Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #03 Jihd
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Peace be with you.
We have started talking about,
a sharia, the path that we are trying
to follow, and at the same time, we
know that in order to follow the path,
there is first the resistance and the choice
to be,
made between the path of righteousness, the right
the the path of the truth and the
other path, and we have to come back
to our son, heart,
in order to do this and to come
back to our fitra.
Between our fitra, this natural attraction towards god,
and the path that we have to follow
to start with him and to come back
to him. What is important
is
the very notion that we have in Islam
is al Jihad, resistance
and reform.
And we need to understand the notion far
from all this wrong translation about the holy
war and anything which has to do with
war. It's a spiritual
dimension. It's an intellectual dimension, and it's a
social and even political dimension as we will
see during the coming days.
But the starting point of everything is even
the way in the Quran,
the believers are described.
Believing in god and in his messenger,
and then they do should they are not
doubting,
this, truth that there is one god and
there is the last message. And then what
we have,
And then they are struggling and striving
with all what they have and all who
they are, their being, and what they have
in the path of,
in the way of god.
Those are the, the truthful. Those are the
people who are following. And then there is
something here we need to understand,
that the believers are those who are in
the name of their,
belief, in the name of god, that they
are following a path, understanding that on this
path, there is no other way but to
struggle for what is right.
So the first has to do with the
choice of what is right versus what is
wrong, but then it has to do with
education.
It has to do with an intellectual jihad
to try to get the knowledge because there
is a difference between the path of knowledge
and the path of ignorance, the first intellectual
resistance. And then there is also the spiritual
resistance that we are talking about when it
comes to how am I going to avoid
and to master my instincts for
what is right for what is right within
the society.
Because if we are the best community,
You are the best community set for,
humanity
insofar as you are promoting what is right
and resisting what is wrong. It means that
there is a visible corruption,
for
corruption,
for justice and dignity, and political jihad resisting
the corrupt regimes and or the oppressors.
So all this, it's a way from the
intimate to the public,
from the invisible to the visible
that is the translation of what jihad is
all about within this cosmology
that we find in Islam.
We carry on our reflection on this,
and for now, don't forget to tell the
people you love that you love them. Life
is fragile.