The most dangerous diseases that afflict the body are those that attack the immune system. When the immune system is weakened, the body’s pathways open their gates to hordes of germs, which wreak havoc without restraint or countering. Among the most prominent features that distinguished life under the Khilafah (Caliphate), and whose loss we suffer and bitterly endure today, are two:

Today we live in an age of “materialistic supremacy,” in which Western civilization has reached its technological zenith, while, at the same time, sinking into a state of “moral bankruptcy.” The predicament confronting the world today is not a shortage of resources, but a malfunction in the minds and systems that have managed those resources. The Westerner has buried his intellect in the “dust of materialism,”

Muslims are one Ummah, distinct from other peoples; their Lord is one, their Deen is one, their Prophet (saw) is one, their Qibla is one, and their Book is one.

A wretched life is lived by women and their children under capitalist systems whose flames scorch the entire world, foremost among them the United States. Women in Syria, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Gaza, the West Bank, and elsewhere, have seen these tragedies with their own eyes and heard them with their own ears.