Universal and Moral Values, Politics and World Peace — Page 20
The first condition laid by the Holy Qur'an, before you are entitled to call the world to God towards the attributes of God is: show those attributes in your own conduct and in your own behaviour. . Can it happen? This is the point-can it happen today? Keeping the factors that I have just presented to you in the focus of your attention, find an answer from your own selves. This is not pessimism! For God's sake, please do not misunderstand me this is realism carried to the utmost. It is something unavoidable it is impossible to change the face of the earth without realizing the forces and factors that I have just presented before you. . The 'mafias' of capitalism. The first question that must be dealt with is how can your economy be reformed in the sense that your crisis is not transferred to the rest of the world? The problem lies not only in the system of capitalism, but also in the 'children of capitalism' the 'mafias' of money that are created in the process of capitalistic governments or capitalist economies. When money becomes everything, when materialism becomes your goal of life, when you cannot see beyond it, then your selfishness commands you more firmly than ever before and you do not care for values at all. . Then the 'mafias' grow in the name of modern music, in the name of modern pursuits of pleasure, in this name or in that name, and make you addicted to such false standards of life that, in reality, the economy cannot sustain. This is another aspect of the problem and, coupled with what I have told you, this attitude plays havoc with human peace and with any future chances of human peace ever starting. 20. UNIVERSAL MORAL VALUES, POLITICS & WORLD PEACE