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The Second Word has been born in my thought as a result of my experiences in the course of my life. It is as follows:

Despair is the most terrible disease that has entered the heart of the Islamic world. It is despair that has as though killed us so that a small state of one or two million in the West has made twenty million Muslims in the East its servants and brought their homeland under colonial rule. It is also despair that has killed our high morals and caused us to abandon the public good and focus our sight on personal benefits. It is also despair that has broken our ma’nawî power. Although with ma’nawî power arising from îmân and little material strength, Muslims conquered from East to West, dhâlim foreigners have held three hundred million Muslims captive for four hundred years because that extraordinary ma’nawî power was destroyed by despair. Because of this despair, Muslims even suppose the indifference and apathy of others to be an excuse for their own laziness and say, "What is it to me?" Saying, "Everybody is as miserable as I am," they abandon the courage arising from îmân and fail to perform their Islamic service.

Since this disease has inflicted such dhulm upon us and is killing us, we will take our revenge on our killer and kill it. With the sword of

1 لاَ تَقْنَطُوا مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللّٰهِ

we will smash its head. With the haqiqah of the hadith,

يُدْرَكُ كُلُّهُ لاَ يُتْرَكُ كُلُّهُ2

we will break the back of despair, InshâAllah.

Despair is a most terrible disease called "cancer" of ummahs and nations. It is an obstacle to all kinds of perfection and is opposed to the haqiqah,

اَنَا عِنْدَ حُسْنِ ظَنِّ عَبْدِى بِى3

It is the trait and excuse of cowards, the lowly and the impotent. It is not the characteristic of Islamic courage. In particular, it cannot be the trait of a nation, like the Arabs, who are distinguished by elevated virtues that are a source of pride for mankind. The nations of the Islamic world have learnt from the firmness of the Arabs. InshâAllah, the Arabs will once again overcome despair and, with genuine solidarity and unity, will stand together with the Turks, who are the heroic army of Islam, and they will together proclaim the banner of the Qur'an in every part of the world.