Dr. Mustafa Mahmud Quotes

“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

“I do not believe that circumstances can truly force us to do to actions that go against our consciences.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“The true name of the chronic disease that has come to have a thousand and one names such as ulcers, ulcerative colitis, gout, diabetes, high blood pressure, liver disease, angina, insomnia and anxiety, is "the city".

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“The Shariah [Islamic law] will not come on the back of tanks. The virtues cannot be created by force and nobleness and honor cannot be created through fear. The Shariah is mercy and affection and there are no tools to achieve it except mercy and affection.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“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

“A good society is not made up of a group of zeroes, but a group of people, and a little individualism is necessary for men to be distinguishable from animals, and for society to be distinguishable from a herd.

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

“Political Islam is an invitation and an intimation whose goal is to reach the general public and wants to impart the Islamic program in all its attributes and expanse and openness to the average Muslims who think that Islam is nothing other than prayer and fasting. We say to them that it is a way of life, a way of behavior, knowledge, action, noble principles, mercy, justice, kindness toward the weak, help toward the poor, council among the rulers and the participation of the people in decision-making.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“Humans can increase their degree of freedom through knowledge. Abu Hamid al-Ghazali says: "Man has choice in what he knows and is choice-less and externally controlled in what he doesn't know", which means that whenever his knowledge expands, his freedom increases.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“No group should claim that it alone conforms to Islam's fundamentals and that it alone possesses perfect Islam and the final word on every issue. Every group should listen to the rest with open hearts, without firing bullets, and without throwing accusations, and without nullifying each other's opinions.

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

“God created us to give to us, not to take away from us.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“Worship of God begins only with knowledge of God and His infinitely high status. And knowledge of God starts with knowledge of the ego and its infinitely low status.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“Your vehicle to God is your prayer mat. The only safe spot on this ruined earth is the prayer mat.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“If you do not know God except during good times, then you do not worship Him, you worship yourself.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“Israel without American and European support is like a fetus whose umblical cord is cut, for it has no power of its own, rather its power is borrowed, and Israel without Arab division loses its future.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“Leave your self behind. Leave your worries, leave your knowledge, leave your work, leave your name behind. Leave all the appearances of this material world. What do you end up with? Your desire becomes God, your goal becomes God, your worry becomes God, your remembrance becomes God, your speech becomes God, and your thought becomes God.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

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