“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who — who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Islam teaches that one should balance between an ignorant worshiper and non-practicing scholar. One is the heresy of monasticism and the other is heresy of pharisees. The middle path is called sirat al mustaqim the straight path to God.
A spiritual Ishmaelite 