Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #12 The oppressed

Peace be with you.

We talked about,

the reality of some of our brothers and

sisters in humanity who are facing within the

society the reality of exclusion,

marginalization.

And it's as if we are dealing with

this, and,

the people are powerless. They have no right,

and we are trying to deal and try

to repair whatever what as much as we

can. And we have to do this, and

this is our responsibility,

as I said yesterday.

Now and we do we should not confuse

between the first status here, when the people

are dealing with the society and are excluded,

and what the society is doing with some

of our

fellow citizens and fellow human beings, they are

not only excluded, they are oppressed.

And this is justified

by law very often. It's not about, oh,

they are poor or they are excluded. It's

a system

that is carrying on and bringing about the

reality of this exclusion

through oppression and discrimination.

It could be for

people dealing with the law and finding that

the law is justifying

their own discrimination.

And when it comes, for example,

to women, this is what we find when

it comes to the salary being paid less

than men with the same competence.

And this is not to be accepted.

This is not something which is right if

we come with the deep understanding of this

commune common humanity and common dignity

and common status

before god and within the society.

Having said this and understanding,

our

understanding of how do we repair

should not be only

this

feeling that it should be done out of

our heart and only with this,

sense of solidarity.

It has to do with our consciousness,

our understanding

of how

it works within the society.

So humanity

requests

from us not only to show solidarity

out of our heart and kindness,

but out of our intelligence

and our will to bring about justice in

this world. This is our responsibility

as well. And when we are a member

of a society and we see how it

works and we see discriminations

and we

see injustices.

It's out.

It's for in, for our

responsibilities

for us

within our responsibility

to be involved in the process and to

do as much as we can at our

level with our fellow citizens

to change this society,

to ask for

a legal legal change,

within our society and more justice and less

discrimination

and to refuse

as much as we can

any status of oppression within the society.

This is important.

And

we can find ourself powerless, not able to

change,

yet our consciousness is the first step in

order for us to repair

what the society is doing.

The society

sometimes in our, the the governments are telling

us it's the way we cannot do more

than this at our level. This is why

we have to be involved,

to make it clear that we will never

accept

any kind of discrimination

for ourselves, for our brothers and sisters in

humanity, Muslims, or people of outer faith.

No

injustice to be accepted.

That's the first step to repair the world.

Don't forget to tell the people you love

that you love them. Life is fragile.