[1] When we use the term "modern", we mean neither contemporary nor up-to-date nor successful in the conquest and domination of the natural world. Rather, for us "modern" means that which is cut off from the transcendent, from the immutable principles which in reality govern all things and which are made known to man through revelation in its most universal sense. Modernism is thus contrasted with tradition (al-din); the latter implies all that which is of Divine Origin along with its manifestations and deployments on the human plane while the former by contrast implies all that is merely human and now ever more increasingly subhuman, and all that is divorced and cut off from the Divine Source [2]. Obviously, tradition has always accompanied and in fact characterized human existence whereas modernism is a very recent phenomenon.
Hakuna zaidi ya hapo. Inavutia kuona kwamba neno "slave " ("mtumwa") la asili ya lugha ya Kiebrania limebadilishwa na kuwa "mtumishi wa nyumbani" kwenye toleo la Biblia liitwalo "Authorised Version of the Bible," na likabadilishwa kuwa "mtumwa mtumishi" katika toleo liitwalo "Revised Standard Version," kwa sababu, katika maneno ya "The Concise Bible Commentary," neno hili (yaani mtumwa) limeachwa kutumiwa kwa sababu ya maana yake.8 Mtu hushanga iwapo mtarjumi anayo haki ya kubadilisha asili ya neno kwa sababu tu ya maana zake au ukumbusho wake?"