Tariq Ramadan Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

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

If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

We integrate the good wherever we find it.

Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.

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

Proud to be a Muslim isn't a stamp you have on your heart, it's a light you have in your heart.

I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

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

If you know how to live, even death is good news

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

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

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

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

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

In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.

Active acceptance of God's will: to question with one's mind, to understand with one's intelligence, and to submit with one's heart.

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

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

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

There is One God. We have an epistemic center. There is meaning.

Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

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

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

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

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.

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

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

[Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.

And the crowd often betrayed the people

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

One's principles is a prayer. It

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

There are in you two qualities that God loves: clemency [al-hilm] and forbearance [al-ana, "nobleness," "tolerance"].

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

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

The Prophet himself was a model of equity toward those who did not share his faith. Through

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

To seventy excuses for him. If you cannot find any, convince yourselves that it is an excuse you do not know.13

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

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

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

Nothing is ever final" is a lesson in humility; "no final judgment should be passed" is a promise of hope. The

We need more citizens that are committed and courageous.

Don't treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better.

There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.

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

We have to be the media when media is silent

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive

The universe is pregnant with signs that recall the presence of the Creator.

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

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.

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

I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

Muhammad particularly loved cats, but, more generally, he constantly made his Companions aware of the need to respect all animal species. He

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

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

I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

I want to be an activist professor.

Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

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.

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

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

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.

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

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.

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

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

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

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

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

The desert is often the locus of prophecies because it naturally offers to the human gaze the horizons of the infinite.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

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

Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve

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

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

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

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

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

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