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It is often said that Islam is an egalitarian religion. There is much truth in this assertion. If we compare Islam at the time of its advent with the societies that surrounded it—the stratified feudalism of Iran and the caste system of India to the east, the privileged aristocracies of both Byzantine and Latin Europe to the west—the Islamic dispensation does indeed bring a message of equality. Not only does Islam not endorse such systems of social differentiation; it explicitly and resolutely rejects them. The actions and utterances of the Prophet, the honored precedents of the early rulers of Islam as preserved by tradition, are overwhelmingly against privilege by descent, by birth, by status, by wealth, or even by race, and insist that rank and honor are determined only by piety and merit in Islam.

It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in) as the defining center of life that Iranians find living in a society with such stringent rules of public behavior somewhat tolerable. Iranian society by and large cares very little about what goes on in the homes and gardens of private citizens, but the Islamic government cares very much how its citizens behave once they venture outside their walls.

It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.

It is simply impossible for "refugees" to check their Islamism at the door.

It is when things are at their worst that Allah will raise the best generation. The generation that the Prophet would be told Sahabat should look up to. So maybe the fact that you are living in the darkest of time means that Allah thinks you can be the strongest source of light. Allah thinks you -- you -- were born for this time. That's Allah's decision. Which means you have something significant to offer the world. You have some serious trees to plant. And you have to not get overwhelmed with the news around you. Even if dajjal is tapping you on the shoulders. Say (to Dajjal), "Hold on, I'm planting a tree". You do what you gotta do. You gotta focus.

It must be constantly remembered that the Qu r’ān is not just descriptive but is primarily prescriptive. Both the content of its message and the power of the form in which it is conveyed are designed not so much to "inform" men in any ordinary sense of the word as to change their character. The psychological impact and the moral import of its statements, therefore, have a primary role. Phrases like "God has sealed their hearts, blinded their eyes, deafened them to truth” in the Qur’ān do have a descriptive meaning in terms of the psychological processes described earlier; but even more primarily in such contexts, they have a definite psychological intention: to change the ways of men in the right direction.

It's ironic when black non-Muslims say Islam is not a religion that uplifts black people when two of the most celebrated black heroes in recent history were both Muslim; Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali.

It’s never easy to stand when the storm hits. And that’s exactly the point. By sending the wind, He brings us to our knees: the perfect position to pray.

It's not about country, it's about feeling at home inside yourself. It's not about culture its about sympathizing with our forefather Adam by connecting with our brothers/sisters in humanity to help us return to what he lost, all life is longing for the only source that can never run out or reach a threshold, God.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention the vast numbers of Europeans also enslaved in centuries past in the Islamic world and within Europe itself. At least a million Europeans were enslaved by North African pirates alone from 1500 to 1800, and some Europeans slaves were still being sold on the auction blocks in the Egypt, years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed blacks in the United States.

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

It’s time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.

It was clear to me by now that studying Islam was one thing – and absolutely worthwhile, because it helped me grasp the meaning of the religion and how it all fitted together. However, I felt as though I was standing in front of a shop window full of lovely things, and all I could do was admire them from afar. I was still separated from them by the window, or, as Muslims might say, a veil. In order to lift this veil, there was only one way forward: to get down onto the prayer mat and start living according to Islamic principles.

It was inevitable, as soon as legends of miracles became attached to the names of the great mystics, that the credulous masses should applaud imposture more than true devotion; the cult of the saints, against which orthodox Islam ineffectually protested, promoted ignorance and superstition, and confounded charlatanry with lofty speculation. To live scandalously, to act impudently, to speak unintelligibly—this was the easy highroad to fame, wealth, and power.

Mahatma Gandhi was as devout a Rambhakt as you can get — he died from a Hindu assassin’s bullet with the words “Hé Ram” on his lips — but he always said that for him, Ram and Rahim were the same deity, and that if Hinduism ever taught hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, “it is doomed to destruction.

I want you and your generation to know that repentance should not be self-torture. Regret should not overwhelm you and force you into another form of intensity. Intensity distorts reality. And Islam in its essence is against the distortions of intensity.

I was enraged by these heinous acts of barbarism - enraged that people who called themselves Muslims could launch an unprovoked attack on Christians or foreigners, enraged that through their vile acts these terrorists were perverting our faith, which tells us that Christians are among the "people of the Book", that we should show discernment when fighting for the cause of God and not fight those who have not harmed us, that murder and suicide are grievous sins.

I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur’an, something troubled in me became still.

Literature is called adabiyat in Islam precisely because it is seen as the keeper of a civilization and the collector of teachings and statements that educate the self and society with adab such that both are elevated to the rank of the cultured man (insan adabi) and society.

Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself.

Maka kuhimbau saudara saudaraku muslimin yang kumuliakan, hati yang jernih menerima hal hal baru yang baik adalah hati yang sehati dengan Abubakar shiddiq ra, hati Umar bin Khattab ra, hati Zeyd bin haritsah ra, hati para sahabat, yaitu hati yang dijernihkan Allah swt. Dan curigalah pada dirimu bila kau temukan dirimu mengingkari hal ini, maka barangkali hatimu belum dijernihkan Allah, karena tak mau sependapat dengan mereka, belum setuju dengan pendapat mereka, masih menolak bid’ah hasanah, dan Rasul saw sudah mengingatkanmu bahwa akan terjadi banyak ikhtilaf, dan peganglah perbuatanku dan perbuatan khulafa’urrasyidin, gigit dengan geraham yang maksudnya berpeganglah erat erat pada tuntunanku dan tuntunan mereka. Allah menjernihkan sanubariku dan sanubari kalian hingga sehati dan sependapat dengan Abubakar Asshiddiq ra, Umar bin Khattab ra, Utsman bin Affan ra, Ali bin Abi Thalib kw dan seluruh sahabat.. amiin

Manuscripts - at least for Muslims who understand the subject - are to be read as books whose contents are to be known and understood, for that is why they were written, and not to be regarded as enigmatic specimens for critical textual and philological exercises. To them what is in the manuscripts is more important than what is on them, and so they say: Al-'ilmu fi'l-sudur la fi'l-sutur.

Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most of Southern England. One of the most remarkable extantfrom King Offa's reign is a gold coin that is kept in the British Museum. On one side, it carries the inscription Offa Rex (Offa the King). But, turn it over and you are in for a surprise, for in badly copied Arabic are the words La Illaha Illa Allah ('There is no god but Allah alone'). This coin is a copy of an Abbasid dinarfrom the reign of Al-Mansur, dating to 773, and was most probably used by Anglo-Saxon traders. It would have been known even in Anglo-Saxon England that Islamic gold dinars were the most important coinage in the world at that time and Offa's coin looked enough like the original that it would have been readily accepted abroad.

Many people are born into their religion. For them it is mostly a matter of legacy and convenience. Their belief is based on faith, not just in the teachings of the religion but also in the acceptance of that religion from their family and culture. For the person who converts, it is a matter of fierce conviction and defiance. Our belief is based on a combination of faith and logic because we need a powerful reason to abandon the traditions of our families and community to embrace beliefs foreign to both. Conversion is a risky business because it can result in losing family, friends and community support.

It would be facile, even exculpatory, to call the problem of the Islamic State 'a problem with Islam.' The religion allows many interpretations, and Islamic State supporters are morally on the hook for the one they choose. And yet simply denouncing the Islamic State as un-Islamic can be counterproductive, especially if those who hear the message have read the holy texts and seen the endorsement of many of the caliphate’s practices written plainly within them.

I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I haven't done it now to sound as though I might be proud of how bad, how evil, I was. But people are always speculating-why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. Today, when everything that I do has an urgency, I would not spend one hour in the preparation of a book which had the ambition to perhaps titillate some readers. But I am spending many hours because the full story is the best way that I know to have it seen, and understood, that I had sunk to the very bottom of the American white man's society when-soon now, in prison-I found Allah and the religion of Islam and it completely transformed my life.

I was against the Iraq war I was against the Afghan war I was against bombing Libya and Syria but to be quite honest and with a heavy heart because more innocent people are gonna be killed....We have to step in and help wipeout ISIS!

Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

Maaf yang selalu tertunda, tergantung antara urat jantung dengan denyut nafas.

Man schreibt das Jahr 1000. Soeben hat in Bagdad der Buchhändler Ibn an-Nadim seinen „Katalog der Wissenschaften“ veröffentlicht. Das Werk enthält in zehn Bänden die Titel aller bisher in arabischer Sprache erschienenen Bücher aus Philosophie, Astronomie, Mathematik, Physik, Chemie, Medizin. Studierende aus allen Gegenden des Orients und selbst aus dem Okzident lockt der Ruf von Cordobas hohen Schulen und von seiner Bibliothek, deren halbe Million Bücher einer der gelehrtesten Männer seiner Zeit, der vor vierundzwanzig Jahren verstorbene Kalif al-Hakam II. durch Dutzende von Aufkäufern gesammelt und größtenteils mit seinen Randbemerkungen versehen hat. In Kairo betreuen mehrere hundert Bibliothekare in den beiden kalifischen Bibliotheken zusammen zwei Millionen zweihundert Bände; das entspricht dem Zwanzigfachen des Bestandes an Buchrollen der einstigen Bibliothek von Alexandrien. „Es ist notorisch, daß es in Rom niemand gibt, der so viel Bildung besitzt, daß er sich zum Türsteher eignet. Mit welcher Stirn kann der sich anmaßen zu lehren, der selbst nichts gelernt hat!“ stöhnt der Mann, der am besten wissen muß, Gerbert von Aurillac, der im letzten der tausend Jahre nach Christo – 999 – selber in Rom den Stuhl Petri besteigt. In diesem Jahr verfaßt Abulkasis das durch Jahrhunderte gültige Standardwerk der Chirugie, erörtert Albiruni, an universaler Geistigkeit der Aristoteles der Araber, die Drehung der Erde um die Sonne, entdeckt Alhazen die Gesetze des Sehens und experimentiert mit der camera obscura und mit sphärischen, zylindrischen und konischen Spiegeln und Linsen. In diesem Jahr, in dem die arabische Welt dem Scheitelpunkt ihres goldenen Zeitalters entgegeneilt, erwartet das Abendland erschreckt, geängstigt das Ende der Zeiten. Mit dem ekstatischen Ausruf: „Jetzt kommt Christus, mit Feuer das Weltall zu richten!“ pilgert der zwanzigjährige Kaiserjüngling Otto III. „wegen begangener Verbrechen der strengen Regel des heiligen Romualdus gehorchend mit nackten Füßen von der Stadt Rom zum Berge Garganus“. Und der junge Avicenna, eben zwanzigjährig wie er, beginnt die Welt mit seinem weithin strahlenden Ruhm zu erfüllen.

Manusia ini kuat, tapi nafsu mampu menundukkannya. Nafsu itu kuat, tapi iman mampu menundukkannya.

Many Islamic clerks are spreading the discourse of violence and the spirit of hatred; then they object on the actions of ISIS! They are producing ISIS generation by another, throughout their discourse and curricula.

Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incites abuse of women, that this is just a terrible misunderstanding. Men all over the world beat their women, I am constantly informed. In reality, these Westerners are the ones who misunderstand Islam. The Quaran mandates these punishments. It gives a legitimate basis for abuse, so that the perpetrators feel no shame and are not hounded by their conscience of their community. I wanted my art exhibit to make it difficult for people to look away from this problem. I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that "Islam is peace and tolerance.

Mary peace be upon her the Choosen and the Pure women of the Whorld the Honor Women the Chapter 19 of QURAN named by her names Mary Maryam in Arabic : "[Mention, O Muhammad], when the wife of 'Imran said, "My Lord, indeed I have pledged to You what is in my womb, consecrated [for Your service], so accept this from me. Indeed, You are the Hearing, the Knowing." But when she delivered her, she said, "My Lord, I have delivered a female." And Allah was most knowing of what she delivered, "And the male is not like the female. And I have named her Mary, and I seek refuge for her in You and [for] her descendants from Satan, the expelled [from the mercy of Allah ]." So her Lord accepted her with good acceptance and caused her to grow in a good manner and put her in the care of Zechariah. Every time Zechariah entered upon her in the prayer chamber, he found with her provision. He said, "O Mary, from where is this [coming] to you?" She said, "It is from Allah . Indeed, Allah provides for whom He wills without account." Quran Family of Imran 3 : 35-37.

Mekanisme syukur itulah yang membuat orang akan semakin dimudahkan.

Melalui kajian dan penyelidikan pengajian tingginya, Barat mendidik kaum terpelajar dunia Islam dan Timur sama ada dari segi ekonomi, sains dan teknologi, pentadbiran awam, sosiologi, falsafah mahupun agama. Secara yang cukup licik, Barat secara senyap-senyap menyusup di semua kedudukan dan jawatan strategis dunia melalui saluran pemikiran, ilmu dan pendidikan. Justeru idea dan pengaruh Barat menjadi satu cabaran amat besar terhadap bangsa-bangsa yang lain. Cabaran ilmu dan pengetahuan ini hanya mampu dipecahkan sekiranya kita memiliki universiti-universiti sendiri yang sekali gus bercirikan Islam dan moden.

Men learn wisdom from their sins, not from their righteous deeds.

Menyerang gadis pakai kerudung tidak terus berarti modern, membela atheism tidak terus berarti modern, dan sebaliknya

Misticizam nema nikakve veze sa postizanjem moci da se upoznaju nevidljive stvari, da se prave cuda, da se namece volja drugim ljudima pomocu misterioznih psihickih sredstava. On takoder nema ništa zajednickog sa asketizmom, mucenjem samoga sebe, zatvaranjem u samostan, meditacijama i osjecajima koji slijede iz isposništva (koji mogu biti pokatkada sredstvo ali nikada cilj), niti sa nekim vrstama vjerovanja u Božije Bice (panteizam i druga). On takoder nema ništa zajednicko sa tvrdnjama nekih šarlatana da je mistik iznad islamskog zakona i potrebnog minimuma islamskih dužnosti. U nedostatku boljeg izraza, može se reci da je misticizam metoda najboljeg licnog ponašanja: nacin na koji se postiže kontrola nad samim sobom, iskrenost, ostvarenje stalnoga prisustva Boga u našim djelima, napor da volimo Boga, sve više i više.

Mit der Dialogfähigkeit ist es nicht nötig, vom Bewährten abzurücken, gleichwohl es zur Stunde an allen Glaubensvertretern ist, der herben Enttäuschung ihrer Anhänger Halt zu gebieten und die verlorenen Schafe wieder in den Schoß ihrer Gemeinden zurückzuholen, in anderen Worten Religion als Marktmodell des Nutzens zu begreifen.

Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler of a great Empire. He was a man of spotless character who always had confidence in himself and in God's help. No aspect of his life remained hidden nor was his death a mysterious event.

Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice.

Muhammad is the greatest man that history ever knew

Mükemmel bir sistem olan İslamiyet kaşanesinin, bütününü açıklamaksızın bir tek yapı taşının vücud-ı hikmetini izah etmek güç, hatta imkansız.

Mülk O'nun olduğu halde, biz mülk kaygısındayız. Ölümü O var ettiği halde, biz yok yere yok etmeye çalışıyoruz ölümü. Hayatı O var ettiği halde, biz boş yere kendi omuzlarımıza yük ediyoruz yaşamayı. "Daha çok.. Daha da çok..." telaşıyla ayaklarımızı prangalıyoruz. Rızkımızı bize garanti ettiği halde sürekli rızık peşinde koşturuyoruz. Akıbetimizi garanti etmediği halde, akıbetimiz garantiymiş gibi endişesiz ve telaşsız oturuyoruz.

Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women’s rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity.

Muslims can say that slavery is not legitimate now, and that crucifixion is wrong at this historical juncture. Many say precisely this. But they cannot condemn slavery or crucifixion outright without contradicting the Koran and the example of the Prophet. 'The only principled ground that the Islamic State’s opponents could take is to say that certain core texts and traditional teachings of Islam are no longer valid,' Bernard Haykel says. That really would be an act of apostasy.

Muslim identity and thought in Nigeria derive from the Sufi brotherhoods of Qadiriyya and Tijaniyya, primarily as a result of the historical role of the Kanem-Borno and Sokoto caliphates in the spread of Islam. The Sufi orders and the Izalatul Bidi’a wa Ikhamatis Sunnah (People Committed to the Removal of Innovations in Islam; hereafter Izala) are the two dominant contemporary Muslim foci of identity. The disdain towards and fear of boko (Western education) arose from its historically close association with the colonial state and Christian missionaries. This also suited colonial educational policy well, as the British had no intention of widespread education anyway. The aim of colonial education, particularly in northern Nigeria, was to maintain the existing status quo by “imparting some literacy to the aristocratic class, to the exclusion of the commoner classes” (Tukur 1979: 866). By the 1930s, colonial education had produced a limited cadre of Western-educated elite, who were conscious of their education and were yearning to play a role in society. Mainly children of the aristocratic class, the type of education they received was “different from the traditional education in their various societies, and this by itself was enough to mark them out as a group” (Kwanashie 2002: 50). This new education enabled them to climb the social and economic ladder over and above their peers who had a different kind of education, Quranic education. This was the origin of the animosity and distrust between the traditionally educated and Western-educated elite in northern Nigeria. Though subordinate to the Europeans, these educated elite were perceived as collaborators by their Arabic-educated fellows. Thus the antagonism towards Western education continues in many northern Nigerian communities, which have defied government campaigns for school enrollment to this day.

Muslims pursued knowledge to the edges of the earth. Al-Biruni, the central Asian polymath, is arguably the world's first anthropologist. The great linguists of Iraq and Persia laid the foundations a thousand years ago for subjects only now coming to the forefront in language studies. Ibn Khaldun, who is considered the first true scientific historian, argued hundreds of years ago that history should be based upon facts and not myths or superstitions. The great psychologists of Islam known as the Sufis wrote treatise after treatise that rival the most advanced texts today on human psychology. The great ethicists and exegetes of Islam's past left tomes that fill countless shelves in the great libraries of the world, and many more of their texts remain in manuscript form. In the foreword of "Being Muslim. A Practical Guide" by Dr. Asad Tarsin.