Israel Quotes by Muhammad Asad

11 Israel quotes by Muhammad Asad

Muhammad Asad shares eleven short remarks on Israel, each carrying his scholarly tone. This compact set offers a quick window into his nuanced view of the region.

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It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

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If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass…

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...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

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By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral…

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We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the…

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“...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow…

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I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the…

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Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other;…

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So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy…

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I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it…

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It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a…

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...all the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves…

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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…

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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…

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The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all…

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We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts…

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...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How…

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Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

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If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man…

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...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

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...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small...

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We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of…

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“Konačno, to je pitanje ljubavi, a ljubav je složena od brojnih stvari: naših želja i naše usamljenosti, naših uzvišenih ciljeva i naših mana, naše…

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By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for…

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If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to…

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