Abu Taymiyyah – Tafsir of the Verses of Fasting
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A couple of things before I start the
lecture.
The first point that I want to mention,
I never
visited the UK this time around in order
to give Dawa.
Cause I know some of the organizations are
going to see this program
and think that
I may have snaked them.
Right? I didn't.
I just came here in order to finish
a couple of things off
that needed to be sorted out.
And then as I was speaking to said
Umar,
it just happened to be.
When I come back in the summer I
will try to do as many other masajid
and organization as I can.
I didn't personally know maybe a week ago
that I was going to be in the
UK this time around. I've been away for,
like, 6 months.
And alhamdulillah, as I arrived I was welcomed
with the rain and the coldness of Birmingham
and London and all these other places.
May Allah help you guys with this weather.
Second thing that I want to mention my
brothers and my sisters,
today's program
is not going to be like last year.
Some of you guys may remember last year's
lecture which went pretty viral online.
I think it got over half a 1000000
views, just that 1 hour lecture.
Right?
There will be inshallah ta'ala some reminders. However,
it will be a tad bit
technical bi'ilnillahi ta'ala.
I tried to cover so many reminders in
that 1 hour so that it could be
comprehensive for anyone who wants
an iman boostah
entering into the month of Ramadan.
K.
It's online. It's on my channel, and I
believe it's on the channel of
the masjid as well. It's called
Ramadan like no other.
As you guys heard my brothers and my
sisters, I want to today inshallah to'ala go
through
not even a tafsir just perhaps
maybe a talik
or some some
reflections
on the verses in Surat Al Baqarah
that speak about fasting.
These
so are my brothers and my sisters
or these ayaat,
these verses in Surat Al Baqarah
that I want to inshallah to Allah reflect
upon today,
right?
Were mentioned in this surah
in this chapter
not by accident.
There are books that have been written on
tanasubilayatiwassur.
Why this chapter has been placed before this
chapter,
why this verse has been mentioned in this
particular surah,
and others.
Right?
If we just inshallahuta'ala
take a moment out
to reflect on Surat Al Baqarah, what does
Surat Al Baqarah speak about? Does anybody know?
What does Surat Al Baqarah speak about?
Take a guess, it's in the name.
He is called
a cow, baqarah or a calf, whatever you
wanna call it. Right? Surat Al Bakar.
There is a number of incidents
in this chapter, this very long chapter.
When you think about it you would see
that there is a reoccurring
theme
in Surat Al Baqarah
related to
alist Islam,
submission.
Being someone
who submits to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If you look
at the end of the first half
of the first Jews,
Musa alaihis
salam he interacts with Bani Israel,
who were the most stubborn,
hard headed people that you will see across
history.
He told them, to slaughter
a what?
A cow.
Your lord instructs you to slaughter a cow.
He turned around
to
him
and
he
said,
Are you taking us for a joke?
Are
we idiots?
That was their response.
They were simply told, slaughter a cow.
However the stubborn,
hard headed individuals they were, they kept on
contesting
whatever he was saying,
constantly asking question,
Go and call on to your Lord, invoke
him, and just ask him exactly what it
is.
So then he tells them, and then he
ask another question,
Now go back, ask your lord what color
it needs to be. Then he tells them.
And then again,
Go and ask him, What is this cow
that we're supposed to be slaughtering?
Were they individuals who were submissive to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala?
No, they weren't. Then you also find in
Surat Al Baqarah, the interaction that Ibrahim
had with who?
Ibrahim.
Ibrahim said to him, it's my lord that
gives life and takes life.
He turns around and he says, no Anna,
I am the one that gives life
and takes away life.
Right?
Objecting to what Ibrahim alaihis salatu wasalam was
saying to him.
And then Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa sams says
to him it is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that takes the
sun from the east to west
and he had no response after that.
My brothers and my sisters, was this individual
submissive?
He wasn't.
Right?
At the end of the first Jews you
find that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala refers to
Ibrahim alaihi salaam as who
Allah tells us that Ibrahim was instructed to
submit.
Do as you've been told,
fulfill the commandments.
He says straight away I submit my will
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right?
Remember my brothers and my sisters Ibrahim alaihisatt
wasalam went through many many trials and tribulations
and hardships,
Right?
He was told to leave his wife
and his son in the middle of nowhere.
Right?
This that we visit my brothers and my
sisters,
to circumbamate,
we go around it to perform our umrah
and our hajj.
Once upon a time, it wasn't like that.
It was barren land.
Right? Allah told him, leave your family in
the middle of nowhere. Now imagine my brothers
and my sisters,
for those who have kids, or those who
have spouses,
you have to just leave them in the
middle of nowhere, and we have a lot
of young people as well, imagine you have
to leave.
As you're picking up your younger brother from
primary school, you are told leave him in
the middle of nowhere.
Would you be able to do it?
Ibrahim alaihis salatu was was instructed, as he's
walking away Hajar,
his wife comes running behind him and he
says Oh, and she says
Be careful with the pronouns.
Right?
She says,
He's walking off, she's saying to him, Did
Allah instruct you with this?
He says, No.
What was her response?
If this is what Allah
has told you,
even,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will never forsake us.
Submission.
Right?
That wasn't the only time that he had
to go through a hardship or a difficulty.
Even that interaction with that tyrannical ruler
who kidnapped his wife,
Sarah.
You guys heard of that story?
That tyrannical,
barbaric,
disruptive ruler
kidnapped his wife because
he felt attracted to her.
What did Ibrahim alaihisattu washam do right away?
He rushed into prayer.
Another incident my beloved brothers and sisters,
he's instructed to slaughter
his son.
Right?
He puts him down.
His son, my brothers and my sisters,
is about to get butchered, is about to
get slaughtered.
Father is looking at him, right? The son
responds back by saying, Oh father, do as
you have been commanded.
You are going to find me from amongst
the
But then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala instructed that
this is replaced now with a sacrificial animal
and so on and so forth.
Ibrahim Alai Saad Wasam didn't budge.
No ifs and no buts. He was instructed
or something, he's done it straight away.
And the last example that I'm going to
mention my brothers and my sisters is when
he was instructed
to build that Kaaba under the scorching heat.
Like I said my brothers and my sisters,
the way you see the Kaaba today, it
wasn't like that in the time of Ibrahim.
Was it always like that? No. It was
barren land.
Right? And when he had
to leave Hajar
and his son in the middle of nowhere,
he made dua to Allah azza wa jal,
and the basic.
Oh Allah.
Mixtuah to Allah azaawajal, things Things got difficult,
got hard, right? What is he doing here?
I've given a number of examples.
A time when his wife was kidnapped by
that tyrannical ruler, he rushed into prayer, calling
onto Allah again.
Calling onto Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that's his
only hope.
If only we did that my brothers and
my sisters.
Our only hope is Allah.
He calls on to Allah azza wa jal.
I have indeed situated my family in this
barren land as you commanded.
There are no crops, it's a barren land.
Cause the hearts of the people
to go towards my family.
Imagine there's barren land and he's begging Allah,
you Allah, Allah, or cause the hearts of
the people now to head
and to go towards them.
Right?
He had to build that Kaaba under the
scorching heat, my brothers and my sisters.
Right? Not this British summer that you guys
have.
No.
Scorching heat. I'll tell you guys something that
happened to me one time. Right?
Sheikh Abdul Zaq Al Badr was about to
start a class. He's one of the teachers
in the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam masjid.
And the book that was going to be
told by the sheikh, we were told by
some rumors,
that it's being distributed
outside of the masjid.
And this book I couldn't find in the
in the in the in the bookstore.
And the moment I heard that I started
running outside of Masjid
without my sandals
at Asr time, not athor time.
Athur
time, the heat,
it reaches its peak.
Asr time it becomes a lot more cooler.
Wallahi my brothers and my sisters.
As I'm walking
my feet
start toasting.
And then I start running because of how
hot it is.
This is Arabian weather,
or the Arabian heat.
And I'm just running running like a headless
chicken.
Where's the book? And then I go to
the other side,
and then eventually
I just run back into the masjid, and
my feet were toasted.
So Ibrahim alai sallam,
middle of nowhere begins to build the Kaaba.
No ifs, no buts.
Right?
And now when he finishes my brothers and
my sisters, and this part really breaks my
heart.
And he made Sheikh Abdul Aziz Ibn Baaz
cry
they say 7 times,
something along the lines of that.
This is Amal al Maqsus. This is a
very specific act.
Right? That Ibrahim has been asked, no one
before him has been asked to do that.
This was built after he's completed
building this Kaaba, Yeah, Allah accept it from
me.
Meaning I don't know even the specific act
that is so special whether Allah azza wa
ji is going to accept it from me.
This is a very important point of reflection.
Ibrahim alai sa to us some no ifs
and no buts.
Why am I mentioning all of this my
brothers and mothers? I gave you some incidents
where
they weren't submissive.
Like the Bani Israel,
hard headed,
right? Individuals,
stubborn.
Samadhi they call them mother halak. Right? Or
adik.
Still learning Samadhi.
Hard headed individuals.
Right? And then in contrast you have what?
Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa sallam.
How not to be and how to be.
You have the perfect example in him
Ibrahim, you have a perfect
example and role model in Ibrahim alaihis salawasam.
Follow him.
Right.
I was going to talk about his relationship
with his father but for the sake of
time,
In this surah my brothers and my sisters
that
has this reoccurring theme of submission and lack
of submission,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also mentions in it
the 5 pillars of Islam.
Salah is mentioned.
Zakah is mentioned.
What else is mentioned?
Hajj,
right?
Also the shahad attained is mentioned in there,
and of course
the verses of fasting.
Does it make sense or do I need
to spell it out, guys?
Let's be honest with ourselves, my brothers and
my sisters. Is salah easy?
Is it easy, guys?
It becomes burdens some other times, right?
Is Hajj easy? Hand are you been to
Hajj before?
I can see maybe what? 4, 5 hands
that have gone up,
and they packed the masjid.
6.
My brothers and sisters, it's extremely hot.
Right? As a young man,
going back and forth from minute to the
it's mentally exhausting.
Physically likewise,
it's very overwhelming.
At times I see the elderly, right?
They struggle with it,
Almost you can see on their faces, AbhanAllah.
I wish I did it when I was
a lot younger.
It's extremely hard.
Very very exhausting.
Physically draining.
Likewise, my brothers and my sisters, the prayer,
it can be very difficult for many.
And then you also have what? Fasting.
Let's be honest of ourselves.
Once upon a time, a couple of years
ago, how many hours were we fasting for?
What's the what's the longest that it's ever
been?
19 hours, right? You think that's easy?
Well, life wasn't easy.
So all of these different acts of worship
are being mentioned in this surah, in this
chapter.
While you have the theme of submission and
a lack of submission,
it only makes sense.
It's hard, but it's in your own best
interest.
Submit to it.
Right?
This in a nutshell my brothers and my
sisters
is from the themes of Surah Al Baqarah.
And in it, you find these verses of
fasting.
Right? So let's now inshallahta'ala
reflect on some of these verses.
And by the way my brothers and my
sisters,
if we can take at least one lesson
away from this, is that which I'm about
to mention right now, something that Ibn Taymiyyah
mentioned, Rahmatullahalahi.
He
says
He says when one now recites the Qur'an
and he reflects on it.
This is from the greatest of
ways
to overcome
sins,
or maybe at least some of it.
Whatever sin it may be that you are
addicted to,
or a woman that you've now become so
infatuated with.
Jahal,
right?
That you're trying to what? Detach yourself from
the Quran my brothers and my sisters.
I'm a big advocate my brothers and my
sisters for that of seer called Ibn Kathir
that you find
translated into the English language and abridged version.
And no, my brothers and my sisters, I'm
not getting royalties.
Right?
Go and buy it. I think it cost
a £150.
It will be the sweetest £150
that you spent.
This Ramadan,
the imam is going to read 1 juz
everyday, right? Get that, take a moment out
to just maybe go through it.
See how this is going to impact not
just your Ramadan
but your life altogether.
You know brothers and masters, recently I discovered
this app called Quranly.
You guys heard of it?
I love modern day
solutions
to the problems that we have.
Like there was this amazing
feature on there.
You can add your friends and your family
And if you feel like they're maybe
a little bit too buzz too busy you
can nudge them.
And then they start getting all these notifications
on their phone.
And it's encouraging one another to have their
relation with the book of Allah Azza wa
Jal
my brothers and my sisters,
Reflecting
on these verses, bi idhnillaytaa'ala,
perhaps inshallah it will
better your life in the best possible way.
It starts off as our
Qari
Ismail,
recited from.
Oh, you who believe.
Does anyone have an idea of how many
times You Yuhal Adhinah has been been mentioned
in the Quran?
Anyone know?
He said 200 and he's guessing.
My brothers and my sisters has been mentioned
89 times.
And in Surah Al Baqarah alone has been
mentioned 11 times.
Oh, you who believe.
When we hear
my brothers and my sister, it is personal.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is calling you out
as someone who has faith.
Oh you who has believed,
right? You're a Muslim, you're a believer,
listen to what I'm about to tell you.
Abdullah ibn Surud radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
he would say,
When you hear
right?
Make sure you lend your
Because you're about to be instructed with some
goodness
and some evil that you're about to be
warned away from.
Right?
In other words,
if you want to complete your iman,
you want it to go up. It's one
of the common questions my brothers and my
sisters by the way.
I even thought about one time to go
through the Quran anytime which there is a
commandment or a prohibition or there's a verse
that speaks about something that raise your hands
to put it somewhere.
That which increases your
iman. Whenever that
act is connected to,
1 is not a true believer, we can
take from that, this is from the things
that's going to increase your iman. Alakulihal.
You want your iman to go up? In
other words my brothers and my sisters,
fast,
oh you believe.
Whenever we hear,
my brothers and my sisters,
I want you guys to be conscious and
to recognize these two things.
Number 1,
To be conscious
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
picked you
out from all of his creation
to be a Muslim.
Something my brothers and my sisters that we
don't appreciate enough.
A lot of us here we've been born
upon a
listen,
Not everyone is advantaged
in that way, my brothers and my sisters.
Go ask the rivers
the amount of trouble that they have to
go through.
After they embrace al Islam
Well you know what breaks my heart my
brothers and my sisters? Every now and again
I get this message,
can I pray inside of the toilet?
Yes, that's what I have to go through.
Because if my kafir father or my kafir
mother finds out
that I am praying, there's going to be
trouble.
Hi, my brothers and my sisters, what should
we say to them in this kind of
situation?
Can they pray inside of the toilet?
They can't go outside
for whatever reason. It's fajr time, or it's
'isha time, it's late.
They fear Allah as they were just to
the best of their ability, even though the
asl is that they can't.
It's haram.
Messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
Masjid. The whole earth is a praying area
for you, except these two places.
The graveyard
and the hmmam.
Of course the hmmam in fiqh, it has
a particular meaning where they would normally shower,
waazaoula.
This is foremost likewise that they shouldn't,
or one shouldn't.
But in that case,
cases of what? Necessity
or where there is a sir an exceptional
circumstance. Satan do it.
That's the only option that you have?
Right?
That you are conscious of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala having chosen you from amongst his creation.
Right? Remember that my brothers and my sisters.
The lives that they're living
is very different to the lives that a
Muslim has.
Came across an article, my brothers and my
sisters,
and this was in fact on the daily
one of the best websites for Muslims. Right?
I'm being sarcastic.
You know what the title of the article
was? Muslims feel the most spiritual oneness in
life satisfaction.
One thing that many of you guys may
not necessarily be aware of, is that a
lot of non Muslims,
they are spiritually dead and empty.
Right? And not just them, when you start
engaging in filth and evil my brothers and
my sisters,
many people think the only time I have
to answer
to my sins is when I meet Allah
azza wa Jal.
Malik nad Dinari said,
One is not punished with a punishment more
greater than
suffering from a hardness in your heart.
It's the worst
kind of punishment you can experience in this
world my brothers and my sisters.
Spiritually dead and empty.
And then you start reverting to all sorts
of distractions
in order to make yourself feel better.
Nothing can make you feel better more than
having that connection with Allah
Right?
We've been saying this for ages, and a
lot of the time, when a moli sub,
or when a shaykh
tells us something, Oh this backwarded guy right?
Yeah, I know better.
That's how we look at
people of religiosity,
as if they don't know what's going on.
Until some gal, some non Muslim comes along,
does some research,
puts forward a couple of studies that he
put together,
Omashallah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It requires a non Muslim to tell us
that something
is like this, and something shouldn't be like
this, after he's scientifically proven it. Come on
guys.
There was even article
on so many of these different news outlets
that was speaking about bacon,
pork.
Right?
And how it increases stomach cancer. Al'am, now
we're going to like believe in it brothers
and sisters.
When Allah
1400 years ago, he was documented in the
Quran.
It states, Muslim people feel the most satisfied
with their lives
because they feel
more oneness to hate,
or connection with people of other faiths,
a new study suggests.
It also states measuring life satisfaction
is about
as close to quantifying
happiness.
Allahu Akbar.
As we've been able to get
thus far, and a German
psychologist's
new study suggest that a feeling of oneness
predicts overall contentment.
This is the name of Allah
Upon every single one of us that have
been granted and blessed with faith.
Right. I can go on all day and
I've delivered lectures in the past,
where I
quoted,
right,
some of these footballers,
some of these YouTubers,
who they themselves talk about how they are
spiritually dead and empty. It's not Abutaimia making
it up.
They themselves have uttered it.
You guys heard of Thierry Henry? I've not
mentioned this before in a lecture. I'm gonna
mention it to you guys now. You guys
know Thierry Henry?
You Gen Z's might not know him.
He's currently what?
A TV Pandey.
You might find him a match of the
day.
But once upon a time, he was representing
Arsenal.
Are you guys getting excited for?
You know what he said about himself my
brothers and my sisters?
I was depressed,
crying every day,
dealing with this depression.
By around that time, my brothers and my
sisters, he was an icon.
Right? Extremely wealthy.
He's speaking about this
by himself, guys. It's on YouTube.
And there are numerous examples.
The second thing my brothers and my sisters
when we hear,
This is
an announcement that I am going towards submit.
Because when I embraced al Islam,
when I accepted the call,
it was me making an announcement,
Abdul Baya, an oath of allegiance that whenever
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Or whenever the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
tells me to do something, I'm going to
do it straight away.
My brothers and my sisters, please tell this
story. Right?
Whatever commandment
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is instructed with, and
whatever prohibition,
whether you see the wisdom in it or
not, it is in your own best interest.
I'm going to tell you guys a very
quick story.
Because when you live in today's day and
age with all of these different, modern day
ideologies,
you will see people coming along saying, oh,
this is what is morally acceptable, and this
is not what is morally acceptable.
You guys heard this argument of morality, right?
Those in
university, right?
Here at
day and night.
My argument has always been where do you
draw the line of what is morally acceptable
and what isn't?
Right?
What should I do? What should I not
do?
I'll tell you guys a story of a
man that I met
in India.
Just by transit brothers, I've never been to
India.
As I was on my way to Australia,
on Indian Airways, they dropped us off at
New Delhi,
one of the worst airports you go to.
And I hate the airline as well, don't
ever take it.
As we stopped,
couple of hours, there was a couple of
delays.
Me and this individual called Mark, we started
speaking.
I said to Mark, why are you going
to Australia, all the way to Australia, by
yourself?
It's a very long trip.
Takes you, what, 20 hours to get there.
I know why I'm going.
What about you?
He said I was meant to be going
with my girlfriend. We broke up
and now I'm going to Australia to find
new love.
So me, I was feeling a little bit
nosy at the time,
long wait,
I decided to start asking him questions. Why
did you guys break up?
You know what he said to me?
I thought you had this before, right? I
told you.
He said, I did not like the way
she used to dress outside.
He's a non Muslim guy.
And I also didn't like the fact that
she was texting the opposite gender.
I turned around to him and he said,
Aki, why are you being so like, rough
and tough?
Why are you being so controlling my friend?
Live and let be.
Right?
Live and let be. Everyone's entitled to do
as they wish my friend.
Why you being so pushy for? Because no,
I don't like it.
So I said to him, Mark,
what are the chances
that when you now go to Australia to
find new love,
that she is going to be no different
to the one that you broke up with.
He goes, no. No. No. No. He said,
hopefully, it's fine.
My brothers and my sisters,
where do you draw the line of what
is correct and what is not?
This guy sounds like he wants a Muslim
woman with niqab on.
He's a non Muslim complaining about his non
Muslim girlfriend
dressing inappropriately
outside.
Right?
A sister walks outside without hijab,
and they say to her, brother, don't be
controlling. Let everyone do as they wish. Taib.
To what extent can she also walk outside
without
a top?
No, no, that's too much.
Why are you now giving me what I
should and what I shouldn't? Someone else comes
along and says completely differently.
You know, even when I
sometimes arbitrate between husband and wife,
The guy is complaining about his wife, and
she's complaining about him.
He's saying
she's being overly controlling.
Right?
She says, Why is he speaking to the
opposite gender? I don't like it. Stop being
jealous, that's his response.
Where do you draw the line of what
is right and what is wrong?
Who determines
what I should do and what I shouldn't
do?
Right?
This is why my brothers and my sisters,
we have no option except to accept
that there is an external entity
greater than all human beings.
And that is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who
gives us rules
and regulations
of what I should do with my life
and what I shouldn't.
Otherwise, there will continue to be disputes.
Right?
There will continue to be disputes between you
and your loved ones, in your marriage,
with your family members.
Alright brothers, so many people are miserable.
And a lot of the time it just
boils down to we can't agree
on what is morally acceptable.
It's just like a deep tunnel that you
need to go through
in order to make them understand brothers and
sisters this will continue
until
you take Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as the
almighty creator
submitting to whatever he has to tell you.
Also, my brothers and my sisters, when you
look at
by the way, I'm not inciting violence or
anything like that. When you look at,
skills team, right,
are now trying to justify whatever they're doing.
Someone will come along tomorrow and say
*.
Tell me why this
is not something one should do and this
is
something that is perfectly fine.
Their argument is: love is love.
Love is love.
This guy turns around and he says,
love is love.
He wants to have a relationship with his
sister.
Wants to have a relationship with his mother.
Is this something that is alien? No, it's
not anymore, my brothers and my sisters.
Same argument is being used. Where do you
draw the line of what is acceptable and
what is not?
I'm just quoting by the way. I'm not
bringing anything from my own self.
That's why my brothers and my sisters, Al
East Islam
accept what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling
you.
I know what's happening on Twitter guys, I
know.
The hijab is a point of controversy.
Something else tomorrow is going to be another
point of controversy.
Why should I? Why should I not?
Right.
Whether you see it or not, it is
in your own best interest.
And you'll see these studies and these articles
coming out
every now and again, brothers and sisters.
3rd benefit or third point that I want
to take from yayahaladinaminu.
How is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala addressing the
believers here my brothers and my sisters? In
the best possible way. O person of iman,
O faith, come and do this.
This is a lesson for every single one
of us in how we address one another.
Especially,
those who are tweeting all the time,
and posting on different social media platforms,
insulting and mocking
others.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has called you out in the best possible
way,
O person of iman.
While sometimes you may say,
oh donkey or this or that.
Even the way he refers to his wife.
In the worst possible way, when he's calling
her out.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
What does mean? Does anybody know?
Enjoyed.
He said writing.
In the Arabic language if I say,
kataba
Muhammaduni
means he wrote.
So who's right? Him?
Or he said enjoined?
Jikor.
Where's Abdul Rahim?
I met him early on Coventry Road.
What does kutiba mean?
My brothers and my sisters.
Passive assant. Yes, it's passive.
But you know the Arabic language, my brothers
and my sisters is very very comprehensive. Sometimes
just one word can mean what? More than
one thing.
So everyone was right.
It means to write passive,
was written, but also what it means,
it's from the alfad,
the wordings that indicate that something is what?
Mandatory.
Right?
Who said that?
It also means what's foriada? It's been obligated.
I'm gonna point something out.
Approximately like 2 years ago on this Jubilee
channel, on YouTube, some of you guys come
across it?
There was this lady
who was saying that I've gone through the
whole Quran.
She said, I went through the whole Quran
and I did not find anywhere.
That hijab is an obligation.
She goes, when I went through the translation,
it said you should.
And should does not indicate this now being
what? Mandatory. If you want like if you
you know, sometimes you speak to somebody, right,
and you say to him, bro, you you
should do that. Are you now being imposing
on that individual?
This is when usool al fiqh comes in
extremely extremely handy.
Wallahi, when I heard that I didn't know
whether I should cry or laugh.
You take
akham sharaiyah or akhamataklifiyyah
from the English language.
Usual Al Thakk is a science my brothers
and my sisters, right? And by the way,
you can't expect to be a faqih if
you don't know Usual Al Thakk.
Gives you
tools.
And it is governed by the Arabic language.
And the Arabic language, or should I say
the English language, does not give the Arabic
language its true justice. It doesn't do that.
Is
important. My brothers and my sisters,
you should learn it. It is from the
wordings, my brothers and my sisters, that what?
Indicate this act now to be mandatory, and
it comes in the Quran many times.
You yaladeenaamrukutibaaalaikumal
qisas.
Oh you believe,
The kisas has been made mandatory.
And in other verses as well,
Also there's other ways to determine whether
something is mandatory or not. I know you
guys are switching off now but like I
said,
last year I came here, I gave you
guys a reminder,
today I'm trying to
just up it a little bit Insha'Allah.
Hafid Al Hakami says,
As ways to know whether something is or
not,
right, and you're not going to find that
out through the English language.
This is why also my brothers and my
sisters, you may have noticed,
many years ago
there was a witch hunt against Al Imam
Shafi'i.
The orientalists, they have a big issue with
Imam Shaffi.
Abdullah the Shaffi is gonna get very excited
cause I'm praising his imam. He's our imam
as well. Right? Al imamushafi'i
was the first one to document or to
note down
usool al fiqh
as
a science,
and as a al Mustaqil.
First one to document. Why? Because as
is like the gates that protect the text
from the thieves.
What kind of thieves? The burglar that comes
and robs your money,
These people who come and try to distort
your religion.
They start taking things out of context. Osool
al Fik, my brothers and my sisters like
the vanguard,
the gatekeeper
in protecting our sharia.
That's why these orientalists, these non muslims are
the big issue with Imam Shafi'i.
Because
if you want to
now discredit
a religion, just discredit those who came with
it, right, or those who actually preach it.
That's the whole idea behind it.
Take him out, we can just tamper with
the religion.
By the way my brothers and my sisters,
you go to some of these universities,
there are non muslims
learning our religion.
Don't think I'm just some backwards guy guys,
right? I went to university,
I've seen what they do.
I was doing civil engineering.
They are learning our religion
in order to become Muslims,
la o Allah.
So they can use it against vulnerable Muslims
who are on edge of their religion, and
then they begin to wonder,
maybe I should just, you know,
rethink
whether Islam is the truth or not.
My brothers and my sisters, let me ask
you guys a question. Anyone here doing engineering?
What year are you in?
2nd year. How many years got left?
1.
I might ask you some questions about engineering
that you don't have any knowledge of.
Have you encompassed and learned everything pertaining to
engineering?
So there's going to be some things that
you don't know.
Are you going to now contemplate
leaving your course if I ask you a
question you don't have the answer to?
That would be ludicrous. Right?
Anyone here doing medicine?
No. We're not gonna have any doctors in
Birmingham.
What year are you in?
2nd year, how many years you got left?
3, sir.
See, I know.
Right?
If I ask you a couple of questions
and you don't have the answer, you're going
to think
about jumping ship.
No, you're not right. Then my brothers and
my sisters, why would you,
in your right mind,
think about
leaving al Islam
when you know you haven't learnt your religion
properly?
The moment a couple of questions are asked
and you didn't have the answers to.
How does that make sense?
I want you guys to write this down.
Just because you don't have the answers, that
doesn't mean there aren't any answers.
Sounds Sounds like some of you put on
Twitter. Right?
Or say it again.
Just because you don't have the answers,
that doesn't mean there aren't any answers.
Because in these universities there are breeding grounds
for kufr, shirk,
feminism, liberalism, whatever
ism else there is.
Right?
It's become a very colorful place as well,
sahi.
It's a breeding ground for all of these
things.
You're going to get penetrated with doubts.
Pierce through your hearts.
Anyways, I'm digressing a little bit there.
Give give the uncle give the uncle away.
Be patient. Be patient.
Guys, pay attention.
Pay attention.
That which has been prescribed upon you, my
brothers
and my sisters, what? Asiyan. Does anyone know
what Asiyan means? Lohatan in the language?
Fasting?
No, I didn't ask for a translation.
Sorry?
To hold back asant, alimsak to hold back
from something.
And then you have what? The technical meaning.
Right?
To hold back from something, and there's a
lot of holding back that we need to
do my brothers and masters starting from now,
and I touched on it in the khutba.
You know a lot of brothers and sisters
year in year out,
it takes them a very long time to
get into gear.
Right? I normally what similarize Ramadan with a
car.
Can you go directly into gear 5?
Moment you get into the car, no. Gear
1, gear 2, gear 3, gear 4, gear
5.
Many of us we only get into gear
2 at the end of Ramadan.
You know why?
Because we weren't used to doing these acts
of worship before the month of Ramadan.
Why do you think, my brothers, the messes
the month the messes salallahu alayhi wasalam would
fast in the month of Shaba'alish?
We're being taught something here.
He would fast the majority of Shabalish.
Why?
We're being taught,
right, to get used to this act of
worship which we may not necessarily have been
doing throughout the year. Because once Ramadan kicks
in, we can walk away with maximum reward.
Instead of what? Suffering throughout the day, oh,
I can't take this anymore. It's too hard.
No. You're already used to it. Your body
has become very familiar with it.
Right? Qiyamul Layl, you start doing these acts
of worship in the month of Shaaban.
Some of us, my brothers and my sisters,
we need to do insak,
we need to do a som,
the linguistic meaning, which means to withhold. Also
it's mentioned in the Quran, by the way.
Mariam Ali satu wasalam when? Virgin Mary.
When she
came back to her people
with the newborn,
Esa, Jesus.
Right?
They were all shocked.
What shall I do? She was told
that when you go to your people,
tell them that you are doing a psalm
from what?
I took a vow that I'm going to
do a psalm. From what? I am not
going to what?
Speak to you guys today. Meaning I'm going
to withhold
from speaking.
It's now that it starts my brothers and
my sisters,
us withholding
from a lot of things.
Such as what?
I'm going to be very frank with 1
with you guys.
Some of us need to do a a
song from our phones.
Wallahi, we need to do a song from
our phones.
You know my brothers and my sisters, one
thing identifying the problem is another
Finding a
solution.
Some of us are in denial.
Right?
We don't want to accept that there is
a problem.
The first step to solving the problem is
to accept that there's an issue.
Right?
I know and you know that some of
these social media apps are the cause of
us becoming addicted to haram.
It was in this masjid many many years
ago, I think he messaged me the other
day as well.
Right?
It It was in this Masjid where I
met a Yemeni brother
who had a chat phone.
He
wasn't carrying this phone because he's a trappler.
He was carrying this phone, look,
I want to stay away from
the whole
stuff that comes with these smartphones,
I need a break from it.
Guys walking around with these brick phones that
we had maybe 10 years ago, Not even
10 years ago, maybe before that.
Some of us actually need to do that.
I'm just giving you guys a couple of
examples.
Right?
It may well be that we need to
do some from certain individuals that we hang
around with.
6 months
before the month of Ramadan, as the brother
mentioned, they would make the dua, Allah.
Oh, Allah allows to read the month of
my brothers and my sisters, it's now
right? That we get into gear.
That we start introducing new habits and we
start getting rid of bad ones. And yes,
we're going to struggle, it's going to be
hard.
But remember,
Ramadan is an opportunity that Allah azza wa
jay is throwing away.
Right?
The scene has been set, the doors of
Jannah have been swung open, and the doors
of hellfire been slammed shut.
It is this month if you are going
to make a change guys. It's so much
more easier.
Does that make sense?
That's what it means what linguistically.
Who can give me some of the things
that are now going to nullify your fast?
Does anybody know?
Eating and drinking, the obvious.
I want you guys to split into 2.
The things that you need to stay away
from when fasting.
There is that which is going to what?
Nullify your fast
Such as
food, drink and sexual *.
And there's something else my brothers and my
sisters that is not mentioned enough.
And I believe every single teacher when he
teaches the akham of fasting needs to bring
this in.
Right?
It's that which is going to
reduce the reward that you walk away with.
Many people think, alhamdulillah, I stayed away from
food, drink, sexual *, he slept the whole
day. Or when he wakes up, oh, wallahi,
there's still a couple of hours left, Let
me just quickly watch a couple of what?
Episodes of that series.
By that time, it'll be Maghrib.
And he said the following.
He said
When you fast, make sure your eyes are
fasting.
From what?
Sorry, before that was what is. From what?
Listening to haram.
It's not just food and drink, my brothers
and my sisters, that we need to stay
away from that.
Music that we listen to.
The haram
that that person utters, which I allow to
go into my ears.
I'm sitting with him, and he's slandering,
swearing, and I'm sitting there just listening to
it.
My ears need to be fasting.
My eyes need to be fasting. From what?
From what, guys?
Sent, of course, haram, but what haram?
Sent women.
Not just women anymore, guys. We're living in
a different time.
Why you guys laugh?
I'm being serious.
Well, I wanted the advice is at times
that we give to someone who's maybe
in this situation
because I have a principle and that principle
is what the eyes can't see, the heart
won't desire.
Your eyes need to be fasting.
And then the third thing that Jabbin Abdul
Abdulah radiAllahu ta'ala, and I mentioned also your
tongue needs to be fasting. From what? From
khadib, from lies,
and all types of sins.
Take this as a principle my brothers and
my sisters, Ibn Taym Rahmatullahi mentions in his
kitab al wablu
Sayyid, The best
of those who fast are those who remember
Allah the most.
It's a principle that can be taken.
In whatever act of worship,
you will get more reward in the act
of worship the more you're conscious of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So the guy that sleeps throughout the whole
day my brothers and my sisters, is not
the same as the one
who's constantly engaging in the remembrance of Allah
or reading Quran.
They are not the same whatsoever.
Right?
La'ala come tata'oon, I'm going to come to
that part of the
verse, Insha'Allah.
So that you may
acquire taqwa.
And there's a direct connection between the 2.
Right?
There's a direct connection between the 2.
Think about it for a moment, my brothers
and my sisters. The majority of the sins
that we fall into,
what is it that causes it? Which parts
of our body?
Eyes, especially in today's day and age, right?
Eyes,
ears,
tongue.
Wallahi, I personally believe
if
you manage to put a cap on these
three body parts, you will become a
You'll become from the saints most beloved sons
of Allah
And then you'll be able to acquire what?
The objective of Ramadan
to become a person who is muttaqi
conscious of Allahu jalaifi'u'llah.
At taqwa.
Before I comment to that my brothers and
my sisters,
I want to quickly mention Insha'Allah Ta'ala 3
common
questions that I receive.
Please don't blame me for having to discuss
these issues.
Our youth are suffering from it and they
need to hear it and if they don't
hear it,
it could be the cause of
their Ramadan
maybe becoming destroyed
and they're hearing all sorts of things in
university anyway.
Number 1.
That which relates to *.
And I think the brothers are going to
be covering it as well.
Does it break your fast? Yes, it does
break your fast.
Hadith
He leaves his food, drink, and also his
shahwa, his sexual desire for my sake.
When an individual relieves himself like that,
hasn't he
done what you would normally do
when
having that engagement with a woman? He says,
Yes. He needs to make tawbah to Allah
aasawajal.
Wallahi brothers and sisters that which is even
worse than it.
Every single Ramadan I receive a message
of a brother or a sister saying,
I have fallen into a zina in the
month of Ramadan.
What do you advise?
Right. Number 1, you need to make some
sincere tawbah to Allah
Some sincere tawba to Allah before
anything else.
Right? Before anything else.
Sometimes you think to myself,
how did you guys In the month of
Ramadan, cave, cave. I I won't understand.
It all started on Instagram.
He saw her picture and she saw his
picture,
and then it was just an innocent chit
chat,
and then the unexpected ended up taking place.
Number 2 my brothers and my sisters that
I want to mention is that which relates
to nazar
Gazing.
One may say okay, I've understood the first
hukum, the * is going to break my
fast.
What if I now just decide to start
looking at certain things? I'm not gonna, you
know, do anything to myself, I'm just gonna
look at it.
I'm going to mention inshallah, 3 scenarios very
very quickly.
1st scenario is
when an individual now constantly gazes at something
which
releases urethral
discharge. This is called medi.
Is that which normally would come out at
the time of becoming aroused?
That doesn't break your fast.
We need to fear Allah
anyway for looking at haram.
Number 2,
one he looks,
just one glance and then he causes him
now to *.
He looked and he just
No. He doesn't break his fast, because the
first glance has been what? Pardon and forgiven.
He needs help. Number 3.
Right? This person now is constantly looking at
haram,
and then he ends up what? Releasing.
In this case my brothers and my sisters,
this has broken its fast and that is
because he kept on
looking
at
it.
Does that make sense?
The last point I'm gonna mention inshallah to
a'ala out of the three things because I've
only got another 4 minutes left.
That which relates to vomit, it's a very
very common question.
There are 2 scenarios inshallah to Allah. The
first scenario is,
right? If one makes himself vomit,
he makes himself vomit,
either by looking at something that is despicable,
disgusting,
or he puts his fingers down his throat
to make himself vomit and something comes out,
faqa'ah.
That would break it.
2nd scenario,
it happened
unwillingly.
Does it break it? No, it doesn't.
Going back to the verse my brothers and
my sisters,
Why is Allah
telling us,
it's being prescribed you the same way it
was prescribed upon those who came before you?
In order to energize them,
galvanize them, to motivate them.
If I was to say to you, Bro,
listen, so and so done it,
so and so managed to achieve this, you
will feel like, okay, if it's done if
it's been done before, it'll be easy for
me.
And this is a very important
in dawah.
When encouraging others to do khair, so and
so done it, Allahumabariq,
that companion. This is why we read the
lives of those who came before us in
order to encourage us, to motivate us.
So that you may acquire a taqwa.
3 minutes.
What does taqwa mean? Does anyone know very
very quickly?
Fear.
Does it mean fear?
To be conscious of Allah, fear brothers and
sisters,
fear is a word that doesn't give it
its true justice. No, it doesn't.
It doesn't give it its true justice.
It's only a part of it. As Ibnur
Raja mentions my brothers and my sisters,
It's to place a shield
between yourself and that which you fear. What
is it that we fear?
The anger of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right?
What is this shield?
To do what Allah told you to do
and to stay away from what Allah told
you, stay away from.
And in Ramadan it helps us. In Ramadan
it's like a boot camp, it's a madrasa.
It's an institution.
When we hold back from these things, not
just for the month of Ramadan my brothers
and my sisters, we need to fear Allah
azzawajal.
You know last year I saw a tweet
going around of a screenshot
where a sister
was texting her boyfriend,
right?
I don't wanna see you for 30 days.
And everyone is commenting masha Allah.
She's going to stay away from a girl
from a not girlfriend. She's going to stay
away from a boyfriend for 30 days. And
everyone's retweeting it, sharing with one another.
Bilalah Alikha Jama'ah. Is it just for 30
days?
Also we find in households my brothers and
my sisters, right?
The TV is switched off then on the
day of aid it's switched on.
Is it just for the month of Ramadan?
Are we only worshiping Allah azza in the
month of Ramadan? This boot camp is meant
to
ready us for outside in the month of
Ramadan,
so that we can become from the closest
servants of Allah hujaifi'u'llah.
Right.
Finish, right?
My brothers and my sisters,
I want to tell you guys one last
thing.
At a lot of the events that I've
been doing, we've been getting people from all
sorts of backgrounds
of different types of hair,
clothing.
Some of our sisters may not necessarily be
wearing
the correct Islamic uniform.
Please don't look down at them.
Don't start looking at them in a way
that
they are not welcome in the masjid.
We want people to come to these programs
in order for them to become galvanized,
right?
Motivated now to do well. Everyone's on their
journey remember,
You were like that once upon a time
and Allah blessed
you.
It was an absolute pleasure
for being here with you brothers and sisters.
Jazakumullah Khayron for having me. Right? At such
short notice, brothers organized it and they released
the posters and the program.
I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to reunite
us in this world and if we don't
in the highest part of a jinnah, say,
I mean. I ask Allahu alaazu wa ta'ala
to bless you all and to help you
with this weather. Right? Take care of yourselves.
I'm flying out tonight. Please make for me,
and I'll make for you guys as well.