Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #17 Nature and animals

Peace be with you.

We talked about this attention that we have

to pay towards the world around us, that

we need to

respect

all what was created by God, and this

is essential in the way we understand

thanking for what we,

we receive,

but we have to repair

what humanity

and our fellow human beings

are corrupting and destructing

when it comes to dealing with the world

and it comes to dealing with nature.

As much as we have to repair

ourselves,

our mind,

our heart, our body,

and our relationships

to our neighbors and

the the the societies

within which we are living,

meaning the poor, meaning the exploited people, the

eldest people, all what we said about

this understanding of our responsibility

within our society.

What we

are giving by the creator and who Al

Hayy, Al Hayy means the living, the one

who is alive,

who never dies.

He's giving us from the very beginning

this creation

where nature

is alive, and we have to show respect

towards nature.

And the way we have, even in times

of war, we can't

distract, and we can't,

cut,

trees, food trees. We have to respect them

as a way for us to show respect

towards the creator.

This

way of dealing with nature

is also for us and especially during our

times and when we are talking today about

global warming

and the way we are distracting nature. We

see here fires, and we see there floods.

We need to understand that this is our

responsibility

to repair

what we did,

what our fellow

beings did to the world. That's important. And

at the same time, as we are respecting

the living creatures, we have to respect the

animals. And it is said in the tradition,

in the Hadith, that a woman,

is going to hellfire because she mistreated

a cat and a man and another hadith,

a woman

are going to paradise because they were helping

and giving

water to a dog. That's the reality of

our message.

This is the reality of look at the

world and look at the living creatures,

and you have to respect

every single

living

being. This is your responsibility.

And if some of your brothers and sisters

in humanity

are destroying the world, what you have to

do

is

to repair,

is to protect,

is to give food,

is to protect this nature by the way

you are,

dignifying

its very presence in your daily life. And

this is the way the prophet, peace be

upon him, was crying the whole night

while he was

reminded

that

these are see signs,

and these are the creation you have to

respect, and they are signs in the creation

of night and day and heavens and earth

to tell him,

in order to come close to god,

repair

the living creatures

and the living nature

around you by

respecting

them, by protecting them,

and by

respecting yourself in the day in the way

you deal with nature and in the day

in the way you deal with animals.

Don't forget to tell the people you love

that you love them. Life is fragile.