Abu Taymiyyah – QA Do I HAVE to Fast if I have Exams (Funny)

Yes, Esa.

What

Are you 2 brothers? They are. Yes. Masha'Allah.

I see the resemblance.

What advice would you give to brothers? Because

I know, like, it's exam season and those

who choose not to fast on the day

that they have exams.

Or What about right. In in order to

try and, like,

because they believe that, obviously, when fasting is

hard and it's harder to concentrate, what advice

could

Can I just repeat the question for the

sisters? Yeah.

The brother's asking what advice can you give

to the brothers or the sisters who are

revising for their exams or gonna be sitting

their exams? Should they be fasting and things

like that? Okay.

Firstly, the exams are in the morning. Right?

Or is it in the evening? It's similar

in the morning in the afternoon. Okay. Afternoon.

Around what time? 1, 2 o'clock.

1, 2 o'clock, but most in the morning,

right?

Okay, when does the person normally become so

exhausted?

Just about when we're reaching 8 o'clock, 7

o'clock

you know. And it's a common question that

you find a lot of the kids they're

trying to get a fatwa, I'm not trying

to say you,

but they're just trying to get a fatwa.

When a person has a sehri in the

morning and he goes to sleep, he wakes

up,

most people often don't eat till like after

12 o'clock right? Lunch time is 12 o'clock.

Me outside the Ramadan,

by the time I reach 12 o'clock I'm

exhausted. I need to digest something.

That's just me, I'm a skinny

guy and I need to I have a

very high metabolism

and I have to eat.

In the month of Ramadan, brothers and

sisters, most of us will agree we can

go maybe 10 hours, 11 hours without feeling

anything. Why?

Take part in the suhoor, eat, you know,

at the time of sihri

as they call it.

For indeed in the suhoor there's a lot

of barakah.

Well my brothers and sisters, me personally,

I don't

drink nothing other than just water.

Until this very day I don't think for

the Surah of anything.

And I just there's reasons behind that.

Are you with me brothers and sisters?

So try and eat those especially who are

going to be,

you know, they've got exams,

try and eat as much as possible

in the time of suhoor. Another thing that

you could do is Istighfar.

Astaghfirullah,

Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah

Now she has another one, but anyways there's

another verse that says,

When you do, Istighfar.

She says Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah. Allah will give you

strength above strength.

Try it

and ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

make dua for him, to him.

Because you have an advantage that the non

Muslims don't have.

They don't believe in Allah, he's not gonna

raise his hands,

ask Allah to help him in his exam

and to give him

strength

and you'll be responded to straight away

because the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallamih said

to us

Allah

is shy, he's generous, that when his servant

puts his hands up to him that he

sends him back empty handed.

So you're fasting on top of that. The

hadith that we mentioned, one of the means

of your dua being accepted is what?

Fasting.

And on top of that you put your

hands up to him which is another means.

And you ask him through his names and

attributes which is another means.

So on and so forth.

Allah will inshaAllah ta'ala strengthen you and it

won't be much of an issue. And then

once you get home go to sleep,

strengthen up.

Thank you very much,

Ustad Abu Tamy, I thank you very much

for coming and

giving us your beneficial

knowledge.

We only have 1 minute left, brothers and

sisters. So just to quickly

inform you all that tomorrow, we do have

a school visit,

a a school coming to visit the center

tomorrow from 10 AM till 2:30 PM, and

they want to learn about Al Islam.

So one of the things that they want

to witness is seeing Salatul,

Dohor

in Jamat.

So if any Buddhist who are not working

and they can make,

make it here for Salatrol Dohor, at half

past one, please try to come because you're

gonna have 25 children

and about 5 teachers sitting at the back

there, and they wanna see the brothers praying

in in unity, in congregation.

So please, brothers,

just try to make it tomorrow if you

can. If you're not working,

tomorrow.

Especially the youngsters. The youngsters, if they come

and all the youngsters see these youngsters, they

will think that el Islam is not just

for old people.

That's right.

So please remember this is, you know, this

is a dawah sent to this. It must