Islam Quotes

Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to be grateful to Him, and to worship Him alone.

~ Fazlur Rahman

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided. When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will.

~ Abdal Hakim Murad

He who at night feeling tired because of working in the daytime, then at night he was forgiven of Allah —

~ Anonymous

Empirical knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny

~ Fazlur Rahman

One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience, in the looks of those who surround us. One would wish to find the strength to beautify one's thoughts and to purify one's heart. It is everyone's hope and expectation to live in serenity and to plod along in transparency: the palms of the hands patiently directed towards heaven, at the heart of all this modernity.

~ Tariq Ramadan

The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur’ān assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqwā)

~ Fazlur Rahman

The Qur’ān does not appear to endorse the kind of doctrine of a radical mind-body dualism found in Greek philosophy, Christianity, or Hinduism; indeed, there is hardly a passage in the Qur'ān that says that man is composed of two separate, let alone disparate, substances, the body and the soul.

~ Fazlur Rahman

Taqwā means to protect oneself against the harmful or evil consequences of one's conduct. If, then, by fear of God one means fear of the consequences of one's actions—whether in this world or the next (fear of punishment of the Last Day)—one is absolutely right. In other words, it is the fear that comes from an acute sense of responsibility, here and in the hereafter, and not the fear of a wolf or of an uncanny tyrant, for the God of the Qur’ān has unbounded mercy—although He also wields dire punishment, both in this world and in the hereafter.

~ Fazlur Rahman

Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.

~ William Langewiesche

Nor can one take an unfair attitude even towards enemies: Let the enmity of a people[towards you] not determine you upon an unjust course; be fair, it is closer to taqwā. Quran

~ Fazlur Rahman

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

~ Joseph E. B. Lumbard

The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the of decay of a community.

~ Fazlur Rahman

Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.

~ Habib Kadhim Al-Saqqaf

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

The Prophet (SAW) said: 'Knowledge is only gained through learning and clemency is only gained through perseverance.

~ محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي

And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror].

~ Quran 14 42

And Moses said, If you should disbelieve, you and whoever is on the earth entirely - indeed, Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.

~ Quran 8 42

The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, tosalvage what was useful and then to modify and build on it. The task wasto get the Arabs to think about religion in a novel way, to inculcate in them a new conceptual frame of reference, to transfer them from one worldview to another, and higher, one. This process of transformation took them from traditionalism to individualism, from impulsiveness to discipline, from supernaturalism to science, from intuition to conscious reasoning and, in the end, ideally, harmonized the whole.

~ Jeffrey Lang

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.

~ Sherman A. Jackson

When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose what she wishes to do, it’s not about liberating her, but about unclothing her. It becomes an act of humiliation and cultural imperialism. It’s not about the burqa. It’s about the coercion. Coercing a woman out of a burqa is as bad as coercing her into one. Viewing gender in this way, shorn of social, political and economic context, makes it an issue of identity, a battle of props and costumes. It is what allowed the US government to use western feminist groups as moral cover when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Afghan women were (and are) in terrible trouble under the Taliban. But dropping daisy-cutters on them was not going to solve their problems.

~ Arundhati Roy

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

~ Barack Obama

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

~ Louis Farrakhan

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

~ Karen Armstrong

Islam is about finding your own space.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.

~ Louis Theroux

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.

~ Stephen Bannon

The most stupid religion is Islam.

~ Michel Houellebecq

Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.

~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

~ Karen Armstrong

Islam is a peaceful religion.

~ Youssou N'dour

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

~ Abdolkarim Soroush

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

~ Abdurrahman Wahid

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.

~ Muhammad Ali

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

~ Ahmed Zewail

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

~ Muhammad Ali

Islam means peace.

~ Malala Yousafzai

After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

~ Abdolkarim Soroush