1,461 Quotes About Islam

Jews were expelled to Israel, Protestants were expelled to the USA and where should the Muslims go?

During his hajj, Malcolm [Malcolm X] fell into a new Islam with the same blind faith that he had given to Elijah. Since he lived just a year after his hajj, Mecca became the neatly presented and cinema-friendly conclusion to his lifelong thread of transformations: but he finally found the Truth and then Allah took him home. But if he lived longer, I think he would have called out the Arabs.

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

And never concern thyself with anything of which thou hast no knowledge: verily, [thy] hearing and sight and heart - all of them - will be called to account for it!

...and be true to every promise - for, verily, you will be called to account for every promise which you have made!

And give full measure whenever you measure, and weigh with a balance that is true: this will be [for your own] good, and best in the end.

And walk not on earth with haughty self-conceit: for, verily, thou canst never rend the earth asunder, nor canst thou ever grow as tall as the mountains!

Your defect is a tendency to judge everyone,' Ayesha said.'And yours,' he said with a smile, 'is to willfully misunderstand them.