islam

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.

Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.

The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.

The Qur___ began by criticizing two closely related aspects of that society: the polytheism or multiplicity of gods which was symptomatic of the segmentation of society, and the gross socioeconomic disparities that equally rested on and perpetuated a pernicious divisiveness of mankind. The two are obverse and converse of the same coin: only God can ensure the essential unity of the human race as His creation, His subjects, and those responsible finally to Him alone. The economic disparities were most persistently criticized, because they were the most difficult to remedy and were at the hear of social discord__lthough tribal rivalries, with their multiple entanglements of alliance, enmity, and vengeance, were no less serious, and the welding of these tribes into a political unity was an imperative need. Certain abuses of girls, orphans, and women, and the institution of slavery demanded desperate reform.

The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur___ assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqw_): The reason the Qur___ emphasizes essential human equality is that the kind of vicious superiority which certain members of this species assert over others is unique among all animals. This is where human reason appears in its most perverted forms.

The purpose of man's creation is that he do good in the world, not substitutehimself for God and think that he can make and unmake the moral law at his ownconvenience and for his own selfish and narrow ends. This is the difference betweenphysical laws and the moral law__he one is to be used and put to service; the othermust be obeyed and served. For God says

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

People belittle or ignore or even rebel against God, because they view theprocesses of nature as having self-sufficient causes, normally regarded by them asultimate. They do not realize that the universe is a sign pointing to something"beyond" itself, something without which the universe, with all its natural causes,would be and could be nothing.

How could you determine a man's intention if you didn't speak his language or share his beliefs? She'd happily embarked on a study of ancient Egyptian religion but had no curiosity about Islam, which seemed an amalgam of oddities and borrowings. She felt with conviction what she'd written home more than once--that Egypt would be an exquisite country if not for the Egyptians who lived there.

The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator.

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!

Muslims in the West and those in other intellectually free societies will be in a position to contribute to Islamic thought more so than those who are based in repressive environments where censorship and restriction on freedom still dominate thinking. The future development of Islamic thought may depend to a certain extent on the degree of intellectual freedom in Muslim societies.

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.When you see people, you sympathize their existence.

The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in its __lamboyant_ style, Islamic art is contemplative rather than volitive: it is __ntellectual_ and not __ramatic_, and it opposes the cold beauty of geometrical design to the mystical heroism of cathedrals. Islam is the perspective of __mnipresence_ (__od is everywhere_), which coincides with that of __imultaneity_ (__ruth has always been_); it aims at avoiding any __articularization_ or __ondensation_, any __nique fact_ in time and space, although as a religion it necessarily includes an aspect of __nique fact_, without which it would be ineffective or even absurd. In other words Islam aims at what is __verywhere center_, and this is why, symbolically speaking, it replaces the cross with the cube or the woven fabric: it __ecentralizes_ and __niversalizes_ to the greatest possible extent, in the realm of art as in that of doctrine; it is opposed to any individualist mode and hence to any __ersonalist_ mysticism. To express ourselves in geometrical terms, we could say that a point which seeks to be unique, and which thus becomes an absolute center, appears to Islam__n art as in theology__s a usurpation of the divine absoluteness and therefore as an __ssociation_ (shirk); there is only one single center, God, whence the prohibition against __entralizing_ images, especially statues; even the Prophet, the human center of the tradition, has no right to a __hristic uniqueness_ and is __ecentralized_ by the series of other Prophets; the same is true of Islam__r the Koran__hich is similarly integrated in a universal __abric_ and a cosmic __hythm_, having been preceded by other religions__r other __ooks___hich it merely restores. The Kaaba, center of the Muslim world, becomes space as soon as one is inside the building: the ritual direction of prayer is then projected toward the four cardinal points.If Christianity is like a central fire, Islam on the contrary resembles a blanket of snow, at once unifying and leveling and having its center everywhere.

The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.

If Allah has willed it that way... He must have better plans for you child...

Sufis are keys to open up hearts.

God was inviting me to go on Hajj, but before that I needed to settle my debts. Muslims may only embark on their pilgrimage if they are debt-free or at least have made an arrangement for repayment.