Quotes - The School of Imam Abdessalam Yassine - Founder of the Justice and Spirituality Movement

Excerpt from the Book WINNING THE MODERN WORLD FOR ISLAM

A new start under the banner of islam will need a new conception of power and a new political organization. New ambitions will need a new order of things. Traditional society, atomized into individuals neutralized under the weight and grasp of absolutist powers falsely labeled as democracies, will have to yield to a vital participatory community. Islamic power will have a strong hand in this emancipation, this rebirth.

Excerpt from the Book WINNING THE MODERN WORLD FOR ISLAM

A new start under the banner of islam will need a new conception of power and a new political organization. New ambitions will need a new order of things. Traditional society, atomized into individuals neutralized under the weight and grasp of absolutist powers falsely labeled as democracies, will have to yield to a vital participatory community. Islamic power will have a strong hand in this emancipation, this rebirth.

https://siraj.net/ar/books/Winning-the-Modern-World-for-Islam/pages/174

What is life for? This is the central and vital question, the question no one can suppress of muffle, the question no one dares consider foolish.

But it is a question that is not to be asked publicly in an age deprived of sense and occupied with other problems that have more to do with “how” than “what for.” Curious about everything, open to the universe of space as well as the universe of molecules, meddlesome, punctilious, inquisitive into the least detail about every subject, our technical and scientific era remains, for all that, tragically irrelevant to this question.

The meaning of life, the purpose of life, these are issues no longer taken up except within the closed circle of philosophers infatuated by metaphysical speculations, or by those who are marginal to modernity, such as Muslims and a few other outmoded types.

https://siraj.net/ar/books/Winning-the-Modern-World-for-Islam/pages/89

Self-discipline consists of patience, gentleness, long-winded perseverance, and enduring hardships. Such are “a people whom God loves and they love him – humble before the believers and proud before those who deny truth.”(1) How can we achieve the necessary balance between unrestricted mercy and uncompromising resistance to all forms of falsehood?

https://siraj.net/ar/books/Back-to-Basics-The-Justice-and-Spirituality-Movement/pages/33

Beautiful comportment is to be distinguished in both substance and appearance from the deceptive, empty trappings of materialist society. It is for the fresh water drawn from the springs of the Qurʾān to flow in our discourse, undiluted by the speculative language and expressions of new-fangled ideologies and philosophies. If we are not intent upon distinguishing ourselves in this manner, we will one day find that we have dissolved in the acid test of materialism.

We can observe this dissolution among those who pontificate about changing society while raising hollow slogans in the name of Islam, even though they have in fact succumbed before taking their first step. They are defeated when they hide their Islam, when they look down upon the Sunna, or, worse yet, when they give in to a sense of shame and allow themselves to behave with hypocrisy.

https://siraj.net/ar/books/Back-to-Basics-The-Justice-and-Spirituality-Movement/pages/32

Īmān consists of conviction in the heart, testimony with the tongue, and actions of the body. Those who have īmān are only known by good deeds. God says: “Those who have faith and do righteous deeds, for them is every good and a beautiful place of return.”

Those who work for this world are among those who will be “working in exhaustion and loss, entering a blazing Fire.” Such are the hypocrites who make a show of their deeds. And those who “strive for the Hereafter as is due while they are true in faith” “will enter the Garden wherein they are provided with abundance beyond any account.” And those who strive further to attain the Pleasure of God, closeness to Him and the bliss of gazing upon His Face are the people of iḥsān. “And God loves the people of iḥsān.”

https://siraj.net/ar/books/Back-to-Basics-The-Justice-and-Spirituality-Movement/pages/31