Abu Taymiyyah – Don’t Destroy your Reward (Ramadn MCL)
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The speakers discuss the importance of fasting during praised month-ish and the significance of "core concept" meaning a "istic means" in reference to one's actions. They also discuss the concept of "core concept", which is a way to withhold from certain activities and is seen as a way to reduce reward. The narration that is going to reduce reward is a form of withhold from something specifically and it is what really concerns the speaker. The narration that is going to reduce reward is a form of withhold from something specifically and it is what really cares.
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My dear respective brothers and sisters,
in this short reminder
I would like to speak about
something that hopefully will inspire us this Ramadan
and that will give us a better understanding
in how we should conduct ourselves in this
month. The attitude that we should have towards
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala while fasting in this
blessed month of Ramadan.
Did you know my beloved brothers and sisters
that when Muhammad,
Khadija,
Abdullahi
and Fatima
are carrying out acts of worship,
it may seem from the apparent that they
are doing the exact same thing. However,
it could possibly be that their rewards are
completely different.
The messenger sallallahu
told us about the salah.
When one finishes the salah
salah, he only received 1 tenth of the
reward.
It could be that he got only a
9th, an 8th, a 7th,
a 6th, a 5th,
a quarter,
a third, and half of the reward.
Is my brothers and my sisters the one
who is focusing on his Lord. Because when
you're standing in front of your Lord, messenger
sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said
When one stands in front of his Lord
in the salah, he's interacting with his Lord.
He's the one who's focusing
on Allah
the same as the one who's thinking about
what his wife has cooked back home?
Of course not.
Likewise, the messenger of Allah ari was telling
me told us in a hadith
when he prays for 60 years
But his no salah is accepted from him.
Perhaps he does the ruku properly but he
doesn't actually do the sujood properly and because
of the his salawat his prayers are not
being accepted from him. And likewise my brothers
and my sisters the prophet sallallahu
ahi wa sama told us about the Hajj.
Whoever performs the Hajj and he doesn't engage
in obscenity,
any transgression
then this person will come back like a
newly born baby. My brothers and my sisters,
can the one who is in the state
of Ihram
concentrating and focusing on his Lord, staying away
from that which you shouldn't be engaging in,
can he be the same as the one
who might spend the days of hajj arguing,
swearing,
slandering,
backbiting,
spreading rumors about others.
Maybe even going as far as pushing people
and getting onto the bus to move from
one place to another. Something we see every
single year. Can they be equal?
Of course not my beloved brothers and sisters.
Again it shows us that one may do
these acts of worship however
people come out with different rewards and that
brings me on to our discussion today and
that is about fasting. The Messenger Sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam told us about fasting
Perhaps one may fast and he gets nothing
out of the fasting except
thirst
and hunger.
The same is said about the fasting, my
beloved brothers and sisters.
It may be that one withholds from the
things that he should be staying away from
like food,
drink and sexual *.
The reward on your Marqiyama
is completely different. Imagine to yourself my beloved
brothers and sisters that you come on Yawmul
Qiyama
and the fasting
that overwhelmed you,
that really tired you, that exhausted you, you
have absolutely nothing from it.
And that is because you didn't
stay away from the things that you should
have stayed away from. That brings me on
to what a soul means. What does a
soul mean my beloved brothers and sisters?
A soul linguistically
means Alimsak
to withhold from something.
If I say to you you need to
do a song from social media it means
you need to withhold from it. If I
say to you that you need to do
a song from haram relationships it means that
you need to withhold from it. If I
say you need to do a psalm from
Netflix it means that you need to withhold
from it.
And this meaning is also mentioned in the
Quran in reference to our
mother Maryam alaihis salatu was salam. When she
gave birth
she was very worried about what the people
are going to say to her
when they see this newborn.
Jibril Alaihi Sallatu Wasallam he said to her
When you go to the people and they
ask where you got this baby from say
that you did a
vow.
What was this vow to do a psalm?
What was this psalm? What was this thing
that she was going to withhold from?
I'm not gonna speak to anybody today.
Technically my brothers and my sisters there is
a 4 part definition to what a soul
means from a technical perspective and we're just
going to stand over the first part Insha'Allahu
Ta'ala. It is
It is to withhold from something specifically
and this is split into 2. Number 1
that which is going to nullify your fast
like food, drink and sexual * and all
the other things that is going to nullify
your fast. And the second thing that is
going to my brothers and my sisters or
the second thing that we need to withhold
from and this is what really concerns me
in this reminder
is that which is going to reduce your
reward.
Ramadan is so much more than just staying
away from food, drink and sexual * guys.
It's so much more than that.
That brings me on to what
Jabir ibn Abdillah radiallahu ta'ala Anhu mentioned. And
this second part my brothers and my sisters
is that which is going to reduce your
reward, that which is going to destroy it.
What did Jabir ibn Abdillah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
say? He said
When you do fast
then make sure that your hearing
is fasting as well and also your eyes
are fasting and also your tongue is fasting.
From what? From lying and all sorts of
sins. If you're listening to music
you are working towards destroying your fast. If
you're watching things that you shouldn't be watching,
haram things and we all know that which
is out there that people fall into. This
is going to affect
that which you attain from this month my
beloved brothers and sisters.
And that which we say with our tongues,
the swearing, the backbiting that we do. In
fact my beloved brothers and sisters it's not
just about killing time as we hear
every single Ramadan. Let's go here, let's sit
in this place in order to kill time.
My brothers and my sisters is much more
than that. Look what Ibnuqayim
says
The best of those who fast are those
who remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala the most
while they are fasting and the best form
of dhikr guys is
reading the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Reading the book of Allah Azzawajal
in this blessed month. So it's a month
of activity,
it's a month of getting closer to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Not a month my brothers
and my sisters where we spend
the days of fasting,
sleeping,
or not doing anything.
It may be that one comes across that
narration that I see every single year going
around
and then he acts upon it and thinks
that he's actually doing something
great. What is his narration guys?
The narration that has been attributed to the
prophet
that he's completely free from. One
One being silent is like him saying SubhanAllah
SubhanAllah SubhanAllah.
And him sleeping is a form of Ibadah.
So he sleeps for 17 hours
or maybe even sometimes more than that.
From Fajr all the way up till after
Maghrib
because he spent the whole night
maybe engaging
in things that only Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
knows best about. And then he sleeps, wakes
up at Maghrib time,
and he may think that khalas now I've
managed to attain so much reward. But in
reality, my beloved brothers and sisters, that narration
is mawdur.
It is fabricated
and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us
to have a productive
Ramadan
where we attain the maximum and the optimum
reward.