Islam Quotes - Page 26

• ...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  War, Teaching, Enemy

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• You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

  Chris Crutcher

  Christian, Hate, White

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• Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may God bless and give him Peace!) and his noble Companions and their Followers (blessing and peace be upon them all!) and the faith and practice of genuine Muslims after them; and they also refer to the self and mean its return to its original nature and religion (Islam).

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Islamic, Mean, Blessing

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• Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

  Laurie R. King

  Mean, Fire, Essence

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.441, Bantam

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• The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Mistake, Teaching, Rights

  Broadcast to the people of Australia, February 19, 1948.

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• The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.

  Edward Said

  Fire, Experts, Kind

  Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.283, Vintage

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• If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Buddhism, Ideas, Middle East

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1995). “Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Views, Europe

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• "Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric," he told his students, "meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word became flesh in the book of John: 'And the Word was made flesh, and He dwelt among us. 'Therefore, it was acceptable to depict the Word as having a human form. In Islamic tradition, however, the Word did not become flesh, and therefore the Word needs to remain in the form of a word … in most cases, calligraphic renderings of the names of the holy figures of Islam."

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Book, Islamic

  "Inferno".

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• [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.

  Reza Aslan

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Community

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• How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?

  Muhammad Ali

  Christian, Freedom, Hate

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• Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Hands, Joy, Victory

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• It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Science, Views, Fundamentals

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• A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, People, Giving

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• I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Strong, Character

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• A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Giving Up, Wine, Intelligent

  "The Victorian Age in Literature" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, University of Notre Dame Press, (p. 20), 1963.

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• To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Justice, Borders, World

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• Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Jesus, Reality

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• What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Hate, Home

  "MUHAMMAD ALI DEFENDS HIS RELIGION Says Islam is for peace" by Lisa L. Colangelo, Clem Richardson, www.nydailynews.com. September 21, 2001.

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• Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

  Muhammad Ali

  Believe, Thinking, Names

  "Bush: 'Justice Will Be Done'" at CNN, September 20, 2001.

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• A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Believe, Numbers

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.39, 北戴河出版

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• Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Hero, Numbers

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.324, Ballantine Books

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• My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Simple, Simplicity

  "Slam dunk - interview with basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon". Interview with Spike Lee, February 1994.

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• Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Jesus, Atheist, Miracle

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• Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Daughter, Mother, Country

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Speech at the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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