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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.

Tariq Ramadan

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.
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Different Humble People
We should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam [“we have honored the Children of Adam”] so yes we should all be free but this should not mean that we must act against the dignity of human beings.
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Children Mean Quran
Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
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Arrogance Heart Humility
I am too old to think that numbers are creating change
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Create Numbers Think
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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Heart Joy Silence
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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Brother Practice Punishment
Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.
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Giving Heart Think
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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Fire Lit Quite Say Should
Cultures 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.
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Collective Memories Memory Spiritual
Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
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Difference Prejudice Rejection
We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
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Communicate Connected World
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
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Dresses Intellectual Need
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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Different Purpose Way
Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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Diversity Real Tolerance
For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
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Made Political Side Spectrum
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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Judge Mind Reality

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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