Islamic Quotes - Page 25

• Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

  Ahmad Thomson

  Wisdom, Heart, Illumination

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• Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Soul

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• Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Self, Easy

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• Glory is for none but the learned,
  Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance.
  Every person is measured based on how much of it (knowledge) he mastered,
  The ignorant are to the learned their enemies,
  Succeed with knowledge and live energetically forever,
  Men are all dead, only the possessors of knowledge are truly alive

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Men, Forever

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• If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

  Hakim ibn Hizam

  Wisdom, Honour You, Ignorant

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• Beware of the flight of Blessings,
  For nothing that runs away is returned.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Running, Wisdom, Blessing

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• O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Wisdom, Fall, People

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• Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Piercings, Spoken Word

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• The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Light, Darkness

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• Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Mistake, Lessons, Used

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• Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

  Ralph Peters

  Zero, Extravagant, Radius

  "When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Philosophy, Teaching, Istanbul

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 9, 2012.

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• Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Poverty, Mass, Wells

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence

  Michael Medved

  Israel, Flourishing, Existence

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 20, 2012.

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• As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Numbers, Europe

  "A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway". Article by Patrick J. Buchanan, www.theamericanconservative.com. July 25, 2011.

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• The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Church, Littles, Fields

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• We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Religious, Zero, Profound

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• Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

  Peter Thiel

  Running, Fun, Moon

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-and-mosque-establishment efforts throughout the Central Asian region and the Balkans?

  Sibel Edmonds

  War, Government, Organization

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• Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

  Azar Nafisi

  Sex, Republic, Loathe

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.329, Random House

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• For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

  Azar Nafisi

  Struggle, Iran, Years

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• I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

  Azar Nafisi

  Iran, Years, Degrees

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• I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

  Azar Nafisi

  People, Age, Culture

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• In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

  Azar Nafisi

  Past, Years, Rights

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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