I read this book as part of my reading of all available material on Ahmad Moftizadeh. It is a short book of a little over 100 pages. Below I will mention some of the ideas and quotations I found interesting.
Regarding education, he says that the best way to raise Muslim children is for the parents to be good, spiritual Muslims, meaning that teaching them technical things about Islam is of secondary importance. Sending your child off to Quran school while they are treated with disrespect and abuse at home is not going to turn them into good Muslims. Their main idea about Islam will come from their parents and the rest of the people they see around them who are supposedly Muslim.
O God, if possible, place all the troubles of this world on my shoulders so that no on else may suffer.
The above is an expression of his love for humanity and his willingness to suffer and die for people’s sake. His unconditionally loving attitude toward people was perhaps the greatest reason why he attracted so many devoted followers.
Changing society is secondary and is a consequence of changing individuals. it is individuals that must first be changed.
The purest state of humanity is childhood. The purest human is a child. It is children who most deserve to be served and taken care of.
I am not sold on this idea, because an adult is just a child into whom decades of effort have been poured. When the time comes to decide between allocating resources to children versus adults, who should be given preference? Moftizadeh suggests it is the child, but I don’t see this as a clear choice. Serving an adult so that they can become productive members of society can make it more likely that children will be served.
Taking faith away from people is like taking instincts away from animals.
Meaning that without faith, humans will be as lost as animals would be without their instincts.
The Quran, for a person's spiritual livelihood is similar to the earth for a person's material livelihood.
Meaning that the same way that the earth sustains us materially, the Quran sustains us spiritually.
I swear to God, in all honesty and frankness, that true faith in God cannot exist in the heart of someone until that heart loves the poor.
The first pillar of religious activism is the love of the poor.
When a Muslim's past is not burdened with sins and disobedience of God, their eyes do not become veiled by delusion and they know that God continues to love them.
Meaning that when hardship strikes, a person who is close to God will not think badly of God and think that He dislikes them and enjoys punishing them.