Muqtada Al Sadr Quotes

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. ~ Juan Cole

Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Let the whole world hear that we reject America. No, no to the occupier. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the violations against the oppressed Iraqi people who suffered greatly cannot be accepted by any fair-minded and zealous person. Therefore, all must take these violations seriously and express themselves even through peaceful demonstrations, sit-ins and protests. I urge those people to distance themselves from their rulers who support the West and the occupation forces. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Just because we're rid of Saddam and the evil Batthists doesn't mean the occupation is a good thing. Our salvation from Saddam was only with the grace of God. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I renew my call for the occupier (the United States) to leave our land. The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Everything that happens is determined by God. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

May God preserve you and watch over you. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Nothing - not even the US Army - more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr. ~ Marc Cooper

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner
and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers[ ... ]a miracle from God. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

The Americans were never interested in what was best for the Shiites. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

We do not kill an Iraqi. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

The small Satan left and the great Satan came. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Iran, as we have already discussed, has carried out very, very harmful activities inside Iraq. Funding, trainings, arming and, in some cases, even directing the activities of the special groups associated with the Jaish al-Mahdi and the Sadr Militia. ~ David Petraeus

I don't think the whole of Iraq would be under al-Sadr, but I think he would be the predominant force on the Shia side. Quite contrary to his sort of maverick, firebrand image, he's shown a propensity to deal with the other side, to look for compromises, to negotiate. You might have a loose federation [in Iraq]. ~ Patrick Cockburn

The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country. ~ Bob Tyrrell

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria. ~ Susan Rice

A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself. ~ Al Di Meola

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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. ~ Al Franken

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work. ~ Al Sharpton

Life was created simple and it is important to live it as such. Simplicity is inherent; it leads to peace of mind and tranquility. ~ Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons. ~ Al McGuire

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago. ~ Al Jarreau

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B. ~ Al Jarreau

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous. ~ Al Franken

I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you. ~ Al Yankovic

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls. ~ Al Sharpton

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I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you're a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan, and because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long ago, by Heinrich Mann in Germany, by Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos in the United States. But you recognized neither Mann nor Sinclair. You recognize only the heavyweight champion and Al Capone. If given your choice between a library and a fight, you'll undoubtedly go to the fight. ~ Wilhelm Reich

It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling. ~ Al Gore

Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism. ~ Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

ISIS and Al-Qaeda and whoever else, that is the only way they stop is after we convert. That's what they say. The only way this stops is when the infidels convert. ~ Rush Limbaugh

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again. ~ Al Murray

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College. ~ Al Gore

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that. ~ Tom Mann

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate. ~ Al Franken

Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer. ~ Craig Ferguson

Players shy away from talking to announcers today. ~ Al Kaline

The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated. ~ Al Kooper

My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian Socialist Party" (actually the national-socialist and expansionist dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic) as the victim. Many of us are proud of having helped organize to prevent the slaughter and deportation of Europe's oldest and largest and most tolerant Muslim minority, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Kosovo. But at that time, when they were real, Chomsky wasn't apparently interested in Muslim grievances. He only became a voice for that when the Taliban and Al Qaeda needed to be represented in their turn as the victims of a "silent genocide" in Afghanistan. Let me put it like this, if a supposed scholar takes the Christian-Orthodox side when it is the aggressor, and then switches to taking the "Muslim" side when Muslims commit mass murder, I think that there is something very nasty going on. And yes, I don't think it is exaggerated to describe that nastiness as "anti-American" when the power that stops and punishes both aggressions is the United States. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate. ~ Al-Waleed Bin Talal

To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him. ~ Al-Ghazali

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility. ~ Farid Al-Din Attar

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists. ~ Dick Cheney

His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included in his DIVINE COMEDY from the writings of al-Farghani (whom he referred to by his Latin name, Alfraganus). ~ Jim Al-Khalili

If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good. ~ Al McGuire

My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy. ~ Wissam Al Mana

Now, are you happy? Have you finally achieved all you set out to do? What will you do next, little assassin, with no one left to see you?
- One Thousand Journeys of Al Akhar, various authors ~ Marie Lu

I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam. ~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life. ~ Al Alvarez

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth. ~ Bashar Al-Assad

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training? ~ Jose Rodriguez

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then. ~ Al-Ghazali

The Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ... nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the potentialities of Muhammad's message by the yardstick of present-day Muslim life and thought - just as he [Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi] said, 'it would be erroneous to see in the Christians' unloving behavior toward one another a refutation of Christ's message of love ... ' ~ Muhammad Asad

Every year before the Days of Awe, the Ba-al Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, held a competition to see who would blow the shofar for him on Rosh Hashanah. Now if you wanted to blow the shofar for the Ba-al Shem Tov, not only did you have to blow the shofar like a virtuoso, but you also had to learn an elaborate system of kavanot - secret prayers that were said just before you blew the shofar to direct the shofar blasts and to see that they had the proper effect in the supernal realms.

All the prospective shofar blowers practiced these kavanot for months. They were difficult and complex. There was one fellow who wanted to blow the shofar for the Ba-al Shem Tov so badly that he had been practicing these kavanot for years. But when his time came to audition before the Ba-al Shem, he realized that nothing he had done had prepared him adequately for the experience of standing before this great and holy man, and he choked. His mind froze completely. He couldn't remember one of the kavanot he had practiced for all those years. He couldn't even remember what he was supposed to be doing at all. He just stood before the Ba-al Shem in utter silence, and then, when he realized how egregiously - how utterly - he had failed this great test, his heart just broke in two and he began to weep, sobbing loudly, his shoulders heaving and his whole body wracking as he wept.

All right, you're hired, the Ba-al Shem said.

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The one whose concern is with that
which enters the belly will discover that his value is found in that
which goes out of it. ~ Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. ~ Al Gore

People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role? ~ Adel Al-Jubeir