Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – What the Qur’an Says About Ramadan
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kefir on Eli Yomi Dean Amma birth since it's the beginning of the
month, the fasting month, the blessing month of Ramadan. There
are several verses in the Quran that Allah subhanaw taala tells us
about this month. And while we read them once, after that, we
generally hear lectures about it. It's a good idea to remind
ourselves directly using Allah subhanaw taala his verse versus
his words directly. What Allah subhanaw taala wants from us what
were being promised in the month of Ramadan, what are some of the
rules and regulations of this? So this is sort of Bukhara, and those
their transmission. Yeah, those who are home they can take a Quran
and they can follow along because it's several verses. It starts off
with verse 183 of Surah Baqarah Allah subhanho wa Taala says, or
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are people who believe fasting has been prescribed upon you has been
written for you has been prescribed and obligated on you,
just as it was prescribed upon the people before you so that you can
gain Taqwa.
You've heard this verse many times, one of the reasons for
telling us one of the reasons for telling us that this fasting was
also obligatory on the past nations. It's one of the most
historical forms of worship devotions to Allah. And what's
really unique about it, that you don't do anything in fasting, you
actually don't do something, you're actually told to abandon
something as opposed to in Salah we actually supposed to raise your
hands face, the Qibla do will do etc. In fasting, you literally
don't do anything.
Well, that's the basics of it. So it's an abstinence and there's
huge benefits from it, and it was
prescribed upon the previous nations. There is a Hadith in taba
Ronnie, an interesting Hadith that among the Christian nations, and
then Asara the Nazarene to be more particular, right when people
refer to them as Christians, but it's gone through many changes,
but the Nazarenes they also had fasting prescribed to them 30
days. Now, what happened is that there was one of the leaders or
somebody was ill. So they decided that we're adding another 10 days,
you know, for the blessing for it. So that became 14 days. Then
another leader, he had another issue. So he added seven days,
this time, not sure why the first one did 10 Now seven, I guess he
was getting a bit much. So became how many days now? 47. And then a
third leader, he became sick or something like that he had some
issues. So beside the mice will make it to 50. Now, I don't know
if anybody has any
knowledge of Christianity and their fasting. Of course, their
fasting today is very different. You fast from certain objects
only. Right? So that's why when we tell Christians and I've told
Christians that we first they said, even from water, yes, it's
not just from Coke, or not just from me Thai, or from pizza, or
desserts. You know, that's something which you like only,
that's some other traditions, that's the first thing they have
to decide what I'm going to fast from preferably something, or most
likely something that is a challenge for you. So I'm not
gonna have any chocolate for 30 days. I guess that would be much
easier.
So the other the other reason Allah subhanaw taala is telling us
past nations is because fasting is not easy. It's an inaction,
meaning you don't do something which means you abstain from food,
drink and sexual *. But
it's difficult, because we're so used to these things that Halal
generally. And we're so used to them and they're available. Right?
So one of the psychological reasons of telling people like,
oh, it's, it's prescribed upon you, but it was prescribed upon
many nations before you. That means humans have done it before.
Humans have been pretty much the same. Right? We might have new
gadgets today, but humans have been pretty much the same. So you
should be able to deal with it because this is a physiological
issue. So humans have done it before, you should be able to do
it as well. But the main thing is that Allah commanded the cone so
that you can gain taqwa, which is an optimal objective of this is
that you gain taqwa, which essentially means God fairness, to
fear God, to be conscious of God rather. And this is the one thing
that
many of the other men who have discussed this manifestation of
men
mission. The purpose of this is not that you just this is like a
little blitz in the middle of the year where for one year, we change
our style of things, we change our scope, we change our timetable, we
change the way we do things. And then suddenly after Ramadan, it
literally goes back to the same thing.
Because for a lot of people that work, that's what happens is
Ramadan, I can't do it. Just wait until eat day. And we're back on
what we used to be before in fact, shaytan is locked up during the
days of Ramadan, right.
And this is an observation and think about this. And be careful
about this. I mean, I've got one more lecture here, but just keep
this in mind. A lot of people they have reported their worst day
being Ed, in what sense. They've abstained from something for all
30 days, they've done very, very well. There was an addiction that
they had they abstain for 30 days. And they said on the day of Eid, I
was in my room, it was the evening and I messed up.
Not even a day, why shaytan comes back up with a vengeance. He wants
to delete everything.
So that duck was gone. What Allah wants us to do is the fasting has
been prescribed, because it's a training. When you have younger
children, we tell them don't do this, we tell them respect your
elders. So the purpose is that they're not supposed to just
respect the elders in a certain place, or a certain time period
that we teach them. Did your parents tell you to respect your
elders? You did right? So now do you only have to do that in front
of them? Are you actually supposed to do that now throughout the rest
of your life? MashAllah good student is a good kid, Allah bless
you and your parents. If I use kids as example, you should make
dua for them right.
So likewise, Ramadan is literally a nurturing
time for us have 30 days and purpose is not just for this time.
It's actually supposed to continue. I think a simple way I
don't want to take too long because we got a lot of verses to
carry to to complete. But a simple way is that let's try to evaluate
our Eman level. At what level are we in our iman before Ramadan? So
if you say that okay, I'm doing a five out of 10 That's my Eman
level I mess up a bit but I'm okay you know, I make my salads and I
try to do this. So if my level is five you knew level could be
seven, your level could be two, nine whatever, right? You get into
Ramadan and general hamdulillah everybody's level goes up because
shaytan is out of the picture everybody that communal
environment is created so level goes up you're doing more worships
and things like that. I mean, I'm assuming our Eman goes up right
from five to six seven maybe eight and later to a quarter maybe it
goes down to nine or 10 You know we might even hit that hamdulillah
now what happens after Ramadan the purpose of it is that if we finish
Ramadan and we go back to level five again like literally just go
back to doing everything the normal way and not learn and
endure keep anything in during from Ramadan then the purpose of
Ramadan has not been met the purpose of Ramadan is to boosted
us okay if we get to an eight let's just say safely in Ramadan
we get to an eight after Ramadan let's not drop down to five okay
if we're gonna drop because shaytaan is backout the lowest
drop to a seven maybe maybe a six but not below that we must have
learned something so every Ramadan will get better.
So that before we die inshallah in a better place thereafter that
Allah subhanho wa Taala says
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hardship in the Allah's trying to make it easy for us he is making
easy for us is that look, these are a certain number days, you
only have to fast for a number of days. And when you're told it's
only for this long, okay? I'm willing to take it if if it's
endless, it's gonna get difficult psychologically, humans are a
product of their psychology, their perspective on things, right? You
could have two brothers, two sisters born in the same house,
eating the same food, same parenting, but one mashallah is
just a lot more on the ball than the other one. Because their
psychology is different, the way they look at the world is
different.
So it's only a number of days and okay, if any of you are sick or
ill, or on a journey, then you can fulfill these days in an in
outside of Ramadan in other days, so Allah has made it easy if
you're sick. And I'll mention a few of the juris prudence points
here that a lot of people ask this. You're only allowed to
forego the fast. So this is talking about not fasting. It's
not about breaking the fastest don't fire meaning you don't have
to fast
If you're traveling, that's as long as your travel has begun. By
Saturday time by so whole time, so the beginning of the fast you're
traveling, you're allowed to forego the fast. If you're going
too fast, if you're going to travel at 12 o'clock your fight or
flight is at 12 o'clock, you're not really allowed to.
Not fast, right? Yes, once you do travel, and if it becomes this
real hardship, like really unbearable hardship, then you can
break your fast, only one cover will be necessary, meaning one
makeup fast, you don't have to do the 60. The 60 is only obligatory
in Ramadan fasts, when you break it on purpose without a valid
excuse. If you're doubtful about your excuse, just consult a
scholar about that. Likewise, if you're sick sickness here means
not just a bit of a headache. A lot of people actually get a bit
of a headache on the first day of Ramadan. Is that right? Do you
know why? dehydration.
That's why the tricky is what they say is that
irrigate yourself from a day or two before drinking extra water, a
lot of the same headaches unless they're chronic headaches and
migraines and other specific ones that due to dehydration. So that's
what happens, and then sort our diets out in so whole time,
instead of a lot of gassy carbs, be careful about what we eat,
right and inshallah that should keep us going Subhanallah as
people with diabetes, they're apprehensive before the month of
Ramadan. Soon as Ramadan comes in, they, you know, on a normal day,
you'd be shaking. A guy with diabetes by four or five o'clock
not had not had any sugar not had any food, they'd be low blood
sugar, but Subhanallah Gee Baraka, even in those long days that we
just pass for last few years, you know, 23 hour fast, you know, I
mean, not not that that was here. But on one occasion, I did a 23
hour, I think 25 of us coming back from Australia, right? And hola
me, I was ready that I'll break it, I'm going to keep it but I'm
going to break it if anything happens hamdulillah it was
actually very, very easy, Allah makes it easy. Of course, there,
people are going to have difficulty. So that's fine. If you
have a difficulty, you can keep it up. Now here it says that
it's better that you fast and those who those who cannot fast,
they can pay a failure. I want to clarify this a lot of people call
and they say that I've got a sickness right now I'm having to
take
these medicines three times a day, and the days are long, so I can't
fit it in during the eating hours. So, and the absolutely necessary
otherwise, I get fits or something like that. So in that case, that's
understand Can I pay a failure? Well, you can pay a failure if you
want to, but you still have to fast basically the rule here is
that if you are going to be able to fast on another day, like in
December short days or anytime in your life later on, then you will
have to make up for those fast failure does not suffice failure
the which is you can say the expiation for every miss fast
which is similar to your sadaqa to feta amount is basically feeding a
poor person two meals approximately costs four or 556
pounds probably a bit more now that inflation right. That is only
for those people who become terminally ill and terminally
unable to fast forever if such people give fit here and then
after they actually become better mashallah miraculous cure, they'll
have to fast and then Allah says shahada Ramadan a lady Oh Zilla V
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that the month that you're supposed to fasting is shahada,
Ramadan is the month of Ramadan
and it's the one in which the Quran was revealed. Now the Quran
was revealed over 23 years bit by bit mana German, as they say in
Arabic, but it was revealed in one night in a little corner of
Ramadan, from the seven heavens to the first heaven. See the Kaaba is
the special house in this world that is associated with Allah is
called obey to Allah, the house of Allah, the Kaaba, directly above
that. On the seventh heaven is Basil Mahmoud Al bait will Marmore
the inhabited house, that's the cover of the angels. And the
Hadith mentions that everyday is a no, every time there's 70,000
angels that go around do tawaf.
70,000 angels that Duta off of there.
Now, any angel who's done tawaf once they'll never get an
opportunity again, that's how many angels there are. There's just not
enough
is just literally one after the other. And I guess maybe rightly
or unright Lee people are complaining about how many top
offs you can do in the COVID restrictions. And I'm not here to
make a judgement. But just to give you an idea, Angela's only get to
do one tawaf. Now, it looks like on each of these heavens, we have
seven heavens, right up to the seventh one. On the first one, the
heaven is called beta Lazar,
the house of might. That is where the Quran was initially revealed,
all in one go all together. And then from there Gibreel at Islam
used to take it and bring it bit by bit over 23 years. That's why
Ramadan, Ramadan is the month in which little powder is and Leila
to Qatar is the night in which the Quran was entirely revealed in one
go, but not to the world, but to the first heaven. In fact, this
narrations about the scriptures of Ibrahim alayhi salam and other
divine Scriptures also being revealed during the month of
Ramadan. So there is a question was Ramadan
dignified by the revelation of the Quran? Or was Ramadan chosen
because it was already dignified? Allah knows best but it's a
dignified time. Right? That's for sure now anyway.
And then Allah subhanaw taala describes the Quran the Quran is a
guidance for people. It's also very clear by you know, this has
clear signs, clear evidences, right of guidance and of criteria
because he's from one of those books of Allah subhanaw taala
scriptures of Allah that provide guidance, and that provide
criterion between the right and wrong. That's the whole purpose of
the Quran is the criteria between right and wrong. Then Allah
subhanaw taala says something really interesting says, Whoever
among you witnesses the month he should fast it. This tells us so
many different things. Basically, anybody who's alive in the month
of Ramadan,
and who's awake and conscious, and they experienced the month fasting
becomes obligatory on them day by day. Now, just a bit of tangential
issue is that if there's somebody in a coma from the beginning of
Ramadan, he never saw, and was not conscious in the beginning of
Ramadan, until the end of Ramadan. He doesn't have to keep any cover.
Right. But if you witness if they were awake, and conscious, even
for a moment of it, they would have to repeat the vast likewise
with prayer. You know, when I was younger, I used to think women get
time off for prayer.
But men don't. Is there any time? Is there a holiday for prayer? I
couldn't find any holiday for prayer for men anyway. Right? Men
are fine with them. I'm doing that we pray no problem, right? Women
get it off on their monthly periods. So however, there is a
time you can get it off, but it's an extreme situation.
Right when you get prayer time off when you don't even have to do
cover. Does anybody know?
Well, of course, of course when you died, yes. But anything else?
Yeah. So if you're either unconscious, or in a coma, like
totally gone for over five prayers, then prayers are
generally in a package of five. That's what Allah is obligated on
us. Prayer is a package of five. So if you like a whole day's
prayer was missed because you just weren't conscious. Or another one
was if somebody is so paralyzed, and there are people they're so
paralyzed, they can't move anything except maybe their eyes
they physically just forget the word for that. They just cannot
move any part of their body if you can't move your part. You can't
pray
win No, no, that's not these guys. Their minds are fine. They're not
in a mind vegetative state. They're conscious they mashallah
they just can't move.
Now, another mother does allow the chef is to allow you to pray with
your eyes.
But 100 He said, No, that's, that's not going to work, you need
to at least be able to move your head to pray. Like if you could
just move your your neck, that would be enough for you to do RUCO
and sujood. But if you can't move that, then again, Salat is
canceled for you if it's in packages of five. But inshallah
Allah not allow us to be in that state. That's just if you've got a
family member or somebody who's struggling like that, consult
otherwise, you know, if you're confused about that. So Allah
subhanaw taala says, Whoever witnesses the month you need to
fast Now, another thing I want to clarify is that people take
flights in Ramadan. Now, if you're going
east, you're going into time. So if that is going to be if you want
to fast, fast, then you just get on a flight and go east and
mercury will come very fast. Okay, so people say or if you're going
west, that's what I've been to Canada once and my fast was about
20 to 23 hours. So I left about 12 in the afternoon. I got there
about seven and there are still two three hours left for Iftar.
And it was wrong for us. Then once I came back from Australia two
years ago, left after Saturday there for your time, and got here
about five o'clock. That was about
A 25 or 26 hour fast.
So, that's longer. Either way. What time do you consider for your
prayers in a plane? For example, when traveling? What are the time?
Do you take your destination time? Or do you take your home time?
Which one? Do you take home time or destination time?
Contact you think home that we put your hands up using home time.
Okay, and how many think destination time?
And the rest of you?
When you go there is a third option? That's a trick question.
Yes. So it's actually based on this. It's what you observe. You
forget your home time, and your destination time you see sunset
outside. That's your Marguerite for you.
You see sunset outside, that's your Mercury for you, you see the
sun, the dawn of Fajr that you have as your time for you. And
sometimes, you know, these airlines, they do help you out
there are certain apps that you can figure this stuff out. And,
yeah, it's kind of an interesting way to do things where you
actually doing it in the natural way where you're actually looking.
It's not just a timetable that you're following. It's really
interesting, you feel really close that yeah, I'm really doing this.
Right, try it next time you travel.
Then Allah subhanaw taala says that, okay, again, same thing, if
you're sick, whoever is sick, whoever is on a journey they can
fulfill these days later on. But it's better for you to as Allah
said in the previous one, if you're on a journey, and it was
going to be an easy journey, like many are these days is better for
you to vastly superior for you to fast, but you do have the right to
not fast if you started off on a journey, right?
Allah subhanaw taala then says Allah wants ease for you, he does
not want to create difficulty for you. Allah clarifies that. And
then he says it so that you can keep on mentioning all of these
things Allah says so that you can fulfill the number, the 30 days,
right, similar kind of idea, let's just say you started your fast in
a place where they started a day later. And then you came to
another place and it was going to be eat the next day in the area,
you'd have to follow them you can't be the only one not to do an
eighth, right? And keep fasting when everybody else is fasting.
But you've only got 28 fasts minimum must be 29. So what you do
is you keep a cover afterwards of one day. So any month of Ramadan
must have minimum 29 and otherwise 30 But nothing less than 28. So
nothing less than 29. Thereafter that Allah subhanaw taala says and
so that you glorify Allah, on his guidance to you, and so that you
are thankful to Allah subhanho wa Taala for this ease that he is
creating. This was an obligation on the nations of the past as
well, Allah is creating a lot of ease for you when you can do it
because the purpose of fasting is not to make it difficult. The
purpose of fasting as Allah mentions, he has Lai la quinta
taco, and he's only one benefit is providing there are hundreds 1000s
of benefits of fasting, right? People have discovered this, I
mean, now it's the time of diets. So you know, people are
discovering the five and two diet, which is the Sunnah of the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam to foster Mondays and Thursdays.
And they're discovering there's numerous discussions from a
nutritional perspective and from a physiological and biological
perspective of the benefits of fasting and the exact change and
the trajectory of that change as it goes through from the first day
of Ramadan to the 13th and the different feelings you have. You
know, your experience must have been that for the 30 days of
fasting, you don't exactly feel the same way every day. There are
times and it gets a bit more difficult at times when it gets
easier. And there's a lot of that but Allah subhanaw taala adds a
lot of incentives to make this easier for us thereafter that
Allah subhanaw taala says in verse 186, we're either lucky or a
birdie Neva in the Carib would you go there with either the NFL Yes,
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interesting in the middle of this discussion, it's about fasting
right there. It's going to continue that discussion
afterwards. But in between Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
When My servants asked about me, then tell them basically that I am
close. Ramadan is a time when a person feels closer to Allah.
The day before Ramadan and the day are in Ramadan. The Masjid sees
double occupancy
right? It's just the rates have gone up in a hotel you pay for
them right? When there's as soon as COVID restrictions when
everything went up in Ramadan mashallah people come out they've
avoided the masjid now they feel like they want to come who brought
them?
Why did they come? Nobody forced them to come they just suddenly
appeared in federal martial law or as a Must you start becoming sworn
a we need to be build a bigger mosque.
Right? Allah subhanaw taala is amazing. The shaytaan is out of
the picture. And there's the incense
Is there and I think it's spiritual huge you know, even if
you don't think about it, you know, you unless you're really
messed up and you want to break into hellfire because Hellfire has
closed the door of hellfire close in Ramadan, your paradise is open.
So unless somebody really wants to be bad mashallah there's an
amazing feeling in Ramadan and you're just carried just amazing.
after Ramadan, you think we'd have this kind of gathering inshallah.
Inshallah don't abandon your mosque after Ramadan. Don't
abandon your Eman, don't abandon Allah.
I respond to the call of any quarter, when he calls me when he
petitions me failures to God, so he should seek from me an answer
you should seek from me. And he should believe in me
so that he can gain guidance. You know, there are two times there's
many times but there are generally two times at work for many people,
whether two hours are accepted. One is Ramadan. And the other one
is Hutch probably is which is a bit of an elite kind of worship
where you have to go somewhere and everybody can't go all the time.
But Ramadan comes to us. So it's for everyone. Ramadan comes to us.
So the idea is that lots of people are experiencing you. You probably
have this experience that I got my doors finally accepted in Ramadan.
I can I'm just trying to get because I've promised questions
here. So that's why otherwise 10s of examples of dollars being
accepted in Hajj or in Ramadan.
It's that time when Allah is in a giving mode. So in the middle of
the discussion of Ramadan, you'll see carries on he says I am close
tell everybody I am close. I respond to those who ask
you know, we should ask Allah everything. Let's just say you go
outside, and he starts you see that it might rain.
Read Allahumma Hawa Lena Wallah Elena, oh Allah around us, not
upon us.
And how many times that rain will not bother you or it will not
rain.
You have fasting, you're fasting and suddenly
you see an allergy coming on, or something else where you need to
take tablets otherwise it just goes on hold up place like you
knows if that's the case or your head. Allah Mara bananas and he
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that's the whole deal about Shiva seven times and mashallah, you
will see the benefits. You've just had a bit of an issue with
somebody Allahumma Elif Bina, Colombina Allahumma Salli, ala
Albanian, Allah reform us reformed what's between us and Subhan
Allah, Allah makes it easy. These are the doors we need to be in
touch with Allah, Allah time, that's the consciousness and they
work. They work on numerous occasions have I had been faced
with the challenge of do I do this? Or do I do that and it was a
split second decision I had to make Allahumma who really worked
30 hour choose for me and select the best for me. And you make a
decision then, you know, based on a bit of a rumination and that dua
And subhanAllah it works out to its benefit. That's the connection
with Allah. Allah is close, he wants to give give him an excuse
to give provide him an excuse to give and Allah will give.
Then Allah subhanaw taala carries on in the next verse, or hey, let
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rather long verse number of things mentioned in here.
I need to tell you a story about this. What used to be in the
beginning of Islam and fasting was initially prescribed when fasting
was initially prescribed. Your fast began from when you fell
asleep anytime after maghrib. If you fell asleep, dozed off, came
from a tough day at work and said, let me just relax for a bit your
fast would begin. So you couldn't eat after that.
Finally, there's one Sahabi who'd come back from the fields really,
really, really tired and weary and asked his wife do you have any way
she said, I'll make something for you and he fell asleep. And that's
what he couldn't eat until the next day. And then there were
others who say you weren't allowed to eat drink or have interaction
have intimacy. I'll just say that we have children here mashallah,
right, you are allowed to have intimacy. So some couldn't help
making a mistake. Finally, they told the Prophet salallahu Salam
number of reasons and Allah subhanaw taala change the hokum.
So now Allah subhanaw taala says, It is halal for you now, in the,
in the nights of fasting, to have intimacy with your spouses. They
are a garment for you and you're a garment for them. They're your
protective layer and you're their protective layer. And Subhan
Allah, Allah subhanaw taala is not prohibited from us eating and
drinking after mercury, because the purpose of notes to persecute
somebody, or to put somebody in hardship, it's training. So
likewise, halal intimacy is allowed after that as well. And
thereafter that Allah subhanaw taala says, Allah knows, Allah
knew that you were betraying yourself, that there were mistakes
that were made. So Allah subhanaw taala has relented to you, and
thus he's forgiven you
for anniversary ruhuna so now you're allowed to do this, you're
allowed to have the intimacy and go and seek what Allah has written
for you encouragement to have children,
and, and anything else that is written for you. And now eat and
drink that change the hook up now. Now you you even if you fall
asleep, it's okay. You can now eat and drink until the white thread
becomes distinct from the black thread.
There's actually only one thread really, it's only one line. That's
the line of dawn that comes. But that's the distinction that as
soon as the dawn comes in, Fajr appears, you're fasting begins
now. That's your time, right? That's what you call Fudger,
right? The eruption of that from the darkness.
So you can eat and drink until that happens, essentially. So now
it was allowed, even if you slipped in between
both for our Books Publishing and for our postgraduate institution,
we chose the white thread Institute and white thread
publishing, because it's a beautiful name from the Quran, but
it sounds so mainstream and quite elegant. I think. I hope you guys
think so as well, white thread, it has a 50 basis and a Quranic
basis. Are you really getting excited when I read this verse?
Right? It's just talking about the white thread of dawn but
hamdulillah right, what a simple idea but such a profound idea that
is some at the museum now then you can come then you should complete
your fasting until the night once the dawn comes in, then you need
to force until the nighttime a lot of people make mistakes when they
explain to non Muslims. Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, they
don't they're fast would be broken. If they ate before that
it's actually dawn to sunset everybody does it but they kind of
make this mistake. I've seen like these
Islam awareness videos and we fast from sunrise to sunset, you don't
Subhanallah there was one made a few a few years ago and they sent
it to me and I said this is a mistake. Oh, it's already done.
Now we're gonna have to send it out.
Right?
Whether to ruin our anti American when when you're in a teacup,
there's a there's a discussion about Attica, when you're in
Attica, if you can not have intimacy with your wife, with your
spouse, I think a masjid wife, what kind of connection? Are you
talking about people you don't see that today? You know, well, you
see in those days, there was some houses around the masjid, the
profits or losses chambers were on the masjid. And while he was in
Attica, sometimes he would put his head back and he shot at the
Emerald comb his hair for him. So touching in a non intimate manner
is allowed. But anything more than a break your ethical meaning if
intimacy in the full sense would break your ethical If so,
nowadays, I don't think it matters. Right. You are risk you
are in retreat. You don't. An amazing thing. One of our
scholars, Monash earthenware, he said that there are three you can
reduce Ramadan, down to three things, the Cradle to
Cradle Manam and Ducati reductil. lt ma our is really interesting.
For the month of Ramadan is a reduction of
eating and drinking of course, because we've got a lot of people
you know what they do, they just say we miss lunch. So we're going
to double it in Iftar. And they mess up the whole purpose of
fasting. Really, and it okay, if I can't do it after taraweeh then
come on, just wait, you're going to eat after taraweeh stuff your
stomach, go to sleep on a full stomach and wake up and eat more.
Like you can't do that. That's not the purpose. The purpose of it is
that you we actually eat less that we actually
Eat less for the month of May Allah make that easy for us look,
I can understand you might have a bit more, you know if 30 time,
right? I can understand that but come on just just and then
reduction of sleep because the whole sleep schedule gets
disturbed because of taraweeh. And then after that what support and
so on. And then the last one was
reduction in the meeting with just general people.
So, you know, we don't allow her Michoud we don't have her Michoud
where you just completely isolated. We do ethical Villa
Masjid. When you take off in the masjid.
You will meet people, but they will be just believers that you
will meet.
Because
you will meet other Muslims that come to the prayer. So you don't
have to worry about anybody else. Do you know why Umrah and Hajj is
so profound that for those days or several days or weeks, two weeks,
three weeks, whatever,
all your you're only with believers.
That's an amazing idea. Right? You don't have to worry about
distraction, negligence, a lot of other things like that. I mean,
it's minimized. Anyway to move on. Then it says Allah finishes this
cluster of verses off by saying that these are the boundaries of
Allah. Don't try to even get close to them. Don't try to violate
them. Don't try to encroach upon them. This is how ALLAH SubhanA wa
Taala clarifies his verses for the people so that they can gain taqwa
and God consciousness because the whole purpose of this is God
consciousness. Remember, when I said, Do do us even the smallest,
it's God consciousness to be constantly conscious of Allah
subhana wa Tada so that we do what he wants, and we avoid what he
doesn't want. And by this, I will end it because then the discussion
slightly changes to something else. But that ended with verse
187. May Allah subhanaw taala.
Grant us a better understanding of this and
the practice of it in the right way and allow us to fulfill the
real spirit and objective of Allah subhanaw taala has made the
fasting prescribed upon us. That one annual hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
Alameen. So as promised, I mean, I can take a few questions only
about fasting and Ramadan. Otherwise, we'd be here all day,
using toothpaste.
If any of it goes down your throat your fast will break if it just
stays in your mouth because you are creating a refresh in your
mouth and the flavor and so on. So it's McLuhan is blameworthy so you
get reward diminished by that. Same with mouth freshness. If
anything goes down, your fast will break. But if it just stays in the
mouth and youth rinse it out. Then it's blameworthy. Allahu Mendez
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say they know Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Allah homophily
Muslim enormously murdered what we know and what we know the law Amen
And when I'm word, Allah bless us during this month. Yeah Allah
shower us with Your mercy. Drench us in your mercy in your
forgiveness of Allah we ask you for your generosity of Allah your
generosity knows no bounds, especially during this month of
Allah grant us and do not deprive us writers of those who are freed
from the hellfire, right as those that are freed from the miseries
of the everlasting Hellfire of Allah writers among those who are
become your chosen servants of Allah make this fasting easy for
us. Allow us to gain closeness to you. Allow us to rise in our iman
of Allah allow us to maintain our faith even after Ramadan allow us
to gain the taqwa that the first thing is is to provide for us, Oh
Allah, allow us to fast in the proper way. And Allah make our
tarawih and everything
a source of great pleasure and blessing for us. Oh Allah bless
all of those who have established these masajid and Allah allow us,
allow us to continue to run them in the best way possible. Save us
from the fitness which are outside that seek to take our youth away
and ourselves away. Oh Allah. There are many challenges out
there. We ask that you protect us and our children and our project
is until the day of judgment with preserved Iman and with good faith
and with steadfastness on it, Oh Allah, we asked you to send your
abundant blessings on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa salam and grantors his company in the hereafter. Subhan
Allah be globalized that the IOC Fonasa dominant ministerial
Hamdulillah.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can
Become more aware of what our Dean wants from us. And that's why we
started Rayyan courses so that you can actually take organize
lectures on demand whenever you have free time, especially, for
example, the Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic
essentials certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the
end of that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to live, you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well as local law here in Santa Monica
when I have to live record