Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #04 Childhood
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The speaker discusses the importance of following the path and not letting failures and wounds affect the path. They emphasize the need to assess and deal with childhood and the importance of acknowledging failures and wounds in one's life. The speaker also emphasizes the need to deal with childhood and not let failures and wounds affect one's consciousness.
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With you.
We're reaching the 4th day of Ramadan.
And as I was talking,
during the previous days about,
how do we repair, how do we have
to deal with our life and our heart
and our weaknesses and our thoughts, and we
are trying to follow the path.
We said and and we repeated something which
was important is in which way
and what is not only
helping us to follow the path, but sometimes
being obstacles on the path, obstacles
in the lie in our life.
And the point here is very much to
come back to ourself and to understand that,
every one of us
has
his or her own
failures
and and wounds and and
and questions and,
difficulties.
In order to be faithful to the path
and to understand and to be aware
that Allah, god, is present,
it's important to come to the very beginning
and to assess
what we are receiving from our parents.
And childhood
is essential
because this is the time where we start
our social life. This is the the the
time where we are educated and we try
to understand.
And if you come back to this, you
understand that
during this period of time,
so many things happen to every one of
us.
Sometimes we are trying
to hid to to hide what happened. Sometimes
we are trying to reveal and to purge,
and we go through therapies, and and we
try to to deal with this in a
way which is, okay, I need to understand
who I am and what was given to
to me during my life. So
here, it's important to
have this deep understanding
of
our own
childhood.
You have it in the Quran. Why is
it
that we have an and we know about
the prophet, peace be upon him, that he
was fatherless,
and then he was an orphan afterward? What
about Ibrahim alayhis salaam when he was dealing
with his father rejecting
his own faith, and he has to,
separate himself from his father? What about Nuhan,
his son?
All these
realities,
are showing us that you have to deal
with your childhood.
You have to deal with your early years.
You may try to,
hide. You may try to be to protect
yourself,
but at the end of day, there is
no way for you to follow the path
if you don't know what was,
brought to you
as a child,
as a woman,
as a young woman, as a young man.
And there are
wounds,
there are failures,
and there are tears.
All this
is part of who you are. And if
you want to come close to god, you
have sometimes to deal with it and to
understand
what happened to you. And in the way
you receive this from your parents.
It's not to accuse them. It's to understand.
It's not to justify
who you are now.
Because at the end of the day,
everything is coming to you and many things,
and you are not responsible for many things
that happened to you, but you are responsible
of what you are doing out of them
in the way you are trying to repair
and to come close to God with your
consciousness,
with your,
faith, and with your,
will,
every day of your life. Don't forget to
tell the people that you love that you
love them. Life is
fragile.