366 quotes found
“People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that. Well, I hope, for the sake of God, that I have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I ...”
“I die, and yet not dies in meThe ardour of my love for Thee,Nor hath Thy Love, my only goal,Assuaged the fever of my soul.To Thee alone my spirit cries;In Thee my whole ambition lies,And still Thy ...”
“Invasion was never a holy war in Islam, but it was holy in political Islam and the Islamic states and empires; after all, what is better than religion to drive people to war?!”
“Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.”
“Saying of the ProphetDistributionGod it is who gives: I am only a distributor.”
“Manuscripts - at least for Muslims who understand the subject - are to be read as books whose contents are to be known and understood, for that is why they were written, and not to be regarded as e...”
“Ich bin lieber eine Frau als ein Mann. Frauen drfen weinen, hbsche Kleider tragen, und sie werden als Erste von einem sinkenden Schiff gerettet.I'm glad that I'm a woman and not a man. Women are al...”
“The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question.”
“But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.TO be wounded b...”
“A good deed that follows upon another is the reward for the first one, and an evil deed that follows upon another is a punishment for the first one.”
“Jesus, the son of Mary, peace be upon them, was accustomed to say, "O my God, surely I have entered into the morning unable to neither forestall what I fear nor hasten what I hope for. The whole af...”
“Islam desists violence practised by terrorists who kill their brethren and commit all despicable actions under the shelter of religion. Islam dissociates itself strictly from these people and their...”
“Courtesy with them is tariqa and following them is haqiqa.”
“Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "I have left two things with you. As long as you hold fast to them, you will...”
“It is but knowledge, putting it into practice, circumspection, fear of God, and sincerity with Him, August and Majestic is He.”
“There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.”
“Holy Prophet PBUH promulgated a justice system regardless of status of people, yet in Pak the powerful easily escapes.”
“In Malta, the Wars of Religion reached their climax. If both sides believed that they saw Paradise in the bright sky above them, they had a close and very intimate knowledge of Hell.”
“In a proper Islamic University, fard 'ain knowledge which represents the permanent intellectual and spiritual needs of the human soul--should form the core curriculum, and should be made obligatory...”
“The Islamic faith and ideology is at another pivotal moment in its history. Having survived for a thousand years or more after the Western Crusades it has been hauled back into the fire by some of ...”