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.