Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #00 Introduction The repair

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			Peace be with you.
		

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			We're welcoming the months of Ramadan and the
		

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			chronicles of this year
		

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			are going to be around the notion of,
		

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			repair.
		

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			And repair
		

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			is essential to the spiritual journey. Everything has
		

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			to do with the way we are going
		

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			to mend our,
		

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			and to change, to reform.
		

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			Islam enough to reform ourself in order to
		

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			get this inner peace and the peace with
		

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			God, the peace with our
		

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			family within the family
		

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			and beyond the family.
		

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			And we are going to talk about all
		

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			these dimensions,
		

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			meaning,
		

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			the intimate
		

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			dimension with our own self,
		

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			with our
		

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			family, with our neighbor, with the world.
		

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			And, it's
		

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			essential to understand in which way we have
		

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			to translate this. It has to do with
		

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			self compassion.
		

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			It has to do with self understanding.
		

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			It has to do with,
		

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			kindness and kindness towards oneself and kindness towards
		

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			the people around us.
		

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			And at the moment I'm talking to you
		

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			now, you know what is happening
		

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			in Gaza. You know what is happening in
		

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			Palestine. You know what is happening in the
		

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			West Bank. You know what is happening in
		

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			China,
		

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			in Congo,
		

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			around the world,
		

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			And we need to understand that
		

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			at our level, it starts with us, and
		

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			then we have to look at our neighborhood
		

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			and to look at the world because we
		

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			have to repair with our self in order
		

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			to repair the world. And this is what
		

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			he's expecting from us. And during the months
		

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			of Ramadan,
		

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			we're trying to repair
		

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			this intimate dimension
		

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			in order to be involved with the poor,
		

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			with the people who are suffering around us.
		

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			This is the very meaning of faith, and
		

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			this is what is expected
		

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			from us.
		

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			So every day, we are going to tackle
		

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			one dimension,
		

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			one
		

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			notion that is helping us to understand
		

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			this essential
		

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			notion of repair
		

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			from an Islamic viewpoint.
		

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			Don't forget to tell the people you love
		

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			that you love them. Life is fragile.