A Jihad for Love (2007)

Muhsin Hendricks: Self

Quotes 

• Muhsin Hendricks : We cannot find answers within orthodox Islam thinking. We have to use one of the principles of Islam that has been lost over the years, Ijtihad, meaning "Independent reasoning," to find space for us within Islam.

• Muhsin Hendricks : I guess what was never taught to us, when I was growing up, is that Allah is also the Allah of love. We always had to Taqwa Allah. You have to fear God. We never were taught about the love of God.

• [last lines] 

  Muhsin Hendricks : Allah says in the Qu'ran: "Do not despair of the mercy of God, because God, to you, is most merciful."