1,461 Quotes About Islam

Mankind must worship God to attain righteousness and the spiritual status necessary to enter paradise. This means human beings have to comprehend that worship is as indispensable as eating and breathing — and not a favour they are doing for God.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

কুরআন তিলাওয়াত, ক্লান্ত পথিকের শ্রান্তিবিনাশী আরক। দুঃখ-দুর্দশায় জর্জরিত ব্যক্তির জন্য কোমল ছোঁয়া। ছাতিফাটা রোদ্দুরে মরুভূমিতে মরিচিকা দেখে দিশেহারা হওয়া উদ্ভ্রান্তের কম্পাস। শুষ্ক খরখরে হয়ে যাওয়া হৃদয়ের বসন্ত।

I want you and your generation to know that repentance should not be self-torture. Regret should not overwhelm you and force you into another form of intensity. Intensity distorts reality. And Islam in its essence is against the distortions of intensity.

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole Muslim population of the world.

Quran, like most other scriptures, is a book of most wonderful truth mixed with the most disgraceful superstitions of human nature.

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

In Iran, for example, both the reformists and the hard-line conservatives rely on the same symbols, rhetoric, and language to fight either for democratic reform or for theocratic intransigence because both recognize the power Islam has in mobilizing the masses