Tariq Ramadan – Happy Festival Eid Mubarak

Peace be with you.

We reached

the Eid, the festival, and this is the

end of Ramadan.

And,

this

time and this day, it's a time where

we have to rejoice. We have to experience

this happiness of

having done and having experienced

the fasting during 1 month with

everything that has to do with our personal

intimate,

repair and the way we are trying to

be better human beings. That's the time where

we come back to our family, to our,

wife, husband,

father and mother, kids.

This is where we have to experience this

with no sense of hypocrisy. This is part

of who we are, as the prophet, peace

be upon him, said

to Hanvala,

sir, 1 hour

to rejoice and 1 hour to pray, and

you have to deal with it the way

it is, and this is part of our

life.

But,

what we also are experiencing, and this is

yet the reality of our life, it's mixed

feelings during the day because we know that

we are,

dealing with a month that has left now,

that it's behind us, and we are coming

back to a normal life. And the normal

life

could mean that we are forgetting and neglecting

and and coming to a way where we

are forgetting to share, for getting to repair,

for getting to give. And this is where

we have to be cautious and and being

aware

that normal life

could be a trap. And at the same

times, we look at the the at the

same time, we look at the world and

we

remember that in Gaza,

in,

the West Bank,

in

Congo,

in

China with the Uighur, in Burma,

people are suffering.

And the mixed feelings are also part of

the way we are dealing with

any

aid in our life. It's to remember and

to be connected to,

these brothers and sisters, and even those who

are in jail and are suffering,

they are innocent, and the only

fault and the only

mistake, so to speak,

they made was just to speak the truth,

and they are in jail. Don't forget them.

We should not forget them, and it's part

of this,

going through the festival today. So

to rejoice, to be happy, to be with

your family

without forgetting to be with your

greater, bigger family,

the human community,

and your brothers and sisters in humanity who

are suffering

during this very day. Don't forget. Don't