Mustafa Khattab – How to Get the Best out of Ramadan
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The importance of fasting is emphasized in Islam, including the heart, body, and body parts. It is emphasized that fasting is not a means to avoid punishment and should only be used for those with a similar belief. The shaitan, which is a way to set it up for the best of intentions, is emphasized. Hinda is okay for both hands and feet, but hinda is okay for hinda on your hands or feet. The concept of fasting is emphasized, and the shaitan is also discussed as a way to set it up for the best of intentions.
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Tonight, I'm gonna be talking about how to
get the best out of the month of
Ramadan
and how to get closer to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And remember yesterday in the footbath, what was
the topic?
The worst. How to ruin your Ramadan? How
to waste your Ramadan?
So so tonight, inshallah, we're doing the opposite.
Tonight, I'm gonna talk briefly
about
particular topic, and the reason I'm gonna talk
briefly,
for two reasons.
The first one, we're a little bit late,
and inshallah, I apologize for this, and it
won't happen again. We should start on on
time. And the second thing, my wife told
me a few minutes ago that she was,
having a lot of contractions, and we should
head right after the lecture to the hospital
to deliver the baby. Yeah. So I'll keep
my word.
So
we need to understand the meanings
of fasting.
So this, in my opinion, is the best
definition
of fasting I have come across.
Fasting
is defined as abstaining from food, drinks,
intimate relationships with, one one spouse from dawn
to sunset,
and other things that did did diminish or
this,
detract from the reward of fasting.
Doing it for the sake of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and following the example of the
prophet,
the
types of fasting. And we touched on this
yesterday in the footba, and we said
that the first type of fasting and this
is what most people do. They don't eat.
They don't drink. They don't have a relationship
with their wife or husband from dawn to
sunset. This is what 98%
of the people do.
A higher level of fasting, a better form
of fasting is also when your body fasts
with you.
So your tongue fasts, you don't lie, you
don't cheat.
Your eyes fast, so you don't look at
the Haram.
Your ears fast, so you don't listen to
the Haram or what is prohibited in Islam.
Your feet or your legs fast so you
don't walk to the Haram
and so on and so forth. So this
is a better form of fasting.
Number 3,
the highest form of fasting in Islam is
your heart fast.
So everything that you
do in this month, you do purely for
the sake of Allah. When you give a
charity,
you don't give it so people will say,
oh, this guy is very generous. Okay? When
you come to the masjid to pray, you
do it only for the sake of Allah
so people don't say, oh, this guy
comes to the masjid all the time. He
should, they should fire the imam, and they
they should hire this guy.
No. You should do everything purely for the
sake of Allah. Your heart is attached to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in this month.
And as I mentioned today yesterday in the
food, but some people ruined their fast
by doing the opposite of everything I mentioned.
If people think that fasting is all about
not eating and not drinking, then camel is
a bit a bit of faster than you.
I'm
not talking about faster in terms of the
speed,
No. In terms of fasting.
A camel, as you probably know, can go
for 3 months without food or drink.
So if fasting is all about food and
drink, then camels are better faster than you.
Some people, they waste their time at night
playing cards, watching movies, and doing stuff,
and they sleep all day long.
They become,
more or less like an owl. This is
what an owl does. It wakes up all
night,
plays all day. No. No. Actually, it does
the opening. It plays all night, it sleeps
all day.
If fasting is all about eating
and sleeping,
then a bear is a better faster than
you. Right?
Because it eats for 6 months and it
hibernates
for 6 months. And this is what many
Muslims do. They eat all night.
They sleep all day
like bears.
Right? So they they basically hibernate.
This is not fasting.
Why do you fast?
Number 1, in obedience to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Some people I remember when we were young,
they were telling us in the school,
they were miseducating
us, telling you the truth. They were telling
us that the reason we are fasting is
because
we will, get the feeling of the poor
people, the homeless people.
They don't eat anytime they want to.
So when we fast, we have the same
feeling the poor people have.
So when I grew up a little bit
older, I used to question this reasoning. I
said,
okay.
If we fast
only to feel how poor people feel, then
why are poor people fasting in Ramadan?
Right?
It should be only for rich people, like
Nabil Nasruddin and I and all those guys.
No.
This is not the reason. This is not
the main reason.
The main reason in Islam is Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says something, do this or don't
do do this, or the prophet
says do this or don't do this,
This is what we stick to. This is
the reason in Islam. Anything else, any wisdom
behind
why do something, why don't comes next.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us in
the Quran.
Let those who witnessed the month of Ramadan,
let them fast. So this is an order
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Quran.
Number 2,
fasting generates
righteousness
and piety in your heart. As Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says in the Quran.
O you who believe
fasting has been prescribed for you as it
was prescribed for those who came before you
so that you will achieve Taqwa or piety.
And piety as the prophet says
is in the heart.
Speaking of taqwa,
all the verses
in Surat Al Baqal, in chapter 2, that
talk about different acts of worship,
they always conclude with the word taqwa.
The main reason you pray is achieve Taqwa,
piety. The main reason you fast is to
achieve Taqwa. The main reason you make Hajj
Al Umla is to achieve Taqwa. The main
reason you give charity is to achieve taqwa.
For example, in chapter 177, it says that
the reason you pray and you give Zakat
is to achieve taqwa.
So always in chapter 2, the verses that
talk about
different acts of worship, it always says that
the reason you are doing these acts
is taqwa to achieve or to attain righteousness
and piety.
The third reason why you fast is following
the example of the prophet sasallam. In Islam,
we don't make up acts of worship.
If you do something
that is different from the practice of the
prophet sasallam, you don't get any rewards.
So for example, the prophet, saasal, prayed
If you pray 7 rakas,
what do you get?
0. You but you prayed more than the
prophet, saasal, you get 0 reward.
The prophet, saasal,
circled the Kaaba in Umran and in Hajj
7 times.
So if you circle it 17 times,
how many rewards you get?
0.
You have to stick to the exact
number that the prophet salaam did.
And also when we Muslims fast,
we are in actuality
walking in the footsteps of the previous prophets.
It says, for example, in the bible and
also in the Quran that Musa Moses fasted
for 40 days,
The same way that Muslims fast.
During the day, he ate during the night.
Jesus,
he did the same thing for 40 days.
He fasted during the day and he ate
at night.
David,
he fasted during the day, he ate at
night, the prophet salam, and so on and
so forth.
So the prophets, for example,
as some people do,
they didn't avoid certain foods when they fasted.
Like some people, they avoid certain foods. Okay.
This year, I'm gonna fast. I'm not gonna
eat cakes during the day, or I'm not
gonna eat fish. But they can't eat anything
else.
And tell you the truth, it would have
been an easy fast for for us if
you,
fast for 17 hours. But again,
we stick to what the prophet
did to get the reward.
Number 4,
the reason we fast is to get all
your sins washed away.
The prophet says
Those who fast in Ramadan
hoping to get the reward from
Allah
and they fast believing that fasting is an
obligation on them, they will give all their
previous sins forgiven.
And I give the example in the Khutbah.
Imagine if you owe someone
200
$1,000 and this person tells you if you
fast or if you work 30 days for
me, all your past debts are forgiven.
Will you ever say no?
And if your boss tells you
that if you work a couple of hours
for me, I'm gonna give you
the salary for 83 years.
And this is just like Laylatul Qadr. This
is the analogy, Laylatul Qadr. Laylatul Qadr,
This night at the end close to the
end of Ramadan, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
in the Quran
that the reward for worshiping in this night
is better than a 1000
months of worship. That is 83 years
of worship.
So worshiping for 2 hours at the night
of line of the qat is better than
the whole
years that brother Abu Abdul Aqd, for example,
has lived. He's 83 years old.
So praying or worshiping at the night of
Al Qad is better than all the worship
of Abu Abdul Aqd in 83 years.
This is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
in the Quran. And some people say,
no. Thank you.
Hoping to be protected
from the punishment for not fasting. The prophet
says in an authentic hadith that if someone
does not fast,
he or she does not fast for no
legitimate reason. We know that in Islam, some
people don't have to fast because they are
traveling or they are sick or a lady
is pregnant or she is delivering a baby.
They don't have to fast.
But if someone is as tall as a
wolf and as healthy as a horse
and they don't fast, Allah sub the prophet
salaam is telling us even if they fast
the whole year to make up for this
day, it will not be accepted of them
because there was no excuse. However,
however,
this is just a warning from the prophet,
salaam al salaam. Otherwise,
if someone broke their fast for no reason,
then they repented and they came back to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they mend their
ways,
then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will forgive them.
As Allah says in Surat Azum,
Say, oh, my servants,
who have exceeded the limits in disobeying Allah,
don't lose hope in the mercy of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. He forgives all sins. Indeed,
he is the most forgiving,
most merciful.
So what makes Ramadan very special?
We're gonna have fun in a minute, insha'Allah,
so don't fall asleep.
Number 1, what makes it easy
is number 1, the shaitan is chained in
this month. As we're told in the hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that
the devil, the shaitan,
is chained in this month.
Some of the scholars say that the words
of the prophet are taken literally in this
hadith, but some scholars like Imam Al Qutobi,
for example, they said no.
It's a figure of speech. The prophet, salam
al salam, is talking metaphorically,
which means
as Al Kortubi, for example, says that each
and every one of us
can tie or release his or her shaitan.
Because technically, if the shayateen or the devils
are chained in Ramadan,
how come that some people kill
and steal and lie and all do all
the Haram? Right? If the shayateen are chained,
how come that all this evil is done
during Ramadan? Right? A lot of crimes are
committed in Ramadan. So it is you
who chains or releases your shaitan.
So if you fast the right way, then
your shaitan is detained in prison like this
guy.
But if you don't fast the right way,
your shaitan is all over the place. So
it is up to you.
Ramadan is the month of the Quran. The
prophet
always
as mentioned in the hadith, he always reviewed
the Quran with Jibril alaihis salam once.
But when it was the last year in
the last year that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam died, he reviewed the Quran twice
with Jibril alaihi salam. And we are told
in the Quran,
Ramadan is the month in which the Quran
was revealed.
We're also told in the hadith, authentic hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that
Ramadan, the fasting of Ramadan and the recitation
of the Quran will come and make shafa'a,
intercession for you on the day of judgment.
And the
the intercession will be accepted.
We know that only 18%
of Muslims are Arab. Right?
Only 18%
of Muslims, they can read the Quran in
Arabic.
But what about the great great great majority
of Muslims who don't know how to read
the Quran in English?
How can I get the reward in Ramadan
for reciting the Quran although I don't know
how to recite? Right?
There are several options.
Number 1,
if you are not able to recite the
Quran
because Arabic is not your native tongue, then
you can listen to the recitation.
And in this case, you will get the
poor reward
for listening as if you recited yourself.
Which is which is even better is to
listen to the recitation of the Quran in
Arabic followed by an English translation, for example,
or Somali translation.
Right? To get the reward.
If you try to recite in Arabic,
although it's hard on you, then the prophet
says that those who recite the Quran fast,
like myself, they will get one reward. But
if you push yourself a little bit harder,
you try to recite in English. In Arabic,
although it is hard, you get 2 rewards.
1 for reciting and one for the effort.
So me and and somebody
who doesn't know the Arabic language
would be reciting the same page and he
or she would get 2 rewards for every
letter they recite, I get one reward.
And this is fair enough. So again, if
you are not able to read in Arabic,
you can listen to the Arabic followed by
the English translation.
Or
some even said, if you just read the
English translation,
just the English translation, in Ramadan, inshallah, you
will get the reward for a say. Because
as you know, in Islam,
you don't get the reward
for the act of worship per se, but
you get the reward for doing your best.
Even if your best is not good enough,
you still get the full reward.
Ramadan is the month of patience. And the
prophet is telling us,
when you are fasting,
if someone tries to pick on you or
start a fight with you,
don't fall for the trick and tell them
I'm fasting.
And I remember back home,
some of the guys I used to hang
up with,
they used to follow this hadith but they
followed it in the wrong way. And if
someone
is trying to pick on you, okay, and
you tell them, okay, I'm fasting.
This means
I'm not gonna lose the reward for my
fasting by fighting with you. But these guys
were telling, you know, were saying like this,
I'm fasting. I'm fasting.
Like, get off my face. I'm gonna punch
you in the face. They do it
the wrong way.
We are in
a continuous
fight with our lower desires
and and self and desires all year long.
But in Ramadan and this is what makes
Ramadan very special.
Now you are in control of your desires.
Okay?
At fajr,
when the adal is made,
you stop eating and drinking.
Again, when the Aba is made for Magrib
on.
Then Fazh off. On and off. On and
off. So now you are put in control
of your body, you are in control of
your desires.
But before Ramadan, your body in actuality
is in full control.
Okay. When you are hungry, you just walk
like this
to the fridge even in your sleep.
You have no control over your body. Right?
Yeah. It's funny because
I remember this brother.
Mohammed.
Yeah. I should have mentioned his name.
He's like
he's that high. You see that thing?
He's that high.
So he came to me a couple of
weeks ago,
and he said, brother Mustafa, he's very high.
So I usually ask him to sit down
if he wants to ask me a question
so I can hear him.
So I said, what do you want? But
he has a very big heart.
Yeah. So he said, 2 weeks ago, he
was fasting in Ramadan, an optional fasting to
get ready for Ramadan.
Then,
he went home.
Supposedly, there was no one in the house.
He forgot completely
that he was fasting.
So he
literally shelf by shelf. He destroy not destroyed.
He devoured everything in the fridge shelf by
shelf. So after 2 hours, okay, I remember
now I'm fasting.
So he came to me and said, is
my fasting valid?
So I said, the prophet said in the
hadith, if you eat or drink by mistake,
you should continue your fast because Allah is
the one who is giving you to eat
and drink. And Allah is generous.
Now you have a full fridge.
Now you should be controlled. And this actually
happens the 1st days the first two days
of Ramadan.
You're not, you know, yet familiar with the
fast, so sometimes you forget.
Ramadan is the month of generosity.
We are recommended to give in charity in
the month of Ramadan. We are also recommended
to feed
poor people in in the month of Ramadan,
to give them food and to give them
money.
It says in the authentic hadith in Bufari
and Muslim that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was very generous
all year long,
but he was exceptionally generous in the month
of Ramadan.
I remember reading one time in Hadith that
the prophet
got a gift, a code, abay,
and he went to the masjid to to
pray in this abay.
He didn't have fancy clothes and that was
probably the best piece of clothes he got.
A lady made it specially for him. So
he went to the masjid to pray. So
once Sahaba saw it and he saw that,
oh, prophet of Allah,
that's a very nice quote. Can I get
it? Give it to me. So the Prophet
SAW Alaihi Wasallam took it off and he
gave it to him.
The other companions
after the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam
So they they criticize the brother. They said
that this is the best
coat
or overcoat that the prophet salaam had. Why
did you take it from him?
And you know that whenever the prophet salaam
is asked to give out something, he would
just give it right away. He wouldn't
think twice.
He said, I
didn't take it to wear it.
I took it, so when I die, I
will ask my family to shroud me in
this coat so it will be with me
in the grave. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will give me Jannah by the barakah of
the coat of the prophet because it touched
his body.
So the prophet
was very
generous
throughout the year, especially in the month of
Ramadan.
There is another person.
Islamullah
He used to make the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam laugh all the time. He used
to crack jokes and do situations
to make the prophet laugh.
And I remember coming across the hadith that
says that an my man on the day
of judgment
will be raised laughing.
The prophet said that this guy will be
laughing on the day of judgment because he
used to make me laugh all the time.
And I think this is something good.
So he used to according to authentic hadith,
this person and my man,
whenever he saw a peddler selling stuff on
the street,
he would go to the guy, the peddler,
and buy stuff from him, food. He would
take it to the and say, hey, hey,
this is this is a gift. And he
will give to the sahaba and all of
them will eat, then the guy would come
running the piddler asking for his money. So
then my man would tell the prophet
okay, pay him. You ate.
But the prophet was saying, but you told
me it was a gift. He said, yes.
I said it's a gift, but I never
said I paid for it. It's a gift,
but you paid for it.
Because he knew that the prophet sasallam would
pay.
In other hadith, we're told that some people
will come to the prophet sasallam and beg
him for money,
and he didn't have nothing in his pockets.
He would borrow money from Sahaba
to give to the person and he will
give pay them back later. Although he didn't
have nothing in his pockets. So he was,
sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, generous.
Ramadan is the month of infinite
rewards. We're told in the hadith
that every good deed that you do like
salah, reciting Quran, giving zakah, you will get
10 rewards for every good deed up to
700.
But according to this hadith,
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam is telling
us except for fasting,
Allah has never given us
a specific reward for fasting because the reward
is left completely to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So fasting
is left completely to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The same is also true for other acts
of worship in Ramadan. So if you pray
in Ramadan, if you pray duh,
this will this duhr would be multiplied 70
times. The reward will be 70 duhrs for
you.
70 multiplied by 70. As the prophet salaam
said in the authentic hadith that the reward
for a prayer for example, for a far
is multiplied by 70. And the reward for
an multiplied by 17. And the reward for
an optional
act of worship, like salatul sunnah, for example,
equals salatul fart. So if you do an
act
of worship
that is optional, you will get the reward
of
an obligatory act of worship. Like if you
pray 2 rakas before Dhuh, you will give
the reward of salatul Dhuh.
That's a fun.
If you do a Umrah in Ramadan, it
equals the reward of Hajj as the prophet
says in the authentic hadith.
If
you work or you, you worship for a
couple of hours, you get the reward of
a 1000 months over a 1000 months that
is 83
years.
Another
special reward on the day of judgment is
the VIP treatment on the day of judgment.
We're told in the hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam narrated by Sahir al
Sa'ali and it is in Sahir al Bukhar.
So the prophet is telling us in this
authentic hadith
that there is a special door
for the people who used to fast in
this life. Let's call them the fastest,
the summers.
This door is exclusively for them.
It is just like in airports, they have
a VIP
gate. Not everyone can go.
If I go there with my back, they
will just kick me out. Okay? This is
only for ministers and, prisoners and all that
stuff.
The same is also true for the people
who fast in this life, the right way.
The
right way. Okay?
So there's this special gate for them to
go to Jannah through this particular door. So
when all of them go through the door,
when the last one of them has gone
through this door, it will be closed and
everyone else will be told to go to
another door. This is only for the people
who fast.
But what about the people who
So this door is not for them.
Ramadan is the month of mercy. Allah
will shower His mercy on those who passed
in this month.
Ramadan is the month of Al Takaaf. We
know that
you can make Al Takaaf all year long.
And when it comes to Al Takaaf, I
had 2,
pieces of news. There's bad news and good
news. Okay?
The bad news is
you are not allowed to make a tikaf
in the house. Some sisters think
I can make a tikaf in the house,
but this is not true.
That tikaf should only be made in the
masjid.
And atikaaf can be made all year long,
any night throughout the year, but it is
better to make atikaaf Ramadan.
And it's it's even much better.
The finest
type of articaf or retreat or seclusion in
the masjid is the articaf made in the
last 10 nights of Ramadan that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did. The good news
is
the good news is
you can make articaf in the masjid anytime.
If you come to salat,
a burr for example and this is the
opinion of
the the majority of the scholars, Ishmael Yani,
Jambur al Fakuh.
That Artikaf has no minimum time.
Which means if you come to the masjid
for dong prayer
for 10, 15 minutes, you can have the
intention of Atikaf
because the prophet salawasalay wa sallam never specified
a time for Atikaf.
When you come to salatul Isha to pray
Isha and taraweeh,
you can have 3 intentions that you pray
Isha in Jema'ah, and you will get the
reward of standing half of not half of
the night
in salah,
as the prophet salawasalam said in the hadith.
And when you come back for fajr, you
will give the reward for standing the whole
night
in qiyam, in prayer.
Then you will get the reward for salatul
Taraweeh. And if you have the intention
for Artikaf during the time of Isha and
taraweeh, you will get the reward of Artikaf.
The Malek School, they say that the minimum
time for Artikaf is one day, one night,
but there's no proof
for this opinion. The prophet
never specified.
So anytime you come to the masjid, brothers
and sisters, when you go through the door,
make the intention of antikaf.
And we'll give them a word of salah,
prayers and antikaf.
The last thing I'm gonna mention about what
is,
good about the month of Ramadan
is that it
motivates us to have unity among ourselves.
Just like the rest of the different acts
of worship in Islam like salaf,
we are encouraged
to pray together in congregation. It doesn't matter
if you are rich or poor, young or
old,
black or white. It doesn't matter. We're all
in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
When you go for the Hajj, the pilgrimage,
all the people,
4 to 5000000 people will go for the
Hajj in Mecca every year.
Some of them are rich, some are poor.
They come from all corners of the earth,
black, brown, yellow,
white. It doesn't matter. So
these different acts of worship teach us how
to be united. Ramadan is the same thing.
All of us,
we stop, we observe the fasting at the
same time.
We start eating at the same time at
sunset.
We worship the same direction, the same qiblah
when we pray. We worship the same God.
All Muslims have the same Quran. It's only
one version, and so on and so forth.
However,
sometimes we do some things,
and it gets ugly in the month of
Ramadan. And this contradicts
the spirituality
of the month of Ramadan. We shouldn't be
doing these things.
Number 1,
the Ramadan fights.
The Ramadan fights.
We have so many fights in Ramadan. I
mentioned some of them in the foot by
yesterday.
We have a huge fight
2 days before Ramadan on whether Ramadan is
tomorrow or the day after.
Okay.
Should we follow the same sighting of the
moon or every country has its own sighting?
We have a big fight.
At the end of the month, we have
a bigger fight. Is the Eid tomorrow or
the day after? Yes.
And sometimes
sometimes I remember many years back
that the
beginning and the ending of the Ramadan was
sometimes
politicized.
So I remember
about 10 years ago, every time that Saudi
Arabia said
that Saturday
is the beginning of Ramadan, Egypt always said
that Sunday is the beginning of Ramadan. For
some reason, I don't know why.
Gaddafi
would say that Wednesday is the beginning of
Ramadan. So we have 3 beginnings.
Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday.
Who is this guy?
So and between these two big fights, the
beginning and ending of Ramadan, we have smaller
fights all over the months.
8 rakas or 20 rakas, a big fight.
Are we going to recite the whole Quran
in Taraweeh or just a few Surahs in
a big fight?
Who is going to leave the salah? A
Somali Imam
or
Egyptian Imam, big fight?
And so on and so forth.
And the imam standing like this in the
masjid and people fighting all the time. Please,
brothers and sisters. Please don't plead on the
carpet. It's new.
So he cares only about the carpet.
Okay.
Number 2.
On the first two days of Ramadan, the
people are very enthusiastic.
They're all over the place. They're playing praying
on the hallway,
in the gym,
in the front yard, backyard, in the street,
on the window,
on the roof, everywhere.
And this is how it looks on the
1st day of Ramadan. People are praying in
the streets.
Then,
for some reason, a few days later, and
Ramadan is not over yet. It's the 7th
day of Ramadan. The Masjid is empty.
The Masjid is empty.
And what the events do?
They put an ad in the paper.
Matloob
musaleel.
We need somebody to pray in the masjid.
Yeah. I'm gonna give you a joke, a
sweet joke
about,
yeah.
In one of those masjid, the masjid was
big, but nobody was coming to, to pray
in the masjid.
So the imam basically said
he put an ad in the paper, matlubu
Saleem. Okay?
So he said,
anyone who comes to the salah will get
$5,
$5 for every prayer that you do in
the masjid. So if you pray 5 times
a day, you'll get $25,
and this is good. Right?
So people came the 1st day, the was
packed. They were everywhere
like ants everywhere,
masha Allah.
And after the first prayer, they said, where
is our money?
You say, I didn't say in the ad
that I'm gonna pay you after every prayer.
I'm gonna pay you monthly
monthly. At the end of the month, come
take your check. So
at the end of the month, the guys
came came to him. They stood they stood
in lines outside the message, and they said,
where is our money?
He said, brothers,
you know,
it breaks my heart, but I gotta tell
you that you have to pray for Allah
to be the reward.
If you pray for money, there's no reward
from from Allah. They said, we don't care.
We need the money.
Save the luxury. Okay? We don't need lecturing.
He said the bad news is I don't
have no money. I'm broke.
I was just motivating you to come to
the salah.
They said we knew that you, imam, are
a liar. You are a liar.
Okay?
And therefore because we know that you are
a liar, we always came to the salah
with no wuduk.
Because we know that you will lie to
us.
You're alive.
Okay.
As I said, some people think that Ramadan
is all about food and drink.
And subhanAllah, the sisters,
they're not helping us for Ramadan. They make
excellent food. They save the best
for the best. Okay? So they make
food all months long. Right after fashr, they
start they stand in the kitchen cooking all
those different types of foods.
Berries and pasta and kataif and baklava
and biryani and all that stuff. So this
is how we look at the beginning of
the month, and this is how we look
at the end of the month.
What is this?
It's very counterproductive.
We're supposed to lose weight in Ramadan. Right?
But this is what happens.
The prophet shalala sallam is telling us in
the hadith that the worst
bowl or
container
that you can't fill out with something is
your stomach.
Should you eat, then divide your stomach into
3 parts.
1 third for food, 1 third for water,
and 1 third for bread for,
bread. For bread.
And I remember when we were young, this
guy, he was
a psycho zombie.
He used to misread the hadith. He used
to say,
for his breath. He used to say, for
himself.
1 third for food, 1 third for water,
1 third for himself, which means
for food.
No. It's for your breath.
Okay.
Yeah. This is the Shaitan by the way.
Shaitan and will lie, this happens. Shaitan will
always come to you once
before the month begins and he will come
to you another visit
after Ramadan.
So
Ramadan the shaitan will will come to you
and say Ta'ala.
Ta'ala.
So say for example, I'm the shaitan. I'm
the devil.
I'm playing the devil's abbey. Now come this
way, man.
So the shaitan will come to Ahmed before
Ramadan and say, brother, you know I like
you. Right?
No. I don't like you. Yeah. I don't
like you either. So the shaitan will come
and say,
brother, bro,
Ramadan is starting in a week. Okay?
So why don't you do all do all
the evil things now?
And when Ramadan comes in a week, inshaAllah,
you're gonna go to the masjid all the
time. We'll be crying in the masjid, giving
salakat, doing all that stuff, and Allah will
forgive you. So whatever you do now, it
will be forgiven in Ramadan.
Okay? It happens.
Then after Ramadan, the shaitan will come again.
Bro, you know I like you. Right? You
had a good time in Ramadan.
And you have a lot
in your credit, a lot of good deeds.
You you have accumulated
a lot of good deeds in Ramadan. Right?
So if you have all those 1,000,000,000 of
good deeds
in your account,
so it's not gonna, you know, really matter
if you, do a lot of evil deeds
now because you have a lot of your
account. So this is what the Shaitan does
before Ramadan and after.
Yeah. Go. Ramadan is coming.
And this is why
this is why
some people were asking why did the prophet
salaam fast in Sha'ban
Right?
Then he will fast in Ramadan, then after
Ramadan he's also fasting. So the shaitan is
not messing with him.
Right?
This guy,
he's a poet. I'm not gonna give his
name.
But he used to say before Ramadan, a
few days before Ramadan, I'm gonna give the
poetry in Arabic, then I'll give the translation.
He would say,
He was saying basically
he's talking to all the junkies and all
the drunkards with him.
When the last 10 days of Shabaan come,
keep drinking
alcohol by day and night.
And don't drink in small cups because there
is no time for the small cups, drinking
big cups. Why? Because Ramadan will come after
and everything will be forgive. The same mentality.
Also,
in
in Ramadan, some people are very wasteful.
Okay.
They make more than they can eat. And
you know that in Ramadan,
some people don't like to eat the leftovers.
Okay? So every night, the remaining food will
be thrown away.
If you are gonna overcook
or make more food than what you can
eat,
I really recommend you
to remember you brothers and sisters in Somalia
who are dying of of hunger and thirst
this
year. So instead of wasting your food and
drink and throwing stuff in the trash,
save some money and send it to them.
Okay?
So share.
Muslims are are one brotherhood.
As
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the Quran.
They waste all other brothers of the Shaitan.
So you shouldn't
waste in the month of Ramadan.
Oversleeping.
This guy is in bed with the shaytan.
So
the Shaitan will always come to you before
salah, especially Salatul Fashj and will say, bro,
you know, you are you are waking up
very early for Fashj. Okay? It is true
that the Adan was made like 2 minutes
ago,
but in Masjid Al Rashid they make a
comment 20 minutes after Adan, and you live
you live 2 blocks away. Okay? So sleep
for now and inshallah, I promise you, Allah,
I give you my word. I'm gonna wake
you up in another 10 minutes.
The next thing is you wake up before
I
Right? It happens all the time. And we'll
lie sometime. This is You know, correct me
if I'm wrong. It happens.
And it happened to me before.
Sometimes,
especially before exams,
sometimes
I had some
I had some sleepless nights. Sometimes
before because of anxiety and what have you.
You. And Mawlai sometimes
you just think
if you just to start to think about
making bikh
or remember Allah or when the Adhan is
made and you just think about standing up
to pray,
This is what
happens. I don't know why but it happened
to me several times.
So if you are not able to sleep,
just think about standing up and praying 2
rakats at night or saying that, Gulayi will
sleep right away.
It's better than sleeping pills.
Pills.
Pills, not pills.
Laziness.
Now this guy looks like Hitler.
Yeah. Actually, he didn't have the mustache. I,
put on mustache for him.
So
in Ramadan, people get very lazy. And the
reason is
they have been eating all night long. They're
wasting their time, staying up all night doing
trivialities.
So they sleep. They become so lazy.
Also,
as soon as the adven is made for
for people
start eating and they stop their stomachs with
food
and they are not able even to stand
up in salah.
They fall asleep. Right? And when they come
to the they
snore behind the imam. And I hear the
people behind me in the salah
snoring all the time.
And you see people not praying, they are
sitting against the wall and they are falling
asleep because they have a big you know,
they filled their stomach with
a lot of food.
They can't basically breathe.
You know that, yeah, Niba al Rasawal, some
of the battles of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam in Badr
and the conquest of Mecca, they were made
when
in Ramadan the Muslims were fasting.
Right?
So there is no reason for you not
to,
to be active in Ramadan.
Lack of knowledge. And this is very funny.
How can you worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and get close to Him
if you don't have the proper knowledge?
And I'm not telling you to be a
scholar or get a PhD degree on how
to fast.
No. Just know the basics.
Just know the basics. Wallahi, if you give
5 minutes every month to learning about Islam
and the basics of Islam, you will have
a lot of knowledge.
I'll give you, a few examples.
For example,
about 2 years ago,
there was this new Muslim sister in South
Carolina, in the US.
And she has been she had been Muslim
for 1 whole year. And one day she
came to me and she said,
I read somewhere in the book or someone
told her that as soon as you wake
up
of course, you sleep at night and Ramadan
when you wake up, you will take the
sukhoor, a pre dawn meal and
then you pray fajr, then you continue the
fast. And she said she always woke up
at 8 in the morning,
like, 2 3 hours after sunrise, and she
ate, and she prayed first, and she started
fasting.
She thought that you get this meal as
soon as you wake up in the morning,
regardless of what time you wake up. If
you wake up at 11 in the morning,
this is when you eat the sukur, then
you continue to fast.
So she fasted for 30 days this way.
Does she get the reward for her fasting?
The answer is yes.
In Islam, if you do something by mistake
or out of ignorance,
insha'Allah, as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
says in the hadith, you'll be forgiven.
Another example, some people and this I've
heard this in many situations. Some people they
think
if you eat or drink by mistake in
Ramadan, your fast is not valid, then you
should make up the day after Ramadan. But
this is not true.
The prophet salawas alaihi wa sallam, as we
mentioned earlier,
says in the hadith, if someone eats or
drinks by mistake in Ramadan, they should continue
and the fast is valid. Because it is
Allah who gave them
to eat and drink.
There was an idiot.
Yeah. An idiot.
This guy was not practicing,
then he started to practice and he used
to make this dua. And I think
I heard the story or I read it
somewhere.
So this person when he started to practice,
so he used to say in his dua
after he became like
he started to practice, oh Allah,
forgive all my past sins,
those of which you know and those of
which you don't know.
You thought that Allah only knew the sins
that he committed
openly
or during the day. And Allah didn't know
the sins that he committed at night or
in secrecy.
Another example,
kissing the green stone.
All of us know about the black stone.
Right? Yeah. So
one day, about 10 years ago, we were
in Saudi Arabia
doing the live translation, the subtitling for the
Taraweeh
prayers from Mecca.
And we made omer. We're making omer. So
if you have been there before, you know
that people circle the Kaaba.
And usually in the place where they have
the black stone,
you you see a lot of crowd, a
big crowd. So you can't go there very
easily to touch it or kiss it. Okay?
So we were circling the Kaaba and all
of a sudden, I didn't find my friend
with me. Okay?
And I went there to
the the crowded place to look for him.
Maybe he went to kill the black stone.
He was not there.
Okay.
So I started to circle again and I
saw him kissing. You you see the the
the golden door of the camel?
And there is a green step below the
the golden door. And this guy,
he jumped on the green step
and he was kissing it.
And and I said,
what are you doing here? He said, I'm
kissing the black stone.
I said, you blind. It's green. It is
not black. Right?
So we used to jake joke out to
this and, I always asked him, what color
is the black stone?
And he always said green.
One brother,
he told me that he met someone.
You know the masjid Al Haram? The masjid
itself? You have the Kaaba inside, but the
masjid itself
He said wallahi he met someone
somewhere from Africa. Okay? He was making tawaf
around the Mashul Haram from the outside.
It will take hours, wallahi. He said that
he didn't know. He thought that he would
make should make tawaf from the outside, not
from the inside.
And I thought,
didn't he, you know, wonder why no one
was making tawaf with him? He was the
only one.
Yeah. Weird.
In another
instance,
one brother, he lived in Saudi Arabia for
about 20 years, and he said 1 year
he were making he was making a tawaf
around the Kaaba,
and he heard
this kid asking his mom, mom, why are
people circling the Kaaba?
So his mother said, son,
we are circling the Kaaba because the Prophet
is buried inside.
She told her son
that we are circling the Kaaba. We're making
tawaf because the Prophet is buried inside the
Kaaba.
But she didn't know any better because she
thought that the Kaaba is covered with black
maybe the Prophet is she didn't know any
better.
You should try to get some knowledge.
Try to get some knowledge. Okay? It is
not hard anymore.
Okay. 500 years ago, if someone didn't know
something maybe they had an excuse.
But now you have
full encyclopedias
under your fingertips. Right?
The computer and the internet. It's very easy.
You can just call the iman up. You
wake the iman up like 3 in the
morning.
Do,
the Shayateen, do they lay eggs or they
give birth? Okay?
Are they in a gay Shayateen?
Yeah. It's a valid question. Right? And these
are some of the questions I get.
Why?
Yeah. I made the second one up. It's
not a question.
So there's no excuse.
If you don't have access to the internet,
you have books. If you can't read,
ask the imam, ask someone who has knowledge.
Okay?
With this in mind. He didn't know.
Title.
Of course, the things that we start to
do in Ramadan, like fasting and the charity
and reading Quran and salah and all that
stuff. What is the problem if you keep
doing the same thing
after Ramadan?
You don't have to go full blast after
Ramadan,
but you still can do some things after
Ramadan. What is wrong if you fast like
every 3 months, you fast on Monday or
Thursday like the prophet
What is wrong after Ramadan Like if you
give $10 in charity?
What is wrong if you pray an extra
rakah or a couple of rakahs at night?
You should keep up the good work that
you started in Ramadan
because
the God of Ramadan is the God of
all months.
All of us,
we should file shaitan
from our lives.
If you file shaytan, you would be looking
for a job somewhere else. He will leave
you alone.
But the problem is
we hire the shaytan.
Actually, we hire shaytan to work for us.
They work for us 247.
They work for us
weekends.
They will work for us holidays, overtime.
We are the ones that hire the Shayateen.
And at the end of the day, as
the prophet of the salawalahu alaihi wa sallam
says in the Hadith that Allah says,
You Aibazi
Inna Nabi Amalukum Wussiha
Alaikum.
The prophet salaam says in the usanti hadith
that Allah says,
always servants,
on the day of judgment, what you will
see in your records of deeds
is nothing nothing except the things that you
do in this life.
The angels or Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, they
are not going to add something that you
didn't do.
And if you do a good deed, they're
not gonna throw it out. So everything that
you do, you will find it there precisely.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, if
you find good in your deeds, in the
records of deeds, then thank thank Allah for
making it easy for you.
But if you find otherwise,
if it is full of evil deeds, then
the only one to blame is who?
You. You. Yourself. Don't blame anyone else.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to accept
our good deeds and to forgive our sins.
And, inshallah, we open the door for questions
and answers
until the time of Maghrib Shaba.
Questions?
We'll get one question from our brother, one
question from our sister. We'll get from the
brother. See what?
Yes. Is it the the top of the
No. Suwak does not invalidate the fast. If
you brush your teeth with the Suwak,
the tooth stick or even with the toothbrush,
it doesn't invalidate the fast. As long as
nothing goes
to your throat, the fast is valid. However,
the prophet salaam is telling us the in
the hadith
The smelling
of your mouth in Ramadan
is better in the side of Allah than
a must.
However, if it gets so ugly,
if it, works like a deterrent, the people
are running away from you because you smell
like a dragon.
Yeah. You should brush your teeth. It's okay.
Yes, sister. Yeah.
Somebody earlier talked about the the the the
the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the
the You come to the masjid
for the sole reason of praying and remembering
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Dedicating some time to
worship in the masjid.
This is atikaf.
Okay? So you sit in the masjid, you
do everything that is permissible
or that is, an act of worship. Permissible
like study.
For example, if you have exams after Ramadan,
you sit in the masjid with the intention
of Atikaf and you study.
You still get the rewards for Atikaf
as long as you're not doing anything haram.
Because there is no point
if you sit in the masjid to backbite
someone.
He has a big mouth.
He has a big nose.
Wallahi, if you think about yourself
and all the problems you have,
then you will have no time to think
about other people. So you spend your time
in the masjid to read the Quran, you
pray, you remember Allah. This is aftercare.
Yes, brother.
Making the fast of the smoke.
During the day,
smoking invalidates the fast. I'm getting to your
point. But some people think that smoking is
not,
is not food or drink. So it shouldn't
invalidate the fast.
We tell them if Allah tells you
in the Quran not to eat and not
to drink, which is halal or permissible outside
Ramadan? What about doing something in Ramadan that
is haram all year long?
Come on, God. And I'm not talking about
weed or
marijuana
or dope or all that stuff. Okay?
Got joys on you? No?
You're tired.
However,
smoking at night
is not the best thing to do.
And you should take Ramadan as a way
of trying to turn a new page on
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Try to quit in
the month of Ramadan.
Smoking is haram because it destroy it destroys
your health, it destroys your money. So if
you see me for example lighting a $100
setting it on fire you call me nuts,
psycho,
zombie. Right?
So what if what if about imam, so
I'm setting the $100 on fire
and I'm using it to set up to
set my clothes on fire?
So you are destroying your money, you are
destroying your health. However, if you do it
at the night of Ramadan
then it is something that should be frowned
upon. It is something that you should do.
Whether or not it it it doesn't invalidate
the fast. Okay?
Because you you smoke
at night.
But it may
Okay. It depends on the reason why someone
is not fasting.
For example, if a lady is
having a monster period or she just gave
birth to a baby, then she should
fast and she should eat and drink in
Ramadan. She should break the fast, and she
should make up the days after Ramadan.
And she doesn't have to fast all the
days like one shot. She can't fast Mondays
Thursdays.
Okay? She can't spread out the the fast
of the 13 days throughout the 11
months of the year.
If a lady is pregnant or she is
nursing,
then she it is permissible for her to
eat and break the fast in Ramadan. She
doesn't have to,
but it is permissible for her. Then after
Ramadan,
two options.
Either to feed a poor person for every
day or
making up the days again. So the two
options are there.
But what if they're sick and they can't
come? Yeah. I'm getting to this point. I'm
giving you the different reasons why some people
may break the fast.
If someone is sick, there are 2 types
of sickness.
If someone has
swine flu
or someone has a fever, just for a
few days if they take the shots, they
will be fine. Okay? In this case, they
should make up the days after Ramadan.
But if someone is chronically sick,
if they pass they will die, someone has
diabetes
is diabetic. Okay?
They have to take insulin injections all the
time
Or somebody has cancer, they have to take
medication all the time
and the doctor told them that there's probably
no chances of recovery.
So in this case, they don't have to
fast at all
to the end of their time. They don't
have to fast. But they should feed a
poor person for every day.
They should pay,
buy food for a poor person or pay
them about 7 to $10 for every day
to buy food.
If someone is a traveler
then it is permissible for them to break
the fast and make up the days after
Ramadan.
So these are the different reasons why some
people can break the fast and make up
the days after Ramadan.
Yes.
Okay. It's a very good question.
The word kriyam in Arabic
the word kriyam
is a very general term. It means standing
in prayer. This is the literal meaning.
So this includes
what?
And it includes salawih, it includes salatul tahashrut.
So if you do any of these prayers,
it is called Qiyam.
Qiyam is a very general term. It covers
all these types of prayer at night.
Yes.
You can pray any optional prayer like Taraweeh
or Shaka or Wat or Taha Tahaajr at
home.
You can pray in the Masjid. If you
pray in the Masjid, you will get the
reward or Jemaah.
But if you don't have time or you
live far away from the Masjid, you wanna
pray in the house, then you will get
the reward. If you pray with your family,
tahazrud or tarawiyah,
inshallah, you'll get the reward of jama'ah. It
doesn't have to be in the rasr. It
is recommended, but it it is not an
obligation.
Yes, brother.
Okay.
This is close to what we said.
If you take
medication does not doesn't invalidate the fast? It's
a very good question.
The answer is if you take medication,
oral medication like pills
or serum,
if it goes to the throat and to
the stomach it invalidates the fast.
But if you use the puffer
people who are asthmatic,
it doesn't invalidate the fast
because it doesn't go to your stomach. Right?
Eardrops,
nose drops, eye drops does don't invalidate the
fast.
Blood transfusion
from or to does not invalidate the fast.
Swine flu shots does not invalidate the fast.
Insulin shots does not invalidate the fast.
It's
actually rectal injection.
That's what they call it. Yeah. This is
what they call it. But what is the
English word? Anima? Suppository. Suppository. Suppository. Suppository. Suppository.
Suppository. Suppository. Suppository. What is the
No. No. No.
Yes. Anything that does not go to your
throat does not invalidate the fast.
Some people ask, can I use perfume during
the day?
It doesn't invalidate the fast because you don't
usually drink perfume.
No. Shh. Outside. Yeah. More another question for
my sister? Yeah. Yeah.
Wearing makeup,
the Ramadan does not invalidate the fast because
again makeup is not food or drink.
It's outside.
Only the things that go inside your stomach
invalidate the fast.
However,
doing something that is just like like makeup
in public
will invalidate the fast.
Okay?
Plus,
some makeup that people use like a nail
polish
nail polish,
It prevents water from reaching your skin when
you make wudu,
and therefore it makes your wudu and salah
unacceptable.
So you have to remove it
you have to remove it before you make
wudu.
What do they call it? Karim Hassas
base cream or cream.
Some of it is oil based and it
prevents work from reaching your skin. So you
have to clean it before you make wudu.
However,
a
hinda allows
water to reach your skin. So hinda is
okay. If you have hinda on your hands
or feet, it's okay to meet to make
wudu over because it's okay. It, the the
water actually reaches the skin.
Yes.
Yes, bro.
This
No. No. No. This fasting is only for
humans.
Okay? And not for every human. Not every
human has to fast.
Children, they don't have to fast, but betray
them. Okay?
Elderly
and the traveler and the sick and the
pregnant, they don't have to fast. Okay? Only
healthy
people are settling down, they fast. But as
for animals, they don't have to fast.
Okay? No. When you are fasting, you should
make your dog and cat happy. Give them
food.
Yeah. They don't have to suffer like you.
Throw up?
Yeah. Okay.
If someone throws up unintentionally,
anything that happens unintentionally
during Ramadan does not invalidate the fast. Anything.
Eating and drinking by mistake does not invalidate
the fast.
If someone has a * in Ramadan,
it doesn't invalidate the fast. Throwing up unintentionally
does not invalidate the fast. And there is
no disagreement whatsoever amongst scholars on this. It's
a unanimous
Because it's an authentic hadith.
And the prophet
says if someone throws up intentionally
like they stick their finger in their stomach
and their throat and they throw up, it
invalidates the fast. They have to make up
the day in after Ramadan.
But if it happens unintentionally,
then the fast is valid.
Why would anyone throw up?
And I came to learn what? Yesterday, I
was giving a talk to the sisters
and
couple of sisters they said there are some
reasons why someone would stick his finger in
his throat to throw up. Some people do
it for psychological reasons
because of anxiety. It's an a psychological problem,
basically. And she one of the sisters mentioned
the name of Princess Diana.
She had this problem. She always did it.
It's
a it's a medical problem.
And the other reason is
Eating some good. Some people think
when they have a stomachache
that the easiest way to relieve the stomachache
is to throw up.
And this is how people do it in
the village. If they can't relieve
the stomachache, they throw up. They do it
to throw up so they will they will
be relieved.
Yeah. Sometimes it works but it will invalidate
your fast. Yeah. There's a question in the
back. Yes.
Yes.
You are asking about if the shaitan is
hooked up in Ramadan, why some people do
evil deeds. Right? Is this a question?
Yes. Okay.
As I said,
first of all, Allah subhanahu wa'ala makes it
easy for you to do the good
because everyone
everyone around you is doing the same thing.
Right? If you see people fasting around you,
you would be encouraged to fast. If you
see people praying in the masheer,
you will do the same. If you see
people making
tarawiyat, you will do like them. It becomes
easy.
And this is a way of chaining your
shaitan.
And the other reason that we mentioned according
to remember for Tubi,
he asked the exact same question. If the
shayateen,
The devils are chained in Ramadan. How come
that crimes are committed in Ramadan?
Like people steal, they lie, they kill, and
so on and so forth.
And the answer is the meaning
the prophet was talking metaphorically
And the prophet
meant that it is you
who chain your shaitan or you set it
free.
If you fast the right way, this is
chaining of the shaitan.
But if you followed your desires
and you fast
like you you spend the whole day sleeping
and you do evil things at night, then
you are setting your shaitan
free. Your shaitan will be all over the
place. So you basically have the key in
your hand.
So it's up to you to lock it
up or you set it free. So it
is you who sets it free or releases
it. Yes. How about?
So the
Have the Sahih.
The lower self as mentioned in the shaitan,
in in the Quran, will always motivate you
to do evil.
Right? But if you have this sense of
taqwa in your heart,
this will help you
over impact your lower self and your desires.
But remember, this is only one of their
works.
It's not the whole thing. It's not the
whole thing. It's not the whole thing. It's
not the whole thing. This is just one
out of so many.
But I get it as I said,
you were you are in this constant struggle
against your lower desires.
When you give in charity, the shaitan will
always tell you, man, you'll go broke. You're
are you crazy? You're giving out your money.
Your kids will be homeless. You'll not be
able to pay your bills. But if you
go ahead and pay in tariff and give
zakat, this is called jihad in Islam.
If you wake up at Fajr
to pray and it is very cold in
the outside in the winter or you didn't
get enough sleep at night in the summer,
this is called jihad.
Jihad against your lower desires according to the
definition of jihad, according to the Sahab of
the prophet Sasa.
So if you stop doing something evil
or if you motivate yourself to do something
good, this is called jihad instead.
So I think it's almost time for Marim.
Yes. One last question. I just wanted to,
like, if you, like, if you breathe a
little bit, like, like, a drop on the
inside. Okay. I just wanted to, like, if
you, like, if you breathe a little bit,
like,
Okay. Bleeding does not invalidate the fast. And
we said that blood transfusion, not one of
them, does not invalidate the fast.
Bleeding even some of the scholars
say bleeding does not invalidate the tear itself,
it doesn't invalidate the wudu.
Because, I mean, with they saw some of
the competitors in the far east as salam,
they were bleeding
and they continued the salah.
And Umar ibn Khattab al Adhilam, if you
know the story, before his death he was
bleeding
and he continued the salah. So bleeding does
not invalidate
the fasting, it does not let, invalidate
the wudu. Of course, when it comes to
the wudu, there is a difference of opinion,
but
the action of the sahaba confirms that it
doesn't invalidate the wudu. And this is the
chosen opinion.
So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
give us the efficient knowledge and to give
us the power of Hashem to
fast in the month of Ramadan and to
accept our good deeds, the fasting, the
charity, the taraweed
according to the best of our intentions.