Quotes by Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

Explore a curated collection of 30 quotes by Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Boys will always be boys,’ he said. ‘The relationship obviously wasn’t meant to be.’ He told me I should trust that the — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
Anyone seeking to draw closer to God needs to curb the horizontal and ascend to God vertically,’ he said. ‘And this mean — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
You’ve been tested.’ He advised me to try and ‘forgive and pardon, and this way seek to become beloved by God’ without m — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
Purify your intentions, your inner being, your heart and be sincere in your actions,’ he wrote. ‘God looks into your hea — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a test of willpower and, whenever I felt my willpow — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
everything that is in the world, there is a correspondence on every level of existence. The macrocosm is a reflection of — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
Religion is also a process of healing, I discovered – a healing of the soul. Even our language points to this relation. — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
But I comforted myself with the thought that the reward for every discomfort I suffered for God was a spiritual blessing — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
You have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad (jihad alakbar).”His followers asked him what that greater — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do. — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
So I asked Dr Ceric if he thought there was a conflict between European values and Islam. ‘Not at all,’ he said. ‘Respec — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
A sick person is Allah’s guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless rewards, as long — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
Nothing happens without God’s will, and life doesn’t always go according to plan. Man proposes, God disposes. And it is — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
God was inviting me to go on Hajj, but before that I needed to settle my debts. Muslims may only embark on their pilgrim — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
the essence of the Hajj is Arafat. On the ninth day of the Hajj month all pilgrims gather on the great Plain of Arafat t — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
Then Gai told me about the famous cup of the heart, which I should now begin to empty. The Sufis compare our spiritual h — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
The words of the Quran all seemed strangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,’ he told us. He embr — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
According to Islam, whenever we are struck by illness or misfortune or someone hurts us, there is a higher purpose behin — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
It was clear to me by now that studying Islam was one thing – and absolutely worthwhile, because it helped me grasp the — Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life