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If you ask what is the symptom, the sign of the need for enlightenment in a society, my answer would be this: The formation of a clergy. Because the formation of the clergy means that man falls into imitation and regresses to animality. It is the beginning of tutelage over conscience.

Yes, a clergy with different variants has formed in the geography called the Islamic world today and in the Islamic tradition. Moreover, it has been reproducing itself effectively for centuries. All institutionalizations that produce tutelage or guardianship over the mind and will of the individual are clerical in this respect.

Yes, man is a terrible being (zeluman cehula) because he is the caliph. Angels are witnesses that you cannot be a Muslim without being human. People are witnesses that there is no faith without freedom. As I will express from time to time in this book, there is no Islam without democracy.

Those who cannot learn to tolerate criticism cannot establish civilization or solve their problems. This includes religious criticism and differences of opinion. A person would not be human if he did not have the opportunity to object and criticize. Sad but true: Muslims cannot be said to have succeeded in being human enough