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Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

Tariq Ramadan

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.
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Humanity Solidarity Suffering
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
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
We should not treat people as they treat us, we should treat them better.
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Better People Treat
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
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Humility Intellectual Modesty
We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
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Communicate Connected World
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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Action Condemn Problem View
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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Greek Philosophy Religious
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
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Dresses Intellectual Need
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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Country Long Religious
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
We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
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Philosophy Think Way
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
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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Adversity Exercise Men
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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Different Example Philosophy

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