Top 325 Quotes & Sayings by Tariq Ramadan - Page 2

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

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

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

Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

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

The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to be courageous in facing any corrupt power, injustice and oppression. Unfortunately, colonial powers pushed an agenda by using Sufism against resistance, and some ulama played that game in the past and in the present.

The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.

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

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

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.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

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

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

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.

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

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

You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others

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.

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.

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

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

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

I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today

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

For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.

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

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

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

We should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam ["we have honored the Children of Adam"] so yes we should all be free but this should not mean that we must act against the dignity of human beings.

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

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

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

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

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

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

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

The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

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

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

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

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

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

This is the problem we have with many Muslim leaders: They claim to differentiate between domestic and foreign issues and they are obsessed with being accepted, at sitting at the table of power in order to talk (or rather to listen) and to be tolerated. This is the starting point of our weakness. It is in our minds because we do not realize we are part of the system.

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.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

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

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

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

Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

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

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

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

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.

I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

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.

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

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