Islamic Quotes · Page 26

Saying that the origin of the Islamic State (IS) is within the Muslim Brotherhood organisation only strengthens IS. This is what the…

— Tariq Ramadan

Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most…

— Muhammad

There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit…

— Hamza Yusuf

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now…

— Robert Novak

Women's position includes so many pre-Islamic customs that have become an integral part of the Shariat. I am fighting that. Triple talaq…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

I've had two fatwas issued against me by despot mullahs opposed to education - and important to know that the great majority…

— Greg Mortenson

From the standpoint of a Middle Eastern citizen, Americans look like a bully forcing our way of life on the Islamic way…

— John Updike

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning…

— George Bernard Shaw

I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by…

— Daniel Pipes

There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways…

— Mark Durie

Bush equals Clinton equals Bush equals Obama equals Clinton. It's the same policies...immigration policies that may turn us into Europe, where hordes…

— Roger Stone

“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering.…

— Anonymous

The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves.…

— Pat Robertson

Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she continues to support immigration policies…

— Donald Trump

One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates…

— David Miliband

If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him. If you seek Him, you are absent from Him. If you seek other-than-Him,…

— Ibn Ata Allah

The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other…

— Sadakat Kadri

The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

There's crucial distinction that has to be drawn between the Shari'a, which is this hugely expansive vision of cosmic order that I've…

— Sadakat Kadri

“Prior to modern times, the term 'Islamic' (Islami in Arabic) was almost never used to define the provenance, status, or substance of…

— Sherman A. Jackson

The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America and, indeed, with its…

— Anonymous

By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate…

— John Bagot Glubb

I'm proud to say you are not a racist or a bigot or anything like that if you say that the Netherlands,…

— Geert Wilders

In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was…

— Richard Engel

And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge…

— Al-Shafi‘i

The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all…

— Ellen Willis

Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the…

— Peter Adamson

For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to…

— Tony Shafrazi

Eventhough you are not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. Whoever you see engaged in search,…

— Rumi

Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to…

— Donald Trump

When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and…

— Garry Kasparov

The key to me, in religion, is just to treat it like it doesn't really matter. We have a Pope, we don't…

— Bill Maher

I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by…

— Khaled Hosseini

Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the…

— Edwin A. Locke

Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history…

— I. M. Pei

These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on…

— Thomas Carlyle