Irshaad Sedick – The Time Has Come

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The importance of fasting during the month of dash quarter for achieving spiritual goals and rewarding one's intentions is discussed. The historical context of the title "medestones" is also emphasized, with advice on finding a focus on pre-existing culture and praying at night to gain rewards and reward. The importance of praying at night and waking up to the day for transformation is emphasized, as well as the need to collectively deal with the situation and make a difference. The transcript concludes with a brief advertisement for a photo shoot.

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			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa ala Kiba chillin with Delkin while Jana Tolima widing wala Divina
Illa Allah Bali mein or salat wa salam ala Sayidina Muhammad, her Tamil Ambia you will mousseline so
they were too low. He was selling them who are they he What are they him I do mine rubbish rally
surgery. While you're silly Emery was a little awkward at a melissani of coho Kohli Subhanak Allah
al Milena Elana alum Tana indica Angela Aleem will Hakeem Allahumma alumna Mayan Pharaoh Runa one
foreigner Bhima Island tener was it now I mean the Rama, Rama Rama I mean Assalamu aleikum wa
rahmatullah heeta Isla or barakato
		
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			or praise and thanks to you Sarita Allah subhanho wa taala. Ida traces peace blessings and
salutations upon our Master and exemplar on a B Muhammad sallallahu alayhi. Wa early he was happy
with Salam, beloved elders, mothers and fathers Brothers and Sisters in Islam. This is the last
Jumeirah before we reach the month of Ramadan
		
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			in sha Allah, Allah may Allah grant us live to reach the month of Ramadan. And we don't know whether
that will in fact materialize. As you can see, in the last couple of days, we've lost some very
significant very valuable members of society. May Allah grant them genital fugitives.
		
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			Yesterday was the passing of Shani Moses, the father of Sheikh Ibrahim was who spoke here not too
long ago. And while I had the privilege of traveling with Bathsheba, and he
		
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			is was a stalwart in this community of the Quran. We planted seeds of Quran that will be growing and
bearing fruit for generations to come.
		
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			I spoke to him last night, and he was saying that, you know,
		
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			he has to really try to live up to his father's example, to Hanifa has been reciting in a JAMA of
Hoffa every Sunday, for the last 55 years. So other than being half of the Quran, you have to
understand this level of sacrifice, right? So it's a Sunday morning, they usually start very early,
sometimes extremely early, and sometimes like seven o'clock or so, finishing another hot term. So
this gym, I would finish a hard time every week at different people's homes at different masajid for
55 years. troubadour ame says, you know, I haven't even lived that long. They've been reciting for
that long. Try to wrap your mind around that. May Allah grant as such beneficial lives and legacies
		
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			that we can also you know, do something significant in our lives that we can be proud of that we can
present to Allah subhanho wa taala. I mean, how many of us here have been taught by ASHA Hanif? How
many have become fired? At his hands? How many have pursued the study of Deen at his hands or
because of his inspiration?
		
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			Not not not unique to his own family. But beyond that, so we pray that Allah grant him a high place
in Jannah. And we pray that Allah Subhana Allah grant him every desire, every wish and intention
that he had for this Ramadan, that Allah grants him the reward for that. And then, you know, not too
long ago, my colleague Molina Tofik maruf Rahim Mahalo to either passed away at the age of 52 of
cancer SubhanAllah.
		
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			Again, examples of individuals who had relatively short lives, but the contribution that they made
to society was tremendous. And I'm mentioning this so that we can aspire to have similar
contributions within our lives. We don't all have to be further the Quran we don't all have to be
all the amount of Deen
		
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			but leave behind the legacy that will cause
		
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			an impact, a positive impact in society. In whichever capacity you have been blessed by Allah
subhanaw taala whether that be in your capacity as a husband, or as
		
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			Father, who has a brother, who has a son, who has a neighbor or as a friend,
		
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			but leave behind in an impact that is felt here. And that is rewarded in the era of May Allah grant
us that.
		
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			As we approach the month of Ramadan, it is essential for us to look deep
		
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			at our intentions at our state of being at our hearts, for the month of Ramadan has been given to us
as a gift. But it's a unique gift. It's a gift, that depends on how much attention you give to that
gift.
		
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			It's not a gift that will be equal for one and all. Ramadan is how much you put in is how much you
get out.
		
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			And there's a basic minimum requirement for all of us. That's too fast from fajr to Mercury, to
fulfill alpha.
		
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			So at the very least,
		
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			a Muslim who wants to benefit from Ramadan must fast every day goes and must fulfil that which Allah
had made obligatory upon them, and they must refrain from what Allah Allah had made haram. That
would be the bare minimum of gaining the rewards of Ramadan and not ruining the rewards.
		
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			Understand that a person who first but neglects the obligatory duties to somebody who first but they
don't play salah.
		
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			There is no reward in such a fast there is no reward.
		
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			So does this mean that the person who fasts but doesn't play salah they should just leave it and
they should just not pass at all? No.
		
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			They should fast, regardless of the sin for not praying Salah because if they don't fast also, then
there'll be sinful for not fasting as well.
		
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			But it's still wrong to say at least a fast
		
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			diet in Cape Town we live lives of at least you get hijacked at least they didn't shoot me. Your
child is a drug addict at least is only on DACA
		
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			daughter comes on pregnant at least she's not a lesbian.
		
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			La hawla wala Quwata illa biLlah. So the concept of fasting without fulfilling our for our religious
obligations means that you are starving yourself. You are making yourself nice and hungry and nice
and tired. You will not be punished for not fasting. But you will not receive any rewards for doing
the sacrifice of fasting for it is an empty act. You still have to do it. But there's no chance of
gaining any benefit from this no chance of spiritually improving and progressing towards Allah
subhanahu wa Tada.
		
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			And just like fulfilling alpha, it consists of doing what is compulsory. It also consists of
abstaining from what is haram.
		
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			The person who first but they are still committing Zina, they are still watching *, they
still having romantic relationships that are against Islam rules. They are still engaging in Haram,
with the eyes, with the ears, with the tongue, with the hands with the feet, with the speech with
the thoughts. Engaging in the prohibited, while in a state of fasting or even while in the month of
Ramadan is again a reason for you to tire yourself out and starve yourself but gain no reward from
the month of Ramadan. Understand that an individual who does this, all of the spiritual fruits that
they that they reap in the month of Ramadan, they are all superficial. They are all based on
		
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			feelings. That that's basically just the feeling of hunger and you know, you haven't felt hunger in
such a long time that you think that you've progressed, but that's not going to grant you any
progress. Because as soon as the Ramadan leaves us, then that false sense of spirituality will also
leave you. So the bare minimum of fasting in the month of Ramadan is to do the fast stay away from
haram and to fulfill the obligations. That's the bare minimum.
		
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			The second level.
		
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			The second level of attainment of spirituality in Ramadan is to do that. And in addition to fulfill
the toolkit, or the tools of Ramadan that we spoke about in last week's cookbook
		
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			to spend time praying at night, it's not hard, it's sooner, but if you do it, you'll gain
exponentially more rewards than to just do the bare minimum.
		
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			So for this reason today on the last Friday, I want us all to make a genuine intention that I will
try my utmost
		
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			to pray at night, every night in the month of Ramadan.
		
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			So for most of us that would mean attending taraweeh every night.
		
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			Make that intention.
		
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			Pray that Allah affords you that opportunity to be in his house, with the community in listening to
the Quran, praying the rosary every night. Make that intention today and may Allah accept it from
you and then have a backup plan. So if you're not going to be able to make that movie every night,
then have a backup plan that if I miss it at the masjid, I will still play some raka at home
		
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			some people think that if they missed out or if that means they must tarawih he's like no way to
make it up. No today extra car off the Scylla Tillandsia at home and there's no minimum it's not
that every morning I can play a truck at because you know I don't know enough liquid I know this is
a false understanding who said you must get a truck guy who said you must play to interact or do
what you can but pray at night. Do not neglect the benefits the spiritual benefits of mankind
Ramadan, Eman and rocky Serbian who fear Allah Who Madoka demean them remember this is only level
two fasting during the day fulfilling the obligations playing at night.
		
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			And if you can manage level two you've already attained two massive rewards from Allah subhanho wa
Taala you should know what they are man sama Ramadan Iman and Marathi Serbian man comma Ramadan Iman
and wrap this up and what are the rewards who fear Allah Who mantha put them in zombie, all of the
previous sins will be forgiven. If you do so motivated by your faith in Allah subhanho wa Taala and
hoping for reward from Allah. Those are the only conditions
		
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			so we've all understood level two stay away from the prohibitions do what is compulsory past during
the day today during the night
		
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			level three
		
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			I'm making my own levels up in
		
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			level three
		
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			we still going to get to the learning at the end with for those who know what that means.
		
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			Allah Allah says in surah Hadid
		
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			by the an Akula bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim
		
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			Allah me yet Neely Levine Manu, and Tasha Kulu boom live victory lap while man as the nominal hawk.
		
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			This is a profound verse.
		
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			They are stories about our pious predecessors
		
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			who loved the lives of gangsters. highway robbers. They used to call them call to Tarik cattle of
the road.
		
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			And one day in pursuing the fifth and the robbery, they heard the recitation of this verse. And that
single moment took them so much that they transform the lives.
		
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			And today we celebrate those same pious predecessors as some of the most pious individuals this
ummah has ever seen.
		
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			What does this verse say? alum yet nearly ladina Avenue, as the time not come, for the believers.
And the Shah that trembles that becomes humbled. That becomes all inspired Kulu whom their hearts
livecareer Allah remembrance of Allah wa Manasseh laminal ha hawk and for that which had been sent
down as ultimate truth, the Quran
		
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			while I Hakuna Gala, Dina O'Toole kita and that they do not be from among those who like those who
had been given the book before. Fatah Allah, Allah himolla Ahmed, and then a long period that passed
over them because that Kulu boom, and the hearts became hardened. Percocet Kulu boom. can think
about it like Africans, expression. Set Kulu boom. They are to date.
		
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			Their hearts became hardened focus at Punahou boom what Kathy roomin whom forsaken and many of them
are sinners.
		
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			The meaning of this verse
		
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			coming from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
		
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			is a form of lamentation
		
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			has the time not come from my servants? Have they not had enough time as believers, enough time
knowing Allah, enough time having access to the book of Allah, that their hearts tremble in all of
the fact that I have a creator.
		
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			He is aware of what I do. He years what I say, he sees what I do. He's with me wherever I am, in his
knowledge, in His sight, in his yearning.
		
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			And I am going to be facing him when I leave this world. And I could leave this world at any moment,
as the time not come for their hearts to soften,
		
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			to be humbled at the remembrance of Allah, and what has been revealed of the truth.
		
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			And to not be like those who had gone before the people who had been given the book before. They are
hood and then Asara specifically, that they do not be like them how? Because they were given a book.
They were given guidance. And then a long period had passed with a book just became a book.
		
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			And Allah speaks about this in other places in the Quran. QMF filial Hi Maria Mila Sphera they
became like donkeys carrying a book on the back.
		
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			They became like donkeys carrying books on the back. So they carry this book with Anna, we've got
the book of God, we are the chosen people of God, this false, ostentatious superficial idea of a
bond with with one's Creator.
		
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			Because I'm a Muslim, because I'm a Jew, because I'm a Christian holocaust. That's enough to know.
		
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			Let us not be deceived by similar trains of thought. Because with them, and Allah warns us not to be
like this, they had this book with him, and a long time went by, and it had no impact on them, no
effect on them.
		
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			So their hearts became hardened. And they remained sinners and rebellious.
		
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			So level three of maximizing Ramadan, you're not going to go to a lower grade, nor are you satisfied
with standard grade. But you want a much higher form than that. Level three, in my opinion, is the
person who prays at night after doing the bare minimum plays at night, and spends a significant
amount of time with the book of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. The Prophet Muhammad wa salam, as
we've said before, and it's probably one of my favorite narrations in relation to Ramadan. The
Prophet Alayhi Salatu was Salam used to spend every night in Ramadan, revising the Quran was Gibreel
Ali Stratos Salam, I mean, it's hard to imagine such a union such a gathering.
		
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			But you daddy suhu Al Quran they used to study the Quran with one another. The scholars explained
that what this means is that they revised whatever was revealed up to that point, at least once. And
then in his final year, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, they did so twice.
		
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			But you can imagine that this was the preferred
		
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			action, the preferred occupation of the Prophet Muhammad wa salam during the month of Ramadan. So if
we are followers of the Sunnah, then we follow in this way as well. So level three is to spend some
of your day and some of your night an allocated portion of time. Dedicate dedicated to the book of
Allah subhanho wa taala. This year in sha Allah, our post tarawih theme is going to be based around
Social Virtues and social interactions in the light of the Quran. And for this we we've selected
Surah Noor Surah hijab and Surah hoogenraad. So I invite you, first and foremost, to make the NIA
today to spend time with the Quran. Now, if that for you meant in the past, I'm going to read the
		
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			whole term of the Quran Bismillah you continue with that that is not enough. It is time for our
hearts to become humbled by the remembrance of Allah and its revelation. The revelation of the
Quran, show me a single proof that the Quran was revealed for us just to butcher and not to
understand.
		
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			Show me that that is the purpose of its residence of its revelation.
		
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			I'm not belittling the recitation of the Quran. It's absolutely paramount. It's part of who we are.
		
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			It's part of being a Muslim. But it's not its primary objective. It's not the book of butcher. It is
a book of guidance. Don't believe me Come on the first night of taraweeh and listen to the first
recitation of the the Fatiha. Alif Lam Meem Valley Cal keytab Lowry Buffy who the limit again. And
if la meme This is the book, there's absolutely no doubt in it. It is a guidance for the Allah
conscious.
		
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			It's a guidance is the introductory statement of the book after the the preface if you'd like Surah
Fatiha, the first statement that this is a book of guidance.
		
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			How much of your life and I'm speaking to myself here first how much of my life is genuinely guided
by the Quran. The decisions we make, the paths we take, the choices we implement,
		
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			what we hold sacred in our lives, what we hold valuable in our lives.
		
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			What we regard as priority in our every day and every night of existence, is it based is it
genuinely based on the guidance that Allah had revealed to us in his book.
		
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			It's really, it's really mind boggling to think that we as the OMA of Muhammad Sasaram, we literally
have the game plan, the cheat code, we have the cheat code for every single issue that humanity has
ever faced and ever will face in our hands in the form of the book of Allah. And we've reduced it to
a butcher book I
		
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			just think are mind boggling. That is that our only relationship with the Quran for many people is a
reading for them. Reading Akata. Again, that's important. But that's not the primary objective. So
you cannot reduce the book to that.
		
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			It's not the book in the sense of other books, we don't even refer to it as such, it is the kalam of
Allah, it's the speech of God. God is talking to you in that book. Are you listening? Are you
understanding so I invite you to spend time with the book of Allah by making the NIA now before
Ramadan within allocated time for many an hour will be a good starting point. But if they are those
who had already dedicated an hour for the first time and you want to continue with you one hour for
your Hatha Bismillah but add to it increase this year to one hour 20 minutes or one and a half
hours.
		
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			And hourly allocation is important because you see it can take somebody it can take a good recite of
the Quran and a proficient reciter 25 minutes to read an entire Jews then that's it. So okay, my
location for the day is finished no spend time with the Quran.
		
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			Spend time with the Quran
		
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			and my instruction yours my advice here specifically is to spend time with the understanding of the
Quran with reflection on the Quran.
		
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			How do you reflect on the Quran? There are many ways to reflect on the Quran. It's not a one pronged
approach.
		
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			For those who understand Arabic there is no there is no need to address that because that's not the
majority of us. So I'm going to speak to the sick the state of the majority.
		
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			A very superficial way is to take the translation of the Quran with footnotes explanatory notes, a
very good translation
		
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			and the read that with reflection
		
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			if there's nothing else that you do when you only do that it's a you reciting Jews one today then
you take a segment of Jews one any section and read a couple of verses with the allocated time
period. So say it's 20 minutes for 20 minutes you're going to be reading by reading with reflection
reading with the understanding that this is Allah's words, and Allah is speaking to me.
		
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			So that's one approach. Another approach is to link yourself into a program such as ours, our poster
always program where we will be focused on one particular aspect of one particular theme. So this
year, it's the social values, social interactions in light of the Quran. And you now already know
that we're going to be doing sewer on node the NIA is to do Serrano Surah Al Ahzab and Sudoku, Jura.
So go and prepare for that. Go and get your copy of the most half outgoing mark with them. Surahs
out started reading the translation they have started reading the deficit
		
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			Eat they are and join us every night. And we will go through this with reflection together. And the
idea behind linking yourself to a formal program of this nature. We know this is somewhat more
informal, but it is to connect yourself to a teacher. So whether that be here or at any other place
or opportunity, find a teacher,
		
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			even if it's just for the month of Ramadan, and choose this as my Quran teacher for Ramadan, whether
that be online or in person, preferably in person, because there's a spiritual connection with your
teacher when you're in the presence, but if you cannot online Bismillah
		
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			and make the NEA to stick to the program.
		
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			And this program should be when I say a qualified teacher, I mean someone who really knows what
they're talking about. And they're not just, they're not just thumb sucking. Right? And you are
intelligent enough to know the difference between somebody who knows what they're talking about and
somebody who's thumb sucking. I don't need to elaborate on that. There are so many qualified
scholars, qualified teachers, we are so blessed Alhamdulillah in the city of hours that you can take
your pick. You can take your pick, what flavor do you like Bismillah. But stick to the program.
Spend time with the book of Allah and allow it to transform you. Make the NIA that your heart will
		
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			be opening this month of Ramadan ready for transformation,
		
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			that your heart will be ready to receive this humility. And this reverence that Allah speaks about
in verse number 16 of Surah Hadid alum yet nearly levena M and Tasha coloboma, live victory lap
		
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			around Ramadan
		
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			is the month in which you must make a decision.
		
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			You must make a decision. Am I in it for ultimate change and transformation? Or is it just going to
be an average Ramadan?
		
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			See the moon pasa la behrang Carry on with life?
		
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			If you go in with a Nia of ultimate transformation, when you go into the month of Ramadan with the
NIA Oh Allah, I'm done with my sins. I'm leaving it behind me leaving my bad habits behind and
making Toba from the wrongs that I struggle with you and I know how how much easier it is in Ramadan
to stay away from haram. We all know that we've experienced that before
		
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			in place that
		
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			if your heart or your mind is telling you your naps, if it's telling you that listen, Ramadan now
and it's going to be difficult, no movies and if you're going on a loss lunch or lost party within
the next couple of days, then you're one of those people
		
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			because the concept is almost like Rukia I'm not going to be able to entertain my naps now. So let
me entertain the last little bit in this applies to you very much. Make the NIA to embrace Ramadan.
		
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			Make the NIA to embrace the gift that Allah is giving us that gift of locking shaytaan of closing
Jahannam of opening Janna, the doorways of good, the doorways of righteousness are wide open for you
to just simply stroll in, make the knee of ultimate transformation. And Oh Allah, I've had previous
Ramadan's. And I've benefited, and I enjoyed it and I felt some things. But this Ramadan, I want
ultimate transformation. I want to step up in my relationship with you. Wherever I am, I want to
step up.
		
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			Stepping up means getting one step closer to Allah Subhana Allah than we were before Ramadan and
staying there. And you do that through your actions. It's not some spiritual concept or abstract
concept that cannot be measured. No, it can be measured. You look at who you are right now. You look
at your life. You look at your deeds, you look at your actions, and you ask yourself, are you ready
to make the ultimate change? Are you ready to allow the book of Allah to influence you so much? That
you make that ultimate change that ultimate transformation? It's your decision. I can't make it for
you. I can't. I'm struggling to make it for me.
		
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			It is a personal journey. You and I we must decide what we want from this month of Ramadan.
		
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			Make big intentions may Allah accept it from us.
		
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			Then level three reciting the book of Allah is that enough?
		
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			Is that enough? So we have level one the basics, they will do okay, praying at night also taraweeh
they will free and spending time with the book of Allah. What could they possibly be more than that?
		
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			Imam Ghazali addresses different levels of fasting as
		
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			Well, he calls it the fasting of the masses, the fasting of the elite, and the fasting of the elite
of the elite. They use as three levels that I'm going to add the fourth level now, though the I'm
making this up as I go along. The fourth level is the one who understands that they need more
medicine because they more sick than everybody else.
		
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			The one who understands I'm a bit more ill than those around me, perhaps fasting and tarawih. And
the big butcher and a big reflection on the Quran can be sufficient for some but me.
		
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			I'm a bit demented, spiritually dark heart is back into its sin. I know I need to go the extra mile.
I know I need to strive harder than everyone else if I want to make that ultimate transformation.
		
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			So for those who are genuinely honest with themselves, they will understand that this means I must
go above and beyond this level three.
		
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			So for those who really want to go the extra mile,
		
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			you have to follow the same route. The same steps that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wasallam instructed us to follow.
		
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			For example,
		
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			not just praying at night for taraweeh. But waking up to pray again for tahajjud.
		
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			Ramadan is the easiest time in the year to pray tahajjud and it's the most rewarding time because
you're going to wake up anyways to eat. So instead of waking up off an hour before the time you wake
up 40 minutes before the time it's for example, and those extra 10 minutes you go in you pray to for
like out of the 100.
		
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			And even better than that, you pray your two to four out of the 100 and my dear brothers in Islam,
make your way to the masjid. Go and pray Fudger in JAMA Be a man be a man that's what men do in
Islam. Muslim men supposed to pray the solder in JAMA in the masjid. That's what being a man is.
It's part of a man's life five times a day every day. So you want to be a man be a man and do what
men do. Do what Muslim men do? Go and pray your Fudger Salah in the masjid you are awake anyways. It
is Ramadan going benefit, you will receive 27 times the reward of what you would have if you prayed
alone at home. Imagine praying at home 27 times. I just saw that times 27 to get what you would get
		
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			for one Fajr in the masjid with Gemma. How can we how can we miss out on such an opportunity going
the extra mile means that you follow the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW Selim in becoming charitable in
Ramadan, look for opportunities to give by the way, those who have donated towards our hasa
collection, the second collection and think as we can do collection, it might just be just under but
by now it should be just over a half a million is the second collection. And our intention is to
transfer the money on the first day of Ramadan.
		
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			So if you want to participate, the reason for doing it on the first day of Ramadan is of course for
the extra reward for those who have donated, then you're welcome to do so but become generous. This
is just one way. The opportunities for generosity in Ramadan are endless. Don't wait for them to
come knocking on your door. Go and seek those opportunities. Go for the next coming days go and find
out your priority is not organizations. I'm not taking away from that organizations, my collection,
whatever, that's not your priority. That second or third Your priority is to go and find out among
your own relatives. Your uncle's your aunts, your cousins, your distant relatives, those who are
		
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			underprivileged, those who are living underneath the breadline, those who are struggling, those who
struggle to make ends meet, go and find out what they need.
		
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			And without damaging the dignity. Go in the system. This is your primary form of charity.
		
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			If that demand are all begin with those who are moving, sorry if you can just press the power
button. You begin with those who are close to you. You don't go out.
		
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			I'm going to donate my money to this organization and that organization you do that, but that comes
second or third. If that payment or old means you begin with those who are around you, in your
community. In your community. Your neighbors go and find out if they have groceries for the month of
Ramadan.
		
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			Find out if they need anything if the bills are paid, be that brother
		
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			persister in Islam,
		
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			there's no there's no benefit in seeking charitable opportunities outside of your own closed circle
if you had not yet fulfilled
		
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			the responsibility that Allah had placed upon you, and bravado to seal it, if you have a mother or
father, or brother or sister, or children who are suffering while you know about it and are
comfortable and you do nothing.
		
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			I don't know how you're going to answer to Allah subhanho wa Taala for that.
		
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			The month of Ramadan is not just a personal journey. It's a familial journey, you proceed to Allah
together with your loved ones. And charity is at the helm of that.
		
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			This level four also consists of making dua supplicating to Allah subhanaw taala, I advise write
down your topics of dua, just the topics, the things that you want to make dua for and write it down
because when you fasting, and it's book a time you so hungry, you can think of this stuff which is
supposed to make dua for you make a big to add and remove anyone to add and to go off, right the
points down and increase in your application to Allah. Don't just go to Allah with a shopping list.
I want this in one that the topics include praising Allah for the gifts that he had granted us going
into Ramadan with gratitude, we've got so much to be grateful for Yeah.
		
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			You No, I literally can't watch the videos that are bombarding my social media feeds
		
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			of children. Who could be my children who could be your children, brothers and sisters, mothers and
fathers who are literally starving or rather being starved to death.
		
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			I never thought that in my time, I would see practices that I only read about in Hadith. I, I saw an
image of a child with a rock tied around his belly, a rock. That's just to curtail the hunger, the
pain.
		
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			This is what the Sahaba and the Prophet Muhammad SAW Sam used to do.
		
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			I never thought that I would see that in my lifetime. The day you go.
		
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			That's what colonialism does. That's what the racism does. That's what evil does. So this Ramadan
eats differently.
		
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			But like one of our contemporary scholars say, if you feel if you genuinely feel in your heart, the
ache and the pain, like you claim to feel it,
		
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			go and make a difference. And making a difference doesn't mean going over or only sending money they
are only making to offer them now making a difference means you make a difference with Matt this
year.
		
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			Do you think that we are without people starving in our city without people suffering in our city go
and find them go and make a difference? And watch how Allah elevates you in the month of Ramadan.
		
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			And then part of level four and this is the final point.
		
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			You cannot overlook the power that Allah had instilled within the masajid in his houses in the month
of Ramadan. For salah. Yes, but specifically for isolation and spiritual retreat. The article if
		
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			every one of us can find moments in Ramadan, we're in we engage in isolation, spiritual retreat with
Allah subhanho wa taala. And may Allah grant us every level that is the to be attained in Ramadan
and beyond are SallAllahu ala Sayidina Muhammad Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen. Just a reminder
about the dates on sale. Do you have zamzam as well we have zamzam as well. So the dates and zamzam
are sold at the masjid for the magics Ramadan activities. So do purchase your dates and your zamzam
from the masjid in sha Allah. And then our collection for the wall continues until there wasn't much
of an impact on that collection yet I don't know if people are waiting for Ramadan to start. But we
		
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			can't neglect the house of Allah in this way. My dear brothers in Islam, so I'm asking you can Allah
the nature of the masjid so we can get this sorted.
		
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			It's our responsibility is no single individual responsible for this. It's all of us collectively.
JazakAllah Clara Saramonic
		
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			wa salam ala moana Famy Wafaa
		
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