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#1

“Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.”
― Muhammad Asad

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#2

“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”
― Imam Al-Haddad

tags: islam, religion, spirituality, sufism

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#3

“Language is the key to the heart of people.”
― Ahmed Deedat

tags: ahmed, ahmed-deedat, arabic, christian, culture, deedat, english, harmony, heart, hindu, islam, key, language, literature, love, muslims, non-muslim, peace, people, religion

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#4

“Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: afghanistan, ayaan-hirsi-ali, azar-nafisi, feminism, heroes, heroines, iran, iraq, islam, religion, role-models, taliban-treatment-of-women, theocracy, women, women-and-religion, women-in-afghanistan, women-in-iran, women-in-iraq, women-in-islam, women-s-rights-in-iran, women-s-rights-movement-in-iran

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#5

“True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.”
― Malcolm X

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#6

“I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.”
― Malcolm X

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#7

“There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
― Malcolm X

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#8

“Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.

(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),”
― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

tags: islam, religion, sufis, sufism

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#9

“Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.”
― Aidh bin Abdullah al-Qarni

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#10

“Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.”
― Parwez Musharraf

tags: islam, non-violence, tolerance

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#11

“Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.”
― Osman Bakar, Tawhid and Science

tags: islam, philosophy

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#12

“When the man, by means if 'ibadat, succeeded in curbing his animal and canal passions and has thereby rendered submissive his animal soul,making it subject to the rational soul, the man thus described has attained to freedom and existence;he has achieved supreme peace and his soul is pacified, being set at liberty, as it were, free from fetters of inexorable fate and the noisy strife and hell of human vices.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam and Secularism

tags: islam

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#14

“The Quran holds the answer to all. Have you opened it?”
― Zarina Bibi

tags: islam

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#15

“Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect.”
― Osman Bakar, Tawhid and Science

tags: islam, philosophy

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#16

“Purify your intentions, your inner being, your heart and be sincere in your actions,’ he wrote. ‘God looks into your heart, not at your outer form. He looks at what lies behind the clothes … He looks into your private sphere, not at your public show.”
― Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

tags: heart, islam, self, spititual

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#17

“Sometimes I was too tired, other times just lazy. Now and then, I was frustrated because nothing seemed to be happening – no signs from God, no enlightenment, nothing. But that wasn’t the point, the Shaykh explained. What mattered was the inner connection with God, which builds slowly and only transforms us gradually.

Another obstacle, however, was that I often found it hard to concentrate during the dhikr.”
― Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

tags: hardship, islam, obstacle, pray, spiritual

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#18

“It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That’s fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one”
― Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

tags: angel, endurance, good, islam, muslim, patience

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#19

“It was clear to me by now that studying Islam was one thing – and absolutely worthwhile, because it helped me grasp the meaning of the religion and how it all fitted together. However, I felt as though I was standing in front of a shop window full of lovely things, and all I could do was admire them from afar. I was still separated from them by the window, or, as Muslims might say, a veil. In order to lift this veil, there was only one way forward: to get down onto the prayer mat and start living according to Islamic principles.”
― Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

tags: inspirational, islam, life, meaning-of-life, religion

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#20

“Of course I’d like to marry a practising Muslim, someone I can share my life and also my religion with, but I just haven’t met the right man yet,’ I told her. Fadwa was sympathetic and understood my dilemma. ‘Concentrate on your relationship with God; purify yourself, your life and your intentions. Better your religion!’ she recommended. ‘If you are patient and steadfast, then you will be rewarded, insha’ Allah.”
― Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

tags: allah, islam, marriage, muslim, patient, religion

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#21

“Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.”
― Michael Muhammad Knight, Journey to the End of Islam

tags: islam, religion

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#22

“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.”
― Michael Muhammad Knight, Journey to the End of Islam

tags: islam, malcolm-x, racism

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#23

“In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat.”
― Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Imam Bukhari and the Love of the Prophet

tags: islam, spirituality

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#25

“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.”
― Malala Yousafzai

tags: education, freedom-of-choice, girl-power, islam, women-s-rights

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#26

“I'm a spiritual person, she said. "I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in?”
― Michael Muhammad Knight

tags: allah, church, hafiz, islam, liberalism, muslim, prophet-muhammad-pbuh, spirituality

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#27

“Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.”
― Ramsey Clark

tags: humanity, islam, kindness, love, peace, religion, universal, virtue

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#28

“The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.”
― Fazlur Rahman, Major Themes of the Qur'an

tags: islam

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#29

“Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr”
― Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley

tags: faith, islam, spiritual

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#30

“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose what she wishes to do, it’s not about liberating her, but about unclothing her. It becomes an act of humiliation and cultural imperialism. It’s not about the burqa. It’s about the coercion. Coercing a woman out of a burqa is as bad as coercing her into one. Viewing gender in this way, shorn of social, political and economic context, makes it an issue of identity, a battle of props and costumes. It is what allowed the US government to use western feminist groups as moral cover when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Afghan women were (and are) in terrible trouble under the Taliban. But dropping daisy-cutters on them was not going to solve their problems.”
― Arundhati Roy

tags: feminism, france, gender, islam, women

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