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.
TARIQ RAMADANIf 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.
More Tariq Ramadan Quotes
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If we agree to say that those terrorists are indeed Muslim, I have no problem whatsoever to condemn their actions. I won’t apologise though, or justify my point of view.
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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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Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.
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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 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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Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.
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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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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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We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
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Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
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Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
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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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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 need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
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We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
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