What Is Ramadan Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

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

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#4. 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

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

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.

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#10. Before God and in conscience, Muslims cannot satisfy themselves by repeating what the texts say and then snap their fingers at daily social realities: that would be to speak of an ideal while at the same time blind themselves as to their daily betrayal.

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#11. Muslims must decide, lest they end up divided by the very religion that calls upon them to unite.

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

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

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#15. 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

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

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

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#22. What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

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#23. 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.

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

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#25. 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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#26. Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

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#27. There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

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

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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

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

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

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

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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

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#45. 1. Have faith in the one God, Allah, and Muhammad, His Prophet; 2. Pray five times a day; 3. Fast during the day for the entire ninth month of Ramadan; 4. Provide charity; 5. Make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime, if possible.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.

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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

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

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

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