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“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

“Work and strive toward God by seeking knowledge, not by growing beards, shortening garments, wearing sandals and obsessing over appearances and secondary things, for the first verse that was revealed of your Book was: "Read!"

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“In recent times, the "complete" Muslim is sometimes considered to be the one who dedicates himself solely to worship and doesn't engage in anything else, staying in his place of prayer and not leaving it, keeping to the required dhikrs and wirds (prayer words). This image is absolutely unlike the image of the life of the Prophet and his companions who followed him. While worship was a part of the book of their lives, struggle for the sake of Allah filled its pages, struggle for freeing society from false beliefs and superstitions, struggle for establishing correct beliefs, freeing it from oppressors and tyrants, protecting the weak and establishing justice among people.

Similarly, the life of a Muslim who dedicates himself solely to struggle and social activism, if it lacks worship and a deep connection to Allah, is lacking and malformed in comparison to the picture of a wholesome Islamic way of life.

Muhammad al-Mubarak (d. 1981)

“The people of Iraq are asking (me) about house flies (whether killing them is allowed in Islam), when they have killed the grandson of the Prophet [referring to al-Husain's death].

Abdullah ibn `Umar

“One of the criteria that we should refer to when deciding what is most deserving of attention and most deserving of prioritizing over other things: Giving something exactly the importance that the Quran gives to it.

Thus we should give priority to those things that it repeats in its chapters and verses, those that it stresses in its commandments and promises. We should give these things our full attention and base our lives upon them.

Of these things are, for example, faith in Allah, His revelations, the Afterlife and what it contains of reward and punishment.

As for the things that the Quran doesn't consider important, we should give them the same amount of importance and we should not exaggerate them, for example the night journey of the Prophet ﷺ, to which the Quran dedicates only one verse, as opposed to the campaigns and battles to which the Quran dedicates entire chapters.

And when it comes to the mawlid [birth] of the Prophet, the Quran does not give it any attention whatsoever, showing us that it is not a matter of importance in the Islamic life, for, unlike the birth of the Christ, there are no miracles related to it, and there are no deeds or acts of worship that are based upon it.

Thus the Quran is a criterion that never errs, for it is the pillar of the nation, the foundation of the religion, and the spring from which Islam flows. The hadith [Prophetic traditions and sayings] are only there to explain and elucidate it.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi
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