Quotes on Muslim

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.

Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.

As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.

Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?

If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

I did not come into Parliament to be a Muslim MP. And I have never set myself up as a Muslim spokesperson or community leader. Just as ordinary citizens have multiple identities, so do MPs.

Too often, when Muslim women speak out, some in our 'community' accuse us of 'making our men look bad' and of giving ammunition to right-wing Islamophobes.

My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.

If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.

Justice is the most important thing. In a plural society like Malaysia, you cannot have two laws - one law for the Muslim, one law for the non-Muslim.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.