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

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian, Islam, Christianity

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Islam, Nonviolence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.122, Rajpal & Sons

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Simplicity, Islam
Young India article on September 23, 1924. "My Jail Experiences". Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 29, p. 133, 1960.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Dream, Imagination, Islam
Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Teaching, Islam, Criticism

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Hands, Perfect, Islam
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Hatred, Islam, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Islam, Criticism, Unreasonable
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.194, Tara Publishing

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Buddhism, Religion, Islam
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.104, Rajpal & Sons

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

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Philosophical, Islam
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.221, Tara Publishing

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Ideas, Islam, Rebel
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.7, Rajpal & Sons

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Islam, Reason, Accepted
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.194, Tara Publishing

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Christian Love, Islam, Christianity
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.238, Vintage

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Islam, Christianity
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.113, Tara Publishing

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Islam, Favour, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.91, Penguin Books India

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

Mahatma Gandhi
People, Islam, Reason
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Islam, Democracy, Spells
Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”