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“if Muslims just stop and don’t do anything, Islam would have much more attraction. Many more people would come.”
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
“Politics is part of Islam, but Islam is not politics,”
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
“Indeed, the Quran dealt sternly with any religious group claiming that their way of worship was the right one: And they say: None entereth paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian. These are their own desires. Say: Bring your proof (of what ye state) if ye are truthful. (2:111) The Quran took a dim view of any one group claiming they’d found the sole path to paradise.”
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
“The major problem with Islamists, said Akram, was their tendency to make Islam more about political struggle than piety.”
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
“Why do we Muslims have so much suffering, all over the world?” he demanded. “We are carrying the body of Islam! We don’t have submission. We have got the law, but without the hikma—the wisdom—behind it. Religion hasn’t come to give people an identity! Its purpose is not so you can say, ‘We belong to this group.’ But at this moment ninety-nine percent of Muslims treat religion as identity! But God does not like identity.”
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
― If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
Nadia’s 2025 Year in Books
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