Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #05 Bad Memories

With the legacy

we receive from our parents and from our

family.

That's important because,

as we said,

this is the way for us to deal

with our own self

and to deal with

what came to us. And sometimes we are

are not responsible,

of what we are,

bearing in our life. Now we have to

have a

a a more

open angle,

angle, a wider

understanding

of this issue.

And it has to do with our bad

memories, our

the bad things that happened to us in

our life. The past,

but not the past with all what we

receive. Because very often, we receive and we

are happy and we thank God and we

thank,

the people we love.

And this is sometimes a way to forget.

In fact, when you receive, you can

be heedless. You can be,

sometimes arrogant and sometimes not aware

of the very essence of life.

Now

the bad memories,

the failures, what happened in the past, the

separation,

and sometimes the

the relationship that,

that are,

that has been broken out of time and

because you you lost your brother, you lost

your friend.

All this is helping you to come back

to the very meaning of

the past,

and what is and in which way you

are educated

out of despair.

And

the point here is to remember

that

bad memories

have

a very

important role to play in your life,

is to bring you back

to

the relationship

to yourself and the relationship to god. In

order to understand here that

what did not

when go well in the past. What did

not

happen the way you wanted it it to

happen in your past

is a way for you to

ponder,

to meditate about the very essence of your

life. Because

if

you

are dealing with

all these,

failures,

all these bad memories,

And the bad memories of the past are

not going to prevail

if you have a deep faith in the

present.

And to rely and to be and to

trust God is very much this,

is very much to understand that nothing happened

in my

life without a meaning.

And the point for me is that when

I come back to this past, and when

I come back and try to understand what

happened to me, it's for me to understand

that I have to translate this

into,

a school, into a personal,

best the bad for the bad from the

past

could be the way for you

towards the better in the future,

everything into

the meaning

of faith and to the meaning

of your closeness to God. That's the way

it should be and that's the way it

is. And while we are fasting,

we have to remember

that this is also the very essence

of fasting. Don't forget to tell the people

you love that you love them. Life is

fragile.