traditional Islamic sciences even if their mother tongue happens to be still Arabic, Persian, Turkish or one of the other Islamic languages. The presentation of Islam in a contemporary language, which fortunately, again, has been carried out to some extent already and with which we have ourselves dealt in the first part of this book and elsewhere, needs to be carried out further and meanwhile young Muslims must learn what is at the heart of their religion and what it is that has enabled Islam to preserve a way of life and of salvation for humanity even after some fourteen hundred years...also the inner dimensions of their own religion which has provided the answers to the deepest philosophical and existential questions facing the ummah.
-240-241 of A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World by Seyeed Hossein Nasr
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