Jamal Khashoggi Quotes

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.

I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

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 Islamic State is allowed to set legislation to promote the public interests as long as that legislation does not contradict Islamic Law. It must not be at variance with the Koran and Sunnah

It is our duty now to implement and put into practice the plan of government established by Islam… We will create a strong new current of thought and a powerful popular movement that will result in the establishment of an Islamic government.

I am a Muslim first and I am a Muslim last. I have a British passport, but we are defined by our beliefs…. Wherever I am, I will propagate Islam.

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

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'm very proud to be of Muslim faith.

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

Arabic is the language of Islam, but Arabic culture is not the culture of Islam.

The bulk of Sharia is nothing more than the legal opinions of classical jurists. That is why whenever the Sharia is imposed—out of context from the time when it was formulated and out of step with ours—Muslim societies acquire a medieval feel. We see that in Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Sudan, and Afghanistan under the Taliban.

From its inception, Islam was not merely a religion, but also a political community, the nation of Islam (ummat al-Islam). Muhammad was not merely a prophet communicating the word of God, but a political leader. Hence, any victory by the army of a Muslim state over non-Muslims is perceived as a victory for Islam itself.

The United States should not, in principle, object to the implementation of Islamic law or involvement of Islamic activists in government. Islamically oriented political actors and groups should be evaluated by the same criteria that are applied to any other potential leaders or opposition party.

The Mussulmans are not a Minority. The Mussulmans are a nation by any definition.

Ours is an Islamic system that takes action where the state fails to act.

Give them Islam, proclaim to the world the program of Islamic government; maybe the kings and presidents of the Muslim countries will understand the truth of what we say and accept it. We would not want to take anything away from them; we will leave anyone in his place who faithfully follows Islam.

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.

The professional soldier in a Muslim army, pursuing the goals of a Muslim state, CANNOT become 'professional' if in all his activities he does not take on 'the color of Allah'. The non-military citizen of a Muslim state must, likewise, be aware of the kind of soldier that his country must produce…

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.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

In the Muslim-majority countries you can't do without Islam, we can't do without their culture, in which way they are going to come back to this Islamic reference to find a way to deal with the true challenges and not the superficial political questions.