Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #23 To speak out

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.