Muhammad Asad Short Quotes

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It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

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The ideology of Islam is as practicable or as impracticable as we Muslims choose to make it.

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

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Human ingenuity has not evolved a better method for corporate decisions than the majority principle.

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Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

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If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

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Jew or Arab. Both here are brimming over with an intolerant hatred that leads them nowhere. Each side says to the other: You do not belong here.

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Some Muslim scholars argue that the concept of Democracy is not compatible with the concept of an Islamic state. But of course it is and the Quran outlines the essence of Democracy.

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The Law-Giver meant us Muslims to provide for the necessary, additional legislation through the exercise of our Ijtihad (Independent Reasoning) in consonance with the spirit of Islam.

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It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with my interpretations, even the classical Quran commentators disagreed on many details. Disagreement deepens our understanding of the Quran.

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Our reason tells us that a community based on ideas held in common is a far more advanced manifestation of human life than a community resulting from race or language or geographical location.

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There can be not the least doubt that an Islamic constitution to be evolved thirteen centuries after the Right-Guided Caliphs may legitimately differ from that which was valid in and for their time.

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