Badawi Quotes & Sayings

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

The Tale of Hammad the Badawi. — Anonymous

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

FREEDOM OF SPEECH is the air that any thinker breathes; it's the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual's thoughts. — Raif Badawi

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear. — Salman Rushdie

The world [is] now seeing might is right. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear. — Raif Badawi

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

It's a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it. — Raif Badawi

As a child, the paddy field was my playground. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous. — Raif Badawi

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

An unexpected but important additional advantage of living in Kampung Jawa in this respect was the presence nearby, established as recently as 1955, of the Muslim College, Malaya's first national tertiary institution of Islamic higher education. I was able to use its small library, and came to know well Dr Muhammad Abdul Ra'uf and Dr Muhammad Zaki Badawi, Egyptians engaged to lead the college who also taught at the University of Malaya and later became prominent Muslim intellectuals in the United States and Britain respectively. Along with other members of staff, including the charismatic Pan-Malayan Islamic Party politician Dr Zulkifli Muhammad, they did much to extend my knowledge of Islamic education and wider Muslim issues. — William R. Roff

Shaykha Sultana al-Zubaydiyya

Shaykha Sultana al-Zubaydiyya, famous scholar and saint, was the dauther of 'Ali al-Zubaydi, a man belonging to the martial Zubaydi clan of the tribe of Bani Haritha, itself an offshoot of the major tribe of Kinda, one of the most ancient and best known tribes of Southern Yemen.

[...] she became known as the Rabi'a of Hadramawt.

[...] Shaykha Sultana became so engrossed in her spiritual pursuits that she never found it in herself to marry and beget children as was expected of her. Instead, she visited all the great men of the valley, sitting at the back of the mosques where the gatherings were held, and listening intently until she became well known and greatly respected by them.

Mostafa al-Badawi, A blessed Valley, Volume One, Wadi Hadramawt & the Alawi Tradition, Chapter 10, S. 95-97 — Mostafa Al-Badawi

My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities. — Raif Badawi

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Any religion-based state has a mission to limit the minds of its people, to fight the developments of history and logic, and to dumb down its citizens. It's important to stand in the way of such a mentality, to deny it from continuing its mission to murder the souls of its people, killing them deep within while they are still alive and breathing. — Raif Badawi

...Society needs to open its collective mind to all ideas and ideologies. It needs to give its people the chance to listen to the opinions of others, and then examine them critically instead of rejecting them prematurely. Such a creative dialogue based on positive critical thinking can enhance and develop ideas. — Raif Badawi

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

For me, liberalism simply means, live and let live. This is a splendid slogan — Raif Badawi

Look at all the countries that are based on a religious ideology; look at their people and the generations born into it: What do they have to offer human civilization? — Raif Badawi

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi