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I remember that the best of guidance is that of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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be aware of every

newly invented invented matter in the religion for that leads to nowhere except

deviation.

And I ask Allah subhanaw taala to make you and I have those

who carefully listen and consider the advice of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to mankind

to us and those who are before us. As Allah azza wa jal says well, Acharya was slain a Latina o to the Kitab Amin public como el Camonica Kula.

We have enjoined upon the people of the book before you and you to be mindful of Allah subhanho wa Taala and exercise taqwa

and fear Allah Subhana Allah Allah, Allah azza wa jal says yeah, you're living in Takala okatie What temotu Illa and two Muslim on oh you believe

have Taqwa of Allah subhanaw taala and fear Him as as he should be feared and die not accepting the state of Islam. When Baraka Allah. Yeah, you're a nurse with the power of the commander, the Halacha, menacing Wahida all mankind be mindful of your Lord who created you from a single soul and fear him.

And from it wahala come in Haza Would ya? And from it he created

his his mate.

Well, that's them in humanity Jad and Kathy Romani.

And from them both Allah azza wa jal made many men and women what the cola had not eaten. And will it be here on on ham, be mindful of Allah subhanho wa Taala through whom you demand your mutual rights, and be mindful of the rights of the wombs that bore you. Or kinship. In Allah can I leave kumara Teva? Allah Subhana Allah says, For Allah azza wa jal is watching over you.

Yeah, you're Latina mo Takala were called or called and said EDA, Allah subhanaw taala says, oh you believe

fear Allah be mindful of them

and say the right word. While cool or cold and studied, make sure that everything that you say is correct, accurate, pleasing to Allah subhanho wa taala. And if we do that, and we commit to it, Allah azza wa jal says useless lack of Allah.

Allah will rectify your deeds for you.

Wherever free, let him do know that come and he will forgive you your sins.

Why may alter allah how rasool Allah Who for Cardiff has opposing Alima and whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will indeed achieve the ultimate achievement and be victorious. May Allah subhanaw taala grant you and I victory today I wanted to talk to you about one of the

realities of fasting.

The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the Hadith

says, this is a very profound Hadith.

You would find the statement

in a hadith of a longer version, but there is another version of the Hadith that is longer.

The part that I wanted to deal with is this particular part

which you would find

in authentic narrations on the authority of why they've been a jungle, a companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, A Soma Juna fasting is Juna.

So what is juna

for the Arabic speakers, I must also interpret it because people may be familiar with Jana

or Gina

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so the province of Allah Azza wa sallam says Juna that describes fasting as Jonah. And Jonah means protection shield,

a protection and a shield that protects the person

for obvious reasons, and that complements what Allah subhanaw taala has already mentioned in the Quran with regards to the purpose of

the objective of fasting.

And for those who are interested in some linguistics, the reason Jana is also called Gender one of the one of the descriptions or one of the qualities of gender is that it is so thick, it has trees and it's protecting the ties whoever is inside. And also whoever goes to agenda is protected from what?

from hellfire

by default, and the reason gin are also called gin or Jinnah is because they're hidden.

So what they all have in common is that it hides and it shields or it protects something.

Right? So the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam says, fasting functions as a source of protection and as a shield for the believer.

And the scholar said, Okay, what does this exactly mean?

One meaning that we find

is consistent with the objective of fasting. When Allah azza wa jal in verse 183, of Surah Al Baqarah Surah two says to us, yeah, you're Latina Ave, or you believe

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Allah Subhana Allah says, perhaps that you would gain or attain Taqwa.

And we know that Taqwa means what?

It means protection, protection from the Wrath of Allah subhanho wa taala. Dukkha is a state of mind or state of affairs. That causes you to be mindful of Allah subhanho wa Taala and helps you avoid that which will incur the wrath of Allah azza wa jal upon you

and lead you to the path that would qualify you to receive the mercy and the grace of Allah subhanho wa taala. That's what tacos

so Allah Subhana Allah says, observe fasting and practice fasting and live, fasting and obey Allah subhanho wa Taala because that is going to lead you to taqwa, to that state of being protected by Allah subhanho wa taala. So that's one meaning that when we practice or when we observe fasting, it will actually qualify us to be under the protection of Allah fasting in and of itself protects us.

Right? When we establish that commandment, is in and of itself, an act of Taqwa. Because who knows whether you're fasting or not, except Allah subhanho wa taala.

The other meaning is that Taqwa that fasting literally

protects you by diminishing the causes, or the the by diminishing or by reducing

our susceptibility to temptations.

You're hungry,

right, you choose, you choose to not eat.

You're less inclined towards falling for any of these temptations. You have your resistance, if you will, for those temptations will increase.

you consciously get into this state and you make this deal with Allah subhanaw taala that you're going to avoid all of these things, and it's physically, mentally and spiritually, causes you to be less susceptible.

thus increasing your spiritual resistance and strength against sensations.

And this is exactly why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam recommended

for single people

who don't have the means to get married.

It is better for them to get married.

But in case someone cannot, there are circumstances do not allow that they get married the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and said Valley he was sown. Let that person fast, voluntary fast for in the hula hoop

and fasting will be a protection for that person.

But when the month of Ramadan comes, we collectively all of us together we observe fasting, and we experienced that

we experienced that protection that fasting provides.

And no wonder because of that you and I have this boost of spiritual energy that causes us to do things that normally we make all kinds of excuses not to do. We come to the prayer, we congregate more often we come in larger numbers, we pray the piano lady also like to tell our way. We read more Quran, we spend more time with family, we focus on things that really matter. We give charity, we do all kinds of things that normally we don't, we don't do as much of it outside Ramadan.

And this is because of this.

So it's a blessing from Allah subhanho wa taala. However,

in order for this, for fasting to become

a viable

and effective source of protection for us, we must

protect and safeguard

our fast. What does this mean? We have to be protective of it. It's a gift from Allah subhanaw taala.

But we need to be proactive and make sure that we safeguard

our fast. So how do we safeguard our fast in order for us for it, to really help us

and protect us?

First and foremost, my dear brothers and sisters,

in order for our fast, to be sound to be of great quality, it must be sincere.

We have to be sincere we have to always remind ourselves and we have to make sure that we were doing it for the right reason.

We're not doing it because everyone else is doing it. We're not doing it because it's the competition. We're not doing it because we want to show off we're not doing it because we we would feel embarrassed, you know, not too fast while everyone else's Fassi we're not doing it for you know, dietary reasons. We're doing it for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala to obey Allah Subhana Allah is commandment

and to fulfill

our commitment to Allah and his messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gives glad tidings to those people who are able to do that. The other day I mentioned that.

We were reminded of the Hadith of the Prophet man sama Ramadan, Eman and YT SAP and whosoever fast the month of Ramadan out of faith in Allah Subhana Allah to Allah and expecting their reward from Allah subhanho wa Taala who might academic? Right? So make sure that you will always remind yourself, I'm fasting for ALLAH SubhanA Dawn, right. While you may not say it because it's not necessarily an authentic hadith, but you always say to yourself, your mindset should be Allahu Allah. Oh Allah for you I fast.

Fast for ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and when you break your past you break your password ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and when he give you a gift for Allah azza wa jal dedicate everything in this month to Allah azza wa jal for Allah azza wa jal.

So make sure that you're sincere. Number two,

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part of guarding your

fast

is to make sure that you learn whatever you need to learn

about the rules of fasting.

Make sure that you're fasting, your start your ending of your fast, right rulings that are related to fast fasting and Ramadan. Make sure that you review your study you learn you ask,

right, make sure that is sound

because you want to be you want for it to be to be accepted and to be done correctly. So make sure that you fulfill that.

Number three, avoid anything that will actually

compromise your fast. Unfortunately, this is where a lot of people fail.

You see, we come for Joomla we praise them and sometimes we do things that compromise our Joomla

the reward of genre

such as either coming late or you know being distracted or distracting other people or you know, playing with our cell phones we do these things and this

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Whoever says to the person next to him Be quiet.

Be careful.

Same thing with salah. I mean this is struggle that we all have in Salah we get distracted we're thinking about different things we're planning our day we remember things that we have forgotten about. Right? We go over our to do list, I mean salah, we're just going through the motions. So we do things that diminish or we you know,

we do things that diminish the the reward of likewise when it comes to fasting, we do certain things that seriously, you know, really hurt our fasting.

I'll give you an example the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Melania There are countless Zuri will MLB he fell he said he law he had the alcohol Maha Sharapova

whoever does not avoid it and stop lying.

Right? There does not stop lying or falsehood or does not stop practicing that doesn't stop cheating, doesn't stop lying doesn't stop saying the wrong things and doing the wrong things while fasting that he said he law he has Allah is not a need for that person

to starve themselves.

What's the point? If that? If that feeling of hunger does it remind us why we're doing it? For whose sake we're doing it?

And how needy we are have Allah Subhana Allah and His mercies of Hannah with Allah, if that doesn't stop us from doing the wrong things while we're fasting. What's the point?

We have to avoid that.

Likewise, we have to stop some of these bad habits that we have when the month of Ramadan begins when we're fasting as your mat is a golden opportunity God knows

how much time we have left.

So we cannot, some people fast and then before the end of their fast they give away all of the good deeds and the reward that they would get to other people gossiping, backbiting, insulting or offending people and abusing them and all that why?

Safeguard your fast so that it would become a sort of a source of protection for you. Be very protective of it. You're not going to work hard.

Pray at night, read Quran, give sadaqa and then end up by the end of the day, you know, just giving it all away.

You don't want to do that.

Safeguard your fast

by avoiding some of these sins again, some of which are bad or you know just part of a ongoing lifestyle and I know that we're all strange amount of Allah who we're all struggling.

We're all we all have sins and bad habits things that we're trying to overcome Allah Subhan Allah to Allah grants tilde man love Subhan Allah to Allah help us overcome these weaknesses and shortcomings. But at least in the month of Ramadan, people be protective of that.

So follow follow some of these basic etiquettes or rules.

If there is a particular dress code that ALLAH SubhanA, Allah wants a believer to abide by, whether it's a male or a female, let's follow that dress code, at least in the month of Ramadan. And it's not hypocritical.

For the hope as always other person may be able to maintain that

may be able to internalize that in the month of Ramadan and somehow

make a transformation that will will last a lifetime. But at least in the month of Ramadan, for the sake

of the honor

and the sacred nature of this month, the sanctity of the month in and of itself.

So there is nothing wrong with us, you know, stopping these things.

Let's let's stop watching certain things that we would that people watch. They're wrong to begin with which we shouldn't be watching some of the stuff that we watch, we shouldn't be listening to some of the stuff that we listen to but in the month of Ramadan for the sanctity of the month, and for the sanctity and for the sake of your own fast, in order for your fast to protect you protect it, be very protective of it. This is an investment.

This is an investment and you have to be very protective of it, so that it would be accepted by Allah subhanaw taala ask Allah azza wa jal to accept our good deeds, to accept our fasting to accept our prayers to accept our charity, and to accept our repentance.

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is a golden opportunity for those

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He allows us to be inspired

with the gates of paradise opening and the gates of hellfire, closing

and devils being chained and restrained

with the fact that we listen to the revelation of Allah Subhan Allah to Allah the Quran

and we ask Allah Subhana Allah to open our hearts to it. Allah Subhana Allah to Allah gives us this boost in this, this beautiful gift. Now what we do with this beautiful gift is really up to us. But I urge you, because this is, this is around the time where we witness a dip or we also experienced a dip first few days of Ramadan, everybody's excited and and then people say, well, it's natural by and then it picks up towards. We're not talking about statistics here. We're not talking about trends. We're not talking about you know, I'm not here for it for marketing.

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we cannot afford that.

Right? It's not like we know for sure we have until the end of the month.

So how am I Allah this morning, one of the brothers sends me a message from from California I have a brother Subhanallah on his way from taraweeh.

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about him I would love that. May Allah Subhana Allah have mercy on him

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So in the month of Ramadan, and instead of being on his way from Tarawa and instead of the last thing that he was doing was, he's partying somewhere in the month of Ramadan why

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So may Allah Subhana Allah forgive us any of our shortcomings and the you know, the missed chances and opportunities in the past?

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