Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #27 To Act

Peace be be with you.

We talked about being. We talked about,

listening to, to listening to oneself, to hear,

to be part of the world, and,

we are reaching now the last stage just

before the end of Ramadan, which has to

do

with behaving, to act,

and this is exactly the opposite of the

way the Hadith of the Prophet, peace be

upon him, was constructed, saying that if you

see something

bad

if you see something bad, you have to

change it with your hand.

So you have to change it with your

hand, and if you can't do it, you

have to change it with denouncing it, and

if you can't, this is with your heart.

And this is the lower,

stage, the the the minimum of your faith.

Now, if you look at the way we

have been

to the

to the people around us, and at the

same time,

being part of the whole process of

repairing the world.

Now what we understand is that we have

to act and we have to change

out of our being with the people around

us.

It's

the very meaning of,

Those who believe

and do good deeds.

This is part of our responsibility

in the world

because

what we understand is that

we have to repair and we have to

come back to ourselves. Understanding

that when you come back to yourself,

the way you are with the world

will have an impact on the way you

are with your own self. So repairing the

world

means

repairing yourself,

and there there is here

an internal interdependence

between the 2.

So what we have to do with our

fellow brothers and sisters in humanity, within our

society,

in our neighborhood, neighborhood,

is to act

to make

this world better. And to change it for

the better means that

as a witness of our message before

our fellow brothers and sisters,

we have

to show in which

way we are giving something.

So to repair is to give and you

know that in Islam,

The fact that you are smiling,

to your brother is a as if you

are giving him something. Your presence

is in itself

an act. It's the way you behave.

What

means that you have then to be generous

in the way you give. It could be

a smile. It could be your time, it

could you be your empathy,

it could be even your forgiveness

to the people around you. So to act

has multiple dimensions,

and we are called and it it's requested

from us

to be this good presence,

helping the people

through our presence

to be better human beings.

And this is the way we have to

be part of the process of changing the

world for the better.

Don't forget to tell the people you love

that you love them. Life, it's fragile.