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“To fast means to free society from artificial collective emotions, consumerism, insane competition and love of power.

“It (Ramadhan) is a month of renewal, of critically summing up our lives, our needs, our forgetfulness and our hopes. We must take time for ourselves, to look after ourselves, to mediate, to contemplate, simply to reflect and to love.

Tariq Ramadan

“If you know how to live, even death is good news.

Tariq Ramadan

“If you read the Quran with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

Tariq Ramadan

“The fast calls upon our heart to live and fast for the One, for our self, with the intention to find again the inner reality.

Tariq Ramadan

“One who emerges from Ramadan without concern for poverty must question himself about the meaning of his fast.

Tariq Ramadan

“A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

Tariq Ramadan

“How can you have a good relationship with God if you don’t have a good relationship with your mother?

Tariq Ramadan

“The month of Ramadan is gift and generosity as to the other. To learn to give from one’s time, smiles, qualities and money.

Tariq Ramadan

“The month of Ramadan is to keep silent about hatred and anger and to say, to repeat and to whisper the words of love, tenderness and affection.

Tariq Ramadan

“The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I’m worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.

Tariq Ramadan

“Fitan (trials) will be presented to hearts, as a reed mat is interwoven: stick by stick. Any heart which absorbs these trials will have a black mark put in it. However, any heart that rejects them will have a white mark put in it. The result is that hearts will be of two kinds: one white like a white stone, which will not be harmed by trials as long as the heavens and earth endure; and the other dark and rusty, like an over-turned vessel; not able to recognize the good, nor reject evil, but rather being absorbed with its desires.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Every Prophet has one supplication that is granted to him, and every Prophet hastened to make that supplication (in this world). But I have postponed my supplication in order to intercede for my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“O writer! An angel watches over all you write.
Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

“What is important is not how much we have, but how much barakah there is in what we do have.

Gohar Mushtaq

“They condemn themselves and are apprehensive about their deeds. If one of them is called ‘pious’ he fears what will be said of him and says: ‘I know myself better than you do. My Lord knows me better than I do. O Allah! Do not take me to task for what they are saying about me and (O Lord) make me better than they think. Forgive my sins which they do not know about.’

Anonymous Author

“The Creator ranks Supreme in their eyes, so everything else becomes immaterial to them. They are with Paradise as if they had already witnessed it and enjoyed its presence. They are with Hell as if they have already seen it and tasted its torment.

Anonymous Author

“When Allah created His creation, He did so while He was completely independent of their obedience towards Him and of their disobedience towards Him. No disobedience can hurt Him and no obedience can benefit Him.

Anonymous Author

“Indeed righteousness illuminates the heart, radiates the face, strengthens the body, increases provision, and produces a love in the hearts of the creation for that person. Whereas sinfulness darkens the heart, greys the face, weakens the body, and produces hatred in the hearts of the creation for that person.

Ibn Abbas

“The person who is righteous and honest, his honesty is manifest from the radiance on his face, and his honesty can be known from the glow that is on his face, likewise the (opposite for the) sinful one and the liar. The older a person gets, the more this sign becomes apparent. Thus a person as a child would have a bright face, however if he becomes a sinful person, adamant on committing sins, at the older stages in his life, an ugly face would manifest that which he used to internalise, and the opposite is also true. It has been narrated that Ibn Abbaas (radiyallaahu ‘anhu) said, ‘Indeed righteousness illuminates the heart, radiates the face, strengthens the body, increases provision, and produces a love in the hearts of the creation for that person. Whereas sinfulness darkens the heart, greys the face, weakens the body, and produces hatred in the hearts of the creation for that person.’

Ibn Taymiyyah

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