Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #06 Ostentation

Peace be with you.

We have been talking about

resistance, of course, when it comes to the

ego, that we have to liberate ourselves.

The ego, when it comes as the center

of our life,

has consequences

on our life, and one of the consequences

that we have when it comes to the

ego

is

showing off,

ostentation,

area

is the way we are dealing with the

people and we are not

trying or we are the the essential dimension

of

us

serving,

praying, being involved

is not

to do it for the sake of god,

to please him, but to be seen by

the people, to be seen and praised by

the people instead of praising God. And this

is something which is so important. We have

it in the Quran,

when it comes, to the verse.

So all the people who are praying and

they are neglecting their prayer,

And what they are doing is just to

be they they are doing it to be

visible, to be seen, to show off. It's

the very essence of praying is not for

god. It's for the people around.

And this is where there is something wrong

because at the end,

the

the sincerity excellence is to do it for

God.

They

have been ordered just to pray and to

to implement the, religion in order to get

this sincerity.

And if you don't, there is something

wrong. To the point that the prophet

was saying to the companions once, something which

is so essential.

Is saying, am I not going to inform

you?

What is so scary? It's even more scary

for me than

the antichrist

at the end. And they were saying, yes,

Tell us what is a shirkul hafi,

the very hidden shirk, the very hidden association

to god. And he took an example.

The one who is standing up to pray,

and he's beautifying

his prayer because he's seeing people looking at

him. He saw the people looking at him,

so he's beautifying it. So it's

first the prayer was for God and then

it's for the people.

And then you have to liberate yourself to

resist the this

ostentation that you have in our life. If

not, you are jailed.

But jailed in what? In something which is

so, so, so dangerous

that at the end, the judgment of the

people

becomes more important

that got satisfaction.

So in order when it comes to liberate

yourself

ostentation, in fact, you are liberating yourself

from human's judgment,

and that's so essential.

Yeah. This is the very meaning of,

of truth and especially these days when in

Muslim majority countries

west, we have people criticizing Islam, and you

are so scared or you could be scared

of their judgment. You have to liberate yourself.

Ria

is this fear of being judged, and it

start with this.

The god satisfaction

should be the essence

and the goal

of every single,

religious

practice and every single

actions that we are,

achieving

on earth. That's a resistance to come to

the essential. It's not easy, but it's an

ongoing struggle.

Remember

remember, don't forget to tell the people you

love that you love them. Life is fragile.