Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

People have been fighting and dying over religion for thousands of years. I could understand that fear. It creeps up on you a bit more when you’re alone in a foreign land. You certainly worry...

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope’s pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if...

From my earliest works written in the 1950s and 1960s, I have claimed that there is such a thing as Islamic science with a twelve-hundred-year tradition of its own and that this science is Islamic...

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Infuriatingly stupid analysts – especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world – wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were...

Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial

Međutim, ja sam tu vidjela nešto kod sebe: ma koliko sam pazila na Allahove granice, ja sam bila kao bosonoga, neodjevena djevojčica sa šibicama! Šibali su me vjetrovi iskušenja. I bilo je samo pitanje trenutka...

Unable and crippled I amAs I gaze into the vastnessThe vastness that harbors your praiseAnd glories of the best of creation…If I tried to spell..A drop of ink from your loveMa quill would burn in...

The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

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...

Dicho del ProfetaLa lenguaUn hombre resbala más con su lengua que con sus pies.

Being in relationship with Jesus, “God, The One and Only”, is the single cure for hatred …the only guarantee of salam or shalom!

Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul Qadr, the holiest night in Ramadan, drifts–its precise date is unknown. The iconclasm...

Rifangi hanya menawarkan sehelai pembalut putih yang steril, tapi manusia bukan cetakan tunggal mumi Adam di atas bumi, yang ditaruh dalam gelas, tanpa sejarah, tanpa ketelanjuran kebudayaan.

When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn’t even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn’t tell, anyway-but it was suddenly as though _don’t eat any more pork_ flashed on a screen...

Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world’s problems.

God in His mercy had sent messengers to convey His message, to different peoples, in different times. Each prophet came with guidance and miracles that were relevant for his time, and for his people, but...

There is one thing only which a Muslim can profitably learn from the west, the exact sciences in their pure and applied form. Only natural sciences and mathematics should be taught in Muslim schools, while...

Purify your intentions, your inner being, your heart and besincere in your actions,’ he wrote. ‘God looks into your heart, not at your outer form. He looks atwhat lies behind the clothes … He looks...

Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women’s bodies.

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.

Every Muslim is obligated by the Holy Quran to defend his fellow Muslims who are victims of oppression and injustice.Do your effort to help wherever you are and whatever you can do.The Holy Quran decrees...

[…] drink of their seas, illuminate yourself with their lights, swim in the ocean of Ihya so that you become one of the living (Ahya) […].

The fact is, the great intellectuals of the western religious tradition from Augustine to Aquinas and Peter Abelard became philosophically dominant. The intellectual tradition was preserved. The great intellectuals of the Islamic tradition like Averroes...

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Ich schäme mich,auch wenn Du mir verzeihst, oh Herr.

Muslims in the West and those in other intellectually free societies will be in a position to contribute to Islamic thought more so than those who are based in repressive environments where censorship and restriction...

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can...

The question is whether they can find a way out and remain what they are. To adapt themselves to real life, they borrow from each other. Christianity , which has become a church, began to...

In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues,” he told me when I pressed him for a reading of the struggle against Islamic...

The ‘pre-emption’ versus ‘prevention’ debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that...

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one...

Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

Detto del ProfetaOppressioneQuando c’è l’oppressione, anche l’uccello muore nel suo nido.

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood...

The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the decay of a community.

Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur’an.

•• Arrogance and pride were the reasons Shaytaan was expelled from paradise. Do not let it be the reason you don’t enter paradise.!!

During his hajj, Malcolm [Malcolm X] fell into a new Islam with the same blind faith that he had given to Elijah. Since he lived just a year after his hajj, Mecca became the neatly...

Kindness is a mark of faith, whoever is not; has no faith.

If Allah has willed it that way… He must have better plans for you child…

Boys will always be boys,’ he said. ‘Therelationship obviously wasn’t meant to be.’ He told me I should trust that the break-up was for thebest, even if I couldn’t see that yet. As with every...

La charité est un remède à l’angoisse.La Confession de Massoud

Ich mögte beten wie Moses im Koran: Herr mache mir Raum in meiner engen Brust.