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Islamicist Inspirational Quotes (256)

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I am too old to think that numbers are creating change
Tariq Ramadan
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Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.
Karen Armstrong
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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
Tariq Ramadan
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We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.
Tariq Ramadan
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The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect
Tariq Ramadan
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Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.
Tariq Ramadan
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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
Tariq Ramadan
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We want to tell people how great Islam is yet we are not great Muslims.
Tariq Ramadan
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there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
Karen Armstrong
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The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.
Tariq Ramadan
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The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.
Tariq Ramadan
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If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.
Karen Armstrong
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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.
Tariq Ramadan
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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.
Tariq Ramadan
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If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.
Karen Armstrong
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The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive the Islamists are reactionary, conservative. This perception is wrong.
Tariq Ramadan
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Globalisation means indeed everything is global but there are still very specific centres of power, especially when it comes to media and news.Misinformation about some attacks is going to affect how emotionally involved the audience is going to get. In the end, an emotional ranking is artificially created when it comes to casualties.
Tariq Ramadan
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For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
Julius Wellhausen
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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.
Tariq Ramadan
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Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.
Tariq Ramadan
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
Karen Armstrong
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American Muslims are already within the system. We should stop isolating ourselves by thinking we are powerless. The youngest generations of Americans have a better opinion of Islam because they interact with Muslims. Half of young American citizens now are supporting the Palestinians rather than the Israelis. Things are moving.
Tariq Ramadan
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When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.
Tariq Ramadan
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The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these.
Tariq Ramadan
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