Whatever it was that we lost, which caused us to lose the spirit that binds our hearts together, once we regain it, we will have eliminated the borders that separate Damascus from Baghdad and Baghdad from Istanbul. There are millions of Muslims across different parts of the Islamic world who are struggling and reckoning with imperialism for this very cause. The most fundamental characteristic that distinguishes this book—which is the result of travels made to various Islamic lands at different times in order to witness their jihad firsthand, to benefit from their successes, to consult on our historical experience and scientific heritage, to exchange ideas regarding Islamic education, to ensure that a book written in Istanbul is read in Lahore and a journal published in Lahore is read throughout the entire Islamic lands, to author works by taking into account new problems identified on-site, to arrive at new syntheses in knowledge, thought, and action, and to subject everything we possess as an Ummah to a process of sifting the essence from the dross on the scales of the Quran and Sunnah—from other travelogues is that it is concerned with the aspects of knowledge, thought, and action rather than the dimensions of events, sustenance, lodging, and pleasure, and that it contains diagnoses and findings in this regard.