Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Islam

• I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Simplicity, Islam

  Young India article on September 23, 1924. "My Jail Experiences". Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 29, p. 133, 1960.

• The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Islam, Christianity

• The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Islam, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.122, Rajpal & Sons

• For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dream, Imagination, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

• I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Islam, Criticism

• Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Oneness, Unity, Brotherhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

• I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Buddhism, Religion, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.104, Rajpal & Sons

• The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Islam, Reason, Accepted

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.194, Tara Publishing

• I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian Love, Islam, Christianity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.238, Vintage

• Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Islam, Democracy, Spells

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

• It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Islam, Christianity

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.113, Tara Publishing

• Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.221, Tara Publishing

• Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Islam, Favour, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.91, Penguin Books India

• A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Perfect, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Two, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.7, Rajpal & Sons

• Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Islam, Criticism, Unreasonable

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.194, Tara Publishing

• If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hatred, Islam, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

• Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Islam, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

• Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Philosophical, Islam

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.221, Tara Publishing

• I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Islam, Rebel

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.7, Rajpal & Sons

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