In classical Arabic and in the other classical languages of Islam there are no pairs of terms corresponding to lay and ecclesiastical, spiritual and temporal, secular and religious, because these pairs of words express a Christian dichotomy which has no equivalent in the world of Islam.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In classical Arabic and in the other classical languages of Islam there are no pairs of terms corresponding to lay and ecclesiastical, spiritual and temporal, secular and religious, because these pairs of words express a Christian dichotomy which has no equivalent in the world of Islam." in the context of "Bernard Lewis, "The Return of Islam" (1976), Commentary" to mean that wisdom is timeless.