1,461 Quotes About Islam

This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so much better run, better led, and made for such better lives than the places we came from? Shouldn't the places where Allah was worshipped and His laws obeyed have been at peace and wealthy, and the unbelievers' countries ignorant, poor, and at war?

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

It is of the extraordinary insights of Imam Malik that the first section of his Muwatta', which precedes even the section on ritual purity, is on the times of the prayer. It is the times of prayer that obligate purity. Observing the times of prayer is the first thing we do when we wake and the last thing we do before retiring to bed; it is done in the middle of the day and in its decline. It is an unrelenting reminder of to whom we belong, why we are here, and where we are going.

Believers are each other's mirrors.

The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different from the Sunni Islam practiced in Pakistan. Even within a single branch of Islam there are customs and practices that vary by region and across time. Thus, the Islam of seventh-century Arabia is different from the Wahhabism that exists today in Saudi Arabia.

Kita tidak pernah ragu bahwa kembalinya kaum muslimin memegang peradaban dunia akan menjadi kenyataan, dan orang-orang yang berada di tempat jauh maupun dekat akan menyaksikannya. Akan tetapi saya berharap kita semua bersatu untuk membangun mercusuar peradaban agung ini. Allah berfirman: "Mereka akan menggeleng-gelengkan kepala mereka kepadamu dan berkata, 'Kapan itu (akan terjadi)?' Katakanlah: 'Mudah-mudahan waktu berbangkit itu dekat.'" (QS. al-Isra: 51)

The group with it's impurities is better than sectarianism with it's purity.

Ya Rasulullaah, apa yang menghalangi tuan? Demi Allah, aku tidak meninggalkan satu majelis pun dimana aku pernah duduk di sana dalam keadaan kafir, kecuali aku datangi untuk kemudian aku tunjukkan di sana ke-Islam-anku tanpa rasa khawatir dan takut.Bisakah kita tidak menyembah Allah secara sembunyi-sembunyi lagi...?"-Umar bin Khattab ra

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