Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #22 The Unknown

Peace be with

you. We talked about our brothers and sisters

and in which way we can repair our

relationships

with them.

Now what we have to understand that this

is the very meaning of our faith. This

is our the very meaning of our responsibility

on earth is to bear witness to the

truth.

Meaning that what we have to give to

our

brothers and sisters in humanity goes

beyond the fact that we know this one

and we know Fulan or Allan.

It's that we are dealing with unknown people,

with people we don't know and that they

are with us, and as we know as

Muslims,

we have

a way. We have a faith, and we

have a light, a light

through which we are looking at the world,

a way through which we are

directing our life within

this world and on earth. That's something that

we have, and we know that people around

us might not have a life, might not

have a way,

they may be

non believers even, or

looking for something in their life. What we

should understand here is that as witness,

it's important for us to

understand in which way we are we we

have to provide them with our presence and

to repair

this

unbalanced reality where we have, we know, we

feel, and we find around us people who

are looking for something, looking for meaning, not

for us to convert them because this is

not,

it's none of our business. This is in

the,

the responsibility

of God and a personal

responsibility for them. What we have to understand

is in with our presence as witnesses,

what we have to provide the people with

this is really this understanding,

that they have a a karama. They have

dignity.

As it is said, and as

we recognize their dignity,

we have to deal with this dignity,

and being dignified mean that,

we need

love, we need,

respect,

we need to get our rights, and this

is the way we have to deal with

them in order to respect

their dignity

to repair what could be missing in the

relationship that they have with the world and

we have with them

at the same time. This is the way

we have to follow to follow as believers.

This is what we have to do, and

and it's the very understanding

of,

helping the people around us, understanding

them,

not trying to convert,

not trying to direct, not trying

to constrain,

but just trying to respect and to share

that, to show that there is a way.

This is who we are as believers on

earth. This is what we have to provide

our fellow human beings with as dignified beings,

as brothers and sisters. And then when we

do this,

this is the way for us to say,

yes. I'm following the path, but with my

very presence on Earth, I want to send

the message.

I follow a light.

You may see it through my

acts actions.

I follow a way you can understand it

through the principles

I respect. This is what I can give

with

a way for me to be a witness

and to be a brother

or to be a sister in humanity.

Don't forget to tell the people you love

that you love them. Life is fragile.