some qoutes, that help me understand the little that i do.


"Thee do we worship. And thine aid we seek. Show us the Straight Path."
-Qur'an, opening prayer

"Someone exclaimed in a voice hoarse with pain, 'God Exists!' . . . The mention of God's name was like a magnet attracting and assembling around it their roving thoughts which had been scattered by despair."
-Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk

"How great is the luck of one whose uncle is chairman."
-modern Egyptian proverb on the subject of corruption.

"As to the righteous . . . they perform their vows, and they fear a day whose evil flies far and wide. And they feed, for the love of God, the indigent, the ophan, and the captive saying - "We feed you for the sake of God alone - no reward do we desire from you, nor thanks."
-Qur'an

"Muslims are weak and disunited because they do not love God enough. We left God, so he left us. Once we truly love God, all of our problems will be solved. Our problem is to be deep in love with God. If we fit soul with body right, we can control all of the world by God. We say victory is through God."
"When the early Muslims said 'There is no God but God' God lifted up the Muslims and the unbeleivers went down. So Islamic people got all of Europe...This is real history."
-Carlye Murphy (Wash Post) interview with Gasser Shadi, Cairo resident

"We see no reason for [Europe's] position of wealth and power except their progress in education and the sciences. Our first duty then is to endeavor with all our might and main to spread these sciences in our country."
-Muhammed Abduh, Islamic Scholar, 1876

"Setting up the Kingdom of God on earth and eliminating the kingdom of man, means taking power from the hands of human usurpers and restoring it to God alone."
-Sayyid Qutb, father of modern armed Islamist political action

"I am Khalid Al Islambouli, I have killed Pharaoh and I do not fear death!"
-screamed by Sadat's assassin, an Islamist, immediately after killing Sadat

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Entire contents of the European book entitled: "Achievements of the Arabs in the last 1000 years."