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#1. The desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning.

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#2. 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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#3. To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.

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#4. 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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#5. Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

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#6. The discriminations that are found in the Muslim majority countries are more Cultural than Islamic.
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I have always said to the Muslim women, please do not nurture the victim mentality. Stand up for your rights.

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

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

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#9. Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

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

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

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#13. We are not competing for the good when we only compete for numbers, being preoccupied with how many converts we are gaining. The true competition for good only happens when we are implementing our values of justice.

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#14. In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.

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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

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

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

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#31. There are in you two qualities that God loves: clemency [al-hilm] and forbearance [al-ana, "nobleness," "tolerance"].

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#32. There can be no universal without diversity: the quest for the ultimate commonality would be pointless if we did not recognize the initial differences that explain just why we have to go in search of the universal.

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

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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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