Mohamed Magid – The Inner Dimensions of Fasting Beyond the Basics #05
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That we are approaching Ramadan,
and Ramadan is
at the door now. It's knocking.
But when we are knocking at the door
of Ramadan, Alhamdulillah.
And how,
you know, time go fast as if last
Ramadan was here.
Now we have
receiving this new month.
Insha'Allah, we're gonna get to
the outlines of this class of
today.
But I would like just to give you
some things is not here, so that you
can have this and bonus.
You can read it at home.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have honored this month
of Ramadan, shahramadan
to be the months
that in which Quran was revealed.
Alama says Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can honor
places,
amakin
and honor particular days or months
or honor people.
Yukar I'm al Shihoor,
he honor months days
by have special occasion and events
or
particular
rituals
such
as month of
Ramadan,
months of
Tulkayd and Dhul Hajjah.
Those are months of Hajj.
Therefore Allah
have honored those days.
And there's a 4 months
that Allah have honored and Ramadan by the
way is not one of them.
Or call Ashur al Harams.
3rd months where the fighting is prohibited.
And also
Allah honored
days, particular days like the and nights.
The honor of the night
like laylatul Qadr.
Laylatul Qadr. It's been honored. This is the,
the night that in which Quran was revealed.
It is a night that better than how
many months? 1000 times. 1 1000 months, about
83 years.
If you live 83 years,
that was equal this one night. You can
get the blessing of 83 years in 1
capsule.
1 night.
83 years.
And
then Allah
honor those
the lai'al al ashru,
the 10 nights of Dhir Hijjah.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala he swear
by the
lad in
Ash, was Shef ewwalut. Wasallamahu Wa Ta'ala swerved
by those 10 nights.
Then Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, honored
one day.
It's day of what?
Of Arafah.
This the day that Shaytan will become so
upset to seeing people gathering in one place
asking Allah for forgiveness.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
honor people
like Rusul, prophets.
Malaika tarusulaawaminan
nas Allah choose among the malaika
rusul,
Messengers,
like Jibril alayhi salaam.
And from people.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless particular place
such as
Kaaba. Kaaba, Masjid Al Haram,
Masjid Al Nawawi,
Masjid Al Aqsa,
love other places.
Therefore, the month of honor
is the month of Ramadan.
We take about 1 month, consider the month
of honor,
it is the month of Ramadan
that been honored among all other months.
And that's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
in Quran,
The month of Ramadan in which Quran was
revealed.
So that they become guidance to all humanity.
Or
by is a clear evidence and guidance
to people to guide them to this.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, the Quran
is a criteria
for qan.
Then he said, from al Shehidamukunushahara
falaallahu alaihi wa sallam. If someone witnessed such
amounts, Ramadan,
that means that which in which Quran was
revealed, he should what?
Fasted.
As if the honor of the fasting to
the month of month of Ramadan because this
was a month of Quran.
Quran Whoever witnessed this month,
then fasted.
Now
we would like to contemplate
and reflect
on the benefits and the inner dimension, Imam
Ali call it, of fasting.
Why do we fast?
1 month.
If Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala want us to
suffer
that is, you know, in some religious
philosophy
that the suffering of the body is is
a necessity
for elevation of the spirit.
Am I correct?
The person should suffer
physically so that his spirit to be what?
Purify.
But in Islam, if a person is sick,
should that person fast?
Sick and have a sickness that will not
enable them to fast. They break their fast.
If a person is traveling, it's permission for
them to break their fast. A pregnant woman,
permission for them to break their fast. Those
are aham, but the wisdom behind it
that Allah
said,
Allah who made no difficulty and hardship for
you in this religion. He want the ease
for you. He wanted the ease for you.
Therefore, he want
the user. Therefore, the purpose of it not
to have person to suffer. Otherwise, you could
have insisted
pregnant woman to fast and the sick person
to fast, the traveling person to fast.
Therefore, the purpose of fasting
is what Allah subhanahu wa'ala have stated in
Quran.
Quran. Allah says in Quran, And this is
a very important call.
Every time you see this verse,
any verse begins to says, oh, those who
believe. The
internal have to goes up to go up.
If every one of us hamdulillah, all of
us are believers,
when you say,
we're ready to to do it,
to receive something. Because inshallah, we're
Farsim have been prescribed on you.
Have been prescribed on you as was prescribed
on those who before you.
So that you may
achieve,
obtain
what? Piety.
Piety.
Matter of fact my brothers and sisters
that all the ritual and worship in Islam
give to one one objectives,
is to achieve piety and righteousness.
Anything that you do,
if you read ayaat of Salat, the purpose
of it to achieve taqwa. If you read
ayaat of zakat,
taqwa.
Hajj taqwa.
Therefore the
objective of the rituals to obtain taqwa.
And that's why if a person
does not doesn't have that in mind
as he or she, they do the rituals.
Is it praying or fasting or doing Hajj?
They will not come with that conclusion.
You see,
in in America, they said, if you want
to
do any kind of management or any kind
of planning, you said what?
You said for for yourself what?
What kind of things you said for yourself?
Objectives.
Objectives.
You said objectives.
What is our objective inshallah for fasting this
coming months, Ramadan?
It was Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said it
should be
Obtaining taqwa.
I'm gonna describe
and to see what level
of of things we need to do to
obtain this taqwa.
You know what the definition of taqwa? I've
said it in this class before, and I
believe that some brother or sister have mobilized
this definition.
How long I've been in the Arabs now?
Every 6, 7 years.
And once a month at least I say
this definition.
What the definition of Imam Ali of Taqul?
No one remembers?
To worship Allah is if you see him,
this is hisan, which is part of Taqwah.
Imam Ali said,
and please memorize it this time because Imam
Ali,
alayhi salaam,
said beautiful things and we need to memorize
all things. Yes?
It says,
being where Allah wants you to be at
right time
and not be where Allah is going. Good.
This is one of the definition of Taqwa,
but it's not what Imam Ali said.
You see you all hear, maybe you can
listen to the Jama'at today. Good. He said,
one of the definition of taqwa is to
be where Allah wants you to be
and to and to be absent from the
place where he doesn't want you to be.
And Allah sees you what where he wants
you to be,
and not to see you where he doesn't
want you to be.
Allahuqidak,
another definition, Allahuqidak
Should not have you been absent from where
he wants you to be.
And he does not see where he shouldn't
be. Just. What are the definition of it?
Piety, righteousness.
But the imam Ali, alayhi salaam,
definition,
it is what I'm after.
Because it applicable in Ramadan. You take that
definition, imam Ali and
apply it
on the
on Ramadan,
you get the objectives.
He said, at taqwa,
four things.
Bear with me.
This what our objective in Ramallah, 4 things.
And we need to have them
in the dining table,
next to dining table, especially the place where
you eat breakfast, you eat breakfast, breakfast.
Our bedrooms,
Four objective this month. The theme of the
month is the following.
1st, Al kawf min al jareen.
To be conscious of Allah presence that Allah
sees us, Allah watch over us.
Every single word we say Allah has,
he write it down.
It's been written. Allah have to write down
our words.
Every
single
action that we do, Allah sees.
Almighty, Allah almighty.
And that is what Allah says in Quran.
There's no 3 people having private talk among
themselves, or Uzatullah be in the 4th, and
there's no 4 people having private talk among
themselves, or Uzatullah be in the 5th. And
there's no less number or more number,
be with them wherever they may be.
A person closed the door, and said I
would like to speak to you privately.
Don't we just say that? I want to
say something privately. But Allah hear our con
conversation.
Everything that we say, everything we do, Allah
watches
and see.
Therefore, when we fast,
we should maximize this conscious.
You come today to this class
unless you are invisible,
but we see you now.
Or unless a person has a difficult to
have seen. But your present here been noticed.
Am I correct?
You give zakat, at least one person will
know that you have given them some money,
the person receiving it.
Even if you give it to organization, the
organization receiving it, they know that you wrote
a check.
Hajj,
people see you doing Hajj.
See us doing Hajj.
The only act of worshiping
that no one knows whether we have done
it or not is fasting.
That's why Ghazal Arhamullah says,
nasaballahu
sosum ila nafsihi
kaman nasabal bait ila nafsihi.
Allah subhanahu ta'ala
put sown for himself as he put the
bait, the house, the Kaaba for himself. He
said to Ibrahim Alaihi
Salam, Clean my house.
See this? How great it is? He didn't
say clean the house.
Clean my house.
And he said in Seoul,
Fasting is belong to me. I'm the only
person who can reward for it. I'm the
only one can reward for it.
Therefore, even the Malaika, they don't know how
much the reward of the sayyam because they
cannot write it.
It kept with Allah
A person comes in day of judgment, and
Allah give him just tremendous reward, says the
reward of fasting.
And that's why one of the reward of
fasting,
there's a house there's a door in paradise.
A beautiful
name. Even
the tone of it, Arrayyan.
The only people who enter from that door,
it says what? VIP,
fasting people.
When they enter, it's closed.
If you say, oh, I I, you know,
I'm running late. I'm, I'm praying person. I
pray a lot. I want to enter. They
say, no. You have another door. But this
is for fasting people.
Therefore, whoever enter from that door will be
known like a fasting person.
Is that the Haram al Musa'im will
be closed. The door is closed.
Okay.
Therefore, that what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
Okay.
The
the consciousness of Allah, being conscious of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it is what the
most important objective of this month of Ramadan.
In Ramadan,
we should become more aware
of what we do.
And,
becoming more close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We would like to receive his mercy and
his rahmah.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, rahuatullah kareebu min
al muhsinin.
The mercy of Allah close
close to those or near to those who
are Muhsinin.
Therefore, if we are doing this ihsan, become
Muhsinin, then we receive the mercy of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And that's why the beginning of Ramadan is
mercy is rahma. We want to receive this
rahma.
The second aspect of it is
Application of Quran.
In which month's Quran was revealed?
Again?
Ramadan.
Ramadan.
Shahu
Ramadan
Quran.
You see now the connection first who say
the piety conscious of Allah because the only
worship Ibadah
that no one knows. It is not
seen. There's no physical action for it.
It's you have a skin. That's one of
the definition
inshaAllah when we talk about siyam fuqih. Definition
of song as you have in the paper
here is to abistan.
When you abistan, no one knows whether you
go to your home, inside your home eat,
or you close your door.
Only one knows is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Therefore, it's a passive. It's it's it's to
not to do something.
Siam is not to do something.
Is not what to do something. You see
what I'm saying? In Salah, you have to
do something. In Siam,
you don't do something. You abstain from eating
or drinking.
Okay? Al insak, call it insak.
Therefore, the
second aspect is Al Amal Bitanzil
applying the Quran.
And that's why Imam Ali,
he did not say, and reading of Tanzil.
He don't say recite the Tanzil.
He did not say read the Quran, recite
the Tanzil. What did he say?
Because application
taqwa is application of the Quran.
How a person become righteous
when he or she
apply the Quran.
For whom?
This
is a book which is in it, there's
no doubt.
No doubt. It's clear.
Is the guidance.
Guidance for the righteous people.
The 4 righteous people will open the Quran
to consult Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in their
affairs.
They don't follow the Hawa and the desire.
In their actions, in their attitude, they consult
the Quran.
And that's
why applying the Quran, it was the objective
of the companions of Raul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
You know the Sahaba?
They used to recite 10 verses.
How many?
10. 10 verses.
Understand them
and apply them
and then go for the other 10 verses.
That's why Rasa Salihim said himself was what?
Quran.
His life was
Quran, moral conduct of Quran.
The man asked Sayed Aisha said,
how was the moral conduct of Rasulullah?
Said don't you read the Quran?
Quran? He said,
yes. He said,
his moral conduct was
Al Amal Bitinzine
applying the Quran in our life.
One of the
important things about this issue of application of
the Quran
is that we should get excited about this
is the month in which Quran was revealed.
Therefore, is the month that will maximize
understanding of Quran.
And that's why if you come in for,
if your native language is not Arabic,
read the English translations
of the chapter will be recited
so that you can feel it in.
You understand and read the chapter in English
so that when you come, say it, subhanallah,
I understand what be recited today.
Read it in advance.
Before he passed away,
he called Fatima radiallahu anha.
He was sitting with his wife, and he
called Fatima
Radhaalahu Waqqani. He said Fatima comes, and he
whisper in her ear.
Fatima alaihi salaam
cried.
Then he called her again and whisper in
her ear, then she smiled.
Said, I asked her,
what the reason was this? Laughing and smiling
and crying?
Said I'm not gonna tell you because
Allah Subhana Wa Salam just told me this,
I'm not gonna reveal it now.
When Allah Subhana Wa Salam passed away,
and Allah
took his soul.
Fatima,
radiAllahu anha, told the Aisha radiAllahu anha what
Rasool alaihi wa sallam told her.
And Rasoolam told Fatima,
He used to come once in Ramadan
to review the Quran with me. Walakajaani
has Ramadan.
Come to me this Ramadan twice.
I see this as my time is over.
See?
He connected even his end of life with
what?
With the Quran.
Review of the Quran was Debride Alayhi Salaam.
You
know, people say that my,
you know, of studying Quran. And that's why
by the whole of the some of the
of the Quran, people say, and Jibril and
then from Rasuulullah alayhi wasalam. Because who taught
Rasuulullah?
Quran?
And the last Ramadan twice.
And that's why Rasoolallah
used to take Ramadan for, is reviewing the
Quran.
And that was should be our objective, is
a review in the Quran
and applying it in our life.
What how that will happen?
Let us take one aspect of our life
that we are weak in it. Say, the
is
mixed.
Mister, I don't pray on time.
Inshallah,
I will this month of Ramadan, I will
apply this verse.
Prayer prescribed
time.
I have problem in kushur and salah.
I would like to maximize
our my
concentration
in prayer.
Therefore, I want to learn how to do
this.
I would like to learn 5 verses in
Mahdi Quran
and apply them.
And I make that commitment for life.
Every day 5 verses until I die. But
I'm gonna start the sum of that.
I'm gonna learn how to read Quran correctly.
All of the
things is part of this excitement of receiving
the mosque of Ramadan.
In tafsir of assireen says,
either the Quran was revealed as a whole
to the lower heaven,
or you have started
in the month of Ramadan.
But in one night was revealed to the
lower heaven. You know which night is that?
We have revealed this Quran in what? A
blessed night.
We really
want people.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
And that's
why Ibn Al Qayyir
says, those who do not understand what take
place at night
in heaven,
they have been
they are being deprived.
Said a person who stand and pray at
night, Hajj, for example,
that person receiving mercy of Allah and forgiveness
of Allah. While other people at the time
time are receiving the, what,
Sins
or committing sins, Allah be angry with them.
Person stand up at night Saturday night
and pray at his home. At the same
time, there's someone is night in the night
club.
The same time.
First of all, Elijah before Allah is begging
him for forgiveness, and somebody else committing a
sin.
Therefore, this night,
do you think that this in in
the how many people will miss?
How many people are not aware of it?
There's a blessed night tonight.
A person might say, this night tonight, I'm
gonna have some fun.
Wanna commit sin. But he didn't realize this
night, there's some people blessing receiving a blessing
of 83 years.
What we have to be aware of this
benefits
that we get in the nights of Laylatul
Qadr, which is will be one of the
khatra who will say during Taraweeh.
About the benefits of Laylatul Qadr.
Apply in the Quran.
Now we're in the third one. You see
this in Mamali?
Where the lawn was deep. You see now
we're taking one of his saying, and all
Muslims spending 1 hour in talking about it.
He said, Al kanaab al kaleel.
Meaning that a person be
satisfied
with the little that Allah given them. Months
of Ramadan should make a person understand
that this life is not about consuming,
not about materialistic
gains. This life that we're gonna live it.
If we have
the big materials and the nice things, no
matter how much we like it,
we gonna what? We're gonna leave it. That's
what Rasool Salam said
as an advice to one of
sahaba. Sahabi said to him,
Love whom whomever you want to love.
Love whom whoever you want to live love,
you will be what? Separated from them.
Death separate people.
Live as long you want to live.
You would very you will die.
10 years, 20 years, 100 years, death is
gonna come.
And love whomever you want to love, you're
gonna be separated from them by death.
The same thing materials.
Ramadan,
we should make a pledge.
Our habits
of consuming,
of being too much attached materialism
should what?
Be reduced or diminished.
That doesn't mean that we should not buy
things. But I'm saying we should control our
habits of buying things.
Don't let our desires, this collecting of materials.
How long are we gonna have this?
How long are we gonna have it?
For what?
Just for this life? Only temporarily.
Say,
the average person sitting here, say maybe their
age
is I'm saying the average,
25.
Give another 75,
that person who 25 sitting for me will
die. More likely,
more likely.
I don't have any guarantee.
My person, I believe,
105
or 110 or 120.
But this was the average age you see,
75 years, that all you have.
If you are 25 years
old.
Don't shoot any more than that. Just
75.
But a person can die before that, of
course.
No matter how much we have it, we're
gonna leave it behind us.
Now what happened?
Many of us in month of Ramadan
will start buying more things.
We go and buy grocery that we throw
in the trash.
That's why I said in Maghul but today
do not don't ever go
shopping, grocery shopping,
while you're fasting.
I bear witness on that. I made a
mistake once.
What do you do? You take this card,
all the yogurt in the shelves is in
the card. All the milk.
All the but you buy things, say, subhanAllah,
it look good, that watermelon. That is look
good. This is look good. And you find
that you're buying a grocery, $100.
You take it home,
Iftar.
No matter how many dish you put, you
put, like, 1, you know, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 dishes, and then the sweet, 1,
2, 3, 4.
If you ask ourself, what we do in
the last time when we're not fasting? Do
we eat like this? No.
And that's why I'm gonna tell you what
Imam Abu Ghazali said. He said 6 things.
I'm gonna mention to you. He's one of
them. He said, there's a problem.
Al Iqhar min al halal. We eat too
much of food.
Therefore, our grocery bills in Ramadan goes up,
it doesn't go down.
We're fasting,
but we're eating more than other time.
If it was grocery bills 200, it's what
now?
500. And the excuse that I'm fasting, I
have to eat the whole world, the whole
grocery store.
Krishna do that.
We're defeating the purpose.
K? Even I advise my brother and sister,
only have.
And this is not to say that, you
know, I'm watching your dishes or your plates,
but I'm gonna tell you that after the
cleanup, when they do cleanup,
we take
a plate that is full of food and
we put it in the trash. Because a
person have taken one plate and the second
plate, and he thought I'm gonna eat all
of that, but ate a little bit of
it and then full, and the rest of
it, put it in the trash.
How many people today are dying because there's
no food? Have you seen that, brothers and
sisters? Have you turned on your TV,
seen people in Africa,
people in Latin America, people in Asia starving?
Allahi,
I believe.
As the stat status have been done by
the way, there's a a law in America
here
to help you
to gather food, from example, for
and from the,
those fresh field, and you can give it
to other people.
It's it's call,
I forget now the the law. But it
it release you from responsibility.
You do it in good faith.
Because the statistics showing that America
throw 1,000,000,000 of dollars worth of food.
1,000,000,000 of dollars.
Not only America, by the way. You go
to even Muslim countries,
you find them the a lot of food
being thrown.
While we see with our own eyes, our
brothers and sisters in other part of the
world are dying from hunger. Not only brothers
and sisters, in this city,
you have homeless.
You don't have food.
In this capital of United States, Washington, D.
C, and as
Muslims feeding
a hungry person,
it should be taught everybody.
Any person you feed, Muslim and non Muslims,
even animals, you get a reward for it.
And we should understand
that.
A person be satisfied
whatever Allah has given us. That's why when
we abstain
from food and
water,
physical desire during the day,
we should be able to abstain from buying
5 TVs.
We don't need them.
We should abstain from materials to buy materials
that we don't need.
It should help us.
And that's why Imam,
Umar, said,
He saw this man carrying meat. He said,
what is this? He said, it's a meat
that I desire and I bought. He said,
woe to you. Everything you desire, you buy.
Don't have any control over yourself. I call
him
He didn't say the meat is prohibited. Don't
misunderstand that. But he want to tell him
that don't use the word this word
I desire this.
A person have the little best control over
their desires. Therefore,
And that why in dunya brothers and sister,
you remember what the rasul asallam said? Rasul
asallam said kislatan,
2 things if the person had them
1 of those being grateful.
What are they?
Whoever looked to his duniya material wise to
those who less than him.
And in term of religion, he looks to
those people who practice better than them.
Because the minute that you see people have
less than you, it become what?
Content.
Satisfied.
When we complain about whatever you have, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will take from what whatever
we have, he take it away from us.
In shakartum,
la azidallakum, if you become grateful, I'll be
share what I give you, I will increase
what you have. You complain about it, I
will take it all from you.
You become ungrateful, my punishment is severe.
Therefore,
to be satisfied with little that Allah has
given us.
The 4th,
fasting
should prepare us
for akhirah
Because when we give our food and drinks
we are concentrating what? In pleasing Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And we telling our self
the thirst
of
dunya will be what? Satisfied with what?
Alaihi wa sallam. You know what Rasulullah said?
He said,
I would be standing in the Hauk.
The Hawud, the the this pond of Rasulullah
Salam.
It from the Yemen,
the distant of it, from Yemen to Amman.
Big
distant.
And he said that the the cups,
does
that Rasool al Salih alaihi wa Salam use,
Just like the stars you see in the
in in the sky.
He said, it's so pure, more pure than
the milk,
and so sweet more than the honey,
and the smell of it is misk.
He said,
I will
be the serving person. I will serve you.
You come to me, day of judgment,
as a believers,
believe in Allah and his part of Muhammad,
Raul,
will be serving you and I, Insha'Allah.
And he said, whoever I give him water,
he took a sip from my house.
That person, he or she would never feel
thirsty anymore.
And that's why ibn Abbas,
used to drink Zamzam, and he
used
to
say,
I'm drinking this Zamzam so they'll be protected
from the thirst of Aqira.
Because
You make the dua, you get the dua.
Therefore, when we fast, we should be more
connected to Akhirah.
Fasting supposed to have us what?
Less attached to dunya.
What the most essential?
Is it the car or the water? Car.
The the water.
It is the house or the water? Water.
The water. We've given up the water.
That means we should detached
ourself from life in that moment.
We given
Every living things live on water.
We give that the the essence of life
and the food.
Then we have to be a little bit
what?
Connected to Aqira
because this dunya
is not gonna remain to anyone.
It have to come to an end.
Prepare ourself.
That why Rasool Allah said, Aba Adar, what
did he tell him? Yeah Aba
Adar, actually
prepare your food, your sustenance,
provision
because is will be a long trip.
Day of
judgment,
And prepare yourself
to layla, to unite
it. To Anay that the dawn of it
is day of judgment.
That is the advice of the salami of
Tawada,
and that is the advice all of us
should do. Now
there's different category of fasting.
Soma Al Amum.
The fasting of the ordinary, every person.
Some
of the ordinary.
Some of a fasting of everyone.
People
of and some some
people have social fasting. We fast because people
fast.
They call social fasting. They don't like to
be looked bad. You're not fasting.
What's Samuel Umu?
Imam Ghazal Rahmullah says, when a person abstain
from food
and drink and and physical relation with their
spouse during the day.
People say, oh, this is a fasting.
He said this is the minimum
1st step, 1st category of fasting.
2nd higher category,
and
the.
He says when the
parts of the body of the person abstain
from committing sin, the tongue
does not back bite,
does not
lie.
The eye does not see anything haram.
The ear does not listen to any nonsense.
A person does not curse, does not back
bite, does not use foul language. The tongue
fast,
the eye fast,
the ear fast,
the hand fast,
and the foot
or the feet fast.
For a person,
he control all of that. It's not only
the the stomach,
but he have all his body respond.
Syamaul Khosus.
And Rasulullah
Alaihi Salam told us,
whoever
lie,
backbite,
curse
during Ramadan, Allah does not need them
to put their
drinking and and their food.
Allah doesn't will not need them to abstain
from food or their anger. Allah does not
want them just to be angry. But the
purpose of fasting is to have everything else
respond to it.
And that's
why part of
is not to say anything bad to have
You know, Ghazal
said, a person abstaining from eating and for
physical relationship.
And he said,
at at the the tank
from anything that not good.
The eye from anything that haram.
The does not listen to anything that is
haram.
The hand does not do anything haram,
and the feet does not do anything in
Haram.
Some will Jawareh.
Just
call some
Al Jawareh, the parts of the body.
And that why it is important
if somebody fight you during Ramadan,
calling you names and cursing you, what do
you do?
You say I'm fasting. Why you say I'm
fasting? Because you're saying my tongue is fasting.
I'm abstaining from anything bad.
If a person is fasting
and somebody cursing them, somebody called them names
and so forth, do not respond, don't engage
in fight. You know what people do?
Don't get me Amsterdam fasting.
Oh, Allah, I'm gonna get you, but you
know, I'm already here.
I don't have coffee. I'm not drinking.
I'm fasting. Don't you know that I'm fasting?
SubhanAllah.
What's the benefit of that? He said, I'm
fasting and then calm and I'm still, I'm
fasting and I'm shouting.
I'm threatening, I'm fasting, he said. And some
people say what?
Wait until I break my fast. See what
I'm gonna do.
You know,
You got the intention of that.
Why you threatening?
But he said, I'm gonna delete it. I'm
thinking bad, but wait until I fast. I
break my fast.
That's not acceptable.
When a person says, if I'm not if
I'm not fasting, I would have cursed you.
As if you have cursed.
Don't ever say that. We should not say
that. If I'm not fasting, I should you
should have learned. You could have heard me
tell you what I'm gonna
just
And that's why husband and wife,
children and parents,
friends,
we should learn
to live with one another's
and to respect one another's especially months of
Ramadan and the rest of the year, of
course. But this what to learn.
Those who have bad temper and anger, it
is the time to learn to control the
anger, month of Ramadan.
Part of anger management to fast. And then
you for somebody fight you say, I'm fasting.
And then if you can't control for all
months,
believe me this is the best program for
anger management.
They go have you go for 3 weeks
sometimes? Here you have to go for 4
weeks.
Months by Allah, discipline by Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
That's
very important
that we have to control that.
The form of Jabari.
Okay? One of the things that people do,
they watch a lot of read Reddit r
movies during Ramadan,
or all bad scenes on them.
And the tape after the tape, this tape
is finished. So
no one movie to go,
the other one. And the bad thing comes
bad, but he watching.
The stuff for Allah as he's staring at
the TV.
That's not good. A person should not be
fasting and watching such a thing like that.
Or
at night,
you know, in Arab, Muslim countries, unfortunately,
the worst movies, all the belly dancers, belly
dancers, and so forth, they bring them in
night of Ramadan.
So that you watch dancing, you wish people
until
Sahoor.
You entertain yourself.
And during the day a person sleep, miss
Duhur and Asa. Duhur, all night make sure
that
all the Jews in the church have been
drunk.
All the food on the table being eaten,
and a person keep themselves up instead of
dhikr of Quran.
That's why Imam Ghazali said 6 things. One
of them he said, guard your tongue during
Ramadan. I just mentioned to you. Said, guard
your
hearing, said, don't listen to anything bad.
He said, guard your
buzzer.
Don't see anything bad.
He said,
guard
your other parts of your feet and your
hands.
And he said, do not
eat too much in iftar.
Some person eat too much, pray Maghrib like
what? Some few will eat before Maghrib, even
the full stomach.
This Yaki, let us pray. Yaki just
Islam is useful.
Eat, eat, eat until become dark. Then they
start,
even cannot breathe praying,
and Trawi, they're too sleepy.
Yeah. Because person really have eaten all kind
of food. No. You should not do that.
That's why you travel sometimes you hear old
people burping all the place.
People should not eat too much food.
Seriously.
Little food there, brothers and sisters. I'm being
frank about it.
You know? That people should not put too
much food and do not get excited about
it. Now
he said the 5th 6th one, he said,
a person
should be excited about what after Iftar.
He said, Alhamdulillah, I have Iftar. Let me
enjoy the salah. Let me recite more Quran,
let me make Dua.
You know the best time you make Dua
is what?
Before Sahoor.
You woke up for Sahoor, take the best
shot at it.
Make your best dua before Sahoor. That's what
consider what?
The last
the 3rd night. The last 3rd
of the night where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
come to the lower heaven.
If anyone ask them for forgiveness, I forgive
them.
There anyone that printing out
If anyone ask anything, I respond to them.
That is the best time if we have
our mind in that.
Now certain things I want to say
about the
issue of fasting.
One of the things that make our fasting
acceptable,
When
we settle dispute, we don't
fight. Somebody that wronged you, ask them for
forgiveness. Let us forgive one
In month of Ramadan, it's month of Rahmah.
That's why Rasool Al Salam, yeah, he came
out.
He want to tell about the companions, about.
He found them fighting. He went back to
his home.
He said, I came to tell you about
Al Qaeda,
but I see you're fighting Farooqiyat
was taken
because of your fight.
People should settle dispute
and fight and masery and hatred.
That's very important.
2,
that the months of Ramadan
should be the months that when we
have the good gathering.
It's a month of Ramadan, select people who
remind you of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Said,
a person will take the religion of their
friend.
Be careful what friend do you choose. What
he meant by that? Meaning the habits, the
behaviors.
Here, it doesn't mean that you cannot have
a colleague who's not a Muslim you can
be friendless. I'm not saying that. I'm saying
that you should not be in a company
that will teach you wrong things.
Of course, you can reach out to the
Muslims.
If you have relatives who's not practicing Islam,
visit them. But a person should not engage
in any activities
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala not pleased with.
That's very important.
The last things I want to say,
then we break for Asia.
That in months of Ramadan,
we would like to, spiritually,
you know, be purified.
We have different habits, don't we? A person
might have a habit of backbiting,
said I'm gonna deal in Ramadan. We're gonna
change that. Person might have a habit of
cursing. Person might have a habit of spending.
Said, I would like to discipline myself. I
would like to set an objectives.
This Ramadan,
I'm gonna eliminate this item from my list.
And when you make that objectives, a person
in shala would benefit from Ramadan. Don't don't
let Ramadan you should not we should not
let Ramadan pass
with no in accomplishment.
We should accomplish something.
Does Sahaba have butter or butter?
Does Sahaba have Mecca? Opening of Mecca?
What are we having? We should have accomplished
a personal accomplishment.
And the other thing I said in this
paper, let us set the tone of the
house,
the house of fasting.
When a person come,
you smell Ramadan in the house, not necessarily
food I mean. Ramadan food. But I'm saying,
you can see the spirit of Ramadan in
the house. You can see
that the houses, the harmony in the household
is a Quranic
harm relationship,
is a fasting relationship,
is a loving relationship.
That's what it set the tone.
Our children,
they will remember Ramadan
with the good things.
Therefore, make the best memory out of it.
The best memory
of out of Ramadan. Let them say,
when is it next Ramadan, when Ramadan is
over? Let them get excited about it.
Don't let us become nervous and say, you
know, I'm gonna play with you. Stay there.
I'm fasting.
Then they said, SubhanAllah, I wish that Ramadan
ends quickly because my dad is really have
bad mood.
It's not my mother is not happy.
He's angry. They're angry. Nobody say, son, come,
you know, it's Ramadan.
InshaAllah, we're gonna pray that we, and we're
doing this and that. Talk to them about
the moon, talk to them about, you know,
the virtue of
fasting. Give them seerah of Rasool Allah. Tell
them stories. Take them out. Let them feel
like the spirit is better spirit. It's a
great spirit of Ramadan. Let us do that
insha Allah. Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
accept
our fasting
and our prayer. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
make us enjoy Ramadan. May Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala make us among those who forgive one
another in this month of Ramadan and maximize
the benefits.
One of the fada'il
of of Ramadan
that good deeds is multiplied on it.
The
one day that you fast
is equal 10 day is 10 days of
fasting.
And therefore, it is the
if you fast
Okay.
The one one that you fast
is equal 10 days.
Therefore, if you take 30 days
time 10 is what?
300.
And you if you file the sick days
of Shawwal,
each day is 10 days.
That means if a person fasts whole Ramadan
and then 10 days of,
6 days of Shawwal,
as if you fast the whole
year. That's one of the benefit of it.
Now the question and answer insha'Allah.
I have put in this paper that the
class is 3:30,
but since we made the decision of Zohar
time, there will be Zohar time.
Okay?
Alhamdulillah. Safe is not is not funny issue.
Any questions?
What are the 4 parts of 5 g?
No? What are the 4 parts of 5
g?
What are the
4 parts of piety? 1st oh, that's I
should be asking that question. The brother says
what are the 4 part of piety?
I should be asking that question.
What are they?
Four categories.
Of Allah. Be conscious of Allah present. Alright?
The Quran to
applying the Quran.
Be content and satisfied with whatever Allah has
given you. Don't complain.
Whatever you have, we thank Allah for it.
Don't ask, don't complain about life.
And the 4th is what?
To be ready for life to come, akhir.
Good.
Questions, brothers and sisters?
Have any questions?
You are asking me
brother. Yes.
I wanna come to your system now. You
just mentioned that
a person has entered into one particular
gate and,
all those enter into different type of gate.
Mhmm.
But isn't that
person who doesn't fast isn't the default?
Person not fasting because
of a reason not to fast?
I mean, if you don't fast If a
person does not fast intentionally,
that person have committed great sin intentionally.
And that's why we'll not we'll be deprived
from entering
with that gate, of course, by the ice.
You're right?
But if a person have
a reason,
if a person say is sick person
and he cannot fast has chronical disease
and he pay,
fitra,
fitra,
feeding a poor person per day, that person
as if he's fasting.
Therefore, we have to have that in mind.
You know, that a person will get a
reward of a fasting person.
Yes.
What other question, sister? Go ahead.
It doesn't have to be the first 6
days of Shawwal.
You can fast
them separate.
Could
be 2 days in the beginning, 2 days
in the end.
Any 6 days of Shawwal.
It's preferable to swaz them as soon as
possible, but any 6 days is fine.
You know, it's better a person to fast
those days.
That's what what he misses or she misses,
and fast 6 days.
Other questions?
Okay. If you know all about it, then
maybe I should not have the class for
class tomorrow.
But anyway, I'm gonna give the class tomorrow,
insha'Allah, for those who want to attend.
And jazaqumullah khairum Allah accept it from all
of us. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make our
fasting.
That the type of fasting that to forgive
our sin, iman alwati sabin.
Be patient and we do it in the
manners that ruffasalam want us to do. And
may Allah forgive the sin of all of
us. Subhanahu wa bi kabala yasatamayasafood