the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face. . . . What they abominate about ‘the West,’ to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don’t like and can’t defend...

La raison qui m’a conduit à proférer de la poésie (shi‘r) est que j’ai vu en songe un ange qui m’apportait un morceau de lumière blanche ; on eût dit qu’il provenait du soleil. « Qu’est-ce que...

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

Dicho del ProfetaVerdadDecir la verdad a los injustos es la mejor de las guerras santas.

Dicho del ProfetaReflejoLos creyentes son espejos, unos para otros.

Alles, was einer Person zustoßen kann, bedarf einer entsprechenden Reaktion. Wenn die Reaktion richtig ist, kann es sie oder ihn näher zu Gott bringen: “Euch wurde der bewaffnete Kampf geboten, während er euch zuwider ist....

The Qur’ān began by criticizing two closely related aspects of that society: the polytheism or multiplicity of gods which was symptomatic of the segmentation of society, and the gross socioeconomic disparities that equally rested on...

the Qur’ān appears to be interested in three types knowledge for man. One is the knowledge of nature which has been made subservient to man, i.e., the physical sciences. The second crucial type is the...

There is nothing in our book, the Qur’an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a...

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger....

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but...

The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous errors if left entirely to their own devices. Hence, they should not be left to their own devices,...

The way we experience the pilgrimage is a reflection of our inner state,’ the imamsaid. ‘To some of us it will be a strenuous trial, whereas to others every step of the way is a...

But blaming Islam is a simple answer, easier and less controversial than re-examining the core political issues and grievances that resonate in much of the Muslim world: the failures of many Muslim governments and societies,...

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

Melalui kajian dan penyelidikan pengajian tingginya, Barat mendidik kaum terpelajar dunia Islam dan Timur sama ada dari segi ekonomi, sains dan teknologi, pentadbiran awam, sosiologi, falsafah mahupun agama. Secara yang cukup licik, Barat secara senyap-senyap...

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes...

Teach love and compassion to all. Go back to the proper understanding of every verse. Teach every young Muslim the ability to understand the meaning of friendship that has no borders while at the same...

In the physical ascension one sees the signs upon the horizons; in the spiritual ascension one sees the signs within himself.

Ponašaj se prema ovome svijetu kao prema svojoj sjeni. Budeš li pokušao uhvatiti je, umorit ćeš se i nećeš uspjeti. Na kraju će te poslati u kabur neispunjenih želja i planova. A ako joj okreneš...

Ibn al-Khatib says: Ibn Battutah has a modest share of the sciences. He journeyed to the East in the month of Rajab 725 [1325], travelled through its lands, penetrated into Iraq al-Ajam, then entered India,...

Kedua matanya baru saja terbuka dari tidur yang lelap. Pandangannya tertuju pada sang suami yang sudah terbangun, dengan tangan dan wajah yang telah terbasuh. Lelaki bergelar Al-Amin itu sedang menyisir rambut di depan kaca yang...

The morning after the 9/11 attacks…we began talking about the Twin Towers attack. Ruud shook his head sadly about it all. He said, “It’s so weird, isn’t it, all these people saying this has to...

It’s always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established… in the heart of the Islamic world.

Mujāhada, a collateral form of jihād (the so-called “holy war”), taken [by Sufis] to mean “earnest striving after the mystical life.” The term is based on the Koranic text, “And they that strive earnestly in...

Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority that do understand continue to be Moslems because they have...

Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. (There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet.){A remark made during the Fifth Solvay International Conference (October 1927), after a discussion of the religious views...

If you think it’s offensive that I call alleged biblical miracles ridiculous, you should ask yourself whether or not it’s ridiculous to insist that Muhammad flew on a winged horse. Or that the earth was...

True freedom is doing what Allah wants which is the defintion of freedom in Islam. The ‘Abdullah is the only real hur because he is a servant and a slave to Allah and not to...

Dicho del ProfetaLuchaEl guerrero santo es aquél que lucha consigo mismo.

Tentang kopi kesukaanmu, cappucino, kopi itu bukan dari italia. Aslinya berasal dari biji-biji kopi Turki yang tertinggal di medan perang di Kahlenberg. Hanya sebuah info pengetahuan kecil-kecilan. Assalamu’alaikum” — Fatma, 99 Cahaya di Langit Eropa...

There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.

Can I aske forgiveness for someone else, someone whose already dead?Yes, you can. Of course you can. And you can give charity in their name and you can recite the Qur’an for their sake. All...

The earth isn’t spinning because you told it to do so. Your intestines aren’t digesting by your command. You’re made up of a trillion cells who don’t ask your permission before offering their rakats. And...

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

Konačno, to je pitanje ljubavi, a ljubav je složena od brojnih stvari: naših želja i naše usamljenosti, naših uzvišenih ciljeva i naših mana, naše snage i naše slabosti. Tako je bilo i sa mnom. Islam...

Among the lessons I learned on Hajj was that I needed to be mindful andkeep the inner connection with God at all times and that self-improvement is definitely a never-endingstruggle.

The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.

Jesus fühlte rein und dachteNur den Einen Gott im stillen;Wer ihn selbst zum Gotte machte,Kränkte seinen heiligen Willen.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

adulteresses” throughout the Muslim world. I hope it goes without saying that the Afghan girls who even now are risking their lives by merely learning to read would not be best compensated for their struggles...

Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love.

Manuscripts – at least for Muslims who understand the subject – are to be read as books whose contents are to be known and understood, for that is why they were written, and not to...

Penekanan al-Quran terhadap hubungan intim antara epistemologi dan aksiologi dan kerohanian bukan bertujuan untuk merubah keobjektifan data dan fakta yang telah disahkan dengan betul. Sebaliknya ia bertujuan untuk memberi petunjuk yang sempurna, hikmah dan makna...

Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so-called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair-minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity’s own traditions of holy war and ‘texts of terror.’ Like Hinduism’s Mahabharata...

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

People accuse me of having interiorized a feeling of racial inferiority, so that I attack my own culture out of self-hatred, because I want to be white. This is a tiresome argument. Tell me, is...

Marxism rejected the family and the state, but in practice it kept these institutions. Every pure religion disapproved of man’s worrying about this world, but as the ideology of living people, it accepted the struggle...

We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.