The word minhāj [Guiding Way] follows the Arabic morphological pattern mif‹āl, a form often used to designate instrumental nouns, as in miftāḥ [key]; yet it can also denote a verbalnoun, as in mi‹rāj [ascending ladder], or a place-name, as in mirṣād
Western civilization today stands utterly bare, stripped of every value save the material and utilitarian gain—measured in profit and loss, in investment and pursuit of return. Materialism has become the true creed of Western democracies, Christian though in name, just as it is the dogma of communist socialisms, which are atheist by principle
The contemporary mind’s demand for clarity in principles of action, for order, for “methodical” knowledge, for scientific experimentation, and for the empirical confirmation of the validity of proposals and the soundness of their results is a positive attribute. It prepares the ground for honest, critical dialogue that seeks solely the truth. Islam, too, seeks precisely this: that the listener’s mind may open itself to receive what is offered, to test it honestly, and not to reject the truth out of arrogance.
Atrocious as they were, Europe’s wars and colonial onslaught were merely a foretaste of current and future economic wars. Ideological mod- ernism, modern mass-production
The Ordeal of Israel will remain for some time until that scattered billion and a half Muslims become aware of their true identity.
Democracy! The word enchants, the password, the word that solves all our problems! Democracy is Algeria’s corpus delicti, put to death with euthanasiac pity, for fear that the enemies of democracy —those bearded fanatics and bizarrely costumed women— would commit an outrage...
Since the term Sufism is not mentioned in the book “The Prophetic Method,” another term, renewal, is mentioned in various forms. What is your interpretation of renewal, and how to know the “one who” renews the religion?
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,
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
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
