“True progress is not possible without a variety of opinions, for it is only through the friction of variously constituted intellects and through the stimulating effect they have on one another that social problems are gradually clarified and thus brought within the range of solution.”

— Muhammad Asad, book The Principles of State and Government in Islam

Source: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 3: Government By Consent And Consent, p 48

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