And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.
Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc. ), away from his missionary side is backwardness.
The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.
I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357.
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression
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.
One of the most powerful sayings I have come across is by Imam ash-Shafi'I, "My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me. "
Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.
