Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

Every age requires a new approach to the Qur’an for the simple reason that the Quran is made for all ages. It…

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

“History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of…

— Muhammad Asad

“The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous errors if left entirely to…

— Muhammad Asad

“The Average Occidental- be he a democrat or a Fascist, a Capitalist or a Bolshevik, a manual worker or an intellectual- knows…

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

“While I thus cogitate in disquiet and perplexity, half submerged in dark waters of a well in an Arabian oasis, I suddenly…

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than…

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad

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

— Muhammad Asad