Synopsis This little book is a humble contribution towards the great goal. It does not pretend to be a dispassionate survey of affairs; it is the statement of a case. The case of Islam versus Western civilization.  And it is not written for those with whom Islam is only one of the many, more or less useful, accessories to social life; but rather for those in whose hearts still lives a spark of the flame which burned in the Companions of the Prophet-the flame that once made Islam great as a social order and a cultural achievement.