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“Spread peace, feed the hungry, honor kinship ties, pray while people sleep, and you shall enter Paradise in peace.”
― 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
“Jihad had very specific parameters, he said, sternly. One couldn’t harm women, children, or other noncombatants. The enemy’s crops and fields must be respected: “You can’t harm even a tree.” A jihad can be waged only by legitimate Islamic leaders operating openly, not by self-appointed guerrillas striking covertly. And jihad must not target fellow Muslims. “Those who raise their weapons against us,” said the Prophet Muhammad, “are not from us.” Today, the vast majority of the people dying in the name of jihad are Muslims.”
― 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
“Islam is not a property,” Akram once observed during a seminar. “It’s not your identity. Don’t think that if someone laughs at you, you have to explain yourself. We are more interested in defending our belonging, our identity, than in the Prophet. Don’t think about identity! Think about good character!”
― 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
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