Mirza Yawar Baig – Ramadan fatigue
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The speakers discuss the importance of taking time to sleep and rejuvenate oneself in a state of anxiety. They stress the benefits of listening to the Quran and reciting it to increase one's knowledge of the universe, as well as maximizing benefits and avoiding fatigue. They also advise against feeling self decisive and the consequences of self decisive, emphasizing the importance of learning and finding one's own happiness.
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My brothers and sisters, we are reaching we
have reached
the middle of Ramadan Al Kareem,
and it never ceases to amaze me how
quickly the month passes.
Obviously, it's not a physical passing because it's
not as of the day,
lengthened or decreased in in, length.
But it's the way,
time goes when you are
focused towards something. We ask Allah
to make this full of barakah for us.
We ask Allah to make it easy for
us going forward. We ask Allah
to bless us with the best,
of our efforts as we go forward
to forgive our
shortcomings.
Couple of reminders for myself and you. Number
1
is now you will find that tiredness sets
in.
It is both physical tiredness because of sleep
deprivation.
If you're getting barely 2 hours of sleep
or,
you know, sometime maybe 3 hours of sleep
between and,
and so on. And,
And, this will,
only
decrease
as we go forward,
by some more minutes.
So there is deep sleep deprivation.
There is probably also the cumulative effect of
dehydration
that happens with the fast,
None of which is,
incapacitating
because
we have enough strength to take it forward.
But it it takes it takes a stone.
So
this
is something to,
to to be prepared for mentally and to,
physically try to overcome it. Now one of
the ways of doing that, one thing which
helps enormously is the hylula.
It's the midday nap.
Doesn't have to be for a long time.
15 minutes, 20 minutes,
half an
hour, is more than enough.
And,
but it completely rejuvenates you. So you
take that
shut eye for half an hour, and you
find that
the rest of the day becomes much easier,
for you to go through,
and especially with with respect to Taravi and
so
on. So that is the the first thing.
Second thing is
Taravi itself.
Please, please, please don't fall into
these our never ending debates or whether you
should pray 8 rakat or 20 rakat.
Pray whatever you can pray with ease, and
then exert yourself a little bit more
because the sign of love
is to do more. It's not to do
the bare minimum.
It's not to do the least you can
do. It's it is to do more. If
you love somebody, then you do more for
them than you would do for someone you
do not do not love. You do more
than what you would routinely do. So let
us get into that habit of doing more.
Just to give you an idea, the Surah
said about
listening to and and and reading the Quran,
basically of of, you know, reciting and reading
the Quran. But inshallah, this also refers to
listening to it that
the reward for
one letter. Yeah. People
mistakenly use the term alphabet. They say one
alphabet.
The alphabet
on a side note, the alphabet
is this collection of letters
in a language.
So the Arabic language has one alphabet. The
English language has one any language has one
alphabet.
And that alphabet is comprised of a certain
number of letters.
So 24 letters, 26 letters, whatever number of
letters. So we are talking here letters. And
said that the reward for
The reward for
reading Quran
for each letter
Allah
will give 10 Hassanat.
Ten good
deeds. Now,
and then he clarified further. And he said
that I don't mean that Alif, Lam, Mim
is 1 letter. He said alif is one
letter, lam is one letter, mim is one
letter.
So if you read alif, lam, mim, you
got 30 hasanats.
The value of 1
is the difference between
right? So this is the value of just
1.
We get 30 just for.
Now the scholars have said
that listening to the Quran attentively is equivalent
to reading it.
In Talawi, you are standing behind the map,
you are listening to the Quran attentively and
this is what we should do.
In a state of salah.
Right? So it is 10 hasanat
per letter.
And in one narration,
he
said that this ten hasanat refers to
reading the
Quran outside of salah. In salah, it is
100.
So if you just take think about this,
if you calculate
in the,
there are 15 lines per page, and there
are 20 or 21 pages per juice.
Usually,
in most masala, they will read 1 juice
per night. 1
per night. So that is 21 pages
per night.
Each page has 15 lines.
Each line,
I did a rough count.
Average has about 45
letters in it. All the words,
45 letters, each line. So do the sums.
45 multiplied by 15, which is for the
page, multiplied by 21 pages.
Right? So that is the number of
total letters.
For each letter,
10. So multiply their whole thing by 10.
And
then add to that
20
because each has
Then
another 4
for
and then whatever recitation is done in Isha
in the first two.
Then you have wither, 3 rakats.
So 3
plus the recitation in that. Now imagine the
number of hasanat that you are getting every
single day. Just standing behind the map, doing
nothing, just listening attentively,
to the recitation of the Quran.
No effort on our part or very little
effort and you are getting this huge and
this is wealth which is
with Allah.
Right? Allah's mother has said
whatever is with you will perish.
Whatever is with Allah will
remain.
So this is with Allah.
So it's like a counter running throughout
the time that you are standing behind him.
So not to say if you stood only
for 8 truck and you left, you got
a certain number of.
But if you stayed for 20, you got
that much more. Right? More than double that.
So
I'm not promoting 8 or 20. I'm just
saying that try to maximize
the benefits that we can get from
these these times and don't let fatigue set
him.
Ramadan
would be
it would be ascending.
He would start
in the best of situations,
and then it would only become better and
better. And in the last 10 nights, he
would tighten his belt and he would wake
up his family for then, you know, he
would he would be doing all of these
things.
So the thing to understand, remember, is not
to allow this fatigue to take hold of
you and to continue.
Also, you'll find
that as time passes,
you're getting hungrier and you're getting, you know,
you find that you get more irritable, you
get more more quickly to anger.
And,
the anger may be for a good reason,
but still anger is anger. And expressing that
anger is,
you know, it has consequences.
So
try to keep control of all that. Right?
May Allah have mercy on us. We are
all nobody is exempt from this. We are
all equally, equally
capable of falling into these traps.
And another very important thing is
especially for those who have been doing good,
who have been reading a lot of Quran
and so on and so forth. And Allah
has blessed
you. There is
comes in and your nafs comes
in and makes you self righteous,
makes you start believing that you are holier
than everybody else.
You know, the I
call this.
Self righteousness is a curse. Self righteousness is
arrogance. Arrogance is the greed slide into hellfire.
So
stay far away from that. The minute you
get this thought that you are better than
somebody else,
make tawba, make the make the tawba, turn
to Allah
make ask Allah to protect you from your
and protect you and all of us make
us make the protect us from our and
our and and the.
Right?
This happens in Ramadan because
you get this feeling. Oh, fantastic. I
you know I will be going into and
I will do this and inshallah I will
I will get letters to
grant you all of that and more from
his magnificence and grace. But if you start
feeling that self righteousness, believe me, you will
trash everything.
Not only will you lose everything that you
have, but you will also put yourself in
trouble with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So don't
do that. Do not do that. The moment
you feel that you're superior to somebody else,
make it. Right? Give $10,000
in in charity. Because, seriously, this is such
this is such a,
it's such a terrible thing, and this is
something which
Shaitan specifically targets,
the and the.
The scholars and the
leaders.
Makes them arrogant.
And you don't have to be an meaning
you don't need to have a degree from
somewhere. You just feel that you are righteous.
You feel that you are more knowledgeable than
other people. That's very easy. Well, the problem
today is as far as Islam is concerned,
most people have no knowledge.
Right? Even the basic fundamentals, people don't know.
So it is very easy to feel superior
to others because you know a little bit.
But just think about that. What
how much do we do we even know?
If I simply ask a question and say,
how many books have you read? How many
people have read a 100 books concerning a
particular topic in Islam? Right? So not even
that much. I mean, there are we have
scholars in our in in in our classical
times who have written more than that. So,
really, let us get serious with ourselves.
Make lot of focus on yourself. This is
Ramadan. This is for us.
Introspection,
reflection, focusing ourselves, transforming ourselves, making
seeking Allah's forgiveness,
bringing
humbleness and humility into ourselves.
Forgive others. Forgive others. Don't find fault with
others. Don't point fingers at others.
So, you are you look good because Allah
has covered you with his mercy. If Allah
removes that cover,
then the world will not even spit in
your face. Think about that.
For a lot of us, it is true,
including myself.
Allah has put a cover on us. I
always always remember.
Used to say that he would say if
somebody is praising you, remember, they're praising the
cover that Allah put over you because if
that cover was not there, they would not
be praising you. And this is this is
absolutely 100% true.
So let us remember that. Let us remind
ourselves again and again. Don't don't become self
righteous.
Don't become
a.
Stay your feet firmly on the ground, and
Allah
will forgive us, Insha'Allah. We ask Allah for
his forgiveness. We ask Allah for this month.
We ask Allah to make the this month
the best Ramadan of our lives.
Maybe it might last. I don't know. So
let's make dua that we
get the best of it that we can
possibly get. If Allah gives us more, then
more.