Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Imam Ghazali’s Six Points on upgrading the Fast
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The segment discusses the benefits of fasting, including reducing energy and energy efficiency, improving health, and protecting one's stomach. It emphasizes the importance of fasting for healthy eating and avoiding waste. The segment also highlights the benefits of fasting for reducing energy and energy efficiency, as well as protecting one's stomach.
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Nova Ruthie
Ramadan Nila Alameen WA. Early he will Safi or Baraka was seldom at
the Sleeman cathedral, you know, Yomi Deen Amma Bharat mashallah
you guys have had lectures on fasting and
all of these points.
What I want to
cover today
is Imam Ghazali Rahmatullahi rd, he has said that there are three
types of fasting
not far oblige him and sooner or novel. But there are three types
of people who fast. So they have three types of fasting based on
that. One is the fasting of the normal person on low Carrozza,
which is what most of us we keep. This is the normal fast that
everybody does. The second type of fasting or the is the fasting of
the special people.
I wonder what that looks like. And then the third one is the fasting
of the very special people. So the first thing of the normal people,
fasting of the special people, and the fasting of the very special
people. Now what could that be hamdulillah those of us who fast
the majority, you know, all of us who are fasting, we fast, at least
the first type of fast. Now we want to try to understand what the
second and third type of fasting is, we can see maybe we can
upgrade our fast to that level inshallah. So the first type of
fast is very simple. The first type of fast is the one who avoids
eating, drinking and sexual relationship from fajr until
sunset. This is what the normal fast is, you don't eat Everybody's
hungry right now because they haven't eaten. That's the normal
fast. This is what the majority of people this is how they fast. The
second type of faster the second, the fasting of the special people
is along with not eating, drinking, and avoiding sexual
intimacy. They also fast with their ears, with their tongue,
with their sight, with their hand, with the feet and with their whole
body. So it's not just the internal fasting, it's not just a
fast thing of food and drink, and so on. But it's actually a fasting
for many, many other things.
Then, we're going to discuss this today Inshallah, however, I'm
going to discuss the last type, which is the very, very special
people's first, their fasting on Carrozza Katsa, Hatha Yoga. You
know who seussville Who's who's younger Rosa, how must that be?
That is the first thing, which is a fasting of the heart and the
mind from everything besides Allah.
Meaning the entire focus on key burrito a Jew is all on Allah
subhana wa Tada. And they don't focus on anything else they study
is when they stop focusing on Allah, and they start focusing on
something of the dunya that's when they do a study, which means that
they fast for the whole month. In fact, they fast for for many,
many, many days. And they if 30 is whenever they stop focusing on
Allah or old keto, a Jew has a huge gap. As soon as they stop
focusing on Allah subhana, WA Tada, then and they focus on the
dunya of some sorts, that's when they're fast breaks.
Now that's a very different fast.
And
if they're doing something and thinking about the dunya, but for
the sake of the Akira, then that's also for the argument that still
for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. So they're still fasting in
that regard. This is the first thing of the prophets. This is the
first thing of the very, very, very pious people who, whose heart
becomes completely focused on Allah subhanaw taala.
That's a different type of fast. We're not going to discuss that
one today. Because that one is very, very difficult for us to
achieve Allah, Allah make it easy for us, but that's a different
type of water, that just that's in Ramadan, and outside of Ramadan is
the same thing. Right? Today, our focus is
on the middle type, which is so that Insha Allah, we can upgrade
our fast from the first type to the second type because
Alhamdulillah The first type of us we've been doing for years, all of
our life, we've been doing that fast. Now the second verse, many
of us inshallah will be doing that as well. So let us describe that.
So, according to Imam Ghazali Rahmatullah Halley, he says that
this type of fast
is beyond just the eating, drinking, it's of all the limbs,
and he says that the way to complete this kind of fast is by
doing six things. The first thing
He says is hot dull bustle which means to be careful with the
eyesight and protect the eyesight because that is what will break
the fast for a person
Nether, to look at something which is haram to look at which is
inappropriate to look at, that will break the person's fast. So,
anything if you look at something that in that will occupy a person
away from the focus on Allah subhanho wa Taala then that is a
problem. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said a novel
sermon must Moon mean see * bliss, the gays is a very pious is
a poisonous arrow from among the arrows of shaytaan shaytaan uses
that to hunt people down from an Taraka hole for min Allah Now,
that's it's very difficult to avoid that sometimes coming to the
masjid going to work and so on. But the benefit the incentive
mentioned in this hadith, the fact that of this that if a person does
avoid and look away, no, I'm fasting I shouldn't do this.
person shouldn't even be looking if they're not fasting as well.
But this is a training. He says that Furman Taraka Hoefer Minh
Allah, atta hula who is the original Iman Yeji do Halawa, who
vehicle?
Anybody who avoids looking at something inappropriate, out of
fear of Allah subhanho wa taala. Allah subhanho wa Taala will give
them such an Eman. Allah will give them such an experience of iman in
which they will feel the sweetness of it in their hearts.
The stories we read of the Sahaba and other people that they would
gain the sweetness of faith which will give them a lot more Yaqeen
and conviction to do what they needed to do. And they would never
become weak. Allah subhanaw taala now in our situation if we're
going through
a marketplace and mashallah this whole street is like a marketplace
anyway. We come from our house La ilaha illallah wa the hula
actually kind of hula hula Mercado will come to you when you need to
or why you lie Amoud big hill hydro who are the coalition in
Cody? That's the market DHA. The benefit you have of your budget
being on a Market Street, right, is that you can actually read this
dua as you're going past all of the shops and be getting 1 million
reward for every single time you read this door.
It's quite amazing. If you have to walk two blocks, or whatever it
is, all the shops are on your side. Yes, if you have to do some
shopping that's different. But otherwise, it just distracts you.
So what we read is La ilaha illallah wa who la sharika lahu
Volkova Al hamdu ye are you me too? Oh, hi, you lie on mute.
That's the additional part from the normal one. Big Hill Hi Rhonda
coalition in Kaduna, I've just, I would receive a million rewards
just for that one. It is one of the highest.
It is one of the highest scoring two hours out there.
To give you your football language.
When somebody asked me what is the highest scoring app, which gives
you one dua gives you the most this is the this is one of them. A
million rewards. If you read it 10 times that's 10 million rewards.
So anyway, the point is that if a person does avoid, it might be
difficult to avoid, but if a person can avoid it, they will be
given a Halawa to Iman, which means the sweet sweet pneus of
faith, that means a special experience.
One way to understand the experience of faith is that
there's a Sahabi who is doing night duty for his four Muslim
forces. And it's him and his partner. He says to his partner,
you go to sleep, I will do the duty of being on watch. So he
starts cinemas and as he's in namaz, one of the enemies see him
and they shoot an arrow at him. He gets stuck by an arrow. He is hit
by an arrow, but he doesn't stop his nose.
He gets stuck by another arrow and he still doesn't stop his novels.
For me, that's just, you know, for us if there's a little pinch from
some ways, like what happened there. He doesn't stop his salad.
When he gets the third arrow. That's when he stops his that's
when he wakes up his partner because now he thinks that the
enemy might even attack thinking that this guy's not doing
anything.
The only reason I can think of is why he did not do anything, even
though he must have intense pain is because what he was enjoying
was probably much sweeter than what he was feeling. The pain was
less than the pleasure that he was feeling. If we could feel that
pleasure in our salad, then where would we be? We'd get we'd not get
distracted. That's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
able to stand for a long time at night, even though his feet got
swollen
and enjoy his prayer.
Am I when somebody said look have mercy on yourself your your feet
are getting swollen? Like sit and pray or you've you've prayed
enough he said no, I need to be thankful to Allah. But it must
have been an experience that he must be gaining. You know,
sometimes you have this food now those who like chili food, some
people just think chili is a good idea. And they just have lots of
chili but there's no balance in the masala
right? The way to understand this is that one is chili. The other
one is balanced in the masala and the spices. If you have too much
chili and the masala is not balanced, it just tastes chilly.
And that just tastes
not very appetizing. But sometimes even if the chili is a bit high,
but the masala is balanced, you're enjoying the masala you're not
you're not used to chilly. So you might be sweating, your nose will
be running, your eyes will be watering, but you will be enjoying
the food. So there's a pain and a pleasure relationship at that
time. So maybe it's something to do with that. This is how some
orlimar have explained it sometimes, right? That's when you
get Hala to the man believe me that Allah MA and this is another
Hadith it says if you get the Hello Atilla Eman the whole
practicing the faith becomes easy. mazhab ehresmann Allah Allah give
us hello to Iman. One way to get it is just avoid just keep avoid
looking at what's haram and sha Allah Allah will give us that
sweetness.
There's another Hadith the Imam job that job ID or the Alon
relates from Anasazi Allahu Anhu the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said five things will break a fast
meaning you will internally break the fast.
First Adalja your follow the your obligation will be fine. But your
fast will be broken in in the sight of Allah subhanho wa taala.
So there'll be no acceptance. That means you've just stayed hungry
and your father is done. You don't have to do
the five things are lying. Any kind of lying. Riba backbiting,
Nima, which is Tilbury either say we're
taking somebody's story from here to the other just to cause a
gossip or discussion. And number four, is false oaths.
Taking a custom lying, right to sell something maybe Wallahi
there's nothing wrong with this card.
Right, I swear an oath. You know, when not Ruby chahatein and
looking with desire at something which is haram. These five things
actually break the fast.
Internally, they break the fast.
That was the first thing. The second thing out of the six that
Imam Ghazali says to make the to upgrade the first is to protect
the tongue. Protect the tongue from foolishness, saying foolish
things, silly things, messing around. Yes, maybe a light joke
just to brighten up the day would be okay, but just messing around.
And just acting foolish to lie, rebut from the tongue Nyima to be
vulgar with the tongue to swear. Those people have to be very
careful who are in there in vocations and industries that
swearing is fine in those industries.
Do you know that there are certain vocations and jobs where swearing
is fine
builders?
I know one Molana he's he's a builder. And he said it's so
difficult because everybody swears in this and God kami says shelter
and is probably other vocations like that as well as any other
vocation like that any other occupations where swearing is
fine.
Anybody No?
No, everybody comes from very decent ones. Mashallah. So nobody
knows. Okay. But anyway, this is to be vulgar.
To be vulgar, to say, things of that nature to argue to conflict
with somebody.
The person should stay more silent than say anything, what exam or
who Asuquo thesis try to stay silent as much as possible.
And stay occupied with the remembrance of Allah and with the
Tilawat of the Quran. He says this is the fasting of the tongue. Now
I'll tell you how to do this. Which if you in Ramadan, because
every moment is so valuable, right.
For example, Sheikh Ahmed said Hindi Rahmatullah Ali, which I did
away with it, he says that every moment Allah subhanaw taala has
concentrated huge amounts of blessing and baraka and
forgiveness and mercy into small moments, every single small moment
of Ramadan.
So, we need to benefit from every moment.
So what you can do
is
even when you're coming to the masjid and going back from the
worship, okay in the masjid, you're going to be focused on your
Quran reading or whatever. But even coming to the masjid and
going back home, going to work, coming back from work, have
something in there that you're going to do. If you don't have
something, then we'll just either be really trying to read a
newspaper on our phone or doing some other wasting.
So I'm going to do this much the speed like if you're not a hobby,
if you're a hobbyist of the Quran, then it's very easy for you. I'm
going to read half a Sebata going to work. I'm going to read
quarters about going to the masjid Kota. Sebata coming back cottages,
very easy. If you don't, if you're not a half of the Quran, and you
don't know that much, that's fine. I'm going to do this much the
speed going to the masjid, and coming back. What happens now is
as soon as I go out of the masjid, I've got to do my quarter to a
half super until I get home. Otherwise, I feel I've not done
it. So if somebody tries to talk to me, now if it's a muscle
outside like myself, I'll answer the question but then I'll be
looking at my Quran so that they get a point as what they get the
point that hey, you don't have time to waste. Otherwise, what
happens is we wasted a lot of time standing outside and talking,
whether it'd be after taraweeh after vigil or whatever. Now I
know there's somebody might say that's not very harmful. A little
discussion is okay, but to waste time like that, and not to
maximize our time. So the easy way is just have a certain amount of
of God at SB SubhanAllah. That could be Allahu Akbar, Al
Hamdulillah, whatever you're going to do, and then you aren't having
it because you have something to do to be focused. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, fasting is a shield. Uh, so
Medina, fasting is a shield.
So how is it a shield? How is fasting a shield, you have to make
it a shield, you have to treat it, I am fasting, so I can't do X, Y
and Zed. So when one of you is fasting, he should not say
anything which is vulgar and dirty, and he should not act
ignorantly. If there is a person who tries to confront him, argue
with him, swear at him, say bad things to him. He should just say
in the site him in the side. I'm fasting. I'm fasting.
That should be enough to tell him look, we don't do this during
fasts, or it's a reminder to myself, I don't want to get
involved because I'm fasting. Otherwise, I'm going to break my
fast. Meaning I'm going to spoil my fast.
This is a very interesting story that Imam Ahmed has related in his
Muslim that once in the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. There are two women who fasted and they became extremely
hungry. They couldn't take it anymore. So they sent somebody to
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam to ask him for a fatwa. Can we break
our fast because we have some extreme hunger. It was abnormal,
abnormal, it wasn't usual, felt very, very hungry. Now the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam understood so instead of giving them an answer,
he sent them a bowl, a large bowl, and he said to them, tell them, he
sent a message that tell them to vomit in here. So one of them
vomited. Then the other one vomited. What they vomited was
absolutely fresh blood and fresh meat, raw meat, fresh blood and
fresh raw meat.
People were obviously very, very surprised by this, but what is
happening here the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
that while these two people this is the interesting part, these two
people, these two women, they were fasting and staying away from
things that were halal for them. Which means if they had normal
rice, or food that would have been halal for them. They were fasting
from that. But they were breaking their fast on something which is
haram. So they're avoiding halal, but they, they are consuming
haram. What they were doing is they were sitting there, they had
not much else to do. They started doing habits.
They started backbiting. She's like this, he's like this, she's
that way. She's that way. And he did this and he did that. It's a
good time to pass time. It's a very enjoyable time to pass time.
A lot of people find that very enjoyable.
And in some cultures, this is how people pass time, especially in
villages, especially in smaller areas where there's not much else
going on. That's the past thing. I remember once I was in a house in
a village, right? And I had told the person that look, don't let
anybody because I've got some work to do. So I was doing some work
and then I rested. And then in the evening, one of the brothers who
said I came earlier I said yeah okay come Was it some work or
something? He said no, I just came to help you pass time
because that's what happens go may say you are the low carb pastime
Canada Rio dicing or coach or machine learning author KTR gave
him a pastime can we just talk? What do you talk about?
Right? You just talk about everything and
You think that's why in villages everybody knows what everybody's
doing, because the word just gets around. It's very, very, very
harmful. It's very, very harmful. So these two decided that they're
going to do some ribbon. And as Allah subhanaw taala says in the
Quran
that well Don't, don't do Heba because when you do Heba de would
you like to be consuming your dead brother's flesh? In this case?
Allah subhanho wa Taala through this Marchesa he showed this to
become a reality now you might be thinking that I've done it but
before I don't know if there's any fresh blood and you know fresh
fresh meat in my stomach well just vomit and see if it is this is a
special case scenario anyway, but I mean try it do some rebirth and
then and then vomit and see if any fresh blood comes out or fresh
fresh meat comes out I know it sounds a bit weird sounds a bit
strange for people to hear that but I mean I guess we never do
that anyway. Allah Tala projectors.
Number three, two, this is number three is to avoid listening to
anything which is wrong. That means or anything which is
undesirable that would be music listening to argumentation
listening to rebut is also one of them.
Even if you're not doing and you're you're sitting down and say
this BB portray but you're listening to me but and you're
enjoying it. That's the problem.
Because Allah says in the Quran, Sama una Lil qldb occur Lunella
salt
those people who listen to the wrong
and the people who do the wrong who say the wrong they both the
same thing.
In fact, in another verse, Allah says Lola and her home will rub
burning you and I will about one called human ithmb Oklahoma's
search that people of God among the Bani Israel there are people
of Allah, those who are supposed to be religious, and they're
scholars, why did they not stop the others from doing sinful talk
and from lying.
They used to listen to them and they wouldn't stop them.
So they get the same, they get the same punishment for doing that in
Nicomedia methylome then you're just like them Allah subhanaw
taala says
number four, he says number four, now this is to then protect the
rest of the limbs, which means the hands and the feet from going
towards the Haram from touching the Haram from moving the haram.
And also, another point is the stomach to protect the stomach
from any kind of doubtful things or if daddy time is also
important. What does that mean by doubtful things that if study time
is saying Imam Hassan Rahmatullah he says, What's the point of
staying away from dawn to sunset from halal food
the chicken in your fridge?
Right your serial, whatever you eat, right? You stay away from
that and then when it comes to Iftar time you do Iftar on haram
foods
what is haram foods is that this is just like his example is like
you're building this huge mansion for the people of the area but you
destroy the whole village here this is a mentally destroyed the
village and everything that they have
is like you're not letting the you're not letting the supplies in
and you you're creating appear to bring supplies in from there as
though that's going to be allowed or that somehow something better
or your air dropping and killing people in the process.
So
this, you might be thinking, if he's Where's he gonna get this
haram food from?
What is haram food or Iftar?
Or doubtful food after what is that? Well, of course if it is
clearly doubtful, that's doubtful, or if it's used. If it's purchased
by haram means and that's doubtful or haram. Right? He's not talking.
He's saying this. He's saying that halal food can become harmful.
When you have too much of it.
The small amount of Halal food is fine. Too much of haram halal food
becomes harmful.
Having too many different types of foods becomes harmful for you.
The whole purpose of fasting the whole purpose that Allah has made
us fast is to actually decrease our food during the whole month.
So
it's like somebody who
has, who doesn't take too much medicine, but then goes and takes
a small amount of haram medicine, sorry, a small amount of poisonous
medicine. What's the point of that?
You're trying to avoid one thing but you're falling into a greater
problem.
So he's saying that
number one if you are consuming haram so you're avoiding halal
food during the day and then if third time you're getting
something which is haram. What's the point of that?
Some people are very ignorant about what Halal and Haram is.
I've been to Masjid in America where you would go and there'll be
an Iftar they'll be serving people food and the chicken that they
bought the rotisserie chicken from Costco
because they think it's have
so many people in America there's a fatwa that that's okay. As long
as because they think Christians a soldier, you have no idea that
the guy who's slaughtering might be a atheist or Buddhist, they
might be swearing while he's slaughtering is not a Christian,
just because it's assume there's some scholars in some Muslim
countries who think that America is a Christian country. So that
means all the food there must be Christian, which means and Allah
has said in the Quran that the Christian food is halal for you
just as the Jewish food is, so it should be halal. Completely
baseless understanding.
So I remember I said where's the chicken when we said Costco said
Costco doesn't sell Halal chicken, right. Costco used to sell these
hot you know, roasted chicken. So they brought that
so it took a while for us to clear that up with people and say look,
be very careful about this. This is not halal. Only Halal are going
to some fatwas, which we don't agree with.
So one has to be very very careful we get they get their money for
them, they halal food for the food from and whether the food is
actually halal or not. Because otherwise, it is like a poison.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that how many people
fast how many fasting people there are, but they don't get anything
out of their fasting except hunger and thirst. So they stayed hungry
and for 14 hours they stayed hungry and thirsty.
So somebody said Is this somebody who has done Iftar on haram
so he said no, this is somebody who stayed away from halal food
during the daytime and then he did he but in the he did rebirth of
people and ate the Haram fresh flesh, because to do he but if
somebody is like eating their flesh.
So what Imam Ghazali is saying is that you stay away from halal food
during the daytime and Iftar time you have abundant and that's
harmful for you. So that is then he specifically speaks about that
as the fifth point. And he says that if third time you then
stuffed your stomach.
And he says that there is no vessel container, which is worse
to fill up. More More hated according to Allah subhanaw taala
than the stomach. So even if we stuffed the stomach with halal
food, it is not liked by Allah subhanaw taala is considered
blameworthy. Right now this is where he brings his main point, he
says the purpose of fasting was to destroy the enemy of Allah
subhanaw taala, which has shaped on not let the shaytaan have an
effect against us
how the shaytaan get an effect against us. If we eat too much, we
become a bit lazy, we become too relaxed. And that's where we don't
feel like doing good deeds. And it's easier to do bad deeds.
That's the assumption and that's the understanding. So he's saying
that when we eat too much, we're actually helping the shaytan
against us, whereas fasting was to lessen the food, minimize the food
so that we get some kind of control over the shaytaan and
learn how to control it. Even though shaytan is not there
anymore, but he's left so many habits that we have that we will
do because of having too much food. So a lot of people what they
do he said is that because they don't have lunch, they have
prepared a double meal and they try to eat a double meal at Iftar
time.
And that's very harmful. The purpose is the Iftar time only
have one meal. I think that's the the simplest practical way to do
this at Iftar time. Just have one meal don't have equivalent to two
meals we can only eat so much there's no point stretching the
stomach sec.
He says the whole spirit of fasting rule of the first thing is
to weaken
is to actually weaken the energy to weaken the person's capability
by which they they feel bold enough to do haram acts bold
enough to go and do things. It's to actually weaken. This is a very
interesting point. He says you can't get that unless you eat
less. Because when you're full up there
and you feel confident, you feel energized, that you want to do
whatever it is that you're let's go and do it. Now, how are you
feeling right now? Do you feel very energized? Because you're
fasting, I just need to give it time do you feel energized? Not
really, we're feeling a sense of weakness. I used to really feel
bad about this sense of weaknesses I'm going to share with you, you
know, when you're fasting, especially when the first is a bit
long and you feel weak.
You feel you don't feel as confident as usual, to go and do
whatever you don't feel like doing it. So I used to feel bad, though
I'm not healthy enough is that way. Because you assume that if
it's a healthy person, then they should be able to go 10 hours and
they should be as strong as ever they should be able to do what
they are or what they whatever they want. No. What do you mean,
because it explains is that look, he says, the adab of the fast is
that you decrease your sleeping with taraweeh, etc.
And in the daytime, you decrease your eating and even in the
evening. So that way is this dot Falco and you actually feel a
weakness.
You actually feel a camaraderie as they say, comes only muscles hope
you feel a weakness.
Why? What's the benefit of that? When you feel weakness when you've
had less sleep? Right? When you've had less food, and you stayed
hungry, you get a bit destabilized? And that's a good
thing because you think more what am I doing? Why am I like this?
Skirt? yada yada? What should I be doing? You start making better
choices in life.
You wonder what you're doing is right or wrong. For your school in
the valley Calvo Imam Ghazali saying that that's when your heart
becomes purified, because your thoughts are getting corrected.
And it's good to have that continue into the evening to have
that bit of weakness continue in the evening.
If that happens, your heart will become clearer and the blessings
from Allah subhanho wa Taala will descend and in sha Allah you in
your evenings and especially in your DADGAD you will be able to
really benefit from Allah subhanho wa Taala opening up many things
for you.
Now I don't feel guilty that I'm feeling a bit tired. I feel that
this is what is the purpose of the fast I should just use it to
contemplate to think what is the best way to do this. Then he says
if you do this well enough by the 27th Nights whenever is later to
cuddle. On that night of your worship Allah subhanho wa Taala
will open up many mysteries for you. Many realities will dawn on
you.
Many, many great things will happen to you in an Zelena who
feel a little cuddle, we reveal that in the Night of Qadr to give
that special blessing to people. So Alhamdulillah we do worship in
the night of Qatar and you know in Laila to Qatar and so on. But this
is it's to try to minimize the food or if storytime is to
minimize the food and not eat a double meal.
He says that whoever keeps His stomach less, less full.
Then in sha Allah the veils will start to be lost, the veils will
start to be lifted, shake up shaytans veils will be lifted, and
a person will have more direct connection with Allah subhanaw
taala.
And the last point he makes the sixth way to get an upgrade in our
fast. So it was to protect the eyes, protect the tongue, protect
the ears, protect the limbs of the body, protect the stomach, not eat
too much. That was the five points. The six point what's left
is that when you're doing Iftar if daddy time your heart should be in
between fear and hope. On the one hand you said Hamdulillah I
fastest Allah gave me two feet too fast. sha Allah Allah loves
fasting fasting is for Allah, I'm going to get close to Allah. But
on the other hand, we have this fear that is my fast accepted. Did
I break my fast somehow? Not I know I didn't eat anything or
drink anything or sexual *. But Did I say
something? Do something see something that broke my fast
according to Allah, we need to be in that state. That's how we need
to proceed.
There was a person called criminal case. He was asked, you're a very
very old man.
And
fasting debilitates you it causes you to become so weak and makes
you so important and capable.
He said yes, I'm still going to do it because I'm preparing myself
for the hereafter. I'm preparing myself from against the shaytaan
against the hellfire.
And this is my patience to obey Allah subhanaw taala This is my
type of suburb is to obey Allah subhanho wa Taala that is going to
be a
a lot easier to deal with hunger than to try to deal with the
punishment of the Hellfire. They both resilience This is resilience
from eating that is resilient against a hellfire. This is
easier, even though I'm so old and so on. Just I went to Sweden for a
day,
two days ago. So at the airport, this brother came in, he said, he
said, Don't worry for him to let him. And then I saw him eating. I
said, What is the middle of that? It was about 10 o'clock or
something like that. I said, How come you eating is that I'm
traveling. That's why I'm not fasting. I said, the masala the
ruling is that it's you're only allowed to not fast because
travelers don't have to fast as Allah mentions in the Quran. But
that's only when they are already a traveler at any time at Fajr
time. So they've entered as a traveler, so if I'm already on my
way, I'm already somewhere else's traveler. I don't have to fast
though. It's better to have us. I don't have to. He had become a
traveler afterwards. Right? So I said that the majority this is
their understanding is that you have to be a traveler too fast.
The flight is a two hour flight, less than a two hour flight. And
literally, it's like going from here to Blackburn. You go one and
a half hours to the airport. It's a two hour flight and you're
there. It's like going up north.
That's how much it was. That was maybe a Rosani Erica, you know,
this is short fast to start with anyway. And when you go there,
you're gonna have you're gonna fast one hour less because the if
that is one hour earlier, Mashallah. So, it's, it's better
to fast because there's so much benefit in fasting, there's so
much benefit in fasting. When I go to Australia. From here to
Melbourne, I do nearly one and a half fast on the way you do any
study, then you do another Saturday. And by the time you get
a study again, right? On the way back though, it becomes like a 23
hour fast.
Or 25 hours.
Right now, it'll be a bit shorter. But in the in the days, you know,
four or five years ago, used to become 23 to 25. Our fast because
there before us, you sit there after after surgery. And when you
get here, it's still five o'clock or four o'clock. And there's still
four hours left 530 Right. So but it was it because I fasted, I said
I'm going to start the fast. If it gets tough, I'll break it is
permissible, if it gets tough.
ajibola made it very easy. I didn't have to break it. Allah
gives a lot of him a lot of humor to do that. So these are the
internal aspects of fasting that are very important for many, many
years we've been fasting and not focused on these aspects. Let us
get our fasting to the second level at least which is the
fasting of the special people who avoid
these things which break the fast from that from looking at
something hearing something saying something doing something or they
are not careful. Allah subhanaw taala give us the Tofig to
understand this and to improve our fasting and Allah subhanho wa
Taala make our fasting of the hustles work you will not run out
until hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen alojamento Silla Mamuka salam to
Bharatiya vigilante Willie Quran Allah homea havia beyond mythic
and studies Allahumma Yohanan Yom Ananda la isla Subhan Allah in the
Quran I mean nobody mean just Allah Who and Muhammad Allah
Allah, Allah have mercy on us. Yeah Allah have mercy on this
ummah yeah Allah have mercy on your on your beloved servants.
Yeah, Allah the Almighty struggling in many many places.
Yeah Allah, Allah Allah we ask you for your special mercy during this
month of Ramadan. This month is a month in which you are most
generous here Allah you have closed the doors of hellfire and
open the doors of paradisio Allah you've taken away the shell team
of Allah you have increased all obligatory worships to 70 times
they reorder Allah, O Allah, we see the effects of your mercy on
the earth people spend more in feeding others than they ever do
during other times they give more in charity or Allah during this
month and other times oh Allah we ask that you also give us some of
your generosity Allah we need your generosity Allah we need your
special attention we need your special mercy we need your special
blessings we need from your Allah use your your special attention
yeah Allah to bless us and Allah make this Ramadan better than any
before it here Allah Oh ALLAH upgrade our fasting and our our
Ramadan and our profile during this month make our fasting of the
cos fasting of the special people's fasting your Allah allow
us to fast in a complete way Allah improve and enhance our fasting
yeah Allah for many years we've been doing the standard fasting
Allah allow us to be complete in every aspect and then accept it
from ASEAN Allah. Ya Allah we thank you for you're the one who
gives us the ability to fast in the first place. If you did not
give us the ability and the strength we will not be able to
foresee Allah Now that you've given
has the ability and the strength to fast Oh Allah allow it to be a
good first year Allah allow it to be a beautiful fast allow it to be
an accepted Vasya Allah. Oh Allah we ask that you forgive us all of
our sins every night of this Ramadan you are writing people to
be freed from hellfire, Ya Allah allow us to also find the space in
that list. Allow us to also find a place there. Oh Allah forgive us
all of our wrongdoings all of our sins. All of our negligence is
Yeah, our transgressions, our violations, our sins, and oh Allah
all all the problems that we've had, whether we remember them and
especially those that we have forgotten Yeah, Allah forgive us
all. And Oh Allah, forgive us for those sins that bring trouble in
our lives. Forgive us those sins which take the blessing out of our
life, the baraka out of our homes that turn people against one
another that cause people to conflict with one another. Oh
Allah, and we especially asked you forgiveness, from those sins that
have now become part of our life. And we don't even consider them
sins anymore. Yeah, Allah, Allah if we die in this state, then
these sins will rear their ugly head in the hereafter and they
will condemn us Yeah, Allah. Oh Allah we asked you protection from
from hellfire. Oh Allah we ask you protection from your displeasure
Allah, we ask you for your pleasure Allah make us of those
that you are happy with. Make us like those that you want us to be.
Make us like your close servants here Allah, Oh Allah we ask that
you protect our brothers and sisters and grant them relief and
delivery and freedom from all of the oppression that they are
going. They are going through our Allah those who have been killed
of Allah make them your martyrs yeah Allah and Allah Allah those
who have been injured and those who have lost yet Allah grant them
much better grant them sovereign patience and steadfastness and
fortitude and Allah grant them connection with you and oh Allah
grant grant them much better than they are they have lost yeah
Allah. Oh Allah we ask you protection for our our families
and our children and ourselves from all the evils and all the
wrongs which are out there Allah Oh ALLAH sisters and help us. Oh
Allah we want you to keep this deen and the Sunnah of your
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in our families,
in our descendants, our grandchildren, great
grandchildren, all the way until the day of judgment here Allah
this is a far place to think about but Oh Allah, we are concerned
here Allah that you protect them as well yet Allah, Allah that you
make us of those of Allah who do something for your team, who are
productive individuals, oh Allah accept all the worships that we do
allow us to have a worship for every moment of our time. Oh Allah
do not allow us to waste any time during this month especially
during this month. Make us closer to you than we've ever been before
your Allah make this Ramadan more blessing and illuminated than it's
ever been before for us yeah Allah and Allah Allah keep us close to
you even after the month has passed. Subhana Allah be gobblers,
if you am my OC fauna was salam al more serene our Hamdulillah.
The point of the 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 Dean 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 insha Allah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you will 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 Accola here in Santa Monica
when I have to live record