Haifaa Younis – What is Fasting

			What does really fasting mean? What does it mean? When I say I am fasting? I'm not talking yet about
Islamically we're gonna come to it. In general you see it in front of you. Basically, the the act of
fasting is the act of holding.
		

			If you want to use a term, we use very common these days. It's an act of control. You are under you,
you are the one where I am we are the one who have the control. Not people, not my own knifes not
shaytaan I have the control and this is why the name fasting, Assam is actually to abstain from
something and to stay still. That's why it is used. Allah subhanaw taala used it for a Seder. Meriam
when she said when she got pregnant, and Allah ordered her to Cooley in another Tula Rahmani Salma.
Tell them I have made an oath to Allah. I'm going to be fasting, felon Colima Yama and Sia, I am not
going to be talking to anybody that's fasting, withholding abstaining from talk. Also it is used for
		

			the wind, it is used for the sun, it's used for the horse when the horse run, run, run and suddenly
stop doesn't want to move. They say summit and hide. The horses are in a state of fasting in
Islamically Islamically and I love this definition I put it both in Arabic and English, what do you
see? You see him SALKIN muscles Fiza mean muscles Beshara every muscle so you will withhold certain
thing in a certain time with a certain condition. That's that's fasting, in general, in Ramadan or
outside, you withhold abstain from and we'll come to it and you have it in front of you food and
drink and marital relationship from to a certain time. Sunrise, I'm sorry, Dawn, to adjust sunset
		

			and with certain condition. And we're going to come to this. So I want to keep us remembering that
fasting is control. I am under control. I am control. I'm sorry, I am in control. I am in control.
But the real control is from Allah subhanaw taala because I am in control of not eating or drinking
from let's say 5am to 8pm. But who told me that time and who changed it as the month goes. So number
one and this keep reminding yourself, you are Allah is teaching you and me to take control of our
desires and our what we want, we always have to get it. No. And he's also teaching me to take
control and submit to the one who has the control. We fast in general, either obligation by carnavon
		

			Extra voluntary, that we do Monday Thursdays or three days of the month, we do day of Arafah if we
are not in hajj, we do the days of Shaban the middle of the month, so it's obligate voluntary
extras, then we do atonement fasting, we fast to the called Cafaro because we have sinned certain
sins. And then one of the ways to remove these sins is actually by fasting one of the ones which
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			familiar to people is actually the oath when we make an oath and we cannot keep it there is many
ways to make this up to remove the sin of not making keeping the oath, one of them is fasting, and
there is forbidden fasting. I cannot fast and we'll come to that but in general, they fade when the
woman is menstruating or when they were or when after she has delivered the baby fasting of Ramadan
is is an obligation there is no why and if and but it's one of the five pillars of Islam and not
fasting intentionally is a major sin
		

			I'm not talking about for those who can so I need to look at it and this is not only me, everyone
around me we're gonna put it under None option of Yanni. I love it when sometimes you ask people and
I really like that. When Sometimes you ask people sometimes you're teasing them says what do you be
fasting Ramadan? They look at you.
		

			I was like, What do you think of me? Of course I'm going to be fasting Alhamdulillah that's how it
should be. We should never say if I can unless I have the
		

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			permission, sickness or other but I'm talking about healthy, regular people look at it as it is an
amazing guest and honorable guest, bringing with it amazing gifts, precious gifts, and the gifts are
given for those who honor it. Honor Ramadan
		

			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen where did this come from? Who said the Ramadan we have to fast we all
know it. But it's always very good to keep reminding ourselves when the time of the act of worship
comes in, especially if it comes every year like Ramadan or Hajj, we need to remind ourselves again,
why? Who said so somebody let's say we will live in a non Muslim country and people around you and
these days, for those of us who goes to work, people will ask you and Hamdulillah you will be so
happy unless surprise that people are familiar with Ramadan Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen so why
it is an obligation it is one of the pillars of the it's in the Quran, I'll come to that. It's in
		

			the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam. He did it and he said to do it, and it's the consensus
the agreement of all scholars, no scholar, reputable scholar, all the end recent will come and tell
you Ramadan is not an obligation. If he or she say that, then they really are not saying the right
thing. Then also it is one of the pillars of the Islam, one of the five pillars of Islam, and it is
one of the acts that we all know the they call it in Arabi and Madeline will be Dini but Balraj it's
something every Muslim know that they fast Ramadan and this is the verse and in case you want to use
it to inshallah you can memorize it. Yeah, you Hola, Dina Amanu all you attain faith quotevalet
		

			equal Muslim. Fasting is an obligation upon you, as it is an obligation upon the people before you
as it is an obligation for the people. Before you La La Quinta TOCOM we're going to try and chart
life today to write for ourselves notes and the notes we will take it with us in Ramadan, the notes
you can put it in your heart, you can put it on your phone, you can put it on your fridge, do it the
way you want. But we need to look into these to remind ourselves number one law law contact the code
so you will be a lot conscious. This is the main reason the main message from Ramadan is La La
Quinta Takuan ya Allah give me Taqwa. I have no idea what this word mean. I don't know how I am
		

			going to do it your love teach me Your Allah teach me and look at the next verse. I love it. A Yemen
Mahadeo dat it's counted days and and remember this one I am going to say I remember what I will be
saying right now.
		

			The day one of Ramadan we say oh it's 30 days. You blink your eyes and it is the last 10 days. You
blink you blink another eye and Ramadan is gone. And that's why Allah says a Yemen module that it's
counted a Yemen module that for mankind I mean call Murray one oh Allah so fully fed, the two men am
in Ohio. The person who's sick or was traveling will come to this later. Now come to this one shot
or a Madonna lady on Z Daffy Hill Quran the month of Ramadan, the month where does the Ramadan came
from the name? It's in the Quran, and I'll come to you as we go. Where is what does the word mean?
So we can look into the spiritual part of Ramadan. So shadow Ramadan, I love you Lindsey Rafi Hill
		

			Quran. So look at the virtue. It's the month. It's Ramadan, is the month that Allah chose from all
the 12 months to send his words for the first time. In Zen now who fie Laila to cuddle. We send it
down in the night of the power and the night of the power in Ramadan. That's how the scholars all
unanimously agreed that night of the holiday the night of the power is actually in Ramadan because
Allah said we send the Quran in the night of power. And Allah said we send the Quran down. In
Ramadan, we send the tuna and Lin Nasi are the units in mineral Huda will fall on Why did Allah send
the Quran to guide us to teach me to make me some things clear and to teach me right from wrong for
		

			odd right from wrong. Now comes the order for men shade I mean commercia Hara Valley have some
whomsoever live to see the month.
		

			Fat yes some
		

			then they need to fast. That's an order and in the Arabic language fairly, it's an add a verb that
comes in with the meaning of order, do it and then Allah gives the the exceptions and finish it.
What took me to the finish the 30 days or 20 days 29 days? Well it will Kabiru Allahu Allah Maha. So
you will always glorify Allah for the near Emma he gave us and this is another thing I want everyone
to feel for lights and yam
		

			it's a blessing that Allah subhanaw taala send us a month that will bring us much easier closer to
him. Help us much easier to do things that pleases Him Alhamdulillah well it can be Allah Allah Maha
can glorify Allah, that he for what he guided you are guided us when Allah contest Quran and Sunnah.
So you may be grateful to Allah, grateful to Allah, look at it. It's an obligation Yes, but what an
obligation what our beauty and guest Think of it this way the day that you were here the
announcement that it is tomorrow is Ramadan, live with the fact that you are opening the door and
the most beloved guest that you are you were waiting for for the whole year. Finally, their foot is
		

			in your home. How you will feel this is how I need to heal. I need to look at it waiting. Finally is
it here? Is it here and that hamdulillah and I am alive and it is here in the Sunnah of Rasulullah
saw to Sudan he fasted nine Ramadan's nine years. And this is also his teaching and I love this
hadith and this is where the obligation of Ramadan came. The obligation of Ramadan came from the
Sunnah also, and this is a man and a Bedouin came to the soiree Saito, salaam not very well dressed
not very clean, actually, he was described that his his here was not very done, well. Not clean. And
he says you're a sole law. Bernie mother for Allahu Allah, Yamuna salah, telling me what Allah made
		

			compulsory upon me from salah, and he said the five unless you volunteer, and you will do more, and
he said, What about what did he make obligatory upon me from fasting?
		

			What is obligatory upon me from fasting, he said, Ramadan, unless you want to do more. And then he
asked her about Zika he explained it to him again, which is charity unless you do more luck with the
mindset. But when Wallahi young also me muffled Allahu Allah Yasha. And he said, by the one who send
you now Bedouins is like the tough people because they live in the desert, and they live a harsher
life, you know, to this strong and, and, and they say the way it is, as we say, and he said by the
one who have honored you, I am not going to do anything extra Latifah. I'm not gonna do anything
voluntary.
		

			However, I'm not going to do anything less than what he ordered me. I am not going to do anything
less from what he made obligatory on me. And I am not going to do anything extra. Otto Swati Sato
Salam said F Lucha in Sadhak. He will be successful. If he was truthful. Or another narration he
will get to Jana. He will get to Jana. So here you are. It's an obligation. If I am a person who
normally does not fast,
		

			a lot outside or I don't fast outside Ramadan. It's from one Ramadan to the other. Regardless of the
reason, this is a good news for you, because he said to him, I am not going to do anything extra.
But I'm not going to do less from what he wanted me. And also Alia salatu salam said if he's
successful, if he does that, he's successful. That's an obligation. And this is another Hadith Amin
in the slides I have all the sources also. This Islam, this beautiful religion, this home of Islam,
built on five wounds in Islam, Allah hums five things, you bear witness, Allah is
		

			only DT rasool Allah Salatu Salam is his messenger, you perform Salah and you
		

			a Zika and you do you give Zika and Osama Ramadan who will beat five things.
		

			You will witness there is no God but Allah and Muhammad Ali husana to send out his messenger.
Perform Salah you give him a car if you qualify it
		

			You perform you fast Ramadan again if you can and then you go to Hajj that's in Muslim that's it if
I move one out the house will sooner or later will fall that's the obligation