Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #04 Childhood

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.