When you’re overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
TARIQ RAMADANWhen you’re overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
More Tariq Ramadan Quotes
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Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.
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We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
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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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Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.
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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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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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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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For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
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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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Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
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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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Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians
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If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.
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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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