Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #20 Blood relationships
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The speaker discusses the importance of repairing relationships with family members, and emphasizes the need to keep repeating these relationships. They also mention the importance of their father's legacy and the need to repair past mistakes. The speaker encourages people to take responsibility for their own lives and let go of their fears.
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Peace be with you.
We talked about giving, and we talk about
repairing.
And we know that in our relationship with
blood relationship, which is important
coming from the same family
with our mother, with our father, with our,
children, with our,
uncles and aunts, and and all these relationships
are very important in the our tradition. And
we keep on repeating this,
And this is important. It's essential that we
keep on repeating this. But at the same
time, we need to understand, as I said
during the first,
chronicle of this month, it's important to know
where we are heading, but at the same
time, to remember,
the weight of the legacy we are bearing
with us, we are holding in our heart.
Because
with our relationship
with our father, for example, we know that
not everything was perfect, that we,
made mistake when we were young, with our
mother the same.
And at one point, we have to try
to remember
and try to
repair,
to fix, to mend,
and to change this relationship
through the way we are dealing with them,
with both of them. The same with our
children. There is no father. There is no
mother who could be just satisfied. Oh, I
did
the best,
and everything was fine. We know that sometimes
we hurt, that sometimes we,
made mistakes with our own children,
and we may have
destroyed
something. We may have misled
our children in a way or in another,
and it's important at one stage of our
life to remember this and to try to
repair
what was broken in the past
with our children and, as I said, within
our family.
It's very important to keep on,
speaking about silat arrahem, which is so important,
the blood relationship,
the family relationship, and that we know that
our paradise go through our mother and that
this was repeated
by the prophet, peace be upon him, towards
our father, our mother, our the family as
such. This is
really important.
But as much as we are repeating this,
we need also
to come close to our own consciousness,
every one of us, just to take a
step
back and to look at our life
and to ask ourselves
in which way could I repair
which was broken with my father, my mother,
my my
child, my
whoever is around me
in the circle, the first circle of my
blood relationship
within my family.
In order
to understand that at one point, we'll come
close to our own death, and you if
we want to be at peace
with the one and if we want to
be at peace with all the beloved,
brothers and sisters
who are members of our family,
it comes to our responsibility
to repair what was broken
and never to justify
that what was broken
was broken because it was not our responsibility.
We may not be responsible of what we
got. We are responsible
of what we are making out of it.
Don't forget to tell the people you love
that you love them. Life is fragile.