Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #09 Emotions
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The speaker discusses the importance of celebrate emotions and nurturing them, as they are part of our spiritual path. They stress that emotions are not something that can be easily controlled and should be addressed through practice. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of mastering one's anger and resisting negative emotions, as it is part of our spiritual journey.
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There are things that can define
humanity and human beings
such as emotions. And emotions are good per
se.
No one can deny the fact that our
emotions
are part of our being, and we have
to nurture our emotions.
The problem with emotions is that when the
emotions are
very, very dense and very, very strong, that
sometimes they are to the point that there
are excess in the way we are dealing
with emotion. We cannot control our emotion.
But we have to start with celebrating emotions.
And when it comes, for example,
to look at the the the the
the the the the world, the the beauty
of the world, everything around us, this way
of being
to see the beauty around us and to
have this emotion nurtures,
with the aesthetic when it comes to our
relationship to ourselves, our relationship to the world,
and our
relationship with the environment,
that is an emotion or emotions that we
have to celebrate as positive.
The same when it comes to tenderness, when
it comes to,
brotherhood,
all this feeling of love, of friendship
are emotions that we have to celebrate and
and that we have to nurture. This is
also part of our spiritual path.
But sometimes what we have when it comes
to negative emotions and and emotions that can
sometimes,
take over,
our brain, on our mind, on our reason,
and this is where
we should be clear that we need to
control our emotions and to resist the excess
of emotion. When it comes, for example, with
saying,
so control your anger.
Do don't be, angry. Meaning what?
You have to master your anger. You have
to master your emotion. If not, you are
going to lose your mind. Exactly the the
same way.
You have to master your tone because under
excessive
emotion, you can speak or anchor, for example.
You can say,
things that are,
first, useless and nonsense, so you have to
master yourself.
This is the way it has to be.
So there are emotions that are natural. For
example, to be scared, it happened to Musa,
alaihis salam. He was in front of the
magicians, and he was
scared. God, Allah, is telling him, come and
don't be scared. You are protected, and you
have to think. You have to use your
reason. You have to to use your brain
in order to master your emotions and to
remain,
able
to distinguish between what is happening and what
the emotions and the way emotions are transforming
the real.
These are essential
way or spiritual
ways of dealing with your own self,
to look at who you are, what constitutes
your being, and to be quite clear on
the fact that as a Muslim,
as a believer, as somebody who is coming
close to god, controlling the emotions,
resisting emotions or excess of emotions or negative
emotions, it's part of the spiritual journey. And
especially during Ramadan,
master your tone,
master your angerness,
be careful with your emotions.
Even though you are spreading the positive,
you have to resist the negative. And remember,
never forget to tell the people you love
that you love them. Life is fragile.