Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Some Important Guidance on Ramadan
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Let me let me start off with inshallah the discussion on diet.
Diet plays a really major role in,
in our everyday life.
We are what we eat, as the old adage goes, we are what we eat.
Because what we eat has various different influences and effects
on us.
For example, I was in Scotland last night, or this morning, you
can say, I just got back in, and the Iron Brew, which is the
Scottish National drink, they were actually complaining because
they've reduced the sugar in there, it doesn't taste like it's
supposed to taste.
But there's, as you you've seen a number, it's a very orangish,
yellowish orange kind of deep orange kind of color. To get that
color, they use this particular sunset, orange or whatever, which
is supposed to create hyperactivity in children.
Or people with attention deficit, it's supposed to aggravate the
situation. So there's actually a warning on there
that this may create, and he actually says it on there, but
they still put it in there.
So
that's agreed kind of upon that. Foods effect us in different ways.
According to the hedonistic medicine, according to the early
philosophers like Aristotle and Plato, they can sit they talked
about humors in food.
What that means is that they split food up into those which are
warming foods, and those which are cooling foods. So for example, the
watermelon is supposed to be a cooling foods.
That's why if,
if your mother or grandmother ever told you, if you got a cold or
whatever, that don't do this, you'll get a cold. And the doctors
never say that here.
That's because they're going by those ideas. And in fact, there's
some truth to that because even in the Hadith, were told to combine
between dates and cucumber, for example, dates, and
would you mix the dates to cool it down. Coconut is another one you
can use. Coconut is supposed to be cooling. Dates are supposed to be
warming.
There's different fruits, I like that as well. Some are supposed to
be warming, some are supposed to be cooling.
One is I mean, they're not cold. They're not like they've come out
of the fridge, but they're supposed to be cooling like
watermelon. Of course, if it's cold as well, then that's going to
be even more cooling, physically cooling as well.
So that they try to keep the balance of the body. So now when
we're fasting, the whole point of fasting is that we actually
decrease our foods in all altogether, we actually decrease
our food. But unfortunately, it just seems like we just changed
the timetable. So instead of having lunch and dinner
separately, we try to do a lunch and a half a dinner if data time.
And then so whole time we do dinner and have dinner and full
breakfast. So we end up eating the same amount sometimes and then we
don't have time these days to do a poster or a meal. But then that
sometimes comes in as well.
So the idea of Ramadan as a mana Shabbat Eatonville holiday he said
that he summarized it. He said the point of Ramadan is darkly to Tom
the cleaner Manam and Duck Little Duck Lilo.
Filati Maril awam what that means he says Ramadan is to decrease
your foods,
decrease your sleep, and decrease your meeting with people
with general people, right? The way you do duck Leader Tom is
because you don't have a lunch.
So you're supposed to eat less. There's supposed to be one less
meal in the day anyway. Duck liloan Manam because you have
taraweeh. So generally the encroaches on your night.
It's supposed to, but nowadays it doesn't because people stay awake
for longer hours anyway. And then you have to wake up. So it's a
whole Saturday. That's supposed to. So there's a there's an
imbalance that's created in your life.
In your daily schedule. And when you're unbalanced,
it helps to rethink.
It helps to gain Taqwa to control the nerves when you're not in your
normal because you get more time to think about things.
And then how is it less meeting with people? Because generally in
Ramadan, we still go about our daily needs, right.
That comes in the last 10 days. If you do take off, then you will
decrease your meeting.
With people you're gonna say, but we still have people to meet in
the masjid, right. There's loads of people in the masjid increased
number of people in the masjid. That's fine. No decaf is *
toots. Because remember, Allah doesn't want us to be isolated
completely.
Right? If somebody does that once in a while for a particular reason
that's different, but as an iba, where there is no hermit shoot in
Islam, where you just take off and you don't meet anybody at all
we do ethic off in the masjid. But that's restrictive meeting with
people. So what's going to happen is you're not going to meet with
the general people. You're not going to meet any non Muslims
generally, because you don't generally have non Muslims in the
masjid. And even among Muslims, you're gonna have those that come
to the masjid. And the Prophet sallallahu Sallam has actually
said that, if somebody comes to the masjid bear witness that he's
a believer. So your connection at that point just for 10 days is
just going to be with believers.
So you're not in solitude completely, you're meeting with
some people, but it's only with those who are believers.
So that is what when a person does that, then they're supposed to
come out of Ramadan from this type of retreat, after having changed
your food style, your sleeping style in your Ramadan style. So
now in terms of foods,
there's loads of lists online that you can find here, search for
Ramadan, food, dietary, you know, suggestions or advice, there's so
many people that have given these advices. And some of those
advices, to be honest, I mean, it's like you have to change your
entire system of eating. And I don't think it works for a lot of
us. Because we're many of us are used to certain types of foods.
And for us to get a whole new cuisine in Ramadan, and to learn
to do that, that's going to be a challenge on its own. And if you
don't enjoy it, then you're going to feel hungry, so it's going to
be an issue. So I think what the trick is that we should actually
start introducing this adjustment from before in our lives.
If you tried to do it just in Ramadan, you're going to be trying
out trialing new foods. And some of that stuff is not going to
taste good for you. It's going to, you're not sure how you're going
to react to it. So it's a good idea to start doing this from
before to introduce these kinds of healthy lifestyle chains. For
example, a simple thing is remove white bread from your diet. That's
the simplest thing you can do. What you have to remember is that
even the scholars of the past of the early generations after the
professor Lawson we're discussing, that one of the first innovations
in Islam, not not like a proper Buddha, but one of the innovations
of the style of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam in his time,
right? Is that then they used to just eat the flour with just by
giving a little blow. So any of the really,
would you call it roughage on top that wasn't supposed to be there
that would that would disappear. They wouldn't sift it,
which meant they kept most of the husk or whatever it was, and they
should just eat that. So that the first innovation in Islam was to
actually start sifting and sifting the flour, so that you get more
refined flour.
It's not haram to do that, by the way, it's just that you're being
more refined in the way you do it. And that wasn't that shouldn't be
your focus. Although we're all very refined in our eating today.
But today, white bread is not just sifted. It's actually bleached.
Have you ever seen wheat that is white?
I mean, have you ever seen wheat, wheat grains? We've probably never
seen them though. All we see is white bread we just see the final
even when people make roti they get like the proper white atta as
they call it. The bleach stuff.
I mean, have you heard that they say don't eat don't have white
sugar have brown sugar, if you are gonna have sugar then at least
have brown sugar, because the white one is bleached again.
Right to make it look nice white things seem to be more appealing
that's just in the psyche of people. See, that's something you
have to of course then you can get really particular and get the one
with the proper fiber and everything and then they talk
about porridge I mean most of these online what I've noticed
they talk about eating porridge in Ramadan because that's supposed to
be
complex carb and it's supposed to last a long time my experience
with porridge has been quite negative to be honest. I know how
you guys have porridge in the morning you actually feel hungry
quicker.
Right? Has anybody experienced that? But pure porridge you know
why? Generally the porridge we get the ready ones, you know the ones
that you make in two minutes in the microwave. They've been again
processed and broken down to such a degree that it goes through the
system very quickly.
So that does is not very helpful. You're going to feel hungry man.
When you wake up. You have to get the proper whole grain non
processed porridge that will help you like it takes that's why I
don't know if you guys are used to this that broth we make the
ketra they call it that's actually mixed grain. That's supposed to be
good. But the main thing is cut down on too much sugar that's the
whole time instead Iftar time this is what we do we have a lot of
fruits because Ramadan is the time that mashallah is in July, there's
a lot of fruit going around. So have lots of food cut out the
samosa, you know, do it every few days, maybe
write all the pakoras, samosas all that kind of stuff, just cut that
out as much as possible. Because that oily stuff is not useful.
It's not healthy, it's not helpful. But if you have a once in
a while it's different.
Do a lot of fruits get you know, spend money on your fruits,
whatever you like, whether it be expensive blueberry, strawberries,
wherever it is, eat well. Buy pay more if you have to, but eat less
of goods things. Rice is a no no, unless you get wild rice or
something. And so whole time, because that's a carb, that's just
going to give you a spike, and then you're going to drop again.
So anyway, I'm not here an expert or anything, this is just some
suggestions that we speak about here, as just something for you to
take home to think about. Also, what I would suggest for our
sisters, who I'm assuming will do most of the cooking, right?
That one of the more difficult things is to decide what to cook
each day.
For sister sometimes that is more difficult than the actual cooking
itself. Because sometimes like what you'd like if you especially
if you want to cook something well. So you are wondering, what
should I cook, what my wife does is that she just has she makes a
30 day menu from before Ramadan.
Right.
You know, whatever is going to be maybe taking into consideration
weekends and weekdays because you know, school, no school, and so
on. And then just follow the timetable. And sometimes if you
have to adjust, then that's fine. You just swap it over with
something if you have to do that. But it helps a lot. These are just
practical tips. That will just take some of the management of
some of these mundane things out of Ramadan.
Another thing which
the men may complain about, but what may be beneficial for the
sisters is that some of our scholars and great people of the
past like Shakespeare, Yahoo to La they what they used to do in that
in his time is he used to only have the women of the house make
one curry or something one or two curry, whatever it may be the
rotis the bread, he would have them purchased.
And also
any fried food they needed, he would have it purchased so that
the women don't have to cook as much during Ramadan.
Right Sorry, man, if that's if I'm spoiling your
your women folk here, but they need to pray as well. Though it's
in Ramadan. Really sad. Because
the women have to then cook all day for that doubts.
Now you're saying that by rotis from outside, right? What about
the roti makers? What are they going to do? Their business is
going to boom in Ramadan.
Right? Everybody's business booms in Ramadan, have you noticed most
Muslim businesses, they boom in Ramadan,
the clothing shops and everything.
Then it's up to you to be honest, whether you want that boom, and
this boom or just that boom and not this will
you know whether you want to sacrifice your extra worship
because mashallah you're going to make a lot more money.
Or whether you're going to be very savvy about things, I want to get
the best of both worlds. So I'm going to set it up that I've got
some workers that will do all of this work for me, I collect the
revenue from there as well, and I do my Quran, I'll sit there and
watch everything, but I'll be reading Quran.
You can get savvy with these things.
It just depends on how you plan these things. That's why I
personally feel that Ramadan, you get the best out of it. If you
plan it from before
you plan it from before and you want to take it a notch higher
every year. You don't want to do that same Ramadan because if you
want to gain the taqwa that we've been discussing, and you want to
be reading Quran, then you're going to have to set goals. So the
second point that I want to make now is setting goals for
ourselves.
Everybody knows what they're going to be doing in Ramadan. So if you
are a if you are a professional,
working in a particular industry, you know that you're going to have
to be working this now you can't take off you know, you know, if
you're a student, you're going to know that this is how much I'm
going to be studying. You're a housewife, you're going to know
this is kind of the workload that I have, right? Whatever you're
doing, you're a teacher, whatever you're doing.
We know I mean, I'm assuming that this is no the is there anybody
here who's who's this Ramadan is going to be their first Ramadan
or everybody's done Ramadan before right. So, I mean, the discussion
now should not be what we should do in Ramadan. It should be how do
we take a notch higher? Because if all of us have been doing Ramadan
for as long as we can remember at least
Then there's no need for us to have that discussion of how to do
Ramadan. Our discussion of what's relevant to me to you to each
individual person is going to be about how can I take my Ramadan
that I've been doing? And give it an upgrade this year?
Because the Ramadan's of the past, I mean, maybe they were on beta
version, what version? Were they on? Our Ramadan package that we
will do the Quran we will read? And, you know, was it on the betta
package? Or was it 1.2? Or what was it on? I mean, everybody has
should have their own gauge about this? Where do I want to take it?
Because it looks like when you listen to the stories of the
pious, the Ramadan was like version 10.0 or something like
Windows 10. We're still on Windows 3.1. We're still running the old
system. Right? The same old little bit that we do, and we think we've
done a lot. So how can I upgrade my Ramadan this and get a massive
upgrade this year? That's what I think we should be focusing on as
opposed to how do I spend Ramadan because we all notice mineral
Allah. So the way you do that is if you set reasonable manageable
goals that really works. So for example,
you could do this for people in your family. Right? That Okay, we
will decide that we're going to do this much Khurana day, that's
going to be manageable for all of us. So let's just say that I think
every year I've just about being able to do one Quran in the whole
month. So I read one Jews one super day. So this year, I'm
actually going to do one and half a day. Because maybe you read very
slow, you're not a half into the grind, you read very slow, so it's
difficult for you, right? It's a struggle for you to read the one
juice this year, I want to do one and a half. So we make that our
family goal that everybody is going to do one half a day.
Then, in addition to that we're going to do
everyday, we're going to do two or four rockets of tahajjud. We're
going to get off the whole, sorry, where are we going to do tahajjud
first, or we're going to finish eating about 10 minutes before the
end time. And then we're going to all do to four cuts of tahajjud.
And then we're going to do five minutes of Da
that's another goal. We're going to have DUA and tahajjud.
Right? Now, obviously, if you've got a goal, you've set yourself up
like that, not that it's my dream to do tahajjud. And then like I
didn't do it the first night. I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do it
tomorrow, and then you'll only do under 27 Nights.
When everybody does it. I think so. Right? So have these goals,
right? What else is a goal? Let's get how many is still far should
we do a day?
would be like, you know, for a working person? How many stefarr
do you think they can do a day along with one and a half Jews of
the Quran
maybe 500 500 is still far stockfeed Allah, Allah, I ask
Allah for his forgiveness 500 times, it's not difficult. I mean,
remember, you can use every moment because every morning Ramadan is
going to be full of blessing. So when you're going to work, whether
you're going on a bus or whether you're driving, when you're coming
back.
lunch breaks are very valuable these days, because you don't eat
lunch, but you still get a break. So I'm going to do this much so
far.
I want to get my cover prayers out of the way.
So at a shrug time, which is generally the time after sunrise
or when you wake up the whole time, I'm going to do four cuts of
color prayer at that time. You know, my makeup prayers, the ones
I've missed before, I want to make them up. So instead of doing
Knuffle prayers, you should do your cuddle prayers. So in a short
time, you should do cover prayers. In fact, even in tahajjud time, if
you can do cover prayers, instead, you should inshallah get the
reward for for your for your tagit as well. Inshallah,
you do your other prayer that time.
Any prayers you missed.
Inshallah, if you set those kinds of goals, and then in the last 10
days, I can't do maybe ethical for 10 days. So I'm going to do at
least two nights or one night in the masjid, in the weekend, for
example.
Just be creative and think what you can do, I want to also donate
this much I want our family to collect this much money and donate
it to someone.
They say that one of the one of the signs of the acceptance of
your fasting is that you are moved to donate
because you actually start feeling the benefits of fasting
of staying hungry and then thinking about others as well and
to donate for them because it's a rewarding act.
So come up, I'm sure you know, these are just a few ideas I'm
throwing out there. I'm sure that your minds, you know will come up
with many, many ideas. If you sit as a family and do this, make it a
family effort. The children would get involved as well. Right? The
children can keep fast, at least in the weekends, right to to at
least start off Saturday and Sunday. If they can
So that was all about so working professionals, the way they need
to deal with this is primarily to try to fit in to their day time to
plan it in a planet ahead. I'm gonna have to go to work for this
long I'm going to have to but these are the breaks that I get in
this break I'm going to do is take for in this longer lunch break,
I'm gonna get this much Quran read when I'm traveling back home, if
you're used to those headphones in your ears, which I find extremely
antisocial, right? It's just everybody's walking with with
headphones on. It's like what kind of world are you living in? You're
among people right? And you're listening to something else like
some faraway place it's just like what kind of a person are you
It's understandable if you're alone at home and you got nobody
to keep you company then you listen to something
but when you're among people new still for professionals I think
that's the idea get keep manageable goals and inshallah we
will succeed. I'm going to move to the fic quickly because then I
want to leave time for question and answers. Can you smoke in
Ramadan
you can smoke in Ramadan if you're busy can't help smoking, but you
can't smoke while you're fasting. A lot of people poor guys, I
really feel sorry for them because Iftar time they just want that
cigarette that's the first thing they want. Or that coffee. Right?
So yes, smoking breaks the fast because you're taking smoke down.
So to explain that quite simply, if there's smoke somewhere and it
goes into your nose or your mouth and it goes down your throat
without you wanting to do that not purposely then you won't break
your fast
but otherwise smoking smoke breaks the fast. So if you inhale before
you know when you incense for example, that will break your fast
because there is a perceptible body that is going down your
throat or your nose and is going into the stomach.
So now let me ask you a question. If you put if you get VIX, and you
put it by your nose and then you smell the VIX. That's the vapors
of it. Will that break your fast or not?
Do you think that will break your fast?
No, that won't break your fast, because there's nothing
perceptible going up. There's no body going up. This is just
Just the smell. So you can smell perfume in Ramadan.
But you can't have incense because incense is a physical body.
Incense has a physical body. So that's why incense you can't do
anything with the body. So for example, if you get take VIX, and
you put it into steam,
and then you start taking that in that will break your fast
because there you got the steam is carrying the VIX particles and
it's taking them inside that will break your fast, but just smelling
vix without any particles coming out. That's fine. So same thing
before, right? You know, when you put the hood on, try not to be
there when the smoke is going around. Because if you take that
smoking on purpose, it will break your fast. But if you're not doing
that on purpose, and you just went past by a bagel shop, like on
Green Street if you and passed by the hara manger do they have the
whole outside on? I think some places do. And you just happen to
smell it, that's fine. Or if the Bakula has been done, the smoke is
gone, and then the smell remains, that's fine. So perceptible body
is the problem. That takes us on to the asthma pump.
Right now, the asthma pump, according to the research that has
been done by many people.
Some people basically they say that asthma pumps shouldn't break
the fast because
it goes to your lungs and not to your stomach. And it's things that
go to your stomach that break the fast, not those that go to the
lungs.
Now while that's true that if it goes to your lungs, it won't break
the fast, but if it goes to your stomach, it will break the fast.
This claim that asthma pump only reaches your lungs. That's not
accurate.
Right? While a lot of it does go to your lungs, because that's
where it benefits you because it expands your lungs for you.
Part of the medicine is a percentage that actually goes down
to your stomach. Now, as who's tried and asked me to come here,
you know, when you take the asthma pump, don't you feel it at the
back of your throat. So what's happening there is the aerosol in
the spray the aerosol is carrying the salbutamol the active
ingredient. It just used as a carrier to force it down your
throat. So once it starts going down into your mouth, the medicine
part of it, which you can feel it's getting stuck in the back of
your throat and that's going into your stomach
So asthma pump will break your fast.
Having said that, though, if you are suffering and your wheezing,
you've got short of breath, then you need to take an asthma.
Because that can become quite critical.
Right, it can really
become life threatening in some cases as well. So you know
yourself. I mean, asthma isn't something that you just get in
Ramadan, if you got asthma, you got asthma, if you don't, you
don't. But basically, if you have asthma, then and you need to take
the medicine because you know that you're not going to be able to
survive this, then take it, your fasting will break, you just have
to do a cover afterwards. You don't have to do a Farah. So Kadar
means you just have to make one up for any faster break. And go Farah
means that you have to do 60 consecutive fast as a penalty for
breaking a fast on purpose that you generally that only happens if
you eat or drink something that is food or medicine, right?
Purposely in Ramadan, then you break that fast. So if somebody is
at school, whatever, and they just felt like having some chips and he
did, right having some coffee or having a Red Bull or something
just like can't do this at a Red Bull, they will break their fast
and they will have to do a cada Farah as well 60 consecutive days
of fasting.
Or if people take if sexual *, proper sexual
* takes place that will also penetration takes place
basically, that will also break the fast and make afar
unnecessary.
Of course, if you eat, forgetting, you're fasting. So there was food
there, you know, you went somewhere and there was food there
and you just don't know you got a coffee machine somewhere and at
work and just like everyday, you're gonna get a coffee and you
did that. And then you realize afterwards, if you've got, if
you've got that you're fasting, after you've drank the coffee,
then that won't break the fast. So remember, that's not by accident
is it? That's by forgetfulness, by accident means that I'm washing my
mouth.
And I'm supposed to be careful when I wash my mouth, I should
actually try to face down so that no water accidentally goes down
the throat. But then some water did go down my throat, that's
accident.
That's not forgetfulness, I knew I was fasting. But water slipped
down my throat that will break the fast Cafaro won't be necessary,
but it will break my fast enough to at least make one up.
But if I eat out of forgetfulness that I don't remember, I'm
fasting. So I'm gonna ask you a question. If you see somebody
eating in Ramadan, you know, they're supposed to be fasting.
And you know, they do fast. There's not some guy who's not
fasting, meaning who doesn't one of us he's fasting, but you see
him eating should you tell him or not.
They say that it depends if is a, an older person who you think
better for him to eat, like an older person who's quite weak or
something, then let them eat. But if it's anybody else, you should
remind them nicely, obviously, should remind them. Because you
might think that we live in an individual world where it's up to
them, I do my stuff, they do their stuff. But in Islam, there's an
aspect of mutual help and assistance, Mr. Gill, Maru,
Fernando Mancha, this comes in there, we're trying to help each
other do the best. So this is actually a virtuous thing to
remind somebody that's cooking.
When women are cooking, try to keep the fan on. Because it goes
back to that case we talked about earlier where perceptible
something. So if you're cooking, and you then take a purposeful,
nice smell of that, whatever you're cooking, that could break
your fast, because that's the steam that you're taking in, you
know, when you open the pot and the old steam comes out, that
would that could break your fast. But if it happened accidentally,
and you didn't you're not intending to do that, then then it
doesn't matter. Otherwise, we'd have no foods.
Well, you could just cook in the oven instead in it, you don't have
to cook any anything on the stove with any steam.
But that's not the case, just avoid it. Patches don't break the
fast. If you put if you using a patch for nicotine or for
contraceptive patch or something that won't break the fast, though
there is some benefits taking place that your body is receiving,
but because nothing's going down the throat into your stomach, so
that won't break the fast.
breaking fast due to illness.
So if you've got a light headache,
or you've got a bit of a cold and it'd be nice if you could actually
have an anti histamine or something right.
That won't justify breaking your fast. But if you're getting a
splitting headache and you just can't do anything and you fear
that it's just going to get worse. And it's quite critical that in
that case you're allowed to break the fast. You break fast in that
case, you only have to do Kedah know Cafaro somebody just has a
light headache
I can manage to have him all the time. But besides that, I'm going
to break my fast because of this, then you'd have to do a Kafala as
well in that case. So illnesses that allow you to break the fast
and only make a cut unnecessary are those which that are so severe
that they generally are going to spoil your entire daily routine.
It's such a splitting headache that you can't concentrate at all.
That allows you to do that, to break the fast.
Traveling,
traveling cases,
if you
you know, when the time you start the first thing,
if you are a traveler then already, like if you traveled
before the first thing they began, then you don't have to keep a fast
on that day.
So if I, if my flight is that,
to be honest, I don't think that's even possible nowadays, because no
flight leave, there's a flight don't come and go after 12 o'clock
in England, and before five o'clock in the morning, right,
because people complain, so there's no flights out. But in
other countries, it happens all the time.
So here that there's no way you could do this unless you flew at
1155. So you are flying 1155 At night, your first thing was going
to begin at one o'clock, two o'clock or three o'clock or
whatever it is, then in that case, you'd be fasting SRE, you would be
fasting already before your journey, you know, your journey
has begun before you started fasting. So in that case, you
don't have to fast. But when you are, when you are traveling is
better to fast if you if you can fast, and it's not going to spoil
your fasting, you don't only travel by flight, if you drive up,
you're traveling here to Leicester, technically, you don't
have to fast because you are traveling.
But you're going to miss out a huge amount of reward. So when
you're traveling IT people some people think if you're traveling
you can't fast and it's better not to first they think but that's
wrong. It's actually better to fast,
unless you won't be able to handle it.
Now, the thing is that if you did travel,
if you're gonna travel after you start the fast, then you must keep
a fast that day. But if you were to then break the fast, for
whatever reason, you'd have to do a color but Nanaka Farah,
that's the only difference in that case, can you pay your way out of
fasting?
If you're a rich guy, even if you're not a rich guy, I mean, it
cost about maybe three, four pounds per fast
to pay it off.
So 30 days times four, how much is that? 120 pounds 120 pounds, you
don't have to fast. That's a good deal, isn't it.
But that only works for people who are unable to fast. There's
actually this idea out there that if I can't fast in Ramadan, but I
can fast later on in the year, they think they can just pay it
off. And you're not allowed to do that. The only time you can pay
off fasting is if you
can never fast again.
If you're never going to be able to fast again,
only that person can then pay off. If you paid off thinking you won't
be able to fast then you became better, mashallah, you'd actually
have to force them off, so you can force them into smaller days of
the year if you want to. Now that tells us about pregnant women and
breastfeeding women, pregnant women breastfeeding, we don't have
an excuse.
But
they should fast.
If they find that they can't fast, because they've got a condition,
it's a complicated pregnancy. For example, they've got pregnancy
induced diabetes, where the sugars all over the place. And they could
suffer a Hypo. Right.
Or, for example, they've got some other morning sickness, which is
going to be out.
Right. So in that case, they're allowed not too fast if they've
got a severe condition, normal case, or unless they've been told
that your baby's got some abnormal issue, and you need to eat this,
that and the other. And that doctor that's told you that
understands the significance of fasting, because most doctors,
they're going to try to cover their back, they're going to try
to give you the most cautious opinion from the other way. The
other perspective. That's what doctors do, they're going to save
their back, right? Because they have to make sure that you don't
then do a case against them. So they're going to tell you to do
whatever is most conducive for that site. That's why they
generally say that you have to ask a God fearing Muslim doctor,
because they understand that fasting is important. Then they
will balance this and said okay, no, this is serious enough.
Right, that this warrants you not to give us today. So when in
doubt, always ask to get the fatwa otherwise you must fast.
Again when it comes to the whole breastfeeding issue, there are
Certain types of foods that, again helped to create milk,
even on a normal day, that are suggested to breastfeeding women.
These are not things that you're going to find in a pharmacy, by
the way, these are things you're going to find, by these villages
that that will tell you about this particular type of flour.
I think one is horse chestnut flour. That's supposed to be
really good for this. Right? I'm not an expert on these things, but
I'm sure if you check online, there's going to be suggestions
for that, right, brushing the teeth, miswak miswak is completely
fine, as long as it's not the flavored miswak because of
flavored Miss works, or not, they don't come off the tree like that,
you know, there's no lemon tree miswak, as far as I know, or mint
tree miswak. Those are things that you get the miswak and you dip it
into a lemon mixture or something and then it's a flavored miswak.
So it just makes it sound flavored, that is going to be the
same as toothpaste, which means that if you use your toothpaste or
whatever,
it's mcru. To do so because you are basically maybe
putting yourself up to break your fast because he may go down your
throat.
If any of that goes down your throat, your fastball break. But
if it doesn't go down the throat and you are able to spit it out,
rinse your mouth and so on completely clean it up, then it's
still mcru Because you're adding a if it's just the if it's just a
cleaning aspect is fine. But the fact is that you're freshening
your mouth, which you're not supposed to do. That's not part of
the whole aspect of fasting by introducing a foreign substance
like mint or something like that. Which means if you took a dry
brush and brushed your teeth, or lates, fine, or miswak, a natural
miswak when you're doing the miswak, one of the fibres, if they
get left in your mouth, I mean, you're supposed to try to rinse
your mouth out as much as possible, right, and get rid of
it. If you swallow it while you're doing the whole process that will
break your fast, because that's just like it has to go down with
some water, generally speaking, right? Even if it goes down to
your saliva, we'll break it right when you're fasting. But if
something had gotten stuck in your mouth, like some food as well in a
cavity, and it's a very small amount, and then later on that
went down your throat, it became dislodged and it just went down
your throat, then that won't break the fast because that's kind of an
avoidable sometimes.
Do eye drops break the fast?
Eye Drops don't break the fast. Right eye drops do not break the
fast. What about ear drops? Generally only if you've got
perforated ear drums where there's where it's a condition, then it
will go down. But if you've got normally as in you have to put ear
drops for some other reason they won't go down the throat. Though
the original FOCA has said that it does but you know the recent
research shows that there's no passage from the ears down to the
throat and stomach unless you got perforated eardrums so that that's
why it won't break your fast. But if you're in doubt, then avoid it.
If you think you got perforated ear drops, ear canals are not
okay, contact lenses will not break your fast. Why should they I
mean,
it's not nothing's going down the throat.
dentist appointments
right? These are the difficult ones. So what I generally suggest
to people is try to keep your dent if you have to have one. Try to
keep it early morning as possible. And don't intend to fast that day.
Meaning sorry, don't make an intention for fasting yet.
Don't eat anything though. Right? Don't eat anything but don't
intend to fast
and then go and have your dentist appointment and if nothing goes
down to throat, then make an intention to fast and your
intention as long as your intention remember in fasting your
intention has to be done by half the day. But what we mean by half
the day here is not sunrise to sunset.
We mean from Fudger to sunset it earlier. So what when is when does
Fajr time begin right now?
According to whichever time give me just give me one
330 What time is sunset?
Just say 830 Just to make it easy. 330 To 830 How many hours have you
got there?
Four or 56789 1011 12? That's nine plus eight is so we've got 17
hours. Drop that in half. How would you get
17 divided by two my brother
eight and a half. So now when is eight and a half hours from 330 Oh
he's 12 yet is 12
So 12 o'clock. So if you have your appointment in the morning at nine
o'clock, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, and you come out of there is
before 12 o'clock, and nothing's gone down your throat, make an
intention. So your whole fast will be done. You just won't be
rewarded for the first part of it, but you will be rewarded for the
second part, but your first will be done. If something did go down
the throat, well, then you're not fast in that day. So you didn't
break your fast either them. Do you see what I'm saying?
I think
I'll stop my part there. I'll take your questions. Now. Inshallah.
How is it best to control use of social media spot phone does
scented candle, okay. Social media and smartphone. Again, you know,
the discussion we had earlier where you plan right and set
reasonable goals. So I should have mentioned it there. One of our
reasonable goals is a lot of people do is no TV. But now while
people may not put the TV on the big screen on the small screens
are constantly on and they're unavoidable. Right. So what I
would suggest for that is firstly blocked all of your notifications.
So you don't get any notification except straightforward text
messages from people who really matter to you, or who you matter
to. Right, because then they'll pay the money to or they'll,
they'll text you instead of just WhatsApp Beep, beep beep all the
time. Just, if you can pull yourself off WhatsApp, and off all
of the others just for a hiatus of one month, that will be the best.
If you can't, then regulate yourself that if it's important, I
mean, if it's mundane waste of time, then then then just pull
yourself up. But if that's how you communicate for your business, or
your work or some other management, then just have times
where you look at that. So don't keep your data or Wi Fi on all
day. Just put it on when you need it and go and check what you have
to again, it's your management, I'm only going to look at it this
time I'm gonna keep it away this time I'm, I'm going to put the
phone elsewhere or whatever the case is. Because if you have your
Quran if you're reading Quran, you have your phone on the new Quran
reading is going to become very disturbed. It's just the very
addictive things and I don't want to take too much time on this.
We've got a topic on the on zamzam. academy.com that you can
listen to about social media in general, right that you can go and
listen to do set the scented candles break the fast, scented
candles. If you're just smelling the scent, after the smoke has
gone of it, then it's fine. Right? If you actually I mean scented
candles there, they have not going to produce that much smoke to be
honest, they produce more of an odor, the odor is fine. But if you
take any perceptible something from there that will break the
fast, which is hard. Highly unlikely, I'm assuming unless you
go very close to scented candles would be fine. What if we begin
our fast before journey? And our journey is 12 hours by flight? Do
we maintain the fast? To be honest, I mean, if I'm going east,
then you're better fasting because you're gonna get a very short
fast, right? So it'd be a no brainer to be honest. And if
you're going west, then you're fast. I mean, I've done a faster
thing. Currently, the number of hours was at 26 hours, something I
did a fast for once, because I went to Canada left about 11 or 12
o'clock. 12. No, I left about two o'clock got there about three
o'clock in the afternoon. I left from here two o'clock pm, I got
the three o'clock pm candidate time. And then they start was
about 830. So that added on about five, six hours extra. So I
thought it was going to be tough. It was a bit tough, but it was
okay. So it just depends. I could break my fast in that case. But if
you're going east, then you should rather keep a fast because you're
going to be finished very quickly. I am a doctor I has a
channel that connects fluid of i into the throat through the nose.
That's true. Because I know that classical fuqaha used to say that
it does not break the fast even though you're tasting it. Right.
So it's a good point.
The reason is this, that for this guy, I didn't want to bring the
technicality here because I didn't want to confuse but since it's a
doctor asking, asking, I need to answer this question. What it is,
is that what actually breaks the first technically speaking is for
something to reach the stomach, by way of a passage of consequence.
And passage of consequence is considered to be the throat would
have the nose,
the throat, the nose and the rectal and the rectal passage. If
anything else reaches the stomach, which is a cavity of consequence,
but not through a passage of consequence, these three it won't
break the fast, technically speaking. So because if it goes
down the nose or mouth, throat meaning that's normal passages
that lead to the stomach that will break the fast but if it goes to
any other passage, for example, when you take an injection,
or intramuscular intravenous
injection with some other way or a drip, that will not break the
fast, even if some of that ends up getting into the stomach or
whatever, that won't make a difference because it's not going
through those normal passages. That's why if somebody has an
enema or a rectal suppository, whatever you call them, that will
break the fast, because that's considered that a possibility part
of that could get into the lower parts of the intestine or the
rectal area. Right? So it's anything that gets into the gastro
was the gastro intestinal tract, right, and I'm only bringing these
words up. Because to explain to those who are aware of these
terms, the gastro intestinal track for from my understanding includes
the intestines and includes the stomach itself. So anything that
can get into there, whether rectally or through the nose and
mouth will break the fast. So through the eyes, it will not
break the fast.
So thanks for that question.
Shall I feel bad for not praying all 20 records of taraweeh if it
isn't forward,
apricot mosque or I'm getting tired, I'm just tired.
You should feel bad because you're cheating. But in once a while if
you if you're really tired that day, and you miss your taraweeh
then that is that could be excusable. But if you make it a
habit every day, just go and find the shorter place for therapy that
does that don't do the whole Quran for example, if you really can't
do it, because you your work schedule or whatever is tough.
Because we do have very short nights, to be honest. Right? And
it is difficult for some people, but we have so many taraweeh
options around us now some shorter, some longer. So try some
that read well, but read less maybe, and do that. And if one
day, you know, of the week, you just can't do it because you just
can't do it. You can't even sit and do it. And then then if you
miss it, then you will not be you can be excused for that because
it's not a form of prayer. In that sense.
If you have asthma, can you still fast, it depends on your asthma.
If it's something that you know, you're gonna end up breaking it.
You have to take it every two hours, you got very severe asthma
problems, then you may have to fast in lower, you know, smaller
times of the year, where it may be more manageable, because you've
got a severe condition. While fasting, how can you spend your
time wisely?
I can't tell you that. Because the way my schedule is different to
yours, right? But I kind of gave you that idea. Unless you want
some personal advice. Which means that you come to Scotland say
look, this is my daily schedule, can you help me make a routine for
myself? But otherwise, as I mentioned earlier that you just
try to brainstorm the best possible thing. Your goal should
be that how can I do more than last year?
That should be your goal, by the way? How can I do more than last
year
and then try to fit in all of these things that I mentioned the
st for the quarter prayers, the shock prayers, the the Istighfar
the Quran, the sadaqa just try to fit it in different times while
fasting can you take an injection? Yes, you can.
Whether it's through the muscles or through the veins
can you swim while fasting?
I know you have
waterproof caps,
right that don't let water go into your hair.
But I don't know how you would avoid getting it into your mouth.
Unless you're a very good swimmer. And you know, can anybody swim
without any water going down?
Anybody done it?
I know it's so tough in it because accidentally something's gonna go
down unless you're very I mean, I'm not a professional. So I can't
tell you because man I swim. I mean, I'm probably going to take
some water in there like it or not.
Well, if you're just doing a back float, then maybe not right? That
man's back float or something then it's probably okay. Right? I mean,
you can dip yourself into water you can have a shower, that's
fine, but I would avoid swimming because placing yourself to break
the fast is also mcru Anyway design if anything does go down
the throat or nose. Because how are you going to clip it? Okay,
I've seen clips of the nose. But how are you going to clip your
mouth as well you need to breathe.
When you're first breaking your accent accidentally drink or eat
again accidentally? Yes. Why were you how can you accidentally eat
in Ramadan? You can you can eat by forgetfulness that won't break the
fast if you forget you're fasting. But if you were, I don't know. The
only way you can accidentally eat as if you had something by your
mouth and you ate it.
By the way insulin injections don't break the fast.
I have read somewhere that to know that you're wrong.
Dawn was accepted. Any positive change in your life after Ramadan
is indication as an Excel? Is this true? I would say so. Definitely.
Because Ramadan has said is supposed to be that stepping
stone.
So if our iman level is at two before we start Ramadan, and after
Ramadan it goes back to two, then what are we benefited from
Ramadan? We should at least be at three or two and a half? That's
the whole point of it, isn't it?
What kind of changes? Can you list? A few? Please? Let me get
your help here. What how do you think you can change? I mean,
number one, there's certain sins that, you know, we were doing
beforehand that we avoided, we've now made become punctual in our
worship. That's a big, that's a big benefit. We now actually start
fasting maybe Mondays Thursdays, three days of each one, that's a
good change. We've stopped doing certain haram things that we were
doing before? Well, I mean, the non active benefits will be that
you if you've followed the path properly, and you haven't over
eaten, you should lose some weight. And there's this whole
discussion and a survey that's done on what happens on the first
10 days. And the second 10 days like the inside what's happening
in your body physiologically, how your body is becoming detoxified.
It's quite interesting. This is we don't have time for that right
now. But if I can find that article, I mean, you guys are all
registered, we'll try to send it out on the zamzam mailing list,
right we'll try to put it up is a really wonderful article. That was
about two years ago. Does anybody have it? Does anybody have access
to it quickly? If they do, it tells you exactly the medically
what's going on in your body. So the first 10 days, this is what
happens second, 10 days and the third 10 days. That's why
initially
you feel certain ways and then eventually you get you get
accustomed to it. So in terms of the spiritual benefits, they are
huge. The amount of reward you will attain in Ramadan for every
deed you do, I mean a foreign is increased 70 times. So all your
foreign prayers you do in Ramadan or any other form of worship
zakat, whatever, you get 70 times that amount, it's not even like a
buy one get one free. It's by one gets 73 which is unheard of
anywhere. Even clearance places don't give you that, right. That's
just a huge amount. When Allah say 70 When the promises don't say 70
That means abundance, right? That's without counts. Then the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said that Allah says that fasting is
for me. Because you know, if you fast you can only fast for Allah.
If you want to show off to say I'm fasting, don't fast, just don't
eat in front of people tell him all day long. I'm fasting every
day, but Ghani in private. So if you are going to stay hungry for
Allah, then that means you're doing it for Allah, Allah directly
rewards you the angels don't even come in between in this one. When
Allah reward somebody directly, then he splashes it out, you know,
he drowns us in reward. And then every moment because there's a
hadith that says that if you miss one fast of Ramadan, if you miss
one fast of Ramadan with no excuse.
And then you try to keep up fast for the entire year to try to make
up for that you won't be able to Yeah, as a cover, you will but the
reward, you would have lost the benefits, the blessings you won't
be able to. So Ramadan is Subhanallah the amount of benefit
in Ramadan is concentrated,
concentrated.
So you should get closer to Allah. But the problem is that, you know,
when the day of Eid comes, and Ramadan finishes, you know that
shaytan who is deactivated for 30 days, he just becomes activated.
You know, it's like those.
In this new world of Marvel, superheroes, this shaytan is
becoming activated again. And he's going to come and spoil your
entire month. That's why there's people who've said that on the day
of Eid, I was so good for the whole month on the day of Eid, I
went and did what I wasn't supposed to, and then you get
demoralized.
That's why you should keep the six fast off the show wall. Because
the benefit of that is straight off the day, you're still fasting
you so you still feel like your normal Dandora shaytan is out and
inshallah if you preserve that you will be fine. Inshallah, if your
wife does not want to do want you to do a tick off in the masjid.
What should you do?
That's a good question. You need to really speak it over, you need
to maybe give a deal that okay, let me do a take off and I'll take
you on holiday.
Or
I'll do a take off with you for 10 days afterwards. In the house.
Right? I won't go anywhere now. I'll go with my friends. I'll just
stay with you. Right. Or I'll get you in Orlando make a deal, man.
What are you gonna do? I mean, how am I going to answer that
question?
Right.
You have to deal with that relationship. I know I'm not being
very helpful. Um, I mean, I gave you some suggestions. What would I
do?
Well, I would really plead and you know, all the rest of it. And
I'll say okay, I'll only do it every two years or something.
Everybody's got a different relationship, I would say you just
make lots of dua to Allah subhanaw taala and you just make a strike a
deal that's what I would think.
Show her the felida say I'm going to make dua for you.
Like every time I'm sitting in that mosque in tahajjud Can you
believe that I'm going to do I'm going to make for us and our
future and our children
that I can't do at home as much because I'm in the masjid and
Allah loves people in Attica show her those fragile
because sometimes people just don't know why you you just like
you just want to skirt on the responsibilities maybe you just
want to go off or whatever, I'm going to feel alone. So if it is
about feeling alone, then cater for that and say, okay, you know,
call your sister over call your mother or you're gonna stay with
your mother or something like that. There has to be some
practical reason why they say no. Or is it just they love you so
much? What if they love you so much than they should allow you to
go right? Or is it that they're going to feel alone then try to
bring them somebody? So it gets to the bottom of why and then try to
find a solution for that. And once you find out why then let me know
then I can try to help them inshallah more but I think I've
given sufficient ideas is what is important read the Quran in
apparent fashion or read the Quran with understanding? I think the
what is important is to read the Quran with understanding and to
read the Quran correctly. I don't know how to read Quran in a parrot
fashion so I can answer that question. How do you read Quran in
a parrot fashion? What does that even mean?
Okay, good question. So, oh yeah, many of us don't understand
Arabic. This is what I suggest. You see, Ramadan has a special
relationship with the Quran
and there's a x expanded reward for every letter you read. So
there is a benefit of reading a lot of Quran but then there's a
more important benefit of understanding the Quran.
So I my general suggestion to people is 50% of your Quran
reading time you read
25% You You You reflect or get a translation commentary, and 25%
you memorize
you memorize. So every Ramadan, you must memorize something extra.
The benefit of memorizing is that you will then end up knowing
something else except called wala who I hadn't consulted broadcloth
Robin knows by heart, so you can do tahajjud with it. feel closer
to Allah. Then if you can even know the meaning of that is even
better. And when you're traveling and you don't have a Quran with
you, you can read and then the best thing is in the hereafter you
can actually ascend into higher Paradise because of what you
memorize.
But we definitely need to turn intention to understanding that is
a massive deprivation that most of us don't have unfortunately that
that experience.
Can you make cada intention during taraweeh in the masjid?
You can't do a cover prayer behind the Imam who's doing sunnah. Tara
is a sunnah. You can't do Kazaa behind the Sunnah in the Hanafi.
School.
Right? So that wouldn't be valid.
And do you get reward for both? Well, you can't do that. Right?
You can only do cover up prayer behind the person who's doing the
same prayer same Kadar pray in fact, so that won't work here.
I have a bad time management, how do I get practical timetable in
Ramadan outside Ramadan?
Again, this will depend on your lifestyle and what you're doing, I
would suggest that you take whatever you your essentials of
your day or go to a scholar and sit down and say, Look, this is
what I've got. What can I slip in? Try to do it yourself first.
Right? Get a paper. Say these are the times that I've taken in my
day, put it out, draw it out and then see all the gaps and throw
things in the gaps. Try it yourself first and then maybe go
and show it to somebody there's what I've got and then inshallah
they'll help you because otherwise there's no way I can you know from
I can go beyond what I've explained to give you a unique
bespoke solution. I don't know how to read with the Jude What do I do
so this is something I missed earlier. You should use the
Ramadan times.
If you're a Jew, it is not good to look for a local teacher in
Ramadan because there'll be more available during that time as
well. If you're a man then in the masjid crap tried to grab an
island or a scholar or somebody with a dream, please, I want to
read to you just everyday after the horror everyday after after
every day after maghrib whatever. Can you just listen to me for five
minutes and correct me.
Right if it's a sister, look for that read class. Or try to
organize one, find the teacher get a few other sisters like yourself
together and go and have one if you can't do a one to one with
somebody. Right because unfortunately the three classes
aren't available. There's no other way to correct your dream except
by somebody listening and see
supervising and correcting you is not something you can learn from
books. It's not a do it yourself, unless you're able to help
somebody. I mean, maybe you can do it through the street class videos
that you can try to copy them. But then you still need to go and show
it to somebody of how they read to get it right. But really do use
Ramadan for that. Do use Ramadan for that. Are we meant to be
antisocial in Ramadan? Do we become hermits? I think I've
answered that question heavenly. You need to cut down on your
social social life. Right? Doesn't mean you become hermits. Keep it
to the need.
Keep it to the needs.
Doesn't mean you completely ignore people. You do your needs. You say
salam to people, but you just don't. You just don't chill out as
much.
Right with people? Do we have to finish the whole Quran in Ramadan?
You should try to because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam used to complete whatever had been revealed of the Quran
every year in Ramadan, by the end.
And the last year, he completed two times. So that's why it's an
encouragement to complete.
It's an encouragement to complete the entire Quran if you can,
during Ramadan. I am addicted to social media and my mobile phone.
How do I get off this? I mean, if I tell you something, I'm not sure
if you're going to be able to do it. But to be honest, what I would
say is go downgrade to a
non smartphone. So you're only going to receive the most
important messages and phone calls.
And just just tell everybody, I'll see you next month
that I don't see any other way.
To just do that. It's going to be tough.
But that's medicine.
And you're going to be struggling for the first few days.
But give your phone to somebody else. Don't give it to me. And so
how should we engage with our phones? Okay, same question. It
consumes a lot of time distracts us. To be honest, what I do is I
just try not to be on there as much. But if that's difficult for
you then just downgrade I understand that. You obviously I
can't tell you the 100 you understand the hands you know it's
a problem. Right? The only thing now is to take the bitter pill and
just get rid of them. That's why one shake used to call the cell
phone the cell phone, especially for Ramadan. Right.
If a patient with a chronic disease fails too fast, then she
is not able to and then she is she able to not to keep the fast and
give failure? And can she break her fast if she feels ill? And
what about previous years? I said if she can't fast at all for the
rest of her life, then she can get fibia but if she can faster
smaller days, then she's going to have to fast those days.
If a person has color press should they prioritize Kalasa over Teresa
Sonata tarawih in Ramadan is very special.
So they should do both. You can't in Hanafi school you can't miss
Sunnah prayers for collaborators generally.
But nothing praise you can assume that their work or that you should
do color instead of them.
If I knew I will travel tomorrow morning about 180 kilometers. What
do I do? Don't fast from the beginning. Or I start fast. But if
it gets hard, should I break? Yeah. So technically speaking, if
you're going too fast, you're sorry, if you're going to travel
during the fast then you must start the fast because you're not
traveling before you're fast again. And then if it just gets
too tough, then if you break your fast then you have to do Tada but
no Confira
What's your Ramadan schedule, it might
be a motivation, it's not going to be my my Ramadan is not going to
be a motivation for you because I have a different lifestyle. And
basically, I will tell you what I do, because that's the time when I
really get to read my Quran I get up and after therapy, I try to
read toujours. Right, it's very difficult. I tried to read to just
before I go to sleep again. So we hardly have time between therapy
and Soho. So I will try to read one just then or three cultural
images, then if I can do in tahajjud I'll do that. Right. Then
do the Fajr. SRA do the so who do Fajr and after fajr, then I would
finish the toujours. So
I would do to just those because we what we do at home is we do
throw in 15 days me and my son we do one juice each of tarawih and
we complete 30 Jews in one day with the family. So what I'm doing
is based on essentially I'm trying to do my two juices.
First day, just say the second I'm going to do juice three and four.
I'm going to try to read both of those about five to six times
each. Which means 10 to 12 juice in the day. And then tarawih right
If so then I'll go to sleep. And I'll wake up around nine o'clock
or something, I tried to wake up at nine 930 maximum, because the
later you are it just gets messed up, right? And then I will read
it, I will learn it now. And I will read two times, then another
two times. So how many Jews have I done so far? Six, right.
And then if I've got time before dawn, I'll do something else.
Maybe if I have some work I've got to do I've catch up. This year,
we're going to have a bit of class as well, right? One and a half
hours of class for the Mufti course, then when I start go for
the her, I start reading, I want to do it two more times, by the
time I come back, meaning to Jews again. So on the way I'm reading,
I probably get about three half to three quarters done by them in
your novel prayer in your Sunnah prayers. After that, I'll try to
read in there. And then by the time I come back home, I should
have finished teachers again. So I mean, is that now? That's eight,
then I go for answer. Right there in the daytime, I, there's other
work that I have to finish for whatever, I do other stuff. And
then what I'll do is when I go faster when I go for a ban on the
way I'll start reading, and after the ban as well. And then I'll
finish off again, another two Jews by Iftar. Time. So how many is
that?
That's 10, that's minimum 10. And then in Torah, we do the teachers.
So that's 12. Just to be honest, I'd like to do more than that. But
it gets tough, right? So that's what I do. That's why I say it's
not gonna be helpful to you, because you got work to do I, I
take off work in Ramadan, I do have my personal work that I need
to do, but I am very, I got a very flexible routine.
But for those who are like that, then please, because what they say
for her father is that if you in Ramadan, read every Jews at least
10 times to 15 times you will never forget your Quran for the
rest of the year.
Although I'm not reading it 10 to 15 times I'm reading it five to
six times a day or seven times. Because that's because we're doing
double the tarawih or sorry, the double reading
that only eight or 2020
tarawih should be 20 records. It's as simple is that that is the
Sunnah, from the time of Amara, the Allah when he gathered
everybody on that because the prophets Allah Islam did not do
tarawih in public. So there's various hadith of what he did.
Right? But Roma are the Allah who made the HMR on that subject. And
since then, even in the Haramain, they put down 20 records, even
though on many other mosques in Saudi, they go with it. But 20 is
the way to go all the way. Right. And if you want Delisle and proofs
for this, then this is something I wrote about 20 years ago in a book
called faculty mom, right? I've actually might even have a few
copies there in the office, it will give you all the details and
responses to those who say it must be aid and go around in you know,
in trying to enforce that does essential oil break your fast
external application now, if you oil your body or your nose even,
or you even coat the inner surface of your nose and it doesn't go
beyond the bone at the top? It won't break your fast.
Okay, that's all the questions done. And I think we're just a bit
over time. Just like a law here. What I'd like to mention in ending
is
the goal, my primary goal in every Ramadan is that how can I make
this Ramadan better than my previous one? That's my simple
goal. And I think that should help us all to drive, the schedule, and
our practice, and hopefully even you know, getting rid of our
mobile phone habits in sha Allah. How can I make this Ramadan better
than Ramadan before it? How can I be closer to Allah than any
Ramadan before it's and such a closeness after which I'm not
going to be far again.
That's what's important. And inshallah if you make the effort
in Ramadan, it will carry on. So it is a guy who told me that there
was a sin that he used to commit and he really worked hard in
Ramadan and for what seven months he didn't even feel like
committing that anymore.
Then he started wearing out then in a subsequent year he worked
even harder in Ramadan and he went for hygiene everything and he said
for nine months he was able to be sin free. Then when he started
getting weak, he managed to pull himself through by saying I want
to go two months left for the extra Mala and he managed to pull
it the whole Ramadan without committing that sin.
So Ramadan is that time that you're going to get that benefit
inshallah inshallah. So everybody make dua for everybody else. And
we ask Allah subhana wa Taala to make this Ramadan better than in
Ramadan before it for us in sha Allah, and to allow us to be close
to him. So I'll just do a short though and then we'll finish in
sha Allah Amanda salaam amico salaam wa the other jewelry will
be chrome Subhan Allah in it you will have Allahumma just Allahu
Allah Muhammad and MA Hua Hello. Oh Allah, we ask that you accept
our sitting here this morning.
Allah we ask that you make this a source of blessing for us. And you
make this a source of inspiration and practical benefit for us so
that when we embark on the month of Ramadan from next month, that
we are prepared to take in the blessings right from the first day
of Allah make our hearts conducive to your love and your career and
your affection and your forgiveness and turn your
attention towards us. And oh Allah grant us and experience this month
of Ramadan, like the way that you're close.
You're close servants, and your your messengers and your Sahaba
had experienced this month. Oh Allah except from us, our likes
from us through Darwin and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Actually, there was just one question that somehow I missed out
it's about where did Ramadan come from? So Ramadan
was a special month, which right from the beginning,
it's the month has Allah says in the Quran in which the Quran was
revealed, shall Ramadan, the unzila phenol Quran then there's a
debate as to whether it's because the month is so special, that's
why the Quran was revealed there or the month became special
because the Quran was revealed. Right? But either way, it's that
month where Allah has Desi because he couldn't do 12 months. If you
do 12 months, same thing, then you don't get the same benefits. So
the psychology is that for that one month, you do special and
Allah just opens the doors of paradise closes the hellfire.
That's what in Islam that's why that's what they tell us in the
hadith of Bokhari and he deactivates the Shakedowns for us.
So that's where the significance comes in. We learn about it from
the Quran and from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam