If we propose to evaluate religious life in a nation, do we dispense with looking at a person devoid of belief whose conscience is devoid of faith? Can we avoid our assessment that he is an "unnatural" human being in his anxiety, suspicion, and mistrust of his existence, and that the gathering of millions of people like this human being in one nation creates for us an "unnatural" nation in its defect and chaos, and the lack of the motives that hold each other together, and connect each of them with the bonds of law, morals, and good customs? What is the scientific phenomenon that a scientist determines if he measures all matters on this scale, and weighs all historical events and human stages with this scale?
Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad