Quotes About Islam

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.

Islam will win with or without you, but without islam you will get lost and lose

Personality cults are an insult to Islam.

The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian practice. Islam doesn't really have a place for state. They are a universalistic faith like Christianity, but they think there is no country that bounds Islam.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

The Muslims are, as a group, attacking people because under the Quran, there is the house of Islam, and outside of it, there's the house of war.

General Zia-ul-Haq, a dictator and unscrupulous political actor, used Islam as a pretext for waging war in Afghanistan and adopting an aggressive stance towards India. By advancing a more orthodox version of Islam, he was able to hold on to a repressive regime and quell any opposition.

We are not insisting on planting trees just because of global warming. Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam insist on the necessity of trees. Especially in Hinduism, the peepal tree is worshiped as Lord Ganesha while neem is worshiped as a goddess.

Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.

Iqbal, using Urdu and also Persian, would be the poet of Islam rather than of India.

Despite a common adherence to Islam, Punjabi Muslims did not join the Afghans in their battles against the Sikhs.

Khafi Khan would record that no Sikh prisoner accepted Islam to save his life.

Gandhi was a great man but he failed to understand two things: the value of the sword, and the danger from Islam.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

About then I remembered I was a hungover Jew who was now on drugs at a mosque in a place where the only law was Islam.

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

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

The separation of "church and state" of which America is so proud was established in Islam fourteen centuries ago, when it was decided that no Caliph would have religious authority over the community.

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its "false idols." It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols—bigotry and fanaticism—worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it. 1

However, because the Ulama have tended to regard Islamic practice as informing Islamic theology, orthopraxy and orthodoxy are intimately bound together in Islam, meaning questions of theology, or kalam, are impossible to separate from questions of law, or fiqh.

874 The occultation of the Twelfth Imam, or the Mahdi