"...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very……" — Muhammad Asad
"...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 potentialities of Muhammad's message by the yardstick of present-day Muslim life and thought - just as he [Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi] said, 'it would be erroneous to see in the Christians' unloving behavior toward one another a refutation of Christ's message of love...'"
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19 Quotes by Muhammad Asad
Muhammad Asad has 19 quotes on this site.
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...all the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of…
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The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the…
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If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they…
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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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...all cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small...
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It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be…
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If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes…
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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…
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I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans…
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But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his…
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I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad…
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Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.
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