Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #06 Wounds and Judgment

Peace be with you.

We talked yesterday

about,

the bad memories that we have sometimes when

we come back to our past,

And

things are going,

with us and through us with

the time that we are living and that

we are experiencing on earth, and sometimes the

wounds.

And the reality is of our wounds and

our intimate,

resentment

comes from

what has been done to us by people.

It could be with your with our parents.

It could be with our children. It could

be with our husband, our wife, and the

people around us that

we feel that what was said, one word,

one way of looking at us, one side,

one remark that we are

still remembering

because we were hurt. But what happened to

us, what happened to our heart, what happened

to our understanding,

This is here and this is within us.

And as we know,

to be close to God is always to

remember that he is with us,

and as to the wounds, as to the

relationship, as to what was done to us,

the experience is exactly the opposite. As much

as we have to remember God, we have

to forget

about what was done to us. We have

to go beyond. We have even to erase

what we felt when this,

happened to us in the past.

So this is the way we are close

to god to remember.

And as we are close

to god with this remembrance,

we should go beyond what was done to

us by our beloved people. It could be

our father, our mother, and everyone who is

around us. And this is the way we

go beyond. This is the way we forgive.

This is the way we,

are repairing

ourselves,

fixing what is still in our heart

in order to get this peace, this inner

peace, which is one dimension

of

repair,

repairing,

to repair what is happening to to us

in our life. And as

much as we do this, we understand that

in order to feel that inner peace, in

order to be close to God, we should

with our,

brothers and sisters, with our parents, with our

children,

go beyond the feeling, be go beyond the

wounds,

go beyond either

the,

after effects

of what

happened in the past in order to

come close to this wisdom which is so

important,

Repairing

what was done to us by forgetting

and coming close to God by remembering.

Don't forget to tell the people you love

that you love them. Life is fragile.