Misplaced Religiosity

it quietly was right… Those things which will neither be refined in this world nor matter in the Hereafter—by pursuing them we have wasted our lives. And the true call of Islam, the call with which the prophets came… that call is not being given today… we are engaged in these subsidiary debates.” (Wahdat-e-Ummat by Mufti Muhammad Shafi‘, Lahore, 1997, pp. 13–15; quoted from Tajdid-e-Din)