Muhammad Asad Quotes

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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 up…
• 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…
• ...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the…
• If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western…
• It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.
• ...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small...
• 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…
• If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in…
• 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…
• 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…
• But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?
• I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of…
• Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.
• 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…
• For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the…
• Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous…
• ...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult…
• We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the…
• We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are…

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