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1 " 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 , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

2 " الإسلام لايقيم عالما مغلقا للمرجعية بل يعتمدعلى مجموعة من المبادئ الشمولية التي يمكن أن تتطابق مع أسس وقيم معتقدات وتقاليد دينية "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

3 " الوحي يفصح عن نفسه بأنه نذير خير وأمر أخلاقي شديد الحزم ينشر الإلهام الروحي بقدر ماينظم الشكل الواضح للطقوس الدينية "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

4 " إن شاء الله;تعبر عن الحدود,عن شعور التواضع من جانب الذي يتصرف وهويعلم أن الله وحده بيده كل مايحدث,بما يتجاوز مابإستطاعة المرء قوله أو فعله "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

5 " هذا إعتراف أن عملية وضع هذه المبادئ سابقة للإسلام وتتجاوزه,لأن الإسلام ورسالته تأكيد لجوهر معاهدةسبق للضميرالإنساني صياغتهابمعزل عن دين "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

6 " Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand. "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

7 " 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

8 " The desert is often the locus of prophecies because it naturally offers to the human gaze the horizons of the infinite. "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

9 " Duboko i jednostavno: onaj ko ne može voljeti, ne može ni razumjeti. "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

10 " The Prophet’s life is an invitation to a spirituality that avoids no question and teaches us—in the course of events, trials, hardships, and our quest—that the true answers to existential questions are more often those given by the heart than by the intelligence. Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand. "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

11 " Nothing is ever final” is a lesson in humility; “no final judgment should be passed” is a promise of hope. The "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

12 " The first verses establish an immediate correspondence with what Revelation was later to recount about the creation of humankind: “He [God] taught Adam the names of all things.”8 Reason, intelligence, language, and writing will grant people the qualities required to enable them to be God’s khalifahs (vicegerents) on earth, and from the very beginning, Quranic Revelation allies recognition of the Creator to knowledge and science, thus echoing the origin of creation itself.9 "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

13 " [Human] wisdom is the believer’s lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it. "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

14 " 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

15 " 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

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

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

17 " Only after making intelligent and thorough use of his human powers had he trusted himself to the divine will, thereby clarifying for us the meaning of at-tawakkul ala Allah (reliance on God, trusting oneself to God): responsibly exercising all the qualities (intellectual, spiritual, psychological, sentimental, etc.) each one of us has been granted and humbly remembering that beyond what is humanly possible, God alone makes things happen. Indeed, this teaching is the exact opposite of the temptation of fatalism: God will act only after humans have, at their own level, sought out and exhausted all the potentialities of action. That is the profound meaning of this Quranic verse: “Verily never will God change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”1 "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

18 " the desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning. "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

19 " 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. "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

20 " Communion in faith, in the intimacy of meaning, cannot remain purely conceptual; it can maintain its vivifying energy only if it associates with communion in speech and action within a common space of social and cultural references. Faith needs culture. "

― Tariq Ramadan , In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad