Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Ramadan Virtues and Common Questions

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The importance of fasting during the year is emphasized, as it is necessary to avoid causing confusion and embarrassment. The speaker emphasizes the need for practice and fasting to increase one's weight and energy levels, as well as avoiding dangerous items and touching people. The importance of understanding the Quran and using apps for cooking is also emphasized, as well as the benefits of fasting during pregnancy and medical conditions. The speaker encourages people to take a serious study and practice learning seriously to become more aware of Islam.
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Most people tend to give money and there's a God during Ramadan.

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Otherwise Ramadan has no special connection with the gods. They

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told totally two different things. There's no special connection of

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Ramadan and God but because the card is formed and Allah promises

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seven times that amount some people like to give it their

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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam or either Naga Ruthie

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Ramadan Delilah mean what are the early he or Sakai Baraka was

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seldom at the Sleeman cathedral ala yo Medina Amara

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called Allahu Terra Darfield Quran emoji they will for Karmiel Hamid

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shahrul Ramadan Allah the own Zilla V Hill Quran, Salah kala who

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loving their brothers,

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their sisters and dear friends dear Adama.

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It's my honor to be here. I gave a similar program, maybe about 10

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years ago, I can't remember exactly which here but it was a

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very long time ago. I don't know if any of you were here at that

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time. It was about 10 years ago in this Masjid. Mashallah.

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So, the topic is the fear of Ramadan. I don't want to bore you

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with too much Fick. Too much of the Messiah but I'm going to

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mention a few things and then inshallah we can open it for any

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questions related to Ramadan. Inshallah, that will be easier

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that I deal with the questions that you may have than me trying

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to confuse you with new questions that you may not have any

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confusion about, inshallah. So firstly, I think, look, when I

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look around here, I don't think there is anybody for whom it's

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going to be there first Ramadan? Is there anybody who this Ramadan

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in one over a week's time is going to be there first Ramadan?

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Anybody like that? Mashallah. Many of us are veterans in Ramadan, we

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have many, many Ramadan's we have done. So why are we having this

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program for we do it every year? Everybody's quite professional, of

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how to spend Ramadan. Everybody has their own arrangement in

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Ramadan. So what are we doing this program for? Right, especially to

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three hours program is a very long program for Ramadan. If you think

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about it, however, the reason is that

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this Ramadan, that's coming up my motivation for this Ramadan that's

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coming up is that may Allah make it better than any Ramadan before

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it.

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I mean, that should be our focus in every Ramadan that comes up

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because every Ramadan that comes up new one is a another chance for

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us to get that much closer to Allah.

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There's very few other times unless you go for hygiene, maybe

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that you can actually get closer to Allah.

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And there are so many rewards on offer, as there is in Ramadan.

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There was a

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there's a hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it

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says that if somebody missed the fast of Ramadan,

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so my little brother here, he plays football. And he said, You

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know what, I've got a big football match today. So I'm not going to

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fast today because I'm going to get tired. So I'm not going to

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fast. He doesn't do that. He doesn't you don't do that to you,

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right? But imagine somebody or somebody said, I've got a big

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business meeting, I have to look old, fresh. And I have to take out

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my big business client out to lunch is going to look strange. If

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I'm fasting, you know. So they decide, I'll keep it later. I'll

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miss one day of Ramadan. It's just I'm not breaking it. I'm just

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missing it.

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So after Ramadan, then he feels very sorry about it and regretful

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and he decides that he's going to fast the entire year.

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The hadith mentions that you can't, you can't get the same

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reward that you missed for that one day. Okay, your cover will be

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done.

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But you can't get the same reward. Allah has just increased

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everything in Ramadan. And you feel it, it's scientific, you

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actually feel it. I don't know if there's any Muslim who doesn't

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feel different in Ramadan. As soon as Ramadan is declared, you start

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feeling different.

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Why? Because Allah has made many changes.

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Allah makes one change of locking up the doors of *. Closes the

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doors of hellfire. You want to go to * in Ramadan, you have to

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break in. You have to be really serious and really committed

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sinner if you want to go to Ramallah, to hellfire in Ramadan,

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he opens up the doors of Paradise.

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You want to come Bismillah very easy.

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And then he locks up the shaytaan

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Shayateen are locked up. That's why we generally feel a lot more

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pious, righteous, we want to pray more.

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Everything has changed in Ramadan. There's so much Baraka in Ramadan.

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The amount of the amount of food that people feed in

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Ramadan is probably not replicated throughout the year

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in Ramadan our women mashallah who cook even though they're fasting

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they get ajeeb ability to make all of these new foods they make

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history in Ramadan only

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you don't make it from that from throughout the only Ramadan they

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get him to do this

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and all of this other food as well.

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Right?

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They make all of these amazing foods in Ramadan Not that that's

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what Ramadan is for but I'm just saying that this is what happens

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masajid are feeding people. Allah is generous in Ramadan. That's why

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his generosity is spreading everywhere. How is Allah generous?

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He's opened the doors of paradise he has closed the doors of

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hellfire locked up the shaytaan then he said something and he

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said, you know all of the fora and obligations which you must do

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anyway. You have to pray namaz, you have to fast I know you have

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to do it because I've obligated you to do it, but you know what

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I'm going to give you 70 times the reward for it in this month.

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Now, if you have another shop somewhere, which is closing down,

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or they have offered they give you what Buy One Get One Free,

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maybe buy one get two free, maybe 60% Off 70% Off, nobody gives you

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buy one gets 70 free.

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Nobody gives you that only Allah does and that's for something we

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have to do anyway.

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It's our obligation as slaves of Allah to do it. He says no, I'm

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gonna give you a reward for it. I know you have to do it, but I want

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you to get the reward and for any other worship, I'm going to

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increase it to the same as a fourth worship any Knuffle worship

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I'm going to increase to that worship. So now you can see that

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Allah is making a massive difference

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and it says that the Prophet sallallahu son was very generous

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and he was most generous in Ramadan when he used to read to

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Jabril Elisa the Quran

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so now

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what we have is our Ramadan is if we've done 20 Ramadan before has

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our you know last year's Ramadan that we did, how different was it

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from Ramadan 10 years ago?

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Was there much difference?

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So if we prayed this much Quran 10 years ago, we're still praying the

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same amount of Quran

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if we give this much sadaqa that's still how much we're giving

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it's like we've got it set we're never going to we're never going

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to go beyond that unless you're doing

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so much that you can't do any more mashallah, there are some people

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know that time is they can't do any more in Ramadan unless Allah

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opens up more time for them because they regulate their

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Ramadan and fix it in such a way that no time is wasted no moment

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is wasted

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but most of us aren't like that right? So I'll give you a few

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examples.

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young brothers when they finish college and they're going to get

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go and get their first job, they're going for an interview.

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Now usually you have to have like a blazer or something look a bit

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formal right?

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To go for interview

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and you don't have a blazer you just need a blazer. So a blazer

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from Primark will be okay right.

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A blazer from as the

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a jacket from as the we should be okay for the first meeting.

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After a few years, will you still wear a blazer from Primark?

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What's wrong with primer?

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Right? You know what I mean? Then it becomes we need designer it

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needs to be Gucci canali, Giorgio Armani then maybe it needs to be

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handstitch ones you know, especially for you because we

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moved up in the world.

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A young man he needs a car any car is fine, give me a banger. It's

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okay. After a few years no, I need this car.

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In everything we become mashallah more refined, we become more

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professional, we become more particular, in everything.

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Even in Job buzz, we become particular in a little kid. Have

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you got a phone?

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Now? Would you be happy if you got a phone?

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If I gave you like a old very old phone would you be happy with

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that? I'll still be okay. Right? Yeah.

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Any phone works. Now, if I ask our older brother I mean any phone

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works for you know, you're gonna need a special phone now you know,

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so, but when it comes to Ramadan, we're still doing what we used to

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do before we're still on beta version. We haven't upgraded

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we haven't upgraded we're still doing what we did before the you

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know, off the shelf, no frills brand version that we've been

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doing. And we think that's okay. Allah subhanaw taala is actually

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in Ramadan giving us making so much changes giving us an excuse

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to do better. That's why

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My dua May Allah accept it all of us is always every Ramadan ya

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Allah make this Ramadan better than any Ramadan before it make me

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closer to you than I've ever been before, raise my Eman to a level

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I've never been before and maintain it for me, that's the

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most important thing.

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Now the way to

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get the most out of Ramadan is obviously to do it correctly.

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And to time everything. If you want to be efficient in anything

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you need to time everything. Let's just say you're going for a trip

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to Turkey,

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you're so busy, you have no time to check out where to go to what

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the tourist spots are you just heard is good, very good, big nice

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Masjid good food, good markets that you heard from your friends.

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So you book a ticket and you're so busy, you didn't check and then

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suddenly you get on the flight and you go. And when you go there,

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then you know you broke out, you've booked a hotel, and now

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you're looking where should I go, you're gonna waste so much time in

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finding out where to go, you only got three days. But if you have

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everything booked from before,

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I'm going to do this on this day, this at this time and this much on

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this day, Inshallah, you're gonna have a lot more bargaining time.

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This is what our orlimar tell us as well. And this is what any

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productivity expert, anybody who's efficient will tell you the same

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thing we need to be organized.

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So in Ramadan, our schedule needs to be organized around the salaat

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the masjid the first thing, and if we're still working, then our work

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and see in between. So we don't have to do for example, we don't

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have lunch, because we're fasting. So in lunch, what can I do to

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replace it? Should I just sit and relax and do social media, watch

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some WhatsApp videos and things like this? Or what should I do?

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No, I've got to have 45 minutes or one hour for my lunch break. I'm

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going to read one juice inside there. And we read my daughter and

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I'm going to read one juice in there. And I'm going to do X, Y

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and Zed. When I come back I'm going to relax a bit then I'm

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going to go to the masjid and I'm going to stay in the masjid from

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this time to this time and I'm going to do this many prayers this

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many Kadar prayers this much Tahajjud prayer.

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The best way to do it is to organize it with the family.

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That's a topic I'm going to discuss more Inshallah, in the

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other masjid, but it's to organize with the family, the team

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with the whole family in place. So

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that is just some encouragement and some motivation that Allah

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subhanaw taala will make this Ramadan good for us

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in terms of the thick of Ramadan

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I'm going to open it up to questions but I'll just mention a

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few things regarding fasting taraweeh tick off and zakat just

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so that certain things that come into my mind that I think may be

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useful and then after that inshallah if you have any

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questions you can ask that. So as you know, that if somebody eats in

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Ramadan, forgetting his fasting

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so first day of Ramadan or second day of Ramadan and there's some

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sweets, there are some biscuits there are some coffee there and

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you're feeling tired, and you just start drinking some coffee.

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You didn't realize you're fasting

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you even if you had a full meal your fasting will not break Allah

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has that's that has been forgiven.

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Yes, in one month he does break but in our math, in most of them

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either it does not break.

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However, if you eat by mistake, or you put something down your throat

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by mistake, it will break. Mistake is different from forgetting.

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Mistake means for example, if I was washing my mouth

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in

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wudu and I wasn't careful if you're not careful, like you start

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gargling and some water went down that will break the fast. You have

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to make it up later.

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Of course if you eat on purpose, knowing you're fasting and you eat

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on purpose, then that's Kedah and Guevara, which means 6060 Fasting

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like that. But that's an important distinction between those things.

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Now one other thing that people might not know if you break your

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fast by mistake, for example by

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taking water down while you're washing your mouth or something so

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when we wash when we do we do we should wash looking down so that

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the water doesn't accidentally go down the throat and you should not

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gargle.

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gargling should be avoided. gargling means to you know, take

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the water and gargle in the throat that's very dangerous. So we don't

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want to do that. Also, we don't want to be close to people smoking

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or behold.

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If you're going past and some of it went down, it's okay that won't

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break it but if you stand there and you take the smoke in, that

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will break the fast because you're doing it purposely.

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Likewise, when a woman is cooking or anybody is cooking in the steam

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If you're in a restaurant you're cooking and steam

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as long as you're not purposely taking it and enjoying it

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mashallah, this is some nice

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then do the chicken or cry ghost or something and I can't eat it

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but, you know, let me enjoy the vapor then that could break your

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fast because you're taking the steam inside from it. But if it's

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just like that and you're trying to avoid it, that that should not

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break your advice. So that's regarding fasting

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regarding

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comes a cut.

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Most people tend to give money and there's a cut during Ramadan.

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Otherwise Ramadan has no special connection with the gods. They

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told totally two different things. There's no special connection of

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Ramadan and zakat, but because the card is formed, and Allah promises

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seven times that amount so people like to give it there.

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If I was a cat is the cat works. The way is the cat works is

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let's just say that

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the first time I received any saw was the cat which is about

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300 pounds, which is the minimum

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I don't pay the cost straightaway. This is not like income tax where

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you pay on every pound you make.

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If I make 300 pounds now I've got 300 pounds. My year will begin

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from here. I have to base the god the next year.

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Now most of us already have some money. So our year has probably

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started already.

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So

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the next year Islamic here on that same date.

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I can just say the first of Shaban is when I got 300 pounds for the

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first day.

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I'm going to check next year on the first of Shabba doo, I still

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have minimum

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nisab of zakat, which is about 300 pounds. If I do, then whatever I

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have on this day, I have to give 2.5% of this

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on the 30th of the previous month before the first of Shaban if I

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had

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5000 pounds, but I had a big, I had to buy a car. So I spent four

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and a half 1000 pounds yesterday, and today's major car dates. And

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when you have 500 pounds left, I only pays the garden 500 pounds.

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As long as I didn't do that to get away from it.

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Even if he did do that, you still only have to pay by his bed.

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Right? Some people they

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do a bit of a trick.

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They take all of their money the day before there's a cost issue

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and they say to their wife, you've been such a good woman. I'm gonna

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give this all to you.

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So he gives it all to us. So he has zero the next day. That's

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cheating.

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Okay, this is the joke. You shouldn't be doing that anyway,

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just in case you like what? You know. Likewise, if today is my

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second date, but yesterday, I just received 10,000 pounds as

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inheritance all of a sudden, today, I'll have to pay a cut for

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it. Because my year is up, it goes here via the only time the year

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becomes canceled. And starts again later, is if you go down to zero

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anytime. If you go down to zero and you go in debt, or you go down

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to zero, you got nothing left, then your year cancels and you

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start to get from the next time you have any sub circuit. Very

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simple, very simple. So you don't have to worry about what happens

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during the year. As long as you don't go down to zero. You go up

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and down during the year just on the day of years ago. That's the

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day you have to worry how much do I have in money in stock. If

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there's debt owed to me, like I've given somebody a loan, after basic

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art and all of this, i minus my debt, my own debts to somebody

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else, and look at my assets and Bismillah that's what I get.

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So make sure you have a date, you have to have a date.

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And if your date is in the middle of the year, you can't delay to

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pay zakat. Five months later in Ramadan. You have to pay it in

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advance. But what you can do is if your date is five months before

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Ramadan, you can pay

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then then when the next Ramadan comes you can pay zakat in advance

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for the next year.

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Whatever estimate you want to say let's just say I estimate my God

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is going to be 500 pounds, I pay 500 on this Ramadan, then six

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months later when my second date comes I calculate and if it was

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the same amount of hamdulillah if it was more than I pay the rest

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and if it was less than hamdulillah Nephal it's fine. So

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you could do it that way otherwise don't make sure that you as a god

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has to be no it doesn't have to eat. It has to go year to year

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according to the Islamic dates.

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The other thing is about ethical if ethical should be done and it's

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it's a very very strongly emphasized sunnah.

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The province awesome always did it

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ethical for the last 10 days in any masjid, that is a permanent

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place. And that has the five daily prayers there. That's the only

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obligation. This is a permanent masjid, right. So you have that

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tick off, at least it should be one person doing a tick off. If

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nobody in the community has a tick off, then everybody's blameworthy.

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For this, at least this should be one person doing the kickoff. And

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the purpose of ethical is for us to just come into the house of

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Allah and say, Yeah, Allah, I've come to the door of your house.

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And I need to be accepted. I need you to give me all of these,

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whatever I need.

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And Allah is very generous. Allah is very soft and compassionate.

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When he sees somebody making any effort he's willing to give them

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he just wants to see that somebody recognizes him.

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Say that there's a person in hellfire a sinful Muslim who gets

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into hellfire. And he's being punished. After one punishment, he

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suddenly says, didn't My Allah has promised so and so immediately,

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Allah says Get him out because he knows me.

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Allah just wants us to know Him. Recognize him, respect him, honor

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Him and devote ourselves to Him. So let us make some schedules of

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how we can make this Ramadan better than any before it. I'm

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going to give this much more sadaqa I'm going to do this much

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more solid. I'm going to calculate my Kadar prayers and start making

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them up. I'm going to do this much more Quran and in my Quran. See

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we're all getting older and ultimately we're going to meet

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with Allah subhanaw taala so in Quran most of us just focus on

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reading Quran which is read and Masha Allah, Allah Allah except

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our massage, it's they're filled with people mashallah sitting,

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finishing many, many columns. But there are two other aspects of the

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Quran which were missing. One is understanding the Quran.

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Allah subhana wa Taala has sent every one of us have you seen the

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email from Allah that He sent us?

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In?

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Have you guys seen the email from Allah? No. The Quran

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Allah sent an email to us iMessage email, WhatsApp message, whatever

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you want to say.

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And we're gonna go to the here often Allah is gonna say I sent

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you a message, you know, by whatsapp by email.

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Have you did you open it and check it?

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You know, I wanted to. I knew it was there. I knew I had to check

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it, but I never got around to doing it.

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You know, I've had this occasion. I'm very bad with email. Right? So

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some people say Brother, I sent you email.

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I said, Yeah, you're right. I'm really sorry, man. I'm very bad

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with email, you should have sent me a reminder, you're gonna tell

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Allah, Allah sends reminders. This is a reminder.

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So Allah has sent us the Quran Alhamdulillah many of us do read

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it. But how many of us have read the whole thing to understand it

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just once?

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What is Allah telling us? We're not reading it to give it to us.

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You know, we're not looking to become scholars. We're reading it

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to just become aware of Allah. Allah speaking of the Quran, he

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tells us who he is, what he's doing, what he likes, what he

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doesn't like, how He rewards how he punishes what he's done before

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what he will do, it's amazing that the way to get to know Allah is

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through the Quran.

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And we are going to die and we would never have read even at one

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so let us make an effort that this Ramadan right now we're going to

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begin. So by the time we may not be able to finish the whole

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meaning in the Quran fine. This Ramadan, let us make an intention

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that before I die, I want to make sure to at least read it once if

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not two, three, multiple times in sha Allah. So

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if you're spending, let's just say somebody's spending two hours a

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day on the Quran, because you got schoolwork, whatever, you only got

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two hours.

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Many of our retired people have seven, eight hours, maybe 10

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hours. But if you've got two hours, maybe spend 50% of that one

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hour on reading, like you do Ramadan, reading 10 rewards for

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every letter, right? Spend

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25% on understanding get a translation in whichever language

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Bangla how to do English, whichever one you want, and just

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read slowly just read

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what's the third thing then the other 25% Half an hour is to

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memorize

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mashallah many of us know some like 510 15 suitors. But why don't

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we learn more and become a bigger half is half is usually we say for

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the one who learned the whole Quran.

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I mean for just be a bigger office than we are right now. Right now

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we have is of 10 students of his means memorizer we know 20

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service, less than 25 students 30 service. It's very easy in

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Ramadan, the time you spent on reading

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just read like if you don't know your scene by heart Surah Yaseen,

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just start reading it over and over again. Yeah scene one Quran

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Al Hakim? Yeah scene one Quran Al Hakim? Yeah, Scene One Quran il

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Hakima. Scene One Quran hachimura Scene One Quran, you'll get

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faster.

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Because now you know it, you will still get the reward for reading

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because you're still getting reward for every letter 110

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rewards whether you read it for reading or whether you read for

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memorizing, but the benefit is, is that soon you will memorize it.

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When you stand in tahajjud you won't have to just say oh, I only

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know cool Halawa. Good I will be available for luck. You can read

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more when you're traveling you'll be read Quran

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and ultimately in the hereafter. The more Quran you know, that's

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how high you can go in paradise. You may not become full half is

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that's fine.

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But at least we can learn more stories that we know now than we

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know now. So that maybe and if you want to be a half as Bismillah is

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not beyond Allah to make you half is by the way. So may Allah

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subhanaw taala accept I'm going to stop here so that we can allow you

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to ask your questions because it was supposed to be about the thick

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of Ramadan. I don't know how many questions you have, but let us

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begin Inshallah, whether it's about Ramadan, zakat, or Attica,

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otavi. Inshallah, drive

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in my car, if I don't have, can I use my app? Yes, you can. You can

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use your app, you can use your app, and you can just as long as

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you don't touch the words, so from the side, if you move it, it's

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fine. When you read like a translation, you know, same again,

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if you can't touch the translation, you can touch

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commentary, but you can't touch translation. So if it's

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translation, you just move it carefully, without touching the

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actual words, you can touch the meaning or, you know, you can't

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touch the translation. But if there's a commentary with it, you

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could touch that but many don't have commentaries. Again, you just

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be careful and touch an empty space and move the page.

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Particle Lovick. Also, what I'm going to suggest to the sisters,

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is one of the most difficult things in Ramadan is to

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decide what to cook.

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And sometimes the men are not very helpful. They say, What should I

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cook today as I cook whatever you want,

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sometimes easier for a woman to cook something they know. Like

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they know they've planned to cook then to think of what to cook

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sometimes. So mashallah, one secret we found very useful is

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before Ramadan, you actually make a schedule for the whole menu, a

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menu for the whole month. And then you just cook that every day. And

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then you adjusted it makes life easier. Just want to share with

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the women. Yes, brother.

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Okay, some questions here. How do you calculate your Kadar prayers?

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You just think and think and think how many prayers have I missed

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since I became mature, which was about the age of 1314 you get a

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rough estimate, don't over burden yourself just get a rough estimate

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and start and inshallah once you do that,

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then you can always do a few more afterwards to be precautious

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right? And there's two ways there's multiple ways of doing

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this. One way is that a person does one Fudger cover with every

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cover with every new Fudger one Zohar with every lord. What a lot

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of people have told me is they found easier is to do finish off

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one prayer first like get all of your soldiers done.

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Do five or 10 in a day

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if you're okay I'll hamdulillah have no more features left than

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start on your door after maghrib Isha like that. And just keep just

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keep a calculation there are some apps as well that allow you to now

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do keep keep that counts for that as well if you want to, but at

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least if we start inshallah we can de train even if you don't finish

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Allah will help us Inshallah, but if we don't do anything, then it's

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an issue. Likewise for our fosters, well, we should just make

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an estimate.

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And how do we make up missed prayers? Maybe when we were

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younger and didn't pray it's the same thing you just make an

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estimate a rough estimate, and then go with that. Inshallah.

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Please ask for me does a breastfeeding woman whose milk

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supply reduces when she first need to fast her baby isn't on solids

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yet. So this is a needs a more a bit more nuanced answer. Go and

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contact a dietitian. You have dieticians, whether in the

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community or in the doctors to see which there's certain milk sorry,

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there's certain foods

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Would that help in giving you energy and milk production?

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Or shall I in our third world countries, the women would have

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told you that already, you know, there are certain foods that they

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will feed the breastfeeding woman to produce extra milk.

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So it's just mostly mostly it's about a diet. I can't speak for

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everyone. But for most women, it's about a diet, if they get a good

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diet, they can do everything and the fasting are not that long as

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they used to be before.

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However, if you have a medical condition, and you're really,

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really, you've tried everything you're going to really struggle in

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your baby's going to be harmed, then you could have you know, this

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from experience, or good Muslim doctor will tell you the same

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thing, then in that case, you can fast later, outside due color

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instead. But you should try your best by getting a better diet. And

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Allah help you. And does brushing the teeth invalidate your fast as

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some said, You can if you don't swallow. So if you brush your

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teeth with no toothpaste with no flavored stuff, like with miswak,

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or a dry brush, you can brush all day long, right? As long as

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nothing goes down, you're fine. But if you brush with some

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toothpaste, then you're adding the taste. So it's mcru is

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undesirable. And if anything goes down, it will break. Otherwise,

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it's at least undesirable reprehensible, because of the the

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flavor you're adding to that

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some pregnant women can and cannot fast, what is the threshold?

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Same thing as the women who are breastfeeding. If they can change

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their diet, and certain medications and so on, they should

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try to fast a lot of women fast when they're pregnant. There's no

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one rule that if you're pregnant, you don't fast. However, if you

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are very weak and you got some complications

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and it's just try one or two. It's tough, I just can't do it. I'm

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gonna get headaches, I get this I get like severe migraines,

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something, then miss some and then start again. A lot of the time is

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your diet and your medication. And you have so consult with somebody

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specifically about that. But just don't give up just like that.

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Try a few. Then if you get tired, miss it miss one. Try again. And

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because you just can't get that same reward, it's too valuable to

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miss.

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intention for Ramadan fast for Ramadan fast. When's the latest

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time you can keep an intention? And for kava fast? When's the

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latest? What when do you have to know mashallah, in Ramadan, Allah

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has made it specially for Ramadan. So

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if you have an intention like that every time after tarawih, that I'm

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going to get off for Sahul then isn't that an intention for

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fasting the next day, that's the intention. That's enough. You

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don't have to specially say I am fasting tomorrow.

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As long as it's in your mind that I am fasting, that's enough of

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some mud hubs, they have to say it. So I've been to those messages

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and the Imam will make everybody do needs no way to assume a

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garden, and so on. Right? We don't have that because for us, it's

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just your intention is there. If your intention is to wake up on

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Saturday, and you're going to fast your intention is done. In fact,

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even if you did not make intention, or you a half off,

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should I fast tomorrow not because I'm sick. Then in the morning

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after the first began, you did not eat anything. And then you decided

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I'm going to make an intention at nine o'clock in the morning, your

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spouse will still count your intention counts until half the

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day

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after day as far as half the day means from fajr to sunset half

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time, not from sunrise to sunset because that's later not noon, but

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from fajr time to sunset, what is half the time so it's usually an

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hour, half an hour an hour before noon, is where you can make

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intention into Okay, that is for Ramadan.

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Outside Ramadan, if you're going to make kava for Ramadan then your

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intention has to be before visual sight.

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Otherwise if you fast is going to become Nephal fast if you want to

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make it for a makeup fast like today, if you wanted this to be

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cut off fast it had to be the intention had to be from before

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Fajr then this will become cut off otherwise it'll become

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automatically Nephal fast.

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Okay, so that's the intention part. That is just what's in your

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mind.

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Does aka love hate Allah bless you all, they may have been the one

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more hands up but, you know, again, we've got a lot of question

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answers on our fatwa center.org and zum zum Academy has

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A lot of questions and just check the YouTube channel that was

00:35:05 --> 00:35:09

the point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get

00:35:09 --> 00:35:14

further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The

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next step is to actually start learning seriously, to read books

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to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of

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Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware

00:35:25 --> 00:35:29

of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan

00:35:29 --> 00:35:35

courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand

00:35:35 --> 00:35:37

whenever you have free time, especially for example, the

00:35:37 --> 00:35:41

Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials

00:35:41 --> 00:35:46

certificate which you take 20 Short modules, and at the end of

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that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the

00:35:51 --> 00:35:54

most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.

00:35:54 --> 00:35:57

You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,

00:35:57 --> 00:36:00

you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more

00:36:00 --> 00:36:03

sustained study as well as local law here and Salam aleikum wa

00:36:03 --> 00:36:04

rahmatullah wa barakato.

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