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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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Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.
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We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.
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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.
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We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.
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The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people who have no religious sincerity but who are politically very smart, especially when it comes to their economic interests.
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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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When I go back to the Quran I see that the context of Revelation is creation in its entirety. The universe is a Revelation and this of course includes nature, plants and animals. In other words, what is coming from the Quran as rules and objectives are set within the larger scheme of the universe and nature as part of Creation.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rights
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Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.
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The United States of America or the Western countries, they don't have a problem with Islamists as long as they are neoliberal capitalists and promoting the economic order. And the best example is the petro-monarchies. The petro-monarchies, they don't want democracy. They say there is no democracy in Islam. But they are within the economic system.
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For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
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Don’t nurture a sense of guilt rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.
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The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
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Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble
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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.
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The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.
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We need modesty not only in the way we dress we need intellectual modesty.
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The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect
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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.
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