Menifesto of Islam

The present crises in world affairs threatening the total collapse of civilization and even the total extinction of the human race, is forcing mankind to search for a remedy. Of late their interest in religion has suddenly revived. Is religion, properly understood, the only refuge of mankind from these impending calamities? They are searching an answer to this question.

On the other hand, the muslims are claiming openly and repeatedly before the whole world that Islam is the only ideology that can permanantly unite the human race, establish a lasting peace on earth and carry man to that highest stage of his mental, moral, material and spirtual evolution of which there is a promise in the potentialities of his nature.

This devolves upon the Muslims the responsibility to tell the world that what Islam is, how it differs from other religions, what are the intellectual foundations of its claims, what are its aims and objects and how it intends to realize them.

"The Menifesto of Islam" is an endeavour to provide a brief answer to these questions.

The word "Menifesto" has been generally used for a decleration, by a sovereign, a state of a body of individuals, making known past actions and motives of actions accounced as forthcoming. But since the appearance, a century ago, of the 'Communist Menifesto' as an instrument of world-wide propagation of Communism-leading ultimately to the emergence of that ideology as a great political power in the world-this world has acquaired a new significance, as a statement setting forth the historical bases, the fundamental principles and the expected achiements of an ideology demanding a world-wide recognition. I am using the word only in this latter sense.

The readers of this booklet will find that, as an explanation of the fundamental principles of Islam, its subject matter takes a shape of a theory of History based on a theory of human nature, according to which Islam is the inevitable world-ideology of the future. The central idea of this theory of human nature is that man's urge for an ideal is the sole, the real and the ultimate motivating force of all his activities, even those which proceed immediately from his animal instincts, and that this urge can be satisfied, only by an ideal of the Highest beauty and Perfection.

This idea comes into conflict, not only with the atheistic philosophy of Marx but also with the psychological theories of Freud, Adler and McDougall which are generaly considered to be the standard and correct theories of human nature in modern times. Readers of the Menifesto of Islam who may desire to know in greater detail the facts which force one to accept the validity of this idea vis-a-vis all these theories and of other philosophical points raised in this Menifesto are referred to my book 'Ideology of the Future'.

M.R.D