Murad Quotes & Sayings

Time is not money or gold; it is life itself and is limited. You must begin to appreciate every moment of your life and always strive to make the best use of it. — Khurram Murad

The more challenging the obstacles in life, the greater the satisfaction in overcoming them. — Murad S. Shah

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree. — Ferid Murad

Senselessly pontificating about things does not get anything done, doing something about it does. — Murad S. Shah

Allah has names of Beauty: the Compassionate, the Merciful, the Gentle, and many others. But He also has Names of Rigour: the Overwhelming, the Just, the Avenger. The world in which we live exists as the interaction and the manifestation of all of the divine attributes. Hence it is a place of ease and of hardship, of joy and of sorrow. It has to be this way: a world in which there was only ease could not be a place in which we can discover ourselves to be true human beings. It is only by experiencing hardship, and loss, and bereavement, and disease, that we rise above our egos, and show that we can live for others, and for principles, rather than only for ourselves. — Abdal Hakim Murad

The 'Islamic State', that strange miscegenation of Medina with Westphalia, is always in mortal danger of linking the moral austerity of monotheism with the repressive and supervisor powers of the modern nation state. — Abdal Hakim Murad

I have studied Murad Saeed's case myself, He have not submitted any fake degree. Its a conspiracy against him. If he had any fears, if he was guilty he wouldn't have went to court. — Imran Khan

I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I missed it."
"Nine cats? They can send you to prison for that."
He pushed his glasses back on his nose. "I'm calling him Murad, after the cigarettes."
"Never heard of them."
"They're an obsolete Turkish brand, popular in the 1910s and '20s. Murad means 'desire' in Arabic. The only brand that ever appears in a Cordova film is Murad. There's not one Marlboro, Camel, or Virginia Slim. It goes further. If the Murad cigarette is focused upon by the camera in any Cordova film. The very next person who appears on-screen has been devastatingly targeted. In other words, the gods will have drawn a great big X across his shoulder blades and taped an invisible sign there that reads FUCKED. His life will henceforth never be the same. — Marisha Pessl

There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate. — Ferid Murad

The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know. — Murad S. Shah

Those who come to Islam because they wish to draw closer to God have no problem with a multiform Islam radiating from a single revealed paradigmatic core. But those who come to Islam seeking an identity will find the multiplicity of traditional Muslim cultures intolerable. People with confused identities are attracted to totalitarian solutions. And today, many young Muslims feel so threatened by the diversity of calls on their allegiance, and by the sheer complexity of modernity, that the only form of Islam they can regard as legitimate is a totalitarian, monolithic one. That there should be four schools of Islamic law is to them unbearable. That Muslim cultures should legitimately differ is a species of blasphemy. — Abdal Hakim Murad

Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century. — Anthony Marra

Acting on your convictions is the ultimate test of your faith in your convictions. — Murad S. Shah

What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution. — Ferid Murad

There should be no difficulty in understanding this love. Each one of you knows what love is. You know how restless one is to get close to whomsoever one loves; what pleasure one feels even in taking the name of the beloved and in taking that name again and again; the earnest zest with which one strives to win over one's beloved, and the extent to which one dreads the displeasure of the beloved. Just keep examining to what extent you have attained this love. Peep into your heart and see what is the place of Allah therein. The same shall be your place to Him. — Khurram Murad

Myths are, however, to a people what dreams are to individuals. — Murad Ali Baig

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class. — Ferid Murad

Rewards are not an entitlement, they have to be deserved, they have to be earned. — Murad S. Shah

Memory depends on the medium, I thought; brains are such imperfect recorders. I — Mahvesh Murad

Women are not difficult; but they are difficult to understand.
Men are not easy; but they are easy to understand. — Abdal Hakim Murad

Only then did I realise that for me, and many others, Israel was virtual. For Murad, Israel was 'home.' Israel was a reality; a harsh reality. — Suad Amiry

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy. — Abdal Hakim Murad

Nitric oxide was known for destroying things. — Ferid Murad

If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences. — Murad S. Shah

Reality does not change. How you see it does. — Murad S. Shah

Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide. — Murad Wilfried Hofmann

If it is not important for you, how can it be important for others? — Murad S. Shah

The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register. — Ferid Murad

Live in the present. It won't last too long. — Murad S. Shah

Radu had practiced the poem so often he could recite it in his sleep. He had stolen shiny bits from famous Arabic poems, gathering them like a raven to line his own nest. The language was dense and flowery, hyperbolic in the extreme. Murad listened, enraptured, as his reign was likened to the ocean and his posterity a mighty river. — Kiersten White

Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will. — Abdal Hakim Murad

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure". — Murad S. Shah

The outcome should not drive the action. Your desire to achieve the outcome should. The outcome depends on many variables, most of which are not in your control. Do what you need to do because you want to do it, not because of whether or not the outcome will be achieved. — Murad S. Shah

There is no better satisfaction than to see your children make your dreams theirs, and achieve them on their terms. — Murad S. Shah

In 1954 the gulag at Kengir witnessed an uprising by Christian and Muslim prisoners. The guards were driven out, and for forty days worship was freely practiced in the camp. Solzhenitsyn later documented the atmosphere of elation and idealism which prevailed in this doomed island of faith: the Muslims put on turbans and robes again, and 'the grey-black camp was a blaze of color'. The Chechens made kites from which they showered the neighboring villages with messages about the evils of the atheist system. Many marriages were celebrated. Survivors recall the forty days as a testimony to a possible way of living which had been suffocated by dreary unbelief. Delight in the present, and the knowledge of heaven outweighed the awareness of Khrushchev's inevitable revenge. The rebels were crushed under the attacks of tanks, but in the long term, this same spiritual outweighing insured the atheist dystopia's downfall. — Abdal Hakim Murad

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life. — Khurram Murad

Words do not solve problems, actions do. — Murad S. Shah

I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents. — Ferid Murad

My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices. — Ferid Murad

The more golden the opportunity, the less likely you will see it. — Murad S. Shah

Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage. — Murad S. Shah

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence? — Murad S. Shah

I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered. — Ferid Murad

wrongly taught that fruit can cause weight gain due to its sugar content and that starchy vegetables such as squash and potatoes are "bad" because they contain so many carbohydrates. Much to the contrary, fruits and vegetables contain a wealth of nutrients that support cellular health and facilitate the transportation of water into the cells for use. — Howard Murad

The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination. — Murad S. Shah

Your heart beats 72 times a minute. Every time it beats, it does so with the permission of its Creator. — Khurram Murad

Words are free, action is not. — Murad S. Shah

Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does. — Murad S. Shah

The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination. — Murad S. Shah