Reasoning with God Quotes

“In Shari‘ah, as noted above, the obligation is not just to do ethical deeds and refrain from unethical deeds; the obligation is to testify justly for God against evil, even if it is against oneself and loved ones. This is a critical foundation for our covenant with God and for inheriting the earth and continuing on God’s path.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age

“intellectuals have grown too comfortable with the achievements of the European Enlightenment and complacent with the beliefs that religious intolerance, violence, and wars are things of the past, and that religiously motivated violence or subjugation can be committed only by “others” against the West but not by the West against the other.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age