Islamic Scholars

"Saleh further said that enslaving and raping Israeli women is ‘acceptable’ and ‘encouraged’ in Islam. She also condemned Muslim men who are using East Asian women for sexual relationships. She said that only legitimately-owned slaves come from prisoners of war. After Saleh’s interview went viral on social media, Muslim community denounced the claims made by the professor and said that she is propagating a wrong image of Islam."

"The prophet whose teachings are fountainhead of temperateness, moderation, mediation and justice; a group claiming to excessively love the same prophet feels proud in intemperance, stubbornness and excess and paucity."

"In the eyes of Islam, the highest and best Jihad is the declaration of the word of truth in front of the tyrant king, the reason for this is that in Jihad with the sword there is still the possibility that the Mujahid will dominate the enemy and his life will remain safe. But the habit of proclaiming the word of truth in front of a cruel and oppressive king is such that the truth has to be washed away with its own life. The history of Islam is rich with such faith-building incidents of sacrifices and sacrifices."

"I developed enthusiasm for Dīn - of which tahajjud is one branch."

"Energizing one's intellect and disposition is not the way to success. The kindness of the Master cannot be achieved without humility."

"The primary purpose of Tasawwuf is the reformation of the actions of the heart."

"Scholars are much needed as they are the backbone of religion. Scholars are more needed than Saints otherwise no one would know the religious ordinances and limits."

"People are excessively obsessed with dreams. Their concern for things which they dream is greater than their concern for things which effect them during their state of wakefulness. How confused are they!"

"To assume a task beyond one’s capability is not proper for a Mu’min. The consequence will be failure, disgrace, worry, and shame. Frustration will then overtake one."

"Knowledge prevents one from going astray because of the realization of the truth. This in itself is a great treasure."

"Keep intellect above your habits, and Shari'ah above your intellect."

"Saints (Sufis) are like elder brothers and Senior scholars (Fuqaha) are like father in respect."

"The reality of character is that we must not cause any form of difficulty and inconvenience to anyone, outwardly or inwardly, in his presence or in his absence."

"Mosques are not places for mundane activities. Mosques are erected purely for the remembrance and worship of Allah."

"If by practicing on any form of piety, someone’s heart will be broken, then practice on the fatwa (verdict of the scholars). At such occasions, to protect one’ piety is not permissible e.g. If, in accepting any gift, there is disgrace for you and honour for your brother, then give preference to his honour over yours."

"Remembrance creates and strengthens a special bond between man and His Creator."

"Lowering oneself, which is called Tawaadhu’ (humilty), is a great and valuable asset. To achieve this quality, many of the servants of Allah abandoned their kingdom and empire. They didn’t care in the least what people thought of them. Surely, humility must then be a much-prized quality so that people gave it preference to it over the entire world!"

"The seeking of wealth for a valid reasons is exhorted and is full of significance. Lawful wealth too plays its part in the acquisition of peace of mind, which is an end desired by the religion."

"The enthusiasm which I had for debating in my young days is now replaced by as much aversion for it because of its harms."

"A scholar is an adherent of the Sunnah."

"Without the head, man is a dead body. So too, without prayers, all other acts of worship are lifeless."

"If a sin is committed here, the burden is felt in Madinah; because do you not know that the Master is grieved by your wrongdoing?"

"Is there any shortage in Allah's Court? Ask Allah, ask over and over again, Allah is pleased by this!"

"The more a servant makes Dhikr of Allah, the more his heart becomes pure, and as the heart becomes pure, impure thoughts immediately begin to leave Until they eventually disappear."

"The love of Ahl al-Bayt is our life. The love of Sahaba is our glory. The love of the Holy Prophet is our faith. We can't leave life, can't leave glory, can't leave faith. This is the Sunni creed, remember it."

"If from a person's mouth comes a downpour of thorns, from yours should come the petals of a rose."

"We are the obstacles on our own path; if we were to change, we could change the world."

"Terrorism is terrorism, violence is violence and it has no place in Islamic teaching and no justification can be provided for it, or any kind of excuses or ifs or buts."

"It may be instructive to recall that his father, Shāh‘Abdul Raḥīm, could have been his role model in the matter of writing letters to powerful princes to undertake jihad. For it was the pater familias who wrote a letter to Mīr Qamar al-Dīn Khān Ṣiddīqī popularly known as Āṣaf Jāh (1671–1748), the pioneer of the Deccan based state whose rulers were called Niẓāms, exhorting him to undertake jihad to weaken the infidels. ‘Abdul Raḥīm begins his letter with the assertion that it has already been decided that the infidels (kuffār) will be defeated and humiliated and if Āṣaf Jāh wants to take credit for this he should defeat them. He ends on the mystical note that ‘things said even with confidantes in secret are being revealed here on the tip of the pen so that no excuse should remain’."

"May God revenge the atrocities of the Sikhs and the Marathās, A painful revenge and very soon They (both) have killed a large number of people, And have committed atrocities even against the illiterate shepherds."

"‘Abdul ‘Azīz did write an exegesis of the Qur’an in Persian but the part of it which survives does not cover the crucial verses about jihad. His religious edicts (fatāwā) do, however, constitute a landmark development in the way discourses about jihad shaped up in South Asia till independence. Moreover, his letters, like those of his father’s, also provide insights into how he reacted to the loss of Muslim political power in the colonial era. ... His work represents a compromise between confrontation and accommodation of British power in India."

"I salute you for your courage, bravery and decades of sacrifice. As an unarmed group with science and technology not at your side, you have ousted the most advanced forces from your region. It will now bring an era of peace for Afghanistan and the region."

"You don't realise that losing the presidency for me is nothing ... I regret more the fact that I lost 27 recordings of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony."

"On being appointed president: "This is an ideal team. The president can't see and the vice president can't talk.""

"There is no power worth defending by bloodshed of the people."

"He is a righteous man, famous among Maghrebians for religion and knowledge, and upon him the smelting of ascets and their tranquility"

"They adopted al-Matiti and al-Zawawi ***** as well as Ibn Sahl for every Zawi"

"The Koran cannot be translated. That is the belief of old-fashioned Sheykhs and the view of the present writer. The Book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Koran, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Koran – and peradventure something of the charm – in English. It can never take the place of the Koran in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so."

"The sectarianization of Bahrain’s domestic conflict, and its hypersensitivity to Iranian interference in its affairs, mean that Qatar’s pragmatic relationship with Iran is far more likely to hold the key to Manama’s concerns."

"For centuries, scholars from the four different schools of Islam had taught in the Holy Mosque and crowds of students had traveled from near and far to gather in halaqas, circles of study, around their preferred teachers. The faithful prayed, at slightly different times, behind their imams; there was a prayer station for each school: Shafi’i, Maliki, Hanafi, and Hanbali. When King Abdelaziz took control of Mecca in 1924, the Wahhabi clerics objected to the arrangement that had prevailed so far in the Holy Mosque. If the community of Muslims was one, and the call to prayer was one, why not pray behind one imam? The Wahhabi clerics won the debate, thereby dealing themselves all the power. But there was no rotation or compromise: the sole imam who would lead all five daily prayers in the Holy Mosque came from Wahhabi circles, with all that that entailed in puritanical intolerance. The number of halaqas dwindled rapidly, from several hundred to around thirty-five in the late 1970s. The Sufi sheikh that Sami had consulted that first day of the Mecca attack, Mohammad Alawi al-Maliki, was still drawing crowds, lecturing in his corner of the courtyard of the Holy Mosque, on the chair he had inherited from his father in 1971, the chair that been passed through generations. But few others were able to resist the onslaught of Wahhabi zeal. Harmony could be brought back, Sami thought, only if diversity was allowed to thrive again in the House of God. But this was not how the Al-Sauds would proceed. That was not the deal they had cut with Bin Baz to save their throne."

"My eyes never saw anyone better than Ahmad bin Hanbal, and I have never seen anyone among the scholars of Hadith who shows more respect for the sacred limits of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet (Muhammad), if (a report) if proven to be Saheeh. And I have never seen anyone more keen to follow (the Sunnah) than him."

"Say to the followers of innovation (Bidʻah): the judge between us and you is the day of funerals."

"There is no choice but the Sunnah and following it. And analogy should only be based on comparing something to an established principle (a precedent from the time of the Prophet Muhammad). But to come to the principle and demolish it and then say this is by analogy - on what basis are you making your analogy?"

"If Zoroastrian and idolatrous women are taken prisoner, they are coerced into Islam; if they embrace it, sexual relations with them are permissible and they can (also) be used as maidservants. If they do not embrace Islam, they are used as maidservants but not for sexual relations."

"If my soul were in my hands, I would have released it."

"'If the scholars remains silent the grounds of dissimulation (Taqiyah), and the ignorant do not know, when will the truth be manifested?'"

"How would anyone be whose Lord is demanding that he carry out the obligatory duties, and his Prophet (Muhammad) is demanding that he follow the Sunnah), and th two angels (Kiraman Katibin) are demanding that he mend his ways, and his Nafs is demanding that he follow its whims and desires, and Iblīs is demanding that he commit immoral actions, and the angel of death (Azrael) is watching and waiting to take his soul, and his dependents are demanding that he spend on their maintenance?"

"The mysteries of Oneness of Being are remarkable. They are known by the dealers of unity who behold the real Sinai Flash in each and every existent."

"O Farid ! Friend is not hidden; everywhere He is openly manifest. Darkness is all pervaise Light. Only it has been named differently."

"Beauty and ugliness are manifestations of the self-The lovely colorless is in each color."