Zahoor Imam Quotes

#1. Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi. #Quote by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#2. To respect the learned is to respect God #Quote by Imam Ali

#3. Once, at the end of a field trip to the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam, the imam ended his meeting with students by saying, 'Our deepest desire is not that you become Muslim, but that you become the best Christian, the best Jew, the best person you can be. In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Thank you for coming.' Then he was gone, leaving me with a fresh case of holy envy. #Quote by Barbara Brown Taylor

#4. Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed said: Death with dignity is better than life with humility. #Quote by Allama Majlisi Biharol Anwar Vol. 44 P. 192

#5. The Prophet's character was termed tremendous because his concern was for God alone. #Quote by Imam Junayd Al-Baghdadi

#6. Humility is a product of knowledge #Quote by Imam Ali (Derived From Du'a Kumayl)

#7. My father(Imam Al-Baqir (as)) refined my manners by three statements. He said to me 'O son! A man who befriends a vile person cannot escape blame, a man who does not restrain his words will live in regret and a man who enters suspicious places will become subject to accusations. #Quote by Imam Al-Saqid

#8. Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime [Israel] must be wiped off the map ... We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine ... I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world. #Quote by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#9. On the way to truth, you can never see the priest, the imam or the pious! They are lost; they wander on the dark roads of ignorance! #Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. What is stupidity? "Hostility to one's powerful and efficient commander, or to someone who can harm you or benefit you #Quote by Imam Hussein Ibn Ali Al-Shaheed

#11. The deadline is at midnight in America; dawn, 5 A.M., in England, and 8:00 A.M., early morning, in Iraq. The Americans tie yellow ribbons around oak trees, hoping for their sons' safe return home. The Iraqis tie green ribbons around the Shrine of the Imam al-Hussain, praying for God's protection. In the coldest month, the coldest war of the modern age is declared. #Quote by Betool Khedairi

#12. We are hearing the imams that are preaching in places like the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The imam preached there to the migrants go in to Western Europe, build your enclaves there, breed their women and do not associate or assimilate into the broader society. #Quote by Steve King

#13. I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. #Quote by Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#14. People are either scholars or learners, everyone else are mobs. #Quote by Imam Ali Bin Abi Taleb

#15. I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex). #Quote by Mike Tyson

#16. If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves. #Quote by Imam Ahmad

#17. It was radicals like you and your father that hijacked your faith, hijacked a few planes, and made thousands of children orphans in a single day. You pretend my country beats you because you are poor, but you ignore that it was people of your faith that made this war. People like your father made this war. People like your father called for jihad. Well now you got it. You don't like it? Tell the Imam that his ignorance made his people poor. You don't understand Americans at all. We don't beat you because you're poor. You pissed us off. We'd beat your ass rich or poor. #Quote by Tucker Elliot

#18. The true sage eats, sleeps, buys, sells marries, talks & laughs, but never - not for a breath - forgets the Divine. #Quote by Imam Abu Sa`īd

#19. The most complete gift of God is a life based on knowledge. #Quote by Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib

#20. who accompany ignorants, lives in misery. #Quote by Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#21. The group with it's impurities is better than sectarianism with it's purity. #Quote by Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#22. As the ninth-century Persian mystic Imam Junaid said, "A Muslim is like the earth; even if impurities are thrown on it, it will blossom into a green pasture." We are called to be like a date tree, so rooted in the love of God that when people throw stones at you, you reply with fruits that taste sweet. Do not live your life in reaction to what people have done to you, but live your life in gratitude for all that God has done for you. #Quote by A. Helwa

#23. To fight against ones own desires is highest wisdom. #Quote by Imam Ali (Derived From Du'a Kumayl)

#24. To separate oneself from things of time and to connect oneself with things of eternity is highest wisdom #Quote by Imam Ali (Derived From Du'a Kumayl)

#25. Knowledge gives life to the soul #Quote by Imam Ali

#26. Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny. #Quote by Abhijit Naskar

#27. If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals. #Quote by Reza Aslan

#28. Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression #Quote by Mohammad Khatami

#29. Imam Shatibi, amongst other jurists, has explained extensively the dangers in leaving Fiqh unregulated, saying ; ultimately, the very purpose of the Shariah - which is Takleef, (that is charging people with duties and responsibilities) would become defunct as lay people, through caprice and moral corruption, created their own desirable opinions. #Quote by Muhammad Sajaad

#30. The foolish aim at wealth #Quote by Imam Ali (Derived From Du'a Kumayl)

#31. Our hearts have to cry to end our tears. #Quote by Neamat Imam

#32. To teach is to learn #Quote by Imam Ali

#33. It is of the extraordinary insights of Imam Malik that the first section of his Muwatta', which precedes even the section on ritual purity, is on the times of the prayer. It is the times of prayer that obligate purity. Observing the times of prayer is the first thing we do when we wake and the last thing we do before retiring to bed; it is done in the middle of the day and in its decline. It is an unrelenting reminder of to whom we belong, why we are here, and where we are going. #Quote by Hamza Yusuf

#34. From the very beginnings of Islam, the search for knowledge has been central to our cultures. I think of the words of Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first hereditary Imam of the Shia Muslims, and the last of the four rightly-guided Caliphs after the passing away of the Prophet (may peace be upon him). In his teachings, Hazrat Ali emphasized that 'No honour is like knowledge.' And then he added that 'No belief is like modesty and patience, no attainment is like humility, no power is like forbearance, and no support is more reliable than consultation.'

"Notice that the virtues endorsed by Hazrat Ali are qualities which subordinate the self and emphasize others - modesty, patience, humility, forbearance and consultation. What he thus is telling us is that we find knowledge best by admitting first what it is we do not know, and by opening our minds to what others can teach us."

- The Aga Khan IV at the Commencement Ceremony of the American University in Cairo, 25 June 2006 #Quote by Aga Khan

#35. I don't believe in 'good exposure'. It is not how I was programmed. #Quote by Imam Shah

#36. The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car. #Quote by Tom Robbins

#37. Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept as valid for declining certain foods. Generally unacceptable reasons: environmental destruction, energy waste, the poisoning of workers. Acceptable: it's prohibited by a holy text. Set down a platter of country ham in front of a rabbi, an imam, and a Buddhist monk, and you may have just conjured three different visions of damnation. Guests with high blood pressure may add a fourth. Is it such a stretch, then, to make moral choices about food based on the global consequences of its production and transport? #Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

#38. Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness. #Quote by Edward Gibbon

#39. God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God - not no imam, not no priest, not no rabbi, no pastor. #Quote by Eve

#40. Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question. #Quote by Imam Ja'Far Al-Sadiq

#41. The wise aim at perfection #Quote by Imam Ali (Derived From Du'a Kumayl)

#42. God is universal," spluttered the priest.
The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God."
"And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit.
"Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls."
"They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in.
"While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people. #Quote by Yann Martel

#43. There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication. #Quote by Christopher Hitchens

#44. If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God! #Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

#45. My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief. #Quote by H. Rap Brown

#46. Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live. #Quote by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#47. Don't allow your tongue to utter the fault of another person, because you are covered in faults and everyone else has tongues too. Don't allow your eyes to fall on the faults of others. Turn away your eyes and say to your eyes, 'oh eyes, other people have eyes too. #Quote by Imam Ash-Shafi`i

#48. Those who are silent when others are oppressed are guilty of oppression themselves #Quote by Imam Hussein Ibn Ali