Tariq Ramadan – Chronicles of Ramadan #29 To do good deeds
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The speaker discusses the importance of promoting good deeds and being mindful of one's own values. They stress the need to be mindful of one's own values and resist any negative consequences. The speaker emphasizes the importance of helping others and promoting the good in rebuilding the world.
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Peace be with you.
We have to act and we have to
change the world for the better. And we
have a principle.
It's
do good deeds.
This is what we understand coming from
our religion. This is what we understand from
all the religions and all the spiritualities
through history.
This is the way we have to be
promoting
what is good,
resisting at the same time
what is bad. So
doing and promoting what is good is essential,
and it's a principle.
It's to
command
what is right, and we understand that with
this principle
we have to go beyond some considerations
when it comes to the way we are
dealing with people.
So whoever
is in front of you, it could be
a man or woman, It could be a
black. It could be a white. It could
be a Muslim. It could be people of
other faiths. It could be someone who is
poor, someone who is rich.
You don't care.
That's none of your business. The principle
come before
all the other social, cultural,
and gender considerations.
You have to promote the good. In fact,
if you have to repair the world, you
have to be as a doctor
facing,
someone who is sick. He doesn't ask about
her or his gender,
her or his color,
her or his,
social status.
That's not the point. The point is you
have to heal. You have to cure.
You have to help the people around you,
and this is the way it should be
with our presence on earth. It should be
because very often we are not behaving that
way. We are just considering, am I going
to * because he or she is a
he or she is a Christian.
That's the wrong way of, if our message
is a universal message. We have to go
beyond to consider these considerations
and to put the principle
first
as something which is helping us to repair
the world.
And
once again, understanding this and spreading,
the good and spreading,
what is right on earth. It's very often
understood as, you know, we have to be
good and we have to show generosity. It's
not only this. It's very demanding.
It's not, you know, as the philosophy of
the sixties peace and love. No. It's we
have to go beyond that. We have to
go beyond that because sometimes you are facing
people who are spreading bad, and they are
doing bad, and they are destroying.
So your responsibility
here is to face them, is to resist
what they are doing. So promoting the good
is
on the other side, resisting the bad. And
this is important and we have it in
in the Hadith.
You have to help your brother when he's
right and when he's wrong, and how are
you going to help him when he's wrong?
By resisting, by stopping him from doing bad.
So spreading the good is
not only
the goodwill and generosity,
it's resistance.
It's about promoting and resisting.
This is the way and this is how
we have to be on earth in order
to repair the world. So the world is
not expecting us
just to be generous,
but to be courageous
at the same time. Don't forget to tell
the people you love that you love them.
Life is
fragile.