Islamic Revival Quotes

We have fifty million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe -- without swords, without guns, without conquests. The fifty million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.

Will Islam modernize or will it be stuck where it has been for hundreds of years?

My brothers, you are a new soul in the heart of this nation to give it life by means of the Koran.

There is an ideology problem in Islam. We need to revolutionize our religion.

When the [Abbasid] state was drowned in decadence and luxury... and overthrown by the heathen Tatars ... because the people of the faith had become deficient in energy and reluctant to rally in defense ... then it was God's benevolence that He rescued the faith by reviving its dying breath and restoring the unity of the Muslims in the Egyptian realms.... He did this by sending to the Muslims, from among this Turkish nation and its great and numerous tribes, rulers to defend them.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.

In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control.

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

We intend to do is invite Barack Obama and the American administration and the general public to think about Islam as an alternative really, we believe that the problems in the world today aren't necessarily because of people and they need to go back to the divine law and so ours is a call to go back to the divine law and implement Islam.

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

During recent centuries a thorough knowledge of the history of Islam and of Mohammedan peoples has become rare in the Muslim world. This is only one of the many symptoms of its retrogression since the Middle Ages.

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

In the first few centuries of the Islamic era, Islamic theologians sought to meet the challenge this implied, but during the past 500 years critical scholarship has declined, leading to strong resistance to modernity