List of Muhammad Asad Quotes

...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...'

By Imitating The Manners And The Mode Of Life Of The West, The Muslims Are Being Gradually Forced To Adopt The Western Moral Outlook: For The Imitation Of Outward Appearance Leads, By Degrees, To A Corresponding Assimilation Of The World-view Responsible For That Appearance.

...i Suddenly Felt In Myself All The Weight Of Europe: The Weight Of Deliberate Purpose In All Our Actions. I Thought To Myself, 'how Difficult It Is For Us To Attain To Reality... We Always Try To Grab It: But It Does Not Like To Be Grabbed. Only Where It Overwhelms Man Does It Surrender Itself To Him.

I Conceived From The Outset A Strong Objection To Zionism. I Considered It Immoral That Immigrants Should Come From Abroad With The Avowed Intention Of Attaining To Majority In The Country And Thus To Dispossess The People Whose Country It Had Been Since Time Immemorial.

But Who, Except God, Can Say Whether A Man Is Right Or Foolish If He Follows The Call Of His Conscience?

All Cultural Imitation, Opposed As It Is To Creativeness, Is Bound To Make A People Small.

...we Must Learn -once Again- To Regard Islam As The Norm By Which The World Is To Be Judged.

All The Answers Are But Waiting For Us While We, Poor Fools, Ask Questions And Wait For The Secrets Of God To Open Themselves Up To Us: When They, All The While, Are Waiting For Us To Open Ourselves Up To Them.

I Do Not Feel That The West Has Really Become Less Condescending Toward Foreign Cultures Than The Greeks And Romans Were: It Has Only Become More Tolerant. Mind You, Not Toward Islam—only Toward Certain Other Eastern Cultures, Which Offer Some Sort Of Spiritual Attraction To The Spirit-hungry West And Are, At The Same Time, Too Distant From The Western World-view To Constitute Any Real Challenge To Its Values.

We Allow Ourselves To Be Blown By The Winds Because We Do Know What We Want: Our Hearts Know It, Even If Our Thoughts Are Sometimes Slow To Follow- But In The End They Do Catch Up With Our Hearts And Then We Think We Have Made A Decision

If The Muslims Keep Their Heads Cool And Accept Progress As A Means And Not An End In Itself, They May Pass On To Western Man The Lost Secret Of Life's Sweetness.

Of All Religious Systems, Islam Alone Declares That Individual Perfection Is Possible In Our Earthly Existence.