Islamic Jurisprudence Quotes

#1. For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.

G. Willow Wilson

#2. Disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#3. Mainstream Islamic jurisprudence continues to hold that the sword verses (9:5 and also 9:29) have "abrogated, canceled, and replaced" those verses that call for "tolerance, compassion, and peace."32

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#4. In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

Aly Khan

#5. I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Charles James Fox

#6. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#7. Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

John Adams

#8. Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!" it said. "I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!"
"You burn prettily," I said.

Roger Zelazny

#9. You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Loretta Lynn

#10. Roxanne Archer designed her strategy like a four-star general - or a stalker.

Candace Schuler

#11. No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.

Lee Daniels

#13. If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

Cherry Jones

#14. Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects.
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Albert Sanchez Pinol

#15. I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

Susan Smith