...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an-and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so...

A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen.

Men learn wisdom from their sins, not from their righteous deeds.

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.