Tariq Ramadan famous quotes

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

#Kindness #Return #Be Kind

Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Never Forget #Forget #Forget You

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

#Teacher #Thinking #Teach

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

#Judgemental #Looks #Judgmental

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Islam #Culture #Language

You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Mother #Men #Voice

While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Israel #Criticism #Shapes

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Humility #Names #Empathy

Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Eye #Self #Challenges

Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Way #Modesty #Deals

We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Intellectual #Needs #Way

You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Profound #Shallow #Be Good

In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Thinking #Ramadan #Should

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Suffering #Who You Are

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 Ramadan

#Adversity #Exercise #Men

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

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Philosophy #Discipline #Fasting

Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Night #World #Changing The World

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Simple #Giving #Trying

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

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Giving #Mastery #Alive

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Listening #Patient #Judgment

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Emotional #Political #Mindset

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Men #Community #Fellow Man

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

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.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Spiritual #Memories #Psychology

The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Islam #Doe #Truth Is

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Voice #Voiceless #Courageous

Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Humility #Heart #Mind

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Faith #Heart #Light

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Sides #Needs #Realizing

The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Lying #Fire #Manipulation

We integrate the good wherever we find it.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Integrating

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 #I Believe

Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Children #Humility #Knowing

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

#Political #Silence #Silence Is

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Challenges #Needs #Culture

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Country #Religious #Land

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Beautiful #Emotion #Speak

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Emotional #Impact #Atmosphere

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

#Beautiful #Acting #Principles

Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Tasks #World #Changing The World

I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Believe #Trying #I Believe

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

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Religious #Should #Sincerely

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect
-- Tariq Ramadan

#War #Diversity #Risk

Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Religious #Space #Diversity

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Bars #Prison #Invisible

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

If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.
-- Tariq Ramadan

#Path #Boundaries