Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.

Ich sehe Deine Schönheit ganz,schließ ich die Augen mein,Und schließ' den Mund ich, trinke ichnur immer Deinen Wein.Verboten gilt mir das Gesprächmit Menschen in der Welt -Doch wenn von Dir gesprochen wird:lang wird mein Wort dann sein!

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation.

O Allah, You know me better than I know myself, and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than what they think of me, and forgive those sins of mine of which they have no knowledge, and do not hold me responsible for what they say.

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.

Ibn Mas'ud reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Shall I tell you who is unlawful for the Fire - or the one for whom the Fire is unlawful? It is unlawful for everyone who is easy, flexible, modest and uncomplicated.

Purify your intentions, your inner being, your heart and besincere in your actions,’ he wrote. ‘God looks into your heart, not at your outer form. He looks atwhat lies behind the clothes … He looks into your private sphere, not at your public show.

در غم ما روزها بی گاه شدروزها با سوزها همراه شد

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.

We need to track back ISIS ideology to its origins, so as to pull it up by its roots. Then, and only then, we can establish a whole new understanding of the righteous religion rather than mere individuals’ interpretations that satisfy clerks desires and fantasies.

Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "I have left two things with you. As long as you hold fast to them, you will not go astray. They are the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet.

Memang saya hidup, beribadah dan belajar ajaran-ajaran mazhab Sunni, namun tidak pernah sedikitpun terbersit di hati untuk menjadikan Sunni sebagai agama. Agama saya tetap Islam. Dan bisakah kita berpegangan pada berpedoman bangsa kita, “Bhineka Tunggal Islam”?

If you want to give the entire Muslim Ummah a legacy of the Prophet's ways, teach them to understand every verse in the Holy Quran without hatred but likened to the love of the Prophet who never lost his compassion even if he was the victim of injustice and oppression.

As we have seen in the data, resentment against the West comes from what Muslims perceive as the West's hatred and denigration of Islam; the Western belief that Arabs and Muslims are inferior,; and their fear of Western intervention, domination, or occupation. (p. 141)

By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads,by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.