Bilal Philips – Ramadan 2019 Reminder 01 – The Purpose of Fasting
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Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
Well, this time of year is come around again.
Ramadan is only a few days away.
The question is,
do we want to do another Ramadan? Like the Ramadan before?
Or do we want to do a different Ramadan?
Ramadan, where we come out of Ramadan feeling we have achieved something spiritually,
emotionally?
intellectually?
Is that what we want? Or do we just want to enjoy Ramadan? The time of festivities, celebration of Ramadan nights shopping, partying?
Isn't the time that we stop for a minute and think about this? What is it that we really want from Ramadan?
Because Allah didn't prescribe Ramadan
as a month of festivities, yes, there is aid. At the end of Ramadan, there is eat. That's the festival.
A yearly annual festival.
Fine that day
that's been prescribed for that.
Ending Ramadan.
Not that Ramadan should be like eat that all the 30 days or 29 days of Ramadan. We should be celebrating and joining.
That's not really what Ramadan was prescribed for.
We all know the verse we're in a lot of said that. He prescribed fasting for us as he prescribed fasting for those before us. Christians, the Jews.
All of the various religions have some element of fasting in it.
Why?
La La Quinta taco in order that you would become more conscious of God.
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This is what Ramadan is supposed to be about.
taqwa is not
enjoyment.
It's not festivity, celebration.
It is a state
of mind
of heart of soul.
This is what Ramadan is supposed to be about.
So how do we get there?
That's what we should be thinking about.
We should be aware of what Ramadan was intended for.
So that we can
find the necessary components take the necessary steps to get there.
This is the thought for today
that we stopped for a minute and think about Ramadan.
So I want a Kumar Rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh