Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Scheuer

You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.

Naguib Mahfouz

I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

Naguib Mahfouz

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Pope Paul VI

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

Omar Suleiman

Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah.

Pablo Picasso

If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

Ismail Haniyeh

Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.

Idi Amin

I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

The space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Every day of Ramadhan Allah beautifies Jannah and says: "Soon my righteous servants will finish their work and will rest in you." On the last night of Ramadan Allah forgives the sins of His servants.' They asked: 'Is the last night Lailatul Qadr?' He said: 'No, but the worker is paid when he finishes his work.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.

A space in Paradise equivalent to the size of a foot would be better than the world and what is in it.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor, & should entertain his guest generously.

Verily, God is Compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what He does not give to the harsh.

Who is the most favored of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

Conduct yourself in this world as if you are here to stay forever, and yet prepare for eternity as if you are to die tomorrow.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

The most miserable man in the world of those meant for Paradise will be dipped once in Paradise. Then he will be asked, "Son of Adam, did you ever face any misery? Did you ever experience any hardship?" So he will say, "No, by God, O Lord! I never faced any misery, and I never experienced any hardship."

Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.

In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

Rand Paul

Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos.

Rand Paul

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

Rand Paul

I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow.