Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Bedouins and Breaking Fast Ribat 07242022
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The speakers discuss the importance of Islam, including its importance in helping people feel pleasure and achieve their goals. They also touch on the importance of fasting, praying, and acknowledging small small things. The speakers emphasize the importance of knowing the meaning of the "hasith" meaning that anyone who spends money on a pair will be called on the day of judgement from the gates of Jannah. They also discuss the importance of not drinking water and not giving too much pleasure to oneself.
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Who
narrates that a Bedouin from
the desert,
Arabian is what is the Bedou, the people
who are nomads,
pastoralists that follow their herds,
for for their living. They don't live in
one place. The Arab are interesting people.
To this day, they're very interesting people. They
have different sensibilities. We've talked about it in
this before. The Rasool, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
he gave special concern and attention to them,
but he also warned the people of the
cities, the sedentary people,
that the Arab are there's something a little
bit off about them. So he or a
little bit different about them. And so he
forbid,
that any Arabi should ever lead a havari,
a sedentary person in salat.
And, he made special
arrangements for them and special for them given
the differentness of their lifestyle.
And there are people from amongst them that
were
censured for their nifaq in the Quran, and
there are people amongst them that are praised
for their sincerity as well.
So
this is
a a hadith has to be taken in
that context.
That the Arab have a different sensibility.
Desert life is harsh and unforgiving,
and so it means that certain things that
may be part of the normal pleasantries and
the normal way of life and way of
thinking that makes a person successful when they're
living in a city or a sedentary lifestyle,
They may be luxuries that are unafforded by
the Arab.
So, an Arabi, a Bedouin, he came to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he
said, oh messenger of Allah,
indicate to me
such a a deed that if I did
it, I'll enter Jannah.
He said
that you should worship Allah
and that you should not associate partners with
him and that you should establish the prayer
and that you should give the
obligatory zakat.
What kinds of zakat are there? A zakat
is obligatory.
This is a a statement of emphasis that
that it's not an option.
Rather, the zakat is
obligatory.
So many times in the book of Allah
the expression, the formula
is mentioned in that order, that they struggle
that the believers struggle in the path of
Allah with their wealth and with their lives.
Only two times
does it come that the nafs is mentioned
first, and the is mentioned second, that the
wealth is mentioned second.
Otherwise,
generally, the form that's in the Quran is
that the is mentioned first, that you struggle
with your wealth and with your life.
And
the reason is that many people would rather
die than live poor. They don't like either,
but
dying is less
horrible of an outcome for them than living
broke.
This is human nature.
This is why Squid Games exist.
Right? I don't know. I haven't seen it
or whatever, but I've heard about it. I
read about it in the newspaper, and then
people
consequently
then make memes about it and whatever. Apparently,
it's some game game show somewhere in East
Asia or whatever that
people, like, do stuff that, like, they risk
their life in order to win money. And
then everybody here has moral outrage about it.
But we have, like, the biggest institutionalized squid
game in America, the only place and the
only way you can afford
to have health care and education
is by joining the army, signing up to
get killed or kill other people or whatever.
So I know a lot of people could
give less of a damn about freedom, democracy,
or even America for that matter.
But,
you know,
you could go and, you know, get shot
into, like, and bleed to death in a
ditch by, you know, some
turban and bearded individual somewhere in a far
off and distant inhospitable land.
But, hey, at least college is free. At
least someone's gonna fill in the gaps in
your teeth or whatever. Right?
So,
the Rasulullah
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, he mentioned
in order to say that this is not
an option. We're not talking about here, like,
you should give money
out of the voluntary
nafulsal dakat. No. We're talking about the actual
zakat, which is a farb.
So it's interesting. Right? What's the first and
the biggest fitna for the people after the
Rasul Saldhakath, his son passed away? Bigger than
apostasy and bigger than the prayer was what?
Is that all the rest of it makes
sense. We're just not gonna pay zakat anymore.
And so the rest of the he's very
specific. He says that you should give the
further zakat, obligatory zakat, that you should fast
Ramadan.
Here, it's not the obligatory Ramadan. It's just
fasting Ramadan. Even though it's an obligation, people
understand it. But the
the Rasul is a is
that kid masid that he gave for the
for
the zakat. It was an extra emphasis, emphatic
statement.
So the Baduan, he replied by the way,
we've noticed that Hajj is not mentioned here.
He
said
ibn
So even Allah says that perhaps the Rasul
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam didn't mention Hajj and
jihad. Why? Because the person in in particular
wasn't far behind them because of their condition,
their circumstances.
Or maybe it's because he already knew. He
didn't need to be reminded about it. And
a third
a third possibility, and Aladdin was best, right,
is that the Hajj maybe wasn't
made far yet. Perhaps,
it was in a time in
the Rasulullah
wa sallam's dawah that it wasn't far yet.
Allah Allah knows best. Allah knows best.
But
and anyway, these things that were mentioned, they
were mentioned. So the Bedouin, what did he
do? He did a real Bedouin move. He
said something very Bedouin of him. That's why
I made the preface that, like, okay. The
Bedou, like
the point is not to act like them,
because the prophet was very clear that the
Hadari people should not behave like Badu. Even
though the Badu have a have a reason
for doing so, and it's it's okay for
them to be the way that they are
because they literally
their life is what it's not that they
live in tents because they like it or
because
they like moving around and they want, like,
getting more car they want more cardio in
their lives.
They burn more calories when walking or whatever.
What is it? It's you survive on your
herds. Right?
Your herds give you meat. Your herds give
you
milk,
without which you'll die.
Your herd to give you
hair by which you can make your clothing
and by which you can make your tents.
They give you skins and hides that you
can trade when you need money to buy
certain things from from sedentary people. Your herds
are your entire life.
So they know in the desert where is
the water gonna dry
up. What time when the pasture dries up
for one place, which is a place that
still has
pasture left. Where is the water at what
time of year?
And so they have to live life according
and adjusting to that. If they get to
a place and
there's no water there anymore, they have to
think fast. Otherwise, their herds are gonna die
off. If their herds die off, then they're
gonna die as well.
So
it means you can't have too many accessories.
How many,
Starbucks mugs are you gonna be able to
collect if that's the way you live your
life?
How many, you know, jackets are you gonna
be able to have if that's the way
you live your life? Whatever you can carry,
you take with you. The rest of it
has to be discarded because you cannot live
that life. It's a life with no
extras. It means that if you choose something
to take with you in that life,
it's really, really important. And that's the point
of the hadith. So
he
says
he says that,
He said, I swear an oath by the
one, capital o, by the one in whose,
hand my soul is.
I won't do anything more than this. Meaning,
this is important. This is something I can't
afford to leave behind when I move when
I break camp and pack my tent up
and leave,
in order to get to the water in
the next place. This is something I cannot
afford to leave behind. That's the context.
It's not like, oh, I'm gonna do this
and anything else other than that. There's some
people there. Some people crack crack smoking people,
don't pray sunnah. It's a bida. Why? Because
the sunnah is not far. I said the
whole point of the word sunnah is itself,
like,
diametrically opposed to the idea of bida. Yes.
If someone were to say, like, you're gonna
go to * because, you know, you didn't
pray your sunnah, it's a sin.
It's a sin. Oh, yeah. That's fine. It's
a bida. Right? But if it's a sunnah,
it's a sunnah, it's not a sin at
all. We have this kind of weird, like,
idea mindset amongst many Muslim communities in America
that if you do anything that's other anything
other than Fard, somehow or another, you're, like,
going against the true spirit of the sunnah.
There's just some stupid people who like reading
the Mas a lot, so there's a dispensation
for them to, like, pray more. Or there's
some dumb people who like fasting a lot.
Or there's some dumb people who like, you
know, feeding the poor or whatever. And the
real person is the one who spends money
on themselves. That's it. You know? No.
There's a time to spend money on yourself
for
sure. Imagine life sucks so bad. You're like,
I'm gonna kill myself. And the only thing
that brings you happiness in this life is
ice cream.
Right? And you're about to kill yourself.
Buy an ice cream for yourself. You don't
have to give it to Salaat at that
point.
Okay. Imagine you already have the ice cream.
You're like, life's worth living again. I could
go on and do good things for another
100 years. Should I buy what's better to
do? Buy yourself another ice cream or go
do go serve the poor or, like, read
Sunaz or Miksic or whatever. Right? Every day
has a different
thing that comes in front of you that's
important. Part of being a is being able
to order these things. You know? You're like,
oh, yeah. This is gonna save me from
killing myself. But also I heard, like, you
know, Moana Saab said that, like, dunya is
bad. So let's just, like
come on, man. Like, you're you're gonna destroy
yourself. That makes no sense. Right?
The point is is this is that
people misinterpret. Right? There's tahrif. There's one type
of tahrif. Like, this The prophet said that
Bitcoin is, like, better than the US dollar.
That's like a lie. You're lying against the
prophet
Say, oh, well, Islam says that Bitcoin is
better than than than the US dollar, and
if you don't believe that, you're not a
real Muslim. That's a bida'ah. Right? At least
you're not lying against the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, but it's a bida'. It's a
reprehensible innovation because there's no
you know, you just made that up and
then tagged it on tacked it on Islam.
Like, you don't post it, noted it on
to Islam where it doesn't belong there. Right?
This this is
a tahrif
that you actually
attributed words that don't belong to the deen
to the deen.
This is the that the words are right.
You're reading the same hadith but what are
you doing? You're interpreting it to mean something
that it really doesn't mean.
So,
is what? The point of it is what?
A bedouin doesn't
take with him anything other than that which
is the most important. This is a bedouin.
Therefore,
This is a Bedouin.
Therefore, him taking it
and him saying this is a sign that
it's what?
The most important.
That's what you're supposed to understand from it.
Not that giving more than that is a
bidda'a, not that, like, you know, or whatever.
No. Actually, give more. Give more.
The more you give, the happier you'll be.
At some point, someone's like, well, what if
I don't have enough money to eat? Right?
The first amount of money that you spend
on yourself, that's, like, the most valuable salakah
you can give. You can get more reward
for that from get giving zakat. Right? The
food that you pay for your family to
eat that they need. Right? I'm not talking
about the $300 dinners, but, like, the food
that
staves off hunger from your family. You get
more reward for that than feeding the poor.
The housing that you put your children in,
you know, you get more reward for that
than you do for for housing the poor.
Then after what what's after the need, then
give to sadaqa. That's the point. Right? The
problem is this is that people will deliberately
misinterpret these things based on the sicknesses of
the age. It's not right. It's not a
right thing to misinterpret. The point is is
that it's important.
That if it wasn't important, he wouldn't take
it with him because he's a better one.
That's his mindset.
The point of it is not like, oh,
somehow, Ziyadam, this is extremism. And brother, you
know, you just don't you know, Islam is
path between moderation and extremism. So don't worship
Allah so much. You know? Think about Allah
sometimes and don't think about him sometimes. That's
that's not moderation. That's like shirk, actually.
Right? It's the line of thinking. She's not
shirk in the sense that you're like a
calf or you're going to *, like, or
whatever. But the point is is you're, like,
in your mind, the basic misunderstanding is that
somehow
there's a share for other than the deen
or there's a share for other than Allah,
and that's not how this works. Right? We
don't have the render, enter god's what is
god and enter Caesar's what is because Caesar
himself belongs to Allah.
What is he gonna do in the scheme?
Right?
So you know who the room is. Right?
It's the Ottoman Ottoman Sultan. When he took
over
when he took over Byzantium, he he took
on the, the the the reignal title of
You know, he's the he's a because he
rules over Rome. And, it's just the racism
of certain people that they won't accept it.
Why? Otherwise, every other, every other
ruler, Byzantine emperor, Roman emperor,
they all took power by force of arms.
Right? No one dynasty rules for a very
long time. The whole the one unifying thing
between all of them is what?
They took they took the capital by force
of arms. They kept the empire intact. Superimpose
a picture of the Ottoman Empire over the
picture of the Roman Empire, and it's, like,
80% the same thing. Right?
So he's a place in a room,
and he's also the he's also the one
who realized that all of it belongs to
god.
This is from the ajaz that burns the
kuffar to understand that. That they themselves, they
say render unto God what is unto Caesar
what is Caesar's, what is God's, then do
God's.
They took Caesar's
throne, and they said all of this, you
Allah, this is for you as well.
Did I do good? Do you accept my
sacrifice?
So what does the other brother you know,
one
the What's the sign in that?
Right?
Right? The brother is jealous that his that
his brother's sacrifice was better than his. And
instead of being happy, what he said, I'm
gonna kill you for this. Right? So that's
the same that's the same sentiment that's still
there to this day except for to the
person of the class. They they'll they'll understand.
But,
you know, whatever.
Made this life a test for people in
different ways. May Allah go easy on us
in our test.
He said that I my bay'ah, my oath
of allegiance that it took with the messenger
of Allah was
that I would establish the prayer and I
would give zakat,
and that I would be sincere to every
Muslim.
How simple is that? Right?
Something like that. He said, whoever seeks knowledge
for the sake of Allah, a little bit
of knowledge is enough for him. Like, they'll
he'll figure out a whole bunch of stuff
with just through a little bit of knowledge.
And a person who, like, seeks knowledge to
answer other people's questions, then people have a
lot of questions.
For those of you who are, like, unfortunate
enough to, like, be annoyed with my answers
on, on the Telegram group,
you know, people ask weird questions. And then
they'll, like, repeat the question. They don't understand.
Like, I've been looking at books for, like,
days for at this, like, calling people and,
like,
don't answer my calls, and I'm looking in
the wrong and it's wonderful. Sometimes when you
look for an answer, you have no idea
where to find it. You learn, like, 20,000,000
things, like, along the way too. It's, like,
really wonderful. It's beautiful.
And then when people are like, oh, bump,
and I'm like, no, dude. That's not how
it works.
That's and then I think, like, you know,
why do I even bother to answer quest
questions at all at all? I should just,
like,
piece out of the system and just read
books, you know, which is what the actual
olema do. You know?
Anyhow,
whatever. But look at how much action there
is in this
To establish the prayer. Have we established the
prayer?
The dude who's arguing with you and with
me for that matter on the Internet, have
we established the prayer? Neither has that person
nor have I.
We had prayed 5 times a day, and
by Allah's follows, you know,
tried my best not to ever miss a
prayer and it doesn't happen often,
like, unintentionally even.
But establishing
means what? That we should be praying the
Masjid 5 times a
day. We live so far away from each
other. Brother,
he only comes to Dars because it's in
Wood Dale. If it was only 15 streets
over in Lombard,
he'd he'd be like, yeah. It's too far
away. Right? Right?
It's fine. Allah help us. That's the how
we're in. Right?
I'm, like, I'm not I'm not any better.
Do you see me do you see me
there in the saffron fudger? Like, maybe I
can pretend in front of you that I'm
going to the other masjid the guy the
other masjid. It's far away. It's not like,
as a in a fixed sense, I'm not
it's not that emphasized because the masajid are
so far away from our houses. Even though,
I
live closer to more masajid now than I
ever have in my life in North America
at any rate. I used to drive
to Canada to go to Jummah from Washington
state when I was in high school.
I never imagined, look how close I'll be
to the masjid. But still, like, you're still,
like, you're, like, 6 miles away from the
masjid. It's still, like, it's not practical to
go 5 times a day in order to
oblige you to do so. Right? The 40
houses in every direction of the masjid.
Right? Those people, if they pray at home,
they should they should not be surprised, Jomot
Dam, if their prayers don't count or if
they, like, have 0 fa'ab in them,
even if they're valid in the 50¢. Right?
But we we still live so far away
from the masages. Right? So a person's like,
why would you know that? Okay. Then do
it.
Then you can argue about, like, how much
of a deviant and baby killer and, you
know, like,
whatever,
LGBTQ
promoter I am on the Internet
afterward or whatever other weird things people say
about me. You know?
And they say weird that some of them
may even be true. Right? Whatever it is.
Like, you can do that afterward. Right? These
things are not true, of course.
But, the things that people imagine to be
true, let them say that afterward.
What's the second one?
To give to give the zakat, which, again,
I'm gonna skip the next hadith because it's
pretty action packed, and we're gonna go to
the the but it's a very long hadith.
I don't know if we'll be able to
finish it. I wanna have, like, an an
hour just on the hadith itself.
But, we'll talk about, like, the shenanigans
that happened with zakat in this country
a little bit. Why this is not the
thing to mess with?
But, you know, it's something people are
and
to be sincere to every Muslim.
The Nasih for a Muslim is what?
It's described by
is described by the companions on whom that
there used to be a
that there used to be a time that
we that
we
we
preferred our brothers over ourselves.
We what?
We preferred our brothers
over ourselves.
Then after the passed,
then there was a time that we treated
others like we wanted to be treated,
which is a downgrade. Right?
And now a time has come where people
loan money out to each
other. Meaning what? I see my my own
hop and my things, and I might, like,
help somebody. But as long as it's in
my interest if it goes against my interest
at all at all, I'm done.
I'm
out.
That's a problem.
There is a time when
a woman threw a message in the bottle
into the sea.
And from amongst the Banu Maya who's hated
by everybody, and partially for good reason,
partially, not entirely, but partially for good reason,
and from amongst Banu Umayyah's most hated figures,
Hajjaz bin Yousaf, the only person who gives
him a run for his money in terms
of being aided is Yazid. Right? And, like,
you have to admit, he
pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory,
like, in a really weird way.
But Hajjal's pretty bad. He's, like, the homicidal
maniac of Islamic history. You know? He's not,
like, a love figure by anybody who himself
is it, like, needs, like, a brain check.
Right?
Even Hajjaj was, like, by all measures, like
a scumbag. I remember one time I met
there's a hadith there's a story about Hajjaj.
You know? He's dying. His mother's weeping. And
he's like, why are you weeping? He said,
because you're going to *.
And he goes, this is old mother. Right?
And he's like he's like he's like, well,
if it was up to you, would you
put put me in Dundas? He's like, of
course. You're my son. And he said, well,
Allah has more mercy than me. And I
thought I was touched. Look at the ma'rifah
of Hajjaz Banius of Suhan. Maybe I'll love
for him because of that. Right? And my
shaykh is like, no. He's not he's going
to *.
And I'm like, how could you say, like,
you're super pious? Like, whatever. I mean, how
would you say, like, he killed the sahaba.
You're not you don't do that. And, like,
I skate by. There's, like, nothing worse than
that. You're gonna do you know what I
mean? We don't call him a kaffir. That's
basically it. And it's the shield the shield
of the Sharia that prevents that. Otherwise, like,
oh my good lord. If there's a man
that you could make the cure of, you
know?
He assassinated Saidna Abdullah bin Umar
in Hajj.
It's gonna scumbag move.
Right?
Right? Why? Because he was jelly that that
Abdul Malik made him the mirror of Hajj
that ear instead of him. Right? It's like
the whole thing is, like, really just
bizarre and disgusting. Right?
Even that Hajj, complete scumbag.
Complete scumbag. I know somebody's gonna be like,
oh, shit. You shouldn't talk about him. Like,
he's a scumbag. I made my choice. Inshallah,
I stand by.
Even that Hajjaj,
this idea
of what
Muslim,
He got a message in the bottle from
this woman who cried for for help because
her honor was violated on the way to
Hajj, and he sent Mohammed bin Qasim Taqafi
after him.
Why? Because they understood that
your love and your sincerity for the other
Muslims,
that is what your deen is at the
end of the day. And, you know, to
give credit to Hajjaj, he was a person
of some knowledge or some, I should say,
information,
even though we'll say that it didn't yield
a
productive result. But it's not like the guy
was a complete, like,
ignorant person.
He used to teach Maktab to the kids,
meaning he understood he knew that whether he
understood or not, he understood parts of the
Quran, and he knew the Quran at any
rate inside out.
And his speeches, if you listen to them,
his Arabic was good. It's not that he
didn't understand Arabic.
My theory with regards to him is that
he considered the unity of the Muslims political
unity of the Muslims to be,
itself like
a a a
that anybody who rebels against the state is
more or less a or should be treated
like 1. And that's why he basically killed
people for rebelling against the state, which is
very wrong, and it led him to do
very wrong things.
But at the same time, it's not like
he was unconcerned with the
supremacy of Islam or with the Ummah of
the prophet, albeit
in an extremely, extremely, extremely dysfunctional way. A
highly dysfunctional way, for which reason it seems
very clear that he deserves, like, a really,
really,
really solid beat down.
The kitab and sunnah level beat down. You
know, no, like, completely by the book level
beat down on the other side. But at
any rate, it was dysfunctional, but at least
he had this much understanding.
And so, this
Muslim,
we are so quick to rip one another
down. We're so quick to trash one another,
and we're so quick to be like, the
worst that any of those things is what?
Like,
be happy. Shamata. Right? What do you call
it in English? Schadenfreude or whatever? Right? That
you become
happy at the pain and misery of another
Muslim in a way you don't become happy.
Like, forget about people of other religions. You
don't even become that. You you'll cry when
you see something happen to a dog. But
if you see somebody happen to the other
home that you don't
like, it's like Egypt versus Algeria and, like,
a soccer game or whatever. And then, like,
they'll be like, oh, I you know, they
get, like,
joy out of seeing the, like,
people getting killed and, like, rioting and, like,
getting harmed. It's like, yo, dude. It's just
it's a game. It's not something wrong has
happened. It should be very clear something wrong
has happened in the middle, but nah.
All sorts of sectarian, like, different sectarian divides
and things like that. If they're Muslims, they're
Muslims.
If they're not, then say, okay. I don't
believe these people are Muslims or whatever. If
you have your proof, then good for you.
If you don't, be careful because,
not, you know,
not having love for them, you're already imagine
such a mufassar advice. Right? Establishing the prayer,
giving the and what? Being sincere for for
for, like, having sincerity for every Muslim to,
like, prefer them over yourself or at least
to treat them like you would like to
be treated.
How much of how important is that? And,
like, people don't think of that as religiousness.
They think of, oh, look, namaz, dopi, dari,
all that stuff. That's great. Look at me.
I read namaz. I have dopi on right
now for those who are listening on SoundCloud.
And my dari is a one.
My beard is award winning.
I got a call from the from Stockholm
Stockholm,
the Nobel Darty Committee.
Is, like, thinking about giving me the Nobel
Daugherty prize.
Right?
I'm proud of those things. You know what
else I'm proud of?
Like, loving like other Muslims even if I
don't really have other reason to love them.
Give it to all of us. I mean,
Allah give it to me and Allah give
it to all of us.
So we will
leave the next hadith for next time,
and then we'll go to the next chapter.
The chapter regarding
the obligation to fast Ramadan
and explaining the explanation of the virtue of
fasting and those things
that are connected to fasting. Allah most high
said
He said,
that Allah most high said in his book,
oh you who believe
fasting is prescribed for you like it was
prescribed for those who came before you,
all the way to the speech of Allah,
the month of Ramadan, in which the Quran
was sent down as guidance for people
and as explication
of guidance
and electives by which you can differentiate between
right and wrong.
So whoever amongst you should witness it, let
them fast it. And whoever is
sick,
or traveling to the point where they cannot
fast, then let them make up,
the same number of days from days other
than it. Said
and then as far as the hadith are
concerned,
many of them have already come in the
chapter before that Ramadan was mentioned from before
as well.
Abu Huraira radiAllahu
narrates that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
said that, Allah,
mighty and majestic is He,
said that every deed of the son of
Adam
is for his own sake,
except for fasting,
For, indeed, it is for me, and I
am the one who will reward it. Now
there are a couple of issues here. One
is that even the fasting you do for
yourself
and even the prayer and everything else you
do for the sake of Allah,
What does that mean?
That means the fasting you do for yourself
because you know you're you'll get punished if
you don't
do
it. And every other deed you do for
the sake of Allah as well.
Right? There's a a a sunnah
narrated that the person who reads Suratul Wata'a
every day, Allah will fulfill for them their
risk, not leave them leave them short of
risk of provision.
So someone said, well what if someone just
reads Suratul Hakam for the sake of the
risk?
Okay. But you do it in iman,
you know, with Allah ta'ala. Otherwise, if you
didn't have any any iman in Allah, you
don't believe the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, then what would you have done?
You would have gone out there and, like
I was gonna say invest in Bitcoin, but
you're not gonna make any money anymore doing
that. I'm talking about, like, you do go
out there and, like, do some work in
order to make some money. Right?
Bitcoin. Right? So,
that's what you would have done. Right? So
you do it for the sake of because
you believe Allah and his
messenger
Right? So what is the meaning here of
Allah saying that,
But one of the one of the one
of the angles
that a person should think about when they
think about this hadith is how proud Allah
is of fasting. That it's a nisbah to
shut off. That Allah honors it from amongst
all the deeds that a person can do.
Just like every house belongs to Allah, but
the Kaaba is the house of Allah.
Your house belongs to Allah. Your house belongs
to Allah. Your house belong everyone's house my
house belongs to Allah. Our houses all belong
to Allah, but they're not the Kaaba, are
they?
Allah Ta'ala has this has this special love
and honor that he's bestowed upon the Kaaba
that he didn't put on your house. He
didn't put on my house.
So just like that from amongst the deeds,
this hadith indicates that there is some special
connection
between what?
Between fasting and between
And that's why
it seems that every shari'a that came before
us, fasting was prescribed in them as well
as is indicated
by the Ayat
That fasting was prescribed for you as it
was prescribed for those who came before you
because it's a really good thing. Allah loves
it a lot. Allah loves it a lot.
Like even more than he loves other things
from his slave.
Razzali
says that
that this can also be read
That the fasting a person does for my
sake and I'm the reward for it.
And the reason for that will be,
clear in in in a couple of words.
The Rasool
continues. He says that fasting is a shield.
It protects a person from
things.
And so when it's the day of the
fast of one of you
right? Person fast Monday, Thursday, or on the
Ayam Biyiv. Right?
Malik his opinion about the Ayam Biyiv. You
know that?
It's the first, the the 10th, and the
20th. It's not the 13, 14, 15.
Whoever, like, knows hadith more than Imam Malik
can go get up and, yeah, you know,
argue with him or whatever.
So when it's the day for one of
you to
fast,
Let a person not
engage in indecency and let them not go
around screaming.
Like, don't, like, lose your anger to the
point of screaming.
And if somebody cusses you out, dogs you
out, or starts to fight with you,
then let such a person say, I'm look.
I'm a I'm a person who right now
who's fasting. Like, I'm not I'm not gonna
engage with you on this. You don't even
have to say it, like, verbally. You can
just
say it through your actions
as well.
That I'm fasting, I don't
you know, I'm fasting.
Put your hand up. That's just probably gonna
escalate the fight. Right?
But you can you can say it through
through other means as well.
And just remember that you're fasting. Just tap
out. Don't don't don't engage with it.
For I swear an
oath by he in whose
hand is Muhammad
meaning by Allah Ta'ala
That indeed the bad odor from the mouth
of the one who is fasting it's actually
called halitosis.
It happens. You get bad breath from, like,
not eating for too long.
That the bad breath from the mouth of
the one who's fasting is more fragrant and
pleasant with
than the
fragrance of musk.
And the person who's fasting,
that person will have 2 joys.
1,
joy when he opens his fast, when the
fast is over, because there's a joy in
being able to eat again.
And, one joy when he meets his,
lord and is happy that he fasted for
the the sake of the lord.
And this is the
the wording of one of the narrations of
Bukhari. In another narration of Bukhari,
he says that Allah
marvels
at the one fasting, and he says about
him that he leaves his food and his
drink and his desires for my sake.
He said that that
this fasting is for me,
and I will,
I will reward it and that a good
deed is
rewarded
10 times its worth. And in the narration
or in a narration of Muslim,
he said that every deed of
the son of Adam is multiplied.
Every good deed is multiplied
by a factor of 10 all the way
to 700.
And Allah most high says,
indeed it is for me, and I'm the
one who, rewards it.
And I am the one who's the reward
for it. Meaning what?
The indication is that
the indication is that what in the first
narration that we mentioned?
That
It's narrated. This is,
that there's something special about this,
about this deed, about this fast that will
then break the qanun of
somewhere between, 10 multiple of 10 and and
the multiple of 700 in terms of reward.
And this is actually something Mount Ghazali mentions
that there's some indication that the person fast
correctly,
that they can break that
they can break that
that normal set of parameters for the multiplication
of reward with fasting,
as indicated by this hadith. And he also
brings a dawil from the Quran as well.
That
that Rasulullah
says in a different narration that fasting
that half of fasting is patience,
and about patience Allah says in his book,
That the people of patience will be
they'll have the reward
fulfilled for them
without any
accounting, meaning there's no mathematical
seemingly
obvious mathematical relationship between the amount of patients
a person
had and the amount of reward that they're
going to receive.
So when
because
Ali says about
The jazah, if it has to do with
Allah
then it indicates toward infinity.
And Allah knows best. Allah knows best. And
the person, you know, you have to, like,
go and, like, argue with people or whatever.
It's not to the point where if you
don't read it that way, that you're gonna
you're fasr or fajr or kafir or whatever.
Unlike some people, we don't have the of
our but they're, like, prophets or whatever, and
that everyone's going to * for, like, 500
years before they came until
they came to, like, bring the only, like,
hottest or either or whatever. It's just that
old that he has. You can take benefit
from it, and whatever you don't agree with,
that's fine as well.
But that's that's
that's really important. And this is why, you
know, from our,
he mentions that the life of a human
being is
like a fast.
That you're born at the crack of dawn,
and you
keep the fast until it's time to pass
from this world.
And your iftar is at the time that
you you pass from this world with iman,
meaning what you kept to fast. And after
that is just iftar party
for the rest of the for for the
for the rest of the day. The day
of judgment is a day that starts, it
never ends.
And,
this is a really beautiful,
a really beautiful analogy because
fast, the fast has so much, like, barakah
in it. There's so much happiness in it.
It really is the food and drink of
the heart. It really is the food and
drink of the soul. It's the the solution
to so many problems. Everybody is, like, super,
like,
dopamine broken,
like maximum dopamine broken.
Too many fights on social media,
guilty.
Too many
videos watched.
Too many things ordered and, like, fulfilled same
day shipping.
There's too much of all of that. Too
much, like, every episode of your favorite show,
like, available, and you've binged too many of
them. It's too much all of that.
What's the only way you can get out
of liberate yourself from any of that?
You have to go through some hardship.
You have to hold back a little bit.
You have to deny yourself a little bit.
If you can do that, ironically ironically,
then you'll feel pleasure again in things.
Whereas if you're constantly, like, flooded in dopamine
to the point where the receptors have become
desensitized,
then you have to do increasingly, increasingly weirder
and weirder stuff in order to be happy.
And, you know, like, I like to do
some weird stuff. I'll admit it. But we're
talking about stuff that's weird, not in a
lovable way. We're talking about really, like, wrong
type of weird stuff
that we'd like, wouldn't be mentioned in, like,
decent company,
and that even weird people themselves wouldn't mention
it decent company. They would even be afraid
and try to hide it because it's so
weird and so wrong.
Right?
And so what's Islam? Islam is wonderful. Right?
Because I get all the time, I get,
like, these, like, cute messages from people. Sheikh,
you know, like, I can't say it to
you on the list because it's kinda embarrassing
this person. Okay. Fine. What is it, man?
That's Ramadan. Like, I kissed a girl, and,
like, I'm just gonna go to *. Allah
will never forget. And I'm just thinking what
people are doing, like, kind of kind of
crazy things out there. And it's, like, yeah.
Sure. It's haram and stuff. It's wrong. Don't
and I'll be like, oh, you're gonna go
to *. Don't ever do it again, stuff
for that. How could you? And blah. Inside,
I'm like, oh, my god. Masha'Allah. What a
pious dude. Like, he's like,
can you imagine, like, if I think if
I think of it that way, imagine Allah
created the heavens and earth from nothing.
Even if, like, the most demon banshee, like,
Nazi,
Stalin, Hitler,
Chinese Communist Party, like, evilist, like, evil dudes
all got together and made an army and
multiplied themselves by a 1,000,000,000 and filled, like,
a 100 galaxies filled with them.
Is what?
Aisha?
What?
What would it what would it what what
what would
Right? That you would grab him by his
hair in the front and he would And,
like, destroy him? Yeah. And then let him
call his backup, all of his homies, his
bad homies, crips and bloods, and Nazis, and
commies
and capitalists
and,
like, and
all of them and galaxies and, like, Darth
Vader and Darth Maul and the emperor and,
you know, like, everyone. Just call everyone.
The Borg cube is gonna assimilate you and
things you are real, things that are imagination,
things everyone, shaitan and all of his junood,
Iblis, everybody.
Says that we let them call all of
their backup,
that the angels that guard the hellfire will
dispose of it on our behalf. You know?
So
yeah, man.
It's, it's, it's it's,
I didn't to walk it back because I
don't know how we got there. But to
walk it back, the the point is is
this is that, you know, you have to
sometimes give yourself a little bit of break
from all of those things,
and reprogram your your mind to be able
to feel pleasure again. And, yes, this what
I was saying is that Muslims are so
innocent and cute and wonderful people, which is
what a person has a very natural urge
and a very natural desire,
and he succumbs to it, you know,
and then he's so
afraid that the will
be upset with him.
It's a sin.
Even if this entire demon army of the
hellfire or whatever came came against Allah, I
wouldn't bother him.
So if a person, like, whatever it's wrong.
It's still haram. Okay? Don't like I'm not
saying it's okay.
Right? But if somebody, like, you know, like,
I don't know,
did something like that,
Kissed a girl or
ate something during his
Rosa or, like, I don't know, like, a
hundred things that wrong that a person could
do that are still wrong. Right?
But then they feel like then they feel
like, oh my god. Like, I really screwed
up.
Obviously, from a logical point of view, you
didn't do anything that's gonna harm Allah or
harm Islam for that matter. Right?
The Reconquista, like, went house to house torturing
people to death to get them to, like,
recount their Islam, and still, like, you can,
like, get a shawarma, halal shawarma somewhere in,
like, Seville and Cordoba and, like, whatever.
You know?
One day watch. Stop. People stop visiting Spain.
Look like, please come and pray over here.
Right? You they're not gonna win. So a
person does something seemingly so, like, normal and
routine,
and they feel so afraid. The the the
what's going on here is not that they're
actually afraid that they made Allah's Lata'a's to
do list unless they actually don't know who
Lata'a is. Like, you know, like, you have
to
one might say if Allah was a great
person from the creation, that you have to
do something really, really big in order to
even get his attention. But he's bigger than
that. There's nothing you can do that's big
in of him, whether it's big or small.
Right?
So what does it mean? It means somebody
really loves a lot. I would hurt their
feelings that the one that I love that
they should, like, dislike me for something that
I did.
It wasn't worth it. It wasn't
it wasn't worth it. Right? That's nice. That's
nice. That's like a sign that something small
has gone wrong, but in the bigger picture,
something's, like, still functional. The heart is still
alive. Right?
And so look at what Allah says. He
says he's so happy. Like, look, this, like,
thing that looks kind of like a monkey.
I'm not advocating for the theory of evolution.
I'm just saying, like, you know, like, somebody
I could see why how they could think
that way, that they look like a monkey.
Right?
And they act like 1 too.
Like, Allah
says, look at that, but unlike unlike the
monkeys,
unlike the gorillas that are, like, eating their
own feces and the chimpanzees that are doing
god knows what,
that, like, stick their, like, nose into, like,
things and, like, eat insects on a whatever
and, like, whatever.
Right? They have even nicer things to eat
than chimpanzees and gorillas have,
And still they're not eating it for my
sake. That's nice.
Imagine how much how much Allah loves that.
He says that he look. He left behind
his food and his drink. He's, like, thirsty.
Today is a hot day. We're all thirsty.
Right? Imagine you left behind something to drink,
thing for the sake of the law and
he he's how much happy he is he
is with you? The lord is so beautiful.
He's not hard to please.
He's not hard to please. If you're a
jerk, if you're arrogant, if you're come with
takabbur,
you'll not please him. He doesn't he's not
impressed by that. But if you're, like, simple
and you're just like, you know, like a
kid, like, oh, Baba, look. I got you
something. It's a flower. And they bring you,
like, a dandelion or something like that. Right?
It's a weed. Right?
But it's because, like, you did it with
love. So you're like, oh, how sweet. Maybe
it means more to you than a dozen
roses from the, like, fanciest bouquet in town
or fanciest, like, florist in town. Right?
Allah,
like, look at how beautiful a hadith is.
Look, my slave, he leaves his food and
he leaves his drink and he leaves the
things he desires for me.
Allah knows how much, you know, like your
desires. There's sisters here. I won't talk about
it. But, like, Allah knows what your desires
are. You know I know. It's, like, not
a secret. Right? But, like, you looked away
for the sake of Allah. Imagine how
how Allah is happy from that.
Imagine
then beyond that, like, if a person screwed
up or whatever
and you feel bad about it, how that's
also like it means something to Allah.
And if you screwed up these things, which
is increasingly
more and more, like, easier and easier to
screw up as time goes on.
Instead of being like, oh, Allah is not
gonna forgive me blah blah blah, just
keep a rosa, Insha'Allah. Fast. Fast for a
day.
It's nice. Right?
Iron irony of ironies. While there are some
people who are trying to, like, I don't
know, like, get off on, like, curb stomping
of puppy videos or whatever,
if you fast,
all of a sudden your pleasures will become
normal again because you're you cleared your, whatever,
dopamine receptors and this and that. Normal things
that make normal people happy will make you
happy again. I mean, at some point or
another, right, the hadith,
make your love more beloved to me than
cold water. You know? Meaning what? There's even
a there's even a pleasure,
a dopamine trigger for drinking a glass of
cold water.
Someone was like, well, I drink water all
the time. I try to drink, like, what
are 20 gallons at the bottled water company
tells me to drink or whatever, like, every
day. I don't get any pleasure out of
it. Of course, you don't because you're drinking
20 you know what I mean? Like, but
at some point or another, if you're deprived
enough, there are some people that get the
pleasure out of drinking a glass of water
that another person may not even get in,
like, some very otherwise pleasurable things to do
that we won't mention because kids are here.
Right?
Just reset the reset the reset the receptor.
How hard is it to reset the dopamine
receptor?
Don't eat anything. Don't drink anything. Try to,
like, whatever, read a book, like, from
the crack of dawn until Maghrib.
If it doesn't work one day, do 2
days, do a month, do, like, 10 days.
It's not really all that hard.
You don't have to go to the,
you know, to, like,
whatever.
Check into the Betty Ford Center or whatever,
like, celebrity
rehab, like, 5 6 star, like,
celebrity rehab clinic. You know?
You can do this for yourself. And what?
You do it for the sake
of Happy with you. It's pleased with you.
And see that? Look. All the other all
the other Molana Salahes are talking about medieval
things that are not relevant. And look at
this. The hadith it turns out Rial
Salihin is, like, super relevant for,
like, the life that we are living nowadays
to an embarrassing extent, in fact.
Right?
Rasoolullah
said, whoever spends money on 22
on on 2 zojis. Right?
Is like a pair.
Generally, it's used also to mean 2 like
a husband and wife, like spouses 2 spouses.
But
the point is
whoever whoever spends money on a pair in
the path of Allah,
he will be called from the gates of
Jannah.
O slave of Allah, O Abdullah,
this is good.
This is really good. What you did.
And so the hadith,
the commentator said that that perhaps the meaning
of
the 2 zod the the the pair here
is that a person who spends money keeping
2 horses or 2 camels or 2 riding
beasts for,
going out in jihad.
And one of the meanings is the person
who does 2, like, you know, prays
twice that they did, you know, like prayers
or fast for 2 days
Meaning that they did something, like, in a
in in a pair
of good things.
Or the third quote that he mentions is
that Zoj's sinf. It means, like, a type
of thing. Right? Here, is obviously
more than 2, but it means there you'll
be a 3
asna.
That who are the peep the people of
the right? Who are the people of the
right? That's
one zoj. Right? And the people of the
left were the people of the left. That's
another zoj with
and the ones who outstrip everybody
are the ones who outstrip everybody. Outstrip
everybody. Right? Those are the people who will
be the of of those who are drawn
close.
They're a group of people from the from
from the ancient ones.
Very few people from the ones who will
come afterward.
Allah make us amongst them, I
mean. Well, someone say, well, what's the shot?
What's the chance of that? Right? I don't
know. But then how many people are making
dua for
it? But the point is is that this
is the per people who,
the person who spends on 2,
2,
Zojain, they'll be called on the day of
judgement from the
from the gates of Jannah. O slave of
Allah. This is very good, this thing you
did. And whoever was from the people of
Salat,
that person will be called from the gate
of Salat. And the person who's from the
gate people of jihad,
that person will be called from the gate
of jihad. And the person who was from
the people of fasting. That person will be
called from the Bab of Rayyan.
Meaning what? The the gate here, not the
gate of fasting
because
if you had to keep fasting in Jannah,
it's not a fast anymore. That's the baba
of Iftar.
Rayyan is what? Is that thirst should
be slaked.
That's the place where Iftar is gonna happen.
That's the Iftar party.
Anyone who's, like, gone through my
Ramadan intensives
knows I say no say no to iftar
parties. Just say no to iftar. That's the
iftar party. You'll see the moshay go to
that iftar party.
There'll be a DJ and everything.
You'll see those old
white beards and walkers and hijabs and niqabs
that used to hide behind,
the
astar and making the zikr of Allah that
day. You'll see what moves that get busted
that day.
That's the Iftar party.
Right? It's not the gate of fasting. It's
the gate of what? Where the where where
the drink will where drinks will be served.
Where what?
It even sounds like a party.
Sounds like more party than Muslims are allowed
to attend in this world because drinks will
be served there.
Like, good drinks, though. You know? That's not
bad things that make you, like, dizzy and,
like, say stupid things about people or what
erases stuff that you otherwise keep inside or
whatever weird stuff that happens when people get
drunk in America. Right?
Those are good drinks.
And the person who
gave sadaqa will be called from the gates
of sadaqa.
Abu Bakr Siddiq, Allah ta'ala, exalt his rank
and be pleased with him.
What a pious soul. He said, O Messenger
of Allah,
may you be the sacrifice of my
father and my mother.
And you know people say stuff like that
but like that was literally, like, his life.
He left behind both of them when he
made hijra. Right? His father didn't even accept
Islam yet.
Forget about his father and my son. He
said that I if I saw you in
the day of Badr, I would have smoked
yeah. You would have been done. Toast.
So when he said he meant it. Right?
That
he brought his father in the heat of
the day, the Fatul Makkah, by the hands
made him come through the the midday heat
in order to take the shahada from the
prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he meant it.
And he said, Why didn't you leave this
shaykh of Quraysh that we would have come
to him and study? He said, No. He
says, He needs the ajer, he needs the
salab for coming to you.
So he says, O Messenger of Allah
may you be obtained by the sacrifice of
my
father and my mother.
Will a person be called
will any there be anyone who will be
called from all of the gates of that?
All of those gates of Jannah?
And the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, yes.
And I hope that you're
one of them.
Obviously, the Rajab, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is not rejected by Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.