The Catalog of the Universe

Islam is not a private individual affair, but a collective system, not a vehicle of personal salvation but of universal welfare, not an adversary of reason but a liberator of human reason, not a breeder of superstition but a radical challenge to all superstition, not a purveyor of fearful conformity but a creator in man of courage and self reliance, not a call for renunciation of the concrete and the real but an invitation to conquer and subjugate the world of matter, not a supporter of the status quo and of the vested interests but a beacon light pointing in the direction of a total "revolt against all forms of tyranny and exploitation". It is, in short, a loud "YES" to life, and totally rejects the whimpering "NO" which religious priestcraft has used to shackle the divine potentialities created in man by God.