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The article( Connecting Religion and Politics ) published on 6th Feb, 2019 on the Readings page of GK, in response to my column( Factoring Religion in Politics ), following points may be noted Point 1: I have been accused of using vague expressions like a) “spiritual democracy”. Please ask Iqbal you own to disown his “vague” expression. Murad Hofffman’s concluding paragraph in Islam in the 21st century advocates and explains this spiritual democracy and sounds like a perennialist though he isn’t known to be one. b) culture being “grounded in metaphysics” – this is the most clear statement a Muslim is expected to make as part of his creed. Why forget my repeated use of term metaphysics as scientia sacra, science of First Principles that grounds ilm al-aqeedah ? Religious roots of culture grounded in Metaphysics can’t but be unalterable against “civilizational and ideological formations,” - the point is well noted by Alija Izatbegovitch, among others. Point 2: I have cata...