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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.

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Tariq Ramadan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 26
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Philosopher
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Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.
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Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.
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Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
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Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.
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The problem with what we call the 'Arab spring' is that these are very nationalistic experiences. Tunisians are concerned with Tunisia, Egyptians concerned with Egypt and so on.
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If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral.
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Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.
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The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.
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Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve
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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).
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You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life
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I am too old to think that numbers are creating change
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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Very often we talk about India and China, but not really Malaysia and Indonesia. The potential in the shift to the East is going to be great and very important for this country.
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Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.
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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.
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If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.
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There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.
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If we had not created a set of people against another the world would have been corrupt, and against here means two things: Against in the fact that they are challenging you with their diversity, challenging your intelligence and to challenge is not negative, it can be very positive depending on how you are challenged.
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