You think it’s impossible to be a passive fighter? Well, sometimes fighting just means existing. Existing, not going away, and quietly biding your time.

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a...

I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

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...

One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Islam, they traditionally...

Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which...

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

Dicho del ProfetaTareasQuienquiera que haga de todas sus tareas una tarea, Dios le ayudará en sus otros asuntos.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Allah, Most High, has truly blessed us. He has created just for us the mysterious spirit that He has breathed into us and by so doing distinguished us from all other physical creation. He has...

Empirical” knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don’t know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

Apostasy was the major justification for terminating internal opposition throughout the history of Islamic empires. That is why we have heard of whole tribes and groups being eradicated for apostasy. Muslim philosophers, mathematicians and scientists...

If Allah wants to send me a message,he’ll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with...

Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim–in fact, the majority–who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their...

You may have lost someone, butyou’ve found something immeasurably more valuable: God,’ she told me. ‘And God’s love lastsforever.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

…The Qur’an cannot be translated. …The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur’an, that inimitable symphony, the very...

With life as short as a half taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.

We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It’s in Afghanistan, it’s in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it’s in the United States.

I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.

For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was easy to detect the confrontation that was already taking place between...

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

Islam and democracy can function together.

The United States is falling away from the very things that had made it what it was. What it is becoming is something to be feared….

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women’s rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and...

Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.

So this is where all the vapid talk about the ‘soul’ of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the...

Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims.

Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family.

Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.

Dicho del ProfetaMuerteMuere antes de tu muerte.

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...