Abdullah Oduro – Nightly Reminder 11-08-2024

Guys, if you don't have anything good to

say, well, don't say anything at all. Cry

about it? Cry about it? Cry? Like, cry

in their face?

No. Like, they should cry about it. You

know, we're here to deal with it.

Okay. You can say, okay. You have to

deal with that. I mean, I didn't do

anything to you. You know? That's something we

all have to do. We have to live

together. We should think about what we say.

Right?

So Ibn Qayyim is saying that,

he doesn't anything that leaves from his mouth

is mouth is nafi'ansalihan,

beneficial

and or righteous.

And he says, also his or her actions,

they are at the level of that which

smells good that anyone, if they were to

smell it or sit next to that person,

they would smell the misk. So your actions

as well

have an influence or effect on the ones

that are around you. You notice rikhul mist

because you can smell it, and the people

that are around you can smell it. And

if they smell it,

wow. Okay. Where is that coming from? And

they're going to go closer to the

smell, wherever it came from, and they will

enjoy that fragrance.

Right? They will enjoy the fragrance. That's why

we, subhanallah, may Allah bless Muhammad ji leh,

he left our community. I didn't get to

see him when he left, but, subhanallah, I

remember years ago when I told him, I

said, sheikh, if you come in here, do

you mind just putting in one time I

told him, since the old masjid till today,

every day he does it.

Everyday, subhanahu waaihi wa dudhi, he come in

early and he put the mist on. If

a non Muslim comes in here, a new

Muslim person to this community,

what memory are they going to have?

So if we make that analogous with our

actions,

our actions towards people,

That coworker, you gave the good word, the

next time they say, I'm just gonna go

take a break. They see they remember I

remember you used to pray in the lobby.

What was that thing you were doing?

I was praying. You pray at work? Yeah.

I mean, god is the one that gave

me the job.

Right? Who gave us the job? So they

remember you only in good. They remember you

only in righteous. They don't have to agree

with

you, but they remember you in doing something

that is good. Now he says,

He said, as well as a person that

sits with the fasting person, they benefit

from sitting with them. They benefit from sitting

with them.

And they are safe

from bad speech,

from lying, and any disobedience.

I know when I sit around this person,

they remind me about Allah.

I know when I sit around this person,

they remind me of honesty. I know when

I sit around this person, I I know

when I sit around this person, I can't

talk about people.

Each and every single one of us have

that has that older relative in our family.

When we sit around them, they don't wanna

hear any complaining.

They don't wanna hear you talk about anyone.

We also have the relative that does the

opposite as well.

Right?

Right? But you know when you sit around

this person,

they're going to remind you of good.

You know it. And that's what the that's

what the promise

is eventually saying. And all of this is

really just from the analogy of rihal misk.

And look at how Ibn Khayyim breaks it

down and categorizes it. And he says our

hymnullah. We're almost done.

So he just mentioned the inner dimensions here.

He says, this

is the legislated fasting,

and I wanted to stop here for a

minute. He says,

This is the legislated fasting. Who is the

legislator?

Allah.

So it's just not fasting to lose calories.

Right?

It's fasting to be a better person internally.

It's fasting to practice discipline.

It's fasting to have a positive influence on

those that are around you.

That's very important. He said, som al mashur.

Because we may do things that will be

similar to those that are not Muslim.

We may do things that we know someone

that is Muslim, but they are just

doing horrible things,

but they fasted they fasted after Ramadan.

Right? They try to fast, but they speak

badly.

Right? That's not so much Mashur.

Your lisang, your tongue is not fasted for

bad speech.

Someone that maybe domestically

abusing their wife, their children.

They fast in front of people, they're smiling

at but when they're at home, they're different.

That's not that much short fasting.

No.

He says, this

is not just withholding from eating and drinking.

Then he says fulfill hadith the sohi.

Then Ibn Qayyim, after everything he mentions, he

gives another proof for the prophet, sallallahu alaihi

wasallam, and the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, says

in an authentic hadith that is in al

Bukhari. He says, whoever doesn't leave off ill

speech and acting upon it in ignorance,

then Allah is not in need of his

or her leaving off eating and drinking.

And the prophet said, perhaps the person that

is fasting, their

their fortune from it is just leaving off

eating and drinking.

Their fortune from it is just leaving off

eating and drinking. And this is a very

important side point, that when we talk about

the virtues of Islamic actions

of those that are tangible

so for example example, you'll hear people say,

okay. When we prostrate, this is good for

the frontal sinus.

You know, this is good for some type

of an anatomical or physiological

thing of in your nerves. We know that,

you know, these these things happen to the

body, and it's it's an Islamic action.

We say fine, but we don't use that

as a means to show that that is

the behind

it. That is the Islamic

objective behind it. That is a secondary

tertiary benefit,

which we could do without if we didn't

know.

The same thing with fasting.

It helps your hGH, your human growth hormone,

which, you know, secrete from your pituitary gland,

which brings you the fountain of youth and

helps your testosterone growth. This is great. This

is the tertiary benefit of fasting, but if

we didn't know it, that is not detrimental

to our

what?

Imaan.

It's not detrimental to our imaan. Then it

will come and conclude and it says for

Soma, who was Soma Joarhi * Etham. So

fasting, it is a fasting of the limbs

from sinful practices.

And the fasting of the stomach from drinking

and food.

He said just as the

as as food

relinquishes

food and drink relinquishes the hunger.

Okay. He says,

He says, in this in this way, the

sins

relinquish or cut off the reward and spoil

the fruits.

He says, so it eventually makes them become

at the level of a person that didn't

even fast. It didn't even fast. So Ibn

Uthayim talks about here

he mentioned the inner dimensions of fasting from

the portion of the hadith where the prophet

ordered them to fast, and he compared it

to a person that has a sack of

misk. And then he gave an analogy with

the sack of misk being that people that

are around will benefit from it just as

someone smells the the the of the smell

the fragrance of

May

Allah make us We have tomorrow. We have

Thursday. We have any of the 3 days

out of the month to fast in this

beautiful month as every month is beautiful and

to receive this reward and being of those.

And it's really, really good for us, inshallah,

because it is a form of reminder

for us to do good. We have 2

days, at least, out of the week or

at least 3 months, 3 days out of

the month, where you say, you know what?

I'm really going to focus.

More than the other 5 days of the

week, I'm really I will start by focusing

on these 2 days, and inshallah, we can

increase it.

So let's remember this virtual fasting to keep

it in our spiritual diet and inshallah that

will make us of those that are more

attentive of his beautiful names and attributes.