Quotes and Sayings About Islam
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If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni -
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid -
If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid -
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Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid -
Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : YouTube Channel "Al Jazeera English"/"101 East- Inside Indonesia's Islamic schools", www.youtube.com. August 31, 2007.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
-- Abu Bakar BashirSource : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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Killing the infidels is our religion, slaughtering them is our religion, until they convert to Islam or pay us tribute.
-- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -
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The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)
-- Adolf Hitler -
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
-- Adolf Hitler -
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.
-- Aga Khan IVSource : "Islam Is a Faith of Reason". Interview with Stefan Aust and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. October 12, 2006.
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We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.
-- Ahmad Shah Massoud -
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The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.
-- Ahmad Shah Massoud -
All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.
-- Ahmed Ali -
One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
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My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
-- Alexander Haig -
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.
-- Alexis de TocquevilleSource : "The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville; edited by Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan, p. 229, 2002.
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Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.
-- Ali Gomaa -
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.
-- Aly Khan