Faithblade

“What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

“It is simplistic and naive to explain jihadism merely as an inevitable growth from Islam’s ‘violent’ scripture, or as no more than a miscarried interpretation triggered solely by some tragic misreading. It cannot be separated from economic discontent, the enveloping context of US global power, America’s influence and military actions in the Muslim world and, most of all, the gaping sore of the Israel–Palestine conflict.”
― Jonathan A.C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy

“If you wish to be heard in the noise of this world, let your soul be dominated by a single idea. It is the man with a single idea who creates political and social revolutions, establishes empires and gives law to the world.”
― Muhammad Iqbal, Stray reflections: the private notebook of Muhammad Iqbal

“God gave to Adam and to his descendants the gift of intelligence, asking in return, not for blind praise, but for a lucid and joyful understanding of the nature of all things and their source.”
― Charles Le Gai Eaton, Islam and the Destiny of Man