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I quoted this from a book I was reading yesterday called “Struggling to Surrender” by Dr. Jeffery Lang a professor at San Francisco University, he said:
“Perhaps the more secure we are in our knowledge, the less we will adhere (Stick) to our religion.”
What do you think of the above quote?
If he means by the world "our religion" other religions rather then Islam, then its true statment.
Bimzoori
16-06-02, 11:35 AM
In my case, I disagree with the quote..the more I read about my religion, the more I am confirmed that a "Muslim" is what I'm supposed to be..
He was generalizing as he said that before he became a Muslim.
He is talking about any religion. Actually he was an atheist before converting to Islam.
Quick Silver
16-06-02, 12:23 PM
I think what the author meant with knowledge is the knowledge we equire in a general or a specific field of life... for example being a scientest excites the thinking process more trying to counter the beliefs of god....may be that's something natural in the human being brought from the need and curiosity of trying to discover and explore......cause those who already equired knowledge are trying to reach the stage of completness and fullfilness or what we call in arabic ( elkamal)...... just bringing that thought of kamal out, makes them less adhere to their religon... so I think the author has a point there
Arabian Princess
16-06-02, 05:16 PM
Well it might be true if the person has set in his mind that his religion is not complete in the first place and when his religion is based on myths and fairy tales.
When it comes to Islam, we are convinced that it is the true religion the more we read the more we realise that it has soloutions of things around us. and even if this knowladge is scientific or not .. it comes at the end to the same conclusion .. Islam has it all.
SO I do not agree with this statment when it comes to Islam.
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