An Inspiring Quote from an Inspiring Man

"I am Salman, the son of Islam from the children of Adam."- Hazrat Salman Al-Farsi (RA)

This adequately sums up my feelings on the subject; Islam is the universal birth right of all humankind. By embracing it one can overcome the jahiliyyah of one's own past and of the past (and ongoing) actions of one's race, ethnicity, or tribe. It offers the conception of the Ummah to stand against all of the petty idols of ethnocentric nationalism and of the unitary, homogenous nation-state. It offers the prospect of liberty from the tyranny of men through obedience to Allah and asserts the true rights which human beings have over one another. Finally, it offers the only real hope for developing a global civilization capable of mastering the challenges which modernity has thrust upon us: wars on a scale hitherto unimaginable, the increasing capacity for surveilance, manipulation, and enslavement which new technologies and techniques offer to governments, the prospect of an ecological catastrophy unique in human history, and, at the root of it all, a crisis of meaning which locks each individual into a near impenetrable shell of indifference and despair. May Allah bless humanity with a revivified Islam and may He cause it to spread across the surface of this earth, like a life-giving shower from the Heavens, from ocean to ocean and pole to pole. Ameen.