Tariq Ramadan Quotes - Page 4

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

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

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

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

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

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.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

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.

One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.

Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble

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

The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing

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

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

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

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

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.

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