#slam

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men. ↗

— Yasmin Mogahed

#modesty #purpose #women #men

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful. ↗

— Umera Ahmed

#islam #pain #peer-e-kamil #spiritual #sword

Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to be grateful to Him, and to worship Him alone. ↗

— Fazlur Rahman

#nature

It is unworthy of a Muslim to injure people's reputation; it is unworthy to curse anyone; it is unworthy to abuse anyone; and it is unworthy of a Muslim to talk vainly. ↗

— Anonymous

#islam #muslim #prophet-muhammad #islam

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#religion

Kita butuh Islam ramah bukan Islam marah ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#indonesia #islam #nu #islam

اذا كان الانسان مع الله كان الله معه وأرسل له عند الحاجة علامات تدل على ذلك. ↗

— Malcolm X

#god #islam #malcom-x #religion #signs

إن عبادة الإله الواحد وحدها ستقرب الانسان من السلام الذي يتكلم عليه الجميع ولايفعل أحد شيئاً لتحقيقه. ↗

— Malcolm X

#god #human #islam #malcom-x #peace

Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in Kashmir, or the woes of the Chechens and Kosovars. But the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about 'the West,' to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by Falwell and Robertson, and exhibits about the same intellectual content. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#falwell #islamism #jihad #masochism #pat-robertson

Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of debt, so must he ‘repay’ with himself, so must he ‘return’ himself to Him Who owns him absolutely. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#islam #religion