Mohammad Eqbal

“I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
― Noam Chomsky

“نحن المسلمين !
ديننا الفضيلة الظاهرة ، الحق الأبلج.
لا حجب ولا أستار ولا خفايا ولا أسرار.
هو واضح وضوح المئذنة . أفليس فيها ذلك المعنى ؟
هل في الدنيا جماعه او نحلة تكرر مبادئها وتذاع عشر مرات في اليوم
كما تذاع مبادئ ديننا نحن المسلمون ،على ألسنة المؤذنين :
أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمداً رسول الله”
― علي الطنطاوي, قصص من التاريخ

“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism