However, the absolute certainty of the brothers influenced by the movement led them to declare that associating with kufr was itself kufr. There was even a new kufr, thundered an article in The Muslim, the kufr of condoning kufr: ‘The choice is very plain. One is either on “good terms” with Allah and His faithful servants, or on good terms with kufr … The division is clear-cut and cannot be blurred or smudged: Islam and kufr, like light and darkness, cannot coexist in the same place.’ Not for these brothers the reality of quantum space, the reality of my world, the one I inhabit across
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