When you’re overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
TARIQ RAMADANFasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
More Tariq Ramadan Quotes
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Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians
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I am too old to think that numbers are creating change
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We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
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Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
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One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.
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Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.
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To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing with questions of objectives and purpose, which is completely different.
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I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.
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Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
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Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France’s future in any way.
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For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
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Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.
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Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.
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We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It’s free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.
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If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don’t understand the objective.
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