Abu Taymiyyah – Ali Banat Muhammad Ali & Death in & Before Ramadhan
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Okay.
That's a very good question because it's always
like at the middle of the month
where,
you know, a person after he's been striving
so much, he begins to feel very very
tired.
You know the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
He used
to strive in the last 10 days,
a type of striving, and he would put
so much effort that we which he wouldn't
do in the
previous days of Ramadan.
Also he came to Hadid of Aisha
Khanan Nabi sallallahu alaihi was telling me
that
The Messenger sallallahu alaihi was saying, when the
last 10 days entered,
he would tie his trousers. It's like a
figurative speech. His lungi, I think they call
in a in Urdu. Right?
In Samani, they call him And
in Arabic, they call it Izzar.
He would tie it, meaning he would like
up his game. Okay?
And
he would wake up his family and he
would bring his
night to life.
But of course, this is the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasalam. Somebody thinks himself always the messenger.
He was the best of creation.
Okay?
One thing that I've realized my brothers and
sisters
to
And insha Allahu ta'ala, maybe we'll take this
as a lesson.
There's a number of things that really really
soften a person's heart.
And maybe because of us now feeling
so empty inside,
it has something to do with why our
Ibadat are really, you know, going downhill.
There's a number of points that a person
can actually do. One of them is
looking up the
biographies
of the people of the past, the righteous
of the past,
of how they used to do Ibadah, how
they used to
conduct themselves in the month of Ramadan.
My brothers and sisters,
when we hear that Uthman ibn Affair
used to read the Quran,
used to read the Quran, the whole Quran
in 1 raka.
He used to read the whole Quran in
1 raka. I've seen
When I was in Yemen,
the sheikh, he would read maybe sometimes
8 Jews in 1 rakah.
8 Jews in 1 rakah.
These are people who are currently living with
us.
They are still alive.
And I'm gonna send you our lectures of
a brother that he recently done. He's a
good friend of mine. He's studying in Saudi
Arabia as well. Where he was talking about
the people of the past in the month
of Ramadan and how much Quran they would
read.
But like I said, my brothers and sisters,
again, it goes back to a person's heart.
As Uthman ibn Affan himself, he said,
Had our hearts become so
pure, we wouldn't have become bored of trying
to read the Quran of Allah
So again, it goes back to the issue
of the heart. I was trying to really
really rectify it. These people in our time,
he was saying that he would read the
Quran from Badal Isha all the way to
Fajr.
And he only passed away in 1970.
It was the Sheikh of Sheikh Salah ibn
Abdul Abilah bin Hamid al Usaymi,
who's a teacher in the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam's masjid.
So us now reading
the
stories and the real life experiences of the
people of the past
and you know standing over it, it's really
really encourages a person and he ups his
iman.
There's this lecture that I really done. You
might want to find it on my YouTube
channel. It talks about sincerity
and
also,
how the the people of the past, the
righteous from the 3 golden generations,
those the Messenger and prayed, they used to
hide the good deeds. It's one of them,
quotes when you read, it really ups a
person's iman.
Another thing, my brothers and sisters, that we
can actually,
you know, take into consideration is
to treat these days that is coming up
as if it's maybe the last days of
our lives.
You know, when Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he
told us,
When you now stand up for prayer,
then make sure you pray the farewell prayer.
Meaning, this prayer should be a prayer that
you pray and perfect it and may put
your utmost effort inside it,
thinking that you might not be able to
get another opportunity to pray another prayer.
And we know between isha and fajar, between
duhr and asr, it's only a few hours.
If we've been told to pray the farewell
prayer with regards
to
and every time we stand up in front
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and the period between the two salawat are
very very little.
How about the next Ramadan? That's like 12
months away. How many people around us, my
brothers and sisters, have passed away?
I was just mentioning the other day in
Masjid Al Khani, let's start.
Yani, like people that I personally know.
SubhanAllah, my brothers and sisters, just before I
left in Madinah,
Sheikh Abdul Azak Al Badr was telling us
his story.
Because the lessons that we was having was,
you know, directly revolving around
death
and that we really need to kind of
like take our lives a bit more seriously
and softening the heart and so on and
so forth.
He said, a couple of days before the
month of Ramadan,
there was this African brother who came to
the Sheikh.
An African brother who came to the Sheikh.
And he was showing him the schedule and
the timetable
of another African Dae'i, who's given Dae'u in
Africa,
everything that he had planned out.
Everything that he had planned out to give
the lectures, the khatab,
the reminders, everything was already planned out.
All the posters were already sent out.
So this brother now in Medina is showing
the Sheikh that this individual died
before the month of Ramadan,
even though he had all of this ready.
You know, it doesn't you know, most most
of us, it might not necessarily
cross our minds just a couple of days
before the month of Ramadan and also before
the last 10 days in laylatulqadr,
that our lives might be taken.
It's something that we tend to really like
it just crosses our minds.
It doesn't pass our minds that we could
die.
Everybody is already excited of Eid, you know,
we're already preparing. We're preparing for the month
of Ramadan before it and an Eid in
the last 10 days.
Just like maybe conducting ourselves in these, that
it might be the last days of our
lives. I'm sure we all know the brother
called Ali Banat.
I never knew him personally, but people are
very close to me. They had
a very close-up personal relationship with the brother.
He passed away a couple of days ago.
Somebody who was really trying to look after
his akhirah.
I've seen another Some of the brothers who
I am very close to,
I think the sister was studying with them.
Just before Ramadan she was posting of how
we should really,
you know,
take our health
and you know be thankful about our health.
They were posting, you know, Twitter images, screenshots.
She just passed away a couple of days
ago. Just recently my teacher he says to
me, that used to teach me Quran when
I was really young,
He says to me, Muhammad, you you travel
quite a bit.
Make dua for my dad. He passed away
just before the month of Ramadan.
You know, it really softens up a person's
heart to go visit the graveyard.
The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us
in a
hadith, I previously
prohibited you from going to the graves, but
now go and visit it.
It came in another piece of narration that
was added on by Imam Atirmid
What is the reason why? Why did the
messiah tell us to go and visit the
graves? For inna to Zakirul Akhirah.
It reminds a person of the akhirah.
And there's another piece of narration as well
narrated by Ibn Majah,
It makes a person
look
down and overlook the dunya.
When you realize that you're going to be,
you know, 8 feet down
at any point of your life
that we're currently breathing,
it really really makes a person
overlook the pleasures of this dunya
and think more about the akhirah.
So us, you know, really treating these days
as if it's the last ten days of
our lives.
And us not
being able to maybe reach another Ramadan
and having this on the back of our
minds.
You don't
know Muhammad Ali,
the great boxer. Undoubtedly the best boxer to
maybe ever fight
in this dunya as they say. When did
he die last year? Couple of days before
the month of