Ayad Akhtar Quotes

Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.

Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of my father's Egyptian friends questioned his decision not to raise his only child more strictly in the faith. I was not taught salat, the Muslim ritual of prayer, nor did I study Arabic.

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

I'm very proud to be of Muslim faith.

There's a general ignorance about how Muslims live and what Muslims believe.

Because Muslims often consider the early traditions of Islam to be part of the original message of revelation, they typically look to the way Muslims lived in the past rather than attempt to construct new ways based on both the original teachings of Islam and the realities of modern life.

I'm afraid that a lot of things that people believe about Islam are totally different from the religion that most of us recognize. I was really fortunate that I got to know Islam before it became a headline.

If you want to practice Islam in the inconsequential, semi-secular sense, fine.

Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.

I'm not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.

I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

Every individual Moslem is brought up to believe that Islam is perfect and the Prophet is infallible.

Arabic is the language of Islam, but Arabic culture is not the culture of Islam.

Knock out Islam's three main pillars … To reach Muslims with the gospel, you must first shake their faith in their religion, Islam.

Islamic subjects are taught with the aim of instilling in those students the essence of the Islamic message and its philosophy in general …. Such form of religious education is obligatory upon everyone who lives in a Muslim country regardless of whether he is a Muslim or not.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

Muslims around the world deserve to see birthplace of Islam represent the ethics of Islam.

The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.

I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God.

Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally opposed to autocratic and oppressive government. This is very, very clear.

Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.