Soudain, il me sembla que le ciel descendait. De la terre, surgit comme une fontaine d’énergie dorée. Cette chaude énergie m’encercla, et mon corps et mon esprit devinrent très légers et très clairs. Je pouvais...

Es ist ein Verdrängungsmechanismus, zu behaupten, die Gewalt, die wir erleben, habe nichts mit dem Islam zu tun. Es ist das Ausweichen vor einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit den Teilen der islamischen Tradition, die längst überholt...

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He doesexpect what we can do’.

As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second, and from which we are allowed the luxury of escape. But most of...

One definition of success is achieving what your haters don’t want you to achieve. Them wanting you not to achieve it means it’s worth a lot.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

Da molto tempo, ai musulmani e ai miei concittadini ripeto che sono di nazionalità svizzera, con una memoria egiziana, di religione musulmana, di cultura europea, universalista per principio, marocchino e mauriziano d’adozione. Non c’è alcun...

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

Spominjanjem Gospodara u srcu se rahmet stvara.

[Taliban spokesman on Malala Yousafzai]Malala Yousafzai targeted and criticized Islam. She was against Islam and we tried to kill her, and if we get a chance again we will definitely try to kill her, and...

On a day when secrets shall be outThe man shall have no power nor any helper.

Aku bukan nasionalis, bukan katolik, bukan sosialis. Aku bukan buddha, bukan protestan, bukan westernis. Aku bukan komunis. Aku bukan humanis. Aku adalah semuanya. Mudah-mudahan inilah yang disebut muslim. Aku ingin orang menilai dan memandangku sebagai...

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn’t prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you...

For this world has neither worth nor weight with God; so slight it is, it weighs not with God so much as a pebble or a single clod of earth; as I am told, God...

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic, and this even though they loathed Clinton, because the battle against religious and...

While fasting, people refrain from fulfilling their basic desires for food, drink and sexual relations. This shows them that their mission in this religion is to control their desires and not allow their desires to...

Tuhan, di dunia dan akhirataku ingin mengabdipada api Islam abadipimpin aku!berkati perjuanganku!Tuhan, aku ingin majumenerjang rintangan engkardi dadaku biar menggemaAllahu Akbar!Allahu Akbar!

Nach Sidi Ahmad Zarruq -möge Allah mit ihm zufrieden sein-Die Fundamente von unserem Weg sind 5:1) die Achtsamkeit gegenüber Allah- nämlich privat und öffentlich;2) die Befolgung der Sunnah in Worten und Taten;3) die Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber...

Dicho del ProfetaEnvidiaLa envidia devora las buenas obras, como el fuego devora el combustible.

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi’a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different from the Sunni Islam practiced in Pakistan. Even within a single branch of...

My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer...

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.

it’s only Muslims who use the term ‘innovation’ to mean something bad.

Just now at Magrib Salah, a very old man was standing next 2 me, he was exactly behind the imam so he must b the 1st one in the masjid, it was difficult for him...

I can very well understand your frustration, but you must stick to your dreams. Try Harder!

spiritual warriors” are the saints armed not with weapons but with prayer and prayer beads.’ Whileit all made sense I wanted to know more about the idea that we needed to go out and fight...

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from...

The rejection of Western democracy derives from the same rejection of secularism but was further sharpened by the Saudi Arabian establishment’s aversion to democracy’s subversive streak and the threat it posed to the Saudi monarchy...

We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends...

Serupa kekasih yang bangga, kulafaz kalimatMu tanpa jeda.–ketika doa terjawab seketika

Back here where I am, my heart bleeds in despair for I know that innocent lives are being killed in Gaza to sustain an agenda that serves only the oligarchs.Have no worries my dear fellow...

Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of debt, so must he ‘repay’ with himself, so must he ‘return’...

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 to all students. Fard kifayah knowledge–reflecting...

Islam is going to rise, Once again.

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.

Soar on to the King, the crown jewel,And then you’ll truly seeThat nothing is as beautifulAs His grand Majesty.

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

It is known that the Quran leaves an analytical reader the impression of disarrangement, and that it seems to be a compound of diverse elements. Nevertheless, the Quran is life, not literature. Islam is a...

If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.

As to the ‘Left’ I’ll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary...

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...

Saying of the ProphetThe TongueA man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

Dicho del ProfetaLa Gente: En la gente se encuentra la familia de Dios.

Dicho del ProfetaDía y nocheLa noche es larga, no la acortes con el sueño. El día es hermoso, no lo oscurezcas mediante malas obras.

The Prophet’s character was termed tremendous because his concern was for God alone.

The Qur’ān definitely seems optimistic about the future, while rather grim about the past It is absolutely imperative for successor civilizations and their bearer communities to study well and learn from the fate of earlier...