Shahrian Shihab

“After all, nothing can be demanded by a god of which nothing can be predicated and about which nothing can be said. It is a forever silenced god. It is the areligious philosophers’ preferred god (at least from the time of Aristotle); a god which is remote, detached, and can hardly be an object of adoration or worship, even though it may be an object of wonderment.”
― Hatem al-Haj, Between the God of the Prophets and the God of the Philosophers: Reflections of an Athari on the Divine Attributes

“We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again.”
― Umar ibn Al-Khattab

“My enemies, I thank you!

You are who trained me to be patient, to respond to the evil with the good and to overlook.”
― Salman Al Odah, My Enemies, I Thank You

“Discipline — when one is able to act responsibly regardless of one’s desires — can and must be developed at an early age.”
― Hesham Al-Awadi, Muhammad: How He Can Make You Extraordinary