#slam

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#answers #born #christianity #embraced #failed

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#came #commercialization #defense #defense mechanism #i

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#breathe #could #culture #develop #find

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#development #equality #guard #islamic #justice

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes. ↗

— Ayatollah Khamenei

#atmosphere #cast #causes #constitution #free

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems. ↗

— Aly Khan

#burdens #force #fortunately #historians #historic

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law. ↗

— Aly Khan

#basic #basis #built #centuries #developed

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion. ↗

— Aly Khan

#against #apparent #christianity #closer #come

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West. ↗

— Aly Khan

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