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necessary for UI to do 10 in the face of these two dependable sources· granted by Allah in His mercy fOl’. our guidance. Our need ot the hour is to Plit together whatever we have left and not to take it apart. Our lead~rship must not wait until too late to realize that it is not by disorganizing a nation ethically or socially, not by plunging it into moral anarchy that the economic prosperity or political power of that nation can be revived or that one can guard it against foreign domination. The Western powers may feel they can afford to experiment as their national and cultural institutions are powerfully organized. Our religious and cultural life is in very. bad condition, if not all but annihilated. We need to resort to reconstruction and not destruction through airing antagonjstic, unrealistic and impractical views just for the sake of appearing novel and original. We should not be at variance with one another for the sake of variety .. We must ·act as one to ensure the reconstruction of our battered civilization with maximum . speed and with the least interruption or interference from without or within. “10

10. ··RICODStruc:t.iOa or the Muslim lmap.” Y.IIIlitemllllOllfll. learachi, April 7, 1974. pp. 266.273.