Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #11 The excluded, the marginalized
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Peace be with you.
We have reached the 11th day of Ramadan,
and we are fasting and we are thinking
about how do we repair
what is broken around us. We talked about
our self, and we have to deal with
our own self, our own heart, our own
intimate life, inter intimate spiritual journey. And at
the same time, we have to deal with
our father, our mother, our family,
and the neighborhood. Our neighbors
are important.
Yet when we are dealing with this, we
understand that
as much as we have to repair
within,
concentric circles
ourself, our family, our neighborhood.
We deal with a society where we find,
people who are treated in a way which
is as if they have no right,
no right at all. They are excluded,
excluded people. They are marginalized,
and the society is creating
a system,
a reality where
what we are saying about our common humanity,
saying we have the reign the same dignity,
we have the same rights, we have the
same,
hopes for ourselves and for the future. When
it comes to the society, we see
exclusion,
marginalization,
and people dealing with no right within our
society,
and we are not responsible. We come into
this world, and we see what is around
us, and it's as if we are powerless.
Yet we have a responsibility.
As much as we have to repair for
ourself, we have to repair
the gap between what
humanity is
equal dignity
and what society
is bringing, is producing,
where you have people having no dignity and
treated in a way which is unacceptable.
So we have to repair. And it's not
because we are not responsible of what is
happening around us that we are not and
we should not be involved within the process.
We have to be involved within the process
and to try to rectify,
to repair, to fix, to mend what was
broken by
this,
our society
and this human involvement in the organization of
the social fabric.
Our responsibility
to do this
within ourselves, as I said. But now we
have to deal with people we don't know,
that people who are not even acknowledged by
the society. And remember what happened with Halef
al Fudul, with the prophet, peace be upon
him,
when they decided that even the stranger
coming within the community
should be treated in the same way. Saying
what?
Yes. We are members of tribes, and we
are and we have our rights within.
Yet if somebody is coming
and have and has no rights
within the tribes. He has the right of
being a human being, and they have to
deal with it. And this is where the
prophet, peace be upon him, peace be upon
him, when he was 12, he attended the
meeting. And later, he said, I will stick
to this principle
of justice,
meaning our responsibility
is to change the world with the people
who are unknown
within our societies, but they are known to
our consciousness
and our dignity. This is what we have
to do day in, day out. Don't forget
to tell the people you love that you
love them. Life is fragile.