Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #01 The path, Ashshari’a

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.