Mahatma Gandhi Islam Quotations

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.