5 Selected Quotations from Sheikh Zakzaky Speeches

El-Rufai during condolence visit to El-Zakzaky in July of 2014

By Ammar M. Rajab

1. YOUR LIFE IS YOUR RELIGION

“In our own perspective, as we always tell people to comprehend, religion is not different from our own way of living. Life is religion itself, the way we live, is the way we would be judged in the hereafter.”

2. IF YOU RESORT TO ALMIGHTY ALLAH, YOU WILL BE SUPERIOR

“If you resort to almighty Allah, you will be superior to everybody; be firmly loyal to almighty Allah, beseech in prayer from him (Allah), implore for knowledge, and pay attention on your religion because it is the religion that made us.”

3. THE SOCIETY NEEDS PEOPLE TO SACRIFICE

“This society that we are living together needs sacrifice. Those who sacrifice, their compliment is not just in this world (only); their name will not just be known is this world, in the hereafter; paradise is their reward from almighty Allah. Paradise is the reward of your sacrifice; meanwhile, your life sacrifice is the dooms day flattery. As we all know, the life in this world is not eternal.”

4. WHAT UNITES MUSLIMS?

“What we want the Ummah to understand is; this message (Islam) is one, it is one message directly from almighty Allah(s) revealed it to his Prophet Muhammad (saww), and the prophet has sent it down to mankind. But, the Ummah as it’s now, it is congested (the Ummah), their way of thoughts differs, but we take the Ummah as one, followers of Prophet Muhammad (saww). Perhaps, we want all of us (the Muslim Ummah in general) to come together in one perspective, what we comprehended from the religion lets make it to bring our senses, in other to unite on what we understand equally.”

5. LETS EMULATE PROPHET MUHAMMAD (SAW)

Lets the Muslim’s show the world they are Muslims (in a way of emulates Prophet Muhammad). By portraying prophet’s morals, to hear from us if we speak, to emulate him if we jumble, to see Islam in us, we will be superior than our enemies. The enemies of Islam who laboured to tarnish the image of Islam with propaganda, they have to know they will never prevail, this is an era of religion. Religion shall conquer the world no matter what their plots will be”.