The Da’ee should be serious in both thought and deed. Most men’s thinking is devoid of seriousness for they act out of habit and by way of persistence. Seriousness must be sought and intended. The seriousness which we mean is that which is at the level of the individual’s thought, because it is not deemed seriousness.

Serious thinking does not require that the distance between thought and action be short or long, because action is the outcome of thought. An individual may think of traveling to Europe and the distance between his thought and travel may be long; he may think of eating, and the time between his thought and eating may be long, he may think of succeeding in his trade or of being promoted in his job, and the distance between his thought and his success may be short; he may think of awakening his nation and the distance between his thought and the realization of progress may be short. So the problem lies not in the shortness or length of time which separates action from thought, for the distance may be short or long. But what is important is that there is necessarily an action out of thought whether thought is made by the individual or by someone else.

Thought should therefore produce action whether that action appears in the form of words such as the work of poets and men of letters, or in actions such as the work of the scholars in applied sciences and warfare.

Therefore, seriousness is an important matter in thought because without it thinking will be futile; it will be a sort of a monotonous game run by habit and limitation. In it’s turn monotonous thought is conservative in the sense that it tends to maintain life’s conditions as they are, without admitting any great or sudden change.

But the Da’ee must devote himself to change all that which opposes his belief and all that which needs change.