Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.
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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Make no mistake about it - Islam is just not another way to approach God.
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.