ISLAM AND THE WEST - 62

 The third thing is that many lay Muslims like myself who have never had a chance or have never chosen to learn the knowledge of Deen (religion) systematically, somehow still feel qualified to form very strong opinions about all sorts of religious matters. One often hears statements like “there is no such thing as Islamic Finance, it is just re-branding of interest-based transactions, etc.” Often these are people have spent more than a decade systematically learning their own chosen vocation like medicine, engineering, law or business administration, but somehow feel that there is no need to learn Deen systematically before one becomes a religious scholar.