Ramadan Mubarak Best Quotes

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. ~ Tariq Ramadan

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it. ~ Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

Those young ones who want to try military jihad are facing a triple issue. First of all, they are missing the point when it comes to understanding what there is at stake from a political viewpoint. How come so many of them are going to Syria and so few to Palestine, even though, when it comes to symbolism, Palestine definitively wins.Then, it is essential to understand that it is not a religious matter. Finally, let's not forget about the recruiters behind their screens. Those ones are quite skillful and well-supported financially. ~ Tariq Ramadan

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

51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking for a law to prevent Charlie Hebdo from publishing caricatures, but they are calling on its editors to be a bit more sensible. ~ Tariq Ramadan

We are not here to adopt Western values, we are here to colonize the U.S. (and Canada) and spread Islamic sharia law Canada has one of the easiest legal systems to penetrate and advance sharia from within ... but if that doesn't work, we won't hesitate to use violent jihad. ~ Tariq Ramadan

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together. ~ Tariq Ramadan

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith. ~ Tariq Ramadan

Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life. ~ Tariq Ramadan

I don't think we should take the emotional reactions of a few people as more representative than those of the millions of people who took to the street in a non-violent way against dictators. ~ Tariq Ramadan

The Islamic world can be viewed as an onion-layered multiple dictatorship: the dictatorship of political dynasties like the Mubarak, Gaddafi, Hussein, Ben Ali, and Assad families forms its first layer; the dictatorship of the military, the next; after that, that the dictatorship of religion, which determines how children are raised and educated; and finally, the dictatorship of society, which impacts life within families through archaic gender roles. ~ Hamed Abdel-Samad

You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore. ~ Tariq Ramadan

The Prophet himself was a model of equity toward those who did not share his faith. Through ~ Tariq Ramadan

And the crowd often betrayed the people ~ Tariq Ramadan

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. ~ Noam Chomsky

There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking. ~ Tariq Ramadan

The desert is often the locus of prophecies because it naturally offers to the human gaze the horizons of the infinite. ~ Tariq Ramadan

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was torture and pain in their work, but there was also dignity in the way that was dealt with. So I don't buy this contemporary notion that the only way to be artistic is to be arrogant, offensive or immoral. ~ Tariq Ramadan

We should not treat people as they treat us, we should treat them better. ~ Tariq Ramadan

One's principles is a prayer. It ~ Tariq Ramadan

On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime's largest torture facilities. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice ... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it. ~ Hosni Mubarak

The universe is pregnant with signs that recall the presence of the Creator. ~ Tariq Ramadan

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan. ~ Hooman Majd

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood. ~ Tariq Ramadan

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. ~ Tariq Ramadan

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom. ~ Tariq Ramadan

It is impossible to live in autarchy, to make the testimony of faith, pray and fast and go to pilgrimage only, far from men and worrying about no one except oneself. It is worth repeating that to be with God is tantamount to being with men; to carry faith is tantamount to carrying the responsibility of a continuous social commitment. The teaching that we should extract from zakat is explicit: to posses is tantamount to having to share. ~ Tariq Ramadan

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. ~ Tariq Ramadan

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect ~ Tariq Ramadan

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage. ~ Hosni Mubarak

Muhammad particularly loved cats, but, more generally, he constantly made his Companions aware of the need to respect all animal species. He ~ Tariq Ramadan

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events. ~ Tariq Ramadan

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage. ~ Tariq Ramadan

So maybe Third World discontent is fomented not merely by poverty, disease, corruption and political oppression but also by mere exposure to First World standards. The average Egyptian was far less likely to die from starvation, plague or violence under Hosni Mubarak than under Ramses II or Cleopatra. Never had the material condition of most Egyptians been so good. You'd think they would have been dancing in the streets in 2011, thanking Allah for their good fortune. Instead they rose up furiously to overthrow Mubarak. They weren't comparing themselves to their ancestors under the pharaohs, but rather to their contemporaries in the affluent West. ~ Yuval Noah Harari

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. ~ Tariq Ramadan

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction. ~ Hosni Mubarak

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. ~ Tariq Ramadan