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“الحرب العصرية هي أن تجعل خصمك يقتل نفسه بنفسه بدلا ً من أن تكلف نفسك بمشقة قتله.”
― مصطفى محمود

“No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad

“Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand.”
― Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

“active acceptance” of God’s will: to question with one’s mind, to understand with one’s intelligence, and to submit with one’s heart.”
― Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

“teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.”
― Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

“Spirituality means both accepting and mastering one’s instincts: living one’s natural desires in the light of one’s principles is a prayer. It is never a misdeed, nor is it hypocrisy.”
― Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

“That gentleness and kindness were the very essence of his teaching. He kept saying: “God is gentle [rafiq] and he loves gentleness [ar-rifq] in everything.”
― Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love