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object:1.047 - Muhammad
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In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.

1. Those who disbelieve and repel from the path of God—He nullifies their works.

2. While those who believe, and work righteousness, and believe in what was sent down to Muhammad—and it is the truth from their Lord—He remits their sins, and relieves their concerns.

3. That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehoods, while those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. God thus cites for the people their examples.

4. When you encounter those who disbelieve, strike at their necks. Then, when you have routed them, bind them firmly. Then, either release them by grace, or by ransom, until war lays down its burdens. Had God willed, He could have defeated them Himself, but He thus tests some of you by means of others. As for those who are killed in the way of God, He will not let their deeds go to waste.

5. He will guide them, and will improve their state of mind.

6. And will admit them into Paradise, which He has identified for them.

7. O you who believe! If you support God, He will support you, and will strengthen your foothold.

8. But as for those who disbelieve, for them is perdition, and He will waste their deeds.

9. That is because they hated what God revealed, so He nullified their deeds.

10. Have they not journeyed through the earth and seen the consequences for those before them? God poured destruction upon them, and for the unbelievers is something comparable.

11. That is because God is the Master of those who believe, while the disbelievers have no master.

12. God will admit those who believe and do good deeds into gardens beneath which rivers flow. As for those who disbelieve, they enjoy themselves, and eat as cattle eat, and the Fire will be their dwelling.

13. How many a town was more powerful than your town which evicted you? We destroyed them, and there was no helper for them.

14. Is he who stands upon evidence from his Lord, like someone whose evil deed is made to appear good to him? And they follow their own desires?

15. The likeness of the Garden promised to the righteous: in it are rivers of pure water, and rivers of milk forever fresh, and rivers of wine delightful to the drinkers, and rivers of strained honey. And therein they will have of every fruit, and forgiveness from their Lord. Like one abiding in the Fire forever, and are given to drink boiling water, that cuts-up their bowels?

16. Among them are those who listen to you, but when they leave your presence, they say to those given knowledge, “What did he say just now?” Those are they whose hearts God has sealed, and they follow their own desires.

17. As for those who are guided, He increases them in guidance, and He has granted them their righteousness.

18. Are they just waiting until the Hour comes to them suddenly? Its tokens have already come. But how will they be reminded when it has come to them?

19. Know that there is no god but God, and ask forgiveness for your sin, and for the believing men and believing women. God knows your movements, and your resting-place.

20. Those who believe say, “If only a chapter is sent down.” Yet when a decisive chapter is sent down, and fighting is mentioned in it, you see those in whose hearts is sickness looking at you with the look of someone fainting at death. So woe to them!

21. Obedience and upright speech. Then, when the matter is settled, being true to God would have been better for them.

22. If you turn away, you are likely to make mischief on earth, and sever your family ties.

23. Those are they whom God has cursed. He made them deaf, and blinded their sight.

24. Will they not ponder the Quran? Or are there locks upon their hearts?

25. Those who reverted after the guidance became clear to them—Satan has enticed them, and has given them latitude.

26. That is because they said to those who hated what God has revealed, “We will obey you in certain matters.” But God knows their secret thoughts.

27. How about when the angels take them at death, beating their faces and their backs?

28. That is because they pursued what displeases God, and they disliked His approval, so He nullified their works.

29. Do those in whose hearts is sickness think that God will not expose their malice?

30. Had We willed, We could have shown them to you, and you would have recognized them by their marks. Yet you will recognize them by their tone of speech. And God knows your actions.

31. We will certainly test you, until We know those among you who strive, and those who are steadfast, and We will test your reactions.

32. Those who disbelieve, and hinder from the path of God, and oppose the Messenger after guidance has become clear to them—they will not hurt God in the least, but He will nullify their deeds.

33. O you who believe! Obey God, and obey the Messenger, and do not let your deeds go to waste.

34. Those who disbelieve, and hinder from God’s path, and then die as disbelievers—God will not forgive them.

35. So do not waver and call for peace while you have the upper hand. God is with you, and He will not waste your efforts.

36. The life of this world is nothing but play and pastime. But if you have faith and lead a righteous life, He will grant you your rewards, and He will not ask you for your possessions.

37. Were He to ask you for it, and press you, you would become tightfisted, and He would expose your unwillingness.

38. Here you are, being called to spend in the cause of God. Among you are those who withhold; but whoever withholds is withholding against his own soul. God is the Rich, while you are the needy. And if you turn away, He will replace you with another people, and they will not be like you


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   1 Tom Butler-Bowdon
   1 The Prophet Muhammad in Qushayri: al-Risalat al-Qushayriyy
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   1 Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi
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   1 Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him)
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   1 IbnArabi
   1 Hadith
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   1 ?

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  580 Muhammad Ali
  202 Muhammad Yunus
  103 Muhammad Iqbal
   65 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
   36 Muhammad Asad
   28 Elijah Muhammad
   24 Malcolm X
   18 Anonymous
   16 Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas
   16 Louis Farrakhan
   15 Nabeel Qureshi
   14 Michael Muhammad Knight
   13 Lesley Hazleton
   12 Khalil Gibran Muhammad
   12 Kaiylah Muhammad
   11 Mian Muhammad Mansha
   11 Ali Shaheed Muhammad
   10 Reza Aslan
   10 Khalid Muhammad
   9 Robert Spencer

1:and the Prophet Muhammad is Kamal [Perfection]." ~ IbnArabi, @Sufi_Path
2:Happiness stems from your relationship with Allah ~ Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, @Sufi_Path
3:By Allah, an hour of dhikr is better than the Dunia and what belongs to it. ~ Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi, @Sufi_Path
4:Whoever is saved on the day of rising should grab his brother's hand to save him too." ~ Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi, @Sufi_Path
5:As humans we make mistakes. The best of us are those who repent, reflect, make changes and better ourselves.. ~ Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi, @Sufi_Path
6:He is not from amongst us who doesnt show respect to the elderly and mercy to the youth. ~ Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him), @Sufi_Path
7:What appears bad to you, may bear a lot of good within it which you do not see. You never know until the end. ~ Shaykh Muhammad Al - Yaqoubi, @Sufi_Path
8:Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: "Al-Islam began peculiar and it will return to being strange as it began. So glad tidings to the strangers." - ~ Hadith, @Sufi_Path
9:Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ~ Muhammad Ali,
10:You will not be able to give anyone happiness by means of your wealth, so do it by means of a cheerful countenance and good humor. ~ The Prophet Muhammad in Qushayri: al-Risalat al-Qushayriyy, @Sufi_Path
11:To love one another is… half of wisdom. Grief… is half of old age." ~ Ali, (601 - 661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He ruled as the fourth caliph from 656 to 661, Wikipedia. Quote from "The Sufi Bible,", (latest ed. 2016). Trans. Paul Smith.,
12:The five daily prayers are supposed to purify us, but it doesn't do so with many of us because we treat it like a burden to be lifted off our shoulders, not a gift that we are presenting to our God. ~ Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi, @Sufi_Path
13:Its not good enough to be good on your own that not good enough,Islam doesn't want you to stop there,You have to be working towards the betterment of your entire societies.... ~ Shaykh Sayyid Muhammad bin Yahya Al Husayni An Ninowy, @Sufi_Path
14:In Bahaí belief, the Holy Spirit is the conduit through which the wisdom of God becomes directly associated with his messenger, and it has been described variously in different religions such as the burning bush to Moses, the sacred fire to Zoroaster, the dove to Jesus, the angel Gabriel to Muhammad, and the Maid of Heaven to Bahaullah.[14] The Bahaí view rejects the idea that the Holy Spirit is a partner to God in the Godhead, but rather is the pure essence of Gods attributes
   ~ ?,
15:reading :::
   50 Spiritual Classics: List of Books Covered:
   Muhammad Asad - The Road To Mecca (1954)
   St Augustine - Confessions (400)
   Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
   Black Elk Black - Elk Speaks (1932)
   Richard Maurice Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness (1901)
   Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics (1976)
   Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
   GK Chesterton - St Francis of Assisi (1922)
   Pema Chodron - The Places That Scare You (2001)
   Chuang Tzu - The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th century BCE)
   Ram Dass - Be Here Now (1971)
   Epictetus - Enchiridion (1st century)
   Mohandas Gandhi - An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927)
   Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness (1097)
   Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet (1923)
   GI Gurdjieff - Meetings With Remarkable Men (1960)
   Dag Hammarskjold - Markings (1963)
   Abraham Joshua Heschel - The Sabbath (1951)
   Hermann Hesse - Siddartha (1922)
   Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception (1954)
   William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
   Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1955)
   Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
   J Krishnamurti - Think On These Things (1964)
   CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (1942)
   Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)
   Daniel C Matt - The Essential Kabbalah (1994)
   Dan Millman - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1989)
   W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge (1944)
   Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975)
   Michael Newton - Journey of Souls (1994)
   John O'Donohue - Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (1998)
   Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
   James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy (1994)
   Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements (1997)
   Helen Schucman & William Thetford - A Course in Miracles (1976)
   Idries Shah - The Way of the Sufi (1968)
   Starhawk - The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979)
   Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970)
   Emanuel Swedenborg - Heaven and Hell (1758)
   Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle (1570)
   Mother Teresa - A Simple Path (1994)
   Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now (1998)
   Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973)
   Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations With God (1998)
   Rick Warren - The Purpose-Driven Life (2002)
   Simone Weil - Waiting For God (1979)
   Ken Wilber - A Theory of Everything (2000)
   Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi (1974)
   Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul (1990)
   ~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Spirital Classics (2017 Edition),

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
2:Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
3:The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove
4:Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove
5:When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove
6:Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
7:Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
8:Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
9:Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
10:Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove

*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***

1:I am the greatest. ~ Muhammad Ali,
2:Only the nose knows ~ Muhammad Ali,
3:Shikwaa
~ Allama Muhammad Iqbal,
4:I'm pretty as a girl. ~ Muhammad Ali,
5:I shook up the world. ~ Muhammad Ali,
6:Impossible is nothing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
7:Stay away from the ropes ~ Muhammad Ali,
8:Poverty is unnecessary. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
9:That all you got, George? ~ Muhammad Ali,
10:Bachaey Ki Duaa
~ Allama Muhammad Iqbal,
11:God says when. I execute. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
12:I'm most proud of my family. ~ Muhammad Ali,
13:Taraana-E-Milli
~ Allama Muhammad Iqbal,
14:God is not a dead equation! ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
15:What keeps me going is goals. ~ Muhammad Ali,
16:Who's gonna dare to be great? ~ Muhammad Ali,
17:Business money is limitless. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
18:He's too ugly to be the champ! ~ Muhammad Ali,
19:I'd like to live to a hundred. ~ Muhammad Ali,
20:I don't look like no kiwi bird ~ Muhammad Ali,
21:What keeps me going are goals. ~ Muhammad Ali,
22:Ahead Of The Stars
~ Allama Muhammad Iqbal,
23:All they need is opportunity. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
24:No nation respects a beggar. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
25:Shut up, I know what I'm doing! ~ Muhammad Ali,
26:The Age Of Infancy
~ Allama Muhammad Iqbal,
27:We can't be brave without fear. ~ Muhammad Ali,
28:Stumbling is the fruit of haste. ~ Muhammad Ali,
29:There live a great man named Joe ~ Muhammad Ali,
30:I'm so mean I make medicine sick! ~ Muhammad Ali,
31:Superman don't need no seat belt. ~ Muhammad Ali,
32:That computer was made in Alabama ~ Muhammad Ali,
33:The show was bad, but I was great ~ Muhammad Ali,
34:I’m gonna show you how great I am. ~ Muhammad Ali,
35:I'm the fastest thing on two feet. ~ Muhammad Ali,
36:Accept your own and be yourself! ~ Elijah Muhammad,
37:Whoever knows himself knows God. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
38:I'm personally not a Muhammad Ali fan. ~ Carl Froch,
39:That's okay, I'm still the Greatest. ~ Muhammad Ali,
40:The sun is always shining someplace. ~ Muhammad Ali,
41:I'm going to show you how great I am! ~ Muhammad Ali,
42:I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike! ~ Muhammad Ali,
43:I outwit them, and then I outhit them ~ Muhammad Ali,
44:The critics only made me work harder. ~ Muhammad Ali,
45:God works through people. It’s not me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
46:Some gems for the greatest of them all ~ Muhammad Ali,
47:To succeed,all I need to do is suffer. ~ Muhammad Ali,
48:Failure is a word unknown to me. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
49:Madness Of Love Is No More
~ Allama Muhammad Iqbal,
50:A man with no imaginations has no wings. ~ Muhammad Ali,
51:Human beings have enormous resilience. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
52:I'm the best. I just haven't played yet. ~ Muhammad Ali,
53:It's not bragging if you can back it up. ~ Muhammad Ali,
54:My definition of evil is unfriendliness. ~ Muhammad Ali,
55:My toughest opponent has always been me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
56:The one thing I don't understand is war. ~ Muhammad Ali,
57:We are stone enemies when the bell rings ~ Muhammad Ali,
58:Don't count the days, make the days count ~ Muhammad Ali,
59:Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ~ Muhammad Ali,
60:Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight ~ Muhammad Ali,
61:My toughest fight was with my first wife. ~ Muhammad Ali,
62:The man with no imagination has no wings. ~ Muhammad Ali,
63:The will must be stronger than the skill. ~ Muhammad Ali,
64:When my title was taken away boxing died. ~ Muhammad Ali,
65:Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. ~ Muhammad Ali,
66:Children make you want to start life over. ~ Muhammad Ali,
67:Don't Count the Days; Make the Days Count. ~ Muhammad Ali,
68:Don't count the days, make the days count. ~ Muhammad Ali,
69:Don’t count the days; make the days count. ~ Muhammad Ali,
70:I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven ~ Muhammad Ali,
71:I don't have to be what you want me to be. ~ Muhammad Ali,
72:Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion. ~ Muhammad Ali,
73:My main fight is for freedom and equality. ~ Muhammad Ali,
74:The man who has no imagination,has no wing ~ Muhammad Ali,
75:I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. ~ Muhammad Ali,
76:Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! ~ Muhammad Ali,
77:The world’s champ should be pretty like me! ~ Muhammad Ali,
78:Words, without power, is mere philosophy. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
79:Changes are products of intensive efforts. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
80:His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. ~ Muhammad Ali,
81:I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man. ~ Muhammad Ali,
82:I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. ~ Muhammad Ali,
83:I said I was the greatest, not the smartest. ~ Muhammad Ali,
84:I want to be the first black man on the moon ~ Muhammad Ali,
85:The man who has no imagination has no wings. ~ Muhammad Ali,
86:Asking good questions is half of learning. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
87:If you are not the best, then pretend you are ~ Muhammad Ali,
88:I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent ~ Muhammad Ali,
89:Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. ~ Muhammad Ali,
90:Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish ~ Muhammad Ali,
91:Old age is just a record of one's whole life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
92:What you're thinking is what you're becoming. ~ Muhammad Ali,
93:What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming. ~ Muhammad Ali,
94:Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder. ~ Muhammad Ali,
95:Dry-humping, I believe it's called. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
96:Expect the best, Prepare for the worst. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
97:Expect the best, prepare for the worst. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
98:If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad. ~ Muhammad Ali,
99:I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster. ~ Muhammad Ali,
100:I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw. ~ Muhammad Ali,
101:No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever! ~ Muhammad Ali,
102:Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering. ~ Muhammad Ali,
103:If Allah wants to send me a message, ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
104:I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches ~ Muhammad Ali,
105:It is absolutely certain that God does exist. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
106:Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight. ~ Muhammad Ali,
107:What you are thinking is what you are becoming. ~ Muhammad Ali,
108:Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is. ~ George Foreman,
109:I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty! ~ Muhammad Ali,
110:Most people don't pray until they're in trouble. ~ Muhammad Ali,
111:The one without dreams is the one without wings. ~ Muhammad Ali,
112:True giving happens when we give from our heart. ~ Muhammad Ali,
113:Everyone has a potential for greatness. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
114:Home is the place you can go when you're whipped. ~ Muhammad Ali,
115:People will know you’re serious when you produce. ~ Muhammad Ali,
116:The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter. ~ Muhammad Ali,
117:Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer ~ Muhammad Ali,
118:Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest. ~ Muhammad Ali,
119:Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty. ~ Muhammad Ali,
120:Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish. ~ Muhammad Ali,
121:Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer. ~ Muhammad Ali,
122:Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer. ~ Muhammad Ali,
123:I'm The Greatest, but only in relation to fighting. ~ Muhammad Ali,
124:Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news. ~ Muhammad Ali,
125:The crisis is the price for the capitalist system ~ Muhammad Yunus,
126:The more we help others, the more we help ourselves ~ Muhammad Ali,
127:Who would have thought when they came to the fight? ~ Muhammad Ali,
128:You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome, ~ Muhammad Ali,
129:I did something that challenged the banking world. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
130:It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am. ~ Muhammad Ali,
131:Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
132:No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room. ~ Muhammad Ali,
133:I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news. ~ Muhammad Ali,
134:I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived ~ Muhammad Ali,
135:It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. ~ Muhammad Ali,
136:Muhammad is the greatest man that history ever knew ~ Gustave Le Bon,
137:Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good. ~ Muhammad Ali,
138:Human beings are much bigger than just making money. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
139:Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
140:Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
141:The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best. ~ Muhammad Ali,
142:All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. ~ Muhammad Ali,
143:If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough. ~ Muhammad Ali,
144:I run on the road long before I dance under the lights. ~ Muhammad Ali,
145:No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. ~ Muhammad Ali,
146:The only place where poverty should be is in museums. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
147:By God ye shall be called to account for your doings! ~ Elijah Muhammad,
148:Economic growth is a rising tide that lifts all boats. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
149:I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. ~ Muhammad Ali,
150:Sastera itu adalah falsafah orang awam. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
151:Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. ~ Muhammad Ali,
152:There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people ~ Muhammad Ali,
153:War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change. ~ Muhammad Ali,
154:If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world. ~ Muhammad Ali,
155:The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ~ Muhammad Ali,
156:There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. ~ Muhammad Ali,
157:There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
158:They need a deen that's not your uncle's deen. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
159:A legend is who we become for a specific point in time. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
160:A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em ~ Muhammad Ali,
161:I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages ~ Muhammad Ali,
162:I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself ~ Muhammad Ali,
163:I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
164:I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave. ~ Muhammad Ali,
165:The Fātiḥa is the opening to all good things. ~ Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem,
166:The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
167:The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier ~ Muhammad Ali,
168:The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities. ~ Muhammad Ali,
169:Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
170:I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be. ~ Muhammad Ali,
171:I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself. ~ Muhammad Ali,
172:Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag ~ Muhammad Ali,
173:I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me ~ Muhammad Ali,
174:My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am. ~ Muhammad Ali,
175:There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger. ~ Saddam Hussein,
176:A culture that holds people back should and can be changed. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
177:But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
178:Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
179:I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on. ~ Muhammad Ali,
180:Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims. ~ Muhammad Ali,
181:My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
182:My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality. ~ Muhammad Ali,
183:There is a little bit of Hitler in all white people. ~ Khalid Abdul Muhammad,
184:When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. ~ Muhammad Ali,
185:You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right. ~ Muhammad Ali,
186:Are you sure the poor will repay?” the governor asked. “Yes, ~ Muhammad Yunus,
187:Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you. ~ Muhammad Ali,
188:Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
189:One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
190:The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
191:There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. ~ Anonymous,
192:There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God. ~ Muhammad Ali,
193:We believe in one God. We believe Muhammad is the Apostle of God. ~ Malcolm X,
194:What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems ~ Muhammad Ali,
195:I didn't deny nothing I believe. I'm still the same everything. ~ Muhammad Ali,
196:I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out. ~ Muhammad Ali,
197:Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
198:Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit. ~ Muhammad Ali,
199:I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. ~ Muhammad Ali,
200:I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right. ~ Muhammad Ali,
201:I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens. ~ Muhammad Ali,
202:Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all. ~ Muhammad Ali,
203:Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be. ~ Muhammad Ali,
204:My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy. ~ Muhammad Ali,
205:My message to you all is of hope, courage, and confidence. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
206:Nothing is quite as beautiful as farmers harvesting their rice. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
207:The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
208:You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down. ~ Muhammad Ali,
209:Be the woman a man needs. Don’t be the woman that needs a man. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
210:Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town ~ Muhammad Ali,
211:I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail. ~ Muhammad Ali,
212:I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. ~ Muhammad Ali,
213:I strongly believe that you have to get lost to find yourself. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
214:Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ~ Muhammad Ali,
215:Don't quit. Suffer no and live the rest of your life as a champion. ~ Muhammad Ali,
216:If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. ~ Muhammad Ali,
217:I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a ~ Muhammad Ali,
218:I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest. ~ Muhammad Ali,
219:In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat. ~ Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri,
220:I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance. ~ Muhammad Ali,
221:The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
222:The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves ~ Muhammad Ali,
223:Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are ~ Muhammad Ali,
224:Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined. ~ Angelo Dundee,
225:Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs ~ Muhammad Ali,
226:If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up. ~ Muhammad Ali,
227:If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize. ~ Muhammad Ali,
228:I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion. ~ Muhammad Ali,
229:Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker! ~ Yann Martel,
230:The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become. ~ Muhammad Ali,
231:Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. ~ Muhammad Ali,
232:God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is. ~ Muhammad Ali,
233:I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
234:I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with. ~ Muhammad Ali,
235:I never push in front my muscles, only my religion, so I'm protected. ~ Muhammad Ali,
236:My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
237:Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale. ~ Muhammad Ali,
238:Even reading a single page was extremely difficult. It said nothing. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
239:I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting. ~ Muhammad Ali,
240:I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked! ~ Muhammad Ali,
241:Learn how to control your emotions and don't let them control you. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
242:The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races. ~ Muhammad Ali,
243:Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. ~ Muhammad Ali,
244:Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to. ~ Muhammad Ali,
245:Harlem! The Mecca of the New Negro! My God! Carl Van Vechten ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
246:I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. ~ Muhammad Ali,
247:It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. ~ Muhammad Ali,
248:The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet. ~ Muhammad Ali,
249:True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values. ~ Muhammad Ali,
250:When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets. ~ Muhammad Ali,
251:Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
252:Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
253:Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra. ~ Muhammad Ali,
254:I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick! ~ Muhammad Ali,
255:I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
256:I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble. ~ Muhammad Ali,
257:The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
258:Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good in all. ~ Muhammad Ali,
259:Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less. ~ Muhammad Ali,
260:I am NOT fighting for Muslims, believe me, when I demand Pakistan. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
261:I don't take right decisions, I take decisions and make them right ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
262:If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
263:I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy. ~ Muhammad Ali,
264:Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
265:When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish. ~ Muhammad Ali,
266:Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
267:If knowledge is not put into practice, it does not benefit one. ~ Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri,
268:Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't! ~ Muhammad Ali,
269:Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug. ~ Muhammad Ali,
270:Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
271:Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
272:A butterfly has to be a caterpillar first; allow yourself time to grow. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
273:A universe of doubt could never erase, The faith his heart has embraced. No ~ Muhammad Ali,
274:God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is. ~ Muhammad Ali,
275:Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience. ~ Muhammad Abduh,
276:Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick. ~ Muhammad Ali,
277:The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
278:Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
279:When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me is ME. ~ Muhammad Ali,
280:I am trying to create awareness of the true concept of democracy. ~ Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri,
281:I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence. ~ Muhammad Ali,
282:I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age. ~ Muhammad Ali,
283:Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
284:One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
285:Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth. ~ Muhammad Ali,
286:Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
287:But I suppose the first thing I would do is move the headquarters to Dhaka. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
288:He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life ~ Muhammad Ali,
289:I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The VietCong...No VietCong Ever Called Me Nigger. ~ Muhammad Ali,
290:I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world. ~ Muhammad Ali,
291:It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman. ~ Muhammad Ali,
292:I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven. ~ Muhammad Ali,
293:Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk. ~ Muhammad Ali,
294:My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ~ Muhammad Ali,
295:Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions ~ Muhammad Ali,
296:Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
297:What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love. ~ Muhammad Ali,
298:When you say vision you have a track that this is what I would like to say. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
299:A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police. ~ Muhammad Ali,
300:Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
301:Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know. ~ Muhammad Ali,
302:He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
303:It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win. ~ Muhammad Ali,
304:Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim. ~ Hamza Yusuf,
305:Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. —MUHAMMAD ALI ~ Hal Elrod,
306:The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. ~ Muhammad Ali,
307:What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? ~ Muhammad Yunus,
308:When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich. ~ Muhammad Ali,
309:Whoever has not thanked people, has not thanked God,” said the Prophet Muhammad ~ Hamza Yusuf,
310:Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
311:Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step. ~ Muhammad Ali,
312:From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
313:Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
314:If a fool keeps his mouth shut, there will be no difference of opinion. ~ Muhammad Taqi Usmani,
315:If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
316:If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
317:I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
318:I want to demystify what it means to leave a legacy for young people. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
319:Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right. ~ Muhammad Ali,
320:Many people are dying of starvation, yet everyone is afraid to talk about it, ~ Muhammad Yunus,
321:Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed. ~ Muhammad Taqi Usmani,
322:You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job ~ Muhammad Ali,
323:44God does not wrong people at all—it is they who wrong themselves. ~ Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem,
324:Every Mussalman should serve Pakistan honestly, sincerely and selflessly. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
325:Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
326:If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
327:It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ~ Muhammad Ali,
328:The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
329:There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
330:When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
331:God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
332:I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission. ~ Muhammad Ali,
333:Remember: the mountain did not come to Muhammad; Muhammad had to go to the mountain. ~ Anonymous,
334:Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
335:The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
336:You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would. ~ Muhammad Ali,
337:Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped. ~ Muhammad Ali,
338:Every moment you live is a possible new beginning, a new chance and a new hope. ~ Muhammad Nusair,
339:Human beings are much more complex than just being instruments for making money. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
340:In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first ~ Muhammad Ali,
341:Indonesia yang begitu besar ini membutuhkan 'otak besar' untuk memahaminya. ~ Muhammad Anis Matta,
342:Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
343:There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up. ~ Muhammad Ali,
344:This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction. ~ Muhammad Ali,
345:Espionage is not supposed to be sporting, otherwise it would not be clandestine. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
346:I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
347:I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali. ~ Muhammad Ali,
348:I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money. ~ Muhammad Ali,
349:If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans. ~ Muhammad Ali,
350:India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
351:I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
352:Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
353:The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
354:Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ~ Muhammad Ali,
355:Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
356:I call them the Sons of Anarchy Muhammad WilkerSON, Damon HarriSON, Sheldon RichardSON ~ Jon Gruden,
357:If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
358:The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction. ~ Muhammad Ali,
359:There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. ~ Muhammad Ali,
360:The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
361:They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in. ~ Muhammad Ali,
362:Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
363:We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
364:Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night ~ Muhammad Ali,
365:All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
366:I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous. ~ Muhammad Ali,
367:It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
368:It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. ~ Muhammad Ali,
369:no struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
370:There are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes. ~ Khalid Abdul Muhammad,
371:We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last. ~ Muhammad Ali,
372:Approximately the size of Florida, Bangladesh has a population of about 120 million. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
373:cemetery had long ago ceased to be used; its dead had been dead for a very long time. ~ Muhammad Asad,
374:Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see. ~ Muhammad Ali,
375:If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ~ Muhammad Ali,
376:In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away ~ Muhammad Ali,
377:It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. ~ Muhammad Ali,
378:No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
379:Sixty-five percent of Americans say they know nothing about either Muhammad or Islam. ~ Deepak Chopra,
380:Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me ~ Muhammad Ali,
381:I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know. ~ Muhammad Ali,
382:I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs. ~ Muhammad Ali,
383:mixture produced the Islam that would need constant protection from mixture. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
384:Failure is not fatal until we surrender
trying again is the key of glorious victory ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
385:How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting ~ Muhammad Ali,
386:If you believe in Omens, the fact that Muhammad was born an orphan is not a good one. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
387:I thought, if you can become an angel for 27 dollars. It would be fun to do more of it ~ Muhammad Yunus,
388:The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
389:Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. ~ Muhammad Ali,
390:You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own. ~ Muhammad Ali,
391:A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds. ~ Muhammad Ali,
392:If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. ~ Muhammad Ali,
393:I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot. ~ Muhammad Ali,
394:I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. ~ Muhammad Ali,
395:My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far. ~ Muhammad Ali,
396:The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
397:To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are. ~ Muhammad Ali,
398:He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ~Muhammad Ali ~ K Langston,
399:I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
400:If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
401:I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
402:Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe. ~ Muhammad Ali,
403:People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
404:The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most ~ Muhammad Ali,
405:The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace. ~ Malcolm X,
406:The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them. ~ Leila Aboulela,
407:There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali. ~ Muhammad Ali,
408:Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does. ~ Muhammad Ali,
409:You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves. ~ Muhammad Ali,
410:Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
411:All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small. ~ Muhammad Asad,
412:... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
413:He who accuses another of being an evil person says so because he is afraid of him. ~ Muhammad Taqi Usmani,
414:it is the life of Muhammad to which Islamists appeal in order to justify their terrorism. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
415:I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali. ~ Chuck Wepner,
416:Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. ~ Robert Duvall,
417:[Muhammad] said, "...fight everyone in the way of God and kill those who disbelieve in God..." ~ Ibn Ishaq,
418:recognize how every moment of our journey is an important part of the growth of our soul. I ~ Muhammad Ali,
419:That's when Mr. Muhammad’s patience wore thin. And with his nod, I began returning their fire. ~ Malcolm X,
420:The Angels of (Mercy) do not enter a house in which there are pictures (of animals). ~ Muhammad al Bukhari,
421:The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. ~ Muhammad Ali,
422:The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
423:There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam. ~ Muhammad Ali,
424:Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable. ~ Muhammad Ali,
425:Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. ~ Muhammad Ali,
426:It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. ~ Muhammad Ali,
427:It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great. ~ Muhammad Asad,
428:Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
429:Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
430:Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
431:What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
432:Allah warns the Muslims not to consider booty won at Badr to belong to anyone but Muhammad: ~ Robert Spencer,
433:If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you. ~ Muhammad Ali,
434:I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. ~ Muhammad Ali,
435:I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept. ~ Muhammad Ali,
436:In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder ~ Muhammad Ali,
437:Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong. ~ Muhammad Ali,
438:Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong. ~ Muhammad Ali,
439:I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. ~ Muhammad Ali,
440:Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
441:Muhammad may have been, there is one detail that should not be lost in the tumult and confusion ~ Reza Aslan,
442:No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
443:Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love ~ Muhammad Ali,
444:The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
445:The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
446:When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
447:As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
448:Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough. ~ Muhammad Ali,
449:Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
450:I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ~ Muhammad Ali,
451:Islam tidak boleh dipisahkan dari politik dan tidak ada politik kalau tidak dengan Islam. ~ Zulkifli Muhammad,
452:I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation. ~ Howard Cosell,
453:...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
454:The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” - ~ Muhammad Ali,
455:There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take. ~ Muhammad Ali,
456:...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged. ~ Muhammad Asad,
457:When we devote all of our actions to a spiritual goal, everything that we do becomes a prayer. ~ Muhammad Ali,
458:Ki Muhammad se wafa toonay to ham teray hain
Ye jahan cheez hai kiya lauho qalam tere hain ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
459:Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. ~ Muhammad Ali,
460:The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can. ~ Malcolm X,
461:When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way. ~ Muhammad Ali,
462:If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind! ~ Muhammad Ali,
463:I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white. ~ Muhammad Ali,
464:It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
465:They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust. ~ Muhammad Ali,
466:I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle. ~ Muhammad Ali,
467:I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
468:I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright. ~ Muhammad Ali,
469:Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
470:The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
471:You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
472:A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
473:I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. ~ Muhammad Ali,
474:If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen ~ Muhammad Yunus,
475:I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me! ~ Muhammad Ali,
476:It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
477:I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood. ~ Muhammad Ali,
478:My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. ~ Evan Sayet,
479:Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
480:A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
481:Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
482:I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
483:Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
484:Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough. ~ Muhammad Ali,
485:I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One. ~ Rumi,
486:If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war. ~ Muhammad Ali,
487:I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
488:I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white. ~ Muhammad Ali,
489:Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs. ~ Muhammad Ali,
490:Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
491:Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
492:If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
493:I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave. ~ Khalid Abdul Muhammad,
494:Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. ~ Muhammad Ali,
495:Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin. ~ Muhammad Ali,
496:Saying of the Prophet
THE PEOPLE
It is the people who are God's family.
(Muhammad the Prophet) ~ Idries Shah,
497:The poor,” I said, “are very creative. They know how to earn a living and how to change their lives. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
498:Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
499:Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too. ~ Muhammad Ali,
500:If Allah wants to send me a message,
he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
501:If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain has to cancel all his plans and get on a plane. ~ Sophie Kinsella,
502:I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history ~ Muhammad Ali,
503:It was as though nobody had considered the possibility that he might die, not even Muhammad himself. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
504:I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. ~ Muhammad Anwar el Sadat,
505:people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
506:Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times ~ Muhammad Ali,
507:When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard,
508:A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
509:Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now. ~ Muhammad Ali,
510:By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.' ~ Joseph Lelyveld,
511:I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky,
And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
512:I ought to have awe­some core strength, you know, because this bal­anc­ing thing is hard work. ~ Khaalidah Muhammad Ali,
513:I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
514:My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time ~ Muhammad Ali,
515:The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
516:There's no place like New York to engage so many wonderful people who care about black people. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
517:We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy. ~ Muhammad Ali,
518:We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad. ~ Carl Jung,
519:We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers. ~ Muhammad Ali,
520:263A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by hurtful [words]: ~ Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem,
521:But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience? ~ Muhammad Asad,
522:I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven. ~ Muhammad Ali,
523:It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
524:Look what love does...This was the real Islam, the Islam of love, not hate. Muhammad would be proud. ~ Deborah Rodriguez,
525:The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny! ~ Muhammad Ali,
526:The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
527:The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women. ~ Muhammad Ali,
528:You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
529:Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater! ~ Muhammad Ali,
530:Each time I thought I had achieved my life’s purpose, I discovered it was only another step in my journey. ~ Muhammad Ali,
531:I loved the movie for the simple reason that I saw the scenes and I saw Muhammad working with these guys. ~ Angelo Dundee,
532:I'm not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don't even know where I get them. ~ Muhammad Ali,
533:I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam. ~ Muhammad Abduh,
534:When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy. ~ Muhammad Ali,
535:Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
536:All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them. ~ Muhammad Ali,
537:At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. ~ Muhammad Ali,
538:I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
539:Khudi ko kar buland itna ke har taqder se pehle

Khuda bande se khud pooche bata teri raza kya hai. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
540:Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
541:We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
542:When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
543:with hundreds of millions of good people believing that the illiterate Muhammad miraculously wrote the Koran. ~ Dan Barker,
544:In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?" ~ Muhammad Yunus,
545:I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
546:I think the times that we're fucked up and lost in the world bring us closer to figuring out who we are. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
547:Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous. ~ Muhammad Ali,
548:Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
549:The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
550:Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country? ~ Muhammad Ali,
551:God’s Blessing are more numerous than those growing trees. /Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, Defeat of the Infidels/ ~ Steven Gould,
552:If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years. ~ Muhammad Ali,
553:If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge. ~ Muhammad Ali,
554:Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either. ~ Clifton Fadiman,
555:The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets." ~ Muhammad ibn Isa at Tirmidhi,
556:We (women) are a powerful force, but it is not our fists that propel us, it is our minds and wiles. ~ Khaalidah Muhammad Ali,
557:When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
558:An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
559:I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call. ~ Muhammad Ali,
560:My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
561:No civilization can prosper, or even exist,after having lost this pride and the connection with its own past. ~ Muhammad Asad,
562:There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking. ~ Muhammad Ali,
563:I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that. ~ Muhammad Ali,
564:If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars. ~ Muhammad Ali,
565:In Muhammad’s lifetime, the Quran was never collected in a single volume; in fact, it was never collected at all. ~ Reza Aslan,
566:I would define development by focusing on the quality of life of the lower 25 percent of the population. This ~ Muhammad Yunus,
567:Longing need no longer remain small and hidden; it has found its awakening, a blinding sunrise of fulfillment. ~ Muhammad Asad,
568:Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him. ~ Angelo Dundee,
569:Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
570:Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
571:Self-love is when you are genuinely happy not with the image you see in the mirror, but the person you see. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
572:The Prophet Muhammad said: Innallaha jamiil wahuwa yuhibbul jamal. Verily God is beautiful and loves beauty. -33 ~ Ahmad Fuadi,
573:We are the silent, the misunderstood and the maligned. We are Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
574:You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around. ~ Muhammad Ali,
575:But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
576:I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count. ~ Muhammad Ali,
577:If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
578:Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence. ~ Muhammad Asad,
579:The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad. ~ Wafa Sultan,
580:They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
581:Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
582:For every culture-hero living out his myth, there must be a witness willing to pass the story on. Then ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
583:If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say "Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history ~ Will Durant,
584:It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him. ~ Muhammad Ali,
585:Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. ~ Muhammad Ali,
586:People can say anything, but a person’s actions show how they truly feel about you. Actions express priority. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
587:Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
588:With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
589:Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation. ~ Muhammad Ali,
590:If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies. ~ Yasmin Mogahed,
591:Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
592:There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you. ~ Muhammad Ali,
593:When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four. ~ Muhammad Ali,
594:I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. ~ Muhammad Ali,
595:In the big leagues everyone has ability. It always comes down to mind games. Who ever is more mentally strong-wins. ~ Muhammad Ali,
596:We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
597:with faith,discipline and selfless devotion to the duty,there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
598:You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best. ~ Muhammad Ali,
599:Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil. ~ Muhammad Ali,
600:I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
601:If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
602:I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'. ~ Muhammad Ali,
603:I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' ~ Muhammad Ali,
604:No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman. ~ Muhammad Ali,
605:One person with knowledge of his life’s purpose is more powerful than ten thousand working without that knowledge. It ~ Muhammad Ali,
606:The best of you in Jahiliyyah are the best of you in Islam, as long as they have understanding.” [Prophet Muhammad (SAWS ~ Anonymous,
607:We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors. ~ Muhammad Ali,
608:Yes, they will. They do. Unlike the rich, the poor can’t risk not repaying. This is the only chance they have.” The ~ Muhammad Yunus,
609:I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder. ~ Muhammad Ali,
610:I believe that poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Everyday, they must innovate in order to survive. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
611:I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free. ~ Muhammad Ali,
612:I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
613:It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion! ~ Muhammad Asad,
614:This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
615:You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ~ Muhammad Ali,
616:Always craft a story from real life encounters. It is more believable and you are able to tell it with some emotion. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
617:Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
618:Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head. ~ Muhammad Ali,
619:I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK. ~ Muhammad Ali,
620:I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out. ~ Muhammad Ali,
621:If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit ~ Muhammad Yunus,
622:If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad. ~ Aasif Mandvi,
623:I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
624:I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. ~ Muhammad Ali,
625:I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. ~ Muhammad Ali,
626:It takes pride and a tiger’s drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It ~ Muhammad Ali,
627:What was the message that Muhammad considered so important? Essentially this: God is not a father, and He has no son. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
628:But only a brief moment
is granted to the brave
one breath or two, whose wage is
The long nights of the grave ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
629:From love's plectrum arises
the song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
love is the fire of life ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
630:Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. ~ Muhammad Ali,
631:I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
632:I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here. ~ Muhammad Ali,
633:The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman. ~ Howard Cosell,
634:Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
635:We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his. ~ Muhammad Ali,
636:You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
637:Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay. ~ Muhammad Ali,
638:I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington. ~ Muhammad Ali,
639:I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim. ~ Muhammad Ali,
640:It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue. ~ Stephen Frears,
641:Sometimes it's not that people bring us happiness, they just bring us familiarity. You know what to expect from them. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
642:Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a lot ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
643:We are equal partners. You don't get to stand around and mean well. Get off your butt and do exactly what we tell you. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
644:We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it. ~ Sam Harris,
645:End of the World: The Major and Minor Signs of the Hour, by Dr. Muhammad al-'Areefi. Darussalam, New York, 2008.(page ~ Michael D Fortner,
646:Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
647:I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future. ~ Shayne Ward,
648:I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
649:I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others. ~ Muhammad Ali,
650:I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me ~ Muhammad Ali,
651:Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually ~ Malcolm X,
652:To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. ~ Muhammad Ali,
653:I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
654:In the United States I saw how the market liberates the individual and allows people to be free to make personal choices. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
655:maa tujhe salaam

pher lete hai nazar jis waqt bete or bahu..

ajnabi apne hi ghar me hae ban jati hai maaa.. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
656:Nonetheless, in the Qur’an, one of Jesus’ primary missions is to prepare the way for Muhammad and to announce his coming: ~ Robert Spencer,
657:Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. ~ Muhammad Ali,
658:I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years. ~ Muhammad Ali,
659:Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
660:Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
661:The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
662:The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. ~ Thomas Carlyle,
663:There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
664:Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are. ~ Muhammad Ali,
665:A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
666:Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal. ~ Deepak Chopra,
667:The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters. ~ Muhammad Ali,
668:To the people that have said I'm too small, I'm not fast enough, I don't have what it takes, I'm not strong enough. THANK YOU ~ Muhammad Ali,
669:Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans. ~ Muhammad Ali,
670:Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world. ~ Muhammad Ali,
671:In a sense Muhammad was less the messenger than the translator, struggling to give human form -- words -- to the ineffable. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
672:Isn’t it interesting, that a black man, who is a Muslim, and has the name ‘Muhammad’, is the most beloved athlete in the world? ~ Hamza Yusuf,
673:Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
674:Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation! ~ Muhammad Ali,
675:People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time. ~ Muhammad Ali,
676:But even the most accurate ones are the word of Muhammad , not the word of Allah. We must not equate the hadith to the Quran. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
677:Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different. ~ Muhammad Ali,
678:The good thing about being numb is that no one can hurt you, but the bad thing about being numb is that no one can love you. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
679:They followed the middle way of Muhammad, which included marriage, a socially useful livelihood, and a life “in the world but not of it. ~ Rumi,
680:If Muhammad weren't standing lonely vigil on the mountain, you might say that there was no sign of anything unusual about him. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
681:It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. ~ Muhammad Ali,
682:Sahih Bukhari: A classical collection of hadith, often considered by Sunnis as the most trustworthy accounts of Muhammad’s life ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
683:we lent to poor women, the more I realized that credit given to a woman brings about change faster than when given to a man. In ~ Muhammad Yunus,
684:Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself. ~ Muhammad Ali,
685:When a crisis is at its deepest, it can offer a huge opportunity. When things fall apart, we can redesign, recast, and rebuild. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
686:Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
687:Entrena mientras ellos duermen, estudia mientras ellos se divierten, persiste mientras ellos descansen y vive lo que ellos sueñan. ~ Muhammad Ali,
688:I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
689:I don’t trust anyone who’s nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position. ~ Muhammad Ali,
690:I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks. ~ Muhammad Ali,
691:You know,” said Jehangir, breaking the silence, “it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
692:Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press. ~ Muhammad Ali,
693:I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
694:Intelligence is a game of imperfect information. We can guess our opponent's moves, but we can't be sure until the game is over. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
695:I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.' ~ Muhammad Ali,
696:Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet? ~ Rajneesh,
697:Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. ~ Blaise Pascal,
698:Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
699:Go to College,
Stay in school,
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread,
they can sure make something out of you. ~ Muhammad Ali,
700:I could see it. I could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was the greatest of all time, I believed in myself, and I still do. ~ Muhammad Ali,
701:It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. —MUHAMMAD ~ Hal Elrod,
702:No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way. ~ Muhammad Ali,
703:This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose ~ Muhammad Ali,
704:Thus, the social business might be described as a “non-loss, non-dividend company,” dedicated entirely to achieving a social goal. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
705:If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce. ~ Muhammad Ali,
706:I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
707:I never wanted to lose, never thought I would, but the thing that matters is how you lose. I’m not crying. My friends should not cry. ~ Muhammad Ali,
708:No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
709:Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
710:Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families. ~ Muhammad ibn Isa at Tirmidhi,
711:I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others. ~ Muhammad Ali,
712:If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right. ~ Muhammad Ali,
713:The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them! ~ Muhammad Yunus,
714:The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
715:Muslims who question Allah are usually tolerated by other Muslims, but questioning Muhammad is grounds for excommunication, or worse. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
716:Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
717:Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” –Muhammad Ali Legendary American professional boxer and activist ~ Timothy Ferriss,
718:Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right ~ Muhammad Ali,
719:Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up. ~ Muhammad Ali,
720:Buddha was not a Buddhist. Jesus was not a Christian. Muhammad was not a Muslim. They were teachers who taught Love…Love was their religion ~ Anonymous,
721:Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions. ~ Muhammad Ali,
722:Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that. ~ Muhammad Ali,
723:Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
724:It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. —MUHAMMAD ALI ~ Hal Elrod,
725:Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone ~ Muhammad Ali,
726:Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer. ~ Muhammad Ali,
727:Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome. ~ Muhammad Ali,
728:Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave ~ Elijah Muhammad,
729:It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
730:It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
731:You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically. ~ Muhammad Ali,
732:And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
733:Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
734:I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
735:I'm the thing that the ISI fears the most. The spy who becomes a traitor willingly and embraces everything he's been trained to destroy. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
736:It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. Once that
belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. —MUHAMMAD ALI ~ Hal Elrod,
737:Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
738:The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly." ~ Muhammad ibn Isa at Tirmidhi,
739:We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
740:We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
741:It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. —Muhammad Ali ~ Anonymous,
742:It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. —MUHAMMAD ALI You ~ Hal Elrod,
743:People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
744:Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths ~ Muhammad Ali,
745:Gratitude for the abundance you have received is the best insurance that the abundance will continue.” Muhammad (570-632)
FOUNDER OF ISLAM ~ Rhonda Byrne,
746: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. ~ Muhammad Asad,
747:If we can imagine something, there is a good chance that it will happen. If we don’t imagine it, there is almost no chance of it happening. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
748:Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
749:Muhammad particularly loved cats, but, more generally, he constantly made his Companions aware of the need to respect all animal species. He ~ Tariq Ramadan,
750:No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
751:Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. ~ Muhammad Ali,
752:A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
753:Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
754:I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn. ~ Muhammad Ali,
755:I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away. ~ Muhammad Ali,
756:The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing." ~ Muhammad ibn Isa at Tirmidhi,
757:You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby. ~ Muhammad Ali,
758:If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong. ~ Muhammad Ali,
759:In other words, economic development should be judged and measured by the per capita real income of the bottom 50 per cent of the population. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
760:I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. ~ Muhammad Ali,
761:It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise. ~ Muhammad al Bukhari,
762:Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. ~ Muhammad Ali,
763:I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
764:It's remote! It's remote! It's uncontaminated! It's pure! It's a place where we can rule out that Muhammad got his ideas from others than God! ~ Patricia Crone,
765:The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
766:Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God. ~ Muhammad Ali,
767:You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time. ~ Muhammad Ali,
768:Batılı geçmişi bulanık, uzak bir düş sanki; büsbütün unutamayacağım kadar reel, ama şimdinin bir parçası olamayacak kadar da realitenin dışında. ~ Muhammad Asad,
769:During the rule of another governor, Atta Muhammad Khan, Lawrence writes: Any Musalman who met a Pandit would jump on his back, and take a ride. ~ Rahul Pandita,
770:If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
771:I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
772:Para pecinta sejati tak suka berjanji
Tapi begitu mereka memutuskan untuk mencintai
Mereka akan segera membuat rencana untuk memberi ~ Muhammad Anis Matta,
773:Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze? ~ Tori Amos,
774:Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
775:We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle. ~ Muhammad Ali,
776:If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him ~ Muhammad Asad,
777:I racked my brains for something cool to say... Suddenly, a dam burst in my head, and my mind overflowed with all the cool things I could've said. ~ Muhammad Khan,
778:Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all. ~ Muhammad Ali,
779:The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. ~ Muhammad Ali,
780:The Jews have earned Allah’s anger by rejecting Muhammad (2:90), and the Christians have gone astray by holding to the divinity of Christ (5:72). ~ Robert Spencer,
781:Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
782:On a certain day shall every soul come to plead for itself, and every soul shall be repaid according to its deeds; and they shall not be wronged. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
783:Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
784:When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another. ~ Muhammad Ali,
785:British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
786:The able-bodied poor don’t want or need charity. The dole only increases their misery, robs them of incentive and, more important, of self-respect. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
787:You know, Muhammad originally had his followers pray in the direction of Jerusalem, turning their backs on the pagan associations of the Kabah in Mecca. ~ Dan Eaton,
788:An Infidel, as far as the Koran is concerned, is anyone who refuses to submit to Allah as the one true god and to recognize Muhammad as his prophet. ~ Robert Spencer,
789:Cada vez que elogian mi trabajo, me vuelvo màs humilde,porque no me siento olvidado ni despreciado.
Las alabanzas significan comprension. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
790:Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
791:Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad". ~ William C Brown,
792:The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights. ~ Muhammad Ali,
793:The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses . . . in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.   —MUHAMMAD ALI ~ Eric Greitens,
794:When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions. ~ Muhammad Ali,
795:When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
796:Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
797:Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle. ~ Muhammad Ali,
798:The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
799:The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
800:To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences. ~ Muhammad Abduh,
801:A Muslim just follows Allah. Sunni-Shiah? That's farga, the groups—Allah discourages this in the Quran, you know, never ever form the groups. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
802:It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical. ~ Muhammad Ali,
803:No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
804:Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'. ~ Muhammad Ali,
805:..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
806:If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates. ~ Bill Gates,
807:It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside. ~ Emma Forrest,
808:Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
809:So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
810:The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass
But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint

Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
811:The most powerful military country in the world, America - which makes all the guns, all the machinery, all the bullets - taught us how to shoot the guns. ~ Muhammad Ali,
812:There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
813:What I’m starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They’re accepting you for who they think you are. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
814:All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking ~ Muhammad Ali,
815:Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
816:I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
817:I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach. ~ Deepak Chopra,
818:Kalau bangsa Melayu tidak menyedari hakikat perjuangan, maka dalam masa tidak lama lagi bangsa Melayu akan tenggelam dalam gelombang bangsa menumpang. ~ Zulkifli Muhammad,
819:Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations. ~ Larry Holmes,
820:Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun. ~ Muhammad Ali,
821:We've had Muslims in America since George Washington. And we've had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particular well-known one with Muhammad Ali. ~ Hillary Clinton,
822:When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. ~ Tony Campolo,
823:Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
824:When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished. ~ Muhammad Ali,
825:White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader. ~ Muhammad Ali,
826:But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
827:You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
828:All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
829:A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
830:But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
831:Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
832:I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
833:My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice. ~ Muhammad Ali,
834:Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
835:Aku tidak ingin seperti hujan, yang kamu cinta tetapi selalu membiarkanmu sakit, aku memilih untuk tidak kamu cintai, aku memilih untuk tidak menjadi hujan. ~ Muhammad Akhyar,
836:Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner. ~ Muhammad Ali,
837:Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace. ~ Muhammad Ali,
838:I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
839:The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
840:Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums. ~ Oliver Reed,
841:You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe. ~ Muhammad Ali,
842:If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known. ~ Karen Armstrong,
843:Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing ~ Muhammad Ali,
844:The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away. When I first walked into the mosque, I didn’t find Islam; it found me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
845:The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
846:You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
847:Abu Hurairah is reported to have heard the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) saying: “Save yourself from the seven destroyers.” The ~ Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab,
848:Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
849:I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments. ~ Muhammad Ali,
850:My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God. ~ Muhammad Ali,
851:Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here. ~ Khalid Abdul Muhammad,
852:Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight. ~ Muhammad Ali,
853:Analyses of the causes of poverty focus largely on why some countries are poor rather than on why certain segments of the population live below the poverty line. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
854:If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness. ~ Muhammad Asad,
855:If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability? ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
856:I had my style of moving and dancing and whatever I do. What you have to do, is take all the fighters you want and me and rank me where you want. I can't tell you. ~ Muhammad Ali,
857:I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat. ~ Muhammad Ali,
858:Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice. ~ Reza Aslan,
859:Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
860:Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”
-Muhammad Ali ~ Muhammad Ali,
861:Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
862:...dan adalah Imam Muhammad Jawwad mengatakan terdapat empat perkara yang dapat membantu manusia dalam beramal, yakni kesihatan, kekayaan, pengetahuan dan taufik. ~ Faisal Tehrani,
863:God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad. ~ Feisal Abdul Rauf,
864:"I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived. I shook up the world! I want justice..." ~ Muhammad Ali,
865:I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again ~ Muhammad Ali,
866:My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing. ~ Lennie James,
867:That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
868:As the Prophet Muhammad (May Allah bless him and grant him peace) said "Allah does not look at your forms and possessions, but He looks at your hearts and your deeds. ~ Harun Yahya,
869:Human beings are extremely creative and resilient, especially when they are operating within an institutional framework that encourages and supports their actions. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
870:I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be. ~ Muhammad Ali,
871:Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
872:Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
873:Kesesatan bagaimana lagi yang dihidap golongan itu dengan menuduh para sahabat Rasul yang melakukan jihad di jalan Allah sebagai orang murtad dan munafik? ~ Ali Muhammad Al Salaabi,
874:You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
875:It is the physicians who are psychologically disturbed because they ignore the data, and whatever data there is, they manipulate it to say what they want it to say. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
876:Muhammad’s followers have not always maintained his reforms or abided by his teachings, just as followers of other great mystical leaders, including Jesus, have not. ~ Caroline Myss,
877:My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
878:People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
879:The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month? ~ Muhammad Ali,
880:Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is. ~ Malcolm X,
881:Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
882:Hal yang pali aku sesali adalah aku tidak bisa membuat dua orang mengerti jalan pikiran ku, orang pertama adalah Muhammad Ali Jihad dan kedua adalah anakku, Harilal. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
883:I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion. ~ Muhammad Ali,
884:I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example. ~ Muhammad Ali,
885:I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat. ~ Muhammad Ali,
886:I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
887:I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability. ~ Muhammad Ali,
888:I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
889:Love is not a dish of tharid, Muhammad had told me once—meaning I didn’t need to be greedy because the human capacity for love is limitless.
~ Sherry JonesAi’sha ~ Sherry Jones,
890:Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali. ~ Will Smith,
891:All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly. ~ Muhammad,
892:If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
893:I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
894:There are strengths and virtues in a polygamous marriage as there are in a monogamous one, and it was Muhammad's destiny to demonstrate both in their perfection. ~ Charles Le Gai Eaton,
895:The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
896:True change doesn't happen overnight; it has to happen gradually. You first have to have a change of heart, then a change of mind, and then your actions will follow. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
897:21. Indeed in the Messenger of Allaah (Muhammad) you have a good example to follow for him who hopes in (the Meeting with) Allaah and the Last Day and remembers Allaah much. ~ Anonymous,
898:All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested. ~ Muhammad Ali,
899:The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
900:What is happiness? Happiness is freedom. What is freedom? Freedom is the ability to live without fear of public perception; to be who you are no matter where you are. ~ Kaiylah Muhammad,
901:Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
902:I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
903:I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville,
904:the poor have a better chance in a bigger open market than in a smaller protected market. Everyone would benefit from the free flow of commodities, finances, and people. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
905:We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society. ~ Nur Muhammad Taraki,
906:When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock ~ Muhammad Ali,
907:A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
908:I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble. ~ Muhammad Ali,
909:It astonished me that Muslims, who put such store on emulation of their prophet, didn’t wish to emulate him in something so fundamental as fathering daughters. Muhammad ~ Geraldine Brooks,
910:I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern. ~ Muhammad Ali,
911:[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16 primary opponents or the entire political establishment. ~ Chuck Todd,
912:I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
913:Kita tidak sholat, puasa, atau haji setiap saat, tapi kita bisa berdo’a setiap saat;
berdo’a membuat kita bisa merasakan kebersamaan dengan Allah sepanjang waktu.. ~ Muhammad Anis Matta,
914:The first person we saw when we entered the building was Muhammad Ali, perhaps a perfect symbol for the decade to come - a former powerhouse battling a degenerative disease. ~ Neil Strauss,
915:Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved. ~ Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri,
916:But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all. ~ Muhammad Ali,
917:Jews: look to Miriam, not Moses ... Muslims: look to Fatimah, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation. ~ Naomi Alderman,
918:Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. ~ Muhammad Ali,
919:Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'. ~ Muhammad Ali,
920:I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?' ~ Muhammad Ali,
921:I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
922:Muhammad’s is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
923:twofold profession of faith, or shahadah, that would henceforth define both the mission and principles of the movement: There is no god but God, and Muhammad is God’s Messenger. ~ Reza Aslan,
924:We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies. ~ Muhammad Ali,
925:In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it. ~ Wladimir Klitschko,
926:Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
927:Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith. ~ Rumi,
928:The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own. ~ Robert M Price,
929:Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
930:God is great; there is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” He looked up at me and smiled. “In Islam, we want the first words a child hears to be a prayer.” It ~ Jodi Picoult,
931:I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get
used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours;
my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
932:I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest. ~ Muhammad Ali,
933:It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
934:There are many ways to turn someone to betray their country - money, ideology, compromise and ego work best. If they don't respond to those, a bullet will help seal the deal. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
935:During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began. ~ Muhammad Ali,
936:How difficult it is for us to attain to reality...We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does
it surrender itself to him. ~ Muhammad Asad,
937:I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them. ~ Muhammad Ali,
938:In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile. ~ Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri,
939:Muhammad (PBUH) is not the father of any man among you, but He is Messenger of Allah and the last of the Prophets. And Allah is Ever AllAware of everything." (Surah Ahzaab Ch33 V40) ~ Anonymous,
940:My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done. ~ Muhammad Ali,
941:There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
942:Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
943:A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
944:Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
945:I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him ~ Muhammad Ali,
946:I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
947:I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
948:It’s not bragging if you can back it up,” I whisper to myself in the shower every morning. That is my favorite Muhammad Ali quote. If you ask me, Ali invented modern-day swagger. ~ Shonda Rhimes,
949:Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things. ~ Muhammad Ali,
950:I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
951:Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world. ~ Muhammad Ali,
952:The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
953:For centuries Eastern heart and intellect have been absorbed in the question Does God exist? I propose to raise a new question new, that is to say, for the East Does man exist? ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
954:I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that. ~ Muhammad Ali,
955:Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
956:...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
957:civilization able to produce a Mahavira, a Mirabai, a Malik Ambar, a Periyar, a Muhammad Iqbal and a Mohandas Gandhi is a place open to radical experiments with self-definition. It ~ Sunil Khilnani,
958:Guided by anger, prejudice, or patriotism, boxing’s rulers decided that Muhammad Ali was unfit to wear the sport’s crown because he was a Muslim who refused to fight for his country. ~ Jonathan Eig,
959:If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? ~ Alphonse de Lamartine,
960:If you look at pictures of the bodies of Muhammad Ali, Ray Robinson, or, for that matter, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, you'll see physique in perfect proportion and built for function. ~ Tom Schreck,
961:In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
962:At Varanasi, according to Ferishta, Muhammad of Ghor and Qutb-ud-din Aybak demolished the idols in a thousand temples and then rededicated these shrines ‘to the worship of the true God’. ~ John Keay,
963:Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. ~ Muhammad Ali,
964:I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
965:Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons. ~ Muhammad Ali,
966:This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
967:When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
968:Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
969:I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest. ~ Muhammad Ali,
970:I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers. ~ Muhammad Ali,
971:I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. ~ Muhammad Ali,
972:I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message that needs to be heard more broadly. ~ Michael Eric Dyson,
973:Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people? ~ Muhammad Ali,
974:Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
975:I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat. ~ Muhammad Ali,
976:The heart is like a mirror. Do not prevent it from being broken. It’s breakage is more dearer in the sight of its maker [Allah], than its safety. Almighty Allah being indeed the Maker ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
977:The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction." ~ Muhammad ibn Isa at Tirmidhi,
978:I knew how Elijah Muhammad's followers thought; I had taught so many of them to think. I knew that no one would kill you quicker than a Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do. ~ Anonymous,
979:In the same way that it makes sense for the airport security screeners to give my father extra scrutiny every time he flies because his skin is brown and his first name is Muhammad? ~ Chris Grabenstein,
980:Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
981:Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ~ Muhammad Ali,
982:How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy? ~ Muhammad Ali,
983:In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other. ~ Muhammad Ali,
984:Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God. ~ Muhammad Ali,
985:[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad. ~ Bashar al Assad,
986:There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
987:Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
988:I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
989:Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
990:Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
991:Muhammad had close links with three of the leading hanifs of Mecca. ‘Ubaydallah ibn Jahsh was his cousin and Waraqah ibn Nawfal was a cousin of Khadijah: both these men became Christians. ~ Karen Armstrong,
992:That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
993:The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
994:Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House. ~ Muhammad Ali,
995:I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.” —Alexis de Toqueville I ~ Milo Yiannopoulos,
996:It was not the philosophers and the prophets who taught us to believe in life after death; all they did was give form and spiritual content to an instinctive perception as old as man himself. ~ Muhammad Asad,
997:The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
998:To read an expert contribution on the historical Muhammad by Dr. David Wood (PhD in philosophy, Fordham University), Director of Acts 17 Apologetics and host of Jesus or Muhammad, click here ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
999:Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion. ~ Larry Holmes,
1000:Setiap buku punya ceritanya masing-masing. Bukan saja soal cerita yang dibahas di dalam buku itu, namun cerita "di balik layar" -- tentang inspirasi, motivasi, atau proses pergulatannya. ~ Muhammad Anis Matta,
1001:All it takes to get poor people out of poverty is for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1002:I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1003:And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali. ~ Wilt Chamberlain,
1004:I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1005:I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1006:I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other and to the world. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1007:It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1008:Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration. ~ Rory McIlroy,
1009:People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1010:Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1011:Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1012:We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1013:God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1014:I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true. ~ Khaled Mashal,
1015:If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1016:I'll never violate my oath to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to work night and day for the rise of my people. I've been at this for darn near 60 years; I'm too old now to do something different. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1017:I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1018:Whether you think the words he heard came from inside himself or from outside, it is clear that Muhammad experienced them, and with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
1019:In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1020:The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message. ~ Cat Stevens,
1021:The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1022:The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1023:I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was. ~ Malcolm X,
1024:Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1025:The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1026:When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1027:Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1028:Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1029:The Christian Church overwhelmingly - there are exceptions - who choose to call Muhammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two. ~ Ramsey Clark,
1030:...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow to the very existence of Islam as an ideological proposition. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1031:I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1032:After all, if Satan could put words into Muhammad’s mouth once, and make him think they were revelations from Allah, who is to say that Satan did not use Muhammad as his mouthpiece on other occasions? ~ Robert Spencer,
1033:I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous. ~ Nur Muhammad Taraki,
1034:I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I've read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I'm not a big reader. ~ Conor McGregor,
1035:Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1036:I found it increasingly difficult to teach elegant theories of economics and the supposedly perfect workings of the free market in the university classroom while needless death was ravaging Bangladesh. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1037:I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali. ~ Jeff Fenech,
1038:Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just as the Prophet Muhammad decided centuries ago. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
1039:I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1040:I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1041:Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali. ~ Don King,
1042:Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1043:The challenge I set before anyone who condemns private-sector business is this: If you are a socially conscious person, why don't you run your business in a way that will help achieve social objectives? ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1044:There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1045:You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1046:Others in the ancient world who denounced usury include Plato, Moses, Muhammad, Aristotle and Buddha. When a line-up like that is in agreement, it is perhaps worth thinking twice about our acceptance of it. ~ J M R Higgs,
1047:The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1048:Unwilling wholly to abandon the project for which his wife had died, unable to maintain any longer the absolute belief which the enterprise required, Muhammad Din entered the station wagon of scepticism. ~ Salman Rushdie,
1049:Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves ~ Muhammad Ali,
1050:People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1051:Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words. ~ Deepak Chopra,
1052:I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
His wine overwhelmed my goblet,
The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold
And set my ashes aflame. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1053:My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1054:Muhammad’s example must have had a lasting effect on his early followers: as Nabia Abbott has shown, throughout the first two centuries of Islam, Muslims regularly read the Torah alongside the Quran. Certainly, ~ Reza Aslan,
1055:Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1056:Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi
Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi

Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully;
Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1057:The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to get along with white people since white people have been on our planet. ~ Khalid Abdul Muhammad,
1058:Contrast this with the use by modern Islamic scholars of Muhammad’s decision to marry a six-year-old girl, consummating their marriage when she turned nine, to justify child marriage in Iraq and Yemen today. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
1059:Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1060:What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1061:All the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1062:If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1063:It's very difficult when you have learned something a certain way. Not only your mind absorbs it; your eyes also are trained to see in a certain way because eyes are only as good as you've been trained to see. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1064:Lo! We have revealed unto thee (Muhammad) the Scripture for mankind with truth. Then whosoever goeth right it is for his soul, and whosoever strayeth, strayeth only to its hurt. And thou art not a warder over them. ~ Anonymous,
1065:The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1066:The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1067:But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1068:I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1069:We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis, we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1070:We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1071:I believe in the holy Koran. It says we declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims and do not take part in wars, or in no way fashion or form take the lives of humans unless it's a holy war declared by God himself. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1072:Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1073:Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. Advice to a young person to continue his education. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1074:They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1075:If a woman enjoyed sex, or expressed her sexuality outwardly she was automatically a slut with no respect for herself. Sex was a favor you allowed your husband so angels wouldn't curse you until morning. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
1076:Whatever beauty man may be able to create with his hands, it will be only conceit to deem it worthy of God; therefore, the simplest that man can conceive is the greatest that he can do to express the glory of God. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1077:A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge - Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas ~ Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud,
1078:Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
1079:Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything ~ Muhammad Ali,
1080:If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1081:Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem [Abdul Jabbar ], these individuals supported us, but yet still, when you sit back and say the coverage that was done relative to their support was very shallow. ~ John Carlos,
1082:The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1083:To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1084:Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1085:...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide behind a culture, you know that's a dead culture. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1086:Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1087:If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
1088:Sesungguhnya Muhammad adalah tokoh pembaru dan seorang rasul yang telah mengabdi dengan pengabdian mulia, menunjuki umat kepada cahaya kebenaran. Dan orang yang sepertinya pantas diberikan penghormatan dan penghargaan ~ Leo Tolstoy,
1089:What if’ is not much of an argument if there is no evidence. Second, you know the Quran tells Christians to ‘judge by the Injil.’39 That means they still had it in Muhammad’s day. The Injil is not a lost scripture. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
1090:I am the servant of the Qur’an, for as long as I have a soul.
I am the dust on the road of Muhammad, the Chosen One.
If someone interprets my words in any other way,
That person I deplore, and I deplore his words. ~ Rumi,
1091:Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better." -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X ~ Malcolm X,
1092:I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1093:Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1094:We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did ... It is not a panacea. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1095:As a social business, Grameen Danone follows the basic principle that it must be self-sustaining, and the owners must remain committed to never take any dividend beyond the return of the original amount they invested. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1096:Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1097:I have one underlying principle in mind: the principle of Muslim democracy. It is my belief that our salvation lies in following the golden rules of conduct set for us by our great lawgiver, the Prophet of Islam. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1098:It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it. ~ Angelo Dundee,
1099:If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man. ~ Alex Haley,
1100:Say (O Muhammad SAW to Mankind) If the sea were ink for (writing) the Words of my Lord, surely, the sea would be exhausted before the Words of my Lord would be finished, even if we brought (another sea) like it for its aid. ~ Anonymous,
1101:When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! ~ Thomas Carlyle,
1102:Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1103:That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. ~ Hunter S Thompson,
1104:Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1105:By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1106:I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1107:The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man...even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you...God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection." ~ Muhammad ibn Isa at Tirmidhi,
1108:The war is really about religion. The war's between Jesus and Muhammad. The Christians say Jesus is the messenger. Muslims say Muhammad is the messenger. Who gives a expletive who the messenger is did you get the message? ~ Eddie Griffin,
1109:When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting. ~ Michael Parkinson,
1110:Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1111:Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better."
-said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X ~ Malcolm X,
1112:I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1113:I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will also establish an eye hospital where even beggars will be given treatment at the cost of Taka 10-20. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1114:Membaca sejarah adalah cara menemukan harapan. Harapanlah yang membuat kita rela dan berani melakukan kebajikan-kebajikan hari ini, walaupun buah kebajikan itu akan dipetik oleh mereka yang baru akan lahir esok hari. ~ Muhammad Anis Matta,
1115:People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1116:Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
1117:The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic and Western civilizations. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1118:We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1119:He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
1120:IF THERE WAS A SINGLE MOMENT IT ALL BEGAN, IT WAS THAT OF Muhammad’s death. Even the Prophet was mortal. That was the problem. It was as though nobody had considered the possibility that he might die, not even Muhammad himself. ~ Anonymous,
1121:I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them — which was much higher than what the trader was giving them. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1122:Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP). ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1123:What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1124:Prophet Muhammad was not a ritualistic man; he was the example of this Qur'an. Yes, he prayed; yes, he visited the Inner Sanctum of Allah and gave us five daily prayers, but he wanted us to live the meaning of that prayer. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1125:The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1126:The parallels between Muhammad and Jesus are striking. Both were impelled by a strong sense of social justice; both emphasized unmediated access to the divine; both challenged the established power structure of their times. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
1127:There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims. ~ Dennis Prager,
1128:If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not as an end in itself, they may not only retain their own inner freedom but also, perhaps, pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness... ~ Muhammad Asad,
1129:I'm finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird's eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1130:The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1131:Women are not equal with men, that's sure. When the woman is in danger she always looks to the man for help. We are superior by nature. The black or white woman needn't worry in life because the world is ruled by the white man. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1132:Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1133:Mother always put money away for any poor relatives who visited us from distant villages. It was she, by her concern for the poor and the disadvantaged, who helped me discover my interest in economics and social reform. Mother ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1134:So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1135:Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. "Bu how shall we do it when he is an oppressor?" inquired a companion. Muhammad replied, "Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and withholding him from oppression. ~ Anonymous,
1136:I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1137:Our financial institutions have created a worldwide system of apartheid without anyone being horrified by it. If you don't have collateral, you are not credit worthy. To the banks, you are not accepted on our side of the world. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1138:We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1139:Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? ~ Muhammad Ali,
1140:I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir! ~ Malcolm X,
1141:If there was a single moment it all began, it was that of Muhammad's death. Even the Prophet was mortal. That was the problem. It was as though nobody had considered the possibility that he might die, not even Muhammad himself. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
1142:Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1143:The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
1144:There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer. ~ George Foreman,
1145:...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. ~ John Quincy Adams,
1146:I hope that social interaction will still exist in the future. Technology has become a way of mediating human interaction, coming in between old-fashioned phone calls and face-to-face chitchat. Not sure where it'll end up. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
1147:In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1148:I'm on the faculty. I teach. And it's not easy for a poor person to enter the campus to track down the professor in the campus in a Bangladesh situation. They all will be stopped at the gate. You have no business in the university! ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1149:As soon as something like Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
1150:Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1151:People like Sufiya were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institutions in the country did not help them widen their economic base. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1152:Hungry people were everywhere. Often they sat so still that one could not be sure whether they were alive or dead. They all looked alike: men, women, children. Old people looked like children, and children looked like old people. The ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1153:In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost. ~ George Foreman,
1154:In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1155:Muhammad now translated this concept into political terms. Blending idealism and pragmatism - a master politician's skill if ever there was one - he drew up arbitration agreement that used the tribal principle to reach beyond tribe. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
1156:Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices ~ Muhammad Ali,
1157:Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1158:Muhammad Ali Jauhar, who for three remarkable years (1919-1922) championed Hindi-Muslim partnership, dismissed the ‘divide-and-rule’ explanation for India’s problems. ‘They don’t divide,’ Jauhar pointed out. ‘We divide and they rule. ~ Rajmohan Gandhi,
1159:Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people ~ Muhammad Ali,
1160:Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1161:Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1162:It was not until Christians were a thousand years removed from Jesus that they believed holy war could purge sin, whereas Muhammad himself taught Muslims that fighting in jihad can forgive sin, and indeed is the best thing in the world. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
1163:We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision ~ Muhammad Asad,
1164:We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1165:While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other ~ Muhammad Ali,
1166:America's time, unfortunately, for judgment has come. In fact, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us it's not just the judgment of America, but it's a judgment of the world that has been affected by the Shaitan, or "Satan" of America. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1167:America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value. ~ Dennis Prager,
1168:I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1169:I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1170:In the Ummah, there was no tradition of veiling until around 627 C.E., when the so-called “verse of hijab” suddenly descended upon the community. That verse, however, was addressed not to women in general, but exclusively to Muhammad’s wives: ~ Reza Aslan,
1171:I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?" ~ Muhammad Ali,
1172:Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis upon which not only the religion, but all the sciences are rooted. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1173:I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children. ~ Al Sharpton,
1174:My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1175:We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all.... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and kill them a-goddamn-gain because they didn't die hard enough. ~ Khalid Abdul Muhammad,
1176:In books of hadith, it says that Muhammad used to open his fasts by first eating a date, so Muslims all around the world do the same thing. Of course, we usually ate our dates in the car on the way to the iftar, because we were running late. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
1177:Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ~ Huston Smith,
1178:All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1179:Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1180:How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white America and do things I can't do.The Puerto Rican, Hawaiians, just about everybody can do more than black people and are more respected. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1181:We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way. ~ Malcolm X,
1182:What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1183:1. Have faith in the one God, Allah, and Muhammad, His Prophet; 2. Pray five times a day; 3. Fast during the day for the entire ninth month of Ramadan; 4. Provide charity; 5. Make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime, if possible. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
1184:My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with the grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1185:So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy their self-confidence and, indirectly, support the Western assertion that Islam is a "spent force". ~ Muhammad Asad,
1186:Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1187:In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive. The next day she may not have the strength to continue living. I ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1188:The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1189:If Trump were a boxer, he'd be Muhammad Ali. Because he's going to win. He's going to run his mouth, he's going to talk a lot and he's going to win. And you ain't going to know which way he's going. You had the Louisville Lip, he'd be the New York Lip! ~ Don King,
1190:Tiba-tiba ia teringat kisah Syaikh Muhammad Abduh yang menangisi kondisi umat Islam dan keluarlah kalimat yang sangat terkenal dari ulama terkemuka Mesir, "Al-Islamu mahjuubun bil muslimin". Yang artinya, Islam tertutup oleh umat Islam. ~ Habiburrahman El Shirazy,
1191:To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing. ~ George S Patton,
1192:Konačno, to je pitanje ljubavi, a ljubav je složena od brojnih stvari: naših želja i naše usamljenosti, naših uzvišenih ciljeva i naših mana, naše snage i naše slabosti. Tako je bilo i sa mnom. Islam je ušao u mene. Šutke i potajno, ali - zauvijek. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1193:Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1194:Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.' ~ Muhammad Ali,
1195:For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
1196:Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
1197:Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer. ~ Nur Muhammad Taraki,
1198:Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For building stable peace we must find ways to provide opportunities for people to live decent lives. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1199:The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1200:I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1201:Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1202:Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1203:In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches. ~ Moshe Feiglin,
1204:Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1205:By the time the war was over, Bangladesh was a devastated country. The economy was shattered. Millions of people needed to be rehabilitated. I knew that I had to return home and participate in the work of nation building. I thought I owed it to myself. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1206:In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black president. That's a major thing, and there are so many other significant occurrences that have come from the '60s and '70s up to now. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
1207:Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of debt, so must he ‘repay’ with himself, so must he ‘return’ himself to Him Who owns him absolutely. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1208:The lesson to be learned is that there is much division in Islam. The best determination of whether a man is Muslim is if he exclusively declares that Allah is God and Muhammad is Allah’s messenger. Beyond this point, there is great diversity in Islam. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
1209:The Merciful is kind to those who are merciful. If you show compassion to your fellow creatures in this world, then those in heaven shall be compassionate toward you.
-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as narrated by Abd'Allah bin Amr from "The Bounty of Allah ~ Anonymous,
1210:Tunggu malaikat. Jangan dulu dikabulkan apa yang dia minta. Aku ingin mendengar tangisan dan permohonannya lebih lama lagi karena Aku mencintainya. Jika waktunya tiba, Aku akan mengabulkan semua permohonannya, bahkan akan Kulebihkan dari yang dia minta. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1211:We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1212:You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1213:I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1214:It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1215:The greatest gift of God to us today is right guidance. The enemy has money that he can throw at problems but the problems never get solved because we're violating the good guidance and warning that God sent to us through the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1216:The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop himself, in the same sense that the white man has developed himself. Then they can both come together and recognize each other as equals. ~ Malcolm X,
1217:Jesus felt pure and calmly thought
Only the One God;
Who made him to be a god
Offends his holy will.
And thus the rightness has to shine
What Muhammad also achieved;
Only by the term of the One
He mastered the whole world ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1218:Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1219:There is no room in the economic literature for people making a living through self-employment, finding way to develop goods or services that they sell directly to those who need them. But in the real world, that's what you see the poor doing everywhere. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1220:I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1300 years ago. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1221:I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1222:You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1223:Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1224:Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1225:Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
1226:The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1227:Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1228:Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.' ~ Ibn Ishaq,
1229:Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1230:He's [Jesus] the most fascinating character in history, really - the character who's made more difference to the world than anyone since him. I daresay that Muslims would say Muhammad was that character, but I think Jesus had a sort of 600-year start on him. ~ Philip Pullman,
1231:I’ve wrestled with alligators,
I’ve tussled with a whale.
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail.
You know I’m bad.
just last week, I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I’m so mean, I make medicine sick. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1232:I would love for [Jesus] to come back because I would love for him to face what is happening and to really have some sort of perspective. In that same respect, I'm sure that Prophet Muhammad would be disgusted by what some people use his name to justify. ~ Immortal Technique,
1233:When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1234:agree that Muhammad took his uncle’s hand as the life began to fade from his eyes and urged him to say the shahada, to accept islam and testify that there was no god but God: “Say it, uncle, and then I shall be able to witness for you on the Day of Judgment. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
1235:"All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly." ~ Muhammad, The Last Sermon of Muhammad delivered on the Ninth Day of Dhul Hijjah 10 A.H (c. 630 AD),
1236:Muhammad preached his farewell sermon to the Muslim community. He reminded them to deal justly with one another, to treat women kindly, and to abandon the blood feuds and vendettas inspired by the spirit of jahiliyyah. Muslim must never fight against Muslim. ~ Karen Armstrong,
1237:So it is with Moslem women and their veils,’ Michelangelo said. ‘When they saw Muhammad’s wives wearing veils, they sought to imitate them, and so now nearly all Islamic women wear veils even though there is no stipulation in their Holy Koran that they do so. ~ Matthew Reilly,
1238:In 1995, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) and the Microcredit Summit Campaign Committee formally defined a “poor” person as someone who lives below the poverty line and “poorest” as someone in the bottom half of those below the poverty line. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1239:I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little. ~ Jeffrey Deitch,
1240:The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other. Practice harmony and brotherhood among your own kind. ~ Malcolm X,
1241:We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1242:O sufi Muhammad ibn Khafif disse: “Fé é acreditar, com o coração, no conhecimento que vem do Invisível.” Ele não disse que é acreditar em algo que foi dito, ou incutido, ou admitido em momentos de entusiasmo e que, por conseguinte, tornou-se parte de uma obsessão. ~ Idries Shah,
1243:When you can hold the world in your palm and see it from a bird’s eye view, you tend to become arrogant – you do not realize that when looking from such a great distance, everything becomes blurred, and that you end up imagining rather than really seeing things. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1244:The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America. ~ Malcolm X,
1245:To be a follower of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, you have to completely extain from alcohol, or fornication, adultered, killin', stealin', lyin'. I would say that the people are not rejectin' the Honorable Elijah Mohammed because they don't believe what he teach. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1246:What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1247:I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth. ~ Khalid Abdul Muhammad,
1248:The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of histrorical achievements and traditions. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1249:102. Say (O Muhammad) Ruh-ul-Qudus [Jibrael (Gabriel)] has brought it (the Qur'an) down from your Lord with truth, that it may make firm and strengthen (the Faith of) those who believe and as a guidance and glad tidings to those who have submitted (to Allaah as Muslims). ~ Anonymous,
1250:How many times have you seen Muslims quote an ayah of the Quran and their eyes were full of anger? Let me tell you, that is not how Angel Jibril brought the Quran to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and that's not how our Prophet recited the Quran to his people. ~ Nouman Ali Khan,
1251:It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1252:There's one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said "I don't like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I'm happy with that." You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing. ~ Roy Jones Jr,
1253:Perpetual celebrity—the kind where any mention of you will interest a significant percentage of the public until the day you die, even if that day comes decades after your last real contribution to the culture—is exceedingly rare, reserved for the likes of Muhammad Ali. ~ Carrie Fisher,
1254:We need to recognize the real human being and his or her multifaceted desires. In order to do that, we need a new type of business that pursues goals other than making personal profit—a business that is totally dedicated to solving social and environmental problems. In ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1255:I conceived from the outset a strong objection to Zionism. I considered it immoral that immigrants should come from abroad with the avowed intention of attaining to majority in the country and thus to dispossess the people whose country it had been since time immemorial. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1256:I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1257:I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing. ~ Mian Muhammad Mansha,
1258:Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1259:One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists, of course. Muhammad's commandment to treat Jews and Christians as "People of The book" gave them legal protection. ~ Shlomo Sand,
1260:That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1261:Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth, their loved ones, and their health, So, what I'm doin' is for myself and for justice for black people, runnin' will kill it all, it'll make me a coward. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1262:By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads,by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1263:If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity full of capability, is a wonderful creation. But many people never get a chance to explore that, never, no that she nor he has that ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1264:In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked and they didn't want me. But as soon as my name was Mohammed Ali, as soon as I announced I was a Muslim, then all of a sudden I became smart. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1265:O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas, And change thyself with many a twist and turn; Thou wast not born for tile solace of the shore; Arise, untamed, and find a path for thyself.

~ Allama Muhammad Iqbal, O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas (from Baal-i-Jibreel)
,
1266:The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1267:Ayaklarımız kaskatı kesilinceye kadar evde oturup yaşlılığın gelip çatmasını beklemek, senin benim gibi insanlara göre değil de ondan." diyor Zeyd, gülümseyerek, "Hem evlerine tıkılan insanlar da ölmüyor mu sanki? Nereye giderse gitsin, insan kaderini boynunda taşımıyor mu? ~ Muhammad Asad,
1268:The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1269:What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1270:By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1271:Islam has been built on five pillars: testifying that there is no god but God, and that Muhammad is the Messenger of God; saying prayers; paying the prescribed charity (zakat); making the pilgrimage to the House of God in Makkah and fasting in the month of Ramadan. ~ Maulana Wahiduddin Khan,
1272:People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1273:I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1274:The prayers you perform, the duties you do, the charity and love you give is equal to just one drop. But if you use that one drop, continue to do your duty, and keep digging within, then the spring of Allah's grace and His qualities will flow in abundance. ~ Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen,
1275:If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1276:nobody in the West should forget that what unites the two main branches of Islam is far greater that what divides them, and that the vast majority of all Muslims still cherish the ideal of unity preached by Muhammad himself—an ideal the more deeply held for being so deeply broken. ~ Anonymous,
1277:They know the outward shows of this life present but of the next life are they careless. Have they not consider the heavens and the earth and all that is between them but for a serious end, and for a fixed term? But truly most men believe not that they shall meet their Lord. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
1278:We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us create the world of our choice. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1279:we learned the importance of picking fresh young people to run our branches. Surprisingly, people without previous work experience of any kind are often best suited for this. Previous work experience distracts new workers from the ideals and unique procedures of Grameen. Many ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1280:ALMOST EVERYTHING MUSLIMS know about Muhammad comes to them orally, rarely from primary sources. Unlike Christians learning about Jesus from the Bible, the Quran has very little to say about Muhammad. Whether in the East or the West, Muslims usually only hear stories about him. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
1281:GDP does not and cannot tell the whole story. Activities that do not require money changing hands are not counted as part of GDP—which means that, in effect, many of the things real human beings cherish most are treated as having no value. By contrast, money spent on weapons of ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1282:My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1283:America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1284:Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1285:Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout the ages. Were I to go to church, I'd be a hypocrite. ~ Danny Masterson,
1286:Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level? ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1287:We need to recognize what Elijah Muhammad said, listen to his words: "We are a nation in a nation." Why not use these 22 million at that time - 50 million people's power for their eternal salvation instead of temporary enjoyment with the same wicked people who murder our people? ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1288:Elijah Muhammad himself has now been carrrying the same message for more than thirty years; he is not an overnight sensation, and we owe his ministry, I am told, to the fact that when he was a child of six or so, his father was lynched before his eyes. (So much for states' rights.) ~ James Baldwin,
1289:Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1290:I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1291:let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1292:Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1293:I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1294:I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'.And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1295:Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1296:The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I've ever met, he's the one who most impressed me. It's tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he's one of the most intelligent people on the planet. ~ Carmelo Anthony,
1297:The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Do you know who will go first on the Day of Resurrection to the shade of God...Those who when given what is right accept it, when asked for something give freely and who judge in favor of others as they do for themselves." ~ Muhammad ibn Isa at Tirmidhi,
1298:Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end. ~ John Ortberg,
1299:I am the ambassador to the world. I use music to talk to the world - to try to unite masses. To try to spark conversations. To try and evoke legislation to change that'll really be for the people. That's behind-the-scenes kind of thing for me. And that's what the music is for me. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
1300:Certainly the shahadah contained an important theological innovation, but that innovation was not monotheism. With this simple profession of faith, Muhammad was declaring to Mecca that the God of the heavens and the earth required no intermediate whatsoever, but could be accessed by anyone. ~ Reza Aslan,
1301:I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1302:I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter. ~ Jay Z,
1303:Muhammad dictated the contents of the Quran to his scribes over a period of twenty-three years. Only after his death was the Quran collected into a book. Verses that had been dictated years or decades apart are frequently found side by side in the Quran, often with no obvious connection. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
1304:So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it. ~ Norman Geisler,
1305:The hadith were not collected into books until a long time after Muhammad ’s death. Many false hadiths had been fabricated, and it was difficult to determine which ones were accurate. Imam Bukhari sifted through five hundred thousand hadith and picked out the five thousand most accurate. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
1306:But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1307:finally ‘Ali, a gawky thirteen year old, could bear it no longer: “O prophet of God,” he cried, “I will be your helper in this matter!” Muhammad laid his hand tenderly on the boy’s neck: “This is my brother, my executor, and my successor among you,” he said. “Hearken to him and obey him. ~ Karen Armstrong,
1308:Why would the Prime Minister make such an order, Mr. Chaudhry?” the General leaned forward to put out the barely smoked cigarette. “Would you advise him to do such a foolish thing? Are you tired of being in government already?” A barely noticeable sneer crept across his battle-worn face. ~ Khalid Muhammad,
1309:Jalan cinta selalu melahirkan perubahan besar dengan cara yg sangat sederhana. Karena ia menjangkau pangkal hati secara langsung darimana segala perubahan dalam diri seseorang bermula. Bahkan ketika ia menggunakan kekerasan, cinta selalu mengubah efeknya, dan seketika ia berujung haru ~ Muhammad Anis Matta,
1310:To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1311:If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1312:So I cast my lot with him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am' - and proved it. ~ Norman L Geisler,
1313:Human beings are not just workers, consumers, or even entrepreneurs. They are also parents, children, friends, neighbors, and citizens. They worry about their families, care about the communities where they live, and think a lot about their reputations and their relationships with others. For ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1314:Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, he went throughout the Holy City of Mecca to dine and wine with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and all of the black, mainly the rulers of the Islamic countries. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1315:Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot? ~ Sam Harris,
1316:The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah, Oxford University Press, 1955. An English translation of the earliest biography of Muhammad—written by a pious Muslim. Virtually every page presents a devastating refutation of the whitewashed, peaceful Muhammad of PC myth. ~ Robert Spencer,
1317:By this endeavor the writer's aim is to awaken the people from their slumber like the revivification of a dry tree. So that, the excellences of Aale Muhammad inculcates in the people love for these noble personages and by following their example they may achieve success in this world as well as the hereafter. ~,
1318:Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1319:As the Quran suggests over and over again, and as the Constitution of Medina explicitly affirms, Muhammad may have understood the concept of the Umm al-Kitab to mean not only that the Jews, Christians, and Muslims shared a single divine scripture but also that they constituted a single divine Ummah. ~ Reza Aslan,
1320:I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1321:Indeed, just that year we had actually rejected a $200-million low-interest loan from the World Bank. I also told Conable, who was bragging about employing the best minds in the world, that hiring smart economists does not necessarily translate into policies and programs that benefit the poor. I ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1322:My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1323:There are many ways for people to die, but somehow dying of starvation is the most unacceptable of all. It happens in slow motion. Second by second, the distance between life and death becomes smaller and smaller, until the two are in such close proximity that one can hardly tell the difference. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1324:And (mention, O Muhammad), when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority." They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?" He said: Surely, I know what you know not. ~ Al-Baqara 30,
1325:If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. ~ Malcolm X,
1326:Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1327:Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people. ~ Malcolm X,
1328:Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change. ~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad,
1329:Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers Ever unjustly, all the integrators who love white folks, was unjustly kicked out of Washington, they've been deprived of education and poverty throughout the country. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1330:Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself. ~ Malcolm X,
1331:Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1332:The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory of our own. And then our people - we have technical know-how, we have agricultural know-how. We have been working for the white man in his business. In every phase of his government we work. ~ Malcolm X,
1333:The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1334:Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous. ~ Peter Kreeft,
1335:...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1336:As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil” is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung. ~ David James Duncan,
1337:Killing "unbelievers" has been part of — of course not all of — Islam since its inception. Within 10 years of Muhammad's death Muslims had conquered and violently converted whole peoples from Iran to Egypt and from Yemen to Syria. Muslims have offered conquered people death or conversion since that time. ~ Dennis Prager,
1338:Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of all the things which the Quran and Hadith [The recorded collections of the sayings and traditions of the Prophet] says of treating your enemy with dignity and kindness. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
1339:and the incident of the Satanic verses in the early career of the Prophet, and the politics of Muhammad’s harem after his return to Mecca in triumph; and the surrealism of the newspapers, in which butterflies could fly into young girls’ mouths, asking to be consumed, and children were born with no faces, ~ Salman Rushdie,
1340:Besides Jewish and Christian traditions, Islam also contains some traces of pagan traditions. In fact, the Ka’aba, the Meccan shrine to which every Muslim, if able, is obligated to make at least one pilgrimage, was a pagan Arab shrine and a center of pilgrimage long before Muhammad began preaching Islam. ~ Robert Spencer,
1341:the memory of the constant Meccan taunting of Muhammad and the harassment of his early followers would lie behind the worldwide outbreak of anger at the well-informed satire of Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses and at the 2005 publication in a Danish newspaper of crude cartoons of Muhammad. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
1342:The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and persistence due still to the Muslims' lack of understanding of the true nature and implications of secularization as a philosophical program. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1343:The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way to Paradise. I saw the names of Jesus, of Moses, of Abraham, of Jacob, of Noah and of course, crucially, the name of this last messenger, the last Messenger of God, Muhammad. ~ Cat Stevens,
1344:In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour...In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1345:Geriye dönüp hayatıma baktığımızda zaman, bazen yaşanmış iki ayrı hayat görebilecekmişim gibi geliyor bana. Fakat düşünüyorum: Hayatının bu iki parçası, gerçekten mi ayrı birbirinden yoksa bütün dış biçim ve yön farklılıklarının altında, bir iç birlik, bir öz birliği, ve bir ortak amaç mı hakim her ikisine? ~ Muhammad Asad,
1346:The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1347:They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what`s the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1348:I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the millions of dollars and the title, the ministry. So, I chose the ministry. If I was not sincere, then I would have easily went to Vietnam, boxin' exhibitions, and made a couple of cool million. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1349:John Allen Muhammad’s dream was to recruit orphaned teens, train them as urban guerillas, and wage Harper’s Ferry-style raids against America’s white supremacist power structure, which is a substantially less evil end goal than destroying Iraq, salting their territory with depleted uranium, and taking their oil. ~ Anonymous,
1350:I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and the Qur’an will become books supporting one another being read everywhere, and respected by every nation … [I am] looking forward to seeing Muslims read the Torah and the Bible. ~ Muhammad Abduh,
1351:There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.' ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1352:The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us to eat fish during the month of Ramadan. He is breaking us away from meats. That was a wonderful way to do it and use the month of Ramadan for fish. I did that too during one of my Ramadan's. We would just eat fish.Breaking away from land animals is a right thing to do. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1353:If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1354:I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1355:O Jabir! Whoever during the month of Ramadhan, fasts in its days, stands up for prayers in parts of the night, controls his desires and emotions, puts a rein on his tongue, keeps his eyes down, and does not injure the feelings of others, will become as free of sins as the day he was born.  Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (a) ~ Anonymous,
1356:Quincy [Jones] is one of the greatest world figures, of all-time. I mean he's up there with Muhammad Ali, as far as I'm concerned. His humanitarian work, his contribution to the world and music - he's really an amazing man. Even political divides don't affect his humanity. So, to me, that was extremely meaningful. ~ Robert Davi,
1357:Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
1358:I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
1359:[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were old enough, they were wise enough, and they knew their history and this is why they came out in support of us, because they knew that we had our finger on the right move. ~ John Carlos,
1360:The Prophet said, "He who has a slave-girl and teaches her good manners and improves her education and then manumits and marries her, will get a double reward; and any slave who observes Allah's right and his master's right will get a double reward." ~ Muhammad narrated Abu Musa Al-Ashari, in Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 46, Number 723,
1361:Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1362:I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1363:Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1364:The cohesiveness and spirit of the community of believers attracted an increasing number of helpers, who would soon outnumber the emigrants. Their requests for guidance rose commensurately, and the revelations began to direct Muhammad on everything from times of prayer to tithing to resolution of marital disputes. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
1365:For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1366:I’m supposed to be all re-injected with yes-we-can fever after the big health care speech, and it was a great speech - when Black Elvis gets jiggy with his teleprompter, there is none better. But here’s the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face. ~ Bill Maher,
1367:Ciri-ciri kesan Islam pada sejarah sesuatu bangsa harus dicari bukan pada perkara-perkara atau sesuatu yang zahir mudah ternampak oleh mata kepala, akan tetapi lebih pada perkara-perkara yang terselip tersembunyi dari pandangan biasa, seperti pemikiran sesuatu bangsa yang biasa terkandung dalam bahasa. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1368:Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses. ~ Elijah Muhammad,
1369:If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1370:I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there's a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I'm gonna do it good; I'm going to bring it over the top. ~ Mr T,
1371:I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1372:Other US networks that banned images of Muhammad said they were censoring because they were liberals who wanted to display their respect and tolerance. ‘No you’re not,’ Stone said. ‘You’re afraid of getting blown up. That’s what you’re afraid of. Comedy Central copped to that, you know: “We’re afraid of getting blown up. ~ Nick Cohen,
1373:When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1374:Certainly, Muhammad understood that there were distinct theological differences between Islam and the other Peoples of the Book. But he saw these differences as part of the divine plan of God, who could have created a single Ummah if he had wanted to but instead preferred that “every Ummah have its own Messenger” (10:47). ~ Reza Aslan,
1375:For white Americans of every ideological stripe—from radical southern racists to northern progressives—African American criminality became one of the most widely accepted bases for justifying prejudicial thinking, discriminatory treatment, and/or acceptance of racial violence as an instrument of public safety. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
1376:People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1377:Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'. ~ Lesley Hazleton,
1378:Aku ingin bertanya gembirakah kau di sana?
Melihat wilayah faqihmu pegangan ulama gilakan kuasa
Fuqaha kau maksudkan bukan ulama buatan sekarang
Yang mengerti sedikit hadis, hukum dan ayat al-Qur'an.
Sikap melampau: mereka terpenjara dalam mazhab
Taasub sangat kepada Ali, mereka lupa akan Muhammad. ~ Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud,
1379:Perhaps it will also serve as a reminder to those who think they have grand and global solutions to the challenges of the world that it is often through the grass roots, by listening to those whose lives they seek to change, that true and sustainable solutions, in tune with the land and the human spirit, will be found. I ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1380:No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1381:He used the term jihad in both spiritual and physical contexts, but the physical jihad is the one Muhammad strongly emphasizes.33 The peaceful practice of Islam hinges on later, often Western, interpretations of Muhammad’s teachings, whereas the more violent variations of Islam are deeply rooted in orthodoxy and history.34 ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
1382:The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1383:Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1384:So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1385:What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1386:I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1387:In the world of development, if one mixes the poor and the nonpoor in a program, the nonpoor will always drive out the poor, and the less poor will drive out the more poor, unless protective measures are instituted right at the beginning. In such cases, the nonpoor reap the benefits of all that is done in the name of the poor. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1388:I've been many times to Dubai and the U.A.E., and I have friends that live there. It would be exciting to stage world heavyweight championship fights in the Arab world. It's something Muhammad Ali achieved when he fought in Zaire or the Philippines. It's absolutely exciting to fight in countries where you have never fought. ~ Wladimir Klitschko,
1389:Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals. ~ Malcolm X,
1390:As for Muslims who leave infidel lands, Awlaki invited them to come to Yemen. The Prophet had prophesied the appearance of an army of “twelve thousand” men who would “come out of Aden-Abyan” in the south to “give victory to Allah and His Messenger,” Muhammad. Awlaki believed the fulfillment of the prophecy was fast approaching. ~ William McCants,
1391:Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of being anti-Semitic, simply because he teaches our people to go into business for ourselves and take over the economic leadership in our own community. ~ Malcolm X,
1392:Konsep "manusia baik" dalam islam tidak hanya "baik" dalam pengertian sosial seperti difahami orang pada umumnya,tetapi ia juga mesti pertama baik terhadap dirinya,tidak berlaku zalim(tidak adil)terhadap dirinya.Sekiranya ia tidak dapat adil terhadap dirinya,bagaimana ia dapat benar-benar adil terhadap orang lain. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1393:To all those who say they believe in God, please realize with faith that God hears every word you say. God hears your every thought. Realizing this, speak only what is truth and act only with God's qualities of love, compassion, justice, patience, and the realization that each life is as important as your own. ~ Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen,
1394:With astonishing consistency, the people of Kültepe and Duttepe all saw the same figures in their dreams at regular intervals: Boys: the female primary-school teacher Girls: Atatürk Men: the Holy Prophet Muhammad Women: a tall, anonymous Western film star Old men: an angel drinking milk Old women: a young postman bringing good news ~ Orhan Pamuk,
1395:If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed. ~ Muhammad ibn Zakariya al Razi,
1396:The Shi‘ah believe that salvation requires the intercession of Muhammad, his son-in-law Ali, his grandsons Hasan and Husayn, and the rest of the Prophet’s legitimate successors, the Imams, who not only serve as humanity’s intercessors on the Last Days, but who further function as the eternal executors (wali) of the divine Revelation. ~ Reza Aslan,
1397:There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony. ~ Michael Eric Dyson,
1398:Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income for all ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1399:I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1400:Definisi epistemologis yang paling tepat untuk ilmu, dengan Allah Subhanallahu wa Ta'ala sebagai sumbernya, ialah tibanya (husul) makna (ma'na) sesuatu benda atau objek ilmu ke dalam jiwa. Dengan memandang jiwa sebagai penafsir maka ilmu adalah tibanya (wusul) diri (jiwa) kepada makna sesuatu hal atau suatu objek ilmu. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1401:I remember attending a Friars roast for Muhammad Ali when Don Rickles grabbed me and walked me up to Sinatra. “Hey, Frank,” he said to the Chairman of the Board, “tonight I’m sitting with this guy. You know why? Because he fills up baseball stadiums! You play bars.” Frank laughed and waved him off, with me standing there silently. Soon ~ Alice Cooper,
1402:There is one thing only which a Muslim can profitably learn from the west, the exact sciences in their pure and applied form. Only natural sciences and mathematics should be taught in Muslim schools, while tuition of European philosophy, literature and history should lose the position of primacy which today it holds on the curriculum. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1403:I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1404:Pahlawan.. Jangan menanti kedatangannya. Mereka adalah aku, kau, dan kita semua. Mereka bukan orang lain. Mereka hanya belum memulai. Mereka hanya perlu berjanji untuk merebut takdir kepahlawanan mereka, dan dunia akan menyaksikan gugusan pulau-pulau ini menjelma menjadi untaian kalung zamrud kembali yang menghiasi leher sejarah. ~ Muhammad Anis Matta,
1405:What is the character and general structure of the universe in which we live? Is there a permanent element in the constitution of this universe? How are we related to it? What place do we occupy in it, and what is the kind of conduct that befits the place we occupy? These questions are common to religion, philosophy, and higher poetry ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1406:I was to learn later that Elijah Muhammad’s tales, like this one of “Yacub,” infuriated the Muslims of the East. While at Mecca, I reminded them that it was their fault, since they themselves hadn’t done enough to make real Islam known in the West. Their silence left a vacuum into which any religious faker could step and mislead our people. ~ Malcolm X,
1407:My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1408:The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1409:Franklin D. Roosevelt plays a part, as does the eighteenth-century tribal chief Muhammad Ibn Sa’ud. So does another eighteenth-century Arab, Muhammad ibn ‘Abd-al-Wahhab and the archconservative thirteenth-century cleric Ibn Taymiyah. And so, finally, do the fruits of all the malignant seeds planted by Ibn Taymiyah: the Muslim Brotherhood. ~ Robert B Baer,
1410:It's important to go against the grain. My favorite celebrity, across arts and sports and everything, is Muhammad Ali. And he was famous for speaking inflammatory things that were polarizing but also were important to building who he was as a man and his legacy. And in the end, he was right about most of the s... he was talkin' about. ~ Chance the Rapper,
1411:Umat ini terjaga daripada kesalahan berkat Kitab Suci Tuhannya dan Sunnah Rasul-Nya. Lagipula, umat ini tidak akan bersepakat dalam kesesatan. Kemaksuman atau terjaganya umat daripada kesalahan jauh lebih penting dibandingkan terjaganya imam (Syiah) daripada kesalahan. Inilah penyataan para ulama mengenai hikmah kemaksuman umat. ~ Ali Muhammad Al Salaabi,
1412:all rightly guided religion that submitted wholly to God, refused to worship man-made deities and preached that justice and equality came from the same divine source. Hence Muhammad never asked Jews or Christians to accept Islam, unless they particularly wished to do so, because they had received perfectly valid revelations of their own. ~ Karen Armstrong,
1413:For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1414:As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, 'justice lays down with you when you lay down, justice gets up with you when you get up.' The requirement of this universally applicable law is that you must do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. When you wake up, you wake up to that law that whatever you put out is going to come back. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1415:It was in the mosque that al-Zarqawi first discovered Salafism, a doctrine that in its contemporary form advocates a return to theological purity and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad. Salafists deem Western-style democracy and modernity not only fundamentally irreconcilable with Islam, but the main pollutants of the Arab civilization, ~ Michael Weiss,
1416:No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. Some mountains are higher than others, some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks, but you can't let them stop you. Even on the steepest road, you must not turn back. You must keep going up. In order to reach the top of the mountain, you have to climb every rock. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1417:Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. – Muhammad Ali ~ Kristen Ashley,
1418:In the Bible and Holy Qur'an, God shows us through the life of His prophets and messengers that none of them came into the world to do their work without severe opposition against them. That was with Abraham, Noah, Lot, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them all and all the prophets and messengers in between. That is our role today. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1419:Nabi Muhammad SAW dipersetujui sebulat suara oleh semua umat Islam sebagai al-nabi al-ummi, nabi yang buta huruf. Namun demikian, sunnahnya lengkap dengan aphorisme dan tindakan-tindakan yang menguatkan konsep ilmu dalam al-Quran dan menjadi pencetus dan kuasa pendorong bagi pembangunan intelektual dan tamadun masa depan dalam Islam. ~ Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud,
1420:The coming of the Prophet would sweep away this fragmented and pluralistic pattern of trade in the ancient world. Within a few centuries of Muhammad's death, one culture, one religion, and one law would unify the commerce of the Old World's three continents nearly a millennium before the arrival of the first European ships in the East. ~ William J Bernstein,
1421:I try to kind of enlightened my frustration and agony by coming to the conclusion that I may not be useful as an economist but I m still a basic human being. I can juts go out and stand next to human being. And see if there s anything I can do to another person. Even for a day if it is help pay for more a day I feel more a little bit better. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1422:We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1423:The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional. ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1424:According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan. That word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements. ~ George W Bush,
1425:The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in himself. He - he has been brainwashed by the educational system that exists here in America to the point where he feels he was a savage in the jungle when he was - before he was brought here. And this destroys his morale. ~ Malcolm X,
1426:The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1427:There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1428:Muhammad vs. Jesus “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Jesus (Matthew 5:44) “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know.” Qur’an 8:60 ~ Robert Spencer,
1429:If you speak your mind on the Vatican, on the Catholic Church, on the Pope, on the Virgin Mary or Jesus or the saints, nobody touches your ‘right of thought and expression.’ But if you do the same with Islam, the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad, some son of Allah, you are called a xenophobic blasphemer who has committed an act of racial discrimination. ~ Oriana Fallaci,
1430:I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1431:For, according to the teachings
of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a
gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory
upon earth. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1432:The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1433:Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself! ~ Muhammad Iqbal,
1434:belajarlah dalam kesabaran Ayub
berjalanlah bersama keberanian Ibrahim
bacalah semesta melalui kecerdasan Sulaiman
taklukkan angkuh dunia dengan ketangguhan Musa
himpunlah semua kebijaksanaan Yakub
katakanlah kebenaran semerdu suara Daud
kasihilah sesama sepenuh cinta Isa
lalu masukilah kebeningan dirimu
bersama ketakwaan Muhammad ~ Fahd Pahdepie,
1435:Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Daniel, the white man in America today will never understand the race problem or come anywhere near getting a solution to the race problem until he talks to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. ~ Malcolm X,
1436:Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd. ~ Salman Rushdie,
1437:Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1438:The people of the Qur’an (those who recite and those who memorize the Qur’an) will be in the highest level (in Heaven) from amongst all of the people with the exception of the Prophets and Messengers. Thus, do not seek to degrade the people of the Qur’an, nor take away their rights, for surely they have been given a high rank by Allah. ~ Muhammad Thawabul A’mal, Page 224,
1439:Those who followed al-Ghazāli adopted the same literalist view as Christian fundamentalists do today: the only cause of anything was God, and the texts of the old books, in this case not the Bible but the Quran and the Hadīth (the recorded conversations of the Prophet Muhammad), gave Muslims everything they would ever need to know about their faith, ~ Shawn Lawrence Otto,
1440:Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1441:"The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has." ~ Vernon Richards,
1442:Every age requires a new approach to the Qur’an for the simple reason that the Quran is made for all ages. It is our duty to look for deeper meanings in the Quran in order to increase our knowledge and experience. The Quran wants your intellect to be always active and trying to approach the message of God. God himself dedicated this book to people who think. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1443:Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1444:Islam menolak secara total penerapan apapun dari konsep-konsep sekular, sekularisasi atau sekularisme atas dirinya, kerana semuanya itu bukanlah milik Islam dan asing baginya dalam segala segi. Konsep-konsep tersebut merupakan milik dan hanya wajar dalam konteks sejarah intelektual Kristen-Barat, baik pengalaman maupun kesedaran keagamaannya. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1445:Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1446:I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
1447: أكدت رسالة النبي – صلى الله عليه وسلم- أن السببية العقلية هي السبيل للإيمان الصحيح بينما تبتعد التأملات الصوفية وما يترتب عليها [من سلوك] عن ذلك المضمون، والإسلام قبل أي شيء مفهوم عقلاني لا عاطفي ولا انفعالي، الانفعالات مهما تكن جياشة معرضة للاختلاف والتباين باختلاف رغبات الأفراد وتباين مخاوفهم بعكس السببية العقلية، كما أن الانفعالية غير معصومة بأي حال ~ Muhammad Asad,
1448:I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1449:Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and it's the human order. He set the example and model for Muslims for all the different endeavors. He is not only the example of the spiritual life, but he is also an example for our life in this world. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
1450:To me, it doesn’t make sense. The poorest of the poor work twelve hours a day. They need to sell and earn income to eat. They have every reason to pay you back, just to take another loan and live another day! That is the best security you can have—their life.” The manager shook his head. “You are an idealist, Professor. You live with books and theories.” “But ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1451:Muhammad was convinced that unless the Quraysh reformed their attitudes and behavior, they too would fall prey to the anarchy that threatened to engulf the world. Under the inspiration of Allah, Muhammad was feeling his way towards an entirely new solution, convinced that he was not speaking in his own name, but was simply repeating the revealed words of God. ~ Karen Armstrong,
1452:Ya Rasulullaah, apa yang menghalangi tuan? Demi Allah, aku tidak meninggalkan satu majelis pun dimana aku pernah duduk di sana dalam keadaan kafir, kecuali aku datangi untuk kemudian aku tunjukkan di sana ke-Islam-anku tanpa rasa khawatir dan takut.

Bisakah kita tidak menyembah Allah secara sembunyi-sembunyi lagi...?"

-Umar bin Khattab ra ~ Khalid Muhammad Khalid,
1453:The editor of a Danish newspaper wonders why comedians, who boast of their willingness to ‘transgress boundaries’ and ‘speak truth to power’, will mock Jesus but not Muhammad. He invites Danish cartoonists to satirise the Prophet. Most respond by satirising the editor. It makes no difference. They still have to spend the rest of their lives under police protection. ~ Nick Cohen,
1454:I found myself thinking that the Quran is not a holy document. It is a historical record, written by humans. It is one version of events, as perceived by the men who wrote it 150 years after the Prophet Muhammad died. And it is a very tribal and Arab version of events. It spreads a culture that is brutal, bigoted, fixated on controlling women, and harsh in war. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
1455:The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1456:Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and to be close to God. I'm not perfect. I know that I still have things to work out, and I'm working on them. There are certain things I have done that I am not proud of, especially when they caused pain to others. I ask God for forgiveness. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1457:Where establishment Islam was becoming less tolerant, seeing the Quran as the only valid scripture and Muhammad’s religion as the one true faith, Sufis went back to the spirit of the Quran in their appreciation of other religious traditions. Some, for example, were especially devoted to Jesus, whom they saw as the ideal Sufi since he had preached a gospel of love. ~ Karen Armstrong,
1458:Muhammad vs. Jesus “Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.” Jesus (Matthew 5:11) “And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter.” Qur’an 2:191 ~ Robert Spencer,
1459:...Where are these so-called moderate Muslims one always hears about in the press? Do they exist or are they merely figments of our imagination? If one insults the Prophet Muhammad, our Muslim countrymen pour into the streets in a sacred rage and threaten us with beheading. But when one of them commits murder in the Prophet's name..."

"The silence is deafening. ~ Daniel Silva,
1460:I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you don't let him in your toilet, you don't let him in your restroom, you don't let him marry your daughter, you gotta fight. So, we're not gonna be botherin' you, you understand. Muslims don't come in, we don't have no trouble with you. It's just the integrator. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1461:David also took serious issue with Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha. According to a handful of hadiths, she was six when Muhammad married her, and he consummated the marriage with her three years later, when he was fifty-two.84 David argued that because of his example young girls all across the Muslim world are forced to marry at an age far too young for their well-being. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
1462:I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair and blue eyes? Why is the Lord's supper all white men? Angels are white, the Pope, Mary, and even the angels.' I said, 'Mother, when we die, do we go to Heaven?' She said, 'Naturally we go to Heaven.' I said, 'Well, what happened to all the black angels?' ~ Muhammad Ali,
1463:If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is power. I have been arguing that credit should be accepted as a human right. If we can come up with a system which allows everybody access to credit while ensuring excellent repayment - I can give you a guarantee that poverty will not last long. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1464:People need to learn how to respond to each other's hatreds with love - which is what Jesus taught us, which is what Buddha came here to teach us, which is what Muhammad taught us, which is what all of the great spiritual masters who have ever walked among us who live at those highest energies taught us - responding to force with more force will just create more problems. ~ Wayne Dyer,
1465:Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and microfinance pioneer, says, “All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves, we were all self-employed… finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. As civilization came, we suppressed it. We became ‘labor’ because they stamped us, ‘You are labor.’ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs. ~ Jocelyn K Glei,
1466:When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation. ~ Nur Muhammad Taraki,
1467:Once In A While
Once in a while,
During these sultry nights,
When all voices seem
To have fallen asleep,
In the somewhat bruised
Silence of half-sleep
A wonderful dream awakes;
I see
That across the veil of dust
Which hangs between us
You too are all alone
And wide awake.
[Translated by Muhammad Salim-ur-Rehman]
~ Amjad Islam Amjad,
1468:The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers' licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven't any use for faces anymore, it seems. They are busy looking at your credit card, your driver's licence, your social security number. If a driver's licence is more reliable than the face I wear, then why do I have a face? ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1469:My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants. ~ Gerd R Puin,
1470:I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people, who are producing all material and immaterial equipment necessary for the life in this country and who make all efforts for prosperity and serendipity of the society. This glorious and magnificent red flag is the symbol of the greatness and pride of these people. ~ Nur Muhammad Taraki,
1471:No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
1472:The Koreans that make their money in our community: If we have a Black bank, you'll find they don't deposit anything of what they take from us into a Black bank that would serve our community. They set up a bank in their own community. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, my Teacher, called people like this "Bloodsuckers of the poor." All they want is to make a dollar, and run. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1473:His boast of irreligion stayed on his tongue,for what reasons he couldn't say,any more than he could say why words long unuttered floated unbidden into his mind:La ilaha illa Allah,Muhammad rasulullah.The Kalima,the Word of Purity,the declaration of faith.It almost made him laugh:at the moment he planned to disavow his Muslim identity,his subconscious had unearthed its kernel. ~ Amy Waldman,
1474:seems to me that Christian dogmatics must be an explication of Christ’s activity, the more so since Christ established no teaching but was active. He didn’t teach that there was a redemption for man, he redeemed men. A Muhammadan dogmatics (sit venia verbo)21 would be an explication of Muhammad’s teaching, but a Christian dogmatics is an explication of Christ’s activity. ~ S ren Kierkegaard,
1475:As a social business, Grameen Danone follows the basic principle that it must be self-sustaining, and the owners must remain committed to never take any dividend beyond the return of the original amount they invested. The company’s success is judged each year not by the amount of profit generated, but by the number of children who escape malnutrition in that particular year. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1476:Bombing embassies or destroying non-military installations like the World Trade Center is no jihad. “[T]hose who launched the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks not only killed thousands of innocent people in the United States but also put the lives of millions of Muslims across the world at risk. Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for. ~ Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri,
1477:Within the Nation, he [Malcolm] explained that his purpose was to present the views of Elijah Muhammad and to challenge distortions about their religion. In fact, his objectives were to turn upside down the standard racial dialectic of black subordination and white supremacy, and to show off his rhetorical skill at the expense of white authorities and Negro integrationists. ~ Manning Marable,
1478:I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I have never played a cop again, and I have never played a boxer again since I played Muhammad Ali. That was a challenge, being darker than him, and the film won Best Television Movie and I was a part of that. I was in Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar. ~ Darius McCrary,
1479:Neither the student nor I would mind in the least fair criticism and correction, but no one will permit himself to suffer criticism and correction from another whose knowledge and understanding of the subject is less than the one criticized and corrected; whose knowledge and understanding of the subject is susceptible to doubt as to its true worth and validity. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1480:...one could accept Muhammad as a genuine mystic—just as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as having genuinely been heard by her, or the revelations of Saint John the Divine as being that troubled soul's 'real' experiences—without needing also to accept that, had one been standing next to the Prophet of Islam on Mount Hira that day, one would also have seen the Archangel. ~ Salman Rushdie,
1481:The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life. ~ Malcolm X,
1482:UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1483:But Shia scholars would maintain that Muhammad had long before made the divinely guided choice of his closest male relative—his son-in-law Ali—as his successor. He had done so many times, in public, they would say, and if Ali’s enemies had not thwarted the Prophet’s will, he would certainly have done so again, one last time, as he lay dying in that small chamber alongside the mosque. ~ Anonymous,
1484:Telah berkata Muhammad bin Sirin: Dua orang lelaki telah bersengketa mengenai sepotong tanah, lalu Allah mewahyukan kepada bumi itu supaya berbicara kepada kedua-duanya. Maka bumi pun berkata kepada mereka: Wahai kalian yang bodoh! Sebenarnya aku sebelum kalian berdua telah dimiliki oleh seribu orang yang cacat matanya, apatah lagi oleh orang-orang yang celek dan sihat seperti kamu berdua ini. ~,
1485:The Qur’an promoted work and trade and defined commercial profit as “God’s bounty.”38 The Prophet, himself a merchant, is on the record with such sayings as: “He who makes money pleases God.”39 He is also known to have rejected calls for price-fixing, noting that only God governs the market.40 “Muhammad,” as French historian Maxime Rodinson succinctly put it, “was not a socialist. ~ Mustafa Akyol,
1486:Bismillah al rahman al Rahim,” he replied. In the name of God, most Gracious, most Compassionate. Harvath knew the phrase. Every chapter in the Quran, except for the ninth, began with it. “Ash-hadu an laa ilaaha illallah,” he continued. “Wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan rasulullah.” I bear witness that there is no god except Allah. And I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. ~ Brad Thor,
1487:Let us build our own political machine. You've been in the Democratic Party, you got nothing. We were Republicans at one time, at least, we had a fake declaration of emancipation. No, if you and I unite with that man, and that man is Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger-Messiah, with the help of Allah he said, I will get you what you want and I know what you want for I am your brother. ~ Louis Farrakhan,
1488:Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge, a ruler of a community, the King of Medina and later of Arabia, and all of these were combined in him and his destiny, the reason God brought him on earth, was to show how each of the functions which human beings have in life have the perfect form in the prophet. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
1489:Within the Nation, he [Malcolm] explained that his purpose was to present the views of Elijah Muhammad and to challenge distortions about their religion. In fact, his objectives were to turn upside down the standard racial dialectic of black subordination and white supremacy, and to show off his rhetorical skill at the expense of white authorities and Negro integrationists (185). ~ Manning Marable,
1490:Injustice, being the opposite of justice, is the putting a thing in a place not its own; it is to misplace a thing; it is to misuse or to wrong; it is to exceed or fall short of the mean or limit; it is to suffer loss; it is deviation from the right course; it is disbelief of what is true, or lying about what is true knowing it to be true. -Islam and Secularism page 78 ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1491:That racial categories were hardening at this moment put Boas’s statements directly at odds with an increasing public desire to believe in racial purity. White southerners were hysterical over the threat of “social equality” or what they took to mean the apocalyptic possibility of black men “ravishing” white women and passing on their “degenerate” traits to a “pure” white race ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad,
1492:The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it. ~ Malcolm X,
1493:I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1494:Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's father] drew his power from the first really important al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir, who was executed by Saddam in 1980, together with his sister. So it's really a family of martyrs, and that's why Muqtada suddenly emerged from nowhere with the fall of Saddam. ~ Patrick Cockburn,
1495:Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh. ~ Malcolm X,
1496:The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his ethical thought and all his concepts of morality; not the outcome of primitive credulity which a more "enlightened" age could outgrow, but the only answer to a real, basic need of man at all times and in all environments. In another word, it is an instinct. ~ Muhammad Asad,
1497:I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. ~ Muhammad Ali,
1498:I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will blame their forefathers for tolerating this inhuman condition to continue in a massive way. ~ Muhammad Yunus,
1499:Saya tetap menghormati beliau (Fazlur Rahman) sebagai salah seorang ilmuwan ulong zaman ini, khasnya dari tradisi falsafah ala Ibn Sina. Saya juga menyanjunginya sebagai seorang yang baik dan berdedikasi dalam perjuangannya walaupun saya tidak bersependapat dengannya. Sikap ini saya dapat secara praktis dari memerhatikan Prof Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas sejak 1988 hingga sekarang. ~ Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud,
1500:My loving children, my children who were created with God's beauty, my wise children, whatever difficulty you may have, do not ever leave His charge. Just as the prophets of God kept their faith firm and were tolerant in spite of the problems they had, no matter what difficulties you may experience, be tolerant, be forbearant and embrace all living things as your own life. ~ Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen,

IN CHAPTERS [134/134]



  114 Islam
   7 Poetry
   5 Baha i Faith
   1 Sufism
   1 Psychology


  114 Muhammad
   6 Baha u llah
   6 Allama Muhammad Iqbal
   2 Carl Jung


  114 Quran
   3 The Book of Certitude
   2 Aion


1.001 - The Opening, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.002 - The Heifer, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  translator class:Talal Itani

1.003 - Family of Imran, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam
  --
  144. Muhammad is no more than a messenger. Messengers have passed on before him. If he dies or gets killed, will you turn on your heels? He who turns on his heels will not harm God in any way. And God will reward the appreciative.
  145. No soul can die except by God’s leave, at a predetermined time. Whoever desires the reward of the world, We will give him some of it; and whoever desires the reward of the Hereafter, We will give him some of it; and We will reward the appreciative.

1.004 - Women, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.005 - The Table, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.006 - Livestock, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.007 - The Elevations, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.008 - The Spoils, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.009 - Repentance, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
  Call ye to mind the shaykh whose name was Muhammad-Hasan, who ranked among the most learned divines of his day. When the True One was made manifest, this shaykh, along with others of his calling, rejected Him, while a sifter of wheat and barley accepted Him and turned unto the Lord.
  Though he was occupied both night and day in setting down what he conceived to be the laws and ordinances of God, yet when He Who is the Unconstrained appeared, not one letter thereof availed him, or he would not have turned away from a Countenance that hath illumined the faces of the well-favoured of the Lord. Had ye believed in God when He revealed Himself, the people would not have turned aside from Him, nor would the things ye witness today have befallen Us. Fear God, and be not of the heedless.

1.010 - Jonah, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.011 - Hud, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.012 - Joseph, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.013 - Thunder, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.014 - Abraham, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.015 - The Rock, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.016 - The Bee, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.017 - The Night Journey, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.018 - The Cave, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.019 - Mary, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.020 - Ta-Ha, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.021 - The Prophets, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.022 - The Pilgrimage, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.023 - The Believers, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.024 - The Light, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.025 - The Criterion, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.026 - The Poets, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.027 - The Ant, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.028 - History, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.029 - The Spider, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.030 - The Romans, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.031 - Luqman, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.032 - Prostration, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.033 - The Confederates, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam
  --
  40. Muhammad is not the father of any of your men; but he is the Messenger of God, and the seal of the prophets. God is Cognizant of everything.
  41. O you who believe, remember God with frequent remembrance.

1.034 - Sheba, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.035 - Originator, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.036 - Ya-Seen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.037 - The Aligners, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.038 - Saad, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.039 - Throngs, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.03 - Questions and Answers, #Book of Certitude, #unset, #Zen
  105. And in another Tablet, these exalted words have been revealed: O Muhammad! The Ancient of Days hath turned His countenance towards thee, making mention of thee, and exhorting the people of God to educate their children. Should a father neglect this most weighty commandment laid down in the Kitab-i-Aqdas by the Pen of the Eternal King, he shall forfeit rights of fatherhood, and be accounted guilty before God. Well is it with him who imprinteth on his heart the admonitions of the Lord, and steadfastly cleaveth unto them. God, in truth, enjoineth on His servants what shall assist and profit them, and enable them to draw nigh unto Him. He is the Ordainer, the Everlasting.
  106. He is God, exalted be He, the Lord of majesty and power! The Prophets and Chosen Ones have all been commissioned by the One True God, magnified be His glory, to nurture the trees of human existence with the living waters of uprightness and understanding, that there may appear from them that which God hath deposited within their inmost selves. As may be readily observed, each tree yieldeth a certain fruit, and a barren tree is but fit for fire. The purpose of these Educators, in all they said and taught, was to preserve man's exalted station. Well is it with him who in the Day of God hath laid fast hold upon His precepts and hath not deviated from His true and fundamental Law. The fruits that best befit the tree of human life are trustworthiness and godliness, truthfulness and sincerity; but greater than all, after recognition of the unity of God, praised and glorified be He, is regard for the rights that are due to one's parents. This teaching hath been mentioned in all the Books of God, and reaffirmed by the Most Exalted Pen. Consider that which the Merciful Lord hath revealed in the Qur'an, exalted are His words: "Worship ye God, join with Him no peer or likeness; and show forth kindliness and charity towards your parents..." Observe how loving-kindness to one's parents hath been linked to recognition of the one true God! Happy they who are endued with true wisdom and understanding, who see and perceive, who read and understand, and who observe that which God hath revealed in the Holy Books of old, and in this incomparable and wondrous Tablet.

1.040 - Forgiver, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.041 - Detailed, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.042 - Consultation, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.043 - Decorations, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.044 - Smoke, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.045 - Kneeling, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.046 - The Dunes, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.047 - Muhammad, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  object:1.047 - Muhammad
  class:chapter
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam
  --
  2. While those who believe, and work righteousness, and believe in what was sent down to Muhammad—and it is the truth from their Lord—He remits their sins, and relieves their concerns.
  3. That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehoods, while those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. God thus cites for the people their examples.

1.048 - Victory, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam
  --
  29. Muhammad is the Messenger of God. Those with him are stern against the disbelievers, yet compassionate amongst themselves. You see them kneeling, prostrating, seeking blessings from God and approval. Their marks are on their faces from the effects of prostration. Such is their description in the Torah, and their description in the Gospel: like a plant that sprouts, becomes strong, grows thick, and rests on its stem, impressing the farmers. Through them He enrages the disbelievers. God has promised those among them who believe and do good deeds forgiveness and a great reward.

1.049 - The Chambers, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.050 - Qaf, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.051 - The Spreaders, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.052 - The Mount, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.053 - The Star, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.054 - The Moon, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.055 - The Compassionate, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.056 - The Inevitable, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.057 - Iron, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.058 - The Argument, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.059 - The Mobilization, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.05 - On the Love of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  When we apply this principle to the love of God we shall find that He alone is worthy of our love, and that, if any one loves Him not, it is because he does not know Him. Whatever we love in any one we love because it is a reflection of Him. It is for this reason that we love Muhammad, because he is the Prophet and the Beloved of God, and the love of learned and pious men is really the love of God. We shall see this more clearly if we consider what are the causes which excite love.
  The first cause is this, that man loves himself and the perfection of his own nature. This leads him directly to the love of God, for man's very existence and man's attributes are nothing else but the gift of God, but for whose grace and kindness man would never have emerged from behind the curtain of non-existence into the visible world. Man's preservation and eventual attainment to perfection are also, entirely dependent upon the grace of God. It would indeed be a wonder, if one should take
  --
  Muhammad, who is the Prophet of God; if his love is really strong, he will love all men, for all are God's servants, nay, his love will embrace the whole creation, for he who loves any one loves the works he composes and his handwriting.
  The fifth test is, he will be covetous of retirement and privacy for purposes of devotion;, he will long for the approach of night, so that he may hold intercourse with his Friend without let or hindrance. If he prefers conversation by day and sleep at night to such retirement, then, his love is imperfect. God said to David, "Be not too intimate with men; for two kinds of persons are excluded from My presence: those who are earnest in seeking reward and slack when they obtain it, and those who prefer their own thoughts to the remembrance of Me. The. sign of My displeasure is that I leave such to themselves."

1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  (1985). Vol. 3. From Muhammad to the age of reforms.
  Eliade, M. (1991a). Images and symbols: Studies in religious symbolism. Princeton: Mythos.

1.060 - The Woman Tested, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.061 - Column, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.062 - Friday, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.063 - The Hypocrites, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.064 - Gathering, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.065 - Divorce, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.066 - Prohibition, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.067 - Sovereignty, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.068 - The Pen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.069 - The Reality, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.070 - Ways of Ascent, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.071 - Noah, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.072 - The Jinn, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.073 - The Enwrapped, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.074 - The Enrobed, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.075 - Resurrection, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.076 - Man, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.077 - The Unleashed, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.078 - The Event, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.079 - The Snatchers, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.080 - He Frowned, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.081 - The Rolling, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.082 - The Shattering, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.083 - The Defrauders, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.084 - The Rupture, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.085 - The Constellations, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.086 - The Nightly Visitor, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.087 - The Most High, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.088 - The Overwhelming, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.089 - The Dawn, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.090 - The Land, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.091 - The Sun, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.092 - The Night, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.093 - Morning Light, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.094 - The Soothing, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.095 - The Fig, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.096 - Clot, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.097 - Decree, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.098 - Clear Evidence, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.099 - The Quake, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.100 - The Racers, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.101 - The Shocker, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.102 - Abundance, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.103 - Time, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.104 - The Backbiter, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.105 - The Elephant, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.106 - Quraish, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.107 - Assistance, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.108 - Plenty, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.109 - The Disbelievers, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.110 - Victory, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.111 - Thorns, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.112 - Monotheism, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.113 - Daybreak, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.114 - Mankind, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  author class:Muhammad
  subject class:Islam

1.14 - Bibliography, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  Albumasar. See Ja'far ibn Muhammad (Abu Ma'shar) al-Balkhi.
  Alciati, Andrea. Emblemata. Padua, 1621 (another edn., 1661).
  --
  Ja'far ibn Muhammad (Abu Ma'shar) al-Balkh I (Albumasar). De
  magnis coniunctionibus. Venice and Augsburg, 1489.
  --
  Muhammad ibn Jarir Abu-Jafar al-Tabari. Chronique. Translated
  (into French) by Hermann Zotenberg. 4 vols. Paris and (vol. 4)
  --
  Tabari. See Muhammad ibn Jarir Abu-Jafar al TabarT.
  Tabula smaragdina. See (A) Ars chemica, ii; Ruska.

1.15 - Index, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  Albumasar (Ja'far ibn Muhammad
  [Abu Ma'shar] al-Balkhi), 75, 76-
  --
  Ja'far ibn Muhammad (Abu Ma'-
  shar) al-Balkhl, see Albumasar

1.ami - Bright are Thy tresses, brighten them even more (from Baal-i-Jibreel), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  author class:Allama Muhammad Iqbal
  subject class:Poetry

1.ami - O Cup-bearer! Give me again that wine of love for Thee (from Baal-i-Jibreel), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  author class:Allama Muhammad Iqbal
   English version by Naeem Siddiqui Original Language Urdu O Cup-bearer! Give me again that wine of love for Thee; Let me gain the place my soul desires. My lyrical vein was all but dried up, still The sheik decrees that, too, should be choked to death. No trail now blazes in new fields of thought, But blind slaves of sufies and mullahs survive. Who snatched away the piercing sword of love? Knowledge is left with an empty sheath alone. With a luminous soul the power of song is life; With a darkened soul that power is eternal death. A full moon glistens in Thy brimful cup; Deprive me not of its silver beams at night. <
1.ami - O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas (from Baal-i-Jibreel), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  author class:Allama Muhammad Iqbal
  subject class:Poetry

1.ami - Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world (from Baal-i-Jibreel), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  author class:Allama Muhammad Iqbal
  subject class:Poetry

1.ami - The secret divine my ecstasy has taught (from Baal-i-Jibreel), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  author class:Allama Muhammad Iqbal
  subject class:Poetry

1.ami - To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  author class:Allama Muhammad Iqbal
  subject class:Poetry

1.jr - A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Kabir Helminski Original Language Persian/Farsi & Turkish With every breath the sound of love surrounds us, and we are bound for the depths of space, without distraction. We've been in orbit before and know the angels there. Let's go there again, Master, for that is our land. Yet we are beyond all of that and more than angels. Out beyond duality, we have a home, and it is Majesty. That pure substance is different from this dusty world. What kind of place is this? We once came down; soon we'll return. A new happiness befriends us as we work at offering our lives. Muhammad, the jewel of the world, is our caravan's chosen guide. The sweetness we breathe on the wind is from the scent of his hair, and the radiance of our thought is from the light of his day. His face once caused the moon to split in two. She couldn't endure the sight of him. Yet how lucky she was, she who humbly received him. Look into your heart and see the splitting moon within each breath. Having seen that vision, how can you still dream? When the wave of "Am I not?" struck, it wrecked the body's ship; when the ship wrecks again, it will be the time of union. The Human Being, like a bird of the sea, emerged from the ocean of the soul. Earth is not the final place of rest for a bird born from the sea. No, we are pearls of that ocean; all of us live in it; and if it weren't so, why would wave upon wave arrive? This is the time of union, the time of eternal beauty. It is the time of luck and kindness; it is the ocean of purity. The wave of bestowal has come. The roar of the sea is here. The morning of happiness has dawned. No, it is the light of God. Whose face is pictured here? Who is this shah or prince? Who is this ancient intelligence? They are all masks . . . and the only remedy is this boiling ecstasy of the soul. A fountain of refreshment is in the head and the eyes -- not this bodily head but another pure spiritual one. Many a pure head has been spilled in the dust. Know the one from the other! Our original head is hidden, while this other is visible. Beyond this world is a world that has no boundaries. Put your water skin away, brother, and draw some wine from our cask! The clay jug of perception has such a narrow spout. The sun appeared from the direction of Tabriz, and I said, "This light is at once joined with all things, and yet apart from everything." [2295.jpg] -- from Love is a Stranger: Selected Lyric Poetry by Jelaluddin Rumi and Kabir, Translated by Kabir Helmiski <
Averroes Search, #Labyrinths, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
  bulgualid Muhammad Ibn-Ahmad ibn-Muhammad ibn-Rushd (a
  century this long name would take to become Averroes, first becoming

BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
  Muhammadans and Christians will see the vanity of their religious doctrines. Men fight about religion
  on earth -- in heaven they shall find out that there is only one true religion -- the worship of God's

MoM References, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  (1985). Vol. 3. From Muhammad to the age of reforms.
  Eliade, M. (1991a). Images and symbols: Studies in religious symbolism. Princeton: Mythos.

Prayers and Meditations by Baha u llah text, #Prayers and Meditations by Baha u llah, #unset, #Zen
  At one time, Thou didst raise Him up, O my God, and didst attire Him with the ornament of the name of Him Who conversed with Thee (Moses), and didst through Him uncover all that Thy will had decreed and Thine irrevocable purpose ordained. At another time, Thou didst adorn Him with the name of Him Who was Thy Spirit (Jesus), and didst send Him down out of the heaven of Thy will, for the edification of Thy people, infusing thereby the spirit of life into the hearts of the sincere among Thy servants and the faithful among Thy creatures. Again, Thou didst reveal Him, decked forth by the name of Him Who was Thy Friend (Muhammad), and caused Him to shine brightly above the horizon of Hijáz, as a token of Thy power and an evidence of Thy might. Through Him Thou didst send unto Thy servants what enabled them to scale the heights of Thy unity, and to yearn over the wonders of Thy manifold knowledge and wisdom.
  I testify, O Thou Who art the Lord of the whole creation, and the Desire of whosoever hath sought Thee, that, amidst Thy creatures, They resemble the sun which no matter how often it riseth and setteth is still the one and the same sun. Whoso maketh any distinction between any of Them hath truly failed to attain the ultimate purpose, and to reach the highest goal, and hath been deprived of the mysteries of unity and of the lights of sanctity and oneness. I testify, moreover, that Thou hast decreed that none on the face of the earth should equal Them, and none of Thy creatures be able to be compared with any of Them, in order that Thine own singleness and peerlessness might be recognized and established.
  --
  Thou art He through Whom the ensign "Praiseworthy art Thou in Thy works" hath been lifted up, and the standard "Obeyed art Thou in Thy behest" hath been unfurled. Make known this Thy station, O my God, unto Thy servants, that they may be made aware that the excellence of all things is dependent upon Thy bidding and Thy word, and the virtue of every act is conditioned by Thy leave and the good-pleasure of Thy will, and may recognize that the reins of men's doings are within the grasp of Thine acceptance and Thy commandment. Make this known unto them, that nothing whatsoever may shut them out from Thy Beauty, in these days whereon the Christ exclaimeth: "All dominion is Thine, O Thou the Begetter of the Spirit (Jesus)"; and Thy Friend (Muhammad) crieth out: "Glory be to Thee, O Thou the Best-Beloved, for that Thou hast uncovered Thy Beauty, and written down for Thy chosen ones what will cause them to attain unto the seat of the revelation of Thy Most Great Name, through which all the peoples have lamented except such as have detached themselves from all else except Thee, and set themselves towards Him Who is the Revealer of Thyself and the Manifestation of Thine attributes."
  He Who is Thy Branch and all Thy company, O my Lord, have broken this day their fast, after having observed it within the precincts of Thy court, and in their eagerness to please Thee. Do Thou ordain for him, and for them, and for all such as have entered Thy presence in those days all the good Thou didst destine in Thy Book. Supply them, then, with that which will profit them, in both this life and in the life beyond.
  --
  Magnify Thou, O Lord my God, Him Who is the Primal Point, the Divine Mystery, the Unseen Essence, the Day-Spring of Divinity, and the Manifestation of Thy Lordship, through Whom all the knowledge of the past and all the knowledge of the future were made plain, through Whom the pearls of Thy hidden wisdom were uncovered, and the mystery of Thy treasured name disclosed, Whom Thou hast appointed as the Announcer of the One through Whose name the letter B and the letter E have been joined and united, through Whom Thy majesty, Thy sovereignty and Thy might were made known, through Whom Thy words have been sent down, and Thy laws set forth with clearness, and Thy signs spread abroad, and Thy Word established, through Whom the hearts of Thy chosen ones were laid bare, and all that were in the heavens and all that were on the earth were gathered together, Whom Thou hast called 'Alí-Muhammad in the kingdom of Thy names, and the Spirit of Spirits in the Tablets of Thine irrevocable decree, Whom Thou hast invested with Thine own title, unto Whose name all other names have, at Thy bidding and through the power of Thy might, been made to return, and in Whom Thou hast caused all Thine attributes and titles to attain their final consummation. To Him also belong such names as lay hid within Thy stainless tabernacles, in Thine invisible world and Thy sanctified cities.
  85
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  Lauded be Thy name, O my God! This is the hour when Thou hast unlocked the doors of Thy bounty before the faces of Thy creatures, and opened wide the portals of Thy tender mercy unto all the dwellers of Thine earth. I beseech Thee, by all them whose blood was shed in Thy path, who, in their yearning over Thee, rid themselves from all attachment to any of Thy creatures, and who were so carried away by the sweet savors of Thine inspiration that every single member of their bodies intoned Thy praise and vibrated to Thy remembrance, not to withhold from us the things Thou hast irrevocably ordained in this Revelation--a Revelation the potency of which hath caused every tree to cry out what the Burning Bush had aforetime proclaimed unto Moses, Who conversed with Thee, a Revelation that hath enabled every least pebble to resound again with Thy praise, as the stones glorified Thee in the days of Muhammad, Thy Friend.
  These are the ones, O my God, whom Thou hast graciously enabled to have fellowship with Thee and to commune with Him Who is the Revealer of Thyself. The winds of Thy will have scattered them abroad until Thou didst gather them together beneath Thy shadow, and didst cause them to enter into the precincts of Thy court. Now that Thou hast made them to abide under the shade of the canopy of Thy mercy, do Thou assist them to attain what must befit so august a station. Suffer them not, O my Lord, to be numbered with them who, though enjoying near access to Thee, have been kept back from recognizing Thy face, and who, though meeting with Thee, are deprived of Thy presence.

Tablets of Baha u llah text, #Tablets of Baha u llah, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
  His Majesty Muhammad Sháh, despite the excellence of his rank, committed two heinous deeds. One was the order to banish the Lord of the Realms of Grace and Bounty, the Primal Point; and the other, the murder of the Prince of the City of Statesmanship and Literary Accomplishment. 1 1. Mírzá Abu'l-Qásim Faráhání, the Qá'im Maqám, a distinguished poet and scholar during the reign of Fath 'Alí Sháh. He was a friend of Mírzá Buzurg, father of Bahá'u'lláh. Qá'im Maqám became Prime Minister of Persia in 1821, but in 1835 he was put to death by order of Muhammad Sháh, at the instigation of Hájí Mírzá Aqásí.
  The faults of kings, like their favors, can be great. A king who is not deterred by the vainglory of power and authority from observing justice, nor is deprived of the splendors of the day-star of equity by luxury, riches, glory or the marshalling of hosts and legions shall occupy a high rank and a sublime station amongst the Concourse on high. It is incumbent upon everyone to extend aid and to manifest kindness to so noble a soul. Well is it with the king who keepeth a tight hold on the reins of his passion, restraineth his anger and preferreth justice and fairness to injustice and tyranny.
  --
  O Haydar-'Alí! Thine other letter which thou hadst forwarded through him who beareth the title of Júd 1 (Bounty) hath reached Our holy court. Praised be God! It was adorned with the light of divine unity and of detachment and was ablaze with the fire of love and affection. Pray thou unto God that He may grant keenness to the eyes and illumine them with a new light, perchance they may perceive that which hath no parallel nor peer. 1. Muhammad Javád-i-Qazvíní, upon whom Bahá'u'lláh bestowed the title Ismu'lláhi'l-Júd (The Name of God, Bounty). He transcribed numerous Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh during His Ministry, but subsequently broke the Covenant. (See God Passes By pages 247 and 319.) Tablet to Muhammad-Javád-i-Qazvíní
  In this day the verses of the Mother Book are resplendent and unmistakable even as the sun. They can in no wise be mistaken for any of the past or more recent utterances. Truly this Wronged One desireth not to demonstrate His Own Cause with proofs produced by others. He is the One Who embraceth all things, while all else besides Him is circumscribed. Say, O people, peruse that which is current amongst you and We will peruse what pertaineth unto Us. I swear by God! Neither the praise of the peoples of the world, nor the things that the kindreds of the earth possess are worthy of mention before the remembrance of His Name. Unto this beareth witness He Who under all conditions proclaimeth, 'Verily He is God, the sovereign Ruler of the Day of Reckoning and the Lord of the mighty Throne.'
  --
  O followers of the Bayán! Fear ye the All-Merciful. This is the One Who hath been glorified by Muhammad, the Apostle of God, and before Him by the Spirit 1 and yet before Him by the One Who discoursed with God. 2 This is the Point of the Bayán calling aloud before the Throne, saying: 'By the righteousness of God, ye have been created to glorify this Most Great Announcement, this Perfect Way which lay hid within the souls of the Prophets, which was treasured in the hearts of the chosen ones of God and was written down by the glorious Pen of your Lord, the Possessor of Names.' 1. Jesus.
  2. Moses.
  --
  Consider thou and call to mind the time when Muhammad appeared. He said, and His word is the truth: 'Pilgrimage to the House 1 is a service due to God.' 2 And likewise are the daily prayer, fasting, and the laws which shone forth above the horizon of the Book of God, the Lord of the World and the true Educator of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. It is incumbent upon everyone to obey Him in whatsoever God hath ordained; and whosoever denieth Him hath disbelieved in God, in His verses, in His Messengers and in His Books. Were He to pronounce right to be wrong or denial to be belief, He speaketh the truth as bidden by God. This is a station wherein sins or trespasses neither exist nor are mentioned. Consider thou the blessed, the divinely revealed verse in which pilgrimage to the House is enjoined upon everyone. It devolved upon those invested with authority after Him 3 to observe whatever had been prescribed unto them in the Book. Unto no one is given the right to deviate from the laws and ordinances of God. Whoso deviateth therefrom is reckoned with the trespassers in the Book of God, the Lord of the Mighty Throne. 1. Mecca.
  2. Qur'án 3:91.
  3. Muhammad.
  [Fast] The Kitáb-i-Aqdas; The Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 39-40; Prayers and Meditations; Gleanings From The Writings Of Bahá'u'lláh; The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 2 p. 397, vol. 3, vol. 4 p. 9
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  O Lord! The tongue of my tongue and the heart of my heart and the spirit of my spirit and my outward and inmost beings bear witness to Thy unity and Thy oneness, Thy power and Thine omnipotence, Thy grandeur and Thy sovereignty, and attest Thy glory, loftiness and authority. I testify that Thou art God and that there is none other God besides Thee. From everlasting Thou hast been a treasure hidden from the sight and minds of men and shalt continue to remain the same for ever and ever. The powers of earth can never frustrate Thee, nor can the might of the nations alarm Thee. Thou art the One Who hath unlocked the door of knowledge before the faces of Thy servants that they may recognize Him Who is the Day-Star of Thy Revelation, the Dawning-Place of Thy signs, the Heaven of Thy manifestation and the Sun of Thy divine beauty. In Thy holy Books, in Thy Scriptures and Thy Scrolls Thou hast promised all the peoples of the world that Thou Thyself shalt appear and shalt remove the veils of glory from Thy face, even as Thou didst announce in Thy words unto Thy Friend 1 through Whom the Day-Star of Revelation shone brightly above the horizon of Hijáz, and the dawning light of divine Truth shed its radiance among all men, proclaiming: 'The Day when mankind shall stand before the Lord of the worlds.' 2 And before Muhammad Thou didst impart this glad-tiding unto Him Who conversed with Thee, 3 saying: 'Bring forth thy people from the darkness into the light and remind them of the days of God.' 4 Moreover Thou didst proclaim this truth unto the Spirit 5 and unto Thy Prophets and Thy Messengers, whether of the remote or more recent past. If all that which Thou hast sent down in glorification of this Most Great Remembrance, this Great Announcement, were to stream forth from the wellspring of Thy most august Pen, the inmates of the cities of knowledge and understanding would be dumbfounded, except such as Thou wouldst deliver through the potency of Thy might and wouldst protect as a token of Thy bountiful favor and Thy grace. I bear witness that Thou hast in truth fulfilled Thy pledge and hast made manifest the One Whose advent was foretold by Thy Prophets, Thy chosen ones and by them that serve Thee. He hath come from the heaven of glory and power, bearing the banners of Thy signs and the standards of Thy testimonies. Through the potency of Thine indomitable power and strength, He stood up before the faces of all men and summoned all mankind to the summit of transcendent glory and unto the all-highest Horizon, in such wise that neither the oppression of the ecclesiastics nor the onslaught of the rulers was able to deter Him. He arose with inflexible resolve and, unloosing His tongue, proclaimed in ringing tones: 'He Who is the All-Bountiful is come, riding aloft on the clouds. Advance, O people of the earth, with shining faces and radiant hearts!' 1. Muhammad.
  2. Qur'án 83:6.
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  In response to thy request the Pen of Glory hath graciously described the stations and grades of the Most Great Infallibility. The purpose is that all should know of a certainty that the Seal of the Prophets 1--may the souls of all else but Him be offered up for His sake--is without likeness, peer or partner in His Own station. The Holy Ones 2--may the blessings of God be upon them--were created through the potency of His Word, and after Him they were the most learned and the most distinguished among the people and abide in the utmost station of servitude. The divine Essence, sanctified from every comparison and likeness, is established in the Prophet, and God's inmost Reality, exalted above any peer or partner, is manifest in Him. This is the station of true unity and of veritable singleness. The followers of the previous Dispensation grievously failed to acquire an adequate understanding of this station. The Primal Point 3--may the life of all else but Him be offered up for His sake--saith: 'If the Seal of the Prophets had not uttered the word "Successorship", such a station would not have been created.' 1. Muhammad.
  2. The Imáms.
  --
  This Tablet was addressed to Áqá Muhammad, a distinguished believer from the town of Qá'in, who was surnamed Nabíl-i-Akbar (see Memorials of the Faithful pages 1-5). Another distinguished believer of Qá'in, Mullá Muhammad-'Alí, was known as Nabíl-i-Qá'iní (see Memorials of the Faithful pages 49-54). In the abjad notation the name 'Muhammad' has the same numerical value as 'Nabíl'.
  
  --
  O Muhammad! Hearken unto the Voice proceeding out of the Realm of Glory, calling aloud from the celestial Tree which hath risen above the land of Za'farán 1 : Verily, no God is there but Me, the Omniscient, the Wise. Be thou as the breezes of the All-Merciful for the trees of the realm of existence and foster their growth through the potency of the Name of thy Lord, the Just, the All-Informed. We desire to acquaint thee with that which will serve as a reminder unto the people, that they may put away the things current amongst them and set their faces towards God, the Lord of the sincere. 1. In a Tablet Bahá'u'lláh states, 'The Holy Tree [Sadrat] is, in a sense, the Manifestation of the One True God, exalted be He. The Blessed Tree in the land of Za'farán referreth to the land which is flourishing, blessed, holy and all-perfumed, where that Tree hath been planted.'
  We exhort mankind in these days when the countenance of Justice is soiled with dust, when the flames of unbelief are burning high and the robe of wisdom rent asunder, when tranquility and faithfulness have ebbed away and trials and tribulations have waxed severe, when covenants are broken and ties are severed, when no man knoweth how to discern light and darkness or to distinguish guidance from error. The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 4 p. 34
  --
  Blessing and peace be upon Him 1 through Whose advent Bathá 2 is wreathed in smiles, and the sweet savors of Whose raiment have shed fragrance upon all mankind--He Who came to protect men from that which would harm them in the world below. Exalted, immensely exalted is His station above the glorification of all beings and sanctified from the praise of the entire creation. Through His advent the tabernacle of stability and order was raised throughout the world and the ensign of knowledge hoisted among the nations. May blessings rest also upon His kindred and His companions through whom the standard of the unity of God and of His singleness was uplifted and the banners of celestial triumph were unfurled. Through them the religion of God was firmly established among His creatures and His Name magnified amidst His servants. I entreat Him--exalted is He--to shield His Faith from the mischief of His enemies who tore away the veils, rent them asunder and finally caused the banner of Islám to be reversed amongst all peoples. 1. Muhammad.
  2. Mecca.
  --
   1. Muhammad Husayn, one of the early believers of Shíráz, surnamed 'Vafá' (Fidelity) by Bahá'u'lláh. [CLUI: Súriy-i-Vafá]
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  Consider thou the Revelation of the Point of the Bayán--exalted is His glory. He pronounced the First One 1 to believe in Him to be Muhammad, the Messenger of God. Doth it beseem a man to dispute with Him by saying that this man is from Persia, the Other from Arabia, or this one was called Husayn while the Other bore the name of Muhammad? Nay, I swear by God's holy Being, the Exalted, the Most Great. Surely no man of intelligence and insight would ever pay attention unto limitations or names, but rather unto that with which Muhammad was invested, which was none other than the Cause of God. Such a man of insight would likewise consider Husayn and the position he occupied in the Cause of God, the Omnipotent, the Exalted, the Knowing, the Wise. And since the First One to believe in God in the Dispensation of the Bayán was invested with command similar to that with which Muhammad, the Messenger of God, was invested, therefore the Báb pronounced him to be the latter, namely His return and resurrection. This station is sanctified from every limitation or name, and naught can be seen therein but God, the One, the Peerless, the All-Knowing. 1. Mullá Husayn. The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 4 p. 208
  185
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  This Tablet was revealed after the martyrdom of the King of Martyrs and the Beloved of Martyrs (see God Passes By, pages 200-201) and was addressed to Shaykh Muhammad Báqir, denounced by Bahá'u'lláh as the 'Wolf'. In this Tablet Bahá'u'lláh refers to Mír Muhammad Husayn, the Imám Jum'ih of Isfáhán, surnamed the 'She-Serpent', who was Shaykh Muhammad Báqir's accomplice in the persecution of the Bahá'ís. (See God Passes By, pages 198, 200-201 and 219). The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf was addressed to Shaykh Muhammad Taqíy-i-Najafi, the son of Shaykh Muhammad Báqir. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
  
  --
  2. Fátimih, daughter of Muhammad.
  ["There is no hatred..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 4 p. 95
  --
  Judge thou fairly, I adjure thee by God. What proof did the Jewish doctors adduce wherewith to condemn Him Who was the Spirit of God, 1 when He came unto them with truth? What could have been the evidence produced by the Pharisees and the idolatrous priests to justify their denial of Muhammad, the Apostle of God when He came unto them with a Book that judged between truth and falsehood with a justice which turned into light the darkness of the earth, and enraptured the hearts of such as had known Him? Indeed thou hast produced, in this day, the same proofs which the foolish divines advanced in that age. Unto this testifieth He Who is the King of the realm of grace in this great Prison. Thou hast, truly, walked in their ways, nay, hast surpassed them in their cruelty, and hast deemed thyself to be helping the Faith and defending the Law of God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. By Him Who is the Truth! Thine iniquity hath made Gabriel to groan, and hath drawn tears from the Law of God, through which the breezes of justice have been wafted over all who are in heaven and on earth. Hast thou fondly imagined that the judgment thou didst pronounce hath profited thee? Nay, by Him Who is the King of all Names! Unto thy loss testifieth He with Whom is the knowledge of all things as recorded in the preserved Tablet. When thou didst pen thy judgment, thou wast accused by thy very pen. Unto this doth bear witness the Pen of God, the Most High, in His inaccessible station. 1. Jesus. ["When thou didst pen Thy judgement..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 4 p. 92
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  O Báqir! Rely not on thy glory, and thy power. Thou art even as the last trace of sunlight upon the mountaintop. Soon will it fade away, as decreed by God, the All-Possessing, the Most High. Thy glory and the glory of such as are like thee have been taken away, and this verily is what hath been ordained by the One with Whom is the Mother Tablet. Where is he to be found who contended with God, and whither is gone he that gainsaid His signs, and turned aside from His sovereignty? Where are they who have slain His chosen ones and spilt the blood of His holy ones? Reflect, that haply thou mayest perceive the breaths of thine acts, O foolish doubter! Because of you the Apostle 1 lamented, and the Chaste One 2 cried out, and the countries were laid waste, and darkness fell upon all regions. O concourse of divines! Because of you the people were abased, and the banner of Islám was hauled down, and its mighty throne subverted. Every time a man of discernment hath sought to hold fast unto that which would exalt Islám, ye raised a clamor, and thereby was he deterred from achieving his purpose, while the land remained fallen in clear ruin. 1. Muhammad.
  2. Fátimih, daughter of Muhammad.
  ["Rely not on thy glory..."] Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 99;The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 3, p. 163; vol. 4 p. 95
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  The Will of the divine Testator is this: It is incumbent upon the Aghsán, the Afnán and My Kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty Branch. Consider that which We have revealed in Our Most Holy Book: 'When the ocean of My presence hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is ended, turn your faces towards Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched from this Ancient Root.' The object of this sacred verse is none except the Most Mighty Branch ['Abdu'l-Bahá]. Thus have We graciously revealed unto you Our potent Will, and I am verily the Gracious, the All-Powerful. Verily God hath ordained the station of the Greater Branch [Muhammad 'Alí] to be beneath that of the Most Great Branch ['Abdu'l-Bahá]. He is in truth the Ordainer, the All-Wise. We have chosen 'the Greater' after 'the Most Great', as decreed by Him Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.
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  O Thou who bearest My Name, Júd 1 [Bounty]! Upon thee be My Glory. Give ear unto that which thou didst hear aforetime when the Day-Star of testimony was shining resplendent above the horizon of 'Iráq, when Baghdád served as the Seat of the Throne of thy Lord, the Exalted, the Mighty. 1. Muhammad Javád-i-Qazvíní, upon whom Bahá'u'lláh bestowed the title Ismu'lláhi'l-Júd (The Name of God, Bounty). He transcribed numerous Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh during His Ministry, but subsequently broke the Covenant. (See God Passes By pages 247 and 319.) [CLUI: Tablet to Muhammad-Javád-i-Qazvíní]
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  O Muhammad Husayn! Be thou prepared to receive the outpourings of the loving-kindness of God, the Lord of the worlds. The All-Merciful hath deigned to bestow upon thee pearls of knowledge from the Ocean of the grace of God, the Almighty, the Most Exalted.
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  Every discerning observer will recognize that in the Dispensation of the Qur'án both the Book and the Cause of Jesus were confirmed. As to the matter of names, Muhammad, Himself, declared: "I am Jesus." He recognized the truth of the signs, prophecies, and words of Jesus, and testified that they were all of God. In this sense, neither the person of Jesus nor His writings hath differed from that of Muhammad and of His holy Book, inasmuch as both have championed the Cause of God, uttered His praise, and revealed His commandments. Thus it is that Jesus, Himself, declared: "I go away and come again unto you." Consider the sun. Were it to say now, "I am the sun of yesterday," it would speak the truth. And should it, bearing the sequence of time in mind, claim to be other than that sun, it still would speak the truth. In like manner, if it be said that all the days are but one and the same, it is correct and true. And if it be said, with respect to their particular names and designations, that they differ, that again is true. For though they are the same, yet one doth recognize in each a separate designation, a specific attribute, a particular character. Conceive accordingly the distinction, variation, and unity characteristic of the various Manifestations of holiness, that thou mayest comprehend the allusions made by the creator of all names and attributes to the mysteries of distinction and unity, and discover the answer to thy question as to why that everlasting Beauty should have, at sundry times, called Himself by different names and titles. [Muhammad] Some Answered Questions, index
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  Inasmuch as the Christian divines have failed to apprehend the meaning of these words, and did not recognize their object and purpose, and have clung to the literal interpretation of the words of Jesus, they therefore became deprived of the streaming grace of the Muhammadan Revelation and its showering bounties. The ignorant among the Christian community, following the example of the leaders of their faith, were likewise prevented from beholding the beauty of the King of glory, inasmuch as those signs which were to accompany the dawn of the sun of the Muhammadan Dispensation did not actually come to pass. Thus, ages have passed and centuries rolled away, and that most pure Spirit hath repaired unto the retreats of its ancient sovereignty. Once more hath the eternal Spirit breathed into the mystic trumpet, and caused the dead to speed out of their sepulchres of heedlessness and error unto the realm of guidance and grace. And yet, that expectant community still crieth out: When shall these things be? When shall the promised One, the object of our expectation, be made manifest, that we may arise for the triumph of His Cause, that we may sacrifice our substance for His sake, that we may offer up our lives in His path? In like manner, have such false imaginings caused other communities to stray from the Kawthar of the infinite mercy of Providence, and to be busied with their own idle thoughts. ["Inasmuch as the Christian..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 166
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  Beside this passage, there is yet another verse in the Gospel wherein He saith: "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My words shall not pass away." 1 Thus it is that the adherents of Jesus maintained that the law of the Gospel shall never be annulled, and that whensoever the promised Beauty is made manifest and all the signs are revealed, He must needs re-affirm and establish the law proclaimed in the Gospel, so that there may remain in the world no faith but His faith. This is their fundamental belief. And their conviction is such that were a person to be made manifest with all the promised signs and to promulgate that which is contrary to the letter of the law of the Gospel, they must assuredly renounce him, refuse to submit to his law, declare him an infidel, and laugh him to scorn. This is proved by that which came to pass when the sun of the Muhammadan Revelation was revealed. Had they sought with a humble mind from the Manifestations of God in every Dispensation the true meaning of these words revealed in the sacred books-words the misapprehension of which hath caused men to be deprived of the recognition of the Sadratu'l-Muntahá, the ultimate Purpose-they surely would have been guided to the light of the Sun of Truth, and would have discovered the mysteries of divine knowledge and wisdom. 1. Luke 21:33.
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  In another sense, by the terms 'sun', 'moon', and 'stars' are meant such laws and teachings as have been established and proclaimed in every Dispensation, such as the laws of prayer and fasting. These have, according to the law of the Qur'án, been regarded, when the beauty of the Prophet Muhammad had passed beyond the veil, as the most fundamental and binding laws of His dispensation. To this testify the texts of the traditions and chronicles, which, on account of their being widely known, need not be referred to here. Nay rather, in every Dispensation the law concerning prayer hath been emphasized and universally enforced. To this testify the recorded traditions ascribed to the lights that have emanated from the Day-star of Truth, the essence of the Prophet Muhammad. ["In another sense..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 168
  [Fast] The Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 109; Prayers and Meditations; Gleanings From The Writings Of Bahá'u'lláh; The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 2 p. 397, vol. 3, vol. 4 p. 9
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  Moreover, in the traditions the terms "sun" and "moon" have been applied to prayer and fasting, even as it is said: "Fasting is illumination, prayer is light." One day, a well-known divine came to visit Us. While We were conversing with him, he referred to the above-quoted tradition. He said: "Inasmuch as fasting causeth the heat of the body to increase, it hath therefore been likened unto the light of the sun; and as the prayer of the night-season refresheth man, it hath been compared unto the radiance of the moon." Thereupon We realized that that poor man had not been favoured with a single drop of the ocean of true understanding, and had strayed far from the burning Bush of divine wisdom. We then politely observed to him saying: "The interpretation your honour hath given to this tradition is the one current amongst the people. Could it not be interpreted differently?" He asked Us: "What could it be?" We made reply: "Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets, and the most distinguished of God's chosen Ones, hath likened the Dispensation of the Qur'án unto heaven, by reason of its loftiness, its paramount influence, its majesty, and the fact that it comprehendeth all religions. And as the sun and moon constitute the brightest and most prominent luminaries in the heavens, similarly in the heaven of the religion of God two shining orbs have been ordained-fasting and prayer. 'Islám is heaven; fasting is its sun, prayer, its moon.'" [Fast] The Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 109; Prayers and Meditations; Gleanings From The Writings Of Bahá'u'lláh; The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 2 p. 397, vol. 3, vol. 4 p. 9
  ["Seal of the Prophets"]: The Kitáb-i-Aqdas Note 180
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  And likewise, reflect upon the revealed verse concerning the "Qiblih." 1 When Muhammad, the Sun of Prophethood, had fled from the dayspring of Bathá 2 unto Yathrib, 3 He continued to turn His face, while praying, unto Jerusalem, the holy city, until the time when the Jews began to utter unseemly words against Him-words which if mentioned would ill befit these pages and would weary the reader. Muhammad strongly resented these words. Whilst, wrapt in meditation and wonder, He was gazing toward heaven, He heard the kindly Voice of Gabriel, saying: "We behold Thee from above, turning Thy face to heaven; but We will have Thee turn to a Qiblih which shall please Thee." 4 On a subsequent day, when the Prophet, together with His companions, was offering the noontide prayer, and had already performed two of the prescribed Rik'ats, 5 the Voice of Gabriel was heard again: "Turn Thou Thy face towards the sacred Mosque." 6,7 , In the midst of that same prayer, Muhammad suddenly turned His face away from Jerusalem and faced the Ka'bih. Whereupon, a profound dismay seized suddenly the companions of the Prophet. Their faith was shaken severely. So great was their alarm, that many of them, discontinuing their prayer, apostatized their faith. Verily, God caused not this turmoil but to test and prove His servants. Otherwise, He, the ideal King, could easily have left the Qiblih unchanged, and could have caused Jerusalem to remain the Point of Adoration unto His Dispensation, thereby withholding not from that holy city the distinction of acceptance which had been conferred upon it. 1. The direction toward which the face must be turned when praying.
  2. Mecca.
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  None of the many Prophets sent down, since Moses was made manifest, as Messengers of the Word of God, such as David, Jesus, and others among the more exalted Manifestations who have appeared during the intervening period between the Revelations of Moses and Muhammad, ever altered the law of the Qiblih. These Messengers of the Lord of creation have, one and all, directed their peoples to turn unto the same direction. In the eyes of God, the ideal King, all the places of the earth are one and the same, excepting that place which, in the days of His Manifestations, He doth appoint for a particular purpose. Even as He hath revealed: "The East and West are God's: therefore whichever way ye turn, there is the face of God." 1 Notwithstanding the truth of these facts, why should the Qiblih have been changed, thus casting such dismay amongst the people, causing the companions of the Prophet to waver, and throwing so great a confusion into their midst? Yea, such things as throw consternation into the hearts of all men come to pass only that each soul may be tested by the touchstone of God, that the true may be known and distinguished from the false. Thus hath He revealed after the breach amongst the people: "We did not appoint that which Thou wouldst have to be the Qiblih, but that We might know him who followeth the Apostle from him who turneth on his heels." 2 "Affrighted asses fleeing from a lion." 3 1. Qur'án 2:115.
  2. Qur'án 2:143.
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  Likewise, ere the beauty of Muhammad was unveiled, the signs of the visible heaven were made manifest. As to the signs of the invisible heaven, there appeared four men who successively announced unto the people the joyful tidings of the rise of that divine Luminary. Rúz-bih, later named Salmán, was honoured by being in their service. As the end of one of these approached, he would send Rúz-bih unto the other, until the fourth who, feeling his death to be nigh, addressed Rúz-bih saying: "O Rúz-bih! when thou hast taken up my body and buried it, go to Hijáz for there the Day-star of Muhammad will arise. Happy art thou, for thou shalt behold His face!" ["As to the signs..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 169
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  And now concerning this wondrous and most exalted Cause. Know thou verily that many an astronomer hath announced the appearance of its star in the visible heaven. Likewise, there appeared on earth Ahmad and Kázim, 1 those twin resplendent lights-may God sanctify their resting-place! 1. Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá'í and Siyyid Kázim-i-Rashtí. ["Know thou verily..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 169
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  As the adherents of Jesus have never understood the hidden meaning of these words, and as the signs which they and the leaders of their Faith have expected have failed to appear, they therefore refused to acknowledge, even until now, the truth of those Manifestations of Holiness that have since the days of Jesus been made manifest. They have thus deprived themselves of the outpourings of God's holy grace, and of the wonders of His divine utterance. Such is their low estate in this, the Day of Resurrection! They have even failed to perceive that were the signs of the Manifestation of God in every age to appear in the visible realm in accordance with the text of established traditions, none could possibly deny or turn away, nor would the blessed be distinguished from the miserable, and the transgressor from the God-fearing. Judge fairly: Were the prophecies recorded in the Gospel to be literally fulfilled; were Jesus, Son of Mary, accompanied by angels, to descend from the visible heaven upon the clouds; who would dare to disbelieve, who would dare to reject the truth, and wax disdainful? Nay, such consternation would immediately seize all the dwellers of the earth that no soul would feel able to utter a word, much less to reject or accept the truth. It was owing to their misunderstanding of these truths that many a Christian divine hath objected to Muhammad, and voiced his protest in such words: "If Thou art in truth the promised Prophet, why then art Thou not accompanied by those angels our sacred Books foretold, and which must needs descend with the promised Beauty to assist Him in His Revelation and act as warners unto His people?" Even as the All-Glorious hath recorded their statement: "Why hath not an angel been sent down to him, so that he should have been a warner with Him?" 1 1. Qur'án 25:7.
  ["were the signs..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 171
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  Were they to be questioned concerning those signs that must needs herald the revelation and rise of the sun of the Muhammadan Dispensation, to which We have already referred, none of which have been literally fulfilled, and were it to be said to them: "Wherefore have ye rejected the claims advanced by Christians and the peoples of other faiths and regard them as infidels," knowing not what answer to give, they will reply: "These Books have been corrupted and are not, and never have been, of God." Reflect: the words of the verses themselves eloquently testify to the truth that they are of God. A similar verse hath been also revealed in the Qur'án, were ye of them that comprehend. Verily I say, throughout all this period they have utterly failed to comprehend what is meant by corrupting the text.
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  Yea, in the writings and utterances of the Mirrors reflecting the sun of the Muhammadan Dispensation mention hath been made of "Modification by the exalted beings" and "alteration by the disdainful." Such passages, however, refer only to particular cases. Among them is the story of Ibn-i-Súríyá. When the people of Khaybar asked the focal center of the Muhammadan Revelation concerning the penalty of adultery committed between a married man and a married woman, Muhammad answered and said: "The law of God is death by stoning." Whereupon they protested saying: "No such law hath been revealed in the Pentateuch." Muhammad answered and said: "Whom do ye regard among your rabbis as being a recognized authority and having a sure knowledge of the truth?" They agreed upon Ibn-i-Súríyá. Thereupon Muhammad summoned him and said: "I adjure thee by God Who clove the sea for you, caused manna to descend upon you, and the cloud to overshadow you, Who delivered you from Pharaoh and his people, and exalted you above all human beings, to tell us what Moses hath decreed concerning adultery between a married man and a married woman." He made reply: "O Muhammad! death by stoning is the law." Muhammad observed: "Why is it then that this law is annulled and hath ceased to operate among the Jews?" He answered and said: "When Nebuchadnezzar delivered Jerusalem to the flames, and put the Jews to death, only a few survived. The divines of that age, considering the extremely limited number of the Jews, and the multitude of the Amalekites, took counsel together, and came to the conclusion that were they to enforce the law of the Pentateuch, every survivor who hath been delivered from the hand of Nebuchadnezzar would have to be put to death according to the verdict of the Book. Owing to such considerations, they totally repealed the penalty of death." Meanwhile Gabriel inspired Muhammad's illumined heart with these words: "They pervert the text of the Word of God." 1 1. Qur'án 4:45.
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  This is one of the instances that have been referred to. Verily by "perverting" the text is not meant that which these foolish and abject souls have fancied, even as some maintain that Jewish and Christian divines have effaced from the Book such verses as extol and magnify the countenance of Muhammad, and instead thereof have inserted the contrary. How utterly vain and false are these words! Can a man who believeth in a book, and deemeth it to be inspired by God, mutilate it? Moreover, the Pentateuch had been spread over the surface of the earth, and was not confined to Mecca and Medina, so that they could privily corrupt and pervert its text. Nay, rather, by corruption of the text is meant that in which all Muslim divines are engaged today, that is the interpretation of God's holy Book in accordance with their idle imaginings and vain desires. And as the Jews, in the time of Muhammad, interpreted those verses of the Pentateuch, that referred to His Manifestation, after their own fancy, and refused to be satisfied with His holy utterance, the charge of "perverting" the text was therefore pronounced against them. Likewise, it is clear, how in this day, the people of the Qur'án have perverted the text of God's holy Book, concerning the signs of the expected Manifestation, and interpreted it according to their inclination and desires.
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  Again in another instance, He saith: "Woe unto those who, with their own hands, transcribe the Book corruptly, and then say: 'This is from God,' that they may sell it for some mean price." 1 This verse was revealed with reference to the divines and leaders of the Jewish Faith. These divines, in order to please the rich, acquire worldly emoluments, and give vent to their envy and misbelief, wrote a number of treatises, refuting the claims of Muhammad, supporting their arguments with such evidences as it would be improper to mention, and claimed that these arguments were derived from the text of the Pentateuch. 1. Qur'án 2:79.
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  We have also heard a number of the foolish of the earth assert that the genuine text of the heavenly Gospel doth not exist amongst the Christians, that it hath ascended unto heaven. How grievously they have erred! How oblivious of the fact that such a statement imputeth the gravest injustice and tyranny to a gracious and loving Providence! How could God, when once the Day-star of the beauty of Jesus had disappeared from the sight of His people, and ascended unto the fourth heaven, cause His holy Book, His most great testimony amongst His creatures, to disappear also? What would be left to that people to cling to from the setting of the day-star of Jesus until the rise of the sun of the Muhammadan Dispensation? What law could be their stay and guide? How could such people be made the victims of the avenging wrath of God, the omnipotent Avenger? How could they be afflicted with the scourge of chastisement by the heavenly King? Above all, how could the flow of the grace of the All-Bountiful be stayed? How could the ocean of His tender mercies be stilled? We take refuge with God, from that which His creatures have fancied about Him! Exalted is He above their comprehension!
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  And now, to resume Our argument concerning the question: Why is it that the sovereignty of the Qá'im, affirmed in the text of recorded traditions, and handed down by the shining stars of the Muhammadan Dispensation, hath not in the least been made manifest? Nay, the contrary hath come to pass. Have not His disciples and companions been afflicted of men? Are they not still the victims of the fierce opposition of their enemies? Are they not today leading the life of abased and impotent mortals? Yea, the sovereignty attributed to the Qá'im and spoken of in the scriptures, is a reality, the truth of which none can doubt. This sovereignty, however, is not the sovereignty which the minds of men have falsely imagined. Moreover, the Prophets of old, each and every one, whenever announcing to the people of their day the advent of the coming Revelation, have invariably and specifically referred to that sovereignty with which the promised Manifestation must needs be invested. This is attested by the records of the scriptures of the past. This sovereignty hath not been solely and exclusively attributed to the Qá'im. Nay rather, the attribute of sovereignty and all other names and attributes of God have been and will ever be vouchsafed unto all the Manifestations of God, before and after Him, inasmuch as these Manifestations, as it hath already been explained, are the Embodiments of the attributes of God, the Invisible, and the Revealers of the divine mysteries. ["This sovereignty, however..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 180
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  Furthermore, by sovereignty is meant the all-encompassing, all-pervading power which is inherently exercised by the Qá'im whether or not He appear to the world clothed in the majesty of earthly dominion. This is solely dependent upon the will and pleasure of the Qá'im Himself. You will readily recognize that the terms sovereignty, wealth, life, death, judgment and resurrection, spoken of by the scriptures of old, are not what this generation hath conceived and vainly imagined. Nay, by sovereignty is meant that sovereignty which in every dispensation resideth within, and is exercised by, the person of the Manifestation, the Day-star of Truth. That sovereignty is the spiritual ascendancy which He exerciseth to the fullest degree over all that is in heaven and on earth, and which in due time revealeth itself to the world in direct proportion to its capacity and spiritual receptiveness, even as the sovereignty of Muhammad, the Messenger of God, is today apparent and manifest amongst the people. You are well aware of what befell His Faith in the early days of His dispensation. What woeful sufferings did the hand of the infidel and erring, the divines of that age and their associates, inflict upon that spiritual Essence, that most pure and holy Being! How abundant the thorns and briars which they have strewn over His path! It is evident that wretched generation, in their wicked and satanic fancy, regarded every injury to that immortal Being as a means to the attainment of an abiding felicity; inasmuch as the recognized divines of that age, such as 'Abdu'lláh-i-Ubayy, Abú-'Amír, the hermit, Ka'b-Ibn-i-Ashraf, and Nadr-Ibn-i-Hárith, all treated Him as an impostor, and pronounced Him a lunatic and a calumniator. Such sore accusations they brought against Him that in recounting them God forbiddeth the ink to flow, Our pen to move, or the page to bear them. These malicious imputations provoked the people to arise and torment Him. And how fierce that torment if the divines of the age be its chief instigators, if they denounce Him to their followers, cast Him out from their midst, and declare Him a miscreant! Hath not the same befallen this Servant, and been witnessed by all? ["Furthermore, by sovereignty..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 181
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  For this reason did Muhammad cry out: "No Prophet of God hath suffered such harm as I have suffered." And in the Qur'án are recorded all the calumnies and reproaches uttered against Him, as well as all the afflictions which He suffered. Refer ye thereunto, that haply ye may be informed of that which hath befallen His Revelation. So grievous was His plight, that for a time all ceased to hold intercourse with Him and His companions. Whoever associated with Him fell a victim to the relentless cruelty of His enemies.
  We shall cite in this connection only one verse of that Book. Shouldst thou observe it with a discerning eye, thou wilt, all the remaining days of thy life, lament and bewail the injury of Muhammad, that wronged and oppressed Messenger of God. That verse was revealed at a time when Muhammad languished weary and sorrowful beneath the weight of the opposition of the people, and of their unceasing torture. In the midst of His agony, the Voice of Gabriel, calling from the Sadratu'l-Muntahá, was heard saying: "But if their opposition be grievous to Thee-if Thou canst, seek out an opening into the earth or a ladder into heaven." 1 The implication of this utterance is that His case had no remedy, that they would not withhold their hands from Him unless He should hide Himself beneath the depths of the earth, or take His flight unto heaven. 1. Qur'án 6:35.
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  The following is an evidence of the sovereignty exercised by Muhammad, the Day-star of Truth. Hast thou not heard how with one single verse He hath sundered light from darkness, the righteous from the ungodly, and the believing from the infidel? All the signs and allusions concerning the Day of Judgment, which thou hast heard, such as the raising of the dead, the Day of Reckoning, the Last Judgment, and others have been made manifest through the revelation of that verse. These revealed words were a blessing to the righteous who on hearing them exclaimed: "O God our Lord, we have heard, and obeyed." They were a curse to the people of iniquity who, on hearing them affirmed: "We have heard and rebelled." Those words, sharp as the sword of God, have separated the faithful from the infidel, and severed father from son. Thou hast surely witnessed how they that have confessed their faith in Him and they that rejected Him have warred against each other, and sought one another's property. How many fathers have turned away from their sons; how many lovers have shunned their beloved! So mercilessly trenchant was this wondrous sword of God that it cleft asunder every relationship! On the other hand, consider the welding power of His Word. Observe, how those in whose midst the Satan of self had for years sown the seeds of malice and hate became so fused and blended through their allegiance to this wondrous and transcendent Revelation that it seemed as if they had sprung from the same loins. Such is the binding force of the Word of God, which uniteth the hearts of them that have renounced all else but Him, who have believed in His signs, and quaffed from the Hand of glory the Kawthar of God's holy grace. Furthermore, how numerous are those peoples of divers beliefs, of conflicting creeds, and opposing temperaments, who, through the reviving fragrance of the Divine springtime, breathing from the Ridván of God, have been arrayed with the new robe of divine Unity, and have drunk from the cup of His singleness! ["Furthermore, how numerous..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 183
  [Ridván] The Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Prayers and Meditations, p. 6; Gleanings From The Writings Of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 31; The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4
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  When the light of Qur'ánic Revelation was kindled within the chamber of Muhammad's holy heart, He passed upon the people the verdict of the Last Day, the verdict of resurrection, of judgment, of life, and of death. Thereupon the standards of revolt were hoisted, and the doors of derision opened. Thus hath He, the Spirit of God, recorded, as spoken by the infidels: "And if thou shouldst say, 'After death ye shall surely be raised again,' the infidels will certainly exclaim, 'This is nothing but manifest sorcery.'" 1 Again He speaketh: "If ever thou dost marvel, marvellous surely is their saying, 'What! When we have become dust, shall we be restored in a new creation?'" 2 Thus, in another passage, He wrathfully exclaimeth: "Are We wearied out with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation!" 3 1. Qur'án 11:7.
  2. Qur'án 13:5.
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  As the commentators of the Qur'án and they that follow the letter thereof misapprehended the inner meaning of the words of God and failed to grasp their essential purpose, they sought to demonstrate that, according to the rules of grammar, whenever the term "idhá" (meaning "if" or "when") precedeth the past tense, it invariably hath reference to the future. Later, they were sore perplexed in attempting to explain those verses of the Book wherein that term did not actually occur. Even as He hath revealed: "And there was a blast on the trumpet,-lo! it is the threatened Day! And every soul is summoned to a reckoning,-with him an impeller and a witness." 1 In explaining this and similar verses, they have in some cases argued that the term "idhá" is implied. In other instances, they have idly contended that whereas the Day of Judgment is inevitable, it hath therefore been referred to as an event not of the future but of the past. How vain their sophistry! How grievous their blindness! They refuse to recognize the trumpet-blast which so explicitly in this text was sounded through the revelation of Muhammad. They deprive themselves of the regenerating Spirit of God that breathed into it, and foolishly expect to hear the trumpet-sound of the Seraph of God who is but one of His servants! Hath not the Seraph himself, the angel of the Judgment Day, and his like been ordained by Muhammad's own utterance? Say: What! Will ye give that which is for your good in exchange for that which is evil? Wretched is that which ye have falsely exchanged! Surely ye are a people, evil, in grievous loss. 1. Qur'án 50:20.
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  Nay, by "trumpet" is meant the trumpet-call of Muhammad's Revelation, which was sounded in the heart of the universe, and by "resurrection" is meant His own rise to proclaim the Cause of God. He bade the erring and wayward arise and speed out of the sepulchres of their bodies, arrayed them with the beauteous robe of faith, and quickened them with the breath of a new and wondrous life. Thus at the hour when Muhammad, that divine Beauty, purposed to unveil one of the mysteries hidden in the symbolic terms "resurrection," "judgment," "paradise," and "hell," Gabriel, the Voice of Inspiration, was heard saying: "Erelong will they wag their heads at Thee, and say, 'When shall this be?' Say: 'Perchance it is nigh.'" 1 The implications of this verse alone suffice the peoples of the world, were they to ponder it in their hearts. 1. Qur'án 17:51.
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  Gracious God! How far have that people strayed from the way of God! Although the Day of Resurrection was ushered in through the Revelation of Muhammad, although His light and tokens had encompassed the earth and all that is therein, yet that people derided Him, gave themselves up to those idols which the divines of that age, in their vain and idle fancy, had conceived, and deprived themselves of the light of heavenly grace and of the showers of divine mercy. Yea, the abject beetle can never scent the fragrance of holiness, and the bat of darkness can never face the splendour of the sun.
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  Similarly, the records of all the scriptures bear witness to this lofty truth and this most exalted word. Moreover, this verse of the Qur'án, revealed concerning Hamzih, the "Prince of Martyrs," 1 and Abú-Jahl, is a luminous evidence and sure testimony of the truth of Our saying: "Shall the dead, whom We have quickened, and for whom We have ordained a light whereby he may walk among men, be like him, whose likeness is in the darkness, whence he will not come forth?" 2 This verse descended from the heaven of the Primal Will at a time when Hamzih had already been invested with the sacred mantle of faith, and Abú-Jahl had waxed relentless in his opposition and unbelief. From the Wellspring of omnipotence and the Source of eternal holiness, there came the judgment that conferred everlasting life upon Hamzih, and condemned Abú-Jahl to eternal damnation. This was the signal that caused the fires of unbelief to glow with the hottest flame in the heart of the infidels, and provoked them openly to repudiate His truth. They loudly clamoured: "When did Hamzih die? When was he risen? At what hour was such a life conferred upon him?" As they understood not the significance of these noble sayings, nor sought enlightenment from the recognized expounders of the Faith, that these might confer a sprinkling of the Kawthar of divine knowledge upon them, therefore such fires of mischief were kindled amongst men. 1. Title of the uncle of Muhammad.
  2. Qur'án 6:122.
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  Thus with steadfast steps we may tread the Path of certitude, that perchance the breeze that bloweth from the meads of the good-pleasure of God may waft upon us the sweet savours of divine acceptance, and cause us, vanishing mortals that we are, to attain unto the Kingdom of everlasting glory. Then wilt thou comprehend the inner meaning of sovereignty and the like, spoken of in the traditions and scriptures. Furthermore, it is already evident and known unto thee that those things to which the Jews and the Christians have clung, and the cavilings which they heaped upon the Beauty of Muhammad, the same have in this day been upheld by the people of the Qur'án, and been witnessed in their denunciations of the "Point of the Bayán"-may the souls of all that dwell within the kingdom of divine Revelations be a sacrifice unto Him! Behold their folly: they utter the self-same words, uttered by the Jews of old, and know it not! How well and true are His words concerning them: "Leave them to entertain themselves with their cavilings!" 1 "As Thou livest, O Muhammad! they are seized by the frenzy of their vain fancies." 2 1. Qur'án 6:91.
  2. Qur'án 15:72. [Bayán] God Passes By, p. 24-25
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  When the Unseen, the Eternal, the divine Essence, caused the Day-star of Muhammad to rise above the horizon of knowledge, among the cavils which the Jewish divines raised against Him was that after Moses no Prophet should be sent of God. Yea, mention hath been made in the scriptures of a Soul Who must needs be made manifest and Who will advance the Faith, and promote the interests of the people, of Moses, so that the Law of the Mosaic Dispensation may encompass the whole earth. Thus hath the King of eternal glory referred in His Book to the words uttered by those wanderers in the vale of remoteness and error: "'The hand of God,' say the Jews, 'is chained up.' Chained up be their own hands! And for that which they have said, they were accursed. Nay, outstretched are both His hands!" 1 "The hand of God is above their hands." 2 1. Qur'án 5:64.
  2. Qur'án 48:10.
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  O my friend, were the bird of thy mind to explore the heavens of the Revelation of the Qur'án, were it to contemplate the realm of divine knowledge unfolded therein, thou wouldst assuredly find unnumbered doors of knowledge set open before thee. Thou wouldst certainly recognize that all these things which have in this day hindered this people from attaining the shores of the ocean of eternal grace, the same things in the Muhammadan Dispensation prevented the people of that age from recognizing that divine Luminary, and from testifying to His truth. Thou wilt also apprehend the mysteries of "return" and "revelation," and wilt securely abide within the loftiest chambers of certitude and assurance.
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  And it came to pass that on a certain day a number of the opponents of that peerless Beauty, those that had strayed far from God's imperishable Sanctuary, scornfully spoke these words unto Muhammad: "Verily, God hath entered into a covenant with us that we are not to credit an apostle until he present us a sacrifice which fire out of heaven shall devour." 1 The purport of this verse is that God hath covenanted with them that they should not believe in any messenger unless he work the miracle of Abel and Cain, that is, offer a sacrifice, and the fire from heaven consume it; even as they had heard it recounted in the story of Abel, which story is recorded in the scriptures. To this, Muhammad, answering, said: "Already have Apostles before me come to you with sure testimonies, and with that of which ye speak. Wherefore slew ye them? Tell me, if ye are men of truth." 2 And now, be fair; How could those people living in the days of Muhammad have existed, thousands of years before, in the age of Adam or other Prophets? Why should Muhammad, that Essence of truthfulness, have charged the people of His day with the murder of Abel or other Prophets? Thou hast none other alternative except to regard Muhammad as an impostor or a fool-which God forbid!-or to maintain that those people of wickedness were the self-same people who in every age opposed and caviled at the Prophets and Messengers of God, till they finally caused them all to suffer martyrdom. 1. Qur'án 3:183.
  2. Qur'án 3:182.
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  Likewise, Muhammad, in another verse, uttereth His protest against the people of that age. He saith: "Although they had before prayed for victory over those who believed not, yet when there came unto them, He of Whom they had knowledge, they disbelieved in Him. The curse of God on the infidels!" 1 Reflect how this verse also implieth that the people living in the days of Muhammad were the same people who in the days of the Prophets of old contended and fought in order to promote the Faith, and teach the Cause, of God. And yet, how could the generations living at the time of Jesus and Moses, and those who lived in the days of Muhammad, be regarded as being actually one and the same people? Moreover, those whom they had formerly known were Moses, the Revealer of the Pentateuch, and Jesus, the Author of the Gospel. Notwithstanding, why did Muhammad say: "When He of Whom they had knowledge came unto them"--that is Jesus or Moses--"they disbelieved in Him?" Was not Muhammad to outward seeming called by a different name? Did He not come forth out of a different city? Did He not speak a different language, and reveal a different Law? How then can the truth of this verse be established, and its meaning be made clear? 1. Qur'án 2:89.
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  Strive therefore to comprehend the meaning of "return" which hath been so explicitly revealed in the Qur'án itself, and which none hath as yet understood. What sayest thou? If thou sayest that Muhammad was the "return" of the Prophets of old, as is witnessed by this verse, His Companions must likewise be the "return" of the bygone Companions, even as the "return" of the former people is clearly attested by the text of the above-mentioned verses. And if thou deniest this, thou hast surely repudiated the truth of the Qur'án, the surest testimony of God unto men. In like manner, endeavour to grasp the significance of "return," "revelation," and "resurrection," as witnessed in the days of the Manifestations of the divine Essence, that thou mayest behold with thine own eyes the "return" of the holy souls into sanctified and illumined bodies, and mayest wash away the dust of ignorance, and cleanse the darkened self with the waters of mercy flowing from the Source of divine Knowledge; that perchance thou mayest, through the power of God and the light of divine guidance, distinguish the Morn of everlasting splendour from the darksome night of error.
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  Furthermore, it is evident to thee that the Bearers of the trust of God are made manifest unto the peoples of the earth as the Exponents of a new Cause and the Bearers of a new Message. Inasmuch as these Birds of the Celestial Throne are all sent down from the heaven of the Will of God, and as they all arise to proclaim His irresistible Faith, they therefore are regarded as one soul and the same person. For they all drink from the one Cup of the love of God, and all partake of the fruit of the same Tree of Oneness. These Manifestations of God have each a twofold station. One is the station of pure abstraction and essential unity. In this respect, if thou callest them all by one name, and dost ascribe to them the same attribute, thou hast not erred from the truth. Even as He hath revealed: "No distinction do We make between any of His Messengers!" 1 For they one and all summon the people of the earth to acknowledge the Unity of God, and herald unto them the Kawthar of an infinite grace and bounty. They are all invested with the robe of Prophethood, and honoured with the mantle of glory. Thus hath Muhammad, the Point of the Qur'án, revealed: "I am all the Prophets." Likewise, He saith: "I am the first Adam, Noah, Moses, and Jesus." Similar statements have been made by 'Alí. Sayings such as this, which indicate the essential unity of those Exponents of Oneness, have also emanated from the Channels of God's immortal utterance, and the Treasuries of the gems of divine knowledge, and have been recorded in the scriptures. These Countenances are the recipients of the Divine Command, and the day-springs of His Revelation. This Revelation is exalted above the veils of plurality and the exigencies of number. Thus He saith: "Our Cause is but one." 2 Inasmuch as the Cause is one and the same, the Exponents thereof also must needs be one and the same. Likewise, the Imáms of the Muhammadan Faith, those lamps of certitude, have said: "Muhammad is our first, Muhammad our last, Muhammad our all." 1. Qur'án 2:285.
  2. Qur'án 54:50.
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  Purge thy sight, therefore, from all earthly limitations, that thou mayest behold them all as the bearers of one Name, the exponents of one Cause, the manifestations of one Self, and the revealers of one Truth, and that thou mayest apprehend the mystic "return" of the Words of God as unfolded by these utterances. Reflect for a while upon the behaviour of the companions of the Muhammadan Dispensation. Consider how, through the reviving breath of Muhammad, they were cleansed from the defilements of earthly vanities, were delivered from selfish desires, and were detached from all else but Him. Behold how they preceded all the peoples of the earth in attaining unto His holy Presence-the Presence of God Himself-how they renounced the world and all that is therein, and sacrificed freely and joyously their lives at the feet of that Manifestation of the All-Glorious. And now, observe the "return" of the self-same determination, the self-same constancy and renunciation, manifested by the companions of the Point of the Bayán 1. Thou hast witnessed how these companions have, through the wonders of the grace of the Lord of Lords, hoisted the standards of sublime renunciation upon the inaccessible heights of glory. These Lights have proceeded from but one Source, and these fruits are the fruits of one Tree. Thou canst discern neither difference nor distinction among them. All this is by the grace of God! On whom He will, He bestoweth His grace. Please God, that we avoid the land of denial, and advance into the ocean of acceptance, so that we may perceive, with an eye purged from all conflicting elements, the worlds of unity and diversity, of variation and oneness, of limitation and detachment, and wing our flight unto the highest and innermost sanctuary of the inner meaning of the Word of God. 1. The Báb. [Bayán] God Passes By, p. 24-25
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  Notwithstanding the obviousness of this theme, in the eyes of those that have quaffed the wine of knowledge and certitude, yet how many are those who, through failure to understand its meaning, have allowed the term "Seal of the Prophets" to obscure their understanding, and deprive them of the grace of all His manifold bounties! Hath not Muhammad, Himself, declared: "I am all the Prophets?" Hath He not said as We have already mentioned: "I am Adam, Noah, Moses, and Jesus?" Why should Muhammad, that immortal Beauty, Who hath said: "I am the first Adam" be incapable of saying also: "I am the last Adam"? For even as He regarded Himself to be the "First of the Prophets"-that is Adam-in like manner, the "Seal of the Prophets" is also applicable unto that Divine Beauty. It is admittedly obvious that being the "First of the Prophets," He likewise is their "Seal." ["Seal of the Prophets"]: The Kitáb-i-Aqdas Note 180
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  Furthermore, among the "veils of glory" are such terms as the "Seal of the Prophets" and the like, the removal of which is a supreme achievement in the sight of these base-born and erring souls. All, by reason of these mysterious sayings, these grievous "veils of glory," have been hindered from beholding the light of truth. Have they not heard the melody of that bird of Heaven,1 uttering this mystery: "A thousand Fátimihs I have espoused, all of whom were the daughters of Muhammad, Son of 'Abdu'lláh, the 'Seal of the Prophets?'" Behold, how many are the mysteries that lie as yet unravelled within the tabernacle of the knowledge of God, and how numerous the gems of His wisdom that are still concealed in His inviolable treasuries! Shouldest thou ponder this in thine heart, thou wouldst realize that His handiwork knoweth neither beginning nor end. The domain of His decree is too vast for the tongue of mortals to describe, or for the bird of the human mind to traverse; and the dispensations of His providence are too mysterious for the mind of man to comprehend. His creation no end hath overtaken, and it hath ever existed from the "Beginning that hath no beginning"; and the Manifestations of His Beauty no beginning hath beheld, and they will continue to the "End that knoweth no end." Ponder this utterance in thine heart, and reflect how it is applicable unto all these holy Souls. 1. Imám 'Alí.
  ["Seal of the Prophets"]: The Kitáb-i-Aqdas Note 180
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  How strange! These people with one hand cling to those verses of the Qur'án and those traditions of the people of certitude which they have found to accord with their inclinations and interests, and with the other reject those which are contrary to their selfish desires. "Believe ye then part of the Book, and deny part?" 1 How could ye judge that which ye understand not? Even as the Lord of being hath in His unerring Book, after speaking of the "Seal" in His exalted utterance: "Muhammad is the Apostle of God and the Seal of the Prophets," 2 hath revealed unto all people the promise of "attainment unto the divine Presence." To this attainment to the presence of the immortal King testify the verses of the Book, some of which We have already mentioned. The one true God is My witness! Nothing more exalted or more explicit than "attainment unto the divine Presence" hath been revealed in the Qur'án. Well is it with him that hath attained thereunto, in the day wherein most of the people, even as ye witness, have turned away therefrom. 1. Qur'án 2:85.
  2. Qur'án 33:40.
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  Twelve hundred and eighty years have passed since the dawn of the Muhammadan Dispensation, and with every break of day, these blind and ignoble people have recited their Qur'án, and yet have failed to grasp one letter of that Book! Again and again they read those verses which clearly testify to the reality of these holy themes, and bear witness to the truth of the Manifestations of eternal Glory, and still apprehend not their purpose. They have even failed to realize, all this time, that, in every age, the reading of the scriptures and holy books is for no other purpose except to enable the reader to apprehend their meaning and unravel their innermost mysteries. Otherwise reading, without understanding, is of no abiding profit unto man.
  And it came to pass that on a certain day a needy man came to visit this Soul, craving for the ocean of His knowledge. While conversing with him, mention was made concerning the signs of the Day of Judgment, Resurrection, Revival, and Reckoning. He urged Us to explain how, in this wondrous Dispensation, the peoples of the world were brought to a reckoning, when none were made aware of it. Thereupon, We imparted unto him, according to the measure of his capacity and understanding, certain truths of Science and ancient Wisdom. We then asked him saying: "Hast thou not read the Qur'án, and art thou not aware of this blessed verse: 'On that day shall neither man nor spirit be asked of his Sin?' 1 Dost thou not realize that by 'asking' is not meant asking by tongue or speech, even as the verse itself doth indicate and prove? For afterward it is said: 'By their countenance shall the sinners be known, and they shall be seized by their forelocks and their feet.'" 2 1. Qur'án 55:39.
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  We seal Our theme with that which was formerly revealed unto Muhammad that the seal thereof may shed the fragrance of that holy musk which leadeth men unto the Ridván of unfading splendour. He said, and His Word is the truth: "And God calleth to the Abode of Peace; 1 and He guideth whom He will into the right way." 2 "For them is an Abode of Peace with their Lord! and He shall be their Protector because of their works." 3 This He hath revealed that His grace may encompass the world. Praise be to God, the Lord of all being! 1. Baghdad.
  2. Qur'án 10:25.
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  Were any of the all-embracing Manifestations of God to declare: "I am God!" He verily speaketh the truth, and no doubt attacheth thereto. For it hath been repeatedly demonstrated that through their Revelation, their attributes and names, the Revelation of God, His name and His attributes, are made manifest in the world. Thus, He hath revealed: "Those shafts were God's, not Thine!" 1 And also He saith: "In truth, they who plighted fealty unto thee, really plighted that fealty unto God." 2 And were any of them to voice the utterance: "I am the Messenger of God," He also speaketh the truth, the indubitable truth. Even as He saith: "Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but He is the Messenger of God." 3 Viewed in this light, they are all but Messengers of that ideal King, that unchangeable Essence. And were they all to proclaim: "I am the Seal of the Prophets," they verily utter but the truth, beyond the faintest shadow of doubt. For they are all but one person, one soul, one spirit, one being, one revelation. They are all the manifestation of the "Beginning" and the "End," the "First" and the "Last," the "Seen" and "Hidden"-all of which pertain to Him Who is the innermost Spirit of Spirits and eternal Essence of Essences. And were they to say: "We are the servants of God," this also is a manifest and indisputable fact. For they have been made manifest in the uttermost state of servitude, a servitude the like of which no man can possibly attain. Thus in moments in which these Essences of being were deeply immersed beneath the oceans of ancient and everlasting holiness, or when they soared to the loftiest summits of divine mysteries, they claimed their utterance to be the Voice of divinity, the Call of God Himself. Were the eye of discernment to be opened, it would recognize that in this very state, they have considered themselves utterly effaced and non-existent in the face of Him Who is the All-Pervading, the Incorruptible. Methinks, they have regarded themselves as utter nothingness, and deemed their mention in that Court an act of blasphemy. For the slightest whispering of self, within such a Court, is an evidence of self-assertion and independent existence. In the eyes of them that have attained unto that Court, such a suggestion is itself a grievous transgression. How much more grievous would it be, were aught else to be mentioned in that Presence, were man's heart, his tongue, his mind, or his soul, to be busied with anyone but the Well-Beloved, were his eyes to behold any countenance other than His beauty, were his ear to be inclined to any melody but His voice, and were his feet to tread any way but His way. 1. Qur'án 8:17.
  2. Qur'án 48:10.
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  For instance, when Muhammad, the Lord of being, was questioned concerning the new moons, He, as bidden by God, made reply: "They are periods appointed unto men." 1 Thereupon, they that heard Him denounced Him as an ignorant man. 1. Qur'án 2:189.
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  Likewise, in the verse concerning the "Spirit," He saith: "And they will ask Thee of the Spirit. Say, 'the Spirit proceedeth at My Lord's command.'" 1 As soon as Muhammad's answer was given, they all clamorously protested, saying: "Lo! an ignorant man who knoweth not what the Spirit is, calleth Himself the Revealer of divine Knowledge!" And now behold the divines of the age who, because of their being honoured by His name, and finding that their fathers have acknowledged His Revelation, have blindly submitted to His truth. Observe, were this people today to receive such answers in reply to such questionings, they would unhesitatingly reject and denounce them-nay, they would again utter the self-same cavils, even as they have uttered them in this day. All this, notwithstanding the fact that these Essences of being are immensely exalted above such fanciful images, and are immeasurably glorified beyond all these vain sayings and above the comprehension of every understanding heart. Their so-called learning, when compared with that Knowledge, is utter falsehood, and all their understanding naught but blatant error. Nay, whatsoever proceedeth from these Mines of divine Wisdom and these Treasuries of eternal knowledge is truth, and naught else but the truth. The saying: "Knowledge is one point, which the foolish have multiplied" is a proof of Our argument, and the tradition: "Knowledge is a light which God sheddeth into the heart of whomsoever He willeth" a confirmation of Our statement. 1. Qur'án 17:85.
  ["knowledge is a light..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 4 p. 213
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  For instance, a certain man,1 reputed for his learning and attainments, and accounting himself as one of the pre-eminent leaders of his people, hath in his book denounced and vilified all the exponents of true learning. This is made abundantly clear by his explicit statements as well as by his allusions throughout his book. As We had frequently heard about him, We purposed to read some of his works. Although We never felt disposed to peruse other peoples' writings, yet as some had questioned Us concerning him, We felt it necessary to refer to his books, in order that We might answer Our questioners with knowledge and understanding. His works, in the Arabic tongue, were, however, not available, until one day a certain man informed Us that one of his compositions, entitled Irshadu'l-'Avám, 2 could be found in this city. From this title We perceived the odour of conceit and vainglory, inasmuch as he hath imagined himself a learned man and regarded the rest of the people ignorant. His worth was in fact made known by the very title he had chosen for his book. It became evident that its author was following the path of self and desire, and was lost in the wilderness of ignorance and folly. Methinks, he had forgotten the well-known tradition which sayeth: "Knowledge is all that is knowable; and might and power, all creation." Notwithstanding, We sent for the book, and kept it with Us a few days. It was probably referred to twice. The second time, We accidentally came upon the story of the "Mi'ráj" 3 of Muhammad, of Whom was spoken: "But for Thee, I would not have created the spheres." We noticed that he had enumerated some twenty or more sciences, the knowledge of which he considered to be essential for the comprehension of the mystery of the "Mi'ráj". We gathered from his statements that unless a man be deeply versed in them all, he can never attain to a proper understanding of this transcendent and exalted theme. Among the specified sciences were the science of metaphysical abstractions, of alchemy, and natural magic. Such vain and discarded learnings, this man hath regarded as the pre-requisites of the understanding of the sacred and abiding mysteries of divine Knowledge. 1. Hájí Mírzá Karím Khán.
  2. "Guidance unto the ignorant."
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  Wherefore, O my friend, it behooveth Us to exert the highest endeavour to attain unto that City, and, by the grace of God and His loving-kindness, rend asunder the "veils of glory"; so that, with inflexible steadfastness, we may sacrifice our drooping souls in the path of the New Beloved. We should with tearful eyes, fervently and repeatedly, implore Him to grant us the favour of that grace. That city is none other than the Word of God revealed in every age and dispensation. In the days of Moses it was the Pentateuch; in the days of Jesus the Gospel; in the days of Muhammad the Messenger of God the Qur'án; in this day the Bayán; and in the dispensation of Him Whom God will make manifest His own Book-the Book unto which all the Books of former Dispensations must needs be referred, the Book which standeth amongst them all transcendent and supreme. In these cities spiritual sustenance is bountifully provided, and incorruptible delights have been ordained. The food they bestow is the bread of heaven, and the Spirit they impart is God's imperishable blessing. Upon detached souls they bestow the gift of Unity, enrich the destitute, and offer the cup of knowledge unto them who wander in the wilderness of ignorance. All the guidance, the blessings, the learning, the understanding, the faith, and certitude, conferred upon all that is in heaven and on earth, are hidden and treasured within these Cities. ["none other than..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 190
  [Bayán] God Passes By, p. 24-25
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  For instance, the Qur'án was an impregnable stronghold unto the people of Muhammad. In His days, whosoever entered therein, was shielded from the devilish assaults, the menacing darts, the soul-devouring doubts, and blasphemous whisperings of the enemy. Upon him was also bestowed a portion of the everlasting and goodly fruits-the fruits of wisdom, from the divine Tree. To him was given to drink the incorruptible waters of the river of knowledge, and to taste the wine of the mysteries of divine Unity.
  All the things that people required in connection with the Revelation of Muhammad and His laws were to be found revealed and manifest in that Ridván of resplendent glory. That Book constitutes an abiding testimony to its people after Muhammad, inasmuch as its decrees are indisputable, and its promise unfailing. All have been enjoined to follow the precepts of that Book until "the year sixty" 1-the year of the advent of God's wondrous Manifestation. That Book is the Book which unfailingly leadeth the seeker unto the Ridván of the divine Presence, and causeth him that hath forsaken his country and is treading the seeker's path to enter the Tabernacle of everlasting reunion. Its guidance can never err, its testimony no other testimony can excel. All other traditions, all other books and records, are bereft of such distinction, inasmuch as both the traditions and they that have spoken them are confirmed and proven solely by the text of that Book. Moreover, the traditions themselves grievously differ, and their obscurities are manifold. 1. The year 1260 A.H., the year of the Báb's Declaration. [Ridván] The Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Prayers and Meditations, p. 6; Gleanings From The Writings Of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 31; The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. 1, 2, 3, 4
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  Muhammad, Himself, as the end of His mission drew nigh, spoke these words: "Verily, I leave amongst you My twin weighty testimonies: The Book of God and My Family." Although many traditions had been revealed by that Source of Prophethood and Mine of divine Guidance, yet He mentioned only that Book, thereby appointing it as the mightiest instrument and surest testimony for the seekers; a guide for the people until the Day of Resurrection.
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  With unswerving vision, with pure heart, and sanctified spirit, consider attentively what God hath established as the testimony of guidance for His people in His Book, which is recognized as authentic by both the high and lowly. To this testimony we both, as well as all the peoples of the world, must cling, that through its light we may know and distinguish between truth and falsehood, guidance and error. Inasmuch as Muhammad hath confined His testimonies to His Book and to His Family, and whereas the latter hath passed away, there remaineth His Book only as His one testimony amongst the people.
  In the beginning of His Book He saith: "Alif. Lám. Mím. No doubt is there about this Book: It is a guidance unto the God-fearing." 1 In the disconnected letters of the Qur'án the mysteries of the divine Essence are enshrined, and within their shells the pearls of His Unity are treasured. For lack of space We do not dwell upon them at this moment. Outwardly they signify Muhammad Himself, Whom God addresseth saying: "O Muhammad, there is no doubt nor uncertainty about this Book which hath been sent down from the heaven of divine Unity. In it is guidance unto them that fear God." Consider, how He hath appointed and decreed this self-same Book, the Qur'án, as a guidance unto all that are in heaven and on earth. He, the divine Being, and unknowable Essence, hath, Himself, testified that this Book is, beyond all doubt and uncertainty, the guide of all mankind until the Day of Resurrection. And now, We ask, is it fair for this people to view with doubt and misgiving this most weighty Testimony, the divine origin of which God hath proclaimed, and pronounced it to be the embodiment of truth? Is it fair for them to turn away from the thing which He hath appointed as the supreme Instrument of guidance for attainment unto the loftiest summits of knowledge, and to seek aught else but that Book? How can they allow men's absurd and foolish sayings to sow the seeds of distrust in their minds? How can they any longer idly contend that a certain person hath spoken this or that way, or that a certain thing did not come to pass? Had there been anything conceivable besides the Book of God which could prove a more potent instrument and a surer guide to mankind, would He have failed to reveal it in that verse? 1. Qur'án 2:1.
  ["In the beginning..."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 189
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  And likewise, He saith: "As for those who believe not in the verses of God, or that they shall ever meet Him, these of My mercy shall despair, and these doth a grievous chastisement await." 1 Also, "And they say, 'Shall we then abandon our gods for a crazed poet?'" 2 The implication of this verse is manifest. Behold what they observed after the verses were revealed. They called Him a poet, scoffed at the verses of God, and exclaimed saying: "These words of his are but tales of the Ancients!" By this they meant that those words which were spoken by the peoples of old Muhammad hath compiled and called them the Word of God. 1. Qur'án 29:23.
  2. Qur'án 37:36.
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  And likewise, He saith: "Say, O people of the Book! do ye not disavow us only because we believe in God and in what He hath sent down to us, and in what He hath sent down aforetime, and because most of you are doers of ill?" 1 How explicitly doth this verse reveal Our purpose, and how clearly doth it demonstrate the truth of the testimony of the verses of God! This verse was revealed at a time when Islám was assailed by the infidels, and its followers were accused of misbelief, when the Companions of Muhammad were denounced as repudiators of God and as followers of a lying sorcerer. In its early days, when Islám was still to outward seeming devoid of authority and power, the friends of the Prophet, who had turned their face toward God, wherever they went, were harassed, persecuted, stoned and vilified. At such a time this blessed verse was sent down from the heaven of divine Revelation. It revealed an irrefutable evidence, and brought the light of an unfailing guidance. It instructed the companions of Muhammad to declare the following unto the infidels and idolators: "Ye oppress and persecute us, and yet, what else have we done except that we have believed in God and in the verses sent down unto us through the tongue of Muhammad, and in those which descended upon the Prophets of old?" By this is meant that their only guilt was to have recognized that the new and wondrous verses of God, which had descended upon Muhammad, as well as those which had been revealed unto the Prophets of old, were all of God, and to have acknowledged and embraced their truth. This is the testimony which the divine King hath taught His servants. 1. Qur'án 5:62.
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  Mullá Muhammad 'Alíy-i-Zanjání
  Mullá 'Alíy-i-Bastamí
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  [Mullá Muhammad 'Alíy-i-Zanjání] God Passes By, p. 44
  [Mullá Yúsúf-i-Ardibílí] The Dawn-Breakers p. 424 #149 (also #13, p. 399, p. 404 footnote #38)
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  The divine call of the celestial Herald from beyond the Veil of Glory, summoning mankind to renounce utterly all the things to which they cleave, is repugnant to their desire; and this is the cause of the bitter trials and violent commotions which have occurred. Consider the way of the people. They ignore these well-founded traditions, all of which have been fulfilled, and cling unto those of doubtful validity, and ask why these have not been fulfilled. And yet, those things which to them were inconceivable have been made manifest. The signs and tokens of the Truth shine even as the midday sun, and yet the people are wandering, aimlessly and perplexedly, in the wilderness of ignorance and folly. Notwithstanding all the verses of the Qur'án, and the recognized traditions, which are all indicative of a new Faith, a new Law, and a new Revelation, this generation still waiteth in expectation of beholding the promised One who should uphold the Law of the Muhammadan Dispensation. The Jews and the Christians in like manner uphold the same contention.
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  Among the utterances that foreshadow a new Law and a new Revelation are the passages in the "Prayer of Nudbih": "Where is He Who is preserved to renew the ordinances and laws? Where is He Who hath the authority to transform the Faith and the followers thereof?" He hath, likewise, revealed in the Zíyárat: 1 "Peace be upon the Truth made new." Abú-'Abdi'lláh, questioned concerning the character of the Mihdí, answered saying: "He will perform that which Muhammad, the Messenger of God, hath performed, and will demolish whatever hath been before Him even as the Messenger of God hath demolished the ways of those that preceded Him." 1. Visiting Tablet revealed by 'Alí.
  Behold, how, notwithstanding these and similar traditions, they idly contend that the laws formerly revealed, must in no wise be altered. And yet, is not the object of every Revelation to effect a transformation in the whole character of mankind, a transformation that shall manifest itself both outwardly and inwardly, that shall affect both its inner life and external conditions? For if the character of mankind be not changed, the futility of God's universal Manifestations would be apparent. In the "'Aválim," an authoritative and well-known book, it is recorded: "A Youth from Baní-Háshim shall be made manifest, Who will reveal a new Book and promulgate a new law;" then follow these words: "Most of His enemies will be the divines." In another passage, it is related of Sádiq, son of Muhammad, that he spoke the following: "There shall appear a Youth from Baní-Háshim, Who will bid the people plight fealty unto Him. His Book will be a new Book, unto which He shall summon the people to pledge their faith. Stern is His Revelation unto the Arab. If ye hear about Him, hasten unto Him." How well have they followed the directions of the Imáms of the Faith and Lamps of certitude! Although it is clearly stated: "Were ye to hear that a Youth from Baní-Háshim hath appeared, summoning the people unto a new and Divine Book, and to new and Divine laws, hasten unto Him," yet have they all declared that Lord of being an infidel, and pronounced Him a heretic. They hastened not unto that Háshimite Light, that divine Manifestation, except with drawn swords, and hearts filled with malice. Moreover, observe how explicitly the enmity of the divines hath been mentioned in the books. Notwithstanding all these evident and significant traditions, all these unmistakable and undisputed allusions, the people have rejected the immaculate Essence of knowledge and of holy utterance, and have turned unto the exponents of rebellion and error. Despite these recorded traditions and revealed utterances, they speak only that which is prompted by their own selfish desires. And should the Essence of Truth reveal that which is contrary to their inclinations and desires, they will straightway denounce Him as an infidel, and will protest saying: "This is contrary to the sayings of the Imáms of the Faith and of the resplendent lights. No such thing hath been provided by our inviolable Law." Even so in this day such worthless statements have been and are being made by these poor mortals.
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  No understanding can grasp the nature of His Revelation, nor can any knowledge comprehend the full measure of His Faith. All sayings are dependent upon His sanction, and all things stand in need of His Cause. All else save Him are created by His command, and move and have their being through His law. He is the Revealer of the divine mysteries, and the Expounder of the hidden and ancient wisdom. Thus it is related in the "Biháru'l-Anvár," the "'Aválim," and the "Yanbú'" of Sádiq, son of Muhammad, that he spoke these words: "Knowledge is twenty and seven letters. All that the Prophets have revealed are two letters thereof. No man thus far hath known more than these two letters. But when the Qá'im shall arise, He will cause the remaining twenty and five letters to be made manifest." Consider; He hath declared Knowledge to consist of twenty and seven letters, and regarded all the Prophets, from Adam even unto the "Seal," as Expounders of only two letters thereof and of having been sent down with these two letters. He also saith that the Qá'im will reveal all the remaining twenty and five letters. Behold from this utterance how great and lofty is His station! His rank excelleth that of all the Prophets, and His Revelation transcendeth the comprehension and understanding of all their chosen ones. A Revelation, of which the Prophets of God, His saints and chosen ones, have either not been informed, or which, in pursuance of God's inscrutable Decree, they have not disclosed,-such a Revelation these mean and depraved people have sought to measure with their own deficient minds, their own deficient learning and understanding. Should it fail to conform to their standards, they straightway reject it. "Thinkest thou that the greater part of them hear or understand? They are even like unto the brutes! yea, they stray even further from the path!" 1 1. Qur'án 25:44.
  ["It is related..."] The Dawn-Breakers, p. 65 footnote #14
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  Such is the condition and fate of His companions which in former days hath been foretold. And now observe how, according to this tradition, Zawrá is no other but the land of Rayy. In that place His companions have been with great suffering put to death, and all these holy beings have suffered martyrdom at the hand of the Persians, as recorded in the tradition. This thou hast heard, and unto it all testify. Wherefore, then, do not these grovelling, worm-like men pause to meditate upon these traditions, all of which are manifest as the sun in its noon-tide glory? For what reason do they refuse to embrace the Truth, and allow certain traditions, the significance of which they have failed to grasp, to withhold them from the recognition of the Revelation of God and His Beauty, and to cause them to dwell in the infernal abyss? Such things are to be attributed to naught but the faithlessness of the divines and doctors of the age. Of these, Sádiq, son of Muhammad, hath said: "The religious doctors of that age shall be the most wicked of the divines beneath the shadow of heaven. Out of them hath mischief proceeded, and unto them it shall return."
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  How strange! Notwithstanding these explicit and manifest references these people have shunned the Truth. For instance, mention of the sorrows, the imprisonment and afflictions inflicted upon that Essence of divine virtue hath been made in the former traditions. In the "Bihár" it is recorded: "In our Qá'im there shall be four signs from four Prophets, Moses, Jesus, Joseph, and Muhammad. The sign from Moses, is fear and expectation; from Jesus, that which was spoken of Him; from Joseph, imprisonment and dissimulation; from Muhammad, the revelation of a Book similar to the Qur'án." Notwithstanding such a conclusive tradition, which in such unmistakable language hath foreshadowed the happenings of the present day, none hath been found to heed its prophecy, and methinks none will do so in the future, except him whom thy Lord willeth. "God indeed shall make whom He will to hearken, but We shall not make those who are in their graves to hearken."
  It is evident unto thee that the Birds of Heaven and Doves of Eternity speak a twofold language. One language, the outward language, is devoid of allusions, is unconcealed and unveiled; that it may be a guiding lamp and a beaconing light whereby wayfarers may attain the heights of holiness, and seekers may advance into the realm of eternal reunion. Such are the unveiled traditions and the evident verses already mentioned. The other language is veiled and concealed, so that whatever lieth hidden in the heart of the malevolent may be made manifest and their innermost being be disclosed. Thus hath Sádiq, son of Muhammad, spoken: "God verily will test them and sift them." This is the divine standard, this is the Touchstone of God, wherewith He proveth His servants. None apprehendeth the meaning of these utterances except them whose hearts are assured, whose souls have found favour with God, and whose minds are detached from all else but Him. In such utterances, the literal meaning, as generally understood by the people, is not what hath been intended. Thus it is recorded: "Every knowledge hath seventy meanings, of which one only is known amongst the people. And when the Qá'im shall arise, He shall reveal unto men all that which remaineth." He also saith: "We speak one word, and by it we intend one and seventy meanings; each one of these meanings we can explain."
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  [Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-Taqíy-i-Afnán] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 1 p. 198
  ["One of them embraced the Faith...."] The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh vol. 2 p. 52-3

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