Hussain Kamani – Ramadan Preparation

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			100 we praise Allah subhana wa tada for allowing us all to gather here today. And to be a part of
this gathering, the ministry will discuss some very important points to help us prepare for the
beautiful month of Ramadan. The month of Ramadan was a very special month for the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasallam the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was a person who was always worshipping
Allah. He was always using every opportunity of every day to bring himself closer to Allah subhanho
wa Taala. But there was something there was something about the month of Ramadan that when it got
closer, it made the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam excited and that whatever he was doing, he
		

			made it a point to increase that the closer he got to Ramadan, the month of Raja was very special to
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, because it was two months away from the month of Ramadan.
And then a month ago Shabbat was even more special for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
because they were right at the door of Ramadan, and two months in advance 60 days before the month
of Ramadan actually comes in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam begins to pray Yeah, Allah, I'm
at the end of it almost there. Allow me to reach the month of Ramadan is let me step foot into the
month of Ramadan. It was something so special. And when something is special to a special person
		

			that shows you how important that thing actually is, you know the prophets of Allah holiday was set
up was the source of revelation revelation came on to him and we seek revelation through the
prophets that Allahu Allah was sort of, he understood what was important and what wasn't important
and hear the purpose that along while he was sitting he gives the special attention amounts due to
Rahmatullah era. In his seat, he quotes this very beautiful narration. He says that Allah subhanahu
wa tada created time. And after creating time, Allah subhana wa tada looked at the moments of the
day, and then chose the five special moments of the day, the five moments, the five times in the day
		

			that are more valuable than the others, those that we praise a lot in. These are special moments.
That's the time of fun, it's actually more spiritual and more virtuous than the hour before it. You
guys understand that? The hour after fighter slot is not as virtuous as the moment of wonder that
time of budget, the time and the date in which you're worshiping the law in is actually a very
important time that is a very special time in your life. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala looked through
the days and after going through the days, Allah subhanahu wa taala chose Juma because Friday is a
very special day. Monday is not as good as Friday, neither is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday
		

			or Sunday, these days cannot match Friday because this is a very special day. And then out of the
night, Allah subhanho wa Taala he chose the night of power later to other all the nights in the year
can never match later to Allah subhanho wa Taala and Allah subhanaw taala Quran tells us that 1000
months cannot be equivalent to this one night, the power of that night. And then out of all of the
months, Allah subhanho wa Taala chooses the month of Ramadan. And the month of Ramadan is a very
special month. Just if you look at the etymology of the word Ramadan. You know you notice that the
three words the three root letters in the word Ramadan are Rama, Rama yonemoto means to burn. And
		

			the scholars say the reason why the month of Ramadan is called it on Milan is because it has the
ability to burn away the sins that were committed throughout the other 11 months. The month of
Ramadan holds down your year, just as Friday holds down your week. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam says one July to the other Jamaat, if the Juma is are conducted properly if you follow all of
the all of the advocates that we have for Juma There's a famous narration that tells us about how to
prepare for Jamaat properly. If you follow that narration and fulfill all the etiquettes that are
that are that are recommended by the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam for Juma then that Juma and
		

			the Juma that will be before it, they will your sins will be forgiven in between you guys understand
that?
		

			So for your day, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tells us you pray your Salah properly,
whatever happened the rest of the day ALLAH forgive it. Right There's a famous narration. The
problem is that a lot of it was said I'm told the hobby that what is your opinion regarding the
person who takes five bath today and the companions that say he will be very clean. So whatever
happens in between that salon will make sure that is all forgiven about Allah subhana wa Tada. You
take care of your Joomla properly, you give it that extra attention, Allah subhana wa tada will
waive everything that happened in that week. And then comes the month of Ramadan. If you deal with
		

			Ramadan properly, if you follow the etiquettes of Ramadan and you give it that love and attention
that Ramadan requires that allows the Pato Matata will also wipe away he will wipe away everything
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			The year before, our teachers used to say that Allah subhanho wa Taala in the month of Ramadan gives
you a spiritual power. It's a very special power. And I'm going to talk about that in a minute.
		

			And that power is such that you can do things that you will not you are not able to do earlier in
the year. Can you imagine fasting 30 days in March. Most of us know even though March The day was
actually shorter. But fasting in the month of March was something that we probably didn't do. If I
asked people here who were who fasted in the month of March, maybe someone may raise their hand and
said faster, two days faster, three days, someone may say 10 days, but no one fast 30 days. Because
that strength, that ability isn't there too fast, that extra push that spiritual power that Allah
subhanaw taala gives, it's not existed, how many people can say they prayed the 100 Salah straight
		

			in the month of March without missing a single one. Most of us can say that how many people sitting
here can say that they did not miss a single day in which they didn't recite the Quran in the month
of March. Most of us can say that, but when that very same March becomes Ramadan, that very same
March, give it a few years and that March will become Ramadan. And when it becomes Ramadan. You ask
the same question again. This March What did you do? And that brother will tell you this was the
month in which I didn't miss a single fast. This is a month in which has a which I decided to put
on. This was a month in which there were some nights that I cried so profusely over my state and I
		

			bet a lot for mercy. And when you come to Allah on the Day of Judgment, it may be that March will be
the one that will title you to gender. Because that march was from Milan it wasn't just March. It
was a special March it was Ramadan. Ramadan the purpose of a lot of money was centered regarding the
month of Ramadan. He says in Ramadan, when the month of Ramadan enters foot the heart of wobbel
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			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says when the month of Ramadan enters, the doors to paradise
are opened, the doors to the fire of * are locked. They're not just closed, what are they called?
They are locked, will soon see that the shouting and the shouting The devil is tied away. This
narration is very important. It tells us three important things that happened as soon as the month
of Ramadan enters. The first thing is that the doors of Paradise are opened up. What does this
actually mean the doors of Paradise are opened up, what the scholars they say is that when the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam says in the month of Ramadan, the doors of Paradise are open.
		

			What this actually means is that the pathway to gender is now much more easier. You know when a door
is closed, you have to figure out how to open it. But if the door is open, all you have to do is
he's gonna walk in, if you walk in, you're walking right into paradise, there are certain things you
have to do. They're very simple, very easy, everyone's doing them, you just have to go with the
flow, there's nothing special that needs to be done. You just go with the flow and you're going into
agenda. And then on the other hand, the purpose of the law while he was sitting says the door of the
fire of * is locked up. So now in order for you to go to the fire of *, in the month of
		

			Ramadan, you really are going to have to break that lock. It's not as easy as walking in, you don't
fall into jahannam in the month of Ramadan. In order for you to send in the month of Ramadan, you
really have to go out of your way. You have to consciously defeat yourself to go and just obey Allah
subhanho wa Taala because you're already fasting during the day, at night, you're praying that I'll
leave prayer, you only have a few hours left till too soon. So if you think about it during the day,
do you actually have time to disobey Allah you don't, there's no time everything's so quick. It's so
fast. There's so much that needs to be done. But if after you don't have time, you still take out
		

			time to just obey a law then it's as if you're breaking that law and forcing yourself into the fire
of *. And then the progress of the law while he was still him says and the shell theme the devils
are chained away. And this is a very important part of the Hadith.
		

			When Allah subhanho wa Taala created the human being, he created the human being, there's a body
there's a soul, which we call the root. In Arabic, there's a body which we call the system, the
body, and then within the body in order for it to be alive. There's something called the root.
What's the word? Root means the soul. Now along with these two components, there's an extra
component called the knifes the nuts is kind of like the springboard within the human body. Right?
It now has the ability to push you up, or you can get caught underneath and you can't get out. It
can push you up and make you a great person. Or that very same knifes can be the reason why you are
		

			duck you are you are you are you are deep beneath the ground. You dig yourself in your own grave and
you seal it off that very same level. It's something that's inside you. Either you can make it for
you, or you can make it against you. The question is which direction do you pull it? Do you pull it
this way? Or do you pull it that way? Now shaytaan what he does is that throughout the year, he
feeds your nuts. He feeds it with temptations, he feeds it with evil, and he continues to feed it he
continues to feed it until what happens is he takes control over it. Right the nuts my teacher used
to say that a good example of understanding the nuts is like it's like a dog. Right? Anyone that
		

			throws the bone at it, the nuts will run to anyone that throws the bone at turnips. That is the nuts
is so it's so
		

			Sincerely when I look at it one from one perspective, it's so keen that if anyone comes and throws a
bone at the nuts, the nuts will run around at it. So now you have to maintain the loyalty of your
enough. But if someone else comes into picture, they'll take control over it. shaytaan makes every
attempt throughout the year to take control over that knifes. How does he do that he throws at you
certain things that tempt you, he may throw at you certain things that you like to see that a lot
told you not to see. You've said, strike, he may make you listen to things that you like to listen
to, but a lot told you not to listen to strike again, he may make you say certain things that a lot
		

			is not likely to say strike again. And he continues to strike you and strike you and strike you
until what happens is that he has your nuts on a color. And now he can pull it right left back for
whatever he wants. Allah subhanho wa Taala in the month of Ramadan removes shape on from the
picture. And I want you to imagine your knifes that is colored by shade on that color is removed and
allows to kind of without access to the nuts. I will hold shade on back. This is your month, build
your strength because 30 days later, he's going to be back again. It's kind of like you know, those
of you guys, any of you guys watch WWF when you're young, it's rude every time you have WWE the
		

			color now, right? What would happen is that one guy would be beat up, they beat him up and beat him
up and beat him up. And they used to beat that guy up so badly. So what this guy would do the guy
with that was getting beaten up, he would inch his way to his corner, you guys were that he would
slowly slowly inch his way to the corner. And when he wouldn't get when he would get to the corner,
what would he do?
		

			tack and when he would tag the guy in the corner would come and beat that guy up and push them out
of the way and this guy would come out of the ring. He would rejuvenate himself get his energy
again, and then he would be tagging get back in the ring. You guys remember that. So that's how you
want to think of Ramadan. It's kind of like your tag buddy. It comes in tags you and says I got
shaytaan I'm holding shift on out. I'm going to hold them out for 30 days you won't be able to get
inside your life for 30 days. I'm going to hold him out. He had you under control for 11 months but
I'm going to hold him out for 30 days and this is your chance to now build your energy. You build
		

			your energies for one straight line comes out again you are ready to face him. So this is what the
prophet said a lot while he was sort of a teaching us that Ramadan is a month in which shavon is
locked away. The Temptations are now deduce how beautiful those temptations are that it also deduce
it's been reduced. Now it's your chance to look at the beautiful things chiffons color is off your
neck, use your nuts, turn that nuts into one that is obedient to Allah. The Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam teaches us that if you look at the Quran, you will notice that the Quran makes
three different references to the word nuts. The first is what we call nuts with a model. The second
		

			is what we call nuts, the llama. And the third is what we call natural, multiple variants common
discussion, we hear this again and again. What is nothing more nuts than Amara is that inner soul or
inner self that you have that encourages you to sin. It tells you to sit you know, when you talk
about sin, it becomes happy. If someone talks about disobeying the law. Let's go watch this hot on
let's go listen to this head on. Let's go cut this person out. Let's go and back by there's a smile
that comes to the face all of a sudden your heart feels happy that I'm going to disobey Allah, I'm
going to eat this haram thing or engage in this haram thing. You're not pushing you towards what
		

			I'm, you know going on and doing something silly with your friends, you get excited about it. When
someone tells you to come to the machines, you get depressed and sad. When someone tells you this or
read the Quran, you feel like they're mocking you, they're making fun of you. If someone tells you
bro, why don't you pray somehow you get angry, because you're nuts is now in complete control of
shaitaan. It encourages you to do evil and does not like you doing good. It doesn't like it at all.
The second types of knifes is what we call Nestor, Loma nutzern, Loma is that inner self that may
sin. But when it does sin, it feels the regret. You might do something wrong, you might drink
		

			something wrong, smoke something wrong, you might look at something wrong, you might touch something
wrong. But as soon as you commit that sin in your heart, you feel that guilt that I shouldn't have
done that. Right? This is a very important part of the human life. You know, to be able to feel even
at the body, I always give an example that in your body if you didn't have a sensory if you didn't
have your sensory system, right? Would that be good for you or bad for you?
		

			You would think it's good, but it's not good. It really bad for you. Because if I were to take a pin
and poke it into your hand, would you feel it? You wouldn't feel it. And I can continue to drill in
that pin deeper and your hand deeper and ahead until it comes out the other side? Would you feel it?
If you can't feel you wouldn't feel it, you wouldn't know you'd probably bleed out you would have
known. Now on the other hand, because you can feel because you had your sense there. If someone was
to poke a little bit of that pin into your head, what would you say? Ouch. Pull your hand back right
away. You wouldn't let that needle go through all the way. So the fact that you said ouch is a sign
		

			that you feel and nosler wama is enough that says ouch every time it spins. When it spins it feels
bad it regrets it has remorse and then it turns back to Allah then it may sin again but it feels
bad. It regrets it has remorse. It turns back to Allah and this is the cycle that keeps him going
this person right. The third knifes is enough that has been trained properly for the obedience
		

			Have a lot. And this is what we call nafcillin motema. In, this is the knifes that wakes you up with
100 solar. This is enough that encourages you. Let's open the Koran and read it. This is that inner
self that is always pushing you do good and do good. And if anyone even mentioned the idea of
standing in front of you, your heart feels turned down that I don't want to talk to this person.
What is this person talking about? Many of us here have no idea what this feels like. Because we've
never experienced it. I speak to myself first. But we've seen certain people who actually desire to
worship Allah subhana wa Tada. They were people who we had met before who used to wake up for the
		

			100 whether there was an alarm or not, you know whether there was an alarm or not, you have to
realize during the Prophet's time, do they have alarm clocks? Yes or no? Absolutely not. At the 100
time three in the morning, even the animals are asleep. How exactly did they wake up? It's called
natural movement in we are nuts tells you it's time to wake up. It's kind of like you have to have a
flight 5am in the morning, you can set your alarm for four o'clock. But even if you don't set your
alarm, trust me, you'll wake up yourself. It happens to me all the time. Right? I go to sleep, I
don't have two hours of sleep because my flights gonna be very soon. And two hours later, when my
		

			alarm goes off or not. I'll wake up, I'll wake up sometimes a minute before my alarm goes off two
minutes before my alarm goes off and you wake up right away and you're ready to go nuts to multiply
encourages you to do good. A lot of how to walk down and look around he tells us up on our ATM a
little ha ha ha ha ha Have you not seen the person who has taken his desires as his Lord. He is
swamped by his desires. Ask yourself this question. When was the last time I said no to myself? For
anything? Whether it was last time I bought my car or last time I desired a cell phone or the last
time I desired a pair of shoes. Or the last time I wanted a laptop or the last time I wanted some
		

			dessert or some food to eat. When was the last time I said what to myself? No. You know you have to
train to say to your nuts. No. Because when you tell your nuts No, that's when you gain control over
it. That's when you learn to gain strength over it. The month of Ramadan. One of the key
		

			forms of Avada we conduct in this month is fasting. Now I want to bring up a Hadith of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The problem is that a lot of body wisdom teaches us and this is a very
famous Hadith we've all heard this in our Sunday school. The Prophet sallallahu it was said I'm says
booney al Islam Allah humps, Islam is built on five pillars. You guys remember this hadith? Yes. The
five pillars of Islam? What are they Shahada to testify in the oneness of Allah, your salon, your
prayer, yours the cost your charity in your arms, your song fasting, courage and your pilgrimage.
It's as if the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is staying in the world when you go into the
		

			world. shavon is going to be your enemy in the hula kumawu movie shaitaan is going to be your
enemies and attack me like crazy. But when shaitaan comes to attack you I'm giving you a bag right
of artillery. This is weaponry that you have with you. And if you use this you can destroy shape on
any day. What are the five great weapons that Prophet is telling us to hold on to Shahada right
justification for Allah Zakat song and Hutch, what's so special about these five? Why these and not
others? What's so special about these? Why are these the foundation of Islam? This is a very
important question because, you know, this is the foundation of our Islam. And if this is a nice,
		

			we're gonna quote every time we invite someone to Islam, there has to be some depth to the Hadith.
Would you guys agree? Yes, it has to be some meaning behind it. Why is the Prophet saying these five
things in particular? Why are these the Pillars of Islam? So my teacher used to give a very, very
beautiful analogy. He used to say, think of your Shahada, like an ocean,
		

			you guys with me? Right? And then think of the other four pillars, like rivers. And then at the end
of it, think of all of the other acts of worship, like small little streams, the streams are
connected to the rivers and the rivers are connected to your sea and your ocean. So all the other
acts of the dean, if you look at them properly, they're actually connected to the other four pillars
of Islam. Any activity in any guru act that Allah subhanaw taala the Prophet Allah says in the Quran
or Hadith, they actually come off of these four pillars of Islam, your Salah, Psalms, a carton
Hutch, and these four pillars are actually linked to the ocean which is for the sake of Allah,
		

			Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, as taught to me by the prophet, Muhammad and after you have the ocean,
you have the rest of you don't have those, you didn't have anything. So why these four? Let's bring
up that question. Again. let's address it.
		

			If you look at all the actions that the dean tells us to do all the different ibadat all the forms
of worship, you will notice that they fall into two categories. The first is what we call a VA
doctor, but the Nia and the second is what we call a bad data. Malia a badass Amalia means the act
of worship that you are conducting involves a financial contribution. You're making a contribution.
That's one whole genre of Alibaba, one type of Alibaba. The second type of Alibaba is it's not
involving your your wealth. It actually involves your button but it means your body
		

			Now those who pay attention carefully, I'm going to draw spider chart for you okay? So all the acts
have been the either involve your wealth or they involve involve your body, if they involve your
body now there are further two categories. Either they involve your fan or they involve your code
only means your statements. For example, a Chateau La Ilaha Illa. Now, that's a statement Allahu
Akbar, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah Subhana, Allah, Al Hamdulillah, all the words, you can think of
the author in this category, that they all revolve around your statements. Okay? That's one and the
other is your family. That means your actions, so you have to do something. So now let's look at
		

			this all over again. your deeds, two categories, your wealth, what's an example of your wealth being
an act of worship, from the five pillars of Islam?
		

			Now, your body in your body? There are two examples. There are those that involve your statements,
for example, from the five pillars of Islam
		

			Shahada, okay, now it involves your body, what's an example of your body?
		

			solid and some thought and some both of them? Now the question is, why are they two in this
category? Why are there two in this category. The reason why they are two in this category is
because solid and stone are two different aspects of a bother with the ball with a body, Salah is to
engage and foam is to refrain, you guys understand. So there are two types of rather than involved
the body. Sometimes Allah is telling you to do something with your body. And other times Allah is
telling you to refrain and to not to do with your body. You guys with me so far. So there you have
the card here, you have your Shahada here, you have your salon here, you have your soul here, it all
		

			fits within this chart. Now hunch brings all of that together. That's why they call it luminary, but
it's the mother of all you have to make the debate your own is there, you have to wear your home you
have to learn to prevent. That's what the harm does. It teaches you to prevent, you have to use your
wealth to get there. And at the same time during your head, you need to do your harm, you need to do
your study. So now you're engaging as well. If a person can conduct their Hajj with proper
sincerity, then it's as if they've understood all of the pillars of Islam. So So fasting is a very
important component of Ramadan. It's a very, it's a very important component of your life either.
		

			Because you're teaching yourself to say no, you're cheating yourself to say I'm not going to obey
Allah. Not many people, when they think of fasting, they think of hunger and thirst. That's what
most of our non Muslim friends think of when we talk about fasting to them. For them. Fasting means
hunger and thirst. If I was to tell one of my friends, I'm fasting for 30 days, what's going to be
his first concern?
		

			Are you going to be thirsty? Aren't you going to be hungry, because so then fasting equals to hunger
and thirst. But for a Muslim fasting is not only a hunger and thirst, fasting is beyond hunger and
thirst. Fasting teaches us that you don't only stay hungry and thirsty. These are two things that
are actually halau that Allah has taken away from us, eating and drinking our halaal throughout the
year, you can eat and drink as much as you want to. Even though it's not too good for you to eat too
much drink too much. But nonetheless, you could if you want to know hypothetically, Allah subhanaw
taala saying, Let me take these two things away from you. And if I'm taking away a lot of things
		

			away from you, then by our greater understanding, you should also stay away from all of the Haram as
well. So fasting isn't only hunger and thirst, that may legally meet the definition of fasting. The
legal definition of fasting is to refrain from eating, drinking and sexual intimacy from the break
of dawn to the setting of the sun with a valid intention. That's the legal definition of fasting.
But just because you meet the legal definition doesn't mean that fast is rewarded by Allah subhana
wa, tada, the province had a long while it was Southern says how many people are they fast, and the
only thing they gained from their fast is hunger and thirst. You know, when we look back at our past
		

			Ramadan, and the other 1529 bonds that came before that we need to ask ourselves was RM not all
about hunger and thirst, and if it was about a hunger and thirst, and we made sacrifice for 30 days,
and all we got out of it was hunger and thirst that we don't even feel anymore? Where's the reward
with the loss of Hannah Montana, I mean, Ramadan has to be more than that. It has to be more than
being hungry and thirsty. So what's the higher level of fasting among because it says the second
level of fasting is where you're not only fasting with your private part and your mouth, your eating
and drinking, but all of your limbs are fasting from how long now you're not going to use your hands
		

			for hot on so while you're fasting, and you feel that hunger into remind yourself, this hunger
reminds me that my mouth is fasting, and so should be my eyes should be my ears. So should be my
hands, and my feet, and every limb, my body should be fasting from hot on. So while I'm fasting, I
shouldn't be looking at her arm because if I'm looking at her arm, then what's the purpose in
staying hungry and thirsty? Are you guys following me? It's like a person who's praying Salah, but
while they're praying Salah. So let's say for example, hypothetically, is it permissible to listen
to something being played while you're in Salah?
		

			hypothetically, is it permissible? Let's say for example, I'm praying salah and I'm in a store and
there is some announcement going on while listening to that announcement break my prayer. Yes or no?
It won't. Everybody agrees on that. Right. You're at work and you're praying and maybe in the
background, people are talking and chatting.
		

			Well listen to them breaker prayer. Now what if someone takes, you know, a set of a set of drills
and puts it on his ears and prays one out while he's pumping wrap?
		

			It kind of defeats the whole purpose of fasting. While you're still not count, it might count, you
know, like legally listening to that won't break your soul. Ah, but is it gonna break, it's gonna
destroy every aspect of worship, every aspect of the ibadah all of that spiritual health is going to
be gone because you're destroying the foundation of your ibadah which is to build a connection with
Allah subhanho wa Taala. So when we're fasting, we can't be hypocrites. We have to be sincere and
promised ourselves that we will fast properly with our entire body. It's tough. It's hard. I know.
It's very hard. You know, may Allah grant me the ability and everyone sitting here to make that
		

			struggle. But that's how you gain taqwa. That's where Allah says quotevalet ecomuseum kana.
kuchibhotla. Allah Allah, Tata hoon. That's how you can taqwa. And then the second one was and he
says, the highest level of fasting is where you're not only fasting with your mouth and your private
organ and the rest of your limbs, but you've learned to fast with your heart. And you save your
heart to think of anything other than Allah, from the break of dawn to the setting of the sun. The
only thing that's on your heart is I am for Allah. And Allah created me a lot is the greatest and
you're just thinking about Allah for that full day. And that's the fast that is so beloved by Allah,
		

			that for that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says that Allah will say to that person on the
Day of Judgment, that asked us formally one, Zb, that that fast was for me, and I will reward for
that fast directly. You know, so we have to put ourselves in the right mindset when we're entering
into the month of Ramadan month Ramadan is not about losing weight, I have many friends who have
come and told me she has inshallah, Milan coming up for a month over, I'm going to drop a few pounds
and I'm going to look healthier. Well, whether you're going to be healthier or not, I don't know
		

			whether you're going to drop some weight or not. I don't know. And that's not my concern. My concern
is what's going to happen to your spiritual state after Ramadan? What's gonna happen to you in
Ramadan? Is your spirituality going to increase or not? So there's an idea of fasting. If you look
at fasting when Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us to stay away from eating, drinking and sexual
intimacy. You'll understand that these are three things that are beloved to a person, what won't a
person do for food?
		

			I mean, people will do anything for food. You guys all saw that creekstone fiasco that happened,
right? Everyone was going crazy because of meat. I said, I texted one of my brothers, one of my
friends. And I said to him, man, I'd like to talk to the brother who posted that up. And I said to
him, Bro, I don't imagine you can cause such a fiasco over the internet just because of
		

			when I say food, meat. I mean, people are so excited by the awesome thing. If there's a budget that
opens in Chicago, someone may know someone who may not know, you open up a new Italian express in
Chicago, everyone in Chicago knows Italian Express opened up. People love food, right? People love
food. That's the way that's the nature of people. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says, the one thing
that distracts you from your Lord, let me cut that out of the picture.
		

			Right people, they go to work and you ask people, why do you work? They'll say, I have to put food
on the table. Unless and how about I move that out of the equation for a little bit? Let's forget
your food. And then many people when they come home, they have an attraction to their spouse. Allah
says, Let me remove that out of the equation as well. So now it's just you and me. Now it's worship
me. You have no reason not to worship me anymore. I've cut out the things that are gonna distract
you. The things that were that were to distract you. I've cut them out. There's nothing else that
you can do. Now it's me and you I created you. You were created for me. Why don't you worship me
		

			now? So sown fasting Ramadan is to teach us to remove distractions between us and Allah subhanahu
wa, tada, you know, so you need to ask yourself, what distracts me from Allah? Is it my social
media? Is it my Facebook, my Twitter, my Netflix, my YouTube, you know, what is it? Is it my TV, my
sports, whatever it is, you need to make sure that that is not a distraction, go home and move on
and pull the plug out of your TV and say, This is what I'm fasting from this Ramadan, you have to
choose a object that you're going to fast from, as far as telling you to fast from eating and
drinking and intimacy. But beyond that, we all know that we have our personal vices, and there are
		

			things that distract us from Allah, our number one problem, it may be for some people, my number one
problem may be that I don't sleep early at night. For someone else that may be that their number one
problem is that they eat too much. And let me just stop right there. Ramadan, you know, you have to
remember you have to find your voice. Just because you're fasting doesn't mean you don't eat a lot
for some people may Allah protect the reality is that they skip one meal, but they eat five meals at
a time. So you beat the whole purpose all together, you know, and you know, that poor stomach must
be asking Allah Allah, why did a man come in again, I get tortured on nighttime. You know, at least
		

			in the day, it was like, you know, in increments like you know, in installments, sorry, it's in
installments. But at nighttime now, it's just all the way through and people might be in so short.
So what they do is that if I'd have thought they have a meal, then after that, they have another
meal. Then they have another meal. And if you look at the three meals, they're actually spaced out
and how many hours
		

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			Six, seven hours, right? And then there's a little sleeping in the middle, for hours, right? For
five years, maybe more than that, I don't know. It's based on six hours, and there's a little
sleeping in there. So you think about it, when you look at it all. It's kind of like a little
prayer, eat, eat, eat, and sleep and wake up again. So what happens to that, you know, you're kind
of we're kind of defeating the purpose of fasting. Fasting is here to teach us I'll give an example.
Allah subhanaw taala. In the Quran, he says, Yeah, you know, cootie balicasag, comma katiba,
latinamerica, Polycom, all those who believe fasting was ordained upon you as it was ordained upon
		

			the people before you. Now one thing we know for a fact is that not every nation has the same form
of fasting people that different types of fasting for us, right?
		

			Is that very odd? He said, I'll give you an example is the karate Salaam is 80 years old. How old is
he? 80 years old, old man. His limbs are probably very weak. His hair must be all white at this
point. And he's making the model a lot. You guys want the full story right? He goes to visit his
niece, Miriam. And he sees that she has fruits she has fruits with her that are out of season. So he
says to Marian Where did you get these foods from? She says we'll give it to me. Mandela Allah gave
it. So he thought to himself, a lot can give money and fruits out of season if she can get grapes,
strawberries and pineapple out of season. That means I can have a child out of season two, he begins
		

			to see dreams and having a child at the age of at the age of 18. That's a little interesting, right?
So Zachary, Allison, um, he didn't have a kid. He stabbed him in his place of worship, he raises his
hand, this is Yala. Give me a son. And he's been making cloth for so many years. But when he makes
us do all this time alive, so the lessons, okay, you're going to get a son, man, imagine how happy
he was. Imagine how happy he was. He's been making dua for how many years? 80 years. And after 80
years, you ask someone that you know, who was trying to have a child for five years, in that five
years when they have a child Finally, they are exploding and enjoyment, exploring, enjoy. They'll do
		

			whatever it takes to make sure that that birth of the child is perfect. The gifts, the decoration,
the preparation, everything. So here's a kid, he has just been told that you're going to have a kid.
		

			What do you think is the cardiologists around wants to do? What's the one thing he wants to do?
		

			Anyone, when you find that you're having a child, what's the first thing you want to do?
		

			to family or friends, right? He wants to go on Facebook and post it, go on Twitter and post it, you
know, take a picture of himself post on Instagram and having a kid everyone else announce it. So he
says Yala. And having a child, what do I do now? Allah says, Well, you can't talk to anyone for
three days. The one thing he's dying to do, he's dying to tell everyone. He wants to go out and
scream in the street, guys, I'm having a kid. I'm eight years old. Check this out. And Allah says
you can't tell anyone for three days. Right? And what's happening here is that Allah is training him
that your excitement to announce may be a distraction for you to think Allah, what you should be
		

			doing right now, because I gave you a childhood for eight years. So let's take your tongue away. And
how about you spend the next three days thinking of love first. And as a cardiologist, he turns to a
lot, I can't even imagine how he holds himself back. That's what you call real fasting, by the way,
where he's dying to see it. But he can't speak at all. He can't not only ally, loud to call him on
as far as he can even speak the truth 21 Allah says no talking at all, in larhonda, except for
gestures. That's what some scholars say. The cardiology salon was one of the Masters in sign
language a long while and what that actually means, because I said that not to talk to people, but
		

			through gestures. And he began to speak to people through gestures. But nonetheless, I was actually
in. I was in North Carolina a few weeks back. And while we were doing while we're conducting the
weekend retreat there. There were some brothers and sisters that came from the deaf community. And
they couldn't speak. And they couldn't speak or hear. So while we were, while we were speaking,
while we were lecturing the speakers, there was a sister sitting on the stage, and she was
interpreting, she was actually the sheath, and she was interpreting what was actually being said. So
the brothers and sisters who are deaf can actually understand. And I thought to myself, so hon
		

			Allah, we, those of us who can hear, we take hearing for granted. You guys understand, we take
hearing for granted. And these young men and women after the lecture is over, they came to me to the
front, and they sat with me, and it's a shift. We have some questions. And the questions they were
asking, too many of us will be silly, fundamental questions that everybody already knows. But they
don't know the answers because they can't hear. And many of us kind of many of them can't even read,
they can't read either. So it's not like they can go on YouTube and start reading the captions. And
then the brothers they said to me, the sister who was interpreting she said to me shift, you know,
		

			every now and then if you incorporate some sign language into your, into your lecture, people will
love it so that I learned a little sign language. So I'll teach you guys to gestures real quick, you
know, he's just robotic with sign language. Like this.
		

			Is that cool?
		

			You know, my dad has to do this to me.
		

			It's actually, I don't know, my dad loved me so much. I just figured it out.
		

			You know, you say inshallah, like this. You click your belt, you flick your thumb and your middle
finger outwards, with your other hand, other fingers open, and that's like inshallah, so it's
interesting to combine and become an electrician, right? We start doing this
		

			and we start doing this stuff.
		

			Wasn't, the carrier is no talking, he's telling him the one thing you're dying to do, you have to
cut it out of the equation. The month of Milan is here to teach us to be better people to learn to
say no, to learn to take control of ourselves, to learn to make that knifes powerful with every day
that goes past, you'll realize you can start doing things that you couldn't do before the first day
of Ramadan, you struggling with fasting, five, six days into it, it's easier now. You read and put
on your praying that all we have prayer, things become so much easier. And be honest with yourself,
you know, when the last days of Ramadan come that 27th night, if you pay attention, you're probably
		

			on a spiritual high. You're on a spiritual high, something that you haven't experienced for 11
months straight. And you know what that last April bond comes in that announcement that Dan is being
called, and everyone's announcing that tomorrow was eat. It's like a sour sweet taste. There's a
sweetness that tomorrow's either Alhamdulillah but on the bitter side to it is that.
		

			That's gone, all those all that joy and all that strength, it's all gone. It's kind of like you were
in a boot camp, and you had all that working out and all that dieting, and the last day you're
leaving, you're like, I don't know if I can do this anymore. You know, I'm going to go back to being
that same person. That's why when your inner Milan, my friends, the one the law I'm going to ask you
to make from beginning to end of Ramadan? Is your law, the changes, I'm making them gone? Don't let
them reverse back again, say I mean, one law you should make every day. And if our time we know are
the ones are accepted the one do I want you to repeat your law, any positive change, I'm making a
		

			move on, don't let me go back on it. Let me only progress and build on it forward. So with that
said, I just want to close off with a few things to do in the month of Ramadan. Some very important
things to do in the month of Ramadan. First of all, we talked about fasting and its understanding
and how we should fast and so on. We talked about that with all the detail. I'm not going to expand
on that any more. The second thing that's very important to do in the month of Ramadan is to give
charity and abundance. This habit at the progress that it was set on was generous in Oregon. He was
generous throughout the year, but when Ron came he became extra generous. And the one simple to do
		

			and basic simple thing that you can do easy thing you can do is I want you to find a really any
relief. It could be locally in Chicago internationally, find a relief organization and fund the
thought of one person for every thought you have at home, can you do that inshallah. Find a relief.
Please don't say inshallah walk out of here and forget about it. I want you to go home tonight. This
is a to do thing. find any relief organization you feel comfortable with and donate for 30 that 30
thoughts. So while you're eating at home, someone in the world is also eating the progress of the
long audio system said, if you provide the thought for someone, then who gets all that reward?
		

			Do you know how much these thoughts cost? I mean, I don't know what the price is this year. But I
think one or two years back, I was looking at it, it was like $3 for your thought. You know, at the
end of the month of the month, if you pay for the full month, it's 100 bucks is 100 bucks really
gonna hurt you? Yes or no. I mean, honestly is 100 bucks really gonna hurt you. It's not gonna hurt
you. But if you make that contribution, then there is a lot of reward. I think we have been taught
here to write everything in this year again. So another good place for those of you who are here
right now ICC has a an effective program that is the every single day after McGill Uppsala every
		

			single day a full meal. For those who can afford to eat those who can afford to eat Everyone is
welcome to come. So if you're looking for a place to donate to sponsor nixar, again, ICC is right
here, you can reach out to him go and make your contributions there. The third thing I want you to
do is increase in the recitation of the Quran. dedicate time. I didn't say read a juice, because
sometimes reading a juice can be hard for someone it could be easy for another person. I want you to
dedicate a time that Everyday I'm going to set aside half an hour for reading the Quran. Now whether
in that half an hour you read two pages are in that half an hour you read three Jews, that's not my
		

			concern. But if you cannot set aside a half an hour everyday for reading the Quran. The reality is
that we are not welcoming along the way it should be welcomed. We're being negligent to the Ramadan.
So set aside time every day. And for those of us who can't read, you can easily listen to the Quran.
Go online, download a recitation and listen to the jurisdiction of the Quran. But at least dedicate
half an hour in Ramadan. For those of us who work and we travel. Do not listen to the radio in
Ramadan. I'm not saying it's Haram. I'm trying to teach you how to be more more productive in
Ramadan. Listen to the Quran. When you go to the gym, if you're going to go to the gym, listen to
		

			the Quran. If you're going to be playing sports in Milan, listen to the forum, your earphones and
your audio tracks need to change everything needs to change. Okay, be productive in the month of
Ramadan. And the last thing I'm going to say is do not miss your thought all the prayer whatever
happens don't miss your therapy. I didn't ask you for a lot All I said was make sure you fast which
we're all going to do inshallah everyone
		

			give your subaqua which can happen just like that very easy inshallah, half an hour a day of Quran
inshallah. And the last thing I'm saying is, don't miss your turabian prayer. I know the days are
long, you want to rest in the middle, there's a lot of time for you to rest. But don't miss your
throw in prayer. What ends up happening is the first day of Ramadan, everyone's here, second, third
day everyone's here. The fourth day what happens is you think to yourself, you know what, I'll get
there a little late and I'll pray my Isha while they're praying God
		

			We have prayer that's how it starts off by the way usually then a few days into it think to
yourself, Brother 2010 I was too long limiters do eight ricotta we have a ticket a ticket robbery,
what happens is that a little while later one of your one of your buddies invites you over for a
thought. You go for the thought and then you tell yourself you know what, I'll pray that that I'll
be at home. And then when you reach home all that a thoughtful takes a hit on you and what happens?
That's when you miss your first interview. And when you miss your first RV, you're really going to
lose out. The last minute I want to quote is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He said may
		

			that person be destroyed me that may well be to the person who entered the month of Ramadan and
exited it without being forgiven by Allah subhanho wa tada because like I said, the doors of
Paradise are open. You just have to walk in, but Allah subhanaw taala make it all easy for us made
this Ramadan be productive for us, allows us It allows wouldn't allow us to reach spiritual heights
in the month of Ramadan that are even beyond our imagination, but lots of other keep us on eemaan
and see how Allah subhanaw taala give us death with the mind and resurrect us at the moment in the
hereafter. What's that Allah tada Allah Allah he was having a ceremony.