9 Quotes by Abdal Hakim Murad

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will.

The alpha male must not be a wife beta.

The Sira is the interpretation of the Sura.

Hand the secular Arab a glass of urine, and tell him that it is wine. He will not only pretend to enjoy it, he will enjoy it.

Iblis was the first False Salafi, a literalist whose obsessive misunderstanding of monotheism and of the avoidance of idolatry took him far from spiritual wisdom.

The traditional ijma’ consensus is as objectionable to takfir-validating Wahhabis as it is to homosexualist or feminist exegetes.

Do not divulge any fact that will help nobody.

In the restaurant of life, the false Salafi can do no more than eat the menu.