Transgressive Transcendentalist Nobility

Religious affiliation is a fetish in the original sense of that term: i.e., it is an idol, a false god. Our interest is in a particular type of personality (khilqah): one that exhibits the character traits of magnanimity (karamah), imagination (khayal), and courage (iqdam). We associate such traits with a "spiritual" (for lack of a better word) aristocracy.

Only the ignorant (al-jahilun) would fetishize an accident of history. Look to an individual's character. The rest is just window-dressing.