Abdal Hakim Murad – Fast & Be Healthy

Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah were early he

was Akbar he woman while up.

Moving past the center point of the fasting month, we start to get

a more sensitive awareness of how it's different forms of devotion

cohere. It's not that there is the prayer and then simultaneously

there is the fasting and then simultaneously there is the door

and the sadhaka they all form part of a single spiritual technology.

They are all indispensable components.

One of the things that we note is the greater sensitivity that we

have to what we eat, and Maccha sometimes were rather surprised

that the classical automat spent so much time talking about food

and drink which seem to be the most basic elementary, animalistic

aspects of a biological rather than a spiritual reality. But in

fact, Islam does not spiritualize them but recognizes that they are

part of our spirituality.

And the Holy Quran is particularly emphatic on this. So many verses,

not just instructing us to eat what is halal Allah canonically

from machete point of view, unambiguously

correct, that the animal has been dispensed dispatched, according to

the method that the Holy Prophet has legislated for this Omar

rather than randomly electrocuted in some mass squawking, abattoir,

but done in a sacred way to mark the sanctity of that immense

moment.

But also the Quran frequently speaks of something else the tyeb

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eat of that which We have provided for you. Halal and Thai. Yep.

This is not a coincidental juxtaposition. That halal, pretty

clear. The type we need to think about it.

Now,

this juxtaposition, which is something that is really a

characteristic feature of the Quran, yeah, you have Russello

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Allah says to the messengers, oh messengers, eat of the Tiger bat

the good pure, wholesome things and do what is right truly I am

the knower of what you do to commandment directed to the best

people to the to the rustle To the Messengers.

Why is this so significant?

And what exactly does it mean and also the ultimate point out that

usually in these verses and there's quite a few of them, the

Thai year that I mentioned before the unknown Salah

So somehow, before we do, right, just eat praying, fasting,

whatever, we eat what is wholesome, that seems to be the

priority that are Wilier

even in other verses, where it is not food that is regarded as tired

but our do art Allah says

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him rises up the goodly word

and the

righteous deed he raises up.

The goodly word rises and he causes to rise. The good deed and

Halima do spend a lot of time on this priority. And of course, the

most evident meaning of this relates also to the halal, the

famous Hadith which is sound Hadith, which say that the one who

raises his hands and says, you're up, you're up, you're up or not on

Boko Haram.

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haram for ANA usted. Yeah, border. Somebody raises his hands and

says, Oh, Lord, oh Lord, what he eats is haram. What he drinks is

haram. bodywise is haram, where he lives his haram How can his prayer

be answered?

This matters in this month when we make a lot of new art. Maybe some

of us make more to art in Ramadan than in the rest of the year put

together. And particularly as the month progresses, and as the sun

nears the horizon, in those special places to do art becomes

very important and transparent. We want the.to Rise up.

So what is the connection, the tube and the Hala? Well, we know

that a lot of the early Muslims are Salafi.

In particular took this with great seriousness.

And that, for instance, in them toggles was the Imam of the early

muftis in Yemen in the time of the turbine, and a number of others

were had, for instance, early morphed is took the view that it

is actually that

if you pray in

mosque that has been built with wealth, that is not pipe and Hala,

the prayer is actually not valid. You have to repeat it.

Now, that doesn't go into the format hubs and the mainstream of

the Sharia. But certainly it was a big issue. What happens if a

mosque is built by a government, for instance, the National Mosque

of Fulani Stan of some kind, maybe it cost in a country where there

is poverty, or where neighbors are in poverty and Civil War, a

billion dollars and they're so proud of it. The tourists wander

around looking at this shiny marble and there's a lot of that

in the OMA

Why should anybody want to pray in such a place? Imam Ahmed bin

handbells says it's strongly discouraged.

And generally the position of the focus is that you can do it but

really you shouldn't. And this is what you find amongst the people

of Taqwa throughout the OMA. They kind of don't say anything, but

they won't pray in those places. They will go to some smaller

mosque where they know that the people or the person who have

donated for that mosque did so just for Allah sake and that the

money that was spent on it was not money that had been extracted

through non Sharia taxation or some form of extortion.

That's a common practice amongst the people of Taqwa in this ummah.

But food also,

we need to watch out and this type does not just mean the same as

halal. Allah is not saying halal and tie your back because it's a

synonym. The Type has to mean that it comes from a source that is

wholesome. And we know that a Lafayette will Mulk was Al Harvey,

that health is the hidden kingdom is the sovereignty, an oligarch

could be 80 years old and really sick and his billions aren't going

to help him the real health is the physical health much more precious

than

money and status and those things. And Islam is very insistent on

maintaining that. So one of the exciting things that's happening

in fatwa nowadays, is that people are moving away from the mere

externals of walking down the shelves and the aisles app to

their Hello, cash and carry and chucking lumps of frozen chicken

into the basket and thinking that job done religiously, and are

thinking more about the Shetty requirement to make sure that it

is tight as well as halal.

And it seems to me that in the month of Ramadan, when we really

want our prayers to be accepted,

that we have to be super careful about that.

That we have to make sure that all of the many prophetic injunctions

to rare animals well,

and also to eat what is healthy, because health is something that

it is a shitty requirement to, to maintain in ourselves in our

guests and the people who come to our mosque, that all of that is

also strictly maintained.

So we see the halal Thai YouTube

organic movement now which is becoming very big. And when it is

expounded to some people who haven't heard of it, they can't

really say no because it is from the Sharia. Ours is the religion

that has all of those wonderful Hadith about kindness to animals.

I don't know any other. Maybe I'm wrong that has that very

explicitly in its scriptures and its founding texts and Sarah

Lily's Book on animals in the Quran is just one of the recent

publications that have underlined this it really seemed to be very

important to the Holy Prophet and is very important to a fullness in

our maintenance of the Sunnah.

So an increasing number of mosques around the world, we find that

when people are fed at Iftar in the mosque, there is increasing

attention paid to whether this food will actually keep people

healthy. Are they being served horrible, industrial, fizzy drinks

with too much sugar in soft plastic bottles that will then be

chucked into the oceans or degrade and pollute us indefinitely or are

they being given something that is perhaps simpler, but more

wholesome and more sustainable? And 100 in that one sees

increasingly in the mosques certainly in the UK, that there is

a greater awareness of this important aspect of following the

Sunnah.

So this halal and this tube

seemed to be vital if the metabolism and we're not really

two separate things Body and Soul it's two aspects of the same thing

were they resurrected together

seems to be an increasing awareness now amongst people in

the OMA. And we ask Allah subhanaw taala to give us the opportunity

in Ramadan when we host our guests to give them something healthy,

not to fill them with

additives not to fill them with sucrose, not to fill them with

things that are going to mess up their sleep patterns. And sleep is

very important in Ramadan, but to give them something that will

genuinely benefit them, strengthen them in their Ibadah for years to

come in sha Allah, not just in our homes and Ramadan is the season of

hospitality, but also for our children, also for guests in our

masajid and also on the aid.

So the month of Ramadan has so many gifts and blessings and makes

us think about things that perhaps we're not attentive to other times

of the year. And it seems that one that is increasingly

of interest to the OMA is that it reminds us of these vital Quranic

verses that it should be halal and tube and that the eating as well

as the fasting represents part of the month of Ramadan and should be

done in a way that is Sharia compliant and is sunnah compliant.

It's better to give ourselves and our children and our families and

I must congregation's something that is simple, but it's good for

them.

In recyclable containers, then it is to give them something that's

packed with meat from

perhaps dubious sources covered in grease, accompanied by some

horrible fizzy industrial drink that will make Tala tearaway

harder for them. And that will not enhance their health. We have a

diabetes problem in the Muslim community and other problems that

are often to do with not obeying this important part of the Sunnah.

So may Allah subhanaw taala make this the month of Sumo to settle.

The early Muslims used to say fast and be healthy

when we not just lose a bit of weight and feel better about

ourselves, but when our metabolism is shifted by this amazing

intermittent fasting exercise that Ramadan is that we may detox, that

we may feel physically as well as spiritually more healthy, more

energetic, more full of love for humanity when we come out of this

amazing season, and live our lives again in the more familiar pattern

after the aid. So may Allah subhanaw taala give us to provide

for us

what is halal and what is Thai year for ourselves, for our

families for our congregation so that we may be an exemplary OMA

and it's very important aspect of human life. Baraka long fecal with

a couple of semicon was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah