Abdullah Oduro – Nightly Reminder 11-08-2024
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The importance of fasting, specifically during busy times, is emphasized. It is not a means to gain weight or gain knowledge, but rather a means to practice discipline and be a better person internally. Fasting is necessary for personal growth and health, personal health and wealth, and the ability to boost human growth and destroy bad speech. The speaker emphasizes the importance of fasting for theielding of Islam, the health of one's hGH, and the importance of fasting for the health of one's body and brain.
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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.