veiled4allah: Islam is a religion veiled4allah: Islam is a religionTo begin with, Islam is a religion. To say this is to say a great deal – more, in fact, than perhaps any one of us can really understand. It is the fundamental fact from which discernment in this field must start. For one thing, all religions, and most clearly the great world faiths, are literally infinite. There is no end to their profundity; nor to their ramification, their variety. For each religion is the point at which its adherent is in touch, through the intermediary of an accumulating tradition, with the infinitude of the divine. It is the chief means through which Gold takes hold of the person, in so far as that person will allow. Whatever it may be as a systematic ideal, and whatever too, its external details may be sociologically, Islam is also, empirically, the personal religious life, shallow or deep, distorted or magnificent, sinful or saintly, of every individual Muslim...Really. Just think about it.
...Manifestly Islam could never have become across the centuries one of the four or five great world religions had it not, like the others, had the quality of having something profound and relevant and personal to say directly to all sorts and conditions of men, of every status, background, capacity, temperament, and aspiration.
Islam, then, is a religion. Like the other world faiths it overflows all definitions both because it is open at one end to the immeasurable greatness of the Divine, and because also it relates itself at the other end to the immeasurable diversity of the human.
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