The World of Fatwas or the Shariah in Action Quotes

“once the habit of questioning his word got afoot in this sphere— and that too a sphere so vast as to encompass ‘affairs of the world’—what was there to stop it from taking apart and examining what the Prophet had said on affairs of things other than the world? Where would that leave the religion? The anxieties could be kept at bay in one way and one way alone—by ensuring that nothing but nothing was examined. Accordingly, this has been the hallmark of faith.”
― Arun Shourie, The World of Fatwas Or The Sharia in Action