Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #03 To remember

Peace be with you. As we are reaching

the 3rd day of Ramadan, we are talking

about this very notion which is essential to

our understanding of our faith

to repair, to reform our self, our heart,

our life.

He will understand that

the central notion,

which is connected to the notion of repair,

is the notion of

is remembrance,

and this is the very essence of the

Quran. In

we have revealed

the remembrance, which is one of the names

of the Quran.

Meaning what? That we only have to remember

that god is with us, that Allah is

here, that God is around us. It's,

between ourselves and our heart, and it is

is the creator of,

the heavens and the earth. It's not only

about this.

It's very much about coming back to our

heart and understanding that this life has a

meaning. As we said

in the

point here

that we belong to God and to him

we are returning.

The point here is that what we have

in Surat Kahf, it's very much the essence

of everything.

We you were heedless of it, of it

meaning what? The death, your own death.

We unveiled for you its truth,

which is the very truth of life is

that you are going to die.

And we

understand that after your death, you will

know the truth of your life. You will

know the truth of,

God,

but

what you have to understand what you have

to understand, what you are reading this about

your death is that during your life, you

have to remember.

You have to avoid this,

being heedless

and come to this consciousness of the very

meaning of life. This consciousness

here,

it's this remembrance,

is to help you not only

to get

you the way that you are following,

is to understand that

during this life,

on your way towards your death, meaning towards

your heart, meaning towards god,

everything

has a meaning.

And the meaning

it's to come back to god, to return

to the very essence of life.

It means that your weaknesses,

your,

failure,

you the test that you are facing, everything

which is happening,

it's in fact a way to remember

the very meaning of your mind. And it

means that when you fast,

it's not only that you are you have

your stomach empty.

You have to change the way you look

at things, the way you look at life,

the way you look at yourself, and the

way you are following the path, but changing

and transforming in your life,

everything,

in order to understand that these are signs

asking

you

come back to the essence,

come back to the meaning,

come back to god, come back to yourself,

and repair what should be repaired in your

life. And as we are feast fasting, this

is exactly what we are trying to do.

We fast to repair

and to repair to come close

and to come close to get the very

truth of life

that at the end of the day, we

go back to him.

Don't forget to tell the people you love

that you love them. Life is fragile.