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If the prophets were to be elected by the "popular votes" of democracy, then no prophet could have ever been a prophet.

— Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib

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We want to establish such an Islamic society, where there shall be appeared no heterogeneous isms in the name of progressiveness, nor any Mazhabi parochialism in the name of Islam.

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