Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #03 Jihd

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.