Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #01 The Meaning of Repair

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			Peace be with you.
		
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			The chronicles of Ramadan during this year are
		
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			going to tackle a notion, which is very
		
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			important,
		
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			central to the very meaning of faith and
		
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			the spiritual journey that we have to endure,
		
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			during our life.
		
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			It's the notion of repair.
		
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			It's the fact that we, as human beings,
		
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			we have to repair ourself
		
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			as much as we have to repair the
		
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			world around us
		
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			in our family,
		
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			in our neighborhood,
		
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			and in the world,
		
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			as a whole. We have it as an
		
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			essential
		
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			notion in Islam
		
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			related to the notion of pilgrimage.
		
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			Pilgrimage means that you go from one place
		
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			to another trying to purify yourself,
		
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			but this place is yourself,
		
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			and the other place is the center, is
		
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			your heart, is to be close to god.
		
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			And this pilgrimage is all about Tasqiat en
		
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			nef's purification,
		
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			trying to repair what has been broken in
		
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			yourself, what is broken in your life, what
		
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			is broken within your family and with your,
		
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			fellow human beings. And this is what we
		
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			have to translate in our life as human
		
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			beings. And we have it in the Quran
		
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			when it is said,
		
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			we have created human beings in the best
		
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			design, the best shape, meaning that at the
		
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			very beginning, we were
		
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			in the very in the very
		
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			purified
		
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			state
		
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			in innocence.
		
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			And then with time, what is happening is
		
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			really a a regression,
		
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			is that we are
		
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			broken sometimes with the very tests of life,
		
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			and this is what we have.
		
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			And
		
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			then we,
		
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			reduced him to the from to the lowest
		
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			of the law, meaning that we are almost
		
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			losing
		
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			all what all our qualities as human beings,
		
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			and this is the very meaning of life.
		
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			Every one of us
		
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			is experiencing this, is experiencing that sometimes we
		
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			are dealing with our own weaknesses,
		
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			with our own mistakes, with
		
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			separation,
		
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			with death,
		
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			with,
		
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			everything which is in life, the very meaning
		
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			of tests.
		
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			And then we have to understand
		
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			that the very meaning of life, like,
		
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			a a pilgrimage, is to purify us, is
		
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			to go through this process of
		
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			purification,
		
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			is to reform
		
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			ourself, and reparation
		
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			is the central notion of life.
		
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			As human beings,
		
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			we have to experience this. We have to
		
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			translate this into
		
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			our rituals. And as we are fasting,
		
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			to fast is to repair.
		
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			To fast is to reconcile.
		
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			It's to try to come to this the
		
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			the the very,
		
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			purified
		
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			state where we are close to our heart,
		
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			close to God, and trying in the light
		
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			of this
		
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			closeness to God
		
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			to understand in which way we have to
		
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			deal with our own weaknesses.
		
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			We are to to we have to deal
		
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			with our own fragility.
		
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			We have to deal with our own test,
		
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			every one of us. It's a personal
		
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			responsibility.
		
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			No one is holding it. No one is
		
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			or have
		
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			has this,
		
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			burden to,
		
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			bear in his life and her or her
		
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			life
		
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			except yourself. So it's a personal responsibility.
		
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			It's the test. It's the very meaning of
		
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			life. To live
		
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			one's life as a pilgrimage
		
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			and through this purification
		
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			to understand that we are
		
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			repairing, that we are fixing, that we are
		
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			mending, that we are reforming
		
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			our life
		
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			and for ourselves
		
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			and for the people around us and for
		
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			the world.
		
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			Don't forget to tell the people you love
		
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			that you love them. Life is fragile.