Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Quotes
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha was a Sudanese Islamic reformer, philosopher, and engineer, the founder of the Republican Brothers, a small but intellectually powerful movement that defended a renewed Islamic philosophy of religious freedom, gender equality, and democratic socialism. His Second Message of Islam distinguished the Meccan period of the Quran, with its universal ethical principles, from the Medinan period of legal accommodation, and argued that a just modern Muslim society must take its principal guidance from the Meccan rather than the Medinan revelation. The quotes below are attributed to Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, organized by topic.
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha on God
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Attributed to Mahmoud Mohamed Taha:
“The Second Message of Islam is the Mecca message: a message of freedom, equality, and reverence for life.”
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Attributed to Mahmoud Mohamed Taha:
“Religion in its first speaking is universal; the law is its later concession to history.”
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“There is no Islam without freedom of religion.”
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“What does not transform the believer transforms nothing.”
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha on Truth
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Attributed to Mahmoud Mohamed Taha:
“I will not retract a word; if my life is the price of speech, let it be paid.”