Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #21 Brotherhood and Friendship
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Peace be with you.
We talked about,
our relationship
to
our
brothers and sisters within the family and in
which we we have to repair.
As we are entering the last 10 days
of Ramadan, we have to remember something which
is essential to achieve our
faith, to achieve our spiritual journey, which is
the relation relationship that we have with our
brothers and sisters, not only within the family,
but outside the family, within the, human family.
Because as we know,
it is said in the Quran,
oh,
people, we have created you from a male
and a female,
meaning that we have this,
original bound, this original link that we have
with our brothers and sisters in humanity
and,
we also have to care about our brothers
within
the community, the spiritual community, and this is
what we find in the Quran,
in the
in Islam.
And this is essential to achieve our faith
because what we have to provide our brothers
and even our friends within our society is
not only our heart and our generosity and
our solidarity to be with them and to
care about them. We
show compassion towards one another. This is what
Islam is asking us to do. Yes, that's
true, but but at the same time, what
is very important for us is to remember
that, we have to be demanding with our
brothers and sisters.
We have to show that we care about
them through the principles that we both
are respecting and trying to respect in our
daily life, and this is the very meaning
of being a brother and being a sister
in Islam.
It's
full of compassion, full of solidarity and
in order for us to go along and
to be able to improve ourselves
through our relationship,
and this is a way to repair. But,
because as we know,
affection repairs
our very,
feelings when we are,
troubled in our daily life,
but having a relationship with a friend or
with a brother or sister,
helping us to remember the principles and to
remember what is right and what is wrong.
It's also repairing. It's also
helping us reform ourselves,
and this is the very meaning of being
brothers and sisters in Islam and in humanity
is help me with your love.
Help me with the limits you are,
reminding me,
to respect in my daily life. This is
a way for us to understand our relationship
and to repair
our relations with our brothers and sisters,
and this is the way it should be.
Our spiritual journey should be based on love
and common respect
and, at the same time, show me that
you love me,
but remind me that I have to respect
the principles of life in order to deserve
your friendship or your brotherhood.
That's essential. That's the spiritual journey.
Don't forget to tell the people you love
that you love them. Life is fragile.