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“Islāmic social institutions within the Islāmic world must be evaluated by young Muslims Islāmically and not on the basis of modern criticism against them because most of these modern criticisms are based on certain assumptions concerning human nature and the final end of human beings which are both false in reality and opposed explicitly to the teachings of Islām. The modernist attacks made against the traditional family structure, relation between the sexes, the rapport between various generations and the like in the Islāmic world must not be accepted passively and with a sense of inferiority by young Muslims as if they were established truths or scientifically established criteria of judgment. On the contrary, every few decades fashions and criteria of judgment that emanate from the West change, In fact, such criticisms must be viewed as issuing from a worldview which is totally alien to that of Islām, from a society which itself is in the process of rapid change and in danger of dissolution.”
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr in "A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World"
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