man, that brought back fond memories... from within this same 25 years period being talked about. i used to be good at this stuff but i dunno how bad my english has gotten https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwGgGwFSuWPPeDBnV054WEx2WU0/view?pref=2&pli=1 http://www.youblisher.com/p/363573-wren-n-martin-book-of-english-grammar/
to be fair, in this book, he is quite reasonable and some of his 'what to do to fix it' is sensible too. if he only returned to the unadulterated ways of his noble ancestors, we would talk about him with respect.
on page 35: For the Hakimiyyah doctrine, people need to read Syed Qutb’s Ma’alim fil-Tariq (Milestones) and his musings (which people mistake for a ‘commentary’) on the Qur’anic verses 5:44-50 in his book Fi Thilal al-Qur’an (In the Shade of the Qur’an). -- exactly. exactly. allow me to restate: For the perennialist doctrine, people need to read the musings of a few professors of western academia (which they expect people to mistake for a ‘commentary’) on the Qur’anic verses in the book The Study Qur'an. for a good measure, lumbard even gave you the bogeyman: If this had not been done by Muslim scholars, it may have been turned over to a group of hyper-revisionist scholars or orientalist scholars. Is that really what people want? no. people don't want EITHER of the two. they don't want hyper-revisionist/orientalist scholars NOR the so-called 'muslim' scholars to attempt a tampering of the qur'an, or peddle a perennialist mistranslation of qur'anic verses. thank you very much.
english, perhaps? === my english may not be the best, but i think there is something wrong here. feel free to correct me. "what has broken"? broken what? "what has broken down", perhaps? or "what is broken"? but, "what has broken" doesn't seem right.
just got this yesterday from the rissc email list. quite surprising (positively) to see ghazi bin Muhammad say such stuff he missed some things (in my opinion) like the rise of perennialism (something he supports) and some other observations, or got some observations wrong, but generally it seems quite an objective recap of the last 25 years - will read the how to fix things part later