Abdal Hakim Murad – Fast & Be Healthy
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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
Colombina Taiyi Bertie what a man or saleha in Eb Mata MeLuna Halim
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
La he yes huddle, Kelly Mota. Yebo will Armello solido your fellow to
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.
We're Mishra Boko Haram. Well, Miss Kendall who haram Oman Besu
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