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Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” This reminds me of Surat-al-Mudaththir. When Rasulullah ï·º was afraid from receiving the Divine Revelation, and seeking the comfort of his family. He feared what was happening to him, feared his own sanity, so he ran to his wife, may Allah be…

I am afraid that many of us may be hoping for Islamic government for no other reason than to utilize the force of the state to impose absolute conclusions upon issues of fiqh about which disagreement is permissible; to be able to threaten people with punishment or revocation of citizenship, or to even make takfir…