Muhammad Khalid Masud Quotes

Let me remind you of a historical fact that is accepted by all. In the year 901 - an unfortunate year for Muslims - a Muslim qadi named Ibn Mujahid canonized one version of the Koran. Before that, there were many different versions of the Koran, and this did not upset the good Muslims!

I think that's very important for romantic comedies, that they do deal with [modern]issues.

If you find the light of Scripture clearer than the light of reason (which also is given us by divine wisdom), you are doubtless right in your own conscience in making your reason yield. For my part, since I plainly confess that I do not understand the Scriptures, though I have spent many years upon them, and since I know that when once I have a firm proof I cannot by any course of thought come to doubt of it, I rest wholly upon that which my understanding commends to me, without any suspicion that I am deceived therein, or that the Scriptures, even though I do not search them, can speak against it. For one truth cannot conflict with another.

It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

Pop culture is a huge strategy for WWE: our storylines are reflective of what's happening in the world and what's popular.

To me, the Quran is a research book.

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.

You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

Printed media and other media indicated that Mr. Ellison was going to use the Koran, and that generated scores and hundreds of emails to my office. And so I thought it very important to state my view. And my view is that I don't subscribe to the Koran, and I will now be using the Bible when I take the oath.

I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.

When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.

I think 'Riverdale,' the show as a whole, is so now, so today. There's so much going on that can be reflected as far as what's going on in society.

Is there a more violent book than the Bible?

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning.

I always say 'The Bachelor' doesn't create and drive social issues. We're a microcosm of what's happening in the world.

Our interest in history always reflects our own times.

I do pick up on contemporary issues.

When I'm out of town, I always try to get some readings or some type of new information to where I'm learning more about Islam, just to become the best Muslim I can become.

When I'm in the studio with other rappers, we talk about social issues.

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age...A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.