Based upon this flimsy foundation which is affirmed by bad belief and results from the lack of faith in the existence of an eternal, abiding Innovator, morality will without a doubt collapse, chaos will prevail, the structure of human society will crumble, and man will degrade from his high rational rank to the depths of brute animality. And this is what we see and sense in this time of ours and in these days of ours—a powerful, irrefutable proof that muzzles the mouths.

And indeed, those who maintain the eternity of the elements—the elements of nature, matter, thought, or their like—who deny Allah, the Necessary Being, surely affirm the existence of what their hearts denied by force, and the Majestic Expression (Lafdh al-Jalalah) runs upon their tongues under compulsion from them, and that is during actual situations and sudden occurrences