Quotes About Islam

Added on May 8, 2014

“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

“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

Added on May 7, 2014

“Islam combines between the materialism of Judaism and the spiritualism of Christianity, between the dry and severe justice [of the Torah] that says: "a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye", and the excessive love and forgiveness [of the Gospels] that says: "When someone hits you on the face, turn the other cheek."

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“I say that the [following of the] Shariah (Islamic law) is obligatory [on the Muslims] and that it is truth, but the road to it is not just punishment, but reform first. There needs to be positive reform that makes good behavior possible before we punish those who leave said behavior.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“The true Muslim tries to understand people but does not make judgments on them, and he may call them to what is good and right, but he does not impose his opinion upon them. As for reckoning and taking people to account, that solely belongs to God.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“People understand religion as if it is a group of commandments and prohibitions and laws containing punishments and the difference between the permissible and the prohibited, even though all of these are worldly matters. As for religion, it is something else, deeper, greater and farther than these.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“We need to admit that we Muslims have failed in inviting others to our religion and we have not made the world aware of Islam with its exalted principles and transcendental meanings. We have been the worst advertisement for Islam and the worst image for how a Muslim should be. And we, regardless of the treasures of energy and the great amount of wealth that the Bestower has given us (we have inherited the richest area in the world with its natural resources), we have stayed behind in science, economy, politics and democracy, and we didn't learn from our Quran how to deal with enemies and rivals.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

Added on April 26, 2014

“Therefore when they [the Muslims] showed ingratitude toward the blessings that Allah had given them, He caused them to undergo severe torment under the hands of the Mongols in Baghdad, and in the Crusades when Westerners violently took over Muslim lands. Even today, they continue to take away and divide their homelands and rain fire and brimstone on them. Meanwhile the Muslims are busy with entertainment and error. Whenever a calamity or crisis befalls them, they say it is God's decree, without acknowledging the causes and without seeing the wisdom behind it, and without actively seeking to find a cure.

Sheikh Ahmad Mustafa al-Maraghi

Added on April 5, 2014

“Which one is better during times of trials and the spread of sin and corruption: mixing with society and attempting to reform it, or secluding yourself from it and saving yourself? As for the Sufis, the majority of them chose the second road. But as for the scholars who dedicated themselves to the way of God and strove in His way, they chose the way of the prophets, which is to mix with poeople and strive and patiently endure society's hurtfulness. Ibn Umar narrates from the Prophet ﷺ: "The believer who mixes with people and endures the harm that comes from them is better than the Muslim who does not mix with people and does not endure their harm." [Bukhari, Ahmad and others]

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

Added on March 22, 2014

“We live in a society where we wake up our kids for school but not Fajr.

Nouman Ali Khan

Added on January 18, 2014

Umar ibn al-Khattab: We were the most humiliated people on earth …

Added on January 6, 2014

“Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice. Humanity is threatened not only by nuclear annihilation but by the absence of values. The West has lost its vitality and Marxism has failed. At this crucial and bewildering juncture, the turn of Islam and the Muslim community has arrived.

Sayyid Qutb

Added on October 14, 2013

“Islam is about forsaking a present desire for the sake of a future promise.

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

The Verse of Favor – Revealed on a Friday on the day of Arafah

Added on August 1, 2013

Islam

Added on July 21, 2013

“They want an All-American Islam: An Islam that's used as a reference for the intricacies of wudu' (ablution), but not referred to in the political and economic conditions of Muslims.

Sayyid Qutb

Added on June 25, 2013

Islam is Perfect, Muslims Aren’t

Quran 5:3

Added on June 9, 2013

The Correct Religion

Added on June 2, 2013

“Islamic principles may be evident or uncertain, as are pure scientific principles. The evident principles of the two classes will never conflict; that is, it is impossible for an established scientific fact to contradict an authentic Islamic principle. However, this may happen if one or both of them are uncertain. If one of them is uncertain, then it should be reinterpreted so as to remove the contradiction If both are uncertain, then the uncertain Islamic principle should be given precedence over the uncertain scientific notion until the latter is proven.

Imam Hasan al-Banna

Added on May 30, 2013

“And I have mentioned in other books and studies of mine: That statistics, planning and research before actions are all at the heart of Islam, for the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah upon him) was the first who ordered an organized census of those who had believed in him after his hijrah (migration) to al-Madinah. And the effects of planning can be seen in his life story in several scenes and situations.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“And the sickness that many of those who have worked in the field of religion is this: They stayed on the surface and didn't dive to its depths, because they didn't have the necessary qualifications to swim in it and find its pearls. So appearances distracted them from the secrets and the purposes, and the branches took away their attention from the principles, and they presented the religion of Allah and the rules of its shariah as scattered groups without anything unifying them and without relating the rulings to purposes and end goals, and so the shariah ended up appearing on their tongues and pencils as if it was deficient at attaining what's beneficial to the creation. But the deficiency is not in the shariah, rather it is in their understanding.