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The worst thing that has happened to us today is our disastrous relationship with the world around us. We are still trying to live according to decaying cultural modes and extinct forms of civilisation. Islam is not the solution. It once was, a long time ago. But times are different, and the world is no longer as it was. Islam is preventing us from finding a solution. It is a stumbling block on the road to a solution. I do not see any need for us to keep renewing the creed of polytheism by constantly going around the Ka’ba, doing the Sa’y, making sacrifices, kissing the black stone, and hurling the jamarat to smash the head of Iblees, who really should have died by now.
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Abbas Abdul Noor (My Ordeal with the Qur'an & God in the Qur'an: Translation & Commentary by Hassan Radwan)