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

Peace be with you.

The chronicles of Ramadan during this year are

going to tackle a notion, which is very

important,

central to the very meaning of faith and

the spiritual journey that we have to endure,

during our life.

It's the notion of repair.

It's the fact that we, as human beings,

we have to repair ourself

as much as we have to repair the

world around us

in our family,

in our neighborhood,

and in the world,

as a whole. We have it as an

essential

notion in Islam

related to the notion of pilgrimage.

Pilgrimage means that you go from one place

to another trying to purify yourself,

but this place is yourself,

and the other place is the center, is

your heart, is to be close to god.

And this pilgrimage is all about Tasqiat en

nef's purification,

trying to repair what has been broken in

yourself, what is broken in your life, what

is broken within your family and with your,

fellow human beings. And this is what we

have to translate in our life as human

beings. And we have it in the Quran

when it is said,

we have created human beings in the best

design, the best shape, meaning that at the

very beginning, we were

in the very in the very

purified

state

in innocence.

And then with time, what is happening is

really a a regression,

is that we are

broken sometimes with the very tests of life,

and this is what we have.

And

then we,

reduced him to the from to the lowest

of the law, meaning that we are almost

losing

all what all our qualities as human beings,

and this is the very meaning of life.

Every one of us

is experiencing this, is experiencing that sometimes we

are dealing with our own weaknesses,

with our own mistakes, with

separation,

with death,

with,

everything which is in life, the very meaning

of tests.

And then we have to understand

that the very meaning of life, like,

a a pilgrimage, is to purify us, is

to go through this process of

purification,

is to reform

ourself, and reparation

is the central notion of life.

As human beings,

we have to experience this. We have to

translate this into

our rituals. And as we are fasting,

to fast is to repair.

To fast is to reconcile.

It's to try to come to this the

the the very,

purified

state where we are close to our heart,

close to God, and trying in the light

of this

closeness to God

to understand in which way we have to

deal with our own weaknesses.

We are to to we have to deal

with our own fragility.

We have to deal with our own test,

every one of us. It's a personal

responsibility.

No one is holding it. No one is

or have

has this,

burden to,

bear in his life and her or her

life

except yourself. So it's a personal responsibility.

It's the test. It's the very meaning of

life. To live

one's life as a pilgrimage

and through this purification

to understand that we are

repairing, that we are fixing, that we are

mending, that we are reforming

our life

and for ourselves

and for the people around us and for

the world.

Don't forget to tell the people you love

that you love them. Life is fragile.