Mufti Menk – Ramadan 2023 – Reviving the Spirit #02

			Laila to the following
		

			fish. Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah my brothers and sisters the gates of Mercy Bismillah R Rahman
Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah who Allah Allah He was a big mind. This month
there are special gates that we need to know about. They are the gates of paradise. There are so
many gates, Allah Almighty makes mention of but eight gates of paradise one of them is a specialized
gate known as a Rayyan. Rayyan is a gate through which those who fasted dedicatedly shall enter
through by the will of Allah because Allah says, mon Samarra, Mallanna Iman and YT Serban who fear
Allah who might add them in them be Whoever fasts correctly in the month of Ramadan, with full
		

			conviction in Allah, hoping for a reward from Allah, all their previous sins will be forgiven, they
will be wiped out. So Allah Almighty has given us and indeed he has favored us by giving us a
special door through which those who took their fasting seriously will enter those who fasted and
remember something that fasting is not just in this wonderful, beautiful month. Yes, this is
compulsory. But beyond that, there are other fast like the Monday in the first day, like the
13th 14th and 15th of every lunar month. Those are voluntary sunnah fasts that will bring about
great reward and great benefit. But at the same time this month of Ramadan is something unique. We
		

			must develop something known as Taqwa. The reason why we have to continuously speak about the issue
of Taqwa is because Allah says in the Quran, yeah, are you Latina man Oh katiba ecommerce. mahkamah
katiba island living in Kaveri comme la la comme qu. O you who believe. Fasting has been written for
you, meaning prescribed upon you. It's written for you, it's compulsory upon you, just like it was
for those before you even though those before us had fasting but have a slightly different nature
with ours, the rules and regulations from dawn to dusk, this is what you do. This is what you don't
do 30 days and this is what the period will be and so on the daily period and the whole month. All
		

			that is a little bit different. But with the previous nations, Allah says we prescribed it upon
those before you in order that you achieve Taqwa. Like I've said in yesterday's episode, taqwa is to
create a barrier between you and something here to create a barrier between you and that which is
displeasing to You that which is unfortunate that which is the Wrath of Allah, the punishment of
Allah, the anger of Allah, like we say, we love Allah so much that we do not want to anger him.
		

			We don't want to say or do anything that may spoil this wonderful relationship with Allah. So Allah
says you want to develop this relationship. Taqwa is what you need. So Taqwa is to develop the
correct relationship with Allah. That's what I always say. Whenever a person translates that, it
Appala it's Oh, you who believe develop the correct relationship with Allah. And the details are, as
I just explained, so this Taqwa is something I need to build, I need to develop how do I do that? By
becoming conscious of who I am, I came from somewhere when I came on to the earth, I came with very
little, nothing. In fact, the little means my body given by Allah alone, the body organs that I
		

			have, everything started functioning properly, one time, and that was the gift of Allah subhanho wa
taala. Besides that, material items, I have nothing. My parents came in and helped me they gave me
like I said, as they indoctrinated us, we learned whatever they taught us, we learned, we believed
what was right, based on what we saw, and what we learned as time passes. And this is why people
across the globe are scrambling to educate the little kids according to their system. What's the
reason? Quite simple. When your computer requires applications and a working system, those who have
put that in would reap the greatest benefit from that particular computer, when it comes to
		

			humankind. Those who got to the brains of the children first and in the early years nurtured them,
the children begin to believe that that is the way they will laugh at scoff at disrespect any other
way or any other method because they don't know it. They've never been accustomed to it. They
haven't mixed. They haven't understood and that's why not everything you learn is correct. You have
to keep going back to Revelation and asking yourself
		

			Does this conform with what Allah said? No, it doesn't throw it out no matter who taught it to me
and what happened? Is this okay? Is this correct? Is this what the Almighty wants from me? Is this
the level of morality, the level of my values? Is this what it should be? If not, well, you need to
adjust. So Allah gives you a month to develop this Taqwa this consciousness. Who am I? Why did Allah
reveal the book? Why did he send so many messengers? Why did he make me say peace be upon him or
them? Every time I said the name of a messenger, because he wants me to value them, he sent to us
the best of the best. All these messengers that came to us from the time of Adam, all the way down
		

			to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, including Jesus and Moses, may peace be upon them are on
David and Solomon May peace be upon them. Abraham and Isaac and Ishmael May peace be upon them.
Those are the English names, but the Arabic names are also correct. If we have to look at any one of
them, including the Prophet, lat, for example, and sila Han the others, Allah Almighty, has asked us
to the Blessed lips of the Prophet Muhammad May peace be upon him to say, peace be upon them.
Because they did a good job, what did they come to do? They came to teach us to tell us, no matter
how you've grown up, you need to constantly look at what you were taught when you were little. When
		

			you were little, if you were taught things that are not good people begin to swear. And the
children, their parents say, where did you learn this from what I learned at school, or I learned
here or there, forget about the swear words, or sometimes those might be lighter, and some of the
habits and the beliefs that these kids develop over time. That's why there is a, there is a battle
to get to the brain of the child earlier. And they will tell you, we need to do this. And you need
to teach this and you must teach this and that Alhamdulillah we pray that what they're being taught
is good. And it will result in their development of the relationship with their maker primarily, and
		

			then the fulfillment of the rights of everyone around them in the most beautiful way. So Allah gives
us a month, this month of beauty. In the midst of all the difficulty and hardship here is a breath
of fresh air. I realized you know what Allah has told me, don't eat, go hungry Subhanallah for a
while, discipline yourself, increase your acts of worship in the process, read a lot of Quran,
fulfill much more of your prayer, and we will grant you great reward. Allah says, breath of fresh
air, we give you a spirituality, beautiful days that are filled with such amazing ambience, that
it's not felt in any other month, outside of this particular month of Ramadan, we will give you some
		

			amazing opportunity to soften your heart. If you don't soften it during this month. When would you
like to soften it? If you don't repent in the month of repentance? When are you going to repent? If
you don't turn to Allah during the month of turning to Allah? When are you going to do that? If
you're not going to quit your ways and habits that have been bogging you down the wrong ways? And
when are you going to do that? All of this is part of the plan of Allah has given you an
opportunity. He knows that you need opportunities. Look, every year, Ramadan comes back. When
Ramadan comes back, many of us find that we're starting again. And you know, we were back where we
		

			were. But that shouldn't be the case, we should be we should have progressed. And we find ourselves
a notch higher, a step higher than what we were the previous year. In the sense that now I want to
develop on that as well. And we're getting older by the day we're not getting younger. We've seen
people die around us. We've seen people lose their lives. We've seen things happening, that have
really shaken us to the core. Allah says that was just a tapping. We're just reminding you, you're
also going to come back to us, what are you going to do about it? So let's turn to Allah Almighty in
the most amazing way. Developing the taqwa as we said, and understanding the gates of paradise. Now,
		

			sometimes we might be weak, and we might not have developed a certain aspect of development in a way
that we should have. So Allah says, I will give you different opportunities to enter paradise. You
know, you may enter paradise through your character and conduct you may enter paradise through your
acts of direct worship, like prayer, you may enter paradise through your recitation of the Quran,
through your abstention from that which is prohibited, you may enter paradise through that you may
enter paradise through a deed a singular deed that you did for the sake of the Almighty. That was so
powerful on the scales and heavy weighty on the scales of good deeds that Allah says for you is
		

			paradise. So many ways of earning paradise. Don't know
		

			Look at a person and think for a moment because they're not doing exactly what you are doing, that
they're actually going to *. Because they could be involved in other acts of worship, or
something unique, that will take them to Paradise, and before you and before myself, so Allah
Almighty grant us a good understanding, my brothers and sisters, make the most of this wonderful
month of Ramadan, we need to change our habits that are negative, you need to cut out certain things
you are doing that you know are wrong for the sake of Allah. Let's start off with simple habits that
we know we need to give up. I tell you people have looked at a random habit I'm going to mention
		

			people have looked at smoking cigarettes and said, You know what, that's an easy thing. It's fine.
You know, I don't think Allah will punish me for that. Forget about that. Is it a good habit? No,
it's not cut it quickly. For the sake of Allah, you can do it. This is the month of Ramadan, are you
not going to please Allah Almighty, you were on Earth for how long? Similarly, people have now taken
that to another level of smoking weed and trying to justify it, smoking other things, and sniffing
things and doing sorts of all sorts of things, and taking different types of things that they're not
supposed to then intoxicate them when all intoxicants are prohibited in Islam. So Allah Almighty
		

			wants us to be hard on ourselves, in order to come out of the month, just plain beautiful. And trust
me, you will never lose if you were to follow the beautiful path of discipline. For indeed, Allah
will grant you success in this world and the next, imagine our children and the others around us
look at us. They're supposed to see a beautiful example so that we can open the right gates of
paradise, we can close up all the gates of hellfire, and we can enter Jannah in the most beautiful
way, we can rekindle this lovely relationship with Allah so that we are so happy the day we meet
with Allah and he would be happy to mean a cola cola SallAllahu wasallam Baba Karla Laila to recall
		

			the following
		

			fish