Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 12 Blessed Times Ramadan 2011
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The speaker discusses the importance of not overdoing obligations during the month of Easter, as it is the busiest month of the year. The speaker gives an example of the importance of fasting during the month, and explains that obligatory acts of worship will bring closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala than optional acts of worship. The speaker also discusses the importance of fasting during the month of Easter, and mentions a sister's miscarriage in the second month of fasting.
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So we're almost getting close to the middle
of the month. If you look outside the
window, you will see almost a full moon.
So Ramadan is now a youth,
and in a few days it will be
an old man.
So try to take advantage of this great
month
before the days
go by.
So the best answer
on how or the easiest or the best
way to get close to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala comes
in the words of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and the words of the prophet Sasa Salim.
So I'm
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the words of the
prophet So I'm
gonna give you a very,
great hadith from the prophet It's sukoods a
hadith.
So the prophet
in this authentic hadith, the Sahih al Uthari
says, as Abu Narayana reported,
that the prophet
says that Allah says so it's a pussy
hadith. So Allah says,
my servants will never come close to me
with anything
except with that which I have made obligatory
on them. The obligatory acts of worship like
salah, fasting, zakat, etcetera.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and my
servants will keep coming close to me
by doing extra acts of worship until I
love them.
So when I love my my servants, when
they come very close to me and I
love them, I become
their ears with which they hear,
and I become their eyes with which they
see.
And I'll become their hands with which they
conduct their affairs. And I'll become their feet
with which they walk. And if they ask
anything of me, I will give it to
them. And if they ask my protection from
anything, I will protect them.
So in this part of the Hadith where
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, when I love
my servants, I become their eyes with which
they see till the end of the hadith.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala means that in everything
you do
or see or talk or walk or do,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will be guiding you.
So whatever you do will always be the
truth and will be the right thing to
do.
So according to this hadith, the obligatory
acts of worship will bring you closer to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala than the optional acts
of worship.
So for example,
the 2 rakahs of fast are more beloved
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala than 2 rakahs
of sunnah.
The zakah is better in the side of
Allah than charity, salafah.
The fasting of Ramadan is better in the
side of Allah than any optional fasting you
do like Thursdays Mondays.
Hajj is better in the side of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
than Omar.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It is true that obligatory acts of worship
will bring you very close to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. But what will make you beloved
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the optional
acts of worship, like sunnah prayer,
the fasting outside of Ramadan, like the charity
and so on and so forth.
So what if you do the beloved acts
of of worship
in the best time in the year, like
the month of Ramadan?
Of course, this is the best
you can do and this is the closest
you can get to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And the reason is
that the work for the good deeds are
multiplied infinitely.
The doors of heaven are open, which means
that Allah
makes it easy for you
to go to Jannah. And the gates of
the hellfire are closed, which means that Allah
makes it difficult for you in the month
of Ramadan to do the wrong.
And Shaytan is
out of business. Shaytan is putting
ads in the papers. He's looking for work
in Ramadan. He's changed.
As the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says
in the hadith.
They will wish that the whole year is
Ramadan.
So I conclude with this story, and Anil
said, if people know the great battle of
the month of Ramadan, they will wish the
whole year is Ramadan, and they will not
do like Juhar.
Juhar had a donkey,
and he was so dependent on that donkey.
And one day the donkey fell sick and
it was very close to death. So Juhar
made a pledge to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
if his donkey recovers,
he will fast 3 days for Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Sure enough, the donkey recovered
and he fasted for 3 days, and after
the 3rd day,
at the time of Maghrib, when he completed
the fasting, the donkey died.
A great setback.
So he got so mad. He was furious
and he said, wallahi.
Okay.
Okay. This is how it works? Okay. Ramadan
is coming and wallahi, I will fast only
for 27 days. These 3 days
hours of
Ramadan.
I'm not doing them again.
That's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The question for you yesterday, if a sister
has a miscarriage in the second month of
pregnancy in Ramadan.
Does she have to fast right away or
does she have to wait till the end
of the bleeding?
The scholars say if the miscarriage happens before
the passing of 81 days,
It doesn't count. This is
So it is not a period and it
is not the fast, post,
birth bleeding, which means that the lady
will
immediately
fast and pray
because this blood doesn't count. But after 81
days, she will have she will have to
pray to,
to fast or she will have to wait
for 40 days or until the stop of
the flood. This is the fatwa in this
room.
The question for today, if this sister
okay. We'll give them the word first.
The winner for tonight is sister Nadia and
Nashar. Is anyone here to take their word?
K.
Okay.
This is who has a miscarriage in the
2nd month of fasting,
of pregnancy in the month of Ramadan.
She didn't know the ruling that she has
to fast or pray right away, and she
stayed for a whole week without prayers and
without fasting.
After the flood is over, and now she
knows the ruling. Does she have to make
up for the day she missed in Ramadan,
the whole week that she missed? Does she
have to make up the days or not?