Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #26 Excesses

Very often when we speak about Islam, we

speak about the religion of moderation, the middle

religion of middle path. And this is what

we have in the

Quran.

And then we made you the religion

or the the middle path. So ummatan

wasotta, it's the the the the community of

the middle path. This is what we have

to try to be in our life

and to avoid excess and to avoid extremes.

This is what we have to do, and

we have this in Surat Al Rahman

when it is said,

also

and and talking also about this balance that

is,

so important.

Don't

miss. Don't destroy.

Don't,

corrupt this

balance that we need.

He said you have to set this balance

in the right way and not to lose

this balance. Everything in our life has to

do with balance, with stability,

with trying to find the the moderate path

in our life. And the moderation here has

to do with everything in our life. It

has to do with the way we deal

with life and hereafter.

So among the people

among the people

oh, give us the good, the hasanah, which

is everything which is good in this life

and in the hereafter.

It's balancing between this and that. And at

the same time, when we think about our

life, we should think about the hereafter

as much as we think about our life

here.

So you'd have,

to

expect to look for what is good for

the hereafter,

but do not forget your share in this

life. It's all about moderation.

To do with the way we deal with

our life. It's a balancing

or a balanced approach, which is so important.

Having said that, we need to get it

in everything in our life. The way we

eat, it has to be we have to

avoid excess. We have to resist

any type of excess in the way we

eat, in the way we drink, in the

way we dress, in the way we think,

in the way we behave,

in the way we are spending money.

That you have to eat and you have

to drink and you have to avoid excess

in everything.

And the months of Ramadan is very much

about this. It's very much about avoiding excess.

It's to remember

the limits

and the the way we have to balance

our life.

It's not to eat, not to drink, during

the day in order to have a balanced

life. Not the other way around where we

have some brothers and sisters who are very

it's full of excess during the night. It's

full of excess when comes El Maghrib and

they are eating and drinking too much, which

is exactly the opposite of the philosophy of

Ramadan.

Now this is important in our life even

in the way we pray, and we have

so many examples coming from the seer of

the prophet

when he was saying to people, do not

be excessive in the way you pray, in

the way you fast. Just try to find

the right balance.

This is a struggle. This is resistance and

especially

in our consumerist societies today. This is why

we have to come with our principles

in order to avoid the excess

and to set as it should be the

balance

of what is a good life in the

name of God. Remember to tell the people

you love that you love them. Life is

fragile.