Radical Middle Way
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“Enough of this talk that it was Islam who gave women their rights and it was Islam that freed women. Yes, Islam did that. The question isn’t whether Islam did that or not. The question that should be asked is: why we’re not implementing Islam in that regard? Why do we just leave it as sermons?” — Habib Ali al-Jifri, reacting to an appeal for a muslimah in need -
“This is part and parcel of how Muslims are. We like diversity, we like different.” — Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad -
“Adab is just another way of talking about balance, really. That subtle thing that keeps the two sides, the two palms of the scale, in balance. It’s to do with beauty, subtlety, perception, wisdom.” — Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad -
“Real pleasure is in the service of others. And that’s why the happiest of all people in is the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. And no one served people more than the Prophet.” — Shaykh Hamza Yusuf -
“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.” — Mawlana Rumi -
“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.” — Mawlana Rumi
