The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.
MuhammadRead
Love for one's country is part of faith.
Interpretation
Loving your country is an essential aspect of being faithful.
This quote by Muhammad highlights the intrinsic connection between patriotism and faith. It suggests that true belief encompasses a deep affection for one's homeland, emphasizing that loyalty to one's country is not merely a duty but an integral part of one's spiritual or moral beliefs.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about national pride on Independence Day.
The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.
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.
In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.
It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.
There will be no hatred or resentment among them, their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify God, morning and evening.
The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism.
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.
But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]
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