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.
TARIQ RAMADANCultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
More Tariq Ramadan Quotes
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When you’re overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
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Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.
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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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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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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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We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
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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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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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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 should not treat people as they treat us, we should treat them better.
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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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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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Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
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If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.
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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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