Quotes by Muhammad Asad

Muhammad Asad

…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 it is for us to attain to reality… We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.

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

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

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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 to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them.

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Waiting

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

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Ifs

Men

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 that appearance.

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Views

West

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 to look for deeper meanings in the Quran in order to increase our knowledge and experience. The Quran wants your intellect to be always active and trying to approach the message of God. God himself dedicated this book to people who think.

Book

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Thinking

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 urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth.

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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 attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.

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People

Strong

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Quotes by Muhammad Asad

Muhammad Asad

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

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

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 to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

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 that appearance.

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 attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial.

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