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.
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Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
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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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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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We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
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IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.
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Fasting 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.
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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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Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians
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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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For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
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If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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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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