Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #13 To see The witnesses
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The speaker discusses the importance of hearing and listened to the world to be a witness to the deeper meaning of Islam. By separating oneself from oppressed people, one can be prepared to bear witness to the message and to the people around them. This separation is necessary for the person to be able to see the spiritual light of Islam, and it is crucial for rebuilding a fragile life.
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Peace be with you.
We talked about
the the way we have to
listen to the world. And as I said
at the beginning,
we have to listen to ourself
and to listen to the world and to
listen
to the people around us. We talked about
listening to the voices coming from the excluded
people, coming from the oppressed, coming from the
people around us, and to listen to ourself.
Now there is another dimension, which has not
to do with listening,
but to see, to look at, to look
at the world, and to have this deep
understanding that through this way of looking at
the world, this is the way for us
to bear witness. We know that what we
have to do as a human being, as
a believer, is to bear witness to the
message.
You have to be witness to the message
to the truth before people. This is what
we are expected to do,
in the world. Now
to be a witness,
it's important to
make a difference within our society.
God to come close to him. The rituals,
the way we pray, for example. When we
start praying, we have to separate ourself
from the world and to enter to into
this vertical dimension to come close to god.
When we are giving a zakat, we have
to separate ourselves from money in order to
purify the rest that is with
us. When we fast, we have to avoid
drinking and eating in order to purify our
body, and we do exactly the same with
the pilgrimage. We separate ourselves.
This separation
is helping us to look
differently to what we have and who we
are.
By this separation,
we understand
what we are living and who we are,
and we appreciate
the very nature
of who we are and what we have
to bring to the world. And it should
be exactly with our fellow human beings
to separate ourselves
from the way the people are dealing with
the reality in order for them to see,
to look at something which is different, the
spiritual way. So a kind of
separating
yourself
from the bad
habits
that you have within your society, the bad
way of dealing with the society,
the bad way the people are dealing with
themselves
in order to become a witness and to
be witness to the very
deep spiritual message of Islam with its light,
which is
messaged to the world. This is something which
is essential for us.
So the very meaning of
repair
has to do with the deep meaning of
bearing witness
to the message before
our fellow brothers and sisters and humanity. And
we have to think about this because at
the end of the day, if you want
to repair,
be able to be seen
as someone who is bringing
something good to the world.
Don't forget to tell the people you love
that you love them. Life is
fragile.