#islam

Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#politics #religion #religion

Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so-called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair-minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity's own traditions of holy war and 'texts of terror.' Like Hinduism's Mahabharata epic, the Bible devotes entire books to war and rumors thereof. Unlike the Quran, however, it contains hardly any rules for how to conduct a just war. ↗

— Stephen R. Prothero

#christianity #hinduism #holy-war #islam #mahabharata

ما شبهت الشباب إلا بشيء كان في كمي ثم سقط ↗

— الامام أحمد بن حنبل

#فقه-اسلامي #religion

Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will. ↗

— Timothy J. Winter

#spirituality-religion #death

To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no clear social program that realistically could be implemented (215). ↗

— Manning Marable

#design

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr. ↗

— Anonymous

#book #education #ink #inspirational #islam

He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. ↗

— Rev. B. Margoliouth

#everyone #fact #freedom #guidance #islam

So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT ↗

— Yasmin Mogahed

#inspirational #islamic-quotes #experience

بحكم المنطق الداخلي للأشياء يتوازى كل من التطور و الحضارةو العلم والطوبيا مع الإلحاد، بينما يتوازى الخلق والثقافة و الفن و الأخلاق مع الدين. ↗

— علي عزت بيجوفيتش

#faith #islam #religion #faith

To consider Western science simply as a continuation of Islamic science is, therefore, to misunderstand completely both the epistemological foundations of the two sciences and the relationship that each has to the world of faith and revelation. It is also to misunderstand the metaphysical and philosophical backgrounds of the two sciences. ↗

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#western-science #faith