While positive action signified any action committed to bring about an improvement, the quality of action solely depended on the intensity and purity of intention behind the action, he said. He maintained that this aim was to be achieved by the application of all faculties of humans, including intellect, sentiments, feelings, etc. Islam presented the whole scheme with the provision of adjustment with time and place, he remarked. Holding that it was difficult to define the present day situation except that violence and injustice were rampant, he said that there was a growing belief in influential circles that the prevailing situation represented an end of ideology, religion and history.

He continued that human behaviour was shaped by economic and social conditions and these were not in one’s control. Consequently, he said, the situation was beyond control and things could not be put in order. For some people, the solution lay in the application of violence and oppression. Exploitation of the weak was the order of the day and humanity was in search of effective solutions, he observed. He insisted that Islam claimed and presented precedence to offer solution to the problems facing the world today. He regretted that this was not happening today. He called for an effort to define the text in line with the context of the time. He said that the Almighty had sent the message to apply and implement, and finally this was addressing the humanity for all people and time. He wanted to know if it did not make a call for developing faith based on context-friendly paradigm to look at things to make the message relevant to our times. He believed that this might safely be achieved by defining the Islamic worldview. Explaining that worldview was a translation of German word “weltanschauung”, he said that al-Attas had defined it as “a vision of reality as it appeared before one’s mind’s eye revealing what existence was all about.”