Religion is not what appears. It’s what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn’t always have something behind it.

It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to...

…Amar was made conscious in an instant of a presence in the air, something which had been there all the time, but which he had never isolated and identified. The thing was in him, he...

negara kata Ibnu Khaldun adalah kebuntanaman yang dipagar; hidup subur dalam kawalannamun Hobbes lebih percaya negara adalah raksasapelindung – dan aku lebih percaya negara adalahsungai deras yang menghanyutkan segala yang melintasinyahari ini para liberal menghujat...

Memali adalah kembang yang tidak mati-matipersis bunga taman syurga yang harum semestatak pernah doa kami lupa; moga dagang merekadagang terpilih di depan Rabbi.

Abu’d-Darda’ (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), say, ‘Allah will make the path to the Garden easy for anyone who...

If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and if this deity is the creator of all things, then it is responsible...

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

Dualism is the closest human feeling, but it is not necessarily the highest human philosophy. On the contrary, all great philosophies have been monistic. Man experiences the world dualistically, but monism is the essence of...

eliminating the arbitrary rule of the gun and replacing it with the rule of law—and for countryside judges who had arisen as an alternative to a broken tribal system, this could only mean religious law.Jurisprudence...

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them...

As Luxenberg’s work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do...

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance...

Dicho del ProfetaQuienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that’s a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on...

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

The Qur’ān does not appear to endorse the kind of doctrine of a radical mind-body dualism found in Greek philosophy, Christianity, or Hinduism; indeed, there is hardly a passage in the Qur’ān that says that...

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

London is one of the world’s centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications....

This division is not one by religious affiliation, rather it separates the extremists and the peace-loving people.Therefor I’m optimistic: now a humanistic Islam is getting shaken awake. Moderate Islam needs now to finally break cover...

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil; call to good and spend in the way of Allah.

As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen...

I have written this book with the conviction that the response to injury does not have to be vengeance and that we need to distinguish between revenge and justice. A response other than revenge is...

You claim to love God, and yet you disobey GodThis is a bizarre way of reasoningSurely, the lover, if his love is true,Is most obedient to the one he loves.

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided.” When a man looks at a star, and finds his way...

The ‘fires’n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or...

Kome Allah nije dosta, sve mu nedostaje.

Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.

Allah daje svakome. Samo, neki ne znaju da uzmu… A, neki neće…

Satan puts three knots at the back of the head of any of you if he is asleep. On every knot he reads and exhales the following words, ‘The night is long, so stay asleep.’...

to death in your land because of his crusader war against Islam.

He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief;Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,And to thy Lord turn [all] thy attention.

Pay the hired worker his wages before his sweat dries

Einige Leute gedenken Allah beim Essen, während andere beim Beten an das Essen denken. Beide essen und beten, sind aber so weit entfernt voneinander, wie es die Himmel von der Erde sind. Some people remember...

Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Exercise 1: Guarding the PrayerOnce we are performing the five obligatory prayers with regularity, then it is certainly worth our efforts to begin increasing extra prayers- especially the late-night prayers (tahajjud). Late-night prayer is one...

Dicho del ProfetaEl juezUn hombre que es nombrado juez ha sido asesinado sin cuchillo.

Ako nas Allah zavoli, a tome težimo, iskušat će nas onim što najviše volimo da svijet vidi od kakvog smo materijala.

Secara ringkasnya, jelaslah bahawa lafaz Allah tidak sesuai, atau tidak layak, digunakan oleh agama-agama yang konsep ketuhanan mereka berbeza dengan ajaran Islam. Walaupun terdapat agama bukan Islam yang dikatakan mengandungi ajaran satu Tuhan seperti Yahudi,...

What’s right with America and what’s right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator – that we...

Islam doesn’t ask you to cover your eyes, but to guard them.

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

The little dove, in her nest, in my kitchen window, still awake, all scared, waiting for the storm to pass and we humans are sleeping peacefully, believing that our concrete houses will save us…

…to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow to the very existence of Islam as an ideological proposition.

According to Islam, whenever we are struck by illness or misfortune orsomeone hurts us, there is a higher purpose behind it, which we may not understand at the time,’ oneof them said to me. ‘That’s...

A world that becomes more Muslim becomes less everything else. First it’s Jews, already abandoning France. Then it’s homosexuals, already under siege from gay-bashing in Amsterdam, ‘the most tolerant city in Europe’. Then it’s uncovered...

different from the traditional education in their various societies, and this by itself was enough to mark them out as a group” (Kwanashie 2002: 50). This new education enabled them to climb the social and...