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