Ibrahim Hooper Quotes

In Islam, there is no difference between the state and the religion. The religion is the state, the state is the religion

If you want Islam to be an agent of salvation, you must rule….. Islam has come to govern and run life in a proper fashion …. Islam without government and a Moslem nation without Islam are meaningless.

There is this political ideology in the Muslim world that says that nations should be ruled by religious law…. Mali and Senegal are the exceptions.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Saudi Arabia is defined and represented by its Islamic stature.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

Our government should be led by religious men …. Religion is with politics and politics is with religion. They are as one.

There is Islam in politics in the Moslem world.

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The entire system of government and administration, together with necessary laws, lies ready for you. If the administration of the country calls for taxes, Islam has made the necessary provision; and if laws are needed, Islam has established them all. There is no need for you, after establishing a government, to sit down and draw up laws …. There is not a single topic in human life for which Islam has not provided instruction and established a norm.

There are those who maintain that democracy is the rule of the people, but we want the rule of Allah.

We demand .. the government of the rightly guided caliphate, which is established on the basis of the sovereignty of sharia and not on the whims of the majority.

… in this state [a theocracy] the highest and only authority belonged to God, to whose worship all other things were made subservient.

I have no love for American politics..

Our government makes no sense, unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith—and I don't care what it is.

I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives…. I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.

I always found it ironic when a Saudi official bashes Islamists, given that Saudi Arabia is the mother of all political Islam - and even describes itself as an Islamic state in its 'Higher Law.'

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.