Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #04 Forgetfulness

Peace be with you.

We have been talking about, jihad,

and there is something which is so important

in our spiritual life.

When it comes to Islam, when it comes

to our relationship with,

God, with Allah,

what we know that we have to do

is to come back to him.

And the way we have to deal with

history

has also to do with remembrance,

and

we have to resist

forgetfulness.

This is the reality of us. And and

if we read the Quran and we understand

that everything that we have in the Quran

is speaking about what? He's speaking about the

stories of the messengers

and the prophets before the last messenger, peace

be upon him. Why? Because human beings

are forgetting

the essential,

dimension and the essential meaning of life.

We started, and this is what we have

in the Quran, with the first man knowing

that there is only one god. And with

time,

people are forgetting, and we need new revelations,

new messengers,

messengers

this

this way of dealing with our

past is so important. And especially today when

we look at what is happening around the

world, it's as if we have no memory.

We are not studying history.

So this

failure

to remember

is pushing

Why do we pray?

You have to pray in order to remember.

So the very essence of praying is to

remember. Why do we fast? To remember. Why

do we pay the zakat? To remember that

we are giving money because this is the

way we should not forget that God is

with us and life has a meaning.

So everything has to do with this, and

even when we come back to God, we

we know that it's because we forget

that we're

indulging

into sins.

God don't be against us if we forget

and then we,

make mistakes. So the starting point is to

forget. It's because we are forgetting that we

are going to sin and forgetting the very

meaning of things. So we have to resist

forgetfulness.

This is a jihad of memory. This is

a jihad of remembrance. This is a jihad

of dhikr that we have to,

achieve every day of our life to the

point that what we have in the Quran

that if we forget him, we're going to

forget ourselves.

And some and for some, they don't be

like those who are forgetting God, and they

end up forgetting themselves.

So this is by forget

by by remembering

god, we are coming back to ourselves, and

this is the way we keep our heart

sound

open,

ready to be connected to god. But if

not, this forgetfulness

is going to cover our heart, and we

are going to be lost.

So resistance

start with

our memory, the way we deal with our

mind, the way we deal with our consciousness,

the way we deal with our with with

god by remembering. A vicar is so essential.

It's the starting point of all the the

other resistance. If there is no vicar at

the beginning, there is no resistances

at the end on the path. That's not

possible.

And as you have to remember, as I

said, don't forget don't forget to tell the

people you love that you love them. That's

the right way of remembering.