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“To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Kindness #Return #Be Kind
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“Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Never Forget #Forget #Forget You
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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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“The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Judgemental #Looks #Judgmental
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“Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Islam #Culture #Language
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“You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Mother #Men #Voice
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Modesty is the way you deal with beauty not the way you avoid it.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Way #Modesty #Deals
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“We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Intellectual #Needs #Way
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“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
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“In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Thinking #Ramadan #Should
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“Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Suffering #Who You Are
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“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
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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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“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
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“Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Night #World #Changing The World
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“We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Simple #Giving #Trying
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“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
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“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
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“A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Listening #Patient #Judgment
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Islam #Doe #Truth Is
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“To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Voice #Voiceless #Courageous
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“Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Humility #Heart #Mind
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“Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.”
-- Tariq Ramadan
#Faith #Heart #Light
