Abdullah Oduro – Lesson #31 The Rippling Effect of Fasting

So Ibn Al Qayyim is going back,

explaining the hadith

or hadith,

and he reaches a portion of Siam and

he says,

he said we return to the speech of

talking about the hadith of hadith of hadith

of that which protects the slave

from his enemy.

He says, the prophet said, and I order

you with fasting for verily the parable of

fasting is like the parable of a man,

that has a sack with him that is

has in it a fragrance, misc.

And and all

of them are amazed or like or or

or this the the fragrance

amazes them. They like the smell that comes

from his the the bag that he has.

And really, the the smell of the fasting

person, meaning their their breath,

is better with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and

more fragrant

than the fragrance of the misk of the

the misk. It says

He says here he says, verily, the prophet

made the example or parable

of that person that has the bag that

is that the fragrance, the the good fragrances

inside of it because it is and this

is what is important here. This is the

the

the the the effective characteristic.

He says because it is hidden

from

the the eyes and it is hidden under

the

the toe or hidden under the garment,

like the

which is normal with the people that carry

that carry this fragrance.

And then he says,

he said and this is like the fasting

person. For really no one can see him.

No one can if you see him, you

don't know if he's fasting or not unless

he was to tell you. Right? Or unless

there is a time frame that everyone knows.

But in general, we know that the, you

know, the fasting person you would not know.

It is Mastun Al Khalq.

That's the comparison he's making. So it is

like

the fragrance

to you,

which is amazing,

is that the fragrance that you may smell

on someone,

he may have a bag of or perfume

that is in that bag that is hidden

just like when you wear cologne.

You know, you may have cologne on you

or you may it may not be seen,

but it is appreciated.

So the fasting is not seen,

but it is appreciated. And on top of

that, that which your senses

can,

arrive at being that you may smell

the breath of a person that is not

pleasing,

but Allah ensures

that that is pleasing to him, and that

is a a form of encouragement, and it's

a magnificent,

comparison

and,

a form of, you know, the the the

the person that is fasting, it reminds them

that it is beyond this life.

So the degree to that which is displeasing

is pleasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Then

he says,

He says, so the fasting person

is the fasting person that that his limbs

fast from any type of sins. I don't

hit anyone. I don't use my fingers to

type,

you know, and go online to watch things

that are impermissible. So it is fasting and

abstaining from all of those sinful practices of

the limbs and then he says and his

his his tongue refrains from lying

and evil deeds and bad speech, and his

stomach

refrains from eating and drinking. His private parts

refrains from *,

And if he was to speak, he doesn't

speak about anything

that would harm his or her fast.

And if he was to do something, like

he was to speak, he doesn't say anything

that would spoil his fast.

So all of his statements

are good salutary statements.

So if he was to speak,

it was something that was good. And then

he says

and also his actions.

It says here again it makes a comparison.

He says,

he doesn't say anything that is bad. Rather,

he or she says only good speech. They

speak a good word. Also, they do good

actions. They're very good in their in in

what they do. And then he says, this

is of the comparison

is at the level

of the one that has a good fragrance

that people that are around him or her

smell.

So before, it was that person themselves has

a good fragrance,

But now when people are around this person,

that fragrance permeates, and they can smell it,

and they want to be around them. And

then he makes a comparison.

He said this is also like the fasting

person as well. Whoever sits with him or

her, they benefit from their fasting. How? Well,

I mean, if he had menazuri,

will kezbi, will fujuri, will von,

that they are safe from hearing any bad

speech, any lying,

any disobedience,

and any oppression.

And, you know, this is deep because when

you think about it, and he says

here,

And then he mentions the hadith of the

prophet, and I'll I'll explain. He says,

Beautiful beautiful.

So he says,

this

is the prescribed song. This is the prescribed

fasting,

not just withholding

from eating and drinking. This is a prescribed

fasting.

This is the intention and objective behind the

fast.

This is what we call Maqdsat Sharay, the

Islamic objective. Then he ends it off

with the Hadith.

What the prophet said

and this Hadith is in Bukhari.

He says whoever doesn't leave off

ill speech and acting upon it and ignorance

and acting in an ignorant fashion, then Allah

is not in need of his or her

abandoning or abstaining from eating or drinking. And

in another hadith in Ibn Majah

and Ibn Khuzaim al Suhi he said perhaps

the fasting person his or her portion from

their fast is just ain't is just, thirst

and hunger. That's all they get from it.

They're not getting any reward from it, meaning

that they may have been fasting,

but they were not speaking in a good

fashion. What people sat around them, they didn't

benefit. Rather, it was harmful. They heard.

They heard backbiting. They heard lies. They heard

bad words. You know? It was something that

was not beneficial. When they were around that

fasting person, it didn't remind them of Allah.

And that's what Ibn al Qayin, when he

ended earlier, he said, wa'amina

fiha minazool, and they were safe from any

of that bad speech. And that's deep because

when you think about it,

when you hear someone is fasting,

it is good to think to yourself, wow.

I know if I go around that person,

they're going to remind me about Allah. I

mean, if you think about it from a

communal perspective,

when I sit around a fasting person, they're

going to be on their best manners

because they're doing something that is transcendent,

and it is a form of reminder

of who they are and what status and

state that they're in. That they have reached

the level of suffering,

you know, physically,

they're withhold they're willing to withstand that for

something greater. So they're in a different state

at the moment. If I'm around them, what

they say is going to be in accordance

and in compliance

with that state.

So when you hear someone is fasting,

so how do I think if I'm around

that person,

it'll be something that is positive positive energy

for me. And if we don't pay and

when when when putting it in this way,

it's very, very beautiful. I mean, we think

about ourselves, but then when he made that

last comparison

of the sitting

around the fasting person, That is what really

hits home here. May Allah make us of

those that

when we fast, we fast in a way

that is in accordance to the.