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| Always walking along.. |
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| ahmer |
| 07/26/02 at 08:43:00 |
Taken from Tariq Ramadan's book (His pen has a rhythm subhan'Allah) [i]Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events. Walking along and walking again, simply trying to be a man and trying to be a woman. In transparency and clarity accepting one’s weaknesses and humanity, finding at the heart of forgiveness one’s own humility. To be humble at the heart of modernity. As also the remembrance and the reminder: 7:205-6 And do thou (O reader!) Bring thy Lord to remembrance in thy (very) soul, with humility and in reverence, without loudness in words, in the mornings and evenings; and be not thou of those who are unheedful. Those who are near to thy Lord, disdain not to do Him worship: They celebrate His praises, and bow down before Him. This by facing up to all inhuman individualism, all reflexes of consumption, all televisual or cinematographical illusions and all neglects. By rejecting all injustices, by opposition to all exploitation, by fighting against all miseries. By saying and maintaining with determination the strength of this humility and trust in God, in an infinite manner. By finding the road in action; arming oneself with light through patience. In the fraternity of men against the society of individuals, in the union of liberties against the egoism of independence. The right path, at the heart of modernity: our spirituality, in our heart, is at the heart of life. [/i] Islam, the West and the challenges of Modernity, Tariq Ramadan |
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