Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #20 Blood relationships

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.