"It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great."

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Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.214, The Book Foundation

Muhammad Asad

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“But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.”
“If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.”

Source : "Adora Svitak Likes French Philosophy, Reads Three Novels A Day, Has Written 400 Short Stories And Champions Feminism And World Peace. She Is 8". www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2006.
“As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.”
“Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.”
“I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.
“I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.”
“Having my daughter in the backseat with her best friend, singing "Let It Go," the Frozen song, at the top of her lungs, and just watching her sing when she thinks no one is watching. That, to me, is pure love.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.”

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