Re: The future of ‘progressive Islam’ Farish Noor

salaam,

i just finally read this piece.  it is such a joy to read something so
personal and introspective.  it seems that all i read these days are
diatribes, where the writers, myself included, seem too confident in our own
answers.

masalaama,

itrath


on 1/8/04 5:29 AM, talib ul-Haq at [email protected] wrote:

> If I may tag on to the brief discussion on Farish Noor and Progressive
> Islam... Here is an article recently written by him. Wonderfully personal
> and insightful.
> 
> Talibhaq
> 
> ps. Anyone going to WSF in Mumbai?
> 
> 
> 
> Of Lost Fathers and Broken Men
> 
> By Farish A. Noor
> 
> The younger generation often finds itself at odds with the older generation,
> and every era is not without its generational divides and conflicts. This is
> true of us living in the present as it has been throughout human history,
> and there is nothing to suggest that things will change in the future.
> Perhaps it is human nature after all, for the young to stand above the old
> and to pronounce their judgement on the past and the way things were,
> dreaming aloud of how things could be otherwise - until, of course, the time
> comes when age makes us wiser and more humane, and we come to realise that
> one day we too will be judged by the restless heralds of the coming age.


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