestern Provinces of China, then on into India, 40 millions of them, over into Malaya, the majority of them, and 90% are over in Indonesia, and they occupy a very important position toda y, strategically, as well as with regard to their resources, only some parts of which have been discovered so far, and also, in this struggle between the East and the West, the ideological struggle, and their contribution might, in the last resort, prove d ecisive. Therefore, the West is also puzzled. Will they continue the way they are today, and become a handicap to the rest of mankind? Are there any means by which they will become beneficent in themselves again? Well now, the thinking of some has gone in the direction in which it had gone in the West. Why don’t these people, and one reads it so often, why don’t they carry out a division between what belongs to religion and what is outside of it? That will be their salvation.