Ramadan Is Quotes

#1. Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion to remember that Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind.

George W. Bush

#2. Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.

Hamza Yusuf

#3. Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

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#4. Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality

Barack Obama

#5. I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life

Nouman Ali Khan

#6. 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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#7. 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.

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#8. History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.

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#9. It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

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#14. There is One God. We have an epistemic center. There is meaning.

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#15. We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.

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#16. I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

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#17. Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

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#18. South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

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#19. The desert is often the locus of prophecies because it naturally offers to the human gaze the horizons of the infinite.

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#20. This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

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#21. Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

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#22. To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

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#23. Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

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#24. There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants - anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.

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#25. You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life

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#26. Part of the French political class is realising that there is are large number of Muslim people coming from the ghettos who want to make themselves heard, politically, especially about foreign policy issues. Its electoral weight can bring back to the forefront the Palestinian issue.

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#27. Questioned by a Companion about the best possible hijrah, the Prophet was to answer: "It is to exile yourself [to move away] from evil [abominations, lies, sins]."12 This requirement of spiritual exile was to be repeated in different forms.

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#28. Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.

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#29. To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing with questions of objectives and purpose, which is completely different.

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#30. 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.

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#31. To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

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#32. The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

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#33. 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.

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

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#35. Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

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

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

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#38. 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.

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#39. What you need to do is protect the structures and dynamics that are helping the people choose. The only thing that we can do is to respect the will of the people when it comes to majority processes. It is not for us to impose a model, it is not for us to impose answers to some critical questions.

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#40. We have to be very cautious not to accept the scam of polarization we see in the media. It is not in fact between secularists and Islamists, it is a battle within the Islamic reference.

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#41. 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.

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#42. IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.

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#43. The hardest situation to pick up a girl in is ... in church and in Morocco on Ramadan. On Ramadan or one of those religious days? Try to pick up a girl is bananas.

French Montana

#44. Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

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#45. The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

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#46. The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

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#47. It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

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#48. The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

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#49. We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

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

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#51. The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.

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

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#53. That gentleness and kindness were the very essence of his teaching. He kept saying: God is gentle [rafiq] and he loves gentleness [ar-rifq] in everything.

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#54. Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.

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

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#56. While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

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

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#58. The only way to resist colonialism is through education.

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#59. When terrorism is directly aiming at Western countries, it is automatically and abnormally enlarged in order to instill emotions and fear. However, when attacks happen in the Middle East, is it conveniently downplayed and less talked about. Unless they would benefit more from a heavy coverage.

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#60. Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

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#61. Nothing is ever final" is a lesson in humility; "no final judgment should be passed" is a promise of hope. The

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#62. I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

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

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#64. We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

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#65. It's okay to feel the need for protection if there is a real external threat. But to feel protective from the inside, it's a kind of jail: you get so protective that you cannot get out of the box.

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#66. In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

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#67. We want to tell people how great Islam is yet we are not great Muslims.

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

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

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#71. 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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#72. There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

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#73. In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.

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#74. Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

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

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#76. 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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#77. I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

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#78. If you know how to live, even death is good news

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#79. The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

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#80. 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.

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#81. 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.

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#82. I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

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#83. One's principles is a prayer. It

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#84. To seventy excuses for him. If you cannot find any, convince yourselves that it is an excuse you do not know.13

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#85. Spirituality means both accepting and mastering one's instincts: living one's natural desires in the light of one's principles is a prayer. It is never a misdeed, nor is it hypocrisy.

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#86. We should say to the West: "You have been supporting dictators for too many years. Don't expect the people to introduce democracy over night. It is going to take time." It took time with the French revolution, it took time with the Eastern European revolutions. And it is going to take time there.

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#87. The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

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

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#89. 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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#90. Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.

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#91. 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.

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#92. 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

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#93. The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

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

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#95. 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.

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#96. The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.

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#97. 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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#98. Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

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#99. 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.

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#100. I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.

P. J. O'Rourke