Syahadat Islam Quotes

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything. ~ Ahmed Ali

Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love. ~ Zarina Bibi

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force. ~ Wafa Sultan

If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam ~ Hamza Yusuf

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name. ~ Fethullah Gulen

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam ... second, the culture of Islam. ~ Abdurrahman Wahid

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything. ~ Cat Stevens

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. ~ Louis Farrakhan

Islam has always been part of America ~ Barack Obama

There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam. ~ Imran Khan

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war. ~ George W. Bush

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Islam is not a race ... Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity. ~ Walter Kasper

The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different from the Sunni Islam practiced in Pakistan. Even within a single branch of Islam there are customs and practices that vary by region and across time. Thus, the Islam of seventh-century Arabia is different from the Wahhabism that exists today in Saudi Arabia. ~ Deepa Kumar

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam. ~ Ibn Warraq

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam. ~ Mosab Hassan Yousef

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

In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature. ~ Ali Sina

It's a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution. ~ Daniel Pipes

Reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the Reform Judaism, it is more about politics. ~ Glenn Beck

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

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam. ~ Daniel Pipes

We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam. ~ Jimmy Carter

Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims. ~ Habeeb Akande

Change the world, give a chance and stay on your principles.. ~ Shahid Islam

Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world. ~ Walter Kasper

The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam - which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings. ~ Wole Soyinka

To be calm when you've found something going on ~ Yusuf Islam

It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers. ~ Ali Sina

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam. ~ Shirin Ebadi

Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. would make you cry it's so beautiful ... and gentle. ~ Sinead O'Connor

Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable. ~ Abu Bakar Bashir

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation ~ Barack Obama

Islam desists violence practised by terrorists who kill their brethren and commit all despicable actions under the shelter of religion. Islam dissociates itself strictly from these people and their actions. ~ Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan

I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam. ~ Aasif Mandvi

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. ~ Barack Obama

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam. ~ Malcolm X

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America ~ Rosie O'Donnell

God must be a designer. Everything around us is well-done ~ Islam Atef Aly

She is Islam, and I am in Love ... ~ Boonaa Mohammed

The point of Islam is to promote peace. ~ Lupe Fiasco

The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and mystical Islam. ~ Walter Kasper

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism. ~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed ~ Barack Obama

Islam's middle position can be recognized by the fact that Islam has always been attacked from the two opposite directions: from the side of religion, that is too natural, actual, and tuned to the world; and from the side of science that it contains religious and mystical elements. There is only one Islam, but like man, it has both soul and body. ~ Alija Izetbegovic

Most Americans are unaware that Thomas Jefferson was the first American president to go to war against radical Islam. Jefferson was very concerned with Islam's war-like doctrine and its inability to separate mosque and state. ~ Brad Thor

I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact. ~ Maajid Nawaz

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. ~ Abdurrahman Wahid

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I'm afraid that a lot of things that people believe about Islam are totally different from the religion that most of us recognize. I was really fortunate that I got to know Islam before it became a headline. ~ Cat Stevens

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change. ~ Maajid Nawaz

I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam. ~ Wole Soyinka

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies. ~ Polly Toynbee

Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam ... We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality ... ~ Ruhollah Khomeini

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society. ~ Maajid Nawaz

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. ~ John Keegan

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. ~ Salman Rushdie

Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing. ~ Osman Bakar

Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam. ~ Mohammed Omar

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations. ~ Ibn Khaldun

Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious. Islam does not allow swimming in the sea and is opposed to radio and television serials. Islam, however, allows marksmanship, horseback riding and competition. ~ Ruhollah Khomeini

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well. ~ Wendell Berry

Islam is not dark but very bright indeed. Islam is not depressing but instead, quite uplifting and inspiring. Islam is not about censoring but instead it is about voluntary submission. ~ Norhafsah Hamid

Six days after 9/11 George W. Bush visited a mosque and said quote, "Islam is peace." ~ Wolf Blitzer

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.' ~ Rand Paul

The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value ~ Marmaduke Pickthall

The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam. ~ Bassam Tibi

Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn't look for a nation to be in better condition than another nation. Islam doesn't care about the land or who own the land. The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power in this world that tries to get in the way of that goal, Islam will fight and destroy. ~ Abul A'la Maududi

Nothing comes from nothing ~ Islam Atef Aly

Islam teaches that one can only find peace in one's life by submitting to Almighty God (Allah) in heart, soul and deed. ~ Raad

I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target. ~ Lindsey Graham

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

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me. ~ Muhammad Ali

When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as the other was very similar to what we find in Australia, which is that the image of Islam is a constructed image in the West. We are starting from a point of view that Islam and Muslims - well Islam is a violent, misogynistic, hateful religion and that is where the debate always starts from - that presumption underlies the discourse. ~ Reza Aslan

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself. ~ Kumail Nanjiani

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

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message. ~ Annie Besant

Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam! ~ Malala Yousafzai

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion. ~ Eliza Griswold

Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people. ~ Abderrahmane Sissako

Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion. ~ Angela Merkel

Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society. ~ Maajid Nawaz

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity. ~ Louis Farrakhan

The French have a very deep knowledge of Islam in many areas, and we can exchange views. ~ Tony Tan

Not once since becoming president has Mr. Obama linked terror aimed at the United States with Islam. ~ Monica Crowley

I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us. ~ Lindsey Graham

Islam is a peaceful religion. ~ Youssou N'Dour

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer ~ Naguib Mahfouz

Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice. ~ Louis Farrakhan