Letter of the Week
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Dear Engineer, The verse you invoke—Qur’an 8:31—stages a remarkably subtle confrontation, not merely between belief and disbelief, but between two competing regimes of speech: ornamental eloquence and existential truth-telling. It records a recurring posture of those who, upon hearing revelation, respond with a curious mixture of aesthetic dismissal and intellectual self-sufficiency: “We have heard; if…
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A spiritual Ishmaelite 