Top 57 Imam Quotes
#1. God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God - not no imam, not no priest, not no rabbi, no pastor.
Eve
#2. On the way to truth, you can never see the priest, the imam or the pious! They are lost; they wander on the dark roads of ignorance!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. My imam at the Central Mosque said there was no problem with making music. In fact, he encouraged me - he said if the songs are moral, not offensive, then go ahead.
Cat Stevens
#4. I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357.
Mehdi Karroubi
#5. I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#6. We are hearing the imams that are preaching in places like the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The imam preached there to the migrants go in to Western Europe, build your enclaves there, breed their women and do not associate or assimilate into the broader society.
Steve King
#7. Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, a thirteenth century scholar, said that it is possible for anyone to have sincerity in what one does and in what one believes, irrespective of creed.
Hamza Yusuf
#8. Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#9. My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
H. Rap Brown
#10. The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#11. A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
Maajid Nawaz
#12. Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
K. A. Paul
#13. I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#14. ..Imam Ali [A]..
'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord
Mohammad Ali Shomali
#15. I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think ... They seek peace, encounter.
Pope Francis
#16. Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#17. I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex).
Mike Tyson
#18. Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'
Abu Dawood
#19. The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#20. Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener.
Nancy Pearl
#21. The Imam posits that the treatment of wantonness is to intentionally experience hunger and to reflect seriously on death and the Hereafter.
Hamza Yusuf
#22. Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
Ralph Peters
#23. If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.
Edward Gibbon
#25. Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise.
(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)
Anonymous
#26. The way we experience the pilgrimage is a reflection of our inner state,' the imam said. 'To some of us it will be a strenuous trial, whereas to others every step of the way is a joy, despite the privations and discomfort.
Kristiane Backer
#27. Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#28. Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the program, complained that trying to organize them was 'like weighing frogs
Malala Yousafzai
#29. A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and lustrous beard and I'll show you a true believer!' 'My goat has a beard far bushier and longer than yours,' replied Nasrudin. 'Does that mean he is a better Muslim than you?
Idries Shah
#30. I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.
Jacques Myard
#31. Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression
Mohammad Khatami
#32. To the gnarled old imam, sending his daughters out of the home - to walk in the streets, even if veiled, to sit among strangers, even if all girls - was wicked. His
Geraldine Brooks
#33. Justice is better than courage as if everyone is fair to others, then there will be no need for courage.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#34. If you want to test someone's character, give him respect. If he has good character, he will respect you more, if he has bad character, he will think is the best of all.
Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#35. Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#36. Practice makes knowledge perfect.
Imam Ali
#37. If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.
Imam Ahmad
#39. Honesty is divine language.
Imam Ali
#41. Our hearts have to cry to end our tears.
Neamat Imam
#43. Whether you are a man or woman, make sure that you see the person that you are considering to build a relationship with for who they are, not what you want them to be.
Imam Khalid Latif
#44. Knowledge gives life to the soul
Imam Ali
#45. The innumerable fools have made the learned very scarce
Imam Ali
#47. And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.
Imam Ali Bin Abi Taleb
#49. To respect the learned is to respect God
Imam Ali
#50. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.
Imam Ali
#51. O Alaah, i haven't worshiped you because of lusting of heaven or fearing of hill. I've worshiped you because you deserve to be worshiped.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#53. Knowledge creates fear of God
Imam Ali
#55. Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny.
Abhijit Naskar
#56. The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself
Imam Ali
