How depressing to hear Abdul Haqq Baker, the Chairman of the Brixton Mosque, explain on the Today programme that he had found in Islam things that he failed to find in his Catholic upbringing, such as fasting and daily prayer.
The answer to Islam is our own tradition of structured daily prayer, the
setting aside of one day in seven, fasting, almsgiving, pilgrimage, the
global community of faith as the primary focus of personal allegiance
and locus of personal identity, the lesser outward and the greater
inward struggle, the need for a comprehensive and coherent critique both
of capitalism and of Marxism, the coherence between faith and reason,
and a consequent integrated view of art and science.
The answer to the
challenge of the Sunna is Sacred Tradition. The answer to the challenge
of the Imamate is the Petrine Office. The answer to the challenge of
Sufism is our own tradition of mysticism and monasticism.
Liberal
Catholics will be the last to see the point.
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