along the way: Man and his Destiny →
“The traditionally religious people…knew nothing better than to attribute to their God qualities derived from their own habits of thought, which had long since become rigid and meaningless: and when we young people saw that these alleged divine qualities often stood in sharp contrast with what was happening in the world around us, we told ourselves “The moving forces of destiny are evidently different from the qualities which are ascribed to God; therefore - there is no God.” And it occurred to only a very few of us that the cause of all of this confusion might lie perhaps in the arbitrariness of the self-righteous guardians of faith, who claimed to have the right to ‘define’ God and, by clothing Him with their own garments, separated Him from man and his destiny.”
- Muhammad Asad, A Road to Mecca
