Haifaa Younis – Ramadan Recharge Make Every Day Count
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Welcome back to the Voices of the Valley
podcast, a podcast by the VRIC Youth where
we keep it real and we keep it
relevant. Alhamdulillah, today we are blessed with doctor
Haifa Yunus joining us as our guest speaker
where we will go into the topics of
Ramadan Muslim and spiritual highs and spiritual lows.
How can our youth connect more to the
Quran? How can our youth get the most
out of this Ramadan even if they have
crazy busy work schedules,
school schedules. A little bit about doctor Haifa
is that she's essentially a jack of all
trades. Masha'Allah, she is a scholar. She is
a alim of the Quran. She is a
visiting scholar at Valley Rams Islamic Center
and a resident scholar of the Islamic Center
of Irvine in California.
We know Texas is better, but it's okay,
doctor Haifa. And,
she's also an OB GYN, so she really
does it all and we are blessed to
hear from her today.
And welcome back to another episode of Voices
of the Valley, a podcast by the VRIC
Youth. Alhamdulillah,
today, we have doctor Haifa Yunus, the visiting
scholar of Valley Ranch, our esteemed guest.
Welcome, doctor Haifa.
How is Texas treating you? Texas always treated
treats me like a home. Alhamdulillah. I always
get this message, welcome home. Alhamdulillah. So Alhamdulillah.
It's beautiful. Welcome home.
Can you please tell us about your journey
of how you got here today? Not, you
know, the American Airlines flight to get to
Texas, but how did you get here today
and where you are today?
Where am I? Still a servant of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
May Allah reward you. Oh, may Allah bless
you. It's beautiful to see the youth taking
leadership,
positions
sincerely,
wants to change. And I always say 10,
15 years from now, you will be. Allah
knows if I am here.
But 15, 20, and 30, people have we
have to work on this generation to give
them the flag, as I say all the
time. I don't know how I get there.
I get where I am today. I will
say it's only Allah.
I always love to study.
Again, you know this. I'm a OB GYN
by profession, but I always wanted to know
more about the deen. I wanted to see
what fascinates people about it because we all
grew up on the, what I call, the
custom deen, meaning, you know, you pray, you
fast, you do this, you do that, you
respect your parents, but I didn't know the
essence of it.
I mean,
let's put it this way. I wasn't taught,
and I think many of us, why we
are doing it. We're all taught we have
to do it, but why we are doing
it, number 1. And number 2, what should
I feel
before and after? We don't we don't know
this. Right? I don't know what is it
before salah, after salah.
So I always wanted to dig in deeper,
and, again, as a physician and OBGYN, they
always teach you more and more and more
and more. So when I finish my resident
before actually finishing my residency, I start my
journey by reading books, and especially
books of spirituality. And the first book that
really changed me, it was a gift. I
can't remember by whom. It was the book
of, the
soul.
And I read this in Arabic, and I
was like, wow. Where am I? What am
I doing?
And
then, so read this, and then, of course,
I was introduced to the book of Allah,
not only reading, but I start meeting woman.
And I didn't know what that mean. Right?
We use the word, but I don't know
what it means, really. So I started the
journey as I was in residency.
When I finished residency, I haven't finished the
Quran yet. I decide I am gonna study
this deen like I studied medicine. I wanna
know what it is.
And,
and I will say this to everybody, especially
for the youth. When you
are really want something,
and that something is pleasing to Allah,
and you want it for it, not for
any other reason,
Allah will open the door for you. The
door is not one. The door is for
you. So,
I mean, long story short, I was introduced
to,
Sheikh Muhtar Magrawi
in 2,001, and he accepted take me as
his
only and first female student. And,
I started the journey with him for about
till 2,008.
Well, before that,
6 2006, 7, I said I need to
move to somewhere. I wanna sit in a
class.
I wanna learn like I studied medicine.
So looked at places and finally Allah opened
the journey to go to Jeddah because I
was able to work as a physician, and
then I was able to stay. And then
when I when I went there, Allah opened
the door, and the best part was is
I was introduced to the female
scholars.
Because at this till that point, everybody I
met, everyone I listened to, everyone I was
looking and say,
was men, or men actually. But when I
moved there, everybody, with very few exceptions,
taught me where women qualified.
As we say, they walk the talk. You
see what they teach us is,
like, one of the things which is really
amazing. Now I'm looking at that board, and
I always remember.
There was,
our
Arabic teacher, but, of course, Arabic teacher. So
it was only for 1st year. And even
if you know, you still have to because
it was all from the Quran. So she
used when she used to come, she looks
at the board. And if the board is
not clean, and there is no.
And she said and she looks at us,
says, you wanna be a caller to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and your board is like that?
And I was like, what does the board
has to do with this? But then they
it it they teach you everything. You have
to, you know, you have to be clean.
You have to be neat. You have to
be you pay attention to the details because
that's a journey with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And here you are. So
inshallah, today's topic that we wanted to talk
about was the concept of a Ramadan Muslim.
You know, a lot of people throw that
term around. We've heard some jokes the past
few weeks about if you're a regular at
Isha, you should get VIP parking. And people
that are just coming for Ramadan, hallows, you
have to park on the street.
Joking.
But, what is your thoughts on that term,
the Ramadan Muslim? What do you think of
that? A Ramadan Muslim Mhmm. Or the Muslim
in the Ramadan?
The Ramadan Muslim.
Or you could take it however English Yes.
Because I don't need anything to define Ramadan.
I need to define me in Ramadan. That's
why I call the Muslim in Ramadan.
I think we need to look at 2
things. What is Ramadan,
and what is a Muslim?
Basic. What is Ramadan? The origin, you know,
I'm sure you know, the the name Ramadan
is from,
which is
severe heat.
Or
the faint or a little bit of a
rain, the light rain that comes at the
end of the summer. And they say what
it does, it actually makes the the,
the ground or the earth is cooler.
Yeah. And so everything comes and everything in
this in our has something to do with
the meaning of it. What it's what it's
supposed to do to me.
They said severe heat because of the heat.
Many explanation,
but the heat of the hard work we
do in Ramadan. The heat of fasting. The
heat of all the admonitions,
and all the lectures, and all the Quran,
what it does to us. And on the
other side, the rain that comes will make
this heat see the opposite?
The heat will make it less. So it
will make me feel better. So that's Ramadan.
And, of course, all the hadiths we know
and all the you will hear it all
the time. Ramadan.
Whomsoever
fast and
and prayed the night in Ramadan out of
faith and looking for the reward. Allah will
forgive
the,
all the sins. What I look at as
actually is the Muslim,
because that's what we need to focus on.
Ramadan didn't change. Ramadan, from that time till
now, it's the same. It's me, the Muslim.
I I ask myself,
and I have actually spoken to the youth
yesterday before I came today. And I said,
what is your goal in Ramadan?
What do you wanna be? And don't tell
me I'm gonna fast. The billions will fast.
And don't tell me I'm gonna pray in
Masjid. Many millions will do that. What is
your goal? What are you gonna tell Allah
before and after? And see me, you Allah,
before and after. I think whether it's a
parking or no parking, I'm coming walking, I'm
coming flying, is what is your relationship with
Allah will be? Where are you now?
Where do you want to be?
And what are you gonna do for to
get there? Goals. Right? And I actually told
the youth, give me 3 goals. I actually
told the also the adult.
I think we need to put 3 3
goals, general. And everyone do it according to
their
situation. You need to have a goal with
Allah.
Personal. You and him only.
You need to have a goal with the
with the people around you,
and you need to have a goal with
the with the earth and the creation of
Allah, outside people.
What are you gonna why are you gonna
what's your relationship with Allah? What do you
wanna be?
Real servant of Allah? Really? Really?
If you're gonna say yes, that's gonna be
a tough one. So you're gonna submit to
Allah from the beginning till the end. You
come, you came to the masjid. You came
1 hour before and you have this beautiful
place in the front and you were sitting
in just 5 minutes before tarawiyah. You had
to go to the bathroom.
Guess what? You come
back. Someone took your place.
What are you gonna do?
How are you gonna react?
Are you a servant of Allah?
Isn't that Allah made it happen? Are you
gonna say,
or you're gonna get upset and you start
making a fuss about it?
So, 1. Number 2 is people. Same example.
Are you gonna apply?
Nobody will reach the level of faith unless
you love to yourself. What you love for
the others? Okay. You want it to be
in the front, that somebody came on it
to the front. Give it.
3rd, same example. And you came with your
bottle of water.
Are you gonna throw it in the when
you leave? Half empty?
Is that what Ramadan?
So the 3 if we put 3 goals,
that will be the Muslim. I will I
will I will reverse it. I will say
the Muslim in Ramadan.
And I'm gonna say this is me in
Ramadan.
You Allah, make it happen. You Allah, keep
me going after. Yes.
But I will say if I am able
to do it for 30 days,
by his grace, I'm gonna continue. Because you
need 30 to 40 days to
have a habit, to continue to become a
natural thing for you. So, inshallah, it will
be. Inshallah.
So one of the issues that youth bring
up is that they're a new type of
person in Ramadan. They feel as though they
have impostor syndrome. You know, a few days
before Ramadan, they were doing they were committing
certain sins or they weren't frequent in the
masjid, and now they're leaving their sins behind
and they're in the masjid all the time.
What do you say to those youth that
feel almost that they're this isn't real? And
how do they sustain this good behavior outside
of Ramadan? Ramadan? Okay. I will I will
say one thing. I will say it's beautiful.
Mhmm. I don't want people to say, oh,
I see you only in Ramadan. Yeah. Alhamdulillah.
At least I'm coming in Ramadan.
I will because that's one way of shaitan
coming to me as a person who who
usually comes to the masjid, and I'm gonna
talk to the people who I don't see
them but in Ramadan from a pedestal. That's
arrogance. I'm sorry.
I'm gonna say, you Allah, see when you
care about people, the second goal. You Allah,
just like you brought them in Ramadan, keep
them coming.
That's number 1. Number 2,
Every child of Adam is sinner, and the
best among them are
the ones who repent.
So when I look at somebody, or he
she comes to me, and or he comes
to me and says, you don't know what
I did before Ramadan. My answer is, I
don't care.
You know why? Because did you repent
sincerely? If they repent sincerely,
and Ramadan was the catalyst, I call it,
the catalyst to make it easy and you
were sincere in your repentance, you will change
after Ramadan.
If you are not,
you're just gonna say, oh, it's Ramadan. I
have I cannot do that.
It's good,
but may not bring the fruit you want
to.
So, Ramadan is absolutely a way to help
you change,
but it will not change you unless you
really want to change.
Let them come to the masjid, but
let them and I don't call it masjid.
You know what I call
it? House of Allah.
It's different. When I put my feet in
that, it's
not my house. It's not my,
it's his house.
I come respecting,
honoring,
having this awe inside me, see what he
will give me. I come casual carrying my
whatever with me, sitting in the back looking
at my iPhone, everything. He will give you
what you want.
That's so true.
I think a lot of youth feel intimidated
almost to come here. And, you know, you
have the masjid aunties and the masjid uncles
that will constantly tell the youth, you're making
ruckus, you're making noise, you know, stop. And
sometimes they feel a little bit discouraged. They
feel as though that people are looking down
on them and people even make comments to
to the effect of, you know, you're being
a hypocrite right now. Don't forget who you
are. Let's look at your social media, different
things like this. How do you respond to
that? I I,
I can see it from the two sides,
right, to be fair. Yeah.
If I am a person who always look
to the masjid as the person, the people
who come to the masjid is only angels.
Right?
Which 90% of the regular people who come
to the masjid are not. I'm one of
them. We're not angels, but let's assume, meaning
they are really righteous people. May Allah make
us all righteous people. I can see what
they are seeing,
But also they are seeing it from one
side only. Why? Because if every uncle and
auntie
looked back at one point in their life,
some maybe from the youth, from their young
age,
majority, they were not there.
Majority, they didn't come to the Masjid when
they were 1516.
Majority, again, there could be. Or the majority,
they did not wear hijab when they were
1516.
So if I look at that person, and
I say, you know what, just like Allah
guided me,
Allah will guide them if I am that
side. Now as a youth, if I only
change one thing
is why I am coming to the Masjid.
Well, it's a beautiful place so I can
meet all my friends. Oh, they serve beautiful
shawarma or beautiful.
Then I'm getting what I am getting from
it. And then I don't blame that group
because I'm gonna act as if I am
in a cafeteria.
I'm gonna eat. I'm gonna drink. I'm gonna
have fun.
Can I do this in the way that
pleases Allah?
The answer is yes. So what I what
I what I ask from the youth, definitely
come. The house of Allah is for everybody,
but
there is rules.
It's not my house. That's what I say
to people. If you invite me to your
home, you Amina,
okay? And you put a big sign at
the door and you say, Take your shoes,
please. And you said, Please.
And I come and I said, What is
that? No. I'm not convinced. Why do I
need to take a shoes off? And I
come. Will you let me in the first
time? You will, out of courtesy.
Will you invite me again?
No. You're Doctor. Haifa, of course. No.
No, you shouldn't. No. Because if I didn't
respect you, you shouldn't, right?
So how can I do this to Allah
Subhanahu? Right?
I'm coming to Allah's house. What it, what
is the big deal? I say this to
the youth all the time. What is the
big deal if I came for 2 hours?
12? 24?
2 hours, right? Come dress the way it
pleases Allah. Don't dress please to please people.
You come the way dressed that pleases Allah.
I'm gonna try as much as I can
to focus the way that pleases Allah. What
is the big deal? It's only 2 hours.
Then you want to have fun when you
are done, which a lot of us have
a lot of energy after.
The the energy of spirituality, I call it.
Then, yeah. Go with your friends. But also
when you left
and wherever you are going, remember you're still
the Muslim in Ramadan.
But there is a difference in the Muslim
in Ramadan inside the house of Allah versus
outside. So I shouldn't say don't come, but
I will say when you come,
remember where are you.
Yeah. No. Of course. And one of the
questions that the youth ask is, you know,
we have all of these great habits that
we're forming in Ramadan, and we are essentially,
inshallah, the best versions of ourselves. So
for our lifestyles,
school, work, everything,
this amount of worship is not necessarily realistic
for everybody all the time. So how do
you maintain that spiritual high throughout the rest
of the year? I love that because this
is a problem not only for the youth.
That's for everybody. I will say the following.
Put one
goal of worship,
one goal of worship. You have to be
very realistic.
Ramadan has this spiritual energy
that
none of us has. It's the same thing
when you work for when you go for
umrah and you're so tired and you or
you're all in Hajj and you say, I'm
just going to go and do one tawaf.
No, I'm so tired. And then you say,
come on.
You came from the stage. Just go. And
then you don't know how you are. The
moment you start the tawaf, you don't know
where the energy came from. You are exhausted.
And then when you finish tawaf, you're ready
to do another one.
Here you go. So the Ramadan gives the
energy because of the spiritual energy. Now don't
remember shayateen are chained. Don't remember the barakah
of everybody. When you come to the Masjid
and see 1,000.
But it's not realistic. I'm not gonna be
reading Quran as frequent as I do in
Ramadan. I'm not gonna be doing this amount
of salah, let alone every day I'm fasting.
What is the goal? That's what I kept
saying.
One good
act of worship I am gonna add to
my daily life, and it's gonna be nonnegotiable
in Ramadan. I asked the youth yesterday. Amazing.
I I shared it with you in, on
the way to here. I mean, amazing.
Most of
them that I heard, I wanna make sure
I pray 5 times a day
and 5 times a day on time, and
I'm nice to my parents.
If you can achieve this,
do it in Ramadan, ask Allah to help
you, read about the virtue of it, what
you are gonna get. You finish this and
you continue with this after Ramadan, you have
achieved a lot. Not everybody is gonna do
20
every day.
I mean, most of us don't do it
every single day.
Every day, I'm gonna read a juz or
2 of the Quran. If you're not half
of them, you don't you're not very comfortable
with reading the Quran, very few people. But
I will get one act of Ibad in
Ramadan.
That's I'm gonna ask Allah, beg Allah, cry
on the day night of Qadr when I'm
crying. I'm gonna say, Allah, keep me doing
it,
and he will do. A lot of my
personal
extra acts of Ibadah was goals of Ramadan,
and it continued.
That's how you form habits. It's the boot
camp. Boot camp. Absolutely.
In terms of the last 10 nights inshallah,
they're coming up soon. And when it comes
to the last 10 nights, if there's people
that have very busy work schedules or busy
school schedules, I mean, you're a gynecologist. I'm
sure you understand the crazy workload.
How do you deal with that guilt of
not being able to give as much as
the people around you? A couple of things
before even I feel guilty. Number 1, I
tell everybody who works,
take time off the last 10 days, nights
of Ramallah.
Take it off. I mean, we all take
vacation.
Right? So if you take 1 week,
I will. If everybody wants,
personally, you ask me, I always took it
off
when I finish residency. Before residency, I had
no choice, of course. Right? But once I
started working,
my vacation is always I said the last
I say everything is negotiable. They all they
always know this. Everything is negotiable, except the
last 10 nights of Ramadan. This is off
because if I wanna really do it the
way I want to do it,
it's gonna be tough with with work.
Let's say I can't do that. I can't
take time off. I'm I'm a mother of
3. I am a student.
High school or in college, what do I
do? What does what does he want me
in the last what is the spirit of
the last 10 nights of Ramallah? I think
that's people
miss it. And even those who come every
night and do a tikar, they miss it.
What is then what is the spirit of
the last 10 nights of Ramadan? Forgiveness.
I that's my goal. But what is the
spirit? I come to it with what? Oh.
I am gonna be severing myself
from dunya.
That's why there's atikaf in it. And what
is atikaf?
It's seclusion. Seclusion from what? Seclusion from people.
Seclusion from all distraction.
So here I am. Let's take a regular
college student.
They have classes. They have classes in the
evening. Their classes in the morning, and then
there's probably tests and everything. Okay. That's dunya.
But that's not dunya. That's Allah wants you
to do this because that's part of your
growth. As a Muslim, we need educated Muslim.
This is not gonna change.
Can I make this with all the struggle
and act of worship? The answer is yes.
By,
number 1,
don't disobey Allah.
Don't disobey Allah in there
at all.
I am not gonna be doing what everybody
else is doing. It's the last 10 nights
of Ramallah.
I am not gonna sing what everybody else
is saying. I'm not gonna be watching what
everybody else is watching. It's the last 10
nights of Ramaba.
I will
sever,
pull myself out,
move myself out. Social media.
It's a huge problem.
I will say YouTube, yes,
but you watch only, like, definitely I have
one coming in in in Ramadan. I know
Sheikh Omar does one in Ramadan. If you're
gonna watch only that one, that's fine.
Even better, we can, we will send it
to you in the email, in the newsletter
daily so you don't have to go and
check the YouTube. But
why do I have to have TikTok every
day in the last 10 nights of Ramadan?
What is TikTok is gonna give me?
No.
Why do I have to check my Instagram
5, 6 times a day in the last
10 nights of Ramadan?
The last 10 days of Ramadan for those
who cannot really cut a lot of
their time,
it will be taghliya, we call it. In
in in spirituality,
there is 2 concepts. Like, one concept called
takhliya. You empty, you clean,
and the other one is takhliya.
You beautify, you, you add sweets.
The add addition of sweets
has to come with the after this. It's
like infected wound.
Unless you remove the pus, it's not gonna
heal, and you're gonna put to the medicine.
So if I cannot
do both
in this day and age, especially youth, you
need this.
There's a lot of poisons we have faced.
We don't even know it's a poison, but
it's poisoning us, poisoning our thoughts, poisoning our
hearts, poisoning
our humanity.
If I can work on this,
again, I'll put 5 spiritual
goals for the lasting
nights of 10 days of Ramadan. Let's alone
the nights.
Don't waste.
I don't have to stop going to college.
Don't waste
at all. I'm gonna put whatever in my
food for iftar, I'm gonna eat it. Well,
I don't like it. I'm gonna eat it.
It's the last 10 nights of Ramadan. Let
alone it should be all Ramadan.
2nd, all my salah on time. I, people
say I don't have time. I said please
forgive me.
Don't you go to the bathroom?
Right?
You have to. And nobody will tell you
no. Look at it this way. You have
to.
I need to relieve my spirit.
And I'm not gonna say go and do
30 minutes salah all the sunnahs. If you
really cannot, then you're salah on time.
It is like you have to go to
exam on time.
That's number 2. And number 3,
add more to your relationship personal with Allah.
Add more Quran.
Read the Quran. You're driving. Listen.
Instead of talking to people or checking greed,
I can't do I can't come to the
Masjid every night because whatever the reason,
2 extra rakat alone with Allah. Open the
mushaaf
to in your room, look at the corner,
open the mushaaf, read from it, and
feel it.
Then you have done a lot. The last
but not the least, one negative
in you,
any character or negative habit that you will
change. If you can do that, you still
can go to college. You still can study.
You still can do everything. And don't, don't,
and I will say this,
Don't think
those who spend all day and night in
the Masjid are better than you.
Allah only knows Because I don't know
the. I don't know how they will do
it because they will be asked more than
you. When I have the 10 days off
and I'm not working, I have somebody who
take is taking care of me. Am I
gonna be the same that the woman who's
running around with 4 kids and everything is
going the norm, and then I have to
be also spiritual? Her 2 with all the
struggle, way better than 10 of mine. I'm
in the Masjid and the Comfort.
So let's not look at people what they
do externally. It's internally is the most important.
And whatever Allah allows you.
Anything you do with a lot of struggle
is actually even more reward than when you
are in comfort
zone. I think that's so important. A lot
of youth, they get stuck on,
the lack of time that they have in
these things, but they don't realize that, you
know, Allah will put barakah in their time
and he'll help them through that. You know,
as simple as you come to the masjid
and you find somebody, may Allah forgive us
all. Put the shoes not in the right
place. Just take one second. Yes, it's not
my shoes. Yes, I'm not gonna correct the
world, but I want my reward. I'm gonna
pick it up and I'm gonna put it
in the right place.
This will suffice if you did it for
the right Miya, and you had to leave
before the end of Tawah because you have
things to do tomorrow, and you can't be
that late. You have just done something. 90%
of the people in the masjid didn't do
it. You did it.
That's the most genuine deed. Yeah. Exactly.
Taking doing it for Allah. Anything that pleases
Allah, don't belittle
it. Don't belittle any good deed. Don't think
it's only salah and suyam. I tell people
you have made Islam so narrow.
SubhanAllah, what about people who cannot stand for
a long time? They cannot read Quran. They
can't they don't they don't see.
They're so
is a huge
opportunity,
huge options. Pick up the options, not the
easiest one,
the one that is feasible for you with
your circumstances.
So
these last 10 nights are here and a
lot of us are, like, gearing up on
our spirituality and we're doing a lot more.
But at the beginning of Ramadan, a lot
of people ask this question is, what is
better? Is it better for me to connect
more to Quran on a level that I
can that's more meaningful for me or to
actually do a khatma? For our youth that
have never maybe done one before, what do
you recommend?
I recommend whatever's gonna get closer to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. I will put, let's say,
a 1 hour of the day for Quran.
Number 1, you have to really allocate time
for the Quran. Don't make it just whenever.
Because whenever will never be.
Right? So I'm gonna say, you know what?
Let me look at my schedule. You have
to be very organized and all. Let's look
at my schedule. In the morning, it's very
difficult. I'm running around. Go. Before I go
to bed, normally, I have time. I have
the 30 minutes or 45 minutes or after
or
after Everybody is different.
That or this 45 minutes or 1 hour
should never change,
should never be compromised. Look at it as
you are breathing the air.
And that will be the Quran time.
I call it again to be to feel
it. I will call it my time with
the words of Allah. Don't say Quran. Say
the words of Allah. It makes you feel
different.
Now,
in this 45 minutes or 1 hour, how
much I can read? People are different. Some
people will will be able to read barely
1 page.
As long as I'm really using all the
45 minutes.
I'm not like
no phone next to me, no talking or
texting in between. It's like I'm talking to
you.
Think of it this way. I'm talking to
you right now, and then suddenly I go
and start texting and I'm talking. How do
you feel?
You're ignoring me. Absolutely.
And I and you are not important. Right?
I'm giving you the message.
This is more important. Imagine this is the
words of Allah. So you turn it off,
and you start your 45 minutes or hour
time yourself and start with the Quran. Whether
you wanna read 1 verse
and with all the commentary on it, and
you start crying after reading 1 verse, that's
a lot of khair. Verses, I wanna finally
in my life, I wanna read all the
the this words of Allah. So I'm gonna
do everyday in juz. It's gonna take me
1 hour. Let it be. That's also khair.
The sunnah is Rasool, alayhis salatu was salam
reviewed the Quran every year with jibri once,
except the last year when he passed away,
alayhis salatu was salam. He did it twice.
But that is not something obligatory. I'm not
gonna be punished if I didn't do it.
What is my ability
with true ability? I'm not being lazy. I'm
not being procrast I'm not procrastinating.
I am being realistic.
Do what will get you closer to Allah.
One of the
things I have done, especially when
in my residency and afterward, is I used
to try to read that juz
from that the imamble read.
And then when you come and listen to
the Tarawiyah, it's not gonna be something completely
strange.
Right? You've read it.
Of course, if you know the Arabic, that's
hamdulillar. But even if you didn't, it's gonna
be some.
And as you are driving, going, whatever,
keep listening to the same juz.
So in the day,
reality, if you read 1,
listened to 1
yourself,
listened to 1 in tarawiyah, you've done 3
chattmas.
Right? Listening, in
reading,
and behind the imam, which is usually
you will focus
more than when you listen. Alhamdulillah rabbani. But
I wouldn't focus on, oh, I didn't do
khatma in the Quran. And I say, why
is that? Okay.
Did you understand one page in this, Ramallah?
They said, yes, Assalamuala.
Hamdah.
Hamdah. So allocate time, not amount.
Time is the most important. I think a
lot of youth get stuck on just the
amounts and all of that and they feel
intimidated.
Some of our audience struggles with reading the
Quran and understanding it. Do you think that
just reading the English is sufficient for them
if that's how they connect?
I will I will recommend reading the transliteration.
Yeah. Yeah. Because the transliteration
will count as you're reading the Quran. If
you read the translation,
you should because then you will understand what
Allah is saying to you, but you are
not reading the words of Allah. Transliteration,
you're reading the words of Allah.
And then if you can give our audience
one piece of advice before you log off,
what do you say? I will say think.
May Allah give us all long life.
But think this is the so I
I I shared this with you in the
car. I said this to the youth yesterday.
I said, listen. Imagine when I was coming
to the class today, Allah sent me a
note
saying, tell all the youth,
give me one dua in Ramadan,
and I will give it.
What dua you will do? And I can't
tell you what I heard.
I will say the following to everybody, not
only to the youth. Think of it. This
is the last Ramadan you will you will
have. That's it.
There's people who are 20 died, or people
who are 80 died, or people Allah the
age is not the guarantee
I am living. If this is the if
Allah sent me a note saying, This is
your last Ramadan. That's it. Day of Eid,
you're coming back to me. How you will
do in this Ramadan?
That's it.
You're gonna look at it very different. You're
gonna take it seriously.
You are gonna be focused.
You will not waste a minute.
That's how that's how you should every Ramadan
in fact, every day should be like this.
But definitely for Ramadan, it should be like
that.
We
were able to have you join us today
and give us some wisdom. It's a blessing
to have you here and maybe
you know you can move here one
day.
That's gonna be a huge problem.
Thank
you so much. May Allah give us life.
May
Allah make it the best for everyone. Amen.
Everybody listening to us. Everybody will listen to
us. Young or not very young. Because we
all need this spiritual push to keep going.