Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #02 Fitrah
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The speaker discusses the importance of following the path of faithfulness and avoiding the temptation of struggle to regain faith. They emphasize the need to protect and protect the natural heart and accept the possibility of suffering from sickness in the heart. The speaker emphasizes the importance of following these path for optimal health and growth.
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We are reaching the second day, and we
are thinking about all these resistances
and all these types of jihad that we
have in Islam.
We spoke yesterday
about the the the the very important comprehensive
approach when it comes to Sharia. This is
the path that we have to follow. Understanding
that if we we want to follow the
path, the path of faithfulness
to the first
and coming back to
him,
We need to struggle. We need to resist.
To resist through knowledge,
to ignorance. To resist
through education,
to,
and avoiding the patience and and the passions
that we have and and and and every
the desires and the instincts.
Having said this, now there is something also
which is very important. This is the path
that we have and why we are trying
to remain faithful.
But there is a notion which is so
essential when it comes to ourself. Am I
going to come back to myself and to
follow the path? And this notion is al
Fitra.
Al Fitra was understood by some as Islam,
by some scholars, but also as this natural
attractions towards God, which is in fact the
answer to the essential question,
why?
Why am I here? And what we know
in
why? Why am I here?
And what we know in Islam is that
we have this fitra, and we have been
created with this fitra. When we find in
the Quran,
So you have to stand to,
the truth and to this religion as
somebody who is following the natural path. And
this is
which is the natural
attraction,
with which we have been created.
There is no change in God's creation. So
we have to come back to this. And
this fitra is the starting point. This is
the way we have been created. And we
understand
that, we have to come back to this.
We have to protect it. We have to
protect the sound heart that we have
and to try to come close to Allah.
How are you going to do this?
And this is the essential question when it
comes to,
following the path that we have to struggle
to come back to the heart. And we
find in the Quran
something which is so essential here when it
comes to understand,
this past and this struggle.
When we find in the Quran,
The day where
no money,
no children are going to save you except
the one who is coming with a sound
heart. The sound heart here is the natural
heart which has these attractions towards the
transcendence.
What is going to prevent us from here
from this? Everything which has to do with
our desires, our instincts that could cover the
fitra. So we have to struggle to keep
it uncovered,
to keep it attracted,
connected to the transcendent.
And how are we going to do this
as Muslims? And this is why, for example,
we are fasting
by mastering our mastering our desires,
mastering our instincts
in order
to avoid having our heart sealed. This is
what we find in the Quran.
They have the heart sealed, those who are
rejecting God. And this is also what we
have when it is said, for
example, There is a sickness in the heart,
and god is increasing this sickness.
This is a struggle, the struggle to come
back to our heart because god is working.
He is there. The knowledge of god is
between us and our heart. So the first
resistance
is to resist,
our
instincts to come back to the light in
our heart.
Don't forget to tell the people you love
that you love them. Life is fragile.