Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
There is one thing only which a Muslim can profitably learn from the west, the exact sciences in their pure and applied form. Only natural sciences and mathematics should be taught in Muslim schools, while tuition of European philosophy, literature and history should lose the position of primacy which today it holds on the curriculum.
_ أغاية الدين أن تحفّو شواربكم ؟ يا أمة ضحكت من جهلها الأمم.
Kedua matanya baru saja terbuka dari tidur yang lelap. Pandangannya tertuju pada sang suami yang sudah terbangun, dengan tangan dan wajah yang telah terbasuh. Lelaki bergelar Al-Amin itu sedang menyisir rambut di depan kaca yang tertempel di tembok samping tempat tidur mereka. Bersih. Al-Amin adalah orang yang sangat menjaga kebersihan.
Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On the other hand, He may Allow you to fall into disobedience which happens to lead you to the right path. DISOBEDIENCE that teaches you HUMILITY is better than PIETY that fills you with VANITY and ARROGANCE.
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.
Ya Rasulullaah, apa yang menghalangi tuan? Demi Allah, aku tidak meninggalkan satu majelis pun dimana aku pernah duduk di sana dalam keadaan kafir, kecuali aku datangi untuk kemudian aku tunjukkan di sana ke-Islam-anku tanpa rasa khawatir dan takut.Bisakah kita tidak menyembah Allah secara sembunyi-sembunyi lagi...?"-Umar bin Khattab ra
Veoma je čudan i besmislen čovjek koji, kada vidi svoje nedostatke, ne učini istigfar, koji sa SubhanAllah ne obznani savršena djela svojega Gospodara, koji naspram Njegove veličine ne kaže Allahu ekber i ne ode na rukju da mu se predano pomoli i koji mu na Njegove blagodati ne zahvaljuje sa Elhamdullilah.
Because Muhammad is considered Allah's final prophet and the Quran the eternal, unalterable words of Allah himself, there is also no evolving morality that permits the modification or integration of Islamic morality with that from other sources. The entire Islamic moral universe devolves solely from the life and teachings of Muhammad.
Dass du dir einen Unwissenden, der mit sich selbst unzufrieden ist, zum Freund nimmst, ist besser für dich, als einen Gelehrten anzufreunden, der mit sich selbst zufrieden ist. Also, welches Unwissen besitzt ein Unwissender, der mit sich selbst unzufrieden ist und welches Wissen besitzt ein Gelehrter, der mit sich selbst zufrieden ist.
Ponašaj se prema ovome svijetu kao prema svojoj sjeni. Budeš li pokušao uhvatiti je, umorit ćeš se i nećeš uspjeti. Na kraju će te poslati u kabur neispunjenih želja i planova. A ako joj okreneš leđa, vidjet ćeš da će ići za tobom, da će te pratiti.
To hold that the Qur’ān believes in an absolute determinism of human behavior, denying free choice on man's part, is not only to deny almost the entire content of theQu r’ān, but to undercut its very basis: the Qur’ān by its own claim is an invitation to man to come to the right path (hudan lil-nās).
the essence of the Hajj is Arafat. Onthe ninth day of the Hajj month all pilgrims gather on the great Plain of Arafat to offer their deepestheartfelt prayers. It’s a reminder of Resurrection, when everyone will stand “naked” before God onJudgement Day and nothing counts but our actions and their effects upon our soul’.
Islam menolak secara total penerapan apapun dari konsep-konsep sekular, sekularisasi atau sekularisme atas dirinya, kerana semuanya itu bukanlah milik Islam dan asing baginya dalam segala segi. Konsep-konsep tersebut merupakan milik dan hanya wajar dalam konteks sejarah intelektual Kristen-Barat, baik pengalaman maupun kesedaran keagamaannya.
