When you’re overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
TARIQ RAMADANIS [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.
More Tariq Ramadan Quotes
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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 are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.
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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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There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.
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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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Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.
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We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
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We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
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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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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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Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
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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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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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For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
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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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