Freedom and moral obligation

Secularism, which seeks to abolish the institutionalisation of religious beliefs, diminishes the role of religion to the merely subjective, personal, individual and privatised domain shorn of its social dimension.

IN his Major Themes of the Qur’an, Fazlur Rahman observes that “obligations and rights are the obverse and converse of the same coin; the one obviously cannot subsist for any length of time without the other.”