Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #00 Introduction The repair

Peace be with you.

We're welcoming the months of Ramadan and the

chronicles of this year

are going to be around the notion of,

repair.

And repair

is essential to the spiritual journey. Everything has

to do with the way we are going

to mend our,

and to change, to reform.

Islam enough to reform ourself in order to

get this inner peace and the peace with

God, the peace with our

family within the family

and beyond the family.

And we are going to talk about all

these dimensions,

meaning,

the intimate

dimension with our own self,

with our

family, with our neighbor, with the world.

And, it's

essential to understand in which way we have

to translate this. It has to do with

self compassion.

It has to do with self understanding.

It has to do with,

kindness and kindness towards oneself and kindness towards

the people around us.

And at the moment I'm talking to you

now, you know what is happening

in Gaza. You know what is happening in

Palestine. You know what is happening in the

West Bank. You know what is happening in

China,

in Congo,

around the world,

And we need to understand that

at our level, it starts with us, and

then we have to look at our neighborhood

and to look at the world because we

have to repair with our self in order

to repair the world. And this is what

he's expecting from us. And during the months

of Ramadan,

we're trying to repair

this intimate dimension

in order to be involved with the poor,

with the people who are suffering around us.

This is the very meaning of faith, and

this is what is expected

from us.

So every day, we are going to tackle

one dimension,

one

notion that is helping us to understand

this essential

notion of repair

from an Islamic viewpoint.

Don't forget to tell the people you love

that you love them. Life is fragile.