"My favorite single line from the Qur’an is……" — Eboo Patel
"My favorite single line from the Qur’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another – because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy."
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10 Quotes by Eboo Patel
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Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the…
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A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of…
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I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong.…
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Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity…
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To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart…
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When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a…
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Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's…
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Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the…
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The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict…
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