#slam

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life." ↗

— R. Bosworth Smith

#islam #religion #truth #life

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#god #government #holy-book #islam #muslim

Is there not one thing in your life that was worth losing everything for?" "You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us, there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place... While you, like the wind... Will never know yours! ↗

— Sean Connery as El-Raisuli the Magnificent

#life

The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century. ↗

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#islamic #persia #philosophy #life

Umar ibn Abdil-’Aziz (rahimahullah) said: “Become a scholar if you are able. If you are not able, then be a student. If you can not, then show love for them. If you are unable to do that, then (at least) do not hate them. ↗

— Umar ibn Abdil-’Aziz

#love

أَحْبِبْ مَنْ شِئْتَ فَإِنَّكَ مُفَارِقُهُ Love who you may please, but you will be separated from them ↗

— Anonymous

#love

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

— Ramsey Clark

#islam #kindness #love #peace #religion

This idea (Taqwa)can be effectively conveyed by the term "conscience," if the object of conscience transcends it. This is why it is proper to say that "conscience" is truly as central to Islam as love is to Christianity when one speaks of the human response to the ultimate reality—which, therefore, is conceived in Islam as merciful justice rather than fatherhood. Taqwā, then, in the context of our argument, means to be squarely anchored within the moral tensions, the "limits of God," and not to "transgress" or violate the balance of those tensions or limits. Human conduct then becomes endowed with that quality which renders it "service to God [‘ibāda]. ↗

— Fazlur Rahman

#love

لا فرق بين عربي و لا أعجمي و لا أبيض ولا أسود إلا بالتقوى There is no difference between the black, white, the Arab, the non-Arab except by the level of piety. ↗

— Prophet Muhammad

#black-people #islam #islamic-quotes #love #peace

While Westerners still often see the veil as a symbol of women's inferior status in the Muslim world, to Muslims, Western women's perceived lack of modesty signals their degraded cultural status in the West. In both cases, the assumption is that women are either covering or uncovering to please or obey men. (p. 109-110) ↗

— John L. Esposito Dalia Mogahed

#women #women-s-rights #men