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 the imitation of outward appearance leads,by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam—only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some… — 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… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a position to… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
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
