Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes

• If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Islam, Pray

• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leaders, Weakness

• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Trying, Islam

• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stable, Muslims, Islam

• Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Islam, Perfect, Nothing

• Islam’s laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laws, Islam, Stable

• Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laws, Justly, Firmly

• Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Life

  Tags in State, Leader

• Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in God

  Tags in Invasion, Poorest

• Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Proud, Community

• Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wealth, Curse

• So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law, Consultation, Democratic

• The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sophisticated, Defeated, Faith

• But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir’s proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Leaders, Proposals

• The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Leaders, Countries

• The only model to follow is pure Islam.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Islam, Follow

• The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Follower, Enemies, Islam

• There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leader, Commitment, Courage

• As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defeated, Confident, Muslims

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Islam, Hard, Tough

Abu Bakar Bashir (31)

Birth:	17th August, 1938
Nationality:	Indonesian
Profession:	Activist, Cleric, Leader

About

Abu Bakar Bashir  is an Indonesian Muslim cleric and leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council. He ran the Al-Mukmin boarding school in Ngruki, Central Java, which he co-founded with Abdullah Sungkar in 1972. He was in exile in Malaysia for 17 years during the secular New Order administration of President Suharto resulting from various activities, including urging the implementation of Sharia law.

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