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Quotes About Jahiliyyah (Backwardness and Ignorance, Deprivation from Divine Guidance)

“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

“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

“Before Islam, if an Arab was asked "who created the earth and sky?" he would say Allah, and if he was asked if al-Laat and al-Uzzaa (two pagan gods) had created anything, he would say "no".

Sheikh Ahmad Mustafa al-Maraghi

“Look at a chaste poor man…nobody talks to him. People greet him so warily as if fearing that he may pass poverty to them. But see how the people welcome a rich man, even if he does not perform prayer. They stand up with smiling faces, and each one hopes to greet him first. Note the difference between a man who is so great as seen by God and another who does not even weigh a mosquito’s wing - but this is life.

Sufyan ath-Thawri

“Pepsi ad: 'Live for now'... Groupon ad: 'You might only live once'... Sprite ad: 'Obey your thirst'...notice a common theme?

Yasmin Mogahed

“With my veil I put my faith on display – rather than my beauty. My value as a human is defined by my relationship with God, not by my looks. I cover the irrelevant. And when you look at me, you don’t see a body. You view me only for what I am: a servant of my Creator.

You see, as a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.

Yasmin Mogahed

“So I am honored. But it is not by my relationship to men. My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life – despite what the fashion magazines say – is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Growing up, you read me the Ugly Duckling. And for years I believed that was me. For so long you taught me I was nothing more than a bad copy of the standard (men).

Yasmin Mogahed

“Dear France: Forcing women to dress how YOU want...how are you different than the Taliban?

Yasmin Mogahed

“Fifty years ago, society told us that men were superior because they left the home to work in factories. We were mothers. And yet, we were told that it was women’s liberation to abandon the raising of another human being in order to work on a machine. We accepted that working in a factory was superior to raising the foundation of society—just because a man did it.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The purposeful nuance and spectrum of God-created emotions have been bullied by the only 'acceptable' one: happiness.

Yasmin Mogahed

“They want you to smile. No matter what you're feeling inside, they just want you to smile.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't you think there's a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman's greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?

Yasmin Mogahed

“The modern world promotes the pathological pursuit of physical pleasure; Islam promotes prayer, perspicuity, purity, peace and purpose.

Yasir Qadhi

“The worst poverty is the poverty of ignorance.

Yasir Qadhi

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