Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #19 Give your word
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The speaker discusses the importance of giving in spiritual life, as it is a way to repair two sides of the relationship with oneself and with others. They stress that giving words and intentions is something which has a spiritual weight in the way of repairing oneself. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of having a peace at the end of one's life to avoid debt and achieve a spiritual state of being at peace.
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Peace be with you.
We enter into the chapter of giving
as an essential dimension of our spiritual life.
We should learn to give, knowing that at
the same time when we give, we are
working and repairing
two sides. It's the relationship that we have
with our own self and the relationship that
we have with our brothers and sisters in
humanity
through this,
empathy that we are we are talking about.
There is something which seems to be
lighter, less important in our understanding of our
relationship with people because it has to do
with words. It has to do with with
our tongue. It has to do with what
we say as if when we give something
which is physical,
which is physically present,
it's deeper or even,
stronger than the reality of our words.
And in the spiritual,
teachings and traditions, this is completely the opposite.
You give
from your heart, and you give from your
goods, and you give from what you have,
but you also give your words.
To give your words and you have to
understand the very meaning of this, that it
happened with your father, with your mother. It
happened with your children. It happened with your
wife, with your husband.
It happens
so many times during,
your life that you give your word, that
you promise that you are going to do
something.
Giving your words,
it's something which
has a very important and essential spiritual weight
in the way you deal with
yourself.
Because sometimes you give your words to yourself
that
you will try to do something and change
your life and repair what should be repaired
in your life. And you do this with
all the beloved people around you.
And it comes
to this deep understanding
when you give your word
to understand what you are doing, and you
have it in the Quran.
Those who are faithful
to their contract and to their words.
This is one dimension.
When Muslimon and Ashur Uthim said, the prophet,
peace be upon him, that you have to
respect the conditions
and the contracts that you sign. It could
be orally because this was the way
at that time, or it could be the
through the way you are signing,
anything, any contract.
You have
to keep
your word, and you have to try to
do your best in order to fulfill
to full to fulfill the spiritual
teaching in your daily life.
And this is also something which could help
you through the way you try to remember
what was the promise,
the promise
I did or I gave to my father,
to my mother, or to my children, to
myself,
to the
world,
in through which I would
change myself. I will be better. I I
will give or I will
do. You have to remember
because at the end of the day,
a promise is a debt.
And this is exactly the very meaning of
our a deen, a dein is a relationship.
We are indebted
towards god
as much as we are indebted towards our
fellow human beings when we promise to do
something.
And the day will come that we will
leave this world, and the best way to
leave this world
is to leave it without
debt. It could be a word or it
could be money, but we have to deal
with it in a way where we have
to think about, okay. Let me be at
peace with the people I love. Let me
be at peace with the people who
are expecting something from me
and just to solve
all my debts
before leaving. And this is the way at
with peace
at peace,
you will go
to the creator
who
has as a name peace.
Don't forget to tell the people you love
that you love them. Life is fragile.