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“Sometimes slavery puts on the guise of freedom and appears to be a release from all chains, the chains of culture and tradition and the burdens of the human condition.

There is a fundamental difference between release from the chains of humiliation, oppression and weakness, and from the chains of humanity and its substrates. The first one is true freedom, while the second one is to abandon the foundations that make a human being a human being, foundations that have freed him from the chains of his animal nature.

Sayyid Qutb

“It is impossible for life to not affect faith, or for faith to have a separate existence away from life.

Sayyid Qutb

“He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won’t get you in one shot. He’ll come at you and he’ll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character.

Nouman Ali Khan

“Whosoever gets involved in the work of Allah SubHanuhu wa Ta’ala then Allah SubHanuhu wa Ta’ala gets involved in his work.

Abu Bakr as-Siddiq

“Whosoever asks of the creation is blind to the doors of the creator.

Imam Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“If Shaytan defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds.

Sufyan ath-Thawri

“Beware of yourself, when the energy that moves you in life is actually the ego’s energy, but has found a religious form of expression. That’s the most dangerous thing of all

Abdal Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

“It is worse to be hopeless about the forgiveness of Allāh than to sin.

Salih al-Fawzan

“The first duty of the Muslim man is to turn his home into a Muslim home, to direct his household toward performing the duties that connect them with God, so that they all have the same direction in life. How comforting is life in the shade of a home whose inhabitants all turn to God!

Sayyid Qutb

“Those who believe in God do not suffer from doubt in the truthfulness of His promise, and in the deep-rootedness of truth in the building of the cosmos and the systems that govern it, and in His support for Truth that He throws at falsehood an invalidates it. If God tests them by the victory of falsehood for a while, they know that it is a test, and they can sense that their Lord is training and mentoring them because of a weakness or shortcoming in them, and that He is preparing them for welcoming a triumphant Truth.

Sayyid Qutb

“This Quran does not bestow its treasures upon the one who does not approach it with this spirit: the spirit of knowledge that leads to action. The Quran hasn't just come to be a book for intellectual pleasure, or a book of literature and art, or a book of tales and history - even though it is all of these - rather, it has come to be a manual for life, a purely divine manual.

Sayyid Qutb

“There are people today who think that admitting God's absolute greatness decreases the value and importance of humans in the creation, as if God and mankind are rivals competing in greatness and power. Meanwhile I feel that whenever our perception of God's greatness increases, with it we become greater, because we are the creation of a great God.

Sayyid Qutb

“What is the difference between fantasy and reality? Both of them are a passing mirage throwing a shadow on the soul, only to disappear from the world of perception after a few moments.

Sayyid Qutb

“Don't fear, you are the superior one. With you is truth and with them is falsehood. With you is belief and with them is profession. With you is faith in what you are upon, and with them is worldly rewards. You are connected to the greatest power, while they serve a soon-to-be-gone human being regardless of how tyrannical and heartless he or she is.

Sayyid Qutb

“Every idea that has lived on has fed on a human's heart. The ideas that have not fed on this sacred food are stillborn and have not pushed humanity one step forward.

Sayyid Qutb

“When we touch the good side of people, we find that there is much good that the eyes may not see at first sight. I have experienced this, with many people, even those who at first seem like evil and corrupt people or those lacking feeling. There is something of emotion in them toward their crimes and errors, there is a something of true affection in them, something of genuine concern and care. You'll find a reservoir of goodness in their souls, when they give you their love and affection trust in return for the little of your self that you give to them, when you give it in truthfulness and sincerity.

Sayyid Qutb

“Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.

Sayyid Qutb

“When we stay away from someone because we feel we are purer of soul, or better at heart, or more accepting, or spiritually more advanced, we haven't done anything great; we have chosen the easier and less difficult path for ourselves.

Sayyid Qutb

“Life is not measured by the number of years, but the number of emotions, for life is nothing other than a human's perception of it.

Sayyid Qutb

“I know through experience that nothing in this life is equal to that radiant spiritual happiness that we find when we can enter comfort or contentment, certainty or hope or happiness into the souls of others.

Sayyid Qutb

“First believe in your idea, with a passionate belief. Only then others will believe in it, otherwise it will stay only a word on the tongue with no soul or life.

Sayyid Qutb

“When we live for the sake of something other than ourselves, when we live for the sake of an idea, life seems long and deep, beginning with the beginning of humanity and continuing long after we have left the face of the earth.

Sayyid Qutb

“There are some matters that Muslims have disagreed about for hundreds of years and they still do. We gain Allah's pleasure by love and unity, He dislikes disunity and division. For this reason I ask you to promise Allah that you will leave these matters alone and strive to learn the principles and basics of the religion and to live by its manners, high morals and agreed-upon prescriptions, and to carry out the obligatory acts and the voluntary ones and to leave obsessing over little details so that our souls may be purified.

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“Do no try to demolish a false set of beliefs except after building a correct set of beliefs [in the populace].

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“Keep people away from false ideas by making them busy with true ideas.

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“Man is the secret of the life of nations and source of their awakenings. The history of all nations is the history of whatever men of genius and strength of will appeared among them. The strength of nations and their weakness is measured by their fecundity at producing men in whom the conditions of true manliness appear. I believe -and history supports me- that a single man is able to build a nation if his manliness is true, and he is able to destroy it if he uses this manly power toward destruction rather than building.

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“False rumors and lies are not put down by replying to them or spreading similar counter-rumors, they are put down by positive and beneficial works that attract attention and cause people to speak, so that new rumors, this time true, will tame the place of the false old rumors.

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“Be like trees; people throw stones at them and they throw the best fruit back at them.

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“These deceiving appearances of prayer beads and clothes, beards and ceremonies, enchantments and phrases and words...is this the Islam that Allah wanted to be His biggest mercy, and His biggest favor upon the worlds? Is this the guidance of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah upon him, with which he wanted to take people out of the darknesses into the light?

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“Your first arena of struggle is your own selves, if you triumph over them, you will have power over others, and if you fail at struggling against them, you will be weaker against others. Therefore try fighting your own souls first, and remember that the whole world is waiting for a generation of young people characterized by perfect purity, impeccable morals and high manners, so be these youth and do not despair. Keep in mind the words of the gracious messenger, Allah's peace and blessings upon him: "Guarantee for me six things in yourselves and I can guarantee Paradise for you: Speak the truth, keep your promises, protect what's entrusted to you, protect your chastity, lower your gaze (from the opposite sex), and keep your hands away (from other people's rights and properties)". Then look, are you these? And "Allah will see your work, and so will His messenger and the believers, then you will be returned to the world of the Unseen and the witnessing, and then He will inform you of what you used to do."

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“An idea will keep on living...if faith in it is strong.

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“I can say frankly that a Muslim's religion is not perfect until he is a far-sighted politician in the matters concerning his ummah [Muslim nation], caring about it and aggressively doing his best for it.

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“The nation that is good at dying and knows how to die a noble death, to this nation God bestows an exalted life in this world and eternal bliss in the afterlife. The weakness that has disgraced us is nothing other than love of the worldly life and hatred of death; so prepare yourself for a great matter. Insist on death and life will be given to you, and know that death will come no matter what, and that it only happens once, so if you make it for the sake of Allah, that will be the success of this world and the reward of the afterlife.

Imam Hasan al-Banna

“Even though Allah's blessings follow us in every breath that fills the chest with air, and every heartbeat that pumps blood through the veins, we rarely sense these abundant favors, nor appreciate their bestower, Owner of Majesty and Grace.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“Taking a lesson in nature or chemistry is [equivalent to] a humble prayer, taking a tour of astronomy is [equivalent to] glorifying and praising [God], and a trip through beautiful farms and blossoming gardens or a similar trip through factories filled with fuel-powered movement and production is a goodly connection with God.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“The Quran, in pointing to God's existence, is a universe that speaks, the same way that this universe is a silent Quran.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“I call the name of God upon myself, my properties and my religion. O Allah, give me contentment by Your decrees, and put Your blessings in what has been decreed for me, so that I may not wish for the hastening of what You have delayed, and the delaying of what You have hastened.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“I want to say to all Muslims: Your Quran is your primary source for true beliefs, and the sciences of the cosmos and life are interpreters that deserve pondering and pursuing.

The greatness of the Deity shines more in the age of science. Scientific advance is the friend of faith and the enemy of atheism.

I want to warn every Muslim of those who claim to belong to science while having no relation with it; Freud or Durkheim are not scientists, they are sick thinkers who have lost their way, and Marx and his followers are not scientists, they are modern shamans and fortune-tellers suffering from mental illness. They would not have been able to gain fame and power except due to the vacuum created by the negligence of the religious.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“Islam is a religion of justice and mercy, and whoever thinks it commands the enslavement of one's wife and crushing her dignity, then he is fabricating lies in the name of God and His messenger.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“Islam, what a great religion! If only it had men [dedicated to it].

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“Renewing Islam is not by changing the religion until it fits people's desires, rather, it is by moving people away from their desires to a place that gains God's approval.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“If a Muslim spent his life standing besides the Kaaba, oblivious to what the future of Islam requires of scientific and economic and military struggle, it will not help him the least in the sight of Allah. The building of factories is equal [in virtue] to the building of mosques.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“The servant who has submitted his face to Allah the Almighty with sincerity and faith has become connected to Allah, glory to Him, the Lord of everything, so how can he fear His creation whose soul is connected to the world of the heavens, and whose heart has become attached to al-Firdaus so that the worldly life has become weightless and trivial to him?

Zainab al-Ghazali

“A spouse's oppression of his or her spouse is a deeper corruption and a faster road to catastrophe than a ruler's oppression of his subjects.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“There is an equation that every Arab should memorize by heart: Arabs - Islam = zero.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“The corruption of the ordinary people is due to the corruption of the rulers, and the corruption of the rulers is due to the corruption of the scholars (or intelligentsia), and the corruption of the scholars is due to the fact that the love of money and status has taken their hearts over, and whenever the love of the world takes over a person, he will not be able to stand up to petty criminals, so how could he face the kings and rulers?

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“It is a servant's duty to plant good seeds and Allah will make them grow. A person never planted an apple for Allah to make an onion grow for him; you never get except what you plant.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“If those who do not know stayed silent, there would be little disagreement between people.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Will mosques ever become a forge for the creation of men again?

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“I remain committed to my stance that the difficult task is changing society. As for changing governments, it happens automatically when society wants it.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

“Islam respects non-Muslims in Muslim society, and considers them in the dhimma (protection) of God, His Prophet, and the Muslims, i.e. protected under their trust and guarantee. This [word "dhimma"] is a religious term that means to the Muslim that he serves God by protecting the non-Muslims, defending them, acting kindly toward them and establishing justice with them. If they find this term hurtful, then it should not be used out of respect for their feelings, the important thing is the concept, not the name. Umar ibn al-Khattab had changed something more important when the Christians of Bani Taghlib told him they didn't like the word "jizyah" (tax) and that they wanted to pay it under the name of "sadaqah" (charity), which Umar accepted from them.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“Many sheikhs and scholars live in books and do not live in reality ... because they have not read the book of life like they have read the books written by the ancients, for this reason their rulings seem to be coming out of the graves.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“Today's apostates from Islam in reality are not apostates, for they inherited their Islam without thinking and without choice. Islam has not entered their hearts nor minds, if it had, it would have never left.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“We do not mix political Islam with terrorism for all Islam is based on freedom and rejects compulsion in all its shapes and forms that we see today, such as kidnapping, blowing up cars and airplanes or firing bullets at police stations. This is not Islam and not fundamentalism, it is crime committed by murderous criminals.

Islam is based on experimentation and persuasion and uses kindly invitation as its method and it does not raise a weapon except when countering an attack and it does not fight except to defend and restore someone's rights, it is the religion of mercy, affection, forgiveness, forbearance, love. It is based on peace, its greeting is peace and its soul is peace.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“America is the free atmosphere in which good and evil feast together.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“Absolute truth, unmitigated virtue and pure goodness exist in the minds of the Sufis, the mad, and the dreamers, but they do not exist in our society that eats and drinks and falls ill and dies.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

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