Ramadan Islam Quotes

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

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#2. I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image.

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#3. 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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#4. It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

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#5. Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

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#6. Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.

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#7. 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.

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#8. I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

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#9. The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.

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#10. The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

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

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

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

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

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#24. 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.

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

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#27. 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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#28. I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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