Hijrah Quotes

Questioned by a Companion about the best possible hijrah, the Prophet was to answer: "It is to exile yourself [to move away] from evil [abominations, lies, sins]."12 This requirement of spiritual exile was to be repeated in different forms. ~ Tariq Ramadan

The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

The violent secularism of al-Nasser had led Qutb to espouse a form of Islam that distorted both the message of the Quran and the Prophet's life. Qutb told Muslims to model themselves on Muhammad: to separate themselves from mainstream society (as Muhammad had made the hijrah from Mecca to Medina), and then engage in a violent jihad. But Muhammad had in fact finally achieved victory by an ingenious policy of non-violence; the Quran adamantly opposed force and coercion in religious matters, and its vision - far from preaching exclusion and separation - was tolerant and inclusive. Qutb insisted that the Quranic injunction to toleration could occur only after the political victory of Islam and the establishment of a true Muslim state. The new intransigence sprang from the profound fear that is at the core of fundamentalist religion. Qutb did not survive. At al-Nasser's personal insistence, he was executed in 1966.

Every Sunni fundamentalist movement has been influenced by Qutb. Most spectacularly it has inspired Muslims to assassinate such leaders as Anwar al-Sadat, denounced as a jahili ruler because of his oppressive policies towards his own people. The Taliban, who came to power in Afghanistan in 1994, are also affected by his ideology. ~ Karen Armstrong

I have often wondered what was the source of her beauty, her radiance. It's not the size of one's nose, the color of one's skin, the shape of one's lips or eyes that make one beautiful or ugly. So what is it? Can you, as a woman, tell me?
I shook my head.
I will tell you: It's love. Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There's no need to ponder the question. There is no such person. ~ Jan-Philipp Sendker

Attributing to another author, Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep. ~ Karl Ove Knausgaard

There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it's important the people around you not be looking to take advantage. ~ Seanan McGuire

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling. ~ Jojo Moyes

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God. ~ Adoniram Judson

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class. ~ Mark Poster

When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us. ~ Lester Levenson

In the back corner, a stairwell led down. It was blocked by a row of iron bars like a prison door. Percy wondered what was down there - monsters? Treasure? Amnesiac demigods who had gotten on Reyna's bad side? ~ Rick Riordan

The moonlight will guide me to the world of freedom. ~ Peach-Pit

I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect. ~ Scottie Thompson

Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud. ~ Andrew Greeley

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views. ~ Jimmy Wales