Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #01 The path, Ashshari’a
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This is the first day, and we are
starting to fast, and we are starting our
journey to understand what is the very meaning
of resistance in Islam.
All types of jihad that we have, once
again, has nothing to do with the holy
war. It meaning
of
the very meaning of resistance if we don't
come back to the very understanding of what
shari'a means. And shari'a has nothing to do
with,
the penal code and have nothing to do
with this very narrow understanding that we are
talking about,
the law or or the Islamic law. It's
wider than this. In fact, it's a path
that we have to follow, and we have
it in the Quran.
So so we put you on the sharia
that you have to follow.
Follow it. And do not follow the desire
or the passions or the instincts of those
who do not know. And it has to
do with knowledge. It has to do with
knowing the path and following the path. And
on in another verse, which is referring to
the meaning of,
sharia with the word
what do we find?
Do not follow their desire, their instincts,
and their blind passions,
and you forget to follow,
the the the sharia
and for to to forget,
to to follow the truth that came for
to you from God.
And thank and then
and we give to every religion, every,
spirituality
a path
and at the same time a praxis, a
methodology.
So what do we have to understand here?
At the very beginning of,
the notion of
jihad and resistance is that the very the
starting point of our understanding of the cosmology,
the the the the the the order of
the universe and our concept of,
universe of god and human being is that
we have to to to make a choice
between the right path and the wrong path.
So the first resistance is to resist our
instincts, to resist our passion, and to come
to the truth with knowledge. So it has
to do with the choice of knowledge,
as opposed to ignorance, and then it has
to do with education,
and then it has to do with reforming
the self,
in the name of this path, in the
name of our faithfulness to the path. So
there is no sharia
as a path without jihad and resistance
as the means for us to fulfill
our
responsibilities
as human
being. This is the starting point of the
journey, and it would be wrong only to
speak about resistance without understanding
that it's a process
within the path that we are trying to
follow to start with god and to come
close to him through our
struggling for a better human being through education
and a better society
through resistance
to what is wrong and what is bad.
Inshallah, we'll carry on, and, we'll come back
tomorrow.
And for now, don't forget to tell the
people you love that you love them. Life
is fragile.