Mustafa Khattab – How to Ruin Your Ramadan FOR DUMMIES
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Is the seal of the prophets and the
final messenger
to all humanity.
So I begin by congratulating
all the Muslim community on behalf of myself
and the administration of the Masjid on the
beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan. And
I asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give
us the reward for the fast and to
give us the reward for standing prayer at
night.
The masjid, alhamdulillah,
has taken the decision that this year,
in an effort to unite Muslims in the
community, inshallah, we are going to follow the
sighting of the wound in Makkah and Qalam.
So we ask Allah
to reward us
So tomorrow, inshallah, at 8 in the jim,
I'll be lecturing on how to get the
best out of Ramadan.
But today, I'm going to do the opposite.
Today, I'm doing the opposite. I'm gonna talk
briefly about
how to waste the easiest way to waste
the month of Ramadan
and to,
at the end of the month, get nothing
out of the month.
It's very easy.
Tomorrow's task is difficult, but today's task is
very easy because the examples are so many.
So in this authentic kaneen
narrated by Abu Ghuraylahu
anhu,
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam flayed the
member one day and he said, Ameen, Ameen,
Ameen, three times.
So the Sahaba were wondering, why did you
say this? So they asked the Prophet salallahu
alayhi salallam. So he said, Jibreel alayhi salallam
came to me and said,
those who witnessed Ramadan
and they don't get their sins forgiven
at the end of the month, and they
lose, they waste the month of Ramadan,
maybe they they will be away away from
the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Say,
Amee. I say, Amee.
Then Jibreel Alaihi Salam said,
those who live with their parents
or one of them,
and they are not good and kind to
their parents.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will be angry with them. And when they
die, they will go to the hellfire. They
will be away from the mercy of Allah.
Say, Ameen. So the prophet said, Ameen.
Did Jibreel, alayhis salaam, said,
those in front of whom the Prophet salawahu
alaihis salam is mentioned and they don't say,
son of Allah alaihis salam
peace be upon him, they will be away
from the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Say, Ameen, so I sit, Ameen.
A few days ago, my sister called me
and they said, okay.
Making salaf with the Prophet is something good.
Why you guys didn't put, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, on the Ramadan caliph?
Actually, we put it. I put it myself
in the Arabic, in calligraphy,
in small forms, but for some reason it
didn't show in the printing, in the final
print.
But we have it in the English. So
put your heart at ease, it is there.
The reason the prophet said in the hadith
that the person who loses the month of
Ramadan is a loser
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes it very
easy for you in Ramadan to get close
to Allah.
And this is the theme for our Ramadan
this year. We'll try to get you closer
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala throughout the month.
The gates of the hellfire are closed, as
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam said in
the hadith.
The doors and the gates of Jannah are
wide open.
The rewards for good deeds,
fasting,
and charity
are multiplied
numerous times.
And you imagine
if you are in debt, you owe someone
$200,000
and he will tell you, if you work
for a week just 1 month for me,
I'll I'll forgive the debt for you. You
owe me nothing.
And imagine if you tell him no.
This is what we do with Allah
The Prophet tells us in the hadith, if
you fast in Ramadan the right way, all
your past things will be forgiven.
And you imagine working for someone
and he tells you,
if you work for me only 2 hours,
one night,
I will give you the salary of 83
years. But you still say no. Thank you.
This is what we do with Laila Al
Khat. You waste it.
Laila Al Khat, the reward for Laila Al
Khat is better than 83 years in worship,
but we still say no. Thank you. We
don't need
it.
So before we talk about the ways
the ways we waste the month of Ramadan
and we are very creative in this,
I'm gonna talk about the 3 classes or
3 categories of fasting so we know how
we waste the month of Ramadan.
So the first class
is the fast of the majority of the
people.
And this, of course, is not eating and
not drinking and not having an intimate relationship
with someone's spouse from dawn to sunset.
Almost
98%
of the people fast this way.
But they may cheat,
they may lie, they may backbite,
they may do the Haram
The second type is the fasting of the
special people, the finest.
And this is when your organs
also fast,
so it's not only about food and drink.
Your tongue fasts, so it doesn't talk haram,
it doesn't backbite.
Your hands fast, so you don't cheat and
you don't steal.
Your feet
fast so you don't walk through the Haram.
Your ears fast so you don't listen to
the Haram in the day of Ramadan.
So the 3rd time and this is the
highest time
and this is the fasting of the finest
of the finest
when your heart fasts.
So you only worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Everything that you do,
the fasting that you do, the taweeh that
you pray, is all purely for Allah.
Not just for people to say, oh, he
goes to the mosque all the time. He's
a good guy. No.
You do it only for Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Your heart is attached to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala in this month.
The prophet says in the hadith that tanwa
is in the heart.
And when we said that the highest form
of fasting is that your heart will be
attached to Allah, this is the true meaning
of fasting.
In community and Mushtama
We will talk briefly about some of the
things that we do and by which we
waste the month of Ramadan.
So for an individual,
sometimes we do some things
and we are addicted to them, and we
use them to waste a month, and sometimes
we even some of us, I'm not saying
all, but some, they even do haram in
Ramadan.
And imagine Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is forbidding
you to do some halal halal halal in
Ramadan like food and drink. But some people
they do even the haram in Ramadan.
So what kind of thing is this?
You're not allowed to do the haram and
you go and do the haram. And at
the end of the month, you are,
you are dancing in the street thinking that
you got the reward, and you got 0
at the end of the month.
So some people, they waste
their time in Ramadan at night playing cards,
watching movies, Fawazir,
and so on and so forth. Or some
even they do the halami, they they smoke
whatever. I'm not gonna mention names.
And all day long, they sleep the whole
day. All day, they're asleep. They don't even
pray.
And at the end of the months, they
are dancing in front of the masjid because
they think because they think
that they got the reward for their fast.
They are fooling themselves.
They are fooling themselves.
So the prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam in this
hadith is telling us, authentic hadith narrated by
Abu Huayra.
That some people
will spend in the month of Ramadan and
the only thing they get from the day
of Ramadan is hunger.
No reward.
And some people, they spend the whole night
in prayer, and the only thing they get
is staying up all night. No reward for
salah.
Because there's no sincerity. They are not following
the example of the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam,
they are not doing the right thing.
So in this hadith, the prophet is telling
us, those who don't avoid evil talk
and being vulgar and indecent in the month
of Ramadan, then there is no need for
this to leave or to avoid food and
drink. Let them eat and drink because
technically, there is no reward at the end
of the month.
So some sisters,
they waste the reward of their fast by
doing
some things that some of them are halal,
but they consume all the time.
And some of them they do even Haram
thing in Allah.
So doing something halal that weighs
the the reward for the fast is like
cooking all day long.
From sunup to sundown, they are in the
kitchen cooking.
Forget about Ramadan. Forget about fasting. Forget about
tasbir and adkar and so on and so
forth. Ramadan is all about cooking, cooking, cooking.
They even do some kalam like backbiting
and slander. Some sisters, and I'm not saying
that all of them do, but they want
to kill the time.
We have 17 or 18 hours in the
day. They take 2 thirds of the day
cooking.
They got 1 third. How can we kill
the time? Okay. Let's talk about our neighbor,
how miserable and evil she is.
So at the end of the month, no
reward.
Ramadan is not about this. Ramadan is about
dedicating your time
and remembering Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and serving
Him the right way.
The essence of all the acts of worship
in Islam is to unite Muslims.
In salah, we are ordered to pray in
congregation, to pray together.
In the Hajj, 4,000,000 people go every year
for the Hajj.
Some of them are rich and some of
them are poor, but you can't tell who
is rich and who is poor. We are
all the same.
In Zakat, the rich will give the poor,
and this will unite the hearts of Muslims.
In Salmah of Ramadan,
we fast at the same time, we pray
the fast at the same time, we face
the same direction when we pray,
we worship the same God, we have the
same book, we pray at the same times,
but still some people use Ramadan
to disunite Muslims.
I give you
one example.
So some people, some communities
and I've come across some of these communities,
they waste Ramadan in fighting.
A big fight at the beginning of Ramadan
on whether Ramadan is tomorrow or the day
after.
At the end of the month, we have
a bigger fight. Israel tomorrow or not tomorrow.
And
I've seen it with my own eyes. In
some communities,
some people in the same house, a brother
or a sister,
a husband and his wife, one of them
is fasting and the other one is dancing
in the street because it's aid.
What is this?
Then if we agree that tomorrow is Ramadan,
then we have another fight. Are we going
to pray 8 rakas or 21 rakas?
Okay.
Then after we finish this fight, another fight
on whether we're going to decide
the whole Quran in Taraweeh or just a
few eyes.
Then another fight, we agree, we'll recite the
whole Quran or a few surahs. Then who
is leading the salah?
Are we getting a Somali imam or Arab
imam or Indian imam? Brother and sister, for
Allah, it doesn't matter.
What matters to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
what is in your heart.
We shouldn't waste this month
in doing trivialities
or fighting
with one another.
Ramadan is all about unity.
Ramadan is all about getting close to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And believe me, if you waste the reward
of this month, then you are a loser,