Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reminders Dont Waste

So, during the month of Ramadan, InshaAllah,

I'll give a short reminder for just a

few minutes InshaAllah about Ramadan and fasting.

And if someone has a question they can

ask me inshaAllah.

So today inshaAllah we'll talk about

eating and drinking in the month of Ramadan.

And I'm not talking about during the day.

We know that we're going to eat or

drink

from Fajr to sun sunset.

And,

a lot of us

like to waste in this month.

In the night I've been to different masajid.

They provide bottles of water like this, and

people, they take one sip.

They everyone takes, one bottle. They take one

sip. At the end of the day, they

throw it in the garbage. Right?

When people make wudu, they waste a lot

of water.

There's an authentic hadith.

The prophet

passed by Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas,

and he was making wudu. He was using

a lot of water. And the prophet

said,

Why are you wasting so much water?

So Sa'id said, You Rasool Allah and

thought,

the more water I use, the cleaner I

will be. So the prophet

said, No.

You don't waste water even if you are

taking your water directly from the river. Don't

waste water.

How much did the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa

sallam use for wuduq? And that was a

question last time. Yes? 1. 1 what? One

bucket?

1.

One bottle? Asant. You will get a price.

We'll send you the check-in the mail.

So the Prophet, salazar, have used that much

for wuduk.

This is what we know from authentic Hadid.

Not a full bottle,

maybe 3 quarters of a bottle,

and he used 4 of these for his

wussi.

4.

So now, Masha'Allah, you see how much we,

consume water. When we make wudu, you go

and take wudu or when you take a

shower, you know, the shower is on and

gallons and gallons of water and you're there

in the washroom taking a shower. And some

people like to sing when they think because

of the echo and stuff. I know.

I used to do it. So,

people waste a lot of water. You go

and make wudu, mashallah, you're doing the wudu,

especially if you have a mirror in the

house. You look at yourself when you're making

wudu, masha Allah, I got beautiful eyes.

And you look at yourself, you stare at

yourself in the mirror for 15 minutes, and

the water is running.

Right? And so on and so forth. Brushing

your teeth, we waste gallons of water. People

who shave, gallons of water.

All of this is water wasted.

We know that there are some people I

meet people from Islamic relief and so on

and so forth. They tell me, wallahi,

there are people in Kenya,

people in Tanzania, people in other places in

Africa and Somalia, they wait for miles

just to get that much of dirty water,

dirty water to drink. Right? Because they don't

have access to clean water.

And

all you need to do if you drive

2 hours from here to Detroit,

they don't have clean water, and people are

complaining, people are crying. They don't have clean

water to drink. In Detroit,

we're not talking about Africa here. We're talking

about America. In some places, they don't have

access to clean water.

Food is another story.

When we are fasting,

like, Maghrib time, you think if they put

a goat or a camel in front of

you, you will eat it. This is why

when they have cafes and stuff, you go,

you fill your plate,

and you're going to throw 75%

of the food you take, at least.

This is why I don't recommend you to

go for shopping when you are fasting.

When you take your wife with you and

go for shopping, usually you take a list,

but 99%

of the time, you never stick to the

list. You you go there with 3 items

on the list, you end up coming with

the 25 items. Why? Because when you're hungry,

you feel like you want to take everything

in the store.

You pass by tomatoes, I want tomatoes, bananas,

watermelons,

kiwi,

you name it. Everything you want to take,

and you end up not eating most of

the stuff.

Alhamdulillah,

we are Kiran. We are generous. We like

to invite people to our homes in the

month of Ramadan,

and, of course, we'd like to, to look

like generous. So if you are inviting 5

people, you make food for 50

because you want to show them that we

are rich. Alhamdulillah,

we make good food, We we have a

lot of money. We are generous, and you

end up throwing,

80% of the food. Why? Because most of

the time,

we don't like to eat leftovers.

Who likes to eat leftovers?

So if the food stays till the next

day or the 3rd day, even if you

keep it in the fridge, no one is

gonna eat it. So it will will will

end up in the in the dumper. Right?

People are gonna throw it away. So we

we need to, to be considerate in this

month. Don't waste.

Allah

in the Quran says don't waste. The prophet

never wasted anything.

Food or water. He never wasted anything.

So one of the reasons why we fasted

Ramadan, of course, in obedience to the order

of Allah and following the way of Muhammad

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, we also fast to

feel how poor people fast.

The difference is at sunset, badar time, we

will have some relief because there is food

for us. Either at home or if you

come to the masjid, there is Iftar here.

But there are some people, homeless people,

and even I'm not talking about some countries

in Latin America or Africa. Even here in

Toronto, you see how many homeless people. You

go to New York, you go to California,

you see them in the 1,000 in the

street.

I saw with my own eyes people in

Los Angeles, California,

with all the big celebrities and the big

actors.

Right?

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, all these people live

there. They make 1,000,000 of dollars every year,

but I saw a lot of people there

eating from the garbage. They open the garbage

and they eat. There's nothing to eat. So

this is the time when we eat 2

meals at Raulaal, 1 at Sahoor,

1 at, Maghrib.

We should give something in sadaqa. We should

help the people who are misfortunate.

Yesterday, I saw a video. I'm gonna conclude

with this inshallah. A video of a, an

MP,

from Canada, from Ajax.

He said that last year he fasted the

whole month,

and he donated the money he saved from

not eating during the day of Ramadan. He's

not Muslim. He's not Muslim. So he said

he fasted in support and solidarity with Muslims

who are fasting, and he used the money

to donate for salakah. And he said just

like Muslims do,

and Muslims are our leaders in salakah and

charity. So he used all the money to

donate for those who are homeless and for

children who don't get enough, enough food. So

this is something we need to do. We

ask Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, to give us

the best in this month and to give

us the best,

in the life to come and give us

the ability to fast in the way that

is pleasing to him. And we ask

Allah to bring us closer to him in

this month, and we ask Allah

to accept our fasting and our salakah and

our salah.

Thank you.