Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #28 Rituals
AI: Summary ©
The speaker discusses the importance of disciplined practices and rituals in rebuilding one's spirituality and bringing peace to the world. They emphasize the need to be involved in daily practices and to be mindful of one's daily activities to repair and reform. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of doing things in a safe and spiritual way to bring peace to the world.
AI: Summary ©
Peace be with you.
We talked about
acting and doing
and promoting the good out of our actions
within the world.
And as we understand it, it's very often
that we think about, oh, I have to
be generous. I have to share. I have
to give, and it's out of our goodwill.
Well, when we come back to
Al Quran or Sunnah, when we come back
to our tradition, and once again, this is
what we can find in all the spiritualities
and all the monotheistic traditions.
This has to be disciplined. And how do
you see and how do you understand that
this has to be disciplined and based on
principles and based on an ongoing process of
regulating
our days and our nights.
It's through the rituals.
In fact, what you are nurturing within, in
the way you are understanding
that you have to spread
good and to spread and to behave in
a good way. You the the the practices
and the rituals in your daily life
are reminding you of the essential
dimension of giving.
In fact,
when you have to pray, you understand that,
when you have to pray in community, this
has 25
times more importance than when you pray alone.
So
you understand that this praying in community is
not only that you are transforming yourself, you
come back to yourself, but when you talk
to God, you talk
with we.
We are asking you, and we are worshiping
you,
we, me, and all my brothers and sisters
in Islam.
So this dimension of, being involved is 5
times a day. You have to come back
and to have this sense of community.
And when you give the zakat, it's exactly
the same. Zakat is a way you purify
your heart and you purify your money,
your goods, everything that you have. It's a
double process
based on your understanding that you're connected with
the community, and this has to be
done in a very strict way. It's demanding.
And when you fast, as we are fasting
now, we understand that we're preventing
ourselves
from eating and drinking in order to come
close to God, but at the same times
to be very close
to the poor people, to the needy
people in Mesakine
who are part of our community. And in
doing so, we are repairing.
So every ritual,
it's about repairing
ourselves
and the world. And pilgrimages
once again come together and find the very
meaning of being equal before God and coming
as a community.
So our rituals
are the visible side,
disciplined with
consciousness
of what has to be done within ourselves
to repair
and within the the world to change and
to reform.
So
Islam is based on this, so you cannot
distinguish between this and that. And this is
the way we understand that
through our rituals
as practicing Muslims,
as people who are fasting,
we repair
our
unconsciousness
in order to reform
the world
with this deep, spiritual
consciousness,
this reverential
consciousness,
which is a taqwa,
which is the central dimension
of the way we are with God
and with ourselves.
Don't forget to tell the people you love
that you love them. Life is fragile.