America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white, but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all together, irrespective of their color. Malcolm X
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  1. Festivals and fasts are unhinged, traveling backward at a rate of ten days per year, attached to no season. Even Laylat ul Qadr, the holiest night in Ramadan, drifts--its precise date is unknown. The iconclasm laid down by Muhammed was absolute: you must resist attachment... - G. Willow Wilson
  2. Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing. - Osman Bakar
  3. To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty. - Osman Bakar
  4. Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things. - Osman Bakar
  5. Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect. - Osman Bakar
More Quotes By Malcolm X
  1. People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
  2. So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
  3. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
  4. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
  5. The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
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