Tariq Ramadan Quotes

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• I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Trends, Youth

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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  To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Kindness, Be Kind, Return

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• It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Self, Ideas

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• This is the problem we have with many Muslim leaders: They claim to differentiate between domestic and foreign issues and they are obsessed with being accepted, at sitting at the table of power in order to talk (or rather to listen) and to be tolerated. This is the starting point of our weakness. It is in our minds because we do not realize we are part of the system.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Order, Issues, Leader

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humble, People, Different

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Justice, Islam, Double Standard

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Don't treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Way, Treats

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2013

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• The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Judgemental, Intellectual Humility, Looks

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• Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

  Tariq Ramadan

  Men, Behind Every Great Man, Great Men

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• You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Silence, Political, Statements

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• We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.

  Tariq Ramadan

  World, Communicate, Connected

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• Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islam, Serious, Problem

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “What I Believe”, p.62, Oxford University Press

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• I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Independent, Views, Intellectual

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• A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Teacher, Thinking, Teach

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• I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today

  Tariq Ramadan

  Who I Am, Insults You, May

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• To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

  Tariq Ramadan

  Voice, Voiceless, Courageous

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• Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.144, Kube Publishing Ltd

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• Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Quality, Weakness

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• Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Tasks, World, Changing The World

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• Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve

  Tariq Ramadan

  Thinking, Order, Criticism

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• Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Light, Inner Peace, Tears

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• If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Depth, Repetition

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• Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Inspirational, Beauty, Humility

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• 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.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Thinking, Giving

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• We should not treat people as they treat us, we should treat them better.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Should, Treats

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