...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay.

...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

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?

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

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