to carry legal sanctions into areas where Islam never contemplated taking them. In other words, concern over the separation between religion and state must extend in both directions. Not only must the state be monitored for specifically antireligious bias, Muslims must also guard against seeking to translate every Islamic rule or value into a civil or criminal sanction that is backed by the state.-Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking toward the Third Resurrection
by Sherman Jackson, pg. 149
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