Dunya Islamic Quotes

In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then. ~ Luqman

and then I knew
that only the dreams of a stone don't become cracked
and only the heart of a stone endures. ~ Dunya Mikhail

If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place. ~ Hamza Yusuf

In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic. ~ Ruhollah Khomeini

After years of falling into the same pattern of disappointments and heartbreak, I finally began to realize something profound. I had always thought that love of dunya meant being attached to material things. And I was not attached to material things. I was attached to people. I was attached to moments. I was attached to emotions. So I thought that the love of dunya just did not apply to me. What I didn't realize was that people, moments, emotions are all a part of dunya. What I didn't realize is that all the pain I had experienced in life was due to one thing, and one thing only: love of dunya. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread. ~ Bashar Al-Assad

The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so. ~ Tom Cotton

When you talk about Islamic terror. You go, oh, you're an Islamic - you're Islamophobic because you besmirching all Muslims. No. I'm talking about Islamic terror. ~ Greg Gutfeld

When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics. ~ Ruhollah Khomeini

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled. ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values. ~ Joe Biden

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like. ~ Christopher Hitchens

As Graeme Wood, a scholar on the teachings and ideology of ISIS, wrote in the Atlantic, The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. . . . The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. ~ Glenn Beck

The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can. ~ Ali Khamenei

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it! ~ Abu Bakar Bashir

I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself). ~ Terry Mosher

In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded. ~ Ruhollah Khomeini

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in Islamic societies because coerced virtues are not virtues at all. ~ Dinesh D'Souza

We need to focus on building a military that is second-to-none so that we can destroy Islamic terrorism. ~ Jeb Bush

Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening. ~ Glenn Beck

Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with economic position or status in life. ~ Brigitte Gabriel

The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States. ~ Jimmy Carter

From my earliest works written in the 1950s and 1960s, I have claimed that there is such a thing as Islamic science with a twelve-hundred-year tradition of its own and that this science is Islamic not only because it was cultivated by Muslims, but because it is based on a worldview and a cosmology rooted in the Islamic revelation. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan. ~ Hooman Majd

Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans? ~ Stewart Baker

What these followers do not realize is that the Islamic faith is mostly a peaceful religion. The violent tactics spread by Islamic radicals is a common misconception of the religion that has made it hard for most Islamic cultures around the world to continue peacefully. The misinformed assume that all Muslims, followers of Islam, are dangerous threats. Yet the truth is that the words of Islamic faith are about peace, not war. ~ Jordan Keller

After the Islamic State, even al-Qaeda appears 'moderate'. ~ Maajid Nawaz

This world cannot break you - unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys - unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while - take them back. This isn't the End. You don't have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner:
God. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken. ~ Youssou N'Dour

One of the things we've seen here is how easy it is for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to get distracted from dealing with radical Islamic terrorism. They won't even call it by its name. ~ Ted Cruz

Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history is really just being a desert. But I thought, the one thing I must learn about for this project is the Islamic faith. So I read about Islam and Islamic architecture, and the more I studied the more I realized where the best Islamic buildings were. ~ I.M. Pei

Our leaders today cannot be honest about Islam with us. They will not even use the term "Islamic terrorism," "radical Islam." ~ Rush Limbaugh

History shows that wherever Islam becomes dominant, democratic institutions perish, all pre-Islamic remnants are destroyed, and non-Islamic people cease to be safe. ~ Pamela Geller

He used to annoy me with sophistry that we all chose our destiny. Then one day I told him that that's great when fate offers you a nice set of destinies to choose from, but when you find yourself choosing between risking being raped, tortured and killed, or moving to another country to live like an alien without tongue, money or understanding, you are buggered either way. And that's not even to mention how easily he could navigate through the mine filed of his mistakes... ~ Dunya Look

An 'Islamic economy' or 'Islamic finance' doesn't mean anything to me. But I do think that in the multi-polar world, it is time to find new partners, to find a new balance in the economic order. And this could help you to find an alternative way forward. ~ Tariq Ramadan

ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism will face no more determined foe than I will be. ~ Ted Cruz

Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings. ~ Ali Khamenei

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism. ~ Bernard-Henri Levy

We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists. ~ Ted Cruz

One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought. ~ David Miliband

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism. ~ Pierre Salinger

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. ~ Taslima Nasrin

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. ~ Richard Dawkins

I've written a book entitled Islam: the Challenges of Democracy, because it is a challenge. It requires careful interpretation of the Islamic tradition and Islamic theology, and there's a lot in there that would support democratic ideals. ~ Khaled Abou El Fadl

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good. ~ Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan's constitution. He clearly can't read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP. ~ Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Anyone who disagrees with radical Islamic propaganda is being attacked in the media, on college campuses, and at rallies countering events that promote the Islamic cause ~ Brigitte Gabriel

To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth. ~ Kenneth Eade

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. ~ Azar Nafisi

If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims. ~ Jeb Bush

If Allah wants to send me a message,
he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury. ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation ... ~ Toby Lester

Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations. ~ Tom Lantos

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. ~ Barack Obama

Nothing Here is Enough"

I need a parrot,
identical days,
a quantity of needles,
and artificial ink
to make history.

I need veiled eyelids,
black lines,
and ruined puppets
to make geography.

I need a sky wider than longing,
and water that is not H2O
to make wings.

The days are no longer enough
to distinguish the missing.
I no longer see you
because I no longer dream.
I offer a tear to the rain
as if scattering you
in the Dead Sea,
and in order to sing you,
I need glass to muffle the sound. ~ Dunya Mikhail

The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law. ~ Bernard Lewis

There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State. ~ Thomas De Maiziere

If the Zionist commit the folly and attack Iran, they will receive a crushing response from the Islamic Republic's armed forces which will lead to their annihilation. ~ Mohsen Rezaee

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion. ~ Ibn Warraq

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians. ~ Dinesh D'Souza

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. ~ Ibrahim Hooper

The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact would be fully substantiated if the integral history of Islamic science and civilization were to be written one day. Unfortunately to this day such a detailed history does not exist and moreover much of the scholarly work that has been done in this field has been carried out by Western scholars who have been naturally primarily interested in those aspects of the Islamic sciences that have influenced the West. It remains the task of Muslims scholars and scientists to look upon the whole of this scientific tradition from the point of view of Islam and the inner dynamics of Islamic history itself. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy, its flexibility and pathology, people thought I was trying to scare them. But now we have experienced just that. If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0. ~ Ashraf Ghani

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence ~ Rumi

We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable. ~ Rand Paul

Tale of Taj al-Muluk and the Princess Dunya (The Lover and the Loved). ~ Anonymous

We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror. ~ Ted Cruz

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries. ~ Jean-Marie Le Pen

Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran. ~ David Ignatius

The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem. ~ Tariq Ramadan

In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe. ~ Bassam Tibi

We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country. ~ Barack Obama

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule. ~ Abu Bakar Bashir

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq. ~ Michael Scheuer

We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East ... The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael ... [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags. ~ Ze'ev Jabotinsky

When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully to Africa and Latin America and the entire Islamic world. The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes. ~ George W. Bush

In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the West have been transplanted into that world without a close integration between the humanities, which should be drawn totally from Islamic sources, the religious disciplines and the sciences which have been imported from the West. ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible. ~ Bassam Tibi

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world. ~ Ron Lewis

Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory. ~ Al-Shafi'i

I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and the certain Islamic takeover of Europe to completely annihilate European Christendom within the next hundred years he must ensure that the warriors fighting for the preservation of European Christendom prevail. ~ Anders Behring Breivik

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.' ~ Richard Dawkins

From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari). ~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking. ~ Tariq Ramadan

The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and ... installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world ... Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime. ~ Ali Khamenei

One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists. ~ Ted Cruz

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience. ~ Ruhollah Khomeini

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan. ~ Richard Engel

Let not those who hurry to fall into disbelief grieve you of such like them to disbelieve without course. ~ Auliq Ice

If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was. ~ Pablo Picasso

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow. ~ Imran Khan

Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult. ~ Richard Engel

Our allies in the Middle East know that the Islamic State is their fight - and they have asked for very specific things to help push back against ISIL.We must give our allies the help they need to confront and defeat this evil. ~ Carly Fiorina

It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq War because that takes the culpability off their shoulders. The Islamic State is a product of the Iraq War. It took about a 100 years to build the Iraqi state, and the Americans and the British destroyed it in an afternoon. ~ Vijay Prashad