Muhammad Asad Quotes

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow to the very existence of Islam as an ideological proposition.

If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him