Muhammad Asad

Quotes

• “It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with my interpretations, even the classical Quran commentators disagreed on many details. Disagreement deepens our understanding of the Quran.”
• “Jew or Arab. Both here are brimming over with an intolerant hatred that leads them nowhere. Each side says to the other: You do not belong here.”
• “Some Muslim scholars argue that the concept of Democracy is not compatible with the concept of an Islamic state. But of course it is and the Quran outlines the essence of Democracy.”
• “Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking, with the result of an absolute balance and solid composure. Probably this feeling that everything in the teachings and postulates of Islam is "in its proper place" has created the strongest impression on me.”
• “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.”
• “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.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1900-07-02 ) 2 July 1900, Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , (present-day Lviv , Ukraine )

Died

20 February 1992 (1992-02-20) (aged 91), Mijas , Andalucia , Spain

Nationality

Austrian , Pakistani

Main interest s

Islamic studies , Islamic democracy , Muslim world , Quran

Notable idea s

Islamic state , Independent Reasoning

Notable work s

The Message of The Qur'an The Road to Mecca Islam at Crossroads This law of Ours

Alma mater

University of Vienna ( dropped out in 1920)

Occupation

Linguist , Academic, Traveler , Political Theorist , Historian

Religion

Islam

Denomination

Sunni

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