Lysander Keprta

“But is it not a husband who will provide you with a stable and happy life - it is God.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

“Recall that the Prophet said, “The discomforts of this earth are nothing like the embarrassments of the Hereafter. It is a true shame if one awaits the Final Day to ponder his confusion.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

“In our chauvinism - oppressed, demoralized, and emasculated - we associate defeat with femininity. In the same fashion that the abused becomes an abuser, the colonized became the colonizer, and we displaced our loss of masculinity, pride, and dignity upon our women, and made women a subjugated colony. The real shame is that we denounced the blessings of God and justified our ugliness through religious sophistry.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

“We do not serve God through a blind obedience to what we think is the law. We serve God through a perceptive examination of our understanding of the presumptions of the law. A precedent is there to guide, not to blind. A precedent points us towards the right direction, but it cannot become an obstruction to God’s way.”
― Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books