...Quotables @ Bookshelf ...

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“Semua orang yang ada dalam hidup kita,
masing-masingnya, bahkan yang paling menyakiti kita
diminta untuk ada disana agar cahaya kita dapat menerangi jalan mereka”

― Salim Akhukum Fillah, Dalam Dekapan Ukhuwah

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“In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.”

― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

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“I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.”

― Tariq Ramadan, What I Believe

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“Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.

(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),”

― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

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“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, Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics and Morality

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“A Rule: Life without Islam is a naked tree,
Birds without trees can never feel free.”

― Leena Ahmad Almashat, Harmony Letters

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“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, Tawhid and Science

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“Hijab adalah pembebasan dari ketergantungan kosmetik dan topeng. Hijab adalah pembebasan untuk jujur pada hatimu. Hijab adalah pembebas jiwamu dari rantai-rantai duniawi.”

― Mahdavi, Ratu yang Bersujud

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“Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On the other hand, He may Allow you to fall into disobedience which happens to lead you to the right path. DISOBEDIENCE that teaches you HUMILITY is better than PIETY that fills you with VANITY and ARROGANCE.”

― Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism

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“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, Islam and Secularism

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“Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.”

― Khurram Murad, Dying And Living For Allah

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“The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation.”

― Osman Bakar, Tawhid and Science

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“The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?”

― Christopher Hitchens, A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

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“America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.”

― Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season

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“The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit.”

― Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Uṣūl al Fiqh al Islāmī: Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence

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“my mother gave me islam.

my father gave me the god of absence.

and here i am.

a religion made of myself.”

― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

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“Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.”

― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

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“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, Back to Basics

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“But what else are secrets for if not discovery? That is their nature. Only time stands between a mystery and its rightful master.”

― Usman T. Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn

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“Manusia ini kuat, tapi nafsu mampu menundukkannya.

Nafsu itu kuat, tapi iman mampu menundukkannya.”

― Najmi Nawawi, Head With Serban