(38) There is no hindrance for the Prophet with respect to what God has ordained and made lawful for him. This was God’s way with those (Prophets) who passed before. The command of God is a decree determined (in due measures for every thing, event and individual). (39) (The Prophets are those) who convey God’s Messages and feel great awe of Him; and they hold none but God in awe. God suffices as One Who reckons and settles the accounts (of His servants). (40) O believers, (know) that Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the Messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets. God has full knowledge of everything. Read More »
“Seek out Laylatul-Qadr (Night of Power) from the days of Ramadan… it is better then a thousand months… something happens within you that changes you for the rest of your life, that’s the sign of Laylatul-Qadr that can not be duplicated.”
“The best thing one could do is to get rid of the outward things that are unbecoming and unbefitting for the Divine presence and work on the supreme name until the absence from oneself is realized…”
“Qur’an is essentially telling us is that creation is a sign, the whole of existance is a sign…we’re given the tools… we need to decode the signs” (Hamza Yusuf)
“Islamic revivalism can be interpreted as the second intervention of Islam in trying to bring Western civilization into balance. When Europe of the middle ages preoccupied with a religious supremacy which even ruled over reason and science, it was Islam which introduced Greek rationalism and science into Europe…Islam gave the west through its Arabian universities much of the source material of the enlightenment which made the west what it now is. Today Islam is trying to reintroduce the idea of Holy into a western society…” (Thomas Cleary quotes from a British Economy Magazine)
“Eisenhower said: Preventive war is an invention of Hitler, frankly,
I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing”
“Wars are started by few and suffered by many… Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” Read More »