Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #23 To speak out
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The speaker discusses the importance of speaking out and listening to God in order to repair the world. They emphasize the need to be alert and respond to actions to avoid spreading false teaching. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of following the messenger's advice and not compromising on the message.
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Peace be with you.
We talked about,
giving
and listening
and
being
on earth.
Now, while we are within the last 10
days of Ramadan,
we are talking about
talking,
To talk, to speak out.
And this is important because this is central
to the accomplishment
of our faith, to achieve our faith, and
to be a witness on earth, and to
try to repair what should be repaired on
earth, it's important to speak out and to
be able
to to speak. And as we know the
Quran
is in itself
the verb, the word, that is coming to
us in order for us to understand the
world as it said in the Bible, at
the beginning
was the word,
and this is the way
God is communicating
with us, so we are listening to him
and trying to respond to his call
and as he said in the Quran, in
Surat Al Rahman,
he taught the Quran and
then he taught,
human being
the human to speak out and to be
able to explain,
so this is,
an essential
dimension
of our
condition. Our human condition is to speak and
to be able to speak,
to speak out.
As it is said, if we want to
repair the world, it's not only out of
love and out of,
good feeling and generosity. All this is fine
and all this is part of our faith
and to accomplish and to achieve our faith
and to be a good
Muslim, a good believer,
but at the same time when we see
the world the way it is and what
human beings our fellow human beings is doing
to one another,
We have to speak out. To have to
speak out when we see something which is
wrong and this is
is
to reject it with our heart and then
just before this
is to denounce it and this is what
we have to do. We have this in
the Hadith.
So when it comes to our relationship
to this and we come back to the
prophet, peace be upon him, we should remember
that he was facing people asking him to
give up, to shut up, to stop talking,
to stop spreading the message.
This is what he was
asked to do, and he refused it. Never
ever. I will stop spreading the message in
the name of God, in the name of
my mission
as a Muslim. And he was facing dictators,
and he was facing rich people, and he
was facing powers.
He never
gave up spreading the message. He spoke out
in order for the message to be delivered
and for this world to be repaired the
way it should be. This is what we
have to do as Muslims, and we should
remember
that it's not only good just to
work with and to promote
this Hikma, this wisdom.
And wisdom without speaking out is no longer
wisdom. It can be it can it could
be
to compromise the very meaning of our message.
So as we are following in the footsteps
of the messenger,
we should remember
it's good to follow
the one who prayed.
It's important to follow
the one who spoke out.
Don't forget to tell the people you love
that you love them. Life is fragile.