Tariq Ramadan
For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.Collection: Political
Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.Collection: Country
I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart and imagination, the spiritual side. I've been working for twenty five years in the legal field and now I'm reaching what I want, which is an Islamic applied ethics and I'm also dealing with Muslims in the West.Collection: Spiritual
An 'Islamic economy' or 'Islamic finance' doesn't mean anything to me. But I do think that in the multi-polar world, it is time to find new partners, to find a new balance in the economic order. And this could help you to find an alternative way forward.Collection: Islamic
I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do think they are trying to find a new space in the multi-polar world, and this is what I am advocating. I don't think that Muslims have an alternative model.Collection: Successful
I have never, so far, in all the studies I have done, met a contradiction between what the human, experimental and natural sciences are telling us and the Islamic rules. In fact, the opposite is true: anything that is coming from the modern sciences is helping me better understand the text. It's not a contradiction. It's a relation.Collection: Islamic
Salafi is a very broad concept in Islam. What we have now is, like, for example, the Nour Party in Egypt or the Salafi in Tunisia are people who, in fact, we call very often Wahhabi, following the Saudi school of thought and law. And they are literalists in the way where it's black and white, there's a very narrow interpretation of the scriptural sources. For decades, we knew that they were there, but they were not involved in politics. What is completely new for all of us over the last years is that they are now within the political arena and playing the democratic game.Collection: Party
Everywhere the Salafi are pushing by saying, "We are the guardian, and we are resisting any kind of relationship to the West or provocation coming from the West." And internally, it's unsettling the whole situation. Now in Tunisian, in Libya, in Syria, in Egypt, the clash between the literalists and - the Islamists or the reformists is something which is going to be part of what we have to deal with as to the future of America.Collection: America
Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.Collection: Party
There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.Collection: Example
The problem is that the constitution should have been and was an opportunity, exactly as Moncef Marzouki tried to do, to bring together the secularists and Islamists.Collection: Opportunity
Still I have been invited I don't know how many times to Turkey, where Turkey has been following very quickly in the footsteps of what is sometimes referred to as the movement of cyber-dissidents. They have been training young people and also encouraging them to come into contact with western Muslims.Collection: Turkeys
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.Collection: Spring
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.Collection: Philosophy
Unfortunately there are some trends that are changing this but you don't have for example as strict and narrow understanding of the relationship between men and women. And then there is the philosophy we have to extract in the relationship between text and culture.Collection: Philosophy
There is something which is going to be one of the main challenges in the Muslim world today, in the Muslim-majority countries in the Arab world, is the religious credibility. How are you going to react to what is said about Islam? So, by touching the prophet of Islam, the reaction should be, who is going to be the guardian?Collection: Country
The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independentCollection: Independent
Many times I have asked Muslim women not to nurture the victim mentality. stand up for your rightsCollection: Rights
Muslims must decide, lest they end up divided by the very religion that calls upon them to unite.Collection: Ends
Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam does not threaten France's future in any way.Collection: Country
The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.Collection: Atheist
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.Collection: Believe
For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.Collection: Christian
The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.Collection: Islam
You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.Collection: Mother
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 othersCollection: Profound
Proud to be a Muslim isn't a stamp you have on your heart, it's a light you have in your heart.Collection: Heart
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 observersCollection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Religious
Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.Collection: Islam
Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.Collection: Mind
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 forgiveCollection: Love Is
Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Humility
The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.Collection: Lying
I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.Collection: Talking
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.Collection: Children
If you know how to live, even death is good newsCollection: News
True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.Collection: Spiritual
Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.Collection: Children
Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.Collection: Heart
Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.Collection: Rights
Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.Collection: Suffering
Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.Collection: Names
Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.Collection: Heart
Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.Collection: Humility
Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Fire