The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

Mekanisme syukur itulah yang membuat orang akan semakin dimudahkan.

Why does a young Muslim, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up in a bus full of innocent passengers? In our countries, religion is the sole source...

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?

Wer von wenig Wissen nicht profitiert, ist weit davon entfernt, von viel Wissen zu profitieren.

His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement – all...

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

Muslim children should be raised with the understanding that once they hit puberty they are adults and Mukallaf (responsible for their actions). This understanding is crucial to assist them in passing the tests of youth.

In our towns and cities they will continue to be born, in our communities they will go on to be nurtured & radicalised & from within our neighbourhoods they will terrorise & murder our citizens...

It was inevitable, as soon as legends of miracles became attached to the names of the great mystics, that the credulous masses should applaud imposture more than true devotion; the cult of the saints, against...

Ein Zeichen dafür, dass dir Allahs göttliche Liebe nahe ist, ist:dass dein Herz gebrochen wird, und zwar so oft, dass du alle Hoffnungen für diese Welt verloren hast, und dass die einzige Hoffnung, die du...

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Because Muhammad is considered Allah’s final prophet and the Quran the eternal, unalterable words of Allah himself, there is also no evolving morality that permits the modification or integration of Islamic morality with that from...

Food is not to enjoy. That’s not the reason why you’re eating it. That’s why the Glutton eats. But someone who’s serious about maintaining their health. They eat for Health. We’re literally digging our graves...

Dicho del ProfetaSoy como un hombre que ha encendido una hoguera y todas las cosas vivientes han corrido a quemarse en ella.

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

Allah exalts whom he wills!

This idea (Taqwa)can be effectively conveyed by the term “conscience,” if the object of conscience transcends it. This is why it is proper to say that “conscience” is truly as central to Islam as love...

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with...

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

Ich halte nichts von dem Satz, Islam und Islamismus hätten nichts miteinander zu tun. Ich halte auch nichts von apologetischen Sätzen, wie wir sie nach den Anschlägen von Paris wieder gehört haben, diese Anschläge hätten...

The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights,...

During this time I came to understand a lot about myself, human beings, faith and the meaning ofmarriage and friendship. The world is not black and white, nothing is what it seems, and we are...

The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, tosalvage what was useful and then to modify and build on it. The task wasto get the Arabs to think about religion in...

In [the] early days, Muslims did not see Islam as a new, exclusive religion but as a continuation of the primordial faith of the ‘People of the Book’, the Jews and Christians. In one remarkable...

Islam is not man’s ultimate justification to do as he pleases–it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then...

It’s not radical Islam that worries the US — it’s independence

È un bene essere patrioti, sentire di appartenere a una società, a una nazione o a una comunità di fedeli, ma ciò non può giustificare il nazionalismo sciovinista e cieco, l’affermazione dell’eccezione e dell’elezione nazionale...

An oftd statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus of what has been translated into Arabic in 1,000 years.

Ne smijemo biti neodgovorni i egoistični, nikako, a posebno ne u prezentaciji Islama. Islam nije samo naš! On je univerzalna ljepota, poslata svakom čovjeku na zemlji.

Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Al-Amin memang senang berdiam diri. Sejak remaja, Al-Amin memang tidak menyukai hiburan, pembicaraan sia-sia, lelucon kasar, dan hal-hal yang memicu perkelahian.

Islam yang kita tahu adalah Islam menurut tokoh, interpretasi ulama belum Islam menurut Allah. Islam yang kita anut (nanti) merupakan Islam “versi” kita.

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after...

We have no rational evidence that there exist another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume. Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the...

When the sun shall be folded up; and when the stars shall fall; and when the mountains shall be made to pass away; and when the camels ten months gone with young shall be neglected;...

Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (The Nation, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin...

Sayyida Nafisah*, eine noble Frau und Gelehrtin, sagte folgendes, nachdem sie das Totengebet für Imam al-Shafi’i betete:”Möge Allah barmherzig mit Muhammad bin Idris al-Shafi’i sein! In der Tat, er pflegte es seine Gebtswaschung zu perfektionieren.”Die...

Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

Es gibt keinen Platz für Hoffnungslosigkeit. Der Kampf geht weiter. Diese Welt war niemals dafür gedacht, um das Paradies zu sein. Gott hat die Welt erschaffen, damit du durch sie zu Gott finden mögest. Wenn...

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Books”—which it merely restores. The Kaaba, center of the Muslim world, becomes space as soon as one is inside the building: the ritual direction of prayer is then projected toward the four cardinal points.If Christianity...

Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as crucial to next-stage evolution as ending race slavery was to the last stage....

Malgré les fanatiques, il serait extrêmement dangereux d’importer en France la thèse d’un «choc de civilisations» entre le monde musulman et nous. Ne faisons pas de l’Islam le miroir où toutes nos difformités s’effacent. Ne...

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.

I’m a spiritual person, she said. “I believe in Allah, you know, though I don’t always call It ‘Allah’ and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the...

A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope.

History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of Islam. The encouragement which learning and scientific research received from Islamic theology resulted...

Of course, a single verse of the Holy Qur’an or a hadith moves the faithful to good actions, but volumes of books would not move an unwilling person who is like an ass carrying a...

In realtà il grande problema dell’islam non è la laicità, ma la secolarizzazione, che significa la soggettivizzazione della religione: cioè che la religione diventa un elemento tra tanti altri. Compito della democrazia è di trattare...