Tariq Ramadan Quotes About Islam

Quotes about: Islam

• Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islam, Culture, Language

• Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, White, Giving

• Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Rights, Islam, Compelling

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “What I Believe”, p.98, Oxford University Press

• The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islam, Doe, Truth Is

• We want to tell people how great Islam is yet we are not great Muslims.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Islam, Want

• 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 Ramadan

  Brother, Practice, Punishment

• 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

• The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Believe, Islam, Ends

• I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Mean, Here I Am

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

• In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Moving, Book, Political

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Talking, Understanding, Mind

• The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophical, Islamic, Doubt

• We need to revisit how the Prophet dealt with water, animals, in how he talked about slaughtering, caring for plants and so forth. Respect towards nature is a part of Islam. This is essential but Muslims are not aware. The whole world is talking about global warming and respecting nature but Muslims are not doing enough of that.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Caring, Animal, Talking

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Issues, Talking, Islam

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

• In the Muslim-majority countries you can't do without Islam, we can't do without their culture, in which way they are going to come back to this Islamic reference to find a way to deal with the true challenges and not the superficial political questions.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Islamic, Political

• We need to deal with three things that are important: first, we need a very deep reconsideration of how we are dealing with the economy. Second, there must be a very deep reconsideration of our way of life. We cannot simply adopt American-style consumer culture. To Islamize that is to de-Islamize Islam.Thirdly, it is important for us to understand the economy and the environment are common challenges for everyone. This is where the singularity of Islamic principles needs to join the universal values that we share with others.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Challenges, Style

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

• The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as citizens in the name of our common values. Our main contribution is to reconcile the American society with its own values, those that are not in contradiction to Islam. We have a duty of consistency.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Speaks Out, Names, America

• In Islam, rules are important, like the Prophet said innal halaala bayyinun, wa innal haraama bayyinun ["what is halal is clear, what is haram is clear"]. The goal is not to diminish the importance of rules, but to have the right priorities.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Goal, Priorities, Islam

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• American Muslims are already within the system. We should stop isolating ourselves by thinking we are powerless. The youngest generations of Americans have a better opinion of Islam because they interact with Muslims. Half of young American citizens now are supporting the Palestinians rather than the Israelis. Things are moving.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Moving, Thinking, Islam

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

• Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Names, Islam, Destroying

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2014

• We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Understanding, Ego, Mind

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

• I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Taken, Reality, Thinking

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

• The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely our moral singularity. We believe there is one God and this one God is pushing us to reach universal values by liberating ourselves from our ego and by serving humanity. We must be involved in this by all means necessary, in a nonviolent way, through the legal, media, economic and cultural systems. We cannot achieve this if there is no courage, if we are not ready to sacrifice.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Believe, Mean, Sacrifice

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

• The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent

  Tariq Ramadan

  Independent, Islam, Messages

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