Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Have You Forgotten Ramadan
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Hamdu lillahi OPR demean or Salatu was Salam ALA. So you didn't, I'm
humbled or early, he was asked me he will build, of course, some
limit to Sleeman cathedral and Elomi been another word.
We've just come out of the month of Ramadan. And we're starting the
new year, already a month has nearly passed, there's a few days
left for this month of Shawwal to end, which shows that our time is
going really fast. And the whole purpose of Ramadan must not be
left behind. The whole purpose of it that we should have achieved in
the month of Ramadan needs to be prolonged, and extended for as
many months as possible. Inshallah, that's the whole point
of the month of Ramadan, the month of Ramadan is not just about doing
something in the month of Ramadan for the sake of Ramadan, because
in Islam, we don't really have this idea of doing something on
particular days, and then absolutely leaving everything for
the rest of the year. So what we want to do is, let's think back
and see what whatever there is that we have to do,
that we used to do in the month of Ramadan that we did in the month
of Ramadan. For example, if there's a certain additional
worship that we inculcated in our lives that we you know, made part
of our life and our daily routine, then let's see which of those you
know, even if it's a small amount, something better than what we did
last year after the month of Ramadan. That's I think, what's
most important, I know you're probably thinking, Where are we
speaking about Ramadan, Ramadan is long gone. The thing is that
Ramadan may have gone and as I said, about 28 to 29 days may have
passed already. But the whole purpose of it need not be
forgotten. And if that if this is the way we're thinking that
Ramadan is gone, why are we speaking about it? That's the
whole point. When we look at some of the lives of the pious people
before us, they used to prepare for Ramadan for six months before
it came, just so that they would be prepared for it and they take
advantage of it. And they would be they would, they would really
benefit from it as much as possible. So they would prepare in
every way, shape and form just to be totally free. And to you know,
to get the best out of the month of Ramadan. And then it says that
the for the next six months after Ramadan would finish, then their
whole perspective was about
being accepted. So their monthly, the what are the worships that
they did in that month? Are they going to be accepted? Are they
going to be? How are they going to be seen in the court of ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada. So their whole Ficker was that their whole
concern after the month of Ramadan for what six months is that may
Allah subhanaw taala accept it from us. And that's the only way
you can actually really build onto on each Ramadan. Otherwise Ramadan
comes we do something and then we were back to normal after a month
of Ramadan. And that's not how it should be. So Allah subhanho wa
Taala helps us out by giving us certain intensive, certain
incentives rather. And if you notice that we've got two reads,
we have two aids, one is the eidl filter and the other one is Aiden
adhaar. The hidden filter is related to Ramadan and the eidl
Alcohol is related to Hajj, it's related to the month of hajj, it's
related to the first 10 days of the ager. And if you notice, it's
very close together, it's what two months and just over two months,
two months and 10 days is, you know is when eat normally normally
occurs, but that those 10 days are part of the time of worship. So
we're talking about just two months in between the two
SubhanAllah. And, you know, I used to think about this before the How
can we've got two IDs that are so close together, because you know,
you've just celebrated one as such and then suddenly there's another
one, right? So you know, you'd think that maybe that it'd be
after six months so you know you have an evenly spaced you have one
either and then you have some time afterwards and then you've got
another eat afterwards. But no, you have it within that because
the whole idea for in Islam is that yes, you've got you've got
celebration, but it's linked to worship, it's linked to close,
becoming closer to Allah subhana wa Tada. And I think Ramadan is so
powerful that one of the wisdoms of having one of the wisdoms of
being so close after that, that we have this villager is the fact
that we can try to save some some of what we've done in the month of
Ramadan and re envision invigorate ourselves during those 10 days of
the hedger and possibly even going for Hajj. So firstly, after the
month of Ramadan, Allah subhanaw taala
has told us through his prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam about
the six about the six fasts of Shawwal and the benefits of that
are hugely Great. One thing to clarify since you know this is a
women's program is that
can you keep the six fast as Coda for the myths fast of Ramadan? Can
you make make up six fast for your Ramadan mischievous and consider
them to be your first for sure well, and although some of them
are may may may say
see that it's okay to have dual intention, the primary intention
being for your cover, and then the fact that it appears in the month
of Shawwal, then that means that you are also keeping the six
faster sherwanis you get rewarded for it. But the stronger opinion
seems to be the fact that no, and the reason is that if you look at
the the six, first of Shawwal, the whole idea of the six first of
shareholder proposal was said, whoever, first Ramadan, then he
follows it up, then he or she follows it up with six, first of
Shawwal, then it is as though they have, they have been rewarded for
the entire year as though they fasted for the entire year. And
the reason for that is that you've got, let's just say, each of the
30 days of the month of Ramadan, if you if you times that by 10,
right, so what do you get, you get 300, right, you get 300. And then
if you look at the six, first of Shawwal, and if you tie if you
three times that by 10, you get you get 60. So that's 360. So that
the equation there is that if you keep 30 days of Ramadan, me the
whole month and six days, then it's as though you fasted the
whole year, because Allah subhanho wa Taala wants to reward us for
the rest of the year as well. Obviously, there are other
benefits of this fast as well. So according to this calculation,
it's really that you the foster show will need to be kept
separately from the cut off. And that means you should also try to
do your cover as soon as possible, although they can be done at any
time. Right? They should be done at any time. But the main thing is
that the foster show well, it should be kept separately from the
Kodava. So if you are going to keep the show on fires during the
month of Ramadan, sorry, during the month of Shawwal as such, then
it needs to be intended to be for sure one only, and then you can
keep your covers before it or even if you're going to keep them after
it may be in the winter or whatever, your cadavers, they just
need to be separate. That is the stronger opinion. And that seems
to be more in accordance to what the intention of the hadith is. So
that's that's what I would go with that the foster show will need to
be done separately and individually, as opposed to the
cadavers which need to be also be done separately and individually.
So then we have you know, we have the Chihuahua. So what I would,
what I would really encourage right now is that we take one act,
at least one act of what we are doing about Ramadan, and one act
of what we abstain from in the month of Ramadan and try to
prolong that. So if there are five or six things that we are doing,
in addition, in Ramadan, I mean, there are lots of things that
we're doing. I mean, you think five or six things we were doing
Tala, we were fasting, we were
we were reading extra Quran, we were probably giving extra sadaqa.
You know, we were donating, we were maybe cooking for somebody,
maybe, you know, you know, maybe helping somebody out, we could
have been doing lots of things, right, helping our children
helping our, you know, encouraging our husbands maybe encouraging
other people giving some Dawa. These are all different things
that people feel like during the month of Ramadan. So if we were
doing any of that, let us take one of those, at least one of those
things, and at least let's start doing that at some level for the
rest of the year. Because it's the whole purpose of Ramadan is that
it's a training ground in that sense. Then on the other hand,
what we've got is something that we need to abstain from. So if we
abstain from watching too much TV, if we abstain from listening to
music, if we abstain from just talking too much, right, just
gossiping or just, you know, wasting our time on the phone, you
know, for an hour or two hours. I mean, that's another major
problem. I get people who call me and they say, they say to me, can
you call me back please? Like what happened? Why, and apparently they
don't have minutes. So I'm like, where's your minutes gone? I'm
sure you're not a poor person. But what happens is that they finish
off their three, four or five, 600 minutes in the in the month just
talking. Because I mean, if you're gonna hold a conversation with
each person for 45 minutes, then you can imagine where you're,
you're gonna be able to speak to about with, with 400 minutes,
you're gonna be able to speak to about six people. And then that's
it. And then after you're struggling, that's why people hold
conversations on texts afterwards. And I really don't like that
because it's just so informal, right? I get questions by texts.
I'm like, you know, I please email me, because I mean, the text is
not a way to ask questions. It's just too informal. It's just to
cut that the way it is. And there's just no, there's just no
other, there's just no other minute. Right? So
you're wasting time basically, we're talking about wasting time.
The other one. The other thing that we probably abstain from
during the month of Ramadan is going out hanging out at the mall,
right? Shopping Centers, you know, and just just going and hanging
out, they just window shopping, right? Or even shopping for that
matter, which is window shopping. That's another thing we probably
have stemmed from in the month of Ramadan, there was just no time,
right? There's just lots of things like that, that we probably
abstain from during the month of Ramadan. Let us take at least one
of those and try to implement that for the rest of the year because
that's the whole point of it. Right? And now I'm telling us, you
know, I'm speaking about this three and a half, four weeks after
the month of Ramadan. And, I mean, I think the benefit of that is the
fact that if we spoke about his straight after a month of Ramadan,
you know, you still got the virtue of the month of Ramadan within us.
So we feel more inclined, but then it kind of starts wearing out. So
we just reminding ourselves three and a half weeks afterwards. And
there's a benefit to that because there's a, there's an origin to
that. What happens is the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam said that
when somebody goes for Hajj and he's coming back, then go and say
salaam to him, go and say Sanjeev shake his hands right away. If
it's a woman coming back for the women could go shake your hands
and ask her to make a stiff arm for you go and tell them to seek
forgiveness for you. Right, so the problem is I'm literally that
specifically said that when somebody comes back from Hajj, go
and make Salam, and shake their hands, ask them for forgiveness,
ask them to seek forgiveness for you from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
And the reason you do that is because they have been forgiven.
But you have to do this process as we said, Coppola yet for the beta
before they enter their house. And the reason for that is once you
enter the house, essentially what that means is once you get back to
your normal activities, then you start polluting yourself again,
you know that we start failing, we start slipping, we start getting
involved in stuff, it's just the nature of the world. But when
somebody has come back from Hajj, and they just still coming back on
the journey, there's a there's a certain level of spirituality, we
need to use that spirituality. Now I'm telling us after a kind of
period is over, because once a month of Ramadan finishes, you
still got that level, but then it starts diminishing because the
shaytaan is back out and things are happening. Right. So I'm
trying to remind ourselves right now, so may Allah give myself and
everybody else that Sophia to do something of the month of Ramadan,
and abstain from something that we abstain from in the month of
Ramadan, and may Allah make it easy for us, may Allah make it
easy for us. And the whole point of this is that if we can extend
this until the next month of Ramadan, then inshallah that will
be of great benefit. One of the things is mentioned to me once is
that the benefit of Ramadan, or the effort that the person had
person had put in on himself in the month of Ramadan, the first
Ramadan it extended from what he can remember for about three
months. And then he saw He saw himself slacking. But then the
next month, he tried even harder during the month of Ramadan. So
for about seven months, he said, I reap the benefits of this month, I
didn't have the thoughts that I had before. But after about seven
months, that's when I started getting these thoughts again,
right. But he goes at least the benefit was right where he said is
that at least the benefit was that my troubling times my times of sin
and so on that have fought of sin and, and indulgence in it, and
whatever then only was for the, for the seventh part of the
seventh month, the eight 910 11 1211 And then Ramadan came
again. So which means that it was only about five months that year.
Right. So essentially, what he's saying is from his experience, and
I'm sure this is absolutely should be the experience of everybody is
that the more harder you work in Ramadan, that's how longer you the
benefits of it can extend the mind stay straight, and then it starts
faltering again. And that happens obviously, through reading lots of
Quran and so on. I know Ramadan is gone, right. But then there's
other ways of doing this as well. Right, which is that we continue
to do certain acts that we're doing in the month of Ramadan. So
they act as milestones and, and boosters. You know, like for
example, if you have a Wi Fi, a, what you call a router, right?
That we that you use for your Wi Fi for your computers at home. Now
what happens sometimes, if you've got a very large building, it
doesn't always that the signal is not the same throughout. So what
you can do is instead of getting another router, you can actually
get these what you call boosters, as such that you can that are
connected to the router, but then they give out their own signal. So
then they take you that extra step that extra distance. So you could
if your router is on the first on the ground floor, then you could
have a booster on the second floor, the third floor and that
way you can use the same signal throughout so you just prolonging
it. Likewise the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and a
group approached him and said that we've got this we've got this
issue in our place there's there's a there's a place that we want to
build convert into a masjid, can you give us something that you
know we can we can take with us, Professor Lawson prayed in some
water gave it to them. Now what they said is that the journey is
very long. And it's it's really hot outside, right that the
temperature is really high. We think that the water that you've
given us in which you've in which you've you're blessed as such,
it's going to diminish, it's going to decrease, and when we get
there, we won't be able to use it. So the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said something very interesting that you can use today, right for
your zum zum. And whatever else if you really have to, he said it's
okay to do Hubble Ma, which means extend it with additional water.
So you've got the original amount of water that I've given you. Now
what you can do is if you see that it's diminishing because it's
evaporating or it's spilling or whatever the case is, you know,
when you're taking it in this large journey, you know, maybe in
those they didn't have it or you know, airtight containers and
things of that nature. So is that it's okay, you can extend it. Like
if you have to use even a bit of it, that's fine. You can extend it
add other water, right? So even though it's diluted, you still get
the benefit of it. So what we're speaking about here is that the
benefits of
Ramadan need to be continued and extended. And the way we can do
that is, I think one very easy way to do it is to fast, at least
three days of each month, which is very strong sun to fast three days
of each month. And those are specifically the middle three days
of the month, the 13th 14th and 15th Moon, there are some
differences of opinion there, but that's strong 113 14 and 15 you
fast, the other one is fasting if you want even more humor and
especially as we go on to the shorter days of the Mondays and
Thursdays the benefit of this is that it will keep us closer to
Allah subhanaw taala May Allah give us the tofi read a bit of
Quran you know, we may have read a lot more during the month of
Ramadan but right now we must do also as much as possible Read,
read reports of the Quran maybe inculcate certain certain things
in our life where we read certain sources, certain milk in the
evening. So they are seen in the morning sort of get have weekly
extend these things because if we don't, it's not going to it's the
benefit is gone. We need to extend the spirituality that nor the
light of the month of Ramadan. So it it helps us throughout the
point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get further an
inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The next step is to
actually start learning seriously to read books to take on a subject
of Islam and to understand all the subjects of Islam at least at the
basic level, so that we can become more aware of what our deen wants
from us. And that's why we started Rayyan courses so that you can
actually take organize lectures on demand whenever you have free
time, especially for example, the Islamic essentials course that we
have on the Islamic essentials certificate which you take 20
Short modules and at the end of that inshallah you will have
gotten the basics of most of the most important topics in Islam and
you'll feel a lot more confident. You don't have to leave lectures
behind you can continue to live, you know to listen to lectures,
but you need to have this more sustained study as well as Zach
Allah here and salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.