Quotes About Islam

Even more important, Islam holds that the universe is inherently irrational—that there is no cause and effect—because everything happens as the direct result of Allah's will at that particular time. Anything is possible. Attempts at science, then, are not only foolish but also blasphemous, in that they imply limits to Allah's power and authority.53 Therefore, Muslim scholars study law (what does Allah require?), not science.

Some Islamic scholars explain these injunctions by saying that they apply only when war is initiated by the infidels, or when Muslims are persecuted, or when Islam itself is threatened. The Quran, these thinkers point out, also bids the Muslims to "fight in the way of God against those who fight against you, and be not aggressive; surely God loves not the aggressors

Qutb hävdar att liv utan islam är slaveri; därför kan verklig frihet inte uppnås förrän jahiliyya har utplånats. Det är endast när människans styre har utrotats och sharia har införts som det inte kommer att finnas något tvång i religionen, för det finns bara ett val: islam.

The struggle of Islam, as Qutb had framed it, and as Azzam deeply believed, was against jahiliya -- the world of unbelief that had existed before Islam, which was still corrupting and undermining the faithful with the lures of materialism, secularism, and sexual equality.

Alone, alienated, and often far from his family, the exile turned to the mosque, where he found companionship and the consolation of religion. Islam provided the element of commonality. It was more than a faith -- it was an identity.

Islam is essentially a system of trying to please God, and yet nobody can have confidence that they've done enough to warrant paradise

Perhaps the bazaar looks disorganized to you, but it works for us. Perhaps Islam looks fanatical to you, but it provides us with the means to survive the harshness of this life and prepare us for a better life hereafter.

We once again man the barricades -- alone. Berated by our smug, so-called allies, of the Western Democracies. Islam is going to turn this world inside out before this century is out and you'd better have enough guts to deal with it.

[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.

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.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.

The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.

As I read the Qur'an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

Ash hadu an laa ilaaha illallaah he had written: There is no God but Allah wa ash hadu anna Muhammadan rasool-ullaah: And Muhammad is his Messenger. It was the Muslim shah?dah, their most profound statement of faith. In some sects the recitation of this phrase was the first of the Five Pillars of Islam and was the only formal step required for non-Muslims to convert into the religion.

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty—to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies. It is your battle—either victory or martyrdom." ?—Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas

The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is a nicety invented by Western politicians so as either not to offend their Muslim populations or simply lie to themselves that everything might yet turn out fine. In fact, since its beginning Islam has been pretty violent.

Efforts to silence the people who raised their voice – whether through violence, intimidation or the courts – meant that three decades after the Rushdie affair there was almost no one in Europe who would dare write a novel, compose a piece of music or even draw an image that might risk Muslim anger. Indeed, they ran in the other direction. Politicians and almost everybody else went out of their way to show how much they admired Islam.

By 2015 more British Muslims were fighting for Isis than for the British armed forces.

Charles Martel's victory at the Battle of Tours in 732 is recognised for having prevented the spread of Islam throughout Europe.

But under President Obama, as much as under his predecessor, the continuing call to celebrate Islam rather than any other religion – like Christianity, say – is especially ongoing.

The new Labour Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, said that it would be wrong to describe such attacks as 'Islamic terrorism' because these terrorists were in fact behaving contrary to their faith. Henceforth, she said, it would be more appropriate to describe such events as 'anti-Islamic activity'.