Aarij Anwer – What Does Ramadan Mean to Us

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			Ramadan is upon us again. inshallah, within a few days, we will start Ramadan.
		

			And
		

			I wanted to ask us, all of us a question. And I don't want you to give me an answer. This is a
question that you answer for yourself. And then inshallah I'll answer it, and that'll be muffled.
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			what does it mean to us?
		

			What does it mean for us that we are entering Ramadan? That this month of Ramadan is upon us one
more time? What does it mean? What does it mean for me to fast?
		

			And the way I see it,
		

			the way I see it, is that Ramadan is an incredible opportunity. Ramadan is an incredible
opportunity. We can see Ramadan as a chore, or as a yearly ritual, or is not even a difficult even
though it is difficult, we can see it as that. The way I see it is that it has to be looked at as an
opportunity,
		

			an opportunity for incredible rewards, an opportunity for incredible spiritual rewards.
		

			And also as an opportunity for, for change,
		

			incremental change, but meaningful change. This is the way I think, Ramadan, if you were to look at
it, that makes it the most productive Ramadan, to look at it as an opportunity.
		

			How is it a Ramadan, it is a great spiritual opportunity. It is an incredible spiritual opportunity.
		

			The prophets are quoted Allah Subhana Allah in a Hadith, and he says that
		

			all the things that the people do all the things that Adam does,
		

			there is a certain amount of reward for it Illa song except for fasting, except for fasting. For in
the holy. This is the last panel talking in first person for that is for me.
		

			That fasting, that action in the holy it is for me specifically no doubt about it. Well, Anna z, and
I will give the reward for it. And I will give the reward for it. So this is a great, incredible
spiritual opportunity from Milan. Right? It is such an incredible opportunity that, you know, when
we do some certain deeds we pray, they give sadaqa there's a generally measured reward for it
between 10 times to 700 times, generally speaking, and that depends on how difficult a task was how
sincere the person was, before fasting, there is no limit. Because the losses will enter Zb I will
give reward for it. So if it's a really long and hard fast, if it's a fast that maybe you're writing
		

			an exam in while you're fasting, right, or you're going through some extreme difficulty at work,
maybe you work you know, your job is a labor job you're not you don't have a desk job perhaps as a
difficult fast.
		

			So the reward effect goes up with the proportional proportionally to the difficulty.
		

			And when the losses were so moody well as he it is it's only specially for me and I will be here I
will give the reward for it. It also means that you know when a person is fasting, they have no
motivation to fast except to please a lot.
		

			You can always sneak in a bite here or a drink here.
		

			No one's watching. Right? no one's watching at school, no one's watching your work. And when someone
really fast, they're doing it purely 100% for the sake of a loss.
		

			That's what it means for inner hooli. And what Anna z, the reward of it is so great, a lot smaller,
didn't even quantify it. He just said, I will give the reward, I will give the reward, it is so
great. The province also said that, you know, a psalm lamis laloux. There's nothing that compares to
some fasting, nothing compares to it. Now, Mr. Lu,
		

			that's a Sahih Hadith.
		

			So this Ramadan presents an incredible spiritual opportunity to get the kind of rewards from Allah
subhanaw taala to get spiritually closer to Allah Matata, it's just the opportunity is absolutely
incredible. There's no limits to what we can get. I want you to think about this fact. So hold is
gonna end probably around 4am.
		

			And if thought is probably going to be around 9pm, that's 16 hours of fasting, give or take. I mean,
there's the fast goes up and down. Approximately 15 to 16 hours, you're fasting.
		

			every second, every moment of that time is worshipped.
		

			Every moment of that time is a bother
		

			whether we're sleeping, or relaxing.
		

			whatever we're doing, working, studying, even wasting time on Facebook. Right? It is all worship. It
is all worship.
		

			Compare that with Salah if someone is paying $5 in the masjid. Right. And you know, they're super
awesome because they come from the mother for every dollar. They're spending probably two hours of
worship. They're doing two hours of worship, driving, they're praying, driving back, it's probably
going to be two hours total. Just one fast is 16 hours, every moment is worship. Every moment of
that 16 hours is worship. We're sleeping, it's worship. We get up it's worship. So while that's an
amazing opportunity, it's such an incredible opportunity. The longer the fast are, the more the
better, you know, say nothing at all the low one was quoted as saying someone asked him what do you
		

			love the most he says I love fasting in the summer.
		

			I love fasting in the summer because he knows the days are long. And this is the Arabian summer is
not Canadian summer. Without AC. He says I love fasting in the summer because the fast are so long.
It's so much larger, so much reward so much spiritual opportunity. That's how we need to look at
Ramadan that's coming up as an incredible spiritual opportunity. The Prophet also said mon sama,
Ramadan, email and watch this urban warfare Allahumma Takata Mendham be the one who fasts Ramadan
with Emma and that is they're doing it for the sake of Allah was disturbing and hoping for reward
from Allah subhanaw taala. Not necessarily at a peer pressure but hoping for a reward out of Allah
		

			Allah will fear Allah Houma, la dama means MB, then their sins are forgiven, their sins are
forgiven. So it's a great spiritual opportunity to get sins forgiven, to get closer to Allah
subhanaw taala in an unprecedented manner, 16 hours 15 hours, every moment is worship. Every moment
is worship. And of course if you add more worship to that it's compounded more and more rewards
panelo
		

			it's absolutely incredible the opportunity that Ramadan presents and the harder it is, the more
adjusted for in the Julio and Zb because Allah says that this he didn't quantify how much he will
reward the person who fasts. Right? Maybe for a brother who just accept Islam or a sister who just
accepted Islam fasting will be probably the most difficult thing they will do.
		

			So their reward is going to be great inshallah. Right? There was going to be great. So this is the
outlook that we need to have for Ramadan treated as a great, that's how I'm looking at it a great
spiritual opportunity. But it doesn't end there. It's not just a opportunity to get lots of other
and get closer to Allah spiritually.
		

			Ramadan is also a great opportunity to change, to leave bad habits, to leave sins, to leave sinful
situations that may not be a sin in and of themselves, but could lead to sin.
		

			Like maybe you have a group of people that you hang out with, and they don't talk about anything
that's beneficial. Nothing positive is in that circle, all negativity, it's all waste of time
backbiting and you're not perhaps doing that. Right. So you're not getting sin, but you're in a
situation that perhaps you that will definitely lead you to sin. It will lead you to sin. Right and
worse, it will desensitize you to lying and backbiting. So in sinful situations, leaving sinful
situations leaving since leaving Haram in general,
		

			right Breaking Bad habits, making good habits. This is a
		

			An opportunity Ramadan is an opportunity for that. That's how we need to see it. Before I asked the
question that I started to hold by that what is it Ramadan mean to us? What does it mean, Ramadan?
It's entering upon us. What does it mean? Right? And we have to look at it, in my opinion as a great
spiritual opportunity, and an opportunity for change. Here's why it's a good opportunity for change.
While we're fasting, relieve things that are halal, eating and drinking is halal for us, right? We
leave halau things while we're fasting
		

			for 16 hours, 15 hours for a very long period of time.
		

			This is getting us ready to leave things that are haraam. If we can, if we can change our routine,
we have a certain time where we have coffee, and certain time where we have breakfast, and certain
time we have lunch, and then the evening coffee and we have this and that it's a routine that set
over the whole year. And in Ramadan, we have to completely change our routine, completely change our
lives. Right? If we are capable of doing that for things that are halal,
		

			then we are most capable of doing that for things that are Haram. If we can change our lives, to
leave halal things,
		

			then we are able to leave things that are haram as well. Right? And the most amazing thing so in
Surah Baqarah, Allah mentions the ayah to fasting and number to 183 to the next page. If you look at
the eye before, if you look at rather the set of eyes before the eye of the nomina koulibaly Museum,
it talks about social justice talks about retribution of killing what happens when somebody kills
somebody. Right in society, social justice, right? You know, we have the Trayvon Martin case going
on right now very appropriate suppiler. Those ions are talking about social justice.
		

			And he says Allah uses the same word in the ayah welcome, Phil kasasa Hayato Al Bab, La La Quinta
Taku. So you can have tougher results for fasting, you're doing fasting so that you can have up
work, you can establish social justice so that you can have Taqwa.
		

			So this fasting is not just an exercise that we just do for ourselves. It actually is supposed to
bring about social change
		

			is supposed to bring about social justice. You look at the IRS after the ire of the set of eyes,
that talks about fasting. While at that kulu Amala combinar, Campbell Belton, don't consume each
other's wealth, don't rip each other off.
		

			But to the Ruby ha lol hokum, so corruption, financial corruption,
		

			right? How can a person fast and then go rip somebody off in business? It makes no sense. It makes
no sense. How can a person fast and then go lie at work? It makes no sense. That's what this is
telling us that Ramadan is not just a time to fast. It's not just a time to change our routine. It's
actually time to change our lives.
		

			It's a time that change has to come in all
		

			shapes and forms. Social Justice talks about also talks about it before you know I had the ordering
of iron Quran is very precise. There's a reason why Allah orders the iron in a certain way. He talks
about social justice then talks about fasting, and he talks about corruption, financial corruption,
because they're all related.
		

			If you can give up halaal things while we're fasting, we can definitely give up haram things. While
not we're not fasting business practices that are haram ripping people off, right, selling somebody
a lemon as a car
		

			that's ripping the person off.
		

			You know, the Prophet says on set of dodges. So do I mean the trustworthy
		

			the truthful, trustworthy, dodgy businessman, it could be a real estate agent, it could be a
mechanic. This guy is so special. The prophets on said, Man Nabina was defeated Mr. Shahada, it was
solid and this person is with the prophets, and with the truthful people, and with the martyrs and
with the righteous people on the day of judgment and agenda. He's so special.
		

			This is what fasting is supposed to do that if we're fasting, then our business ethics need to
change. It's almost become mutually exclusive for business Muslim businessman, to be a good
business, good Muslim, and a good businessman, or mechanic to be a good Muslim and a good mechanic.
It's almost mutually exclusive as Pamela. But what Allah is saying is that the fasting is supposed
to change our business ethics is supposed to change our family lives, the same word dako that he
uses again and again, that the students in fasting, the purpose of fasting is to gain taqwa, the
quest to leave things to protect the soul from what harms it to protect the self from what harms if
		

			it is sins and sinful situation.
		

			That's what fasting is training us to do, to leave things that are harmful. So that we can leave
things that are haram that are harming us. If you look at surah tala
		

			tala that talks about the worst case scenario in a family, which is talak divorce. Again and again a
lucky thing. What dakolo How to Become woman yet de la hija
		

			Low massager? Well Maria de la hija de la memory Yusra. Maria tequila ha your azim la Jara again and
again taco because this fasting is going to give us that up whatever change our family lives
		

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			Villa Hungary Allah wa salatu salam ala rasulillah Allah alayhi wa sahbihi wa Mamata, asked the
question Ramadan has to be what is what does it mean to us? It has to mean, in my opinion, something
that it has to be an opportunity and opportunity for great spiritual games, lots and lots of there's
little color that's equal to 1000 months, there is hours and your moment for 16 hours a day. Every
moment is agile Every moment is when we're getting reward, we have to treat it as a great spiritual
opportunity. At the same time. We have to treat Ramadan as an opportunity for change. changing the
way we do business changing the way we deal with it with each other in our families. Because Allah
		

			says quotevalet consilium Sam was made mandatory for you kamakoti ballerina in public room in the
same manner or a similar manner. It was made mandatory for people before you. La La Quinta de Haan
so that you can become people of taqwa
		

			people of taqwa and taqwa is to protect something from what harms it earlier or the Alon would say
that could neither marble box it the hyena Vina visa Salah, the when fighting would become very
intensified, we would seek the prophet and we will protect ourselves with the Prophet sallallahu
sallam, he was the best role model, the best leader the best everything. Because in the worst of
times, people will go to him. That's how much they loved. And that's how much they trusted in the
Sahaba.
		

			So the Shahada is that the thing that we noticed that stuck was the Navy Navy, like they used to
protect themselves with the profits of Saddam, they used to seek comfort in the profit seek
protection with the profit. So dako is to protect something.
		

			And then the law says that the council is that we can protect ourselves from what harms us, which is
sins and sinful situations, sinful situations that may not be sensed, but it will lead to sense and
this is important because just like we were leaving halaal things while we're fasting, we can most
definitely leave haram things. It's training us and preparing us to leave haram things. And this is
the way we need to look at our model this is what I believe that we need to look at Ramadan in this
manner as an opportunity for change. I look at the bad habits that I have the bad things that I do.
And this is my chance to break those bad habits. Because I'm breaking those habits while I'm
		

			fasting. I'm leaving that stuff while I'm fasting that will train me to leave that stuff I'm not
fasting and
		

			you know, you Ramadan to Ramadan there has to be some introspection. How much after Ramadan? Did I
carry over the stuff that I was leaving the habits I was breaking in Ramadan? How much of that was
continued to be how much of that did I continue to do after Ramadan? Right? And that would tell us
inshallah, of how successful Ramadan was. Holy Holy had I was totally welcome in the la vida de sala
de la mano sallu alayhi wa sallam with Islam Allah Wa salli wa salam ala nabina Muhammad wa he was
hungry he may have not enough adonia has no philosophy alcanada