wasto QUOTES

1 " Pushed into darkness,
the only way out was
to seek light with the
torch of hope and faith
burning in my heart "

2 " The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, to
salvage what was useful and then to modify and build on it. The task was
to get the Arabs to think about religion in a novel way, to inculcate in them a new conceptual frame of reference, to transfer them from one worldview to another, and higher, one. This process of transformation took them from traditionalism to individualism, from impulsiveness to discipline, from supernaturalism to science, from intuition to conscious reasoning and, in the end, ideally, harmonized the whole. "

― Jeffrey Lang , Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam