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.
Interpretation
Embrace your identity and aspirations while engaging with others to foster a diverse and equal society.
In this quote, Tariq Ramadan emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and the pursuit of personal goals within a framework of collaboration and community engagement. He advocates for Muslims to understand their own identities and to interact with those who are different from them, fostering solidarity and building a society that values diversity and equality.
In practice
During a community outreach program.
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.
Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.
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.
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?
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.
You see in Islam, you see in Christianity, you see in Africa, in different religions, in Buddhism and Hinduism, there is a strong commitment to refugee protection.
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
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