Hasan Ali – Self control in Ramadan

			Another thing I want to say about Ramadan is that Ramadan, the whole month is 30 days of self
control.
		

			What does that mean? That means I am disciplining myself, I'm not going to have any food, I'm not
going to have any drink, that's fine. That's one discipline. I'm not going to sleep with my spouse,
that's another discipline, fine. But at the same time, I'm also going to discipline myself with my
eyes, with my ears, with my tongue, with my mouth, with my hands with the feet with my whole body,
it's an entire month of discipline. What's supposed to happen is it's like it's like going for boot
camp or training. You know, when you have certain teenagers, they go for a boot camp or something,
you know, they were they spoiled themselves, and suddenly they get to boot camp. Now they have to
		

			get up on time, they have to do something on time they have to do through discipline. That's what
Ramadan teaches us. In fact, do you know that our entire religion is based upon discipline? Why do
you think we get up for Fudger? Why? Why is Allah telling telling us, you know, before the sunrise
is get up these days, we're getting up at like, you know, five o'clock in the morning for further
530 in the morning for Fudger. Why? Because it's like, I want you to discipline yourself. Why is
Allah telling us that you got to, you know, pray a shot, why is discipline? Why is Allah Allah
telling us that you got to take this much money out of your wealth and give it in this discipline?
		

			Everything is discipline, the whole religion thing? Why? Why why do you think we know the whole
whole religion is based around when the sun is here, do this when the sun is here, do this when the
moon is here do this, why is discipline. Now Ramadan is another form of discipline, it's a
discipline of the entire body, especially of the soul. So what we're doing is we're going through
this training, so we're going to do a five daily prayers fine, we're going to have discipline of the
night we're gonna have extra prayers in the night. We're gonna have discipline or when we eat and
when we spoke not supposed to eat, but during the day of Ramadan and the night of Ramadan, they're
		

			supposed to an extra discipline, which is to do with the eyes is a mouth most of the places when we
sin is through this that's why when, when we fasting Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said when one of
you is fasting and somebody comes and argues with you, you're supposed to say you know, you're
supposed to stay quiet and say in new sign in sign in I'm fasting I'm fasting meaning that please
don't engage me with the argumentation the time not supposed to even argue while you're while you're
fasting is a discipline when you when you you know when you're hungry people get grouchy people
people will start to you know, it's time to start to argue fight whatever when they're hungry they
		

			do that so it's another discipline to have some Ramadan teaches you suffered somebody is a massive
lesson of discipline, okay? Your eyes want you to look at something and say, Look, I'm fasting
because the reward of fasting is is taken down. Once you sin with the eyes when you sin with the
ears when you sin with that with with the tongue. So as soon as you've done that, then then you do
the reward. So it's a discipline to do that. But why are we doing that long term?
		

			The main discipline is, as I'm going through Ramadan, I'm supposed to train my mind to think Oh,
Allah is watching me, I can't do it. Allah is watching me I can't do it. So Allah is watching me I
can't eat. Allah is watching me I can't drink. Allah is watching me. I can't you know, have the
relationship I have with my wife during the days of Ramadan. Okay, Allah is watching me so I can't
you know, have the habits that I have. Normally, you know, of eating chewing gum, most people, you
know, inhaling wherever they inhale, they're not supposed to inhale that stuff anyway. But Allah,
Allah is watching me. So now I'm supposed to be careful of what I say.
		

			And I'm supposed to be careful of what I see. I'm supposed to be careful of what I'm listening to.
So when this Allah is watching me, Allah is watching me. Allah is watching me like this food,
there's food in the fridge. I'd love to have that food but Allah is watching me, right? There's food
or lying around on the table. I can't have that because Allah is watching me. You know I'm alone. I
can have the food if I want. No, Allah is watching me. You know this Allah is watching me Allah is
watching me Allah is watching me. It's supposed to be so ingrained in their mind that when it comes
to outside of Ramadan for the next 11 months, I'm supposed to think Allah is watching me. Allah is
		

			watching me. Allah is watching me, I can't do this. Allah is watching me. I can't do this. Allah is
watching me. I can't do that. That's the main discipline we're supposed to have by the end of
Ramadan. And that's what Taqwa is. Taqwa is that a person always thinks Allah is watching me. And
because Allah is watching me, I can't do this. That's the whole point of Taqwa. And Allah opened the
verse in Surah Baqarah. So number two, number one a three he says, you know, fasting has been
prescribed, Oh you who believe fasting has been prescribed on you and the people before you? So that
La La Quinta tacos so that you can gain this mindset and is thinking that Allah is watching me Allah
		

			is watching me, so I can't do it. I can't see Allah is watching me I don't want to go to * fire.
Allah is watching me. He's gonna judge me on the day of judgment. And and that's the whole point of
fasting
		

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