Islam quotations

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◆ Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.

- Muhammad Asad-???? ???99

◆ Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

- 99

◆ Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali99

◆ Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

- Umera Ahmed99

◆ They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau99

◆ Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

- Muhammad Ali Jinnah99

◆ None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself

- Prophet mohammed99

◆ It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

- Noam Chomsky99

◆ Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali99

◆ As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali99

◆ We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

- Anonymous99

◆ 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.

- Hasan Al-Basri99

◆ I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

- Said Nurs?99