Allah and You in Ramadan

Haifaa Younis

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The speakers discuss the importance of external preparation, practice values, and forgiveness in various aspects of life. They emphasize the need for personal growth and personal development, and emphasize the importance of fasting and staying ahead of events. They also mention the importance of forgiveness and the relationship between Allah and people. The speakers stress the need for everyone to be prepared and remind them of the importance of staying ahead of actions.

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Salam Alikum

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Smilla will humbler wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah while early he or Safi woman who Allah La Molina and founder on foreigner Bhima alum tena Inaka Simeon, would you would ya la Manolo become an MLA on file? I'll be Lai Asha, when I've seen letters powered via inline SMA or Benalla to the kuruva bar there is data now Hublin AMOLED on Kurama Inaka internal hub, which actually solder us solely on MRI while you log that Emily Sani of colleges are co located for coming May Allah reward you all Sunday night please forgive me, as Sheikh

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Mohammed just explained was really challenging to get a day that we both are available and handler Bing so please forgive me I know it's a long weekend. But

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my loud Rococo livestock Cucciolo as we say, if you cannot do it all don't leave it all. So humbler Bing again, just akmola here lovely Masjid May Allah fill the masjid with baraka and may Allah Subhana Allah make us of those who fill the masajid with Baraka, we fill it in Mr. Murrow masajid Allah, what I want to talk to you is the title and I really need you to think of the title many of the things you hear is you probably have heard it again and again and again. The question always has to come to everybody.

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And please and I really ask you sincerely brothers and sisters if I have say something you disagree with, please feel free to correct me. Every year we hear the same thing. Every year we hear the same thing about Ramadan. Every year this Masjid I am sure in every Masjid in the LA area and in Orange County is full of people am I correct? And you barely if you come late, you barely can find a place and everybody enjoy the Imam reading and when the last night and everybody's crying with the DUA. Oh no. This is all beautiful. Right?

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What's happened on the day of aid

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as if we did nothing for 30 days

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as we did nothing for 30 days, am I correct?

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Back to the same thing

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whatever I did before Ramadan I'm doing look at and again we really need to be honest with ourselves because we will not change

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you look at how we go to the aid salah the way we park the way we agree to do we agree to we don't greet how do we look at people How do I dress? Do I listen to the hotbar do I really changed who I really established this relationship for the last 30 days three zero. They in day out and fasting I'm struggling I'm praying I'm reading Quran I'm doing all these things. Why didn't I change?

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Let me ask everybody and I want to see hands here. How many of you confidently say that I am definitely a different person from last Ramadan

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confidently again, I can put you on this on the spot. Because if you were in this small classes I usually give I would have asked you and told me show me May Allah make it true and put Baraka but give me one example. I'm going to do it here. Anybody from the Sisters of the brothers that hamdulillah there were many hands. What was it

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that made you raise your hand? something practical? I don't want titles.

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You know, I was like I am a more McDuffie and I was like Creedy

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mashallah, give me an example. So give me an example.

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Alhamdulillah so I have more resilience. I am praying more since last Ramadan. Again, I'm not going to go to the details. But in general, why I'm saying this. There is about three weeks to Ramadan, roughly speaking, right?

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What is your goal?

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And don't tell me I'm going to fast everybody will.

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And if you cannot fast you're going to pay money. I'm going to come to Ramallah to the taraweeh everybody does. I'm gonna finish the Quran. Almost everybody will does or will try. What will make you special in the sight of Allah from everybody else in this room, let alone from every Muslim out there.

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That's what I need. When I said I, Allah and Ramadan. I normally analyze even titles. Who are you? When I said I

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Who Am I?

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And I'm not talking about my name. What do I do? Where do I live? How many children I have? I'm not talking about this. I'm talking who I am. And please listen to me. In the sight of Allah. Allah know the chef just shared with you a lesson and talk with Aloka Annika Tara, Olympic Winter off. I know your rock, you all know it. You worship Allah as if he's seeing you. And if he doesn't, if you are not seeing him, he sees you. So he's seen me? Yes, everybody. Do you have any doubts? Alhamdulillah What do you think he's saying about you? And me?

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Is he going to look at me? And he's gonna say near my lab? Do you know who? awaba What a servant of Mine she is? Or he is. They always returned to me.

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Am I

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can I say it confidently? I would love to say yes. If I say yes, I'm a big liar. I'm talking about myself.

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So the first step in preparing for Ramadan, there is external preparation. For example, you haven't fasted since last year to make sure this week you fast a day or two to get yourself ready. You haven't did any haven't done any PM, any night Salah since last Ramadan do at least two or three this week and the week after, because it is not a switch that tomorrow is Ramadan, you turn on the switch and suddenly everything changed, nothing will change. So I need to get ready. That's external.

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And subhanAllah. Because of the baraka of Ramadan, we all get more energy. Sometimes we will look at ourselves and we say, Oh no, I'm doing it. But it's due. It's happening. I'm working and I'm preparing the Iftar And the ironic the children go to the masjid come home at 11 and then I go to sleep a few hours and I'm up and then I do so. And you say subhanallah I don't know how I do it. But I'm doing it. The baraka from Yvonne that's external.

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This is everybody.

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What will make you or me different in the sight of Allah and on Day of Judgment?

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Don't settle for let's just get to Jana.

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That's not the ambitious people. Nobody just settle for a one bedroom apartment in this life.

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Through

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you're a student, it's okay. I got my first job I need to move. Now I got a promotion I need to buy a house. Turn when I'm going to live in an apartment. Don't we say that? There's nothing wrong with it. As long as everything is halal. Why in Jannah not the same thing.

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If I want to be in the highest level your OB I mean all of us. I have to do something externally. And more importantly, something inside me.

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Many people don't have it. That's what made Satan Abu Bakr different than anybody else. What did he say about him? Massa Baca Komaba Corinne B Kathy salamin asada. He was talking to the Companions, including Sade Naramata and say Natalie, and he said, Well, Booker did not

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became where he is right now because he does more soul more fasting and more prayer.

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Well, I can see in one corner of your Kobe,

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something reside and he lived in his heart.

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That's the first thing you need to look internally. What Who are you with Allah? What do you have inside you? For Allah only?

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Make it practically easier and are going to ask everybody but don't answer me has asked between you and Allah. But go home and answer this question. What did you give up?

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What did you give up? Have something you love, and you have access to it? But you gave it up for Allah? Like you're gonna give up your food and drink in three weeks? For about 12 hours roughly for Allah only that's why we're fasting. But what did you give up? From this dunya let alone internally for the sake of Allah.

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You you need to define who are you?

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And again, I'm talking about the internal your relationship with Allah.

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What do you do extra between you and Allah, and many people don't do

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that's me.

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Then the most second important question

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Who is Allah?

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And I really mean it. And I want to hear a question and I don't want to hear the 99 names of Allah.

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Because that's the usual answer. Who's Allah Semia? Who is Allah, Allah Halim? We all know that. Who is Allah in your life?

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And I really need an answer. Yes.

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Your Creator, as you're, how old are you? Five, at a five year old, this is amazing. And a five year old,

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beautiful. 10 years old, even nicer. Because if I 10 year old, I know, Allah is the Creator. Allah is the Creator.

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Allah is the Creator, then this is not my phone.

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This is Allah's phone, give it to me.

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This is not my water. This is he gave it to me. So at this age, if every child, Muslim child, wherever this he or she live, knows this, when are not very good start. Now I need the adults. Who is Allah for you?

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Who's he? I don't see a hand.

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That's the names of Allah. And I said, this is what I said, Don't give me the names. names we all know in if I want to get into this detail, you will know how much we know it. But in reality, may Allah forgive me? Number one, do I really know Allah is my Sustainer.

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I'll give you an example. And I'm going to give an example related to woman if I believe in my depth. In the bottom of my heart, Allah is the sustainer then when I leave an interview, and they didn't give me the job, why do I say they didn't give me the job because of A and B and C and D.

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My name is Muhammad. I wear hijab, they didn't like my accent, or I didn't graduate from this or that. Why?

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That I know Allah is the sustainer. But I'm not practicing this is the first thing should come out of my mouth is what? My Sustainer

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did not want to give me the sustenance through this job.

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Did you all get what I'm trying to say? So back again, Who is Allah for you?

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And where do you want to be with him? In Ramadan?

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There is people they will not be able to come to Tarawa. Simply they work night shifts, they work night shifts. And this is their source of income, they're not going to quit. They have to take care of family. Islam tells me they need to work. So these people going to be less than me. If Allah wants me to attend tarawih

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so who is Allah?

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Anybody?

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Yes, please.

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Okay, I'll take it.

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Allah has everything for us. I love it. Allah I will add one word if you allow me. I will say Allah should be.

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Should be everything for me.

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Should be

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is it true?

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Really, every single minute?

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Again, I'm not I'm not questioning you. May Allah make you stronger. Could you be I don't know you. But I'm talking in general.

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Is Allah everything for me? Is Allah before my job? Allah before my college, Allah before my family, Allah before my beauty, Allah before my career, Allah before my arrest, Allah before food, Allah before my coffee.

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Allah is before my wealth. Yes.

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If that's how it is for everybody of us, we will never disobey.

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We will never we should be.

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But we are human. We have desires in our daily life. If you look around us, and when you start thinking and looking inward, not outward, that people inward at me and yourself. I'm going to see in my daily life, I'm feeding everything before I feed my relationship with Allah. Am I right?

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Am I right?

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24 hours a day, but he moves seven hours you sleep

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and even the sleep can be for a lot but let's just leave it right so you have 17 hours. How much of the 17 hours is for Allah? Now again told me my work is a bad

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right everybody knows this word. Because it justify a lot of what I do. Excellent. Is it true?

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Absolutely it can be. But is it really my work is a bada in every bit in every moment in my job, I Don't disobey Him.

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Then it becomes absolutely after for ship in everything. Everything it is time for my break. I look at my watch. No, there's two more minutes. He's watching me.

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I am going for a meeting. And I don't want to go for the meeting. And I'm gonna say You know what? I got stuck in traffic. Are you stuck in traffic?

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Did you see my point? Who is Allah for you? And what is your relationship? You need to know it now? It's absolutely fine. If I'm going to say your law and I say this a lot of the time you will know how weak I am. And you know how far I am from you. And you know how much I really want to get close to you. Your Allah helped me that's beautiful. But I need to start before I get to Ramadan. And in a second have come to Ramadan. I need to know where am I? And where do I want to be? And how Ramadan will help me

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I don't want this Ramadan to be the habitual Ramadan I call it the usual again.

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And I don't want it to be something that will not change me. Ramadan is you don't what they call Ramadan. There's so many parables, what they say about Ramadan in your relationship with people from Allah should be like say you know Yusuf with his brother's

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you've come to Ramadan, forgive everybody. Don't worry about what they did to you. And hamdulillah ALLAH is forgiving me every minute, I'll forgive everybody throughout the whole Ramadan. That's going to be my motto. And I believe Ramadan, I go to aid and I'm so happy seeing everybody, nothing in my heart against anyone. And I'm like a new born person.

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That's one of the goals of from Allah.

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If I go through this, then I learned who's Allah.

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I'll take you through one of the names. And then see how when I know the name one, I'm going to change one of the names of Allah is Allah for all forgiving. Everybody knows that right?

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Do I practice this character of Allah? subhanaw taala in my daily life?

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Am I forgiving everybody?

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For no reason they don't deserve it. Because that's when you talk to people. And you say forgive him, forgive her. They didn't mean it. But they don't deserve it. I'm not talking about deserve.

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I deserve to be a person who forgive. Because Allah forgave me.

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How many of us have missed federal solder in your life?

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But he's still feeding me.

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And he's still giving me the house I want and the child I want and the masjid I want. Do I deserve it?

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Do I deserve it?

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But he gives it to me.

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So why can I not do it with people for him?

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That's the relationship with Allah if you know who he

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is, you know who's Allah, everything else becomes. I don't want to say insignificant, but I will say less significant.

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less significant. I'm not like never, ever should come out of my mouth, let alone in Ramadan. What people will say about me, it should be what Allah will say about me. When you are standing here in Cairo we

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are there

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and you came early. And you sat there and you want to enjoy it. And then the masjid becomes so crowded and you for some reason Allah made you look at the door or make you look at the door and you see somebody came in and that person is dying to get in and looking. What do you get up and give your place to that person?

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Everyone looking at me What is she saying?

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Because if I know Allah has Karim

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if I know Allah is it can you

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Am I know it? I don't know it, I know it. Allah is the generous, the real generous, then I'm going to say, Let them come. And then of course Shaitan in me is going to call and say, Well, we're going to pray.

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And immediately I'm going to say, the Karim, or find me a place, people will look at you and says, You're crazy. There is not a single place outside. If I know who's Allah, I'm going to say that Kareem will reward me whether I prayed it here, or a pray that there are operated outside what I went home and prayed it because he knows I gave it up for him, not because I know you or I love you, or you helped me or you're my neighbor, or people will say she's generous. I gave it only for him.

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That's the relationship that should be

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the relationship with Allah is not you're going to be in that corner. We're going to be here and you're going to pick up your Quran and you're going to read it and it's going to be the Hummer race, as I call it. Oh, how many how many times you finished Quran five times? Oh, I did seven.

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And you have no idea what you're right.

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And didn't move you a bit at a single should notice a single drop of a tear you should

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not because the imam is reading beautifully, but because you felt it.

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You felt it when Allah says yeah, a baddie, my servant has move you do you ask yourself, Am I a body? Am I the servant of Allah?

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Deeper. My beautiful sisters and my dear brothers, we need to dig deeper. We need to move from this custom casual, Ramadan custom casual fasting custom casual stairway the imam is reading qualia a bad year Latina as truffle Allah unforeseen and I'm in the bag attire and I'm sipping my coffee.

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This is not Ramadan. This is a habit. And Quran did not yet penetrate your heart.

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Penetrate to our hearts it should. Me Allah and Ramadan. Who am I? How I'm gonna get into Ramadan in what's happened Allah Subhana Allah vs Robbia

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he's going to look at me and says Wow.

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Versus he's going to look at me and says, till when?

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When will I see the change? How many Ramadan I will give you? How many massages? I'll give you how many lectures I'll give you how many Imams and when give me a deadline. Imagine Allah say this. What I'm going to say?

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Nothing.

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Because there's no excuse.

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So knowing who you are, and definitely know Allah subhanaw taala or mark other Allah Hakata well are both called Jamie and Kubla to who Yama Yama was similar to Matsuya to nbme. For sure Allah said this three places in the Quran, same start marcada Allah haka cadre, they didn't know the real value of Allah, or who is he? Or they did not honor Him the way He should be honored three times he said it. And every time he followed it by a statement that if I really read the Quran should have moved me completely.

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When I entered this masjid, and again, everybody, do I feel this is his house?

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Or its i o see?

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I see oh, why are Rama center Garden Grove names? Or it is his house?

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There's a huge difference. When I say a house versus your house, let me know when I say your name. No, no, no, no, this is not this. It is faultiness house. And if you only know what that mean, you're telling somebody

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come in the masjid with the reverence. It is his house. It is his house. Like say, you know, Zayn loggedin binnorie The great grandchild of La soiree salatu salam, when he made will do people look at him, and they see his face changes.

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Why it's old.

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And they asked him, why your face changes changed, its will do.

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And his answer is the person, the servant of Allah, who knows who's Allah? And he said,

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looked at them and says, Do you know between whom I'm going to stand

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Do you know between whose hand I'm going to be standing that Salah for him? So now for you and me is duty Alhamdulillah I prayed total and then I go out and I speak for hours with whoever I am seeing

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or in the massage that they do 20 Aerocart and I leave after eight because it is not the Sunnah. And then I go out and I start talking that's the Sunnah

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we need to change

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we need to welcome Ramadan and I am maybe not yet in a different state but for sure I want to be different.

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You need to name Ramadan for you in a different name

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for example, I sinned a lot last year

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and I'm going to say your Allah I want this Ramadan for me to be Ramadan McPhee era I want this Ramadan to be the Ramadan that you will forgive me.

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And when I say it, I mean it. And I'm going to do it which means I'm going to be very different from everybody else. Or this is going to be the Ramadan of orba This is the Ramadan that is going to get me close to Allah and I mean it which means I'm going to do things very different. Very different.

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So here you go. Who are you learn about Allah? And what is Ramadan?

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Why Ramadan

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in our daily talk What's so special

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What's so special? Let me ask you all of you. What's your special everybody is now counting the days when is Ramadan coming? Why?

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I am asking why what's so special? Anybody from the youth here on mashallah, all of you? What's so special? Why you're waiting for Ramadan? Let's say I'm non Muslim I look at instead what is the big deal? It's another month. What are you gonna tell me as a Muslim?

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Why Ramadan? What's so special? Anybody just see anything?

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I'm sorry.

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I'm looking for Allah reward. Okay, now think I am I know nothing. I'm not even a Muslim. And I was like, What is this wherever I go people talk about this month. What's so what's the big deal? What are you going to tell me? What you will tell me is what you feel. What you will tell me is what it means for you. So what is it?

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Ramadan? What is it?

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month I'm gonna fast and I was like, Oh, we fast do so many other people fast differently. But what's so special about it? Anybody? Yes, please?

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Okay

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brother Isa, can we have another mic? Because I want everyone to hear it. Do we have another mic?

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Because this is what I wanted to hear. May Allah reward you?

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Because the word is not only what he said, it's the way you said it. And this is something we all have to pay attention. It's not only what we say. It's how we say it is it's coming from is truthful.

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Or it's something I read somewhere. Or just something I memorized my mom taught me. I looked it up and I found it and I liked it or I really felt it. So it is the creator of everything.

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The one who can choose whatever he wants to choose. It's mine, not mine. He chose this as special. And if I'm wrong, correct me. He chose this a special month

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to give it to special people to make them special. At the end of it.

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Right, we have it yet. Please repeat it because you said it's way better than I did.

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But this is one of the ways

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that I remember.

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We're about to find out. This Smilla

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Allah rasool Allah,

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the Creator, who has created everything,

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chooses special things from among his creation.

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He has chosen from among the people, special people, for example in has made them prophets. He is the creator of time, and he chooses special times and he grants them

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blessing in their special to him. So we look forward to this time because the Creator has designated it as a special time. And as such, we're seeking that reward in the special blessing from him in this special time. So it's the creator of everything, chose a time of the year, time of the day time of the night and made it special.

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who disagree with this statement? Or who agree with this statement? Show me hands because I'm going to ask you a follow up question. Now everybody put their hand up.

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Why this statement is very true.

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Because he said it in the Quran. What did he say?

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Levy owns it if you hear Quran

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the month of Ramadan is the month that the Quran was sent down? Why not another month?

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Can Allah have if Allah wanted couldn t send it in Hajj? They'll hedger, shebang, why? And what is the Quran? Again, change it to the words of Allah, it will make you feel different. It's not the Quran, of course it is. But to me, it's the words of Allah that he chose to be sent down in this month. Meaning you are, let's say, cooking or baking a beautiful cake, right? Or you want to buy a special, beautiful car.

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But you want to make it even more special. So you're going to choose what

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or let's say your children wants to buy you the car and you always want it so they decide, You know what, Father's Day or Monday daddy doesn't work and he usually are very relaxed. And when he see that surprise, he's going to be even happier. Did you get my point? So Allah chose Ramadan on a spiritual level.

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And nobody asked why Ramadan? I have no, I can't even ask the question. Because who am I to ask Allah why you do this or don't do that. But what is he telling me? It is very special.

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I chose that he Subhana to send my word. Right. And why

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and why? Why did Allah send me the Quran? Y'all know to guide me it's in the verse.

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So here I am wondering, Milan comes in the day, tomorrow when we all look for the announcement. I'm not gonna say okay, hamdulillah Ramadan, tomorrow, I'm going to be fasting lovely. I'm going to be going to the masjid I'm going to be spending a while after all, we is all beautiful. They didn't change us.

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Because as I start singing, after 30 days of fasting, tarawih, Oran, they will fade.

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See what happened? I need to say, aha.

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He gave me another opportunity. As the Hadith the shift started with the person who died in Jihad and the person who lived one year longer.

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And that's why the Sahaba used to say Allahumma by looking at Ramadan, six months before Ramadan, they make this dua your Allah make me live till I see Ramadan and everybody should do this. Don't you guarantee you will see it? Can anyone guarantee I'm going to be here day one praying tarawih

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only He knows

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your Allah Lama Bolivianos Ramadan, and you see it and you mean it? First? Second?

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What is your to do list with Allah in Ramadan different than anybody else?

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I don't want you to tell me I'm going to again fast to read Quran, Tarawa Hamdulillah. But what is it special, you're going to do this Ramadan

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and up with this, because we will need to get ready for Asia. There are three kinds of people who fast

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three kinds, you will read it in the books of spirituality They say people so lajuan the fasting of the general the ordinary and there is the fasting of the special people.

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Soul will have us and there is the fasting of the special of the special. So how acid houses are is this is clear to everybody. hamdulillah what is the difference between this what is these names? Everybody is fasting. Everybody is not eating from this time to this time. What is the difference? These are three levels.

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So Milan, I'll give it to you, everybody, those who will abstain from food, drink intimate relationship

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If from this time to this time, right, everybody and if you are not fasting because you have an excuse, then you are wisdom. Because if you can, you would have done it easy. Yes.

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What is those special they will do more than the first group to make them special.

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So everybody again think of this Masjid in another three weeks when you come in and look around you I do this every time I'm in Mecca and Ramadan, especially before they fall. And I say Allah all these millions have fasted, who's different?

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Who special and everybody is in Makkah everybody's doing Salah with the Imam everybody did tawaf, Yanni, all these acts external.

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So the fasting of the special, what do they do differently? Add to the what the base is, what is it? Who can tell me?

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Yes, please.

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I'm sorry.

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Say too loud, I'll be I'll translate

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with your heart, elaborate, because these are actions.

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I have to do ABCD or not do ABCD and I'm going to have the fasting of the special. Now come to the fasting, the special this special. Who can tell me this?

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I'll give you a hadith of Roswaal risotto. Sam in sha Allah is going to explain it easy. And then I'll come to it. Or Swati salatu. Salam was told that two women who were fasting, right, and they start throwing up and blood came out from them. Right? And they went and said, they wanted to know is their fasting valid or not? If I'm remembering the story, correct, correct me if I'm wrong, Sheikh Mohammed. And then he said it and he was told,

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why is something different? If I'm remembering? Well, because they are vomiting blood? What do they do different?

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Is everybody ready?

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He was told that this woman well known to backbite.

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And then the he said, Tell them Allah does not need their fasting.

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This special fasting

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when you stay away from all the sins?

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What is the point? I came in here with acid 12 hours or ran to the masjid three hours I am here. And as I entered, I looked and I found this woman next to me. And I was like, no, let me move to another place. Why?

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Why did I feel this way?

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Because I think I'm better. And I want to go to and pray next to somebody else, that I think we have more in common.

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I'm arrogant. That's a major sin.

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Let alone I look at you or you look at me, and we start talking about this. And that

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song will help us win your tongue fast and your eyes fast and your ears fast and your hand fast and your legs fast. And of course the private part.

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What is the point you're fasting, and then after Iftar you sat on that couch and you start looking at this thing on TV or that thing on social media or on online or I'm listening to this or listening to that

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you need to fast from haram

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and I'm not talking about halal meat

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or or halal or the beha which we are hamdulillah I'm talking about every haram thing. You come here running to pray, whether Juma or fasting or tarawih and you blocked someone here.

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And then you stay talking to your friend or you stay talking to your friend and there is a person behind you needs to leave ASAP. And he or she or is stuck because of you. You just disobeyed Allah. Because you hurt a believer

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or somebody wants to pray and you want to focus these are very blessed days. And then you're talking with your friend as there is nobody else in this Masjid but you let alone you're flipping on your phone and she wants to focus in our sauna.

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You want

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until the special soem

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your heart has to fast your eyes, your ears, your tongue, your hand and your legs.

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Now the special of this special hottie I mean if I Allah give it to me one day I want to die after because that's when you fast from anything and everything other than Allah.

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You're not going to be focused on what I'm going to eat for a for who I'm going to meet. What is my plan for tomorrow? All the focus will be how Am I pleasing you? Am I doing the right thing helped me Allah forgive me your OB even your DUA will be different because you will be focused on him.

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If you are going to at least learn this, at least learn this. Beg him beg him and I didn't see as I said beg him because this is very difficult to give me one day One day in this coming Ramadan. Too fast of those the special of the special one day Allah then I hamdulillah then believe me when you go for aid, you're a different person. I will end up with this story. I lived in Harlem where there in the last time these were in a teacup and there was a woman in front of me I don't know the woman in front of me or back behind me but anyway, I see her The woman then days her and the Quran Have you ever Of course you can see she's reviewing nothing Salah stand up nothing nothing any nobody

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talks to her she does sound the issue.

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Ya Allah the day they said Tomorrow is aid and in when you are in Haram, they there is no announcements, especially that time there was not even foams that was like about probably 15 years ago. But how do we know it tomorrow is eight when there is no taraweeh there is no collateral am your humble Kamala so we know tomorrow's aid. This woman, start crying. Wallah. He like she lost her child. I couldn't believe it. I was in awe. I've never seen it in my life. ordinary woman. You look at her you think I and you're all of us much better than her. She starts crying and she was just looking at me and says in the Arabic language it's done.

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This is as you're saying it's done hellos.

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That's what I want a new want. That from alone will be different. Ramadan is my beloved coming. Ramadan is my son who I haven't seen for 10 years. Ramadan is the house I wanted to buy for the last 30 years and I worked very hard and now they gave me the key and I'm gonna go in and may Allah subhanaw taala give us the CRO BME May Allah Subhana Allah make us of those who listen to the words of admonition and follow it and may Allah subhanaw taala make us able to practice what we learn. I seek refuge in Allah, tidy mind your firm and I forget him and may Allah subhanho wa Taala for I have said anything correct? It's from Allah and Allah only if I have said anything that is not

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correct. It's from me my ignorance and the impact of shaitan and my neffs on me, may Allah subhanaw taala make us live to see Ramadan and may Allah Subhana Allah forgive all our sins Subhanallah homo behind the eyeshadow and

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