Sakshi Mathur
http://sakshimathur.wordpress.com/
Prophet Muhammad once said, three kinds of people hurt faith: a scholar who is bad-tempered, a leader who is a tyrant, and a theologian who is ignorant.
“Looking back at that trip, I see now the broad outlines of the same dilemmas that would lead America into the era of Trump: seething anger; open hostility to strangers and those with views opposing one’s own; a contempt for news delivered by allegedly reputable sources; an embrace of reactionary moral posturing; civic and governmental corruption that no longer needed hiding; and married to all this, the ever-hastening redistribution of wealth to those who had it at the continued expense of those who didn’t.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“all the Eastern religions were fundamentally atheistic.”
― The Way Things Were
― The Way Things Were
“For now, let me try to stay alive and just say these three things: as Muslims, (1) we are more affected by the example of the Prophet than we realize; (2) we are shaped by the stories we tell about him in ways that elude our daily understanding; and (3) there will be no meaningful philosophical shift in the sociopolitical substratum of the Muslim world until the example of the Prophet and the text of the Quran are exposed to a more robust interrogation of their claims to historical truth.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“The established majority takes its we-image from a minority of its best, and shapes a they-image of the despised outsiders from the minority of their worst.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
“Cheery pessimism. Or weary idealism. Take your pick.”
― Homeland Elegies
― Homeland Elegies
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