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A Time for
Commitment
For Muslims, then, the turn of the
millennium is a time to resolve to hold on to their faith
whatever the challenges, to sit tight whatever the
tribulations, to wait and pray for deliverance, and be
steadfast and ready to fight when there is need for it. It is
also a call for unity to reverse the weakness brought upon
them through their differences and neglect. For believers of
other faiths, it may well be a time to realize that Islam
alone has the determination and staying power to stem the tide
against a further rise in secularism with its depersonalizing
greed for total control and inhumane destruction of all it
cannot control. For those not fooled by the fake spirituality
of new world order, those not engulfed by the empty promises of a new dawn of
civilisation, there may remain only one option, difficult as it may
seem at the moment: to join the camp
of the believers at the risk
of being ostracized by their own society. For there
can be no real gain if you lose
your soul, and only the truth can set us
free.
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Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
was born in 1959 in Heidelberg, Germany into a protestant
Christian family, and took a career in journalism and
book publishing. He embraced Islam in 1980, and later moved
to Britain. Currently he holds the position of general
secretary of the Islamic Party of
Britain .
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