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The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8) ↗

— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#patience #qur-an #islam

لهذا يثني الله - عز وجل - على الذين ينفقون أموالهم سرّاً وعلانية ، فإذا كان السر أصلح وأنفع للقلب وأخشع وأشد إنابة إلى الله أسرُّوا ، وإذا كان في الإعلان مصلحة للإسلام بظهور شرائعه ، وللمسلمين يقتدون بهذا الفاعل وهذا العامل أعلنوه . والمؤمن ينظر ما هو الأصلح ، كلما كان أصلح وأنفع في العبادة فهو أكمل وأفضل ↗

— محمد صالح العثيمين

#islam

It is He Who sent down to thee, in truth, the Book (Quran), confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (Quran) (of judgment between right and wrong). - Holy Quran 3:3 ↗

— Anonymous

#islam #jesus #moses #muhammad #quran

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#islam

Kebaikan itu semuanya terhimpun dalam 4 perkara : percakapan, diam, pandangan dan gerak." Tiap-tiap percakapan yang tidak disertai dengan mengingati Allah adalah sia-sia. Tiap-tiap diam yang tidak disertai dengan mengingati Allah adalah leka. Tiap-tiap pandangan yang tidak disertai dengan pengambilan iktibar adalah lalai. Tiap-tiap gerak yang tidak disertai dengan penghambaan adalah kosong. ↗

— Saidina Ali bin Abi Talib

#islam

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sleep

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep ↗

— Albert Camus

#lecture #philosophy #sleep #sleep

Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#damaged #lifestyle

In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#defiance #good-will #magnaminity #peace #resolution

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat's main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when Abu Nidal asked me if I would like to be trained in one of his camps. No thanks, I explained. From this awkward beginning there was a further decline. I was then asked if I knew Said Hammami, the envoy of the PLO in London. I did in fact know him. He was a brave and decent man, who in a series of articles in the London Times had floated the first-ever trial balloon for a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. 'Well tell him he is a traitor,' barked my host. 'And tell him we have only one way with those who betray us.' The rest of the interview passed as so many Middle Eastern interviews do: too many small cups of coffee served with too much fuss; too many unemployed heavies standing about with nothing to do and nobody to do it with; too much ugly furniture, too many too-bright electric lights; and much too much faux bonhomie. The only political fact I could winnow, from Abu Nidal's vainglorious claims to control X number of 'fighters' in Y number of countries, was that he admired the People's Republic of China for not recognizing the State of Israel. I forget how I got out of his office. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arafat #china #interviews #iraq #israel