Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #15 Dogmatism
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Among all these dispositions that we can find
with our mind, with our being, with our
way of thinking,
there is one very specific way of thinking
or dealing with others that is very negative.
And resistance here is very important. We have
to resist dogmatic
minds. We have to resist dogmatism.
And the way we have to think about
dogmatism is not exactly the same as arrogance.
Dogmatic means that we are looking at the
world to this binary and polarized way,
between what is right and what is wrong.
And it start with,
I'm right. So
by all, with all due respect, by all
the logic of this equation, you are wrong.
So you are wrong and I'm right. So
this binary vision, this way of
colonizing
the truth
or,
trying to,
put,
this relationship between you and the truth,
in a way where you look down to
people, and, it's the only way that you
can this,
cast the relationship
between truth and
and and and and
untruth, between truth and lies, between what is
right and what is wrong.
This way of being a dogmatic mind is
to look at it and to be not
only arrogant, but at the same time,
dismissing
any points that you cannot and you don't
have to learn anything from the other because
the dogmatic mind is saying, what can I
get from
the wrong? What I cannot get from the
bad? The only way is to look at
the way it is. And when you read
a text and you read the Quran, the
dogmatic
mind thinks that the only way to understand
the text is his or her way, and
there is no other way. So it's to,
think that,
truth
belongs
to you
while it's the other way around. We belong
to the truth, but truth doesn't belong to
any one of us. We're always trying to
get closer to the truth
and not to,
colonize truth as if we are the only
people knowing what it is all about. The
second thing that is coming was the dogmatic
mind. It's not about truth only. It's about,
being judgmental,
condemning the people. If I am right, so
what you are doing is wrong. So to
give oneself the right to judge in a
way which is definitive,
as if the truth is as clear as
my opinion
is clear to myself.
And what we have in the Quran even
when it comes
the
prophet, What you have to do is to
spread the word, is to say
what is the message, and then ask to
condemn and as to reward,
that's none of your business. You have to
let me do this. This is god's,
dogmatic mind looking at the truth and defining
what is right and what is truth and
what is wrong and what is lie.
So this is not for you to decide.
So once again, it's all connected
with the way you deal with your ego,
the way you deal with, the world, and
to avoid starting with this simplistic way of
dealing dealing with truth. I'm right, so you
are wrong. And there's, this,
truth that I know I got, and this
is the wrong answers that I know you,
got.
The starting point is here once again,
opening up, understanding that with complexity
and apprehending complexity
is the starting point of being humble and
knowing the very meaning of humility.
Never forget to tell the people you love
that you love them,
and remember,
life is fragile.