Jahaan-e-Shaheen

"say: if the whole ocean were ink for writing the words of my Lord, it would run dry before those words were exhausted even if We were to add another ocean to it." [al Kahf: 109]

May Day, Nanabu in Amritsar, & US Culture of Hostility Towards Immigrants

I did not betray my homeland, And I carried my people upon my shoulders, I stood in the face of my oppressors, Orphaned, naked and barefoot. I carried my blood upon my palm, And did not let my flags lower, And sustained the green grass On my ancestors' graves

The new culture finds the foundation of world-unity in the principle of Tauhid. Islam, as polity, is only a practical means of making this principle a living factor in the intellectual and emotional life of mankind. It demands loyalty to God, not to thrones. And since God is the ultimate spiritual basis of all life, loyalty to God virtually amounts to man's loyalty to his own ideal nature. The ultimate spiritual basis of all life, as conceived by Islam, is eternal and reveals itself in variety and change.

Islam began as something strange, and it will become strange again, so blessed are the believers.

The dignity and beauty of man rests in the human spirit which makes him more than simply a physical being. This spirit must never be suppressed for exploitation by others. As long as the people recognize the beauty of their human spirits and move against suppression and exploitation, they will be carrying out one of the most beautiful ideas of all time. Because the human whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. The ideas will always be among the people. The prison cannot be victorious because walls, bars and guards cannot conquer or hold down an idea.

When it's OK to "look" Muslim

"We must have a clearer vision of our plight & certainly we cannot blame our men for oppression of women. Our men are not the power structures that oppress us as a whole. We know who stole our lands. We know who discriminates against us. We know who came in, threw out our Spanish books and brought in new, fresh-written history books. And we know who wrote those books for us to read. In other words, we know where we hurt & why. And even more important, we cannot afford to fight within & among ourselves anymore, much less male pitted against female."