Tariq Ramadan – Ramadan Chronicles #26 Excesses
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The speaker discusses the importance of moderation in life, citing the concept of balancing one's behavior with their values. They emphasize the need to avoid excess and set a balanced approach to one's life, even during difficult times like El Maghrib. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of telling people they love and that life is fragile.
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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.