Islam and Modern Life — Page 6
ISLAM AND MODE RN LIFE 6 their standards of values afresh in this age. They have a parallel problem also attended, a supposed problem which they wish to resolve. On the other hand, at the same time, they are eager to take full advantage of the opportunities of beneficent progress thrown open by these recent rapid advances in the field of science and technology. Now the question is, in the first place, whether their problem is the same, or has the same aspect, as the problem that confronted the West had. And if it is, or even if it isn’t, whether the same solution would be appropriate, or whether they are likely to find some other solution of the problem, whether it is the same as confronted the West, or whether it presents itself to them in a different aspect. That is, in brief, the subject to which I wish very humbly to address myself and to invite your attention this evening.