“The Average Occidental- be he a democrat or a Fascist, a Capitalist or a Bolshevik, a manual worker or an intellectual- knows only one positive "religion", and that is the worship of material progress, the belief that there is no… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
...all the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy their self-confidence… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Every age requires a new approach to the Qur’an for the simple reason that the Quran is made for all ages. It is our duty to look for deeper meanings in the Quran in order to increase our knowledge and experience. The Quran wants your intellect to be always active and trying to approach the message of God. God himself… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his ethical thought and all his concepts of morality; not the outcome of primitive credulity which a more "enlightened" age could outgrow, but the only answer to a real, basic need of man at all times… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share
It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a position to show that our ideology is vital enough to withstand the pressure of the changing times, and to decided in what way the fact of our being Muslims will affect the course of our lives: in other… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share
We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence. — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged. — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small... — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
