Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom
Irshad Manji
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 145164521X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The New York Times bestselling author to whom Oprah gave her first ever “Chutzpah” Award, Irshad Manji writes a bridge-building book that is both a stirring reflection and a path to action.
In Allah, Liberty and Love, Irshad Manji paves a path for Muslims and non-Muslims to transcend the fears that stop so many of us from living with honest-to- God integrity: the fear of offending others in a multicultural world as well as the fear of questioning our own communities. Since publishing her international bestseller, The Trouble with Islam Today, Manji has moved from anger to aspiration. She shows how any of us can reconcile faith with freedom and thus discover the Allah of liberty and love—the universal God that loves us enough to give us choices and the capacity to make them.
Among the most visible Muslim reformers of our era, Manji draws on her experience in the trenches to share stories that are deeply poignant, frequently funny and always revealing about these morally confused times. What prevents young Muslims, even in the West, from expressing their need for religious reinterpretation? What scares non-Muslims about openly supporting liberal voices within Islam? How did we get into the mess of tolerating intolerable customs, such as honor killings, and how do we change that noxious status quo? How can people ditch dogma while keeping faith? Above all, how can each of us embark on a personal journey toward moral courage—the willingness to speak up when everybody else wants to shut you up?
Allah, Liberty and Love is the ultimate guide to becoming a gutsy global citizen. Irshad Manji believes profoundly not just in Allah, but also in her fellow human beings.
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Truly courageous, love needs to be accompanied by thinking. Today, free societies face dilemmas that demand gutsy thinking. How, for example, can we produce pluralists, people who tolerate multiple perspectives, without producing relativists, people who fall for anything because they stand for nothing? Democracies have to raise such questions, not squelch them for fear that their citizens are incapable of maturing. If you believe as I do that our shared God gives us the grace to grow, then we’re.
Britain, he could easily finger the catch-all specter of racism as the source of his humiliation. Instead, he’s “enraged” at his family, who force-feed him convictions. Haroun hungers for autonomy. Subversive acts—buying a book in secret—serve as a statement that his honor is precisely that: his. To keep going, self-aware Haroun will need the support of a wider community. Who steps up to the plate, and how, matters. It’s time for a concrete example of how more of us can stand by young Muslims in.
Verses speak about the situation before battle, which threatened the survival of the first Muslim community. It can’t be seen as a general permission to kill all non-Muslims.” But how does his analysis depart from what terrorists claim? In Yemen, Ahmed Nasser insisted to me that wars of Western imperialism have victimized the 21st-century ummah, which is why “I have committed myself to protect Muslims everywhere.” We’ve seen this movie before. Ramadan’s answer to Nasser’s position? “The message.
Liberty extended well beyond “his” people. Douglass didn’t fear being told to butt out of women’s business; not after white women had butted into the business of abolishing the enslavement of blacks. If women could see their family as all of humanity, so could he. The moral courage these misfits exemplified gave meaning to democracy, and to the duties of living in one. To me, they epitomize the hope for transcendence—the freedom to choose your purpose over everybody else’s politics. Your.
Conscience grants you this freedom. Don’t seek permission from your family. Or from your culture. Or even from your head. “We are always connected to inspiration, but we do not perceive it because our minds are filled with all kinds of haphazard thoughts,” writes Sultan Abdulhameed. If you have a dominant purpose in life, your mind looks for and collects information related to fulfilling your purpose. If there is no purpose, your mind absorbs all kinds of random information and images from the.