Tariq Ramadan Quotes - Page 2

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

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

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

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

Do not respond to attacks with attacks. Respond with Mercy & Respect

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

I look to Islamic ethics to find something that can provide the basis for shared values with other traditions, and ultimately universal values. This ties into the point I made in a book, 'The Quest for Meaning', that the only way for values to be universal is if they are shared universal values. My main point is, in this quest for value the aim is not to express your distinctness from others, but about being able to contribute to the discussion of universal value.

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.

For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.

Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day

We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

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

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.

If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.

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

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.

In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.

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.

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.

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.

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