الأستاذ الكريم د. محمد شادي كسكين
إليك الترجمة إلى الإنجليزية للنص الذي وعدتُ بترجمته
في انتظار التدقيق
جزاكم الله خيرًا
Proposal No.: 
         101005-   11
   
         Presented by: 
         Ms Munjiyah Ben Saleh
             Category of the Proposal:
         Category A – For Non-Muslims
             Proposed Language:
         English
             Text Written by:
         Dr. Muhammad Ramadan Sa’eed Al-Booti
             Source of the Text:
         A lecture presented in France on   23/06/2001
             The Title:
         My advice to the   Westerners who fear Islam today
  Since the seventies (of the past century), the  West, both in Europe and  in America, has lived a period of fear of what  it called “the Islamic  Extremism”.  
  In fact, Muslim extremism is not what the West fears, but rather Islam  itself; of its wide, and expected spread in the West in general and in  America in particular. 
It was Allah’s wish that made it possible, for me, to lay my hand on the  oldest western report which expresses these fears.This  report was  delivered by “William Clifford”, the Director of the  Australian  Institute of Criminology, to the United Nations following a  series of  conferences held by the Arab Organization for the Social  Defense  against Crime, and emanated from the Arab League in the middle  of the  seventies.  
  I then managed to lay my hand on another report  which expressed the  same fears.  This time, it was a report sent by the  US National  Security Council, in the beginning of the nineties, to the  relevant  American departments.
  
The fear expressed in these two reports was not a fear of what they  called:“Islamic Extremism”, but rather a fear of Islam itself.  
  This fact is evidence that “the Islamic  Extremism” which we hear  about or witness here and there, is nothing but  a plot hatched within  special circles in the West, then exported and  suggested to the  collaborators and experienced specialists in countries  and places where  these planned extremist acts are executed.  
 
 
  
  What I want to say to the westerners in general is  the following:True  Islam does not pose danger to the West or the  western civilization  today.  Islam is in fact the cure that will  prevent the collapse of the  western civilization.  It will heal the  diseases that have afflicted it  today, and will help it regain its  previous power and vigor.  This will  happen if the West gets to know  Islam and understands its true nature.    
  
The real danger that threatens the western  civilization today lies in a  similar decay and corruption that spread  through the Roman Empire and  ultimately led to its destruction.  
  
The corruption in the West today can be  summarized in the fact that it  had completely abandoned its dealings  with the universe, concentrating  mainly on the machines, or the  materialistic world; forgetting human  beings in the process.The Western society tends to deal now with the  science of the machines:Their importance, how to make them, ways to use  them and how to develop them.
  It is in a constant breathless competition with others in this arena!
  The Western society forgot that machines should serve human beings, not the reverse. 
  The cure calls for science to deal with the human being first and foremost with regards to his self:
  Who is he? What is the source of his existence?  What is his destiny?  What nourishes his soul and emotions? How  important are ethics in his  life? What are the source and reasons for  his commitment in his  behavior?
  
  The calamity of the West lies in its mistake in  sanctifying the  machine, and in the process it denigrated humans into  servants of the  machine. Hence, the West turned its back on what  nourishes the  spiritual existence of the human beings and fills their  souls.  The  reverse should have been observed… the main attention should  have been  directed to the true nature of the human being and to  nourishing his  ambitions and endeavors.  In fact, machines should have  been made to  serve humans.
  
  This calamity resulted in an intellectual  vacuum in the minds of the  people of the western civilization prompting  them to search and  question constantly. It also resulted in an emotional  vacuum which  prompted them to search for love without ever knowing who  the loved one  is.  It, moreover, resulted in perception vacuum due to  their failing  to recognize their relation with this universe. 
  
  The generation whose role in life has ended or  neared its end,  doesn’t feel this vacuum as much as it feels problems  and solitude.   This is because it is immersed in its business and work  whether  scientific, political or social, all of which have become  routine and  automatic, devoid of life.  
  
  It’s the new generation who feels this scary  vacuum, because it is  new to this world and lacks knowledge of it.  It  doesn’t have what  keeps it busy.  Most of its members seldom rely on the  family for their  emotional support, because they’re not used to family  life or have  never known it.
  
  Don’t you see how they escape the consequences  of this exhausting  mental and emotions vacuum by seeking refuge in  different distractions  to forget, represented by all types of drugs and  intoxications; and in  creating all types of perversions, including  bizarre amusements and  sexual and criminal deviations and killings that  have no meaning or  reason?!
  
  You probably also heard about how different  news agencies have  reported that 40% of America’s primary school  children are given  extended dosages of drugs, under specialist medical   supervision, to  provide what these doctors consider necessary for the  mental balance of  these children. 
  It has become evident beyond any doubt that  this new generation is  unqualified to carry the required political,  governing or social  administrative responsibilities which are being made  vacant and  available by the departing older generation. 
  I know that this phenomenon is more evident and  serious in America  than any other parts of Europe.  But the signs are  all there, here and  there.  Therefore, the repercussions are eminent,  whether in the near  or distant future.  
  
  This is the danger that  threatens the western  civilization then, not Islam as is indicated by  many reports, some of  which I have already alluded to. 
  
  Yes, this is the danger.  What is the cure, then?
  The cure lies in having the West direct its  attention towards human  beings, not towards the machine.  By “attending  to humans” I don’t mean  applying the articles of the Charter of Human  Rights, which raises a  lot controversy and noise in the realm of the  political arena to affirm  the destiny of Human Rights.  I mean getting  to know the true nature  of the human being in his whole make up, and  getting to know his hopes  and aspirations and spiritual needs.  There is  no room for denying  these needs anymore.  The West needs also to work  hard on providing  answers to the questions that the minds of many  youth dwell on in this  exhausting tumultuous sea of the materialistic automated  world… this  world that agitates the nerves and irritates the self.  Some  of these  questions are: who am I? Why am I here? What is death? What is  my  destiny?
  
  The answers to all these questions should be  scientifically  disciplined away from fantasies and myths that sneak into  the western  way of thinking today under the guise of spiritual research and   studies.  These fantasies seem to gain acceptance even with their   mythical nature, due to the spiritual thirst from which many of the  youth in  the West suffer.
  
  Where can these answers be found, away from myths and fantasies?
  I won’t be exaggerating, and I won't be a fanatic, if I say that  you’ll  find your answers in Islam.  It’s the only thing that will  reveal to you  the whole truth about the human being and its worth as a  master of this  universe.
  I am not saying to the politicians and the  thinkers of the west to  come and embrace Islam.  I am only saying: come  and understand Islam,  away from the misty images that shrouded it, and  from the foreign ideas  that was thrust upon it.  Firstly, you will get  to know it; secondly  you will find that its facts are in harmony with  your scientific  expectations, and you will soon realize that Islam is  the refuge that  will snatch the western youth from the center of  suffocation or loss.   What you need, in this case, is one thing.  You  need to relinquish your  idea about Islam as an imminent danger, and  consider it instead as a  true friend, a refuge at a time of need.  You  need to leave those who  wish to study Islam and then embrace it, in  peace, without constricting  them.  You probably know that Mourad  Hoffman, the German ambassador to  some Arab countries, was stripped of  his position and many of his  social entitlements because he embraced  Islam.
  If the west maintained this artificial barrier  between it and Islam,  and remained oblivious to the real danger that  creeps quickly through  the foundation of the whole western society,  which I have touched on  just now… then the result will be the collapse  of the whole western  civilization within a period of up to half a  century, according to the  expectations of the western sociologists  themselves.  For those who  read “The 25th Hour” by Constantin Gheorghiu  you will know the truth of  my words.  
  
  I said to Silverman; don’t take me as a  politician who plays with  political trickery through my words, but  rather as a friend who fears  for the western civilization of decay and  decline before taking notice  of the readily available cure.
  He said to me: I appreciate your advice, and  agree with you that we  have to search in earnest for a way out of the  danger you have pointed  out.  I hope that the Americans will be  convinced soon that the real  cure is Islam
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