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The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order Secondly, God will not alter the fate of such nations who do not initiate an earnest effort to change their situation. ADVICE TO THE MUSLIM WORLD Therefore, I advise the Muslims to return to Islamic values and to its eternal and universal principles and then they will behold the divine blessings showered upon them from every direction. My second advice is that you pay attention towards the study of Arts and Sciences. How many centuries have you wasted in mere slogan mongering and have remained preoccupied by the world of poetic fantasy b y making the robins clash with the eagles? The 'eagles' continued to pounce on you and you could make nothing for yourself. Other nations advanced in arts and sciences and remained dominant over you, and gained supremacy over you in every field. Now you talk of competing with such nations while ignoring all efforts lo acquire the well-tested weapons which they had been successfully using against you. It is therefore very important that you pay earnest attention towards the learning of arts and sciences. Do not toy with the sentiments of Muslims by inciting them to fight in the streets, hurling profanities on others, thus ruining them morally as well as intellectually. Afterwards, you have them flogged or shot by the police. Thus, you not only injure them physically, but you also desecrate their self esteem! This is the game you have been playing for quite long. You incite the youngsters and when these miserable people come out in the streets as a token of their love for Islam, then they are discredited and humiliated. They are clubbed down and bullets are rained upon them, while they remain bewildered as to why this is being done to them. Therefore, instead of playing with their sentiments, encourage them, teach them etiquettes, give them the teaching of restraint. Tell them that if they wish to find a respectable place in the comity of nations then they should excel in the field of arts and sciences as well as in other studies. Without this, they will never attain their rightful stature of respect and honour. 297