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'From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the Orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.' ~ Edward Said

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“The ease with which the modern West has macerated religion from morals should make us suspicious about the alleged infancy of its atheist tradition. Perhaps, for centuries, the process was progressing underground. With Islam, the traditional liaisons between religion and morals, and between ethics and law, remain firm. For Muslims, ‘Muhammad is a good man’ and ‘Muhammad is a Muslim’ are virtually indistinguishable. Modern Arabic and most Islamic languages, unlike modern European languages such as English and French, are still devotional languages. (Modern French, unlike modern English, does, however, retain its poetic and romantic resources).

“It is difficult to express cynicism about religion or religion-derived morals in any Islamic language. This differs from English where we face the opposite problem: we are unable to make claims such as ‘He is a pious man’ sound anything but mocking. The moral language of Christianity is now decrepit and abused; only a poet-saint could renew the religious employment of English in order to invigorate the cultural project of rescuing words such as ‘sin’ and ‘virtue’ for their original and intended senses. Even the word‘Christianity’ has unction about it as do ‘righteous’ ‘Jesus’, and ‘salvation’. Religious life languishes in the West while intellectual life flourishes and reaches new heights. By contrast, even the most secularized Muslim would not use ‘Muhammad’ as an expletive in casual conversation. It would be an embarrassing attempt at blasphemy.”

(Dr Shabbir Akhtar, The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam, 108)

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