Dear Brother Riaz,

 

As Salaam Aleikum !

 

I received your reflections on Islam today and am impressed with its scope anddiversity.  Many of your ideas have occured to others in the past but because oflimitations on travel and communications it was difficult to develop consensus and specific action plans.  Today with the modern internet it is possible to recycle ideasabout the real meaning of Islam, and of equal importance, how to comply with the

wonderful presciptions.In that regard I would suggest you invite a peer group of interested ones to begin to engage in a discussion of relevent topics, one by one.  For instance:

     * The role of logic and reason in Islam

 

     * The role of science and technology in Islam

 

     * Distinguishing between form, substance and ceremony in Islam

      

     * The proper role of formal education in Islam

 

     * How to achieve, expand self reconcilliation and contentment based upon theprescriptions of Islam

 

Inshallah the informed reponses received will create Islamic models the world will

aspire to duplicate and sprad.

 

Sincerely,

 

Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour.