The age-old dream of the human caravan is not to send astronauts in their orbit in outer space.. it is to send its individuals - every single individual in his orbit of self-realization. It is high time that this dream be thus reinterpreted. It is also the sacred duty of every man and woman to help intelligently reorientate human endeavour towards the culmination of this pilgrimage.

Mahmoud Muhammad Taha - Answers to the questions of Mr. John Voll - 17.7.1963

The Bestowal of Beauty

Mahmoud Muhammad Taha

Translator: Dr. Salah Ahmed Farah

We are proclaiming glad tidings of a new world. We both advocate for this new world and offer a sensible means for its realization. It is a world inhabited by free men and women whose hearts are cleaned of rancor and malice, and minds are kept safe from indiscretion and superstition. They will exist in all corners of this planet and will lovingly socialize and conciliate with one another. They will be fully committed to bestowing beauty upon themselves and their surroundings, thus becoming the lords of this planet. Adhering to a way of life that elevates them to exalted heights, where they eventually become like an evergreen garden that offers its blooms and fruits every new day.

From an article by Ustadh Mahmoud Muhammad Taha in the first issue of Al-Jomhuriya newspaper on 15 January 1954

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