By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to … - Muhammad Asad

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The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Muhammad Asad

By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads,by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

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It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

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