{"quotes":[{"text":"Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes isweeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.","author":"Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi","tags":["allah","fatalism","islam","quran","stoicism","worship"],"id":3048,"author_id":"Fakhr+Al-Din+Al-Razi"},{"text":"Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["consciousness","fear","fundamentalism","human-behavior","human-mind","human-nature","inspirational","inspiring","islam","islamophobia","jihad","motivational","muslims","philosophy","phobia","primitive-human-behavior","quran","religious-terrorism","terrorism","truth"],"id":3452,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have to be sacrificed, then be it. But for no Bible, Quran or Gita, can harmony be compromised.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","brainy","gita","harmony","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy","quran","rational-thinking","religious-diversity","religious-harm","religious-harmony","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","religious-violence","social-norms","social-progress","society","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":5288,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"And Moses said, 'If you should disbelieve, you and whoever is on the earth entirely - indeed, Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.","author":"Quran 8 42","tags":["god","islam","lord","moses","quran","wisdom"],"id":7291,"author_id":"Quran+8+42"},{"text":"The Bible is not religion, nor are the Vedas. The Torah is not religion, nor is the Quran, or any other scripture on earth.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","faith","fundamentalism","god","life-lessons","quran","religion","religion-and-philosophy","scriptures","self-awareness","spirituality","spirituality","truth","vedas"],"id":13700,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when people are asleep, his days when people are given to excess, his grief when people are joyful, his weeping when people laugh, his silence when people chatter and his humility when people are arrogant'. In other words every moment of life will be precious to him, and he should therefore be 'gentle', never harsh nor quarrelsome, 'nor one who makes a clamour in the market nor one who is quick to anger'.","author":"Ibn Mas'ud","tags":["anger","chatter","god","grief","islam","joy","laugh","night","people","quarrelsome","quran","silence","sleep","weeping"],"id":20187,"author_id":"Ibn+Mas%27ud"},{"text":"Quran‬, ‪Bible‬, ‪BhagwadGita‬ are your (as an follower) way of life and not everyone's way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others.","author":"honeya","tags":["bhagwad-geeta","bhagwadgita","bible","extremist","god","holy-book","life","people","quran","religion","religious","teachings","wise-words"],"id":22276,"author_id":"honeya"},{"text":"Believers are each other's mirrors.","author":"Elif Shafak","tags":["believer","islam","mirrors","quran"],"id":37330,"author_id":"Elif+Shafak"},{"text":"The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["illusory","islam","life","pastime","philosophy","qur-an","quran"],"id":40228,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a similar one.' Indeed, we shall produce a thousand similar, from the works of rhetoricians, eloquent speakers and valiant poets, which are more appropriately phrased and state the issues more succinctly. They convey the meaning better and their rhymed prose is in better meter. … By God what you say astonishes us! You are talking about a work which recounts ancient myths, and which at the same time is full of contradictions and does not contain any useful information or explanation. Then you say: 'Produce something like it'‽.","author":"Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi","tags":["contradictions","islam","koran","miracle","myth","poetry","quran"],"id":42101,"author_id":"Muhammad+ibn+Zakariya+al-Razi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}