Akram Nadwi – Laylat Al-Qadr Special Q&A
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The transcript discusses various topics related to Islam, including the importance of the holy month of Easter, the connection between the holy month and the year after it, the use of meat and butter during marriage, and the importance of testing people for their ability to be good and learn from their actions. The speakers also emphasize the importance of finding the right person to ask for and not giving out too much until it is clear that the person is not accepting. The transcript provides advice on finding the right person to ask for and not giving out too much until it is clear that the person is not accepting.
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To everyone.
Welcome back to the ASI weekly Q and
A with Sheikh Akram Nadwih on every Thursday
at 6 PM BST
after a brief hiatus that we've just had.
Today, we have a 1 hour q and
a special
with a short reminder on
followed by some specific Ramadan, Ramadan specific questions
that, the sheikh will take, and then we'll
proceed to our usual open Q and A
session. Without further ado, Sheikh, the stage is
yours.
So
Ramadan, we remember
the night of the.
And means the night in which,
you know, all the plans of Allah are
decreed. So
you know what people are going to do,
you know, and their providence
and
who are going to be put out by
Many of these things that they are written
down,
in this night.
The prophet
was born in Makat al Mukarama.
And, you know, he was under true nature
and pure of this pure, intellect.
So his nature was never corrupted.
His mind was never corrupted.
All the pure thing.
Though his society was very bad, people used
to associate with Allah subha.
They had so much.
He grown up disliking
his people's way of
life until he became 40 year old.
So then this this likeness
become much stronger,
and he could not bear anymore
to stay with his people.
So then he he take, took refuge in
a cave
far away from his people,
in the mountain of Anur.
So there, you know, there he
used to spend nights and the days
remembering his lord worshiping him as best as
he could do without any shield
and to refine his soul and
purify his mind and heart as best as
it could do.
And, that, you know, his purity kept growing
until a special night came.
A night
in which
the nature of the pure people become much
more shining,
much much better.
So that night, the end of Jibre, Ali
Salam,
comes to him
and
and, teaches
him first few verses
He did not know what is happening.
He comes to his house and the story
is well known in the books of and
it is a story which he mentions
in much detail by
so everybody can read that.
That will help me. So that was a
thing.
And then very initial,
fear is gone.
And the prophet
started worshiping his lord praying,
and he became busy with other things.
Still he remember,
you know, though that night because that night
was very special.
He lights from the heaven,
you know, all the blessings that are sending
on his heart. It was such an experience.
He never cared us, and would have,
in before.
He was very much attached to that night,
but he knew that night was just special
with the Quran.
First revelation
is not going to come again. So he
can't he busied himself
with the,
with with the prayer.
So that what happened.
Then,
asking him, we are not going to believe
in you until you make the Quran
descended
and you opened it. We can see there
are papers coming from the heaven, or we
find a book which you can touch with
our hand. That a heavenly book,
you know, this information that you receive
by an angel's ambassador and then you read
to us, it's not enough. We don't believe
in your what you say. We need to
see the book openly.
It is very similar what Quran mentioned later
I'm told to Nesna,
about the
Jews. They they said to Musa al Islam,
we are not going to leave unless we
see the book comes openly.
It does not belong to your your time.
Nobody
you never have a light like that which
has come in a special night which in
the heaven
were and then in that night, the blessings
of that night from the heaven, you know,
from the high heaven, they came to the
prophet
and how great the night is. And
so so to
Doha.
So
this was revealed to make very clear that
the prophet people don't need to see the
Quran coming directly openly.
You know, the Quran's coming this night. That
itself is great to goodness.
There is not a book of this dead
earth. It is a really heavenly book coming
from,
from that direction.
So now the prophet
realized from this verse
that, it was a special night in the
heaven.
And, the Quran came in that night. And
in that night, all the things are decreed.
So he understood the verse. And also he
said in the day tonight,
that night is better than a 1000 months.
In Arabic language, when people say 1,000,
they have two meanings.
One meaning of 1,000 is the exact number,
which is, like, you know, 900 or plus
100,
it makes 1,000.
Quran has used this number.
Like, the Quran said almost, Nuh alaihi salaam,
Falabatafihim,
Al Farsnativ. Nuh alaihi salaam stated with his
people
in Arabic language, alpha
also can be used
maximum number,
you know, because, that
one thousand, the last number in Arabic language.
So meaning,
any number, any of this night is better
than millions of nights.
You know, no night can be put to
death.
But that night, a heavenly night,
you know, it did not it did not
belong to this world.
Only Barakah of
the Quran, the beginning of the,
Quran was in that night. So that then
that night was connected to this earth. That
moment with the with professor. Nobody else is
he. Only the professor experienced it. So after
reading this Surah, the prophet realized really that
was a special occasion
when the Barakah that
night surrounded
him, but it finished. That night is no
more here. So, you know, it was heaven.
It didn't even the heaven. It didn't but
it it it not connected to this earth
anymore.
So that why the prophet
never mentioned the night of the Qadr
that was the night after the night in
the heaven.
And and he was connected to that night,
especially in that in one one night because
of Quran. And then finished then that night
never came to this earth. And it always
is there in that way. He he realized
really that there's a special appeal. From the
verse also, he understood, he didn't understand it.
In in other way, there no one mentioned
that this not night has anything to do
with Ramadan. That there's nothing mentioned in Ramadan.
And also, it is very clear that, you
know, there's no evidence that night is
coming once a year because it's not from
this earth. So it could be there coming
after 10 years, 15 years, or 4 years.
We don't know really because the Quran does
not mention whether the
night happens every 4 years or 5 years,
every year because it's nothing to do with
this earth.
Then the prophet did Hijra, and the 2nd
year of Hijra,
Ramadan fasting or the month of Ramadan was
made obligatory.
That verse struck the mind of the prophet
Now he started connecting
it, all the verses together.
So he realized
really that first Quran mentioned that Quran was
revealed in the night of the other. Now
the Quran said the Quran was revealed in
the month of Ramadan.
So it could be it it it's very
actually, it's very obvious
that the night of the other was Ramadan.
So it was again in the if you
can say both way, the Quran are revealed
in the night of the other, or it
is revealed in the month of Ramadan.
Now we realize
that, this
that night has something to do with this
world, I think, because it is connected to
Ramadan. Ramadan is the month of this this
world.
So that made him to think if that
experience
can come again, and he could see that
night again with all the lives and with
all the blessings and Barakah.
So it became very deep in his mind,
really. And in the beginning of Ramadan, he
reached out the car because he could not
go to give a * of
they turn to
Allah and they, you know, for some request
or some.
So it happens. No doubt really. Allah listens
to their.
The urge of in the heart of the
prophet was if he could see that light
again, and his also can have sent blessings
So many people who did the autograph with
him until the, you know, last 10 days
of Ramadan in one of those nights
So he became very happy and, you know,
he really realized
that that Allah,
you know,
remembered him and
he repeated that experience to him again.
And he wanted to use that experience
to remain
for his all the time. So every
area in
the in the month of Ramadan hoping
that maybe sometime Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, connect
that night of the heaven to this earth
as well.
But nobody knows really when that night is
there. But that is very, very special night.
Even if people get one night, that is
better than the years of night. But important
thing is the the purity of the heart
and the mind. When you are more and
more pure,
then the blessings and the lives of those
that night, you know, they are connected to
you much more deeply.
Best thing is to do autograph.
If you're an autograph,
you know, you are more close focused on
the part of Berkeley sometime in autograph. We
also,
you know, do things which are not very
correct on people. When there's so many people
out of the tough, sometimes they commit sins
so they don't have purity at the heart.
You know, back biting, gossiping, and dying. You
know, they make your heart more dirty especially
in the month of Ramadan.
And for the that night, it's barakah and
the lights to dishonor your heart and mind.
You need, you know, purity of your soul
and mind very clearly.
So people should wear the car, but nicely
should not be busy with any talk. If
people cannot wear the car,
Those people who,
were, you know, stand in the prayer,
in the light of the father.
You know, we be believing that
and expecting the reward from Allah, then all
their past sins are forgiven.
So, you know, you will actually the Priyam,
can help people to get some the night
of the other. That night is very special
night,
and,
it is a very much,
you know, descending on the people
who are on the pure nature and the
better nature.
So most important thing is to clarify, to
clean yourself
and,
you know, and do your.
So, you know, when you make effort to
get something,
Allah the way is he gives you. So,
you know, there's this verse in the Quran.
So those people who
work hard for the and
the believers, the true believers.
So
their effort is rewarded.
The effort of the people actually is gets,
rewarded. So even if you don't get the
night of the other, for some reason, don't
worry. Working hard is enough. Your due our
duty is to work hard to make effort.
When you make effort, Allah gives you.
And actually, you know,
even, you know, Allah's
any mercy or any Rahma. It's such a
great you cannot imagine daily anything. And especially
when you do
this
in order to obey Allah
and follow
you'll get a message more reward. So the
people should
make a fact
that in these few days of Ramadan which
are left,
you know, don't, bite bite. Don't want to
go sit unnecessarily.
And,
do
if
you can do
do
the prayers,
keep,
you know, reading the Quran and understanding it
and also, you know, repenting to Allah purifying
your heart. If you do that,
hopefully,
we all get some and some medicines of
the night of the.
So now if you have any question.
Jazakkalu Khairan Sheikh will now turn to people
and prioritize
the questions that are Ramadan related
before going on to the open Q and
A. So
if you do want to ask any questions,
please ask in the chat and we will
we will share them with the share.
So one question has come in from,
Soleiman who says, can someone do aitika for
just one night magrib to fajr or a
few hours, or does it have to include
the days as well?
Well, in Ramadan, you know, you can take
off of one day as well. It's
a car means fasting, so you're fasting anyway.
So if you just do it in the
afternoon, do one day. But do full day.
You have day and night. It's just not
one one night.
But if you don't want don't have the
whole day,
then stay in the night,
in the staying in the house of Allah,
There is such a weird thing. But at
least, if the car needs 24 hours, you
know, some people make it even for few
minutes and whenever they enter to Masjid
They make an internship, but there are no
proof of that. We never have any proof
of the professor Lawson
or the company to the after
for less than one day.
The next question we have is by Pfizer
who asked, can be
on an even night?
Yeah. You know, left to other actually can
be any night.
That why
what a compelling used to say,
if anybody
works hard the whole year,
he will get in the night of the
father. It could be any time. Any month
not mentioned in Ramadan.
And the mother Hanifah that is the open
of our Hanifah for the night of the
father
is not necessarily Ramadan. It could be any
night. There's no mentioning in the Quran
that night of the father must be in
Ramadan.
There are no mentioning the hadith that it
must be in Ramadan.
Okay. It's not even mentioning that, you know,
it must be every year. So we don't
know really. But, more mostly,
the tide of the Taliban.
Mostly, in the last 10 nights of ram
Ramadan.
Sometime even nights, sometime old nights, but old
nights are more likely.
So it could be any night.
So we can't actually work hard all the
year.
So at least 10
nights of Ramadan,
should be it will make effort. If not
10 nights, at least 4 nights because that's
more likely.
But it could be in even nights as
well.
The next question is by Fariha who asks,
what is the significance of the 27th night
being termed as Leila del Qadr?
Well, some people are thinking like that. You
know, that a.
So he said, you know, night of the
could be the 27th
night. We can't even keep changing. So maybe
he's I've seen that on the 27th ones.
The prophets in Larsen's time, we have a
group that the night of the father once
was on the 23rd.
We went up to 24th, I think, what
once was. So it kept changing. It never
happened same night again.
But now
it's easy because people love to work only
one day.
So everybody, all over Muslim world, people have
met on this same at night
at the night. But there's no single proof
that this
is exactly that night. It could be any
night. It keeps moving.
That I even that Abu Hanifa said, it
could be even out outside of Ramadan, not
necessarily in Ramadan. Though most of it is
Ramadan,
and mostly in the last 10 nights of
Ramadan.
It seems that there are no more Ramadan
specific questions, so I think we can open
the floor up just for whatever questions people
have. And if anyone has any further Ramadan
questions, then they can add them in,
and we will ask them inshallah.
So the first,
the next question that we've got, is by
Sarah who asks,
is it true that the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam advised,
presumably men to marry virgin women?
No. No. This is not that. The president
used to advise people to do this thing.
I believe he's telling otherwise anybody.
You know, some of his beloved, is dead
in a heart or some of the dead.
He was never married. He was virgin with
a man. And the person has advised them
to get married. So he see here, why
is his own
beloved,
you know, people used to call him as
son of a beloved other person.
He loved Osama so much, but he advised
him to marry someone who's a,
in Haggad or a divorce. And the
prophet himself can marry all these women
who are, you know, those that kind of
died, they are not worthy, except
and all the
companions. It's not the prophecy love. If he's
a prophet does like that, what will happen
to other women?
And in our in in Sahar's
time, I assume that a woman is divorced
or her husband dies, people want to marry
her. Then the Quran said, you know, you
have to wait until waiting period. You really
finish, then you can propose for the
for the marriage. So all the Sahaba, they
used to marry everybody. But sometimes he could've
advise some people, like once he advised Jager.
Jager was very general man, and he
So he said because, his father was become
shahid in the better pocket
and left behind many sis many daughters.
And Jada has looked after these daughters and
there's no woman inside the house.
So he might really find it so she
can help him,
to look after that. So that answer, it
is just about his case. But otherwise, you
know, complainants is to marry anybody.
The next question is by Abdul Rahman who
asked when a child is born, is it
sunnah to give to an Aqika?
If it is, should we give meat or
as a waleema?
You know, in the before Islam,
people used to
have a you know, when some child born,
then used to have, you know some people,
not everybody slaughter and mother and
celebrate.
And people think that, you know, then by
doing this, then, you know, the child will
be safe and no problem with this for
him.
So that continued in the beginning of Islam
and some people do did
it. Then after that, Allah
made only battery
with the hiya, you know, and the holy
you know, remove the stuff for everybody.
So since then, our picker is no more
sooner. Soon why do we that was a
why people do a picker? They're no harm
in
But if you do it,
you can use your
the meat yourself.
You can distribute to the people. You can
make feast to food, and you can distribute
or you can call people to eat. It's
absolutely up to you whatever you do. That
that means a hardal for you.
The next question is by Subeda
who says, Salam, my sister-in-law was a Hindu.
Alhamdulillah, she's a Muslim now,
but she has a doubt. Allah could have
made just one religion and just believers. Why
did Allah create all these different religions?
You know Allah Subha'ala has created,
the people in this world
and he gave them
true nature and also he gave them mind
to take, think, and understand.
And then after that, Allah created a good
and evil in this world to test people.
So it got, you know,
all the good and bad in this world
are by the good religions, the bad religions
day and night, you know, justice, injustice,
everything by Allah Subhata, he made that. And
now he's just testing people. Therefore, he said
in the
Quran. I gave human beings their mind,
true mind to think, and then I showed
him both path, good
path and bad path.
I want to test them really that, who
are the people who walk on the bad
path and who was going to walk on
the good path. But the good path is
very clear. Your nature loves it. Your mind
support this. And also the revelation came. Your
my son just came in the prophecy.
Now still people want to walk on the
bad path. They have no excuse, which means
they really are very bad. They want to
be bad. So, you know, there's
no you know, in this world, look really.
Your mind will say there's something wrong, but
still people do. People know smoking is bad.
They do. People know, you know, drinking alcohol
is a hard food. They still keep doing
all these things. People know the enemity and
the hatred, and jealousy
or are bad. But people do, and other
people don't know.
So Allah to test people if you know
really, and I gave you all the ability,
you know, to be good. Why you are
not good? So that is the proper that
he created all this thing to test people.
So we have to take a favor if
used to him, understand his guidance,
use the mind,
and Allah will help us inshallah to Allah.
So both things are there for the testing
purpose.
The next question is by Fatihah who says,
salaam, You Sheikh. How can we understand both
Al Ihsan in Surah Al Rahman verse 60
when this verse is mentioned immediately after the
mention of Allah's favors of Jannah for those
who fear him.
Yeah. Okay. Hassan needs to do things a
bit nicely.
You
know? No doubt really that, you know, Iman
and Islam are reported, but people can make
their quality better and better. They can improve
their iman. They can improve their Islam.
And that, you know, comes from where people
fear Allah
and they're really patient. That what
a means fear of Allah and being patient.
So if people do a and Allah has
come under them,
as best as far as possible. So
that why Allah Allah
their son and their son. But it does
not necessarily mean the last one, it musically
where the Quran is mentioning their Surah.
So many people to, you know, all these
people,
you know, to our paradise. They were half
of
a Those who fear the Lord, they get
to paradise. You know,
all the qualities
of the people who are but it's mentioned
the Surah
that makes very clear that these people, they
fear Allah
and they obey him, and they want to
improve their good deeds
and their patience.
They don't lose their patience.
So then the reward will be
will
give them, you know, much multiply the rewards,
much Allah, who can do reward
better than Allah. So
Allah.
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Now,
we will continue with the questions.
Sheikh, we've got a couple anonymous questions
that I will,
ask you, and then we'll go back to
the questions in the comment box. Please do
ask your questions in the comments.
Sheikh, the first question
in the, from the anonymous questions is,
of Ramadan?
Yeah. You know that that actually you mentioned
the Quran and the hadith
that the sins, you know, 2 types minor
and
major since,
minor since sometimes even you cannot notice they
are so small,
and we keep doing all the time all
of them. So whenever
we do or do minus since are forgiven,
when we go for the prayer minus since
are forgiven,
when we do sadaqah minus since are forgiven.
In the month of Ramadan, minor sins are
forgiven. You know, these things. Major sins,
they are very serious matter. They need to
repentance,
and sometimes they belong to the people's right.
You have to pay by.
If you have stolen somebody's money or you
have to, you know, hire someone, then you
need to ask that person to forgive you.
Then the listener will forgive you.
What are the major sins? We don't know
really exactly all these details.
Wants to hire them so then people are
scared and they avoid every sin.
But generally, what we know is that that
those sins which are mentioned in the Quran
and the summer punishment,
they are a major sin like a shirk,
Zena, you know, other debris and
stealing
murdering, killing someone
by biting,
lying,
deceiving,
cheating,
hypocrisy,
you know, hurting someone.
All these things
are major since
people should avoid them. If you avoid all
the major since, some minor since are more
likely
for a demon. But people keep doing minor
sins and then they insist on that. So
sometime by insisting,
minor sins can become major sins. So people
have to
avoid that. And believers in me should not
do major sense. If they have done, they
will
not sit until they repent because, you know,
they can't deal with the major sensors.
So we don't know details of all the
major major sensors.
Most of
them maybe we know, but some we don't
know. And the intention is that the people
be scared and they fear Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and they keep making effort to avoid,
you know, all the possible sins.
JazakAllah,
Khairn Sheikh. The next anonymous question is,
there's not much time in the day. Is
it better for 1 to focus on one
area of good deeds such as seeking knowledge
and do that to the best of their
ability?
Or should we spread our attention to all
the different deeds? For example, seeking knowledge, serving
parents, charity, praying, etcetera.
You know, if you're seeking the knowledge, that
is the most important thing anyway because that
is the source of every good.
But while saving the knowledge, you have to
know if there's something obligatory, then you should
not miss like further prayer.
You can't keep seeking knowledge and miss the
more for the prayers over.
You should not have missed, you know, your.
If your parent command you something, you should
obey them. So it is a further.
So
make your priority to seek the knowledge.
But at the same time, if there are
something further, then we should do that, because
further is already more important.
Once you have done sitting at the knowledge
and you'll reach to certain, then then you
then you can prioritize
things other things you can and then we
do other, other things.
But when you are learning, seeking the knowledge,
that is the most important thing because that
will make you to do every good deed.
And the last anonymous question that we have
is
should students
of knowledge not seek knowledge,
further knowledge until they implement what they learn
first because they will be accountable if they
don't.
You know, I,
if you implement everything that you know, really,
it is so difficult and not everybody can
do.
Do you have people seeking more and more
on Mali? But in preliminary, at least, what
is that further? So I can know if
you will study the prayer, do the prayer,
fasting,
zakah. If you have enough money to go
for a hike, you should go for the
hike.
You know, avoiding the sins
not necessarily that you know, do every single
good deeds,
Suna and Mustaphat.
Because not everybody can do it. It's so
difficult to do all those things.
But do as best as possible.
You know, if you start playing all the
night or most of the night,
it will affect your learning. It could become
beat. Some people fast, you know,
during the daytime and then the night, the
credit card that may get so much reward.
There is so much reward, but then it
still make you weak and you can't do
those things.
So I advise you that, do
obligatory
commands of Allah
and then focus more on learning and studying
and increasing your knowledge, following the Quran, understanding
the book of Allah as best best as
possible.
The next question
we have,
is by Abdul Rahman who asks,
in a previous lecture, you mentioned that prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam actually followed Allah's
original command of of praying 50 times in
a day. But in another lecture you said
that he did not pray more than 40.
Can you clarify?
The
used to play so much anyway. It could
be more than 50, whatever. We don't know,
Glee. But, generally, what we know from his
sonata
that he used to play
a.
So and then other, you
know, to wear a car.
So it,
it becomes 20
and to tear a car further to become
40 to this to get what we know.
But meanwhile, in in between also, he should
do some time. Sometime during the daytime, he'll
play. Sometime after doing what do he'll play
to the car.
Sometime when he enters into the house, he'll
pray. Sometime, people invite him to their house.
He pray to sometimes it'll be more than
40, 50, 60 months, whatever. But generally, he
used to pay 40 rakat at least,
it could be more than that.
The next question is by Hassan who asks,
if one didn't fast the last year out
of ignorance in deen, does one have to
do Qadar of the 29 slash 30 days
consecutively
so that Ramadan is imitated,
or can there be breaks between the days?
Yeah. We don't need to do the other
continuously.
You can do it after you have to
kinda
distribute in your 21 or 30 days in
the whole year.
So, you know, like, every month faster,
few days, then start in few days until
you finish. Even if you cannot
complete in that year, you can do next
year.
So I'd advise you, like, you know, do
3 days,
you know, every month
and maybe a few
more. So you have done, you know, in
10 months, it could be 30 days. If
you do 3, you know, every month, we
really have, like, you know, 14th, 15th,
13th, 14th, 15th.
That is also very recommended.
If we do that, to your father will
be or any way, you you have to
use your divider. Maybe you do in the
summer less.
In the winter, you do more depend by
winter. They are shorter.
It's easy for you to but up to
you. You don't need to do continuously.
Barakalu, peak sheikh. The next question is by
Faiza who asks, is the second coming of
Isa alaihi salam true?
Yeah. That is actually mentioned that, you know,
very nicely and,
so there's so many hadith actually, you know,
sound hadith and Bafari Muslim everywhere.
It's not something in the doubt, and I
have written an article,
in this matter in in our our maybe
somebody can start. I don't remember.
Very detailed old arguments and evidence,
from the Quran, from the Sunnah.
We have no doubt that our insights now
will come.
That is so clear from the Hadithat.
JazakAllah Khaira Sheikh. The next question again by
Hassan who asks,
it said that the dua done by 1
when breaking their fast isn't rejected.
Does this refer to making the dua shortly
before Maghrib,
after Magrib, or before eating a day, or
after having eaten a day?
Well, you know, you at that time I
get started, I'm not really mean it. Very
short time. Meaning, when you,
you know, are ready to do start,
then, you know, it could be up after
us at any time or even just before
the murder or even after the murder, you
know, with all the it's start time. There's
still people build the faster.
You can make a dua, and it will
be accepted. More likely. But, otherwise, if we
dua is never rejected anyway.
When you ask him, he will give you.
You know? But as Allah has met certain
times
where the people turn to him more more
clearly,
and their mercy of Allah listen on you
more clearly.
So you ask him, are you?
If he is, but Allah
accept.
Who will have if he is the Lord
and he wants us not to go to
anywhere, not to do shit,
then he must listen. But if he does
not listen to us,
then what the point was ask us to
come to him?
Then we should say go to someone else.
When will Allah says come to me, why
doesn't he really? Meaning, you know, I do
everything.
So how he can do, Lord?
You know, how can we worship him? So,
whenever people call Allah, he listen to the
people that but, sometime he made,
a better than other because then you turn
to him and your attention,
attention the most more your If you don't
attend
to him and you just say with your
lips, go to him, nothing will be accepted.
So because these terms are that people's mind
is much more pure, so they attend muscularly.
But if you you do any dua with
a pure heart
and attend
it will be accepted.
On a related note, someone asks,
how to deal with low faith when it
comes to making dua? For example,
the past dua didn't happen. How to keep
strong faith in supplication?
The way the people don't realize, really, what
the acceptance of the one means. You know,
if you come to my house and you
ask me £10
until I give you a house.
So you said I did not accept your
door,
your
your request.
Isn't a house better than
£101?
Well, unless you ask Allah Subhanahu Waqala, he
gives some time. He gives more than that
million times sometime, you know, differently
sometime removes him even from you and sometime
want to test you. So he has kept
your reward. He's going to accept your draw
anyway, but he wants to you to be
connected to me. You ask him more and
more.
He'll give you more. There are so many
ways. The best thing really can work understand
is the problem is not that I learned
or not accept.
The problem is that you don't ask.
If you ask, he'll accept.
So just you're asking, actually, yourself is the
proof that Allah loves you and he wants
to give you because it's impossible that Allah
you ask and does not give.
What is possible that you don't ask him?
When you ask him, then he does not
give. It is impossible. That never can happen.
So keep asking and don't worry if what
you ask didn't happen because it maybe Allah
has kept it for something else, something bit
better. Maybe in the day of the image,
you'll see so many things.
Imam Abu Khair said,
when I was younger,
anything I ask for, it used to happen.
So I become scared that maybe Allah wants
to give me all my rewards or I'll
accept all my dwelling in this world and
do not keep 24 thereafter.
So I stopped asking about this this duty
here because dunya is something you
you finish.
So when you ask Allah, he knows what
is good for you. Just
ask him and then forget. Don't worry. He
will give you everything.
So the most important that you keep asking.
The next question is by Owais
I know I get it all. I found
so many jobs that's from here and there
now. My book has come, you know,
with a dozen people. So there are so
many people I got a job. But some
people I had met her, my love for
them to all details of the lucky. I
must check the bath,
but he didn't give me a jar.
I wrote a letter to me asking him
that, you know, I let you this and
that.
Please give me a jar then he wrote
a letter to me making to her. And
he said that he does not have himself
in any jar that, and the jar that
I knew a clock is there enough. He
told me to anymore. Let me get
him. So though I met, he gave to
her, but he didn't give.
So but there are people who give. There's
many men
The next question is by.
He asks,
let the sheikh know I would love to
summarize his research on the women to make
it concise so the laity can access it.
Right. So that's the reason why you want
to, summarize it. Did you know what is
the,
the English
translation?
I mean, I mean, the next question is
by Fatihah who says, Salam, Sheikh. Is the
charity reward for feeding people the same as
its reward for giving financial support to any
Islamic causes
like knowledge based organizations or schools, especially in
the Ramadan?
Yeah. You know, it works that we have
so many for everything, but it depends on
who who is in urgent need. Sometimes there's
somebody dying out from there. They don't have
there are many children and very urgent need.
So helping them will be better than any
Islamic organization or something like that. But sometimes
could be an Islamic organization.
You know, they have teaching and the teachers
don't have enough salary at the door to
work. They can't do properly,
and there's so many skills learning from them
to repair. It's could have shut down or
something. So you you have to
find out really who is it more desperate
need. When people are more needy, you know,
looking after them has more reward, much more
reward. So I'll I'll make a factor with
your,
support or your money directly.
Don't go through the agency
because there's so many problems in that I
can find, you know,
to have got direct impact
to the needy people. I will give to
them directly inshallah.
The next question is by Ibn Mohammed who
asks, is breaking the fast with dates part
of Sunatul Huda or Sunatul Adah?
You don't think people's thing that the prophet
always used to convert his fasting with the
deaths.
So these things are not good. There are
no proof of that. Some type could be
because that date was their food. But some
type could be just milk. Some type could
just water because they don't have all the
time all this food that you've got. Like,
you have got on your table,
10 choices.
Then you think I started with the the
date because that is sooner. Do you think
that how the profit was? We had 10
choices or 5 choices?
Just one thing. Sometimes just, you know, milk,
sometimes could be just meat, something. It it
is more thing sometime
or water. You know, it's not that he
intends to do breakfast with the dares.
So it is that that time, if you
don't do,
dares or anything else, that is still fine.
They know how to do that. Sunna is
to break the fast. I assume I have
the sunsets.
That you should do. But what what is
good for you?
Next question we have
is
is there a special way to pray the
Hajj during Laylatul Qadr or is it like
regular prayer?
It is regular prayer, but how do you
know when is the night night of the
Qadr? You have to be a very dear.
Nobody knows really. I don't understand why people
assume that they know night of the battle.
Nobody knows.
You know? And
they're not something we could even think they're
not necessarily. It comes in once a year.
It could be coming once every 2 year,
every 3 year. We don't know all these
things. So don't ask don't pretend that you
know something more than the prophet
and more than the Quran. But what you
need to do is make a foot. That
what the prophet said. Keep looking for it.
Most like in the last 10 nights
and do things properly. But you can't say
about any specific
night. There's a night that nobody has got
it. No reason for that. There's no proof.
We have no more questions, but we have
a few minutes left. So I thought, is
there any final words of wisdom that you
could give us just before,
we wrap up, especially with, you know, the
last few days of Ramadan being,
available to us?
You know, most most important really is that
Ramadan is very much connected
They everywhere in the month of Ramadan, people
do Taraweeh and do the Quran. Now at
home, they do so many.
The Quran was not ready for that purpose.
Quran has come to purify you,
to change your life,
change your mind, change your way of thinking.
So the best thing is spend time to
ponder the Quran, read a page,
read the translation if you don't know all
of it, and then think what Allah wants
to say, what Allah wants to explain to
you. You know, that is a more important
thing.
Like, you know, there are many people in
in I mentioned somewhere else.
Many people in Europe,
you know, last century or before that today,
they realize that now there's so much urban
development and people are in the cities and
the buildings and the houses.
They don't have any contact with the nature.
So
it has been affecting the hardening very much.
People should be reminded to
to have contact with the nature.
So
before that, nobody had developed, you know, seaside
or all those things. Then after that, people
started developing the seaside and,
and,
also deserves where people can go and spend
time and this and that.
So in order that people can compare with
the nature,
so they'll develop all those things really. But
what happened at the end of the day,
It's still same thing. If you go to
beach,
you know that people, they are learn from
a nature. They do same thing while they
have to do at home. So they bring
all that thing. Reason is because,
you develop the seaside,
you develop the desert, but you have not
developed the people's mind.
People's mind people are they are thinking people.
Even if they are in the prison
where they can't see any sun or moon,
anything in the dark night,
still they can work out many things. So
that what we need to do. And then
what Quran does Quran
does deconditioning of the mind. Quran all the
time keep remind, don't you see the sun,
the moon? Because we have had it to
see sun and moon, but we don't laugh
from them.
So Quran is to to remove from you
all the curtains
and make your mind very powerful and make
a thinking person to get lesson from
every everything.
And then when people understand or think,
then desire for the sense become weaker. You
don't lose any color. When you read the
Quran, one thing can come very clear that
you're going to leave this world. This world
is nothing related. The real thing hereafter.
When you keep
thinking same thing again, that any enjoyment, when
it taste of this world, it comes very,
very
insignificant for for you. You can see. Whenever
you see a retest, you realize, oh, I'm
going to
it's it's not soon finished.
If people ask me to
attend any,
you know, show or something,
you'll realize it. It will soon finish.
Why should I spend my time with something
which is not going to last?
Then you spend your time with things which
are lasting, like in good deeds, prayer,
fasting,
zakat,
you know, and helping the people,
being nice.
So these things can last.
So Quran is the best book,
for all the time, not only in in
Ramadan.
But in Ramadan, because your souls are more
pure and your mind is much clean.
You know, because you're thinking the Quran can
come as best of person.
So I advise all of you that focus
on the Quran.
Try to understand it. Not just don't read
Quran, the book of Talabi. Don't read Quran
how many times you finish. This then you
don't get back up the Quran. You know,
that Hassan Basel used to say, some people
start the Quran with and
their mind is, you know, also to ask
how they're going to finish quickly.
So you don't get anything from the Quran.
You have to be patient.
A son. Real nicely. Be patient
until you get from Puran to Puran.
There, Puran comes from understanding,
thinking, pondering,
and then acting up upon death. So few
nights are left.
Make effort to focus on the Quran,
to understand the Quran, and to spend the
time to understand the,
you know, the stories of the Quran and
the examples of the Quran as best as
possible.
That's all for today. Unfortunately,
if your question hasn't been answered,
which I think isn't anybody because we answered
everyone's questions.
Please remember your questions if you have any
further ones, and we'll aim to answer them
next week.
For your time,
And to all of you for joining. And
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