Welcome to our compilation of Koran quotes, a collection of timeless wisdom and guidance from the Islamic holy book, the Quran. The Quran, revered by Muslims worldwide as the literal word of God as revealed to Prophet Muhammad, serves as a comprehensive guide for leading a righteous life. Its verses cover a wide array of topics, including morality, spirituality, social justice, and personal conduct, providing profound insights and teachings that continue to resonate with believers across generations.
As one of the most widely read and studied religious texts globally, the Quran holds immense significance for Muslims, shaping their beliefs, practices, and worldview. Its verses are revered for their eloquence, depth, and transformative power, serving as a source of inspiration, contemplation, and guidance for millions of people around the world. Whether seeking solace in times of difficulty, guidance in matters of faith, or wisdom for everyday life, the Quran offers profound insights and spiritual nourishment for all who seek it.
Below, you will find a selection of Koran quotes carefully curated to inspire reflection, contemplation, and spiritual growth. Feel free to explore these timeless teachings, whether by copying them, incorporating them into visual designs, or simply pondering their meanings and implications.
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. Salman Rushdie
So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It’s impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham – they are all in the Koran. Fatema Mernissi
My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical. Ian Brown
You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women’s rights, and perhaps four or five that do not. Fatema Mernissi
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. Karen Armstrong
Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran. Mosab Hassan Yousef
We have a separation of state and church. The laws of the country are not subject to the Koran. Pim Fortuyn
Printed media and other media indicated that Mr. Ellison was going to use the Koran, and that generated scores and hundreds of emails to my office. And so I thought it very important to state my view. And my view is that I don’t subscribe to the Koran, and I will now be using the Bible when I take the oath. Virgil Goode
I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother’s homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace,’ and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too. Chris Abani
I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama. Kevin Gates
I can tell you, if I’m elected president, it won’t be on the Koran, and it won’t be on the Book of Mormon. Virgil Goode
I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television. Marcus Luttrell
I started to hallucinate and hear voices as clear as crystal. I heard my family in a casual familial conversation I heard Koran readings in a heavenly voice. I heard music from my country. Later on the guards used these hallucinations and started talking with funny voices through the plumbing, encouraging me to hurt the guard and plot an escape. Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It’s about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other. Feisal Abdul Rauf
A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, ‘As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.’ Virgil Goode
The voters of each Congressional district select the representative that they choose to represent them, and perhaps voters in all districts will now ask prospective candidates whether they will use the Bible, the Koran, or anything else. Virgil Goode
When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. Virgil Goode
ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it’s a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it. Jack Keane
I consider myself an ordinary Muslim who is constantly working to put himself in the framework established by the Koran and the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed. I study the works of experts of jurisprudence, Koranic commentary, hadith commentary, and Sufism. Fethullah Gulen
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Malcolm X
Where I’m from, you’re a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible. Lamar Odom
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. Bill Shuster
The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. Henry Rollins
Would you take anybody’s views on Christianity seriously if they hadn’t read the New Testament? Of course you wouldn’t. So I read the Koran. Sebastian Gorka
It is evident that the fanatical interpretation of the Koran is incompatible with our values of freedom and with Christian values. Matteo Salvini
Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man. Fatema Mernissi
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts – the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda – but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies. Frank Tipler
In Islam, the word of the Prophet is final. No true Muslim can disown these verses or say that they would rewrite the offensive verses of the Koran. If they do, then they would have to run for their lives. Subramanian Swamy
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework. Margaret Atwood
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. Christopher Hitchens
I study the Koran intensively, but I also study other religions, too. But it is in the Koran that the prophets are closest to me – there and in the mosque when I go to pray. Shkodran Mustafi
Well, it is true that they did – the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross. Michael Isikoff
I’m a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don’t understand why in America it’s such a big deal that we won’t read the Koran and we won’t look at history. Pat Robertson
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran. Virgil Goode
I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it’s really a cushion; it’s cool, I’m cool with it. Q-Tip
When ‘Christians’ cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran. Kurt Eichenwald
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. Naguib Mahfouz
When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent. Michel Houellebecq
People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero. Sarah Palin
Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency. Daniel Pipes
Secular intellectuals may wax eloquent about ‘true Islam’ being humane and peaceful, on TV programmes, but it is clear that they have not read any authoritative translations of the Koran, the Sira, and the Hadith. Subramanian Swamy
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions. Reza Aslan
I will keep a Bible or Koran on me at all times – the Bible I can actually carry on my phone, and any hotel you go to has a Bible, but the Koran is harder. I keep a physical Koran in my guitar case and put it on the table in hotel rooms so after a day’s work, I can read a few verses. Rza
Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill. Daniel Pipes
You can’t just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on. Daniel Pipes
I don’t know why legal immigration even exists anymore when I can just put on some bronzer, get on a dingy boat, and just show up at the beaches of Sicily with the Koran in my hand. Lauren Southern
Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there’s a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration. Jane Mayer
When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring. Yasmine Hamdan
I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don’t think people who observe me from the outside would think of me as devout, and that doesn’t bother me because one of the beauties of Islam is the fact that it is personal: you read the Koran, and what you believe is what you believe. Maysoon Zayid
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal. Sam Harris
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people’s religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran. Newt Gingrich
Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges, as is the case now. In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen’s basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law. Basmah bint Saud
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush’d, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran. Salman Rushdie
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic. John Updike
ISIS may seem un-Islamic to President Obama, but to anybody who has read Islam’s core texts, it might appear to be a fairly straightforward attempt to create a state based on Mohammed’s instructions as laid down in the Koran, in hadith, and in Mohammed’s own example. Douglas Murray
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don’t constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood – which are my ideals. Michel Onfray
I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of – we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited. Michael Isikoff
