The ulama, the Shaikh, Mullah, Imam, Ahund, Mufti, Mujtahid, Hatib — all are only
men like the others in the Muslim community,
men who perform special services and are respected and elevated only on the basis of the Quranic principle that the highest is the
most pious.
I am sixty - seven years of age and have resided in X. fifty years, and have been in business forty - five, consequently I have some little experience of life and
men, and some women too, and I find that the
most religious and
pious people are as a rule those
most lacking in uprightness and morality.