Michael Muhammad Knight famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.
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If Allah wants to send me a message, he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.
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Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed.
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The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout – some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.
-- Michael Muhammad Knight
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Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights
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Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.
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If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
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We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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