The Moral Vision
Finders, not Losers
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FINDERS, NOT LOSERS
One can sum up the state of the Muslim community
today by saying that they are afflicted by a
persecution complex
. Wherever one looks, one finds
Muslims haunted by a feeling of having lost
something. Everywhere they are complaining of
persecution by other nations, of having had
something taken away from them.
Closer scrutiny will tell one the nature of those
things that Muslims complain of having lost. One
will find that it is political power, government
posts, economic resources, social influence and
material gain that Muslims feel they have been
deprived of. To their mind, they have been done out
of these things by other nations of the world.
But, in fact, the Muslims have only themselves to
blame for the losses they have incurred. It is their
own neglectfulness that has taken them where they
are. It is not a question of their having been
deprived; it is a question of they themselves having
failed to come up to the required mark. Still, what is
even more important is that, even along with all
