"Is any of this story of larger significance or helpfulness?

Muslims often ask me what they should study; and are perplexed when I usually warn them against joining the legions of believers now populating departments of politics or social science. The crisis of our age produces political and social disruptions, but it is not their consequence. Religion is about truth, and unless truth be properly discerned and defended, nothing else will come right.

-Abdal-Hakim Murad, "Quicunque Vult, or, A teenage journey to Islam."