Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Imam Ghazali on Unlocking Ramadan’s Mysteries
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The Prophet sallallahu sallam said no sorry me a brother, a fasting
person sleep is worship as well.
Because you're in a perpetual if fasting is a worship, you're
perpetually in a state of worship as long as you're hungry until you
stop. So even when you're asleep it's a worship
that doesn't mean that you just sleep
right? But it's to say that at least that's the safeguard against
doing anything wrong against doing anything wrong so you're better
off sleeping
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Mr. vizury. Here alumina Dean has a beautiful chapter on fasting. So
I thought it's a good time to speak about that. Because the Book
of Wisdom doesn't have any direct most of them are related to
enhancing our connection with Allah subhanaw taala but it's no
direct fasting aphorisms, so I thought, maybe look at what your
man was early is has said about this. So is a wonderful take on
fasting and inshallah we hope that that will increase and enhance our
fasting this Ramadan and make this Ramadan better than any before is
insha Allah. So there's something very interesting he starts off
right at the beginning. And
he says
that all praises to Allah subhanaw taala who
showered his mighty blessings on
your servants. Because Allah subhanaw taala is the one who took
the shaytaan away from us. He's the one when we call on to we will
take shaytaan away and especially in Ramadan, he will take him away.
So Allah subhanho wa Taala has caused the shaytaan to fail with
regards to his righteous people. So all praises to Allah subhanho
wa Taala for that, how do we do this? Through Ramadan, through
fasting, because fasting, Allah subhanho wa Taala made a very
strong fortress, and a shield against all the evil that is out
there.
Then Then after that Allah subhanho wa Taala and Ramadan,
what he's done is that he's opened for them the doors of Paradise,
and then he's told them
through fasting, he's taught humans, that shaytan gets a
greater influence over you through
the desires that you fulfill. So that's why in Ramadan, the main
focus is to to control the desires as much as possible. So that's why
he then says that if you do manage to control your desires, then
ultimately you will end up with the tranquil heart. knifes will
motivate him.
And
may Allah subhanho wa Taala show his blessings on Messenger
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Then he says Imam Ghazali
says that in the soma, Robert Eema. This is a major claim. He
says that fasting is a quarter of Eman. How does fasting become a
quarter of your man?
And he says that is based on something that Prophet sallallahu
sallam said I'm not making this up. This is something where the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said the Prophet sallallahu sallam said so
municipal sub
fasting is half of patients. So the patients that
a human has to undertake fasting is half of patients.
Fasting is all patients in fact, but the amount that is being
mentioned here is fasting is half of patients, and that is a Hadith
of Telemedia NewBlue Marja and another Hadith that tells us that
ASABE Rooney's full Eman. So first thing is have patience, this
hadith and tells us that patience is half of Eman. So now you do the
equation and it comes out to a quarter of Eman. You
Because first thing is have patience. Patience is half of
iman. So that makes fasting a quarter of Eman manga Zadie
mashallah statistics, maths, logic Mantic puts it all together and
comes up with this conclusion.
This final Hadith sobre Innisfil Iman is related by a boon or aim
in his Hillier and others. Then he says
the other thing which is amazing about fasting is that it's the one
specific worship which has a very unique connection with Allah
subhanho wa taala, unique attribution to Allah subhanho wa
Taala from among all the other worships.
Again, he's not making any of this up, says because ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada says, in what the Prophet saw us and told us, he could see that
Kulu Haseltine be ash be actually M 30 Ha Elizabeth did with it.
illicium Every worship that we do every worship, solid, zakat,
hedge, etc, everything else, there's a range of rewards you get
from the base reward, up to 700,700, multiplication 7000
Except fasting.
Now, Allah Subhan Allah that didn't give you the equation for
fasting, he doesn't give a number. He says, For in the holy fasting
is for me, Well, Anna, Zb, I got a direct reward for that. The angels
are not responsible for that they don't have a score sheet for that.
First thing is mine, I give reward for that there must be more than
7000 we just get a sneak peek we get an idea when Allah subhanaw
taala increases the obligations that any
religious person is going to fulfill anyway, like is fasting.
Any decent person is going to do fosse right, they're going to make
salad. But in Ramadan, all of those are multiplied 70 times.
That just gives us an understanding of how much Allah
wants to just give even for obligations, forget optional acts.
These are four obligations you have to do anyway.
So now we're going to try to imagine that he says he's gonna
try to explain how much this might be how much Allah is willing to
give here, or has promised to give. So he says then Allah
subhanaw taala says, In the Quran, in the AMA, you refer sabe Runa
Agera homebuilt. At haisa. You fasting is half of patients. Now
let's look at what Allah says about patients in the Quran says
that sabe rune, the patient wants, they're going to be given full,
full full reward without any number. So there is no number
here. It's just this huge, immense amount of reward that Allah
subhanaw taala is literally just going to shower upon the person
more than you can even imagine that be lady herself. Now since
fasting is half of sober, then that means its reward goes beyond
any kind of enumeration. It's just there's no enumeration for it.
Another thing to understand, he then he says, If you want to
really understand the status of fasting is look at this hadith of
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, in which the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said that the one in whose by the one whose hand is
my enough's, and my life, the smell, the odor coming from the
mouth of a fasting person is more beloved to Allah subhanho wa Taala
than pure Musk than the fragrance of musk.
I mean, you really, I mean, don't just read it as just some kind of,
you know, great statement. It's like the odor of a fasting person.
And when I was in America, everybody was very careful about
their breath. They were very conscious of their breath in
England, I don't think too many people, some people maybe but in
America, everybody's like, they stand away from you. Because they
think they've got bad breath or something. Everybody's so
conscious of it. And especially in Ramadan, it's like the only is
asking, Can we brush our teeth, please, when you can brush your
teeth if you want to, but you just can't use toothpaste, like free
flavored toothpaste, you know forms and you can use Seawalk you
can use a dry brush, no problem. But Allah loves the smell from a
fasting person.
It's not the smell that he loves. It's what that represents. Before
anybody thinks that we're kind of older must that be? It's the whole
point. To show that even the minimal aspect of that that others
may be turned away from Allah. Someone said, I love you for
everything you're fasting. That is so amazing. I even love the odor
that comes from your mouth. I even consider that to be significant.
Because Allah subhanho wa Taala then says so that was the prophet
Allah Some said that now Allah says
in the Maya Angelou shahada who were Toriyama, who were Sharada,
whom in agilely, look how much the value is right? That he is only
abandoning his desires, his food and his drink for my sake.
Otherwise you wouldn't abandon it he could eat, but he's doing it
for my sake. And Allah values that amazingly well.
he's stopping eating for me. He's stopping all of these desires for
me for so mentally. That's why fasting is for me. What Ana Zb,
I'm going to reward him directly for that.
Then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tells us something else
that Allah has prepared for the fasting people he says that
paradise the Gardens has a special door among its eight doors that's
called Rayyan.
Rayyan. Liat, Hulu Illa saw him on the fast fasting people. There is
no door for solid performance is no door for hajis not to diminish
them. But it's no special door for that. When Allah says, I'm going
to create this door for fasting people, it just shows you a
fasting is. And the reason I'm explaining it this way. Because I
think when we become professional fasters, after years of years,
many fast many Ramadan's under our belt, as they say, you know, this
may be your 15 for 20, or for 30 or 40 or 50 of Ramadan, you just,
you kind of lose, it becomes a bit of a ritual. So I'm just amazed by
what the significance is so that we can get a renewed vigor that
this Ramadan, this fasting is going to be better than the before
because we're getting an understanding of its significance.
Subhan Allah, Allah just loves it that he puts a special door for
the people who have asked for Hatton and then the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam explained something else again,
all related to Allah that how does Allah look at fasting? So now the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam says that Allah promises the fasting
person, something very amazing. That's why he said Lisa AMI Farhat
for every fasting person, there are going to be two joys, to
excitements two amazing moments of happiness. One is what you feel in
this world. And literally, I really think of this all the time,
you know, when I do Iftar and you know, when you're hungry, and it
was those that long, fast and you're hungry and then mashallah,
you can have that date, and the cold cooled water, and then
whatever else, people have your father's and all of these other
things that you have, right? And you just, it's just feel so much
better than another normal day, doesn't it? So this is the Hadith
that comes in mind, Lisa, me for Hatha and a fasting person has two
joys. One is when he does his Iftar and the second one will be
when he meets his Lord. So if anything, if the pleasure that you
get at your Iftar time, like who enjoys the Iftar here, they may be
some macho men. No, no, I'm alright man. You know, when it's
like it's okay, I can do another you know, another two hours is not
a problem, brother. It's not about that man. You've done what your
last told you don't go beyond that. Right? So that joy I just
think is somehow like imagine if this is the joy, the joy that
you're going to meet with Allah Subhana Allah if Allah has given
us this joy here, why should he give us that joy? So at that time,
actually the most relevant to our would be, Oh Allah, the same joy
you're giving me now. Like, just stop and say, Yeah, Allah, just
remember that nema. Just
revel in that pleasure. Just savor it and say Allah, if this is the
pleasure you're giving me now, I want the same pleasure when I meet
you.
I want the same pleasure when I meet you. That should be a moment
of acceptance in sha Allah.
Don't forget that this year we want to do that in sha Allah, we
want to go from our eastern rather than the focus on the food which
we're going to enjoy our stomach and our brain enjoys it. But our
heart should be focused on Allah subhanho wa Taala waiting for that
punishing job.
Then the prophets of Allah has said something else he said that
everything has a door. Everything has a door. What that means is
that you could be doing multiple things, but the door is what
you'll get the biggest bang for your book with. So he says
everything has a door and the door of worship is fasting. The door of
worship is fasting. Yes, your Salah is a worship in your hedges
of worship and use a cat and everything is a worship. But
fasting has a very special position. When you do that, when
you fast. Fasting is the most unique worship out there. Fasting
is the most unique question.
So the Prophet said Allah is and then said
this is ignorable Barack has transmitted this hadith, next
Hadith, which is transmitted by a boon or aim and basically In
short, the Prophet sallallahu sallam said no sorry me a brother,
a fasting person sleep is worship as well.
Because you're in a perpetual if fasting is a worship, you're
perpetually in a state of worship as long as you're hungry until you
stop. So even when you sleep, it's a worship.
That doesn't mean that you just sleep in
but it's to say that at least that's the safeguard again doing
anything wrong against doing anything wrong, you're better off
sleeping. And when you fast you do feel a bit sleepier, just and then
it helps to pass today. So alhamdulillah
then the famous Hadith, right? The famous hadith is above wherever
the with Hadees rated by berhadiah noses that when Ramadan comes in
Allah subhana wa Tada loves it so much that he says okay, I'm going
to fling open the doors of Paradise. I'm going to shut the
doors of * you'd have to break in if you want to get into * in
Ramadan. Like it's not easy to get into. Because Allah literally
makes it that way. It's not easy in Ramadan because shaytan is not
around, right? You have to be really messed up to get into
hellfire to be written. And then the shayateen are locked up. And
then a an announcer a herald announces your birth el Haile
Hunnam, Allah is literally made all the preparations, those a
paradise and hellfire shaytaan locked up. And then he has
somebody announce, oh, one looking for goodness and virtue. Come
along, come along. Halima come forth, way above here sharp oak
sore, the one who won who's still looking for evil, you need to take
it easy. You need to lower that down. You need to diminish that.
So that is exactly what everybody feels like that you know. Like I
don't think there's anybody who doesn't feel like that as soon as
Ramadan is announced, there's just something a different taste in the
air. It's just a different feeling.
That's why you know when Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran
Kulu wash Raghu honey Bhima is left to fill a middle Holly. So in
paradise, you're going to be told eat and drink now, honey and
you know, with absolute pleasure and with great welcome and
everything because of what you did in the past because of how you
passed your days in the past. workI in new jabra one of the
first city he says that means that refers to your days of fasting
because of your days of fasting in this world. When you abandon
eating and drinking for the sake of Allah, Allah is going to say
now enjoy your food and drink enjoy your food and drink in the
hereafter. There is a another narration
which ignore it it's a relatively unknown, very less known narration
ignore it will nayeem it will barbaric and others have
transmitted this saying that Allah subhanho wa Taala he boasts about
young people.
Youth How many of you are youth here? Mashallah. I'm not going to
judge you. It's up to you. You can make yourself a youth if you want.
Go into April Josie until 35 Your youth so that might help some of
you, right?
So it's saying that Allah subhanaw taala really boasts to his angel,
angels with that youth who is in His service while he's a youth.
And he calls out to that youth he can't hear it, but he calls up to
the youth and he says, oh, youth who is abandoning his pleasures
for my sake,
who's spending his youth?
For my sake, you know, focused and could have been doing so many of
his youth, they get misled to do so. You are with me You are in my,
in my sights. In my view, you are just like some of my angels. So if
you can do this in your youth, it's like the action of the
angels, at least according to Allah subhanaw taala that's all
that matters anyway. Right? Subhanallah
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
about the fasting person that Allah says, My angels,
check out my servants. Check out my server, look what he's doing.
He's abandoning his food, his pleasure,
his desire and his drink for my sake. Allah just loves it. He's
like, look at what these guys are doing mashallah, look at what
these guys are doing. Allah is just loves it. When that happens,
so when we're fasting, it gets tiring. Just think what Allah must
be feeling.
And that should make us feel good that if Allah is feeling good, why
are we feeling good? Why are we feeling miserable?
If Allah subhanaw taala is boasting, reveling enjoying the
fact that people are abandoning, and it's a difficult thing to it's
a long thing to do. It's a long worship, it's a very unique
worship. That's why regarding the verse
in Allah Subhana Allah says, ALLAH Ta Ala Moana Epsom, Vienna, whom
meal karate, Yun Jessa
A remark Malone. No knifes knows what has been hidden for them from
the joys of the site in the hereafter. Things that will just
gladden you give you Ultimate Bliss, as a reward for what they
used to do. One of the TF series of that is that this is the first
thing
it's for the first thing that you will get that reward.
That is where Allah subhanaw taala says in the manual for Saudi Luna
as your home behavior a sub site of your own, or given their reward
without any kind of wreck without any kind of enumeration.
So that's why Imam Hassan He says his reward lie at Hulu data, I
mean, without needing the reward or fasting doesn't come come. That
can't come under any kind of mathematics, any kind of
accounting is just Allah gives it you can't you can't take or you
can't recognize. Just Just leave it to Allah it's going to be some
huge amount. It's going to be more than satisfying.
Allah subhanho wa Taala grant system
now
Imam Hassan he then says that
this is absolutely befitting the fast there's nothing to be
surprised about this is a completely appropriate
and this is exactly what a fasting is made for because fasting, even
though it's for Allah subhanaw taala and it's so honored because
of the attribute to Allah subhanho wa Taala and all other worships
Alpha Allah subhanho wa Taala anyway,
but because ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada said, fasting is for me, just
like, mustards are all the house of Allah, but the Kaaba is,
especially his house. So that gets so what is the reason why fasting
then takes that special position compared to all the other
worships, which are all for Allah? Why do you do any other worship?
You have to do it for Allah? Do it for anybody else, you don't get
the reward for it. You should it's it's a minor form of shake, in
fact. So what is it that makes?
What is it that makes fasting so special that Allah has owned it
and claimed it and said, This is mine, even though they all his
anyway, everybody, every every worship is for him. So mine was a
sense for two reasons. Number one, is the nature of the worship,
right? It's a very unique worship, because a soul will Kiffin watagan
Fasting is an abstinence and an abandonment. What is fasting,
fasting is an inactivity, not an activity, it's an inactivity. It's
an inaction, meaning you just sit and do nothing. Literally, like
you don't do something that you don't eat, you don't drink, etc.
So it's a careful, methodical, well who have enough see his
Serum. This is his wording. He says, that intrinsically is the
secret. That is the secret of it. Because it lays a fee here Alan on
you shall have there's no actual action you can witness in fasting,
you'd have to be told is fasting. Otherwise, he's fasting unless you
look just miserable. Right?
Which is actually not the way to look anyway. Right? Especially not
after what we've read. And Allah is happy and you're miserable.
Subhan Allah let no fasting person be miserable this year.
So Lisa fee here, I'm going on your shahada is not something that
you can actually observe the action, because Jimmy OH, Malik
tore out the mesh had the middle hulky Walmart. Every other deed
there is whether it's Hi, Jessica, it's there. You can YouTube it.
You can camera it. You can't
take videos of fasting people.
They're just regular people. There's no video of us. Right? Oh,
let's take the Iftar Well, how'd you know they were fasting? You
know? So it's just something that is completely not he's building up
to something he's saying. That means was so Willa Yara, who in
Lulla Huhtala. A proper fast only Allah will know and observe it.
Because with everybody else, you could just claim it and not really
be fasting. But only Allah if you actually fast. Only Allah knows it
for in the whole Amazon feel about in the Sabriel majority, because
it's an internal state of pure of pure abstinence, pure, sober, pure
patience. That's the first reason right why Allah has claimed
fasting for himself among everything else. The second one,
he says, is an active reason
of what fasting does for somebody. The purpose of fasting why fasting
was legislated. Yeah, you have Latina and or whatever it equals
CM Kamakoti. But Isla de la la quinta de goon, fasting prescribed
upon you as it was for those before you so that you can gain
Taqwa. Right
but keep that in mind. But what Imam Ghazali says the second
reason is under hookah. rondalee. I do Willa, here's the origin. It
is the means of vanquishing the enemy of Allah.
How do you vanquish the enemy of Allah by fasting?
For in our sila to shaytani, Allah Anna hula Schauerte, because the
shaytaan main instrument and means he uses to mislead people is
desires for different forms of desire, whether that be food
desires, drink, desires, or sexual desires
and desires were in the Matakohe Warszawa to Bill ugly worship. The
more you eat and drink, the more the desires grow, because there's
a relationship with food, especially if you don't have halal
and tidy food. And that's even worse. Right? If you don't have
food on which decurrens halal and you know, then he's going to be
even worse. But food in general while we do need it to survive,
but eating too much assist because it makes you slough. It makes you
sluggish, it makes you lazy. And it just takes the whole vigor out
what he that he gokada sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. That's why
That's why the prices are awesome said regarding the shaytaan in the
shaytaan. Allegedly molybdenum are measured them because the shaytaan
course is through the human body just like blood does.
Right? That is a Hadith of upsizing. So that's a everybody
knows that hadith. Now in one narration, he adds the following,
and according to research actually shows that it's probably one of
the narrator's who added this as a advice of how to stop the shaytaan
or how to restrict the causeway in the body of the shape for the
shaytaan. Otherwise, he's got access to the body, just like
blood does. How do you tighten that and restrict that for the
equal majority are who will do
restrict his coursing through the body through hunger
so fast often.
Now, as we know, in Ramadan, there's definitely a connection
because Allah gets rid of the shape and tells us too fast. So
you've got two things going on. When the shaytaan is out. Allah
says first seven days, six days of Chawan and then there's
recommendations of fasting otherwise, may Allah make that
easy for us. But yes, so tighten and restrict the pathway of the
shaytaan through hunger.
Alright, shall we the Allahu anha. Once the Prophet saw some said to
her, the we meet current adverbial Janna
make sure that you're constantly knocking on the door agenda.
When they will get in constantly knock on the door of Jana said how
the mother called us adolescent male Jews by hunger.
So hunger, we're told here and this is scientific anyway, right?
Foods make us react in different ways. Of course we need to eat to
stay healthy, and to stay to survive. And in fact, it's haram
to starve yourself. It's actually haram to starve yourself.
Literally, that's what the Judas say. It's haram to starve
yourself. But then they tell you that you must eat enough to be
able to stand up and do your worships and do your deeds and do
your acts. So that's what it is. There is a
something
not from Imam Ghazali but from others related cervical cervical
Bonanni. Relate says he says that once it reached us that IBLEES
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Iblees, confronted Zachary Yachty, Sarah. So on him multiple
different
things hanging off him like tools to mislead people essentially.
Right?
So what are all of these things that I see on you? Oh, these are
the different pleasures and distractions and lusts and other
things that I attack the humans with? These are my various tools.
Basically, I'm carrying my tools with me.
So yeah, here instead I'm said
anything for me. And so he said, No. He said, Can you get me anyhow
in this regard? He said, sometimes when you satiate yourself when you
fill yourself up too much when you I don't know what that level is,
right? Equate just like it is. But when you've satisfied yourself
with food, essentially. And what we do is that we make you lazy, we
then cause you laziness so that you don't want to do a solid and
thicker
you don't feel like doing your external awful or you're forgiven
depends on different people.
He said, Is there anything else he said? No. I said, Okay, that's
fine. I'm never gonna say shit myself from now. The careerism
said I'm never gonna say to myself, If only we can act on that
with our health, improve a lotta make it like that.
So shaytaan comes as us through through food, but nobody talks
about that.
Right food is never a problem, right? I mean, it is a problem.
But you know, nobody ever talks about that as the shaytaan using
it. So anyway, that is what Imam Ghazali says, the reason why
fasting is so special for Allah is number one, it is an internal
state that can only be for Allah. And number two, it helps against
the enemy of Allah.
So then Imam Hassan he says that when fasting specifically then is
so effective against shaytaan and to stop his pathways
it that's why it's so specially connected to Allah subhanaw taala
that's why it has that special designation to Allah subhanaw
taala
then he says that if you now fast for that reason, you're assisting
Allah.
So weird thing to say. But if you're fasting with this thing in
mind now for fee comm I do Willa, meaning if you're fasting to get
rid of the shaytaan you're assisting Allah against his enemy,
because remember, shaytaan a sworn enemy and said, I'm going to
mislead people I'm going to disobey. So now if we don't obey
the shaytaan and we actually start fasting, we actually start
fasting, we're actually assisting Allah in in shaytaan not getting
his wish, which inshallah he won't anyway, right? However, then he
says, again, Imam Hassan is just a psychologist, right? He then he
says, Well, no sweat Allah, He to Allah mo Kufa to another nuestra
Tila, you can't assist Allah except that he's going to assist
you. Where do you get that from? Allah says in turn surah Allah He
and SOCOM. If you assist Allah, Allah is going to help you where
you submit academical, and he's going to make firm and stabilize
your footing.
So by us doing this, we're selfishly assisting Allah so that
he assists us almost, if that's what if you it's a benefit for
Vidalia to build jadie Minelab that's why with Allah, Allah wants
to see you beginning, you making your initial effort and making
that effort at the beginning, while Jessa Obadiah then he gives
the guidance as his reward, but he wants to see us doing taking the
first step. That's why Allah says, well, Latina, Jaha, do fina, the
unknown sabudana those who make an effort in our path who do
something to get in our path, we're going to we're going to
guide them to our paths, we will do the rest, you just started off,
you just take the steps, we'll do the rest. That's what Allah has
promised. That another famous verse says the same thing. Allah
says in Allah, La, you hero, Bill Murphy, Coleman, Hatha Yoga,
Yiruma be unforeseen. Allah doesn't change the state of people
that which is with the people until they change themselves,
essentially saying you make the effort. Don't just sit and wait
and say Allah is going to change this one day you make the effort,
then Allah will open up the past and become you think today that
you know I can't do this. Everybody's against me, my What
would my family say? What will my spouse say? What will my children
say? What will my society community and culture say? You
make the effort, there will be difficulty but then Allah subhanho
wa Taala make it such that you'll be laughing all the way to Jemaine
Java.
These are the verses look how Imam Ghazali puts them in perspective
weaves them together to show what Allah is telling us in all of
these different verses. And he says the way now that you're going
to act on these Hadith and sorry, these verses, what change are you
going to make? You just focus on breaking your desires just don't
fulfill all of your desires, start breaking them, start shortening
them, start decreasing them, because that is where the shaytaan
likes to graze in your desires, shorten them, lessen them and
decrease them.
And shaytan will have less of a bandwidth to work in. And it says
as long as you keep a place open for the shaytaan you can never
enjoy the full gelada of Allah subhanho wa Taala It won't open up
for you because shaytan is there acting as the veil is my job. You
are veiled. The robbers sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in another
narration
if the shayateen Lola Lola and Nichelle Tina yah hoo Munna other
glooby When he Adam la Navarro de la mala who this summit,
Imam Muhammad has transmitted this, that if the shaytaan were
not constantly taking part in an attack on the hearts of the human
being, they would have been able to observe the secrets of the
heavens
that's why
you can see now that if to stop all of this to stop the shutdowns
attack if fasting is so effective, now it puts into perspective the
Hadith it says that far
fasting as a shield, that's how fasting becomes a shield. Now, you
must have heard this hadith before, this puts it in
perspective. And then
Imam Ghazali has, which I won't be able to cover today, I'll cover in
a subsequent lecture, but he talks about the first thing of three
different types of people. And I'll just describe that. And then
inshallah there'll be a subsequent lesson we'll have somewhere, and
inshallah we'll go up, he says that, in terms of fasting, there
are three levels,
three people, three categories of people in terms of fasting three
levels. So so we'll remove, this is the first thing of the general
public. So we'll Corsos the first thing of
the special elect people. And then the first thing of the very, very,
very special elect people, the very special of the special ones,
which is usually the prophets. And so, right, that's a very difficult
one. He says, The first one is the standard, fast, standard package,
stay away from
filling your stomach, and your sexual desires.
That's what we will do from this time to this time, I'm not going
to engage in food, drink and sexual *. That's what
the basic, fastest basic package says. The second package is
someone who source which is
to avoid all of this, and also keep God of the ears, and the
sight, and the tongue, and the hand, and the feet, and every
other limb of the body. So it goes beyond the basics. There's a lot
more thrown into there, it's a long, it's a bit better package.
And that's what it is. And now the third one is really strange one,
it's ajeeb, the, the fasting of the elite, this is the first of
the heart.
This is the first of the heart,
to abstain from all lowly thoughts, to abstain from all
dunya very bad thoughts.
In fact, to abstain from any thoughts about anyone besides
Allah, it's just Allah, Allah, Allah and nothing else.
How do they do? If not, then?
I couldn't get this first. But how did they do it stop?
The only way they do if done, which is not praiseworthy, by the
way, right? Is when they think about anyone besides Allah and the
Last Day, that's when they do if
this is a perpetual state, this is not a physical state. This is when
their heart is fully into it.
Where soul will fit through? Fee her the soul, maybe we'll fix the
femur Seiwa Allah has the original will Yomi laugh here with Bill
Fick Griffith dunya. And for them to start focusing on the world,
they'll do it Start unless they focus on the dunya is for the
Africa, then that continues as well. Because that is
that's a provision for the hereafter as well. Now for them,
there's another rule. There's another rule. One of them has said
for his group of people so on Allah, Manta, Harakat himer to be
tasar Rufina hurry, limited BD ma youth Diwali, Cote, Batali, hottie
for such people, if any of them start to get focused in their
daytime, to try to plan what they're going to do Iftar on,
that's written as a sin against Him. Not for us, by the way,
right? So don't don't say I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna do any work.
Right? This is for the people at that level, who are in the state
of perpetual fasting that fasting is not fasting. It's a it's
different fasting. It's not about food and drink anymore. They're
eating by the way. They're not they're not. They're not staying
hungry. They may be fasting as proper fast, but that's a facet of
the heart. That's what he's talking about. May Allah subhana
says he wrote better MBA, it was CDP in Malmo, carabin this is only
the status of the Gambia, the city clean, and the macabre beam. And
he says that we we want to know tabula another feat of Si de la
Liga colon. This is not something that we're going to spend too much
time in trying to explain to you in words, well, I can feed that
leaky hammer is like, we're going to try to get this state in
action.
Spine Allah. Look what Imam Ghazali stated is,
because that is when you fully focus on Allah subhanho wa Taala
in every way, and you completely turn away from Cali LA. Se say
Hola, thermadata homefree hold the Himalaya, boom, you just say hola
and then you just leave those guys playing around. Right
In whatever they engrossed in, you say Allah and you just do what you
have to do. So,
in sha Allah we'll discuss these in the other two categories in a
bit more detail in sha Allah in another lesson. But that's enough
for today. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
give us this renewed vigor and a renewed understanding and
perspective on fasting and may that enrich and upgrade our
fastest year and make it completely different from any year
before it can make us close to him. Alone and the Scylla Wonga
salaam the work the originality with a grown man love me or hate
you. Yeah, that you already kind of stuff Athea nanny I'm Ananda
Illa Illa de Subhanallah in Ghana we know what you mean just Allah
one more 100 years of
your heavy DSLR am you allowed to if you had an agenda with a crown
yeah Allah have mercy on us. Allah bless us Yeah, Allah.
Allah Allah have your special attention on us yeah Allah special
focus we require a few Yama we ask for your generosity and your
benevolence. Your kindness of Allah we ask you for your love ya
Allah we ask you for your love. Yama, forgive us our wrongdoings,
our mistakes, our excesses, our negligence our heedlessness Oh
ALLAH our transgressions and our sins. Our crimes yeah Allah
forgive us our violation so Allah forgive us our violations. Yeah,
Allah we asked you for your special attention. And we ask that
you forgive us all of our wrongdoings and especially those
that we have forgotten how Allah clean us and cleanse us purify us
so Allah make us of those who are purified Oh Allah we struggled
with so many things in our life yeah Allah Ya Allah assist us
against the shaytaan close the doors of shaytaan close the doors
of our heart to shaytaan ya Allah we ask you to assist us and yeah
Allah we ask that you allow us to fast properly let you fast that we
that we we are allowed to fast in the most enhanced and most
efficient way so that we can get the full benefit that you would
like to give us from this fast that you gave to your own ear and
your close ones yeah Allah Ya Allah grant us yeah Allah grant us
more than we may be worthy of your Allah. Ya Allah grant us more than
we may be worthy of the Allah make us worthy of your true bounties of
Allah bless our brothers and sisters around the world and
remove their oppression those who are being suppressed and those who
are being murdered and killed. Oh Allah grant them much greater than
what they losing and what they have lost. Oh Allah grant them
their suburban patients and their dignity Oh Allah grant them a
wonderful Ramadan Oh Allah grant them a wonderful Ramadan and grant
them relief. Yeah Allah grant us a Ramadan that we've never
experienced before Yeah, Allah. Oh Allah grant us a blessing Ramadan
one that in which we're closer to you than we've ever been before
your Allah Oh ALLAH enhance this Ramadan enhance everything about
this Ramadan for us of Allah bless our teachers and bless all those
who have helped and guided us Yama and all of these authors whose
books really you know Allah bless them abundantly allow us yeah
Allah allow us to be as productive as them allow us to be as
beneficial as they are Allah allow us to be protected like them. Yeah
Allah Ya Allah we ask that you protect us from
protect us from all the wrongs which are out there protect
protect us from stopping others from the Path of Allah subhanho wa
Taala Yeah, Allah we ask that you make us a means of goodness rather
than the means of evil in this world. Yeah, Allah you protect us
and our families and our children and our descendants until the day
of judgment from all the evils which are out there. Our law keep
the Quran and Sunnah and the heathen grant us rush then a year
Allah grant us our guidance and our Allah grant us rights show us
the truth as the truth. Allow us to fulfill it and show us the
wrong as the wrong and allow us to abstain from it. While Allah bless
all of those who are here, who Allah bless all those who are
listening. Bless the entire Muslim world of Allah Allah Allah give us
so much Baraka in these next few days that were able to complete
whatever chose need to be complete so that when we get into Ramadan
we are free to enjoy Ramadan yeah Allah make this Ramadan a really
blessing Ramadan yeah Allah make it one in which we really we
really take the most that we've ever taken from Ramadan and make
every subsequent Ramadan better than that. Yeah, Allah. Oh Allah
Granta Shiva from our various ailments of Allah those who have
passed away on the other side have just passed away. Allah raises
status on law granting mafia granting genital for those who are
law makers children Southern kajaria for him and Allah all of
our other disease Yeah, Allah bless them all. Raise their status
allow us to also have a good death. Yeah, Allah. Allow us to
also have a good death allow us to spend our time in useful pursuits
rather than wasting pursuits. Allah Allah Allah Allah accept our
doors of Allah accept our doors and give us another of your Karim.
Here Allah assist us Subhan Allah Baker
Rob Miller is at the IOC for Noah Sullivan. And most of you know Al
Hamdulillah.
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 there, 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. JazakAllah Heron salaam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.