Islam Quotes

You can be prosecuted if you tell the truth about Islam.

Erdogan wants an old-fashioned Islam, if you will, for lack of a better term.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.

The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But, he had a guide; Gabriel, the angel, was his guide. He took him to heaven.

Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.

The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent

Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France's future in any way.

ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.

They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

Islam developed in opposition to orthodox Christianity from the very start, and it considers itself superior to Christianity. So far, it has only been tolerant in places where it is in the minority.

Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.

One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world.

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.

Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial

Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.

Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.

To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.

Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect.

Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.

بحكم المنطق الداخلي للأشياء يتوازى كل من التطور و الحضارةو العلم والطوبيا مع الإلحاد، بينما يتوازى الخلق والثقافة و الفن و الأخلاق مع الدين.

Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny

Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

What has he found who has lost God?And what has he lost who has found God?

No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.