Abu Taymiyyah – Euro 2016 Vs Ramadhan 2016
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Inshallah
today, brothers and sisters, we hope to cover
a few different points within the month of
Ramadan,
But that which I wanna stop speaking about
is something called Euro 2016
that most of us have probably heard about,
that is currently clashing with the blessed month
of Ramadan.
You know, brothers and sisters,
I don't think sometimes when the month of
Ramadan comes, we tend to
look at Ramadan the way we should be
looking at the month of Ramadan.
If only we knew
the virtue and also the reward, the immense
reward of the month of Ramadan.
Why would the salaf
ask 6 months before the month of Ramadan?
6 months before the month of Ramadan, they
would make dua to Allah They would ask
6 months before the month of Ramadan. That
They would ask 6 months for the month
of Ramadan. That shows you that there's such
a great, immense reward
when it comes to the month of Ramadan.
There's a hadith
that was narrated by
He said,
2 men came to the prophet
and they became or they embraced the Islam
at the same time.
One of them was someone who used to
strive a lot in the He was someone
who used to strive.
And he died as a.
The other individual,
he lived for an extra year, made it
as a shayid.
He saw the second individual.
Put the shayeed to the side for a
moment. The second individual, he was being raised
in the eyes of Allah
Can anyone tell me some of the virtues
of a person who dies as a shayid
or some of the things that actually
happened to him?
Does anyone know any
sorry?
Okay. Any Allah?
Other?
What he can do in session?
Okay. Anyone else?
Okay.
The prophetess of Allah said about the shihid,
he will come
Wherever he was stabbed or where he was
shot, he will come
and that patch
will be the color of blood
and it'll be the rikh and the, the
smell of musk. And he came in another
narration that this person who dies as a
shahid, you know how everyone gets tested in
the grave.
This person, he won't be tested in the
grave.
Automatically, he will go into
aljannah.
Are you now with me? That's the immense
reward of a person who died as a
matter.
And guess what?
The second individual he was being he was
being raised more than the first individual.
So Tarikhin when
he woke up after he saw this in
a dream,
he came to the Prophet
to ask for the interpretation.
The Prophet
replied back and he said,
Didn't he live an extra year after the
first one?
And he fasted in the month of Ramadan.
And he also what? He stood in the
month of Ramadan.
He said, Balar, yes.
The prophet
said,
between them both is the distance of the
heavens and earth.
The distance between them both is the distance
of the heavens and earth.
Being man or being given the success to
reach the month of Ramadan and to fasten
the month, as you can see brothers and
sisters, to die as a shayid is first
thing of a joke.
Used to constantly make dua to Allah
to make him die in the way of
Allah which I know even better than Rasool
and to make his death
in the city of his prophet.
And look now what the prophet is
saying about this individual who managed to reach
the month of Ramadan.
I'm sure most of us, we know an
individual called Muhammad Ali,
the famous boxer. If he was to say
the
best and the greatest boxer to ever walk
on the face of this earth,
Most people would agree to be Muhammad Ali.
He died when? 2 days before the month
of Ramadan.
And unfortunately, may Allah have mercy upon him,
he didn't manage to reach
the month of Ramadan.
Do you think that
it ever crossed his mind that he's going
to pass away 2 days before the month
of Ramadan?
I don't think anyone was thinking that.
As soon as maybe the month of Shawwal
comes in, we look forward to the month
of Ramadan, where we're going to be eating
in the month of Ramadan, what we're going
to be doing the Torah week. We're all
thinking about that. We've already
prepared our supplementary.
We have all prepared our supplementary for the
month of Ramadan.
Never does it cross our minds that they
all that we're going to pass away maybe
2 days before the month of Ramadan.
And many other people did as well. He
is not the only one.
People are dying left, right, and center. We're
receiving WhatsApp messages.
Has died.
Everyone goes to Safran Lane Cemetery, symmetry,
and everyone goes.
So to reach the month of Ramadan, brothers
and sisters, firstly in within itself, it's a
big blessing.
It is upon us to thank.
What happens when we thank
And when we thank him, he increases us
in every blessing that comes our, our way.
And more and more and more, he gives
us more and more. We are the ones
that we need of
thanks. Maybe if we actually
frustrate to Allah in thanks, it could be
the reason what?
That he gives us the success to reach
the next year and obtain this great reward.
And then there's the people who,
by the will of Allah, they have been
given the opportunity
to reach the month of Ramadan, and they
absolutely waste it.
You know what the prophet said?
Rich is the individual. And he came in
another narration,
may the nose of that person be dragged
on the floor. It's an expression of the
Arabs have.
Ramadan comes,
it slips away from him, and he's not
forgiven.
With all these blessings, with all these opportunities.
The prophet
said, Allah
speaking.
Fasting is for me.
And I'm the one that's going to give
him the reward.
The reward hasn't been mentioned.
To show you what Allah can give this
individual.
It's
it could be unrestricted. Behold the other
actions that a person might do on a
regular basis that we mentioned.
And
is something that Allah is saying it is
for me, and I'm going to reward this
individual.
And then we come,
we might spend the whole day
watching Euro 2,016.
2 years ago, Ramadan,
it coincided with the World Cup. I think
it's World Cup 2014.
Ramadan
and the World Cup was in the same
month.
Well, I remember our people,
they preferred
to watch Messi and Ronaldo kick a piece
of material than stand in front of Allah
Because that time some of the games they
used to start at 9 o'clock.
And
was he was breaking your fast around that
time, and then there was other games in
the evening as well.
So you are standing in front of Allah
He's saying to
you,
Whoever stands
for in
the month of Ramadan,
his past tense will be forgiven
if he does that with iman, and he
also seeking the reward.
We know that when you're standing in front
of Allah you're
interacting with him. The prophet told us,
When a pastor stands up for prayer, he's
interacting with his lord.
So you're basically between interacting with your Lord
or watching a punch
of disbelievers,
who if they die upon the they're upon,
they're never ever coming out of the fire.
How many times have we seen this? One
of them is close of gold, he takes
his shirt off, all praise to Jesus.
I remember used to
do it. Oh, this was for you Jesus,
or I love Jesus or whatever.
Do you know brothers and sisters the Muslim
or the individual?
Who is a drug dealer?
Who is a zaddy, a fornicator,
or the girlfriend?
Who's doing also the
as long as he has and he prays
the if
he dies or the time he dies, he
is basically between either being forgiven
or being punished, but soon or late is
going to come out.
But all these football players that we are
dying for, day and night that we're watching,
people like Messi,
if he dies upon what he's upon,
this person never ever coming out.
And on top of that, we went to
the Muslims. He went
to Israel. What did he do?
He paid a
€1,000,000 for Israel Israel.
And the whole Barcelona team, they're queuing up
at the cemetery or at some of their,
some of their places of worship, they're all
wearing the Jewish hat and
laughing and joking.
It's a reality check. Guys, this is the
kind of people that we might spend hours.
They say, during 2016,
there's going to be game, a game at
2 o'clock, a game at 5, and a
game at 8.
That's basically your whole day gone.
Your whole day has gone to watch watching
football. Don't think brothers and sisters, and this
is a misconception that many people have. When
the month of Ramadan comes,
halas as long as I stay away from
food, drink, and intimacy
with my wife, halas. My fasting is absolutely
magnificent.
So people, what do they attempt to do?
After sufuri sleeps,
he wakes up at door, he prays, and
some may make a pray.
Goes back to sleep.
Then from Asaf to Maghrib, he wakes up.
His food's ready and he eats. And the
whole Ramadan comes like this.
The Promised of Allahu alaihi wa sallam, in
fact, He told us,
fasting is not only about food and drink,
staying away from food and drink.
Rather it's also about
staying away from obscenity
and false hope.
Not only while you're fasting but the whole
of Ramadan.
Ramadan.
Sometimes I hear some of the sisters.
You know the sisters are known to mainly
backbite and slander us. Talk about other people
more than the guys. It's something that they're
known for.
At the time of Ramadan or the time
they're fasting,
what
happens? If someone comes to her
and wants to talk about maybe a certain
individual, she says, I'm fasting.
At the time, and she says, come back.
Come back, baby. Later. Tell me later.
And they're sitting around after breaking a fast,
Allah's, the pickering has started. They're having
Oh, she said this, or she said that.
She looks like that. She turned up at
the wedding and she looked like a ghost.
I've heard it, Myronia. The example stays with
me because I've heard it.
Oh, have you seen her? She looked like
this when she not sorry. Not to the
wedding. When she came to Tara Weah. Oh,
you see that since I came.
She looked like this and she was wearing
this. She looked absolutely disgusting.
This is the kind of things that was
being discussed.
Why when you're fasting, you abstain from it,
but after the fasting, Allah, you carry on
doing what is
transgression against the people.
Are you a part time Muslim or something?
You stay away from the major sins, and
then after, harass you, carry on persisting or
falling into these
disgusting sins.
Even the prophet
told us,
when it comes to different people,
certain people are getting absolutely nothing.
A a bad that I spot greater than
the fasting, the salat.
Perhaps the person he comes out of the
prayer, and he only got 1 tenth of
the reward.
1 9th,
1 8th, 1 5th.
As As the prophet
told us, when JAMA and when Mohammed fasts
and prays,
do you think the guy who is praying
Perhaps the person he fasts
and he gets absolutely nothing from the fasting
except
hung up, he says.
Likewise, the guy that's watching 3 games in
the month of Ramadan,
and he's wasting his time.
When Allah
gave him all these opportunities
to seek forgiveness,
they're not going to be equal.
They are not going to be equal.
So you might want to ask yourself
another question.
Why does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala want us
to stop?
Why does Allah
want us to drink,
want us to eat,
want us not to have intimacy with our
wives?
Someone might be thinking themselves 25 years I've
been waiting.
I just got married before the month of
Ramadan
and I've been roasting.
And
I have to stay away from my wife.
17 hours. I can't do nothing with that.
What is the reason as to why Allah
he subscribed this?
Sometimes when the month of Ramadan, we might
not even know why we're fasting.
Or might be fasting for the wrong reason.
This is also something that I think I
should give great emphasis to why are we
fasting.
Are we fasting because everyone else is fasting?
That we don't fast before left out.
Or maybe mom and dad are forcing us.
Mom and dad are forcing us to fast,
and then because of this, we fast.
Or maybe because I wanna do good for
my husband. I wanna lose some extra extra
kilos I built up for 11 months.
Some sisters might find because of that reason,
or the guy he wants to look hedged.
Or maybe built upon some fake hadith.
This hadith that comes around every year.
Fast and you are gay with health.
And the reality of the matter is, brothers
and sisters,
most of us we don't even reach or
we don't even obtain good health in the
month of Ramadan.
From 3 o'clock all the way to 9
o'clock, we went fasting. Right? That's 3 meals
we might have. And then we make up
for it at a time of breaking the
fast.
So if anything, we pour out more and
more and more in the month of Ramadan.
You know, this hadith in the middle of
the time again.
Some of the scholars of the past said,
it should be mentioned in every chapter of
5th, whether it is whether
it is
fasting
Hajj. Because any way better than you do,
if it is not done for the correct
intention, you're getting absolutely nothing. 1st and hunger,
the prophet said.
Your intention is why why are you fasting?
Because everyone else is doing it. Are you
gonna come on your stand in front of
Allah Look what the prophet told us
Sorry.
When a servant now is placed in the
grave,
and those who came and dropped him off,
they leave. He begins to hear the movement
of the sandals or the shoes.
2 angels come to
him.
They sit him down,
and they say to him, what did you
used to say about the prophet of Allahu
alaihi wa sallam?
He'll say
He's shaking.
I don't know. I don't
know. And then in the end he will
say,
I had the people say something,
and I said it as well.
Imagine when you ask about the fasting, are
you going to say, I saw the people
do something, and I done it at all.
Do you know who happens this person in
the grave?
And
is brought.
And he's hit between his eyes. He shout,
he's shouting, everything hears except
the Everything hears it except the
He only followed the messenger salallahu alayhi wa
sallam because everyone else did it. I only
fasted because everyone else fasted.
Or maybe because I would have thought that
out. Or maybe because mom and dad are
going to say to me, why are you
not fasting?
Whether you're small, young, or old,
everyone is the same when it comes to
this intention.
Don't be from those
when he could have earned so much reward,
he wasted it
because
of what other people may have thought about
him.
So going back to why I was saying,
what is the reason why Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
wants us to fast?
Allah mentioned in the Quran,
Oh, you who believe,
it has been prescribed upon you to fast
just like those before you, it has been
prescribed for.
So that you may attain a characteristic
called Taqwa. Can
anyone tell me what's the difference between the
fasting of the people of the fast and
our
fasting?
Because they fasted as
The difference between our fasting and the fasting
of the people of the book is that
we have the pre door meal. So
Allah
wants us to gain taqwa.
This guy is first, I'm gonna define it
in
But taqwa, brothers and sisters,
after the prophet
said, taqwa
You know, many of us we suffer.
We are suffering from all kinds of things.
It might be the addiction of *,
the addiction of
drugs struggling to smoke.
Sorry, smoking, struggling to stop,
all sorts of that
we might be struggling with.
Brothers and sisters,
if you learn how to attain taqwa,
all of these things
that we might be doing in secret, or
we might be doing publicly,
there could
be a time when it comes to an
end.
The word
comes from the word
means protection.
Is that a servant he places between himself
and also that which he fears.
A protection
that will
protect him.
It's like a shield. It's like a shield.
When a person's in a battlefield, what happens?
You have a shield. Who are you protecting
yourself from? Who are you scared of?
Imagine you're fighting. You you
you're fighting,
and you have a shield. Where are you
protecting yourself from?
The rain.
The
enemy. Right? The enemy is shooting.
They're shooting bullets at you. They're shooting arrows
at you, and you're protecting yourself.
And when you look now at the sharia,
the kind of shield that we should be
having on what the shield is,
What we scared
of? Who are we scared
of? Allah
We are scared of the punishment of Allah
And what is the shield that we have?
2 things.
To do the things that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala told you to do
and to stay away from the things that
Allah has told you to stay away from.
We worship
Allah We worship Allah
between 2 things,
fear and also hope.
It's a bit like the kid, I've done
a Muhar on this once.
The kid with the ice cream and fake.
A bit like the kid with the ice
cream. When that kid
hears the ice cream van walking past or
going past,
what does he want? Automatically, I said, oh,
I wanna have the ice cream.
What is he also scared of?
That mom is not gonna give her the
money.
Sometimes the mom, she says yes and sometimes
she says no.
Right?
So it's basically between hope and fear.
Likewise, when it comes to us,
we are between
hope and fear.
Hoping that Allah
will give us the jannah and accept our
actions.
And we are also scared of the punishment
of Allah
If any of the 2 outweigh the other,
it's a problem.
Just hoping Allahu Akhura Rahim, I'm gonna be
with my girlfriend.
I'm gonna carry on being fraud. And Allahu
Akhoor forgives.
This guy has more hope. Right? He has
more hope.
And if you're just constantly scared,
Allah is always gonna punish me, he's gonna
punish me, he's gonna punish me, and you
don't think about the whole platoon, you've got
another problem. You can end up destroying yourself.
Thinking that this religion is barbaric. It's just
there to destroy you.
Likewise, we have a shield.
Between us and Allah is
that shield.
And that shield is to do Allah
told you to do
and to stay away from the things Allah
told you to stay away from.
Abu Hurair
was awesome.
He was awesome.
He replied back and he said, have you
ever walked on a path that thorns in
there? The man said,
yes. So what do you do? He goes,
I stay away from it.
I try to avoid it. If you ever
see a thorn or a piece of glass,
is anyone clever enough or dumb enough to
ever step on it? Of course not.
He's going to try and
go around it.
So Abu Hurairat radiAllahu 'alaihi said, this is
taqwa.
This is taqwa.
We are living
in a dunya
or we are trying to get to a
jannah that is surrounded by what?
Desires, these thorns.
Just look at all the sins, the
around us thorns.
The prophet
The jannah has been surrounded by desires.
Everyone wants to have their girlfriend. Everyone wants
to make money through.
Of course, we need to make it through
a halal way, but it's easy sometimes to
make it through haram way
to do something called ACs,
credit card scams.
Very well
known. Very easy to make money.
Or to maybe get a house on a
river.
You just pay it back monthly and you
go your own house. You don't need to
be,
living in a stinking council flats. I personally
think they're very, very nice.
But this is the kind of mentality many
people have. I'm gonna live in a council
flat.
It's the law of the land.
So he goes and takes the river in
order to take a house.
These, you know, nice things that we tripled
all about.
This is what the Jannah has been surrounded
around. It's not easy getting into Jannah. These
phones are around it.
So sometimes things that we really really want
we want a house. We want a nice
wife,
but we need to be patient.
And these are the thorns that we need
to stay away from.
So to do this, we need to have
taqwa. And taqwa, how do we attain it?
By doing what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told
you to do.
And to stay away from the things Allah
told you to stay away from.
Every step that you take, whether you are
in secret,
You are hidden. Nobody can see you. While
you are in public, you're constantly conscious of
Allah
You know that He's watching you.
Sometimes the next time
you are saying something in secret,
and you go under your and you got
the iPad out watching these dirty things.
Think about Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. It's either
of two reasons.
Either that you believe
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
cannot see you,
and you have fallen into and by
similarizing Allah with your mom and your dad,
which are in the other room, and I
can't see what you're doing, and you have
to follow Islam.
All you are making Allah
very, very insignificant.
You are scared of the creation,
but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you're going to
be standing in front of,
naked,
and you're going to be asked every single
thing.
Everything that you've done, you are not shy
in front of Allah
Allah
says,
They hide from the people, but they don't
hide from Allah
and He's with them with everything they see
at night. When they're spending the night, He's
there.
So when them curtains close, brothers and sisters,
remember
that which is far greater than your mom
and your dad. They're going to run away
from you. They don't want anything to do
with you.
Imagine tomorrow,
a
woman a woman who's pregnant
or a woman who's breastfeeding.
She gets the baby and she chucks in
the bin.
You know, the bin outside the busier, she
chucks in bed.
You're gonna find every single newspaper
coming and writing. Oh, a woman, she dropped
her child aside a bit.
It's going to be on Sky News, BBC.
It is going to be the headline of
the day.
The biggest one.
Things like that are going to take place
in the.
The mom, she's going to drop her kid.
A breastfeeding woman, she's gonna drop her child.
The woman that's pregnant, she's gonna drop him.
You're going to see the people as if
they're intoxicated.
When we see a drunk person walking past,
and that's it, everyone
laughs.
The guy doesn't know what he's doing.
He's lost the plot.
And imagine tomorrow, we see a naked woman
walking past the masjid.
Everyone's gonna be talking about, hey, guess what?
A naked woman walk past. That's.
Aisha radiAllahu anha
Ishaq? The prophet
said,
The terrorists too severe that this is even
going to be a concern to them. Everyone
scared.
All them times
that I used to watch things in secret.
That I used to hide from the people.
But then in front of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala you come with all these sins. Everyone
thinking about that.
So taqwa, brothers and sisters, once you stop
thinking,
in this way, every step that I take,
every move that I make,
Allah
is watching me. You will gain that taqwa,
and you'll read,
lead to you being
That's where righteousness come in. People come
or a lot of people when they when
they hear the word, that's why they think
it means fear.
Well, I like the word fear doesn't give
it justice.
It doesn't give it any justice.
Small baby branch when it comes to the
meaning of it.
Another thing, brothers, is that I want to
talk
about
that we can maybe try and maximize
in this month
is
the issue of We are in a month
when the prophet
The prophet
was the most generous when he came to
the month of Ramadan.
Alim Abbas mentioned at the end of narration,
He was more quicker
and he was more prepared to give charity
than the blowing wind. The blowing wind will
come into the room. Halas will
you you you will feel it one time.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was quicker than
that when he came to paying the charity.
You know, we know brothers and sisters
that
the Prophet
wasn't
the richest of people. If anything, he was
a poor man.
Sometimes he would wake up and he had
nothing in his house. So he would fast.
One time, the prophet
left his house
and
he ended up walking in front of or
he ended up bumping into Abu
So the prophet asked,
why is that we took you out of
your house?
He replied back and he said,
That
which took me out of the house was
nothing but hunger.
So the prophet
also said,
and that which took me out of the
house was also this hunger.
Why are we mentioning this? Are we trying
to encourage the people to be poor? Because
the Prophet was
poor,
rather than the prophet
He was someone that was so generous.
While he was poor, on top of that
someone was so generous.
If this is the case of the prophet
He died
He died his clothes,
his cloak.
Was not worn at a yahudi. Was held
at ransom.
He left it as
what do they call it in English language
when?
Sorry?
Now he left us.
Is that right?
He had nothing and when he came to
the month of Ramadan,
he used to be so generous,
then where do we stand?
Well, my eye person don't think anyone sitting
here is ever going to find himself
in the same position as the prophet in
this country, we got something called housing benefits.
We got child tax credit. They give us
benefits, job seekers allowance.
Never do you find a person who's going
to be at 0. Nothing.
He's always got something that government is sorting
us out.
And then we might struggle brothers and sisters
to pay maybe £3, £4, £5 a month
to set up a standing order.
It didn't pay me to say
this. But from the easiest of method that
we have today,
something called they have something called Christ hate.
You can set up a standing order. £5,
10 a month.
Something that won't even help our pockets. It's
not difficult on our pockets.
We won't even realize that it has left
our bank accounts.
To set something up as a stunning order
brothers and sisters
on a regular basis for our brothers who
are dying today.
Remember today at 9:25
when you break your fast, there is people
who don't have anything to break the fast
with.
Think about them.
You know, I don't know there's a there's
a video that comes around every year of
a
Saudi sheriff
being called by a Somali someone from Somalia.
And they're asking the Sheikh, Sheikh,
how do we break our fast? We have
nothing.
I've been seeing this video before it comes
around every Ramadan
on YouTube.
The caller is asking their Sheikh, how do
we break our fast? We have nothing.
And the Sheikh starts crying.
There's people that absolutely nothing in this month.
It's just like the rest of the month.
They have nothing to eat. The food may
come every 5, 6 days.
You know the prophet said,
Allah.
From the most beloved actions of Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala
is
happiness that you enter into your brother.
The first thing that you mentioned,
problem that he's going through that you remove
it.
He has death, you remove the death from
him. And the last thing that was mentioned
He has hunger, you remove the hunger from
him. For the most beloved actions to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Brothers and sisters,
we're going to be asked about the wealth
that we have.
Every penny that we have we're going to
be asked. The prophet
said, A person's feet is not going to
move on your
until he's asked about 4 things.
One of the things that he was he
would be asked
The wealth that he has, where he got
it from,
and what he spent it with.
I'll give you an example.
If a person now, he gives you a
loan.
This month he gives you a loan a
£100.
You pay it back. You ask him again,
yeah I need money. He gives you a
£100 you pay it back.
He does this for maybe 5 times.
5 times he does it.
6 months later,
he comes up to you, you're asking I
need £10. I don't need £110.
Or why why don't I feel embarrassed
to even ever say no to this person?
And he's erratic.
He's given me alone 5 times. He looked
after
me. This one time he needs £10, I
can say no, ever then.
Even if we don't have that 10 pound,
we're gonna go and try and get it
from somewhere else.
Try and get it from somewhere else.
Because they have to stop because we feel
embarrassed. They even say no.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says to you,
Who is going to give Allah
So that he can multiply for him. Allah
has been given us all our life.
He told us
spend from that which we gave you.
From the time that you were born, you
were given.
The money that we earn from all these
companies are of course as the all these
companies that we work for, is nothing other
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
These are just means.
Allah Azzawajal is saying to you, spend from
that which we gave you.
You know in the aida, I mentioned men
that Allah
say, who's going to come and keep me
alone? He doesn't need you alone.
But he say, I'm going to multiply it
for you. I'm going to multiply your reward.
You know what?
He
said,
Whoever doesn't spend in charity after hearing this
ayah, let him suspect his faith.
Let him suspect his iman.
With all that which of is giving you.
And he's saying, I'm going to multiply it.
Who's going to give me alone?
Even though he doesn't need it.
And you don't give after that.
Well, like I standing order 3, £4 a
month.
On a monthly basis,
even though you might look down upon it,
think it's just a small amount, that's
a. You see it to be small but
in the highest of Allah it is so
great. It means a lot as in in
the eyes of Allah
Also Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us time
and time again about people who are going
to be very very regretful.
People that will come and know
from the names of the is.
The day of regret.
There's many
say, come back and I could have a
return so I can be from those who
do good.
A action that was specifically mentioned
was a.
Allah says,
If only Allah gave me just a little
bit more. He gave me a bit more
time.
So I can pay more charity
and I can be from those who are
righteous.
It's not going to affect any of us.
Remember,
the promise of Allah
The promise of Allah, he does not fail
in his promise.
He told
us,
Never do you spend except he replaces it.
You know some of our masha'is and some
righteous people have
said
that they would spend at the time when
their money is coming to an end.
Why?
Because the prophet
said,
I swear by 3 things.
The first one he mentioned,
The wealth of a person doesn't decrease when
he pays.
And the promise swore by it.
And Allah is telling I'm going to replace
it. They know they they spend now what
happens,
Allah is going to replace it.
Some of the means of actually getting an
increase in provision is by paying.
I personally have never ever seen a person
who gives.
Most of these people are very rich.
A lot of rich people I know,
when you ask them,
is earning a lot of money? And when
you ask him or maybe look into his
life, he gives a lot of charity.
And Allah
just kept on increasing and increasing and increasing.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
Actually, I've got another thing to say,
but I think it's very very important.
Is you know, when the month of Ramadan
was coming,
people were looking at Ramadan
as if it was a burden, a Musiva
come in their way.
You know, when someone dies, what do you
say? The brother of the Imam. If someone
dies, what do you say?
Which one?
Yeah.
Right?
When the month of Ramadan was coming,
as soon as the people heard about Ramadan,
17 hours,
he's holding his head.
As if it is a will see or
come in his way, a burden,
a difficulty.
Of course, it's going to be difficult.
But looking at Ramadan as if it is
something that is negative.
Rather there's 2 benefits.
2 great benefits that we might have,
and a lot of people in other countries
might not have.
We're fasting how many hours? 17 hours. Right?
The guy in Saudi maybe 9, 10. Right?
9, 10 hours is fasting.
Do you think the rewards will be the
same?
The prophet
A person is given reward based upon the
difficulty,
based upon the difficulty that he goes through
in any battle.
The more difficult, the more reward.
So that's one.
Another thing
I wanna say, the second point of this
issue,
we have something that a lot of people
in the rest of the world don't have.
Alhamdulillah.
This issue is
the blessing
of being being able to make dua and
our dua will reject it.
A lot of people
think that there's an extra virtue
only at the time of breaking your fast.
When you make dua, your dua gets
accepted. Only then.
Rabb of the Prophet
said,
3 people will have their jaw rejected.
The first one he mentioned, Al Imam Al
Ader,
the just ruler.
The second one,
the one that's fasting until he breaks it.
So you have 17 hours for all the
brothers who are looking for wives
who are looking left, right, center and they
can't find anything,
ask Allah
from now.
You are struggling financially,
You are struggling with your health, health problems?
You know a problem I've seen time and
time again,
and I think it's a will say, but
we should say
for this issue.
As soon as we become ill, where do
you want to?
Well, why we are lining up at the
GP?
The GP opens at 9 o'clock from HS
to be calling.
Otherwise, it's going to get packed out.
Or we tend to line up at NHS.
We lose our jobs, the first place that
we run to is the job seekers around
us. All the who did we call
them? No, job seekers around us.
Or we call the debt management company.
We wanna sell, produce payment agreements.
We have issues.
No one is saying don't take these means.
But why don't we just put our hands
up to Allah
The prophet
told us,
or when the servant asks and he puts
his hands up to Allah
that he sends him back intended.
When a servant asks,
I enclose him.
Allah has a mirror, closer to you than
the GP. The GP had told for 10
minutes.
I was saying to entrust you, ask me
so I can give to you.
Allah says we need to build a connection
with
Allah especially starting from this month.
We have this virtue that many people don't
have.
17 hours, half days, half times in a
day.
When you dedicate
it, just
you secluded in a place,
sincere to Allah
and you ask and you ask and you
ask. And he's saying to your mother, I
reject it.
We have so many problems. Some of our
brothers and sisters, our kids are running around
in the
and the parents they've lost hope.
Allah is saying to you, make dua
anything that you need, any place, any time.
Anything that I've said, anything
that I've said is wrong.
And it's from myself and likewise, Shaitan, Allah's
messenger are free from this.
Okay. Very good question. Practical ways of showing
shukr
You know the hadith of the prophet
when he used to pray to such an
extent where his feet would become ripped and
swollen.
And then when Aisha asked
him, why are you doing this to yourself
when Allah has forgiven your past and your
future
sins.
Your past sins and your future sins are
forgiven.
He replied back and he said, what?
Shall I not be a thankful slave?
So by doing the righteous actions, the standing
up to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in prayer,
righteous deeds
are all ways of showing your thanks to
Allah
with the limbs, likewise, with your tongue,
by saying
and also by frustrating to Allah
in shukar.
You just ask yourself from all the blessings
Allah gave you.
He took you out of the wounds of
your mother. You had nothing. He gave you
hearing. He gave you sight. So that you
may be thankful. From
all the things the Allah gave us, have
we ever ever in our lives? Or when's
the last time you prostrated
to Allah
Thanks?
So
to these three things I mentioned, inshallah, are
always a means to
show your gratitude. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
No. No. No, ma'am. No. Like anytime.
Even now you can go and you frustrate
Allah
thanks.
Yes. No? It doesn't require or it's not
a condition that is in the salat.
So can you make on salat?
In salat, you can talk to make dua.
You know, in salat, the prophet said,
Be excessive in making dua and sujood,
and Allah will reply to you straight
away. You know, this is also something that's
been abandoned. What do people do? They make
dua congregation after the prayer.
This is something that has no in the
religion.
It has no basis.
We've left off a place where Allah is
saying to you, make dua, I will accept
the dua straight away.
People don't make dua in this jujood, but
when it comes down to after the salah,
and he has no belief, no proof, people
have gone and done it.
You know?
Well, I from what our brothers like,
what they do, they buy the food.
They buy all sorts of food from them
and they give it to the people who
are who are struggling.
None. Who are struggling,
they don't have any food, they don't have
any drink, they don't have any nutrition.
So they bind the food for them and
they're feeding the people.
Speaking about I'm speaking about the people who
are struggling.
They can't eat nothing. They don't have anything.
People to go and maybe help them out
in such a way by giving them money.
Our brothers, they buy with the money that
the that the people pay. They buy the
food with it and then they give it
to
no.
That one of them was being raised
more than the other.
The first one he died is that she
used to strive to pay by death. The
other individual, he lived an extra year.
So he saw in a dream that the
second person was being raised.
So he asked the prophet, he said, didn't
he
live an extra year? And then he said
that there's a difference between the heaven and
the earth, between the 2.
Because he managed to reach out online, and
he fasted, and he
virgin within the shayid that person will get
that even the person who fasts,
he's going to be tested in the grave.
Right? He's going to be tested in the
grave. The shayid doesn't.
But the
what we're basically
understanding from this hadith,
the great enormous
reward
that Ramadan has, that we might end up,
you know, letting go and slipping away from
us.