(Part 38)
The Eighth Topic: The Importance of Imitation
The Continuation:
Internal factors promoting Western culture include weak Islamic media that, due to lack of funding, poor planning, and weak strategies, fail to attract or maintain a significant audience. Such efforts are not helpful or sustainable in countering the massive cultural assault of the West. Another internal issue is the lack of exemplary figures during times of cultural invasion. Worthy individuals, due to both internal and external interference, either never found the opportunity to work or were discredited and sidelined due to widespread corruption. Educational poverty or poor quality education has led to weakened religious beliefs in families. Proper and compassionate attention to families—from formation to development—can significantly reduce the harms of cultural invasion. Unfortunately, in our country, there is no proper planning—neither from the government nor from the people—regarding education, family formation, childbearing, etc., and often, religious principles are ignored in these areas. In general, to counter Western cultural invasion, strengthening religious beliefs, raising political awareness, promoting enjoining good and forbidding wrong in line with current realities, moving toward justice and economic development, supporting the poor, reforming and strengthening media, promoting higher education based on religious values, and ensuring justice in society are essential.
The Third Speech: Unity and Solidarity
The only way to preserve cultural heritage and defend religion and Islamic lands is through unity, brotherhood, and solidarity among Muslims. Facing the oppressive and destructive cultural invasion of the West is not a task that any single group or sect can accomplish alone. Muslims need fair, wise, and scholarly resistance to secularism, atheism, Satanism, and other ideologies supported by Western economies and long-term planning, which threaten everyone. One of the most unifying elements in society is holding fast to the Quran and Sunnah—two major sources that, during the foundation and expansion of Islam, united divided communities and enabled them to triumph over their enemies.
Imitation in The Present Age
