The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 1 Share Now -
God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 2 Share Now -
What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 3 Share Now -
I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 4 Share Now -
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 5 Share Now -
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 6 Share Now -
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 7 Share Now -
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 8 Share Now -
I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 9 Share Now -
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth. - Feisal Abdul Rauf 10 Share Now -
