God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural...

The force that played havoc with the cortisol in my blood was the same force that helped my body recover; if I felt better one day and worse the next, it was unchanged. It chose...

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before the Jews attained to it. Zoroaster and his earliest followers were monotheists, dualism...

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere.

It is when things are at their worst that Allah will raise the best generation. The generation that the Prophet would be told Sahabat should look up to. So maybe the fact that you are...

…we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

Then Gai told me about the famous cup of the heart, which I should now begin to empty. The Sufiscompare our spiritual heart, the seat of God within us, with a cup into which the...

As we have seen in the data, resentment against the West comes from what Muslims perceive as the West’s hatred and denigration of Islam; the Western belief that Arabs and Muslims are inferior,; and their...

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

Most Muslims do not ‘choose’ Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like...

Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if...

If you want to give the entire Muslim Ummah a legacy of the Prophet’s ways, teach them to understand every verse in the Holy Quran without hatred but likened to the love of the Prophet...

If Layla and Majnoon had seen Rasoolallah and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr, they would have bowed their heads and admitted they knew nothing about love and sacrifice.

Mediterranean” — current and its other, inward-looking one, born of a sense of uncertainty and confusion vis-à-vis the contemporary world, guided by fundamentalists who take advantage of modern technology and organizational principles yet at the...

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

Semua orang yang ada dalam hidup kita,masing-masingnya, bahkan yang paling menyakiti kitadiminta untuk ada disanaagar cahaya kita dapat menerangi jalan mereka

Kita butuh Islam ramah bukan Islam marah

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.

Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971. Two years earlier, in 1969, another great Japanese novelist, Yukio Mishima, ended his life in the same way. Since 1895...

As Osama bin Laden puts it: “In this final phase of the ongoing struggle, the world of the infidels was divided between two superpowers–the United States and the Soviet Union. Now we have defeated and...

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that ‘issue’ I hope I can continue to expose and...

Nga shqiptarë të sunduar u gdhinë në mysliman të çliruar?

Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of...

AmorePensi di amare il Creatore?Ama prima il tuo prossimo.

Oh Gott, mache meine schlechten Taten zu den schlechten Taten von jenen, die Du liebst. Und mache nicht meine guten Taten zu den guten Taten von jenen, mit denen Du unzufrieden bist.

The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another manwho combined so uniquely and effectively in his person both the idealist and realist factors as did Muħammad (Peace be upon him)

Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most of Southern England. One of the most remarkable extantfrom King Offa’s...

Ramadan is not fasting. Ramadan is an Islamic feast where one stuffs oneself twice a day with food, and in between lets ones intestines dry out. To describe that process as ‘fasting’ seems rather ubiquitous...

I remembered the malangs of Shah Jamal, the dirty, shirtless renouncers with ratty beards and dreads and bare chests covered in necklaces of prayer beads, throwing around their arms in Charlie Manson dances and whipping...

I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid...

You’ve been tested.’ He advised me totry and ‘forgive and pardon, and this way seek to become beloved by God’ without my forgivenessbeing tied to the one who wronged me. ‘This is the Divine remedy,’...

Les djihadistes ont massacré les innocents et entendent désormais tuer l’amour.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice.

Some Christians pretend that Christianity was not established by the sword; but of what period of time do they speak? It was impossible that twelve men could begin with the sword: they had not the...

Hide your good actions as you would your bad.

Hüte deine Zunge, beschütze sie vor dem Lügen und erkenne, dass sie deinen inneren Zustand widerspiegelt. Sie enthüllt dir die Tiefe deines Wissens und deiner Praxis.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we’re likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option...

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.

A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U.

Ye shalt knoweth the truth and it shalt set thy free.

There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the fundamentalists could never survive outside the context of its seventh-century Arabian...

Seek knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave

Do not go overboard and get trapped into a situation that can be use by elements bent on painting an image of Indonesia’s Islam as an intolerant, rigid and anarchic society.

I desired to praise the Chosen One and was hinderedBy my own inability to grasp the extent of his glory.How can one such as I measure an ocean, when the ocean is vast?And how can...

Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men.