The intent here is not to advocate or to refute Freud's statement, nor does an evaluation fall directly into the context of the present discussion, but if at all, it could be said that the third blow was not inflicted upon the ancient society but rather on the body and the soul of modernity. If we classify the history of modernity according to the Freudian criteria, it was around the time of the second blow on the European medieval society and the pre-modern world in general that the so-called elites in Muslim societies were introduced to the phenomenon of modernity that brought along a host of problems for us. Many terms and concepts that came to be translated into our languages did not really carry the meanings that they actually held in their languages of origin. To quote some examples, the term "progress"
Lugha ya kiarabu ni lugha tukufu iliyosifiwa na Mwenyeezi Mungu, Mitume na Ahlulbayt (a.s), na ndio Qur-ani ikateremshwa kwa lugha ya Kiarabu na kuwataka watu wanaposoma Qur-ani waisome kwa lugha ya kiarabu, lugha ya kiarabu ndio lugha kuu katika kubainisha hadafu na malengo ya dini, lakini ni lazima tuzingatie kuwa ni dini inayosawazisha lugha, kiasi ya kwamba wahyi – Qur-ani - ulibainishwa kwa mabainisho ya balagha ya hali ya juu kabisa, na hakuna mwanaadamu yoyote aliyeweza au anayeweza au atakayeweza kutoa balagha kama hiyo, basi Mwenyeezi Mungu Mtukufu ndipo alipowaambia:-