Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to revitalize tribal leaders and conservative practices as a means of stabilizing state power; those conservative practices...

None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself

It is a meaningful thing for a scientist of the stature of Ibn Sina, certainly one of the best scientific minds in the whole history of mankind, to often resort to prayer to seek God’s...

There are times I must speak even if my heart trembles in sadness…and there are times I must be silent to preserve peace. But in the name of truth, in the name of Allah (saw),...

Standing in Front of the Mirror of EternityDressed By True ExistenceLooking to Your Own RealityIn the Ocean of Oneness

Keadaan universiti-universiti di negara-negara Islam yang mengajar agama dan tamadun Islam telah menjadi amat lemah kerana ketiadaan koleksi perpustakaan yang lengkap, program akademik kukuh, penyeliaan serius dan bersifat terlalu berpihak kepada politik. Segelintir institusi pengajian...

Did my father talk to me? It’s true, he didn’t say a lot to me, but I knew what had to be done. No need for big speeches. He taught me the fundamentals of our...

Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I’m just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do I know, yaar, what to tell...

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is...

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam....

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban’s annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?

Shaikh Ahmad of Sirhind (1563-1624) discussed it within the canon of theological tradition and held that ana al-haqq was a situational statement and that it represented a quality of authentic experience. The Shaikh suggested that...

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: ‘Do not get angry.’ He is strong who can withhold anger.

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

The group with it’s impurities is better than sectarianism with it’s purity.

The purpose of man’s creation is that he do good in the world, not substitutehimself for God and think that he can make and unmake the moral law at his ownconvenience and for his own...

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied...

One thing I really love being a man about Islam is; I can have so many wives and that would be considered as my rights.

I passed by General Zia’s tomb and knew that I never would have become Muslim if I was raised in this country [Pakistan]. As a rebellious American adolescent, I had chosen Islam because it was...

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today’s world, even in its most liberal parts.

Terkadang kelompok yang anti madzhab menggugat kita dengan pendapat sang pendiri madzhab atau para ulama dalam madzhab yang kita ikuti, seakan-akan mereka lebih konsisten dari kita dalam bermadzhab. Kaum Wahhabi ketika menggugat kita agar meninggalkan...

The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a testof willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat asmuch as I wanted after...

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Kekayaan tidak dinilai daripada banyaknya harta tetapi kaya jiwa.

[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person’s spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.

Kita tidak pernah ragu bahwa kembalinya kaum muslimin memegang peradaban dunia akan menjadi kenyataan, dan orang-orang yang berada di tempat jauh maupun dekat akan menyaksikannya. Akan tetapi saya berharap kita semua bersatu untuk membangun mercusuar...

Artinya, Anda lebih mulai tertarik untuk mempelajari Qur’an sebagai sumber informasi yang ditinggalkan Nabi Muhammad dan menurut orang Islam masih otentik hingga sekarang dibanding menilai agama ini dari perilaku penganutnya?

Wie das Wasser nahm auch ichin mich alle Farben -Gott der Herr der Färber ist,Sein sind alle Farben!

kita menjadi kabilahyang diburu dan dijadikan penjahat seperti kaum Musa asoleh agama yang kita pegang dan junjung dengan percayadijadikan syariat dan jalan kebenaran; cahaya dan penyuluhsedang mereka dengan keangkuhan dan kesombongan Firaunmenjulang pedang tajam kebebasan...

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

You are a noted friendOf mine, a truly excellent beautifier of my tribute.”Yes, I would sacrifice my soul for the dust of his sanctuary.His favor should be that he accept my sacrifice.He has triumphed who...

O Allah, You know me better than I know myself, and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than what they think of me, and forgive those sins of...

O Woman – Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don’t belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.

Agak aneh bahawa perkembangan madrasah di Haramyn sampai saat ini masih diabaikan para ahli. Jika banyak studi dilakukan atas pertumbuhan madrasah di tempat-tempat lain di Timur Tengah, kelihatan agak ganjil sedikit sekali perhatian diberikan kepada...

If I were to receive a pair of the blessed prophetic sandals to place on my head, then I shall consider myself no less than a fully crowned king.

It is a stage that all of those who are striving and competing are competing for it and it is a kind of life that if you are missing it you are one of the...

Saying of the ProphetLoveDo you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.

Saying of the ProphetAccusationsAnyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Tres cosasTres cosas no pueden recuperarse:La flecha una vez que ha partido del arcoLa palabra dicha precipitadamenteLa oportunidad perdida.(Alí el León, Califa del Islam, yerno del profeta Mahoma)

Walaupun mereka telah mencapai pelbagai kemajuan, dan hidup aman damai dalam masyarakat Islam yang stabil, namun kerajaan mereka selalunya tidak begitu: perubahan rejim biasanya berlaku secara ganas dan menimbulkan keadaan huru-hara. Dari segi politik, orang...

It must be constantly remembered that the Qu r’ān is not just descriptive but is primarily prescriptive. Both the content of its message and the power of the form in which it is conveyed are...

A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,Birds without trees can never feel free.

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many...

Shaykha Sultana al-ZubaydiyyaShaykha Sultana al-Zubaydiyya, famous scholar and saint, was the dauther of ‘Ali al-Zubaydi, a man belonging to the martial Zubaydi clan of the tribe of Bani Haritha, itself an offshoot of the major...

We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war and practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the...

Sufis are keys to open up hearts.

The personality of Muhammad, it is most difficult to get into the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of it I can catch. What a dramatic succession of picturesque scenes! There is Muhammad, the...

Pada prinsipnya kita bersetuju bahawa pandangan manusia, dan oleh kerananya ilmu-ilmu yang dibangunkan olehnya, dalam bidang apapun tidak boleh dikultuskan dan dianggap absolut. Hanya ilmu Tuhan yang mutlak (absolute). Menyedari keterbatasan ilmu manusia ini maka...