To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it … - Gottfried Leibniz

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I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.

Gottfried Leibniz

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

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