Sunday, February 21, 2010

"I realized through the years of struggle and endurance

how much he has been an inspiration to me and so many others. But I also realized that now the burden is on me and my generation. Can we discharge the covenant and inspire those who follow us? Do we possess a similar fundamental sense of decency and morality? Part of this decency and morality is that we turn to those who taught and inspired us, to those who permitted us the privilege of finding much that is decent in life, and to those who became the symbolic representation of living human beauty, and say thank you. Thank you.
-Khaled M. Abou El Fadl, "Burdens of a Generation," Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam, p. 103

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