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The importance of fasting in Islam is emphasized, as it is necessary for belief in Islam and healthy mental health. It is crucial for children to reach the age of maturity and start praying. Fasting is recommended throughout the year, but not optional. It is beneficial for mental health and health, and is crucial for achieving goals and avoiding confusion. It is crucial to avoid rushing during online shopping and not talking at all during the night.

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			So fasting in Ramadan.
		
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			So what is fasting? Ramadan is really mainly
		
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			about fasting. It's It's one of the most
		
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			important things that we do. So let's cover
		
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			the details of fasting.
		
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			Fasting is really an exercise in self control,
		
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			and it's designed to bring a Muslim closer
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So the goal
		
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			of fasting is to get you closer to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And what fasting really involves is 3 main
		
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			things. It involves refraining from food,
		
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			refraining from drink, and refraining from *
		
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			throughout the day, throughout the daytime. And I'm
		
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			gonna explain all of that in more detail.
		
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			So Muslims are required to fast in the
		
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			month of Ramadan. It's a requirement. It's not
		
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			something optional. It's not something that you do
		
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			if you choose. If you feel like it
		
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			today, then you go ahead and you do
		
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			it. If it's convenient for you, go ahead
		
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			and you do it. It's something that we're
		
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			required to do as Muslims
		
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			every Ramadan.
		
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			And the reason why it's the Ramadan.
		
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			Ramadan is the month is a month in
		
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			the Islamic lunar calendar. There are 12 months
		
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			in the Islamic lunar calendar, and the 9th
		
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			month is the month of Ramadan.
		
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			So we use January, February, March, April, May,
		
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			and in the Islamic calendar, as a lunar
		
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			calendar, there's different names for the months, Shaba
		
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			and Ramadan, you know, Shawwal, all of these
		
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			different months.
		
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			It's Al Hijjah, Haram.
		
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			So Ramadan is the 9th month in that
		
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			calendar. Okay? And that's what we're using when
		
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			we say the month of Ramadan.
		
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			So why Ramadan?
		
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			Who knows? Why do we fast Ramadan? Why
		
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			not, in the month of Dhul Hijjah? Why
		
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			not in the month of Haram? It's the
		
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			first
		
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			month.
		
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			Exactly.
		
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			That's when the Quran was revealed to the
		
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			prophet, peace be upon.
		
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			And he that's according to some some narrations.
		
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			Yeah. So mainly, the main reason is because
		
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			the Quran was revealed in the month. So
		
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			what are we actually doing when we celebrate
		
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			and we fasten the month of Ramadan? We're
		
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			actually celebrating the Quran. We're honoring the Quran.
		
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			That's why the Ramadan is called the month
		
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			of the Quran.
		
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			Because it was revealed
		
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			and because we're actually giving special emphasis to
		
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			this month because the Quran was revealed.
		
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			Now,
		
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			there are other fasts
		
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			that Muslims do throughout the year outside of
		
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			Ramadan as well. Some of them are recommended,
		
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			some of them are highly recommended,
		
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			but Ramadan are the ones which are required,
		
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			and they're the only ones which are absolutely
		
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			required, throughout the year. So keep in mind
		
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			that when we talk about fasting,
		
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			fasting
		
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			is an act of worship,
		
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			very much like prayer,
		
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			very much like giving your zakah. It's a
		
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			direct act of worship,
		
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			and you can perform
		
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			fasting like prayer almost anytime throughout the year.
		
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			So you can fast all like, you can
		
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			pray almost anytime throughout the day with very
		
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			few exceptions. Right? So those who are who
		
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			are actually enrolled in our official class, what
		
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			are some of the exceptions for prayer when
		
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			you are not allowed to pray? After Fajr?
		
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			After you pray your Fajr, during sunrise,
		
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			and during sunset. Right? So these are the
		
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			the main times and after you pray your
		
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			Asr. So the same thing with with fasting.
		
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			You can fast almost anytime you want throughout
		
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			the year with few exceptions,
		
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			and it's it works the same way. So
		
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			fasting is a great act of worship,
		
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			and in fact, fasting is not only an
		
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			optional act of worship, which you can just
		
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			do,
		
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			it's also a penalty,
		
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			what's called a kafara, which is a makeup
		
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			penalty for certain acts which you've missed. So
		
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			for example,
		
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			if you make a vow and you swear,
		
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			I swear by Allah
		
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			I'm gonna do such and such thing,
		
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			and then you break your vow and you
		
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			don't do it. You have to what do
		
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			what's called kafar. You learn this in Islamic
		
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			law too if you take the class. You
		
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			have to do what's called kafar.
		
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			Meaning, you have to make you have to
		
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			pay a penalty or make up for that
		
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			broken vow of yours. And one of the
		
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			ways to make it up is by fasting.
		
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			Alright? Is by fasting. Does anyone know how
		
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			many days the fasting is? 3 days. That's
		
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			3 days, actually. So that's one option for
		
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			making up, a a broken vow, but you'll
		
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			learn that in a different class if you
		
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			take our Islamic law 2 class.
		
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			So fasting has a number of functions. Number
		
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			1, it's mandatory in the month of Ramadan.
		
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			Number 2, it's recommended throughout the
		
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			year. Number,
		
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			you know, it's recommended, you know, to do
		
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			it anytime you want. It's highly recommended on
		
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			certain days of the year, which we'll talk
		
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			about. And number 4, that's number 3. And
		
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			number 4, it's
		
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			a makeup or an expiation
		
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			for certain things which you've done wrong, which
		
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			are specifically mentioned in the Quran. So who
		
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			needs to fast? This is really the the
		
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			main section we we should start with.
		
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			Who needs to fast? K. Who's required to
		
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			fast and who's not required to fast? Meaning,
		
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			when can you skip out and when can
		
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			you not skip out? So number 1, you
		
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			gotta be a Muslim to fast. So you
		
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			don't force your non Muslim friends or something
		
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			like that. Come on. You gotta fast. You
		
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			got you can encourage them and they can
		
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			try it. And in fact, many many non
		
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			Muslims at at college campuses around the country,
		
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			when they tried to fast, they experienced something
		
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			that they've never experienced in their life. Alright.
		
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			Any anyone,
		
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			fasted before they accepted Islam?
		
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			Regina? You I'm sorry. You tried it as
		
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			well? Right? So there's a lot of people
		
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			and they felt like, wow, this is this
		
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			is really something, you know. So it's a
		
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			really good, tool for, you know, explaining what
		
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			Islam is for people to let them experience
		
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			it, what it's gonna be like to actually
		
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			fast. But you don't, of course, you know,
		
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			force it upon them or try to convince
		
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			them, you gotta do it, you gotta do
		
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			it, it's Ramadan. Okay? It's not Ramadan for
		
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			them. So just keep that in mind. So
		
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			first of all, you gotta be a Muslim.
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			you have to be mature.
		
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			So that these these are the conditions of
		
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			fasting. What makes it mandatory? Number 2 is
		
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			maturity.
		
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			Having maturity.
		
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			And maturity is something that we talked about
		
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			in this class. By the way, for those
		
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			of you who are visiting, this is actually
		
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			a 10 week class, but we just opened
		
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			this portion up to the rest of the
		
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			community. But this actually this is actually the
		
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			10th week of a 10 week class. So
		
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			we covered that what is maturity?
		
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			Maturity is the same as the maturity for
		
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			prayer. So you have to be at the
		
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			age of maturity
		
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			or the age of Islamic puberty when you
		
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			reach the age when when you need to
		
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			start praying.
		
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			So does anyone remember what that age or
		
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			how you determine that someone is mature is?
		
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			Does anyone remember that? So so basically, it's
		
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			it's 3 things. It's not intellectual because you
		
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			can't tell that. But basically, what it is
		
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			is,
		
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			when a guy or a girl,
		
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			a boy or a girl has their first
		
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			*
		
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			or equivalent,
		
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			when a girl has her first menstruation,
		
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			and if none of those happen until the
		
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			age of 15, they're automatically considered to be
		
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			mature.
		
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			As long as there's no signs of intellectual,
		
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			you know,
		
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			barriers in their way. So this is the
		
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			size in maturity. So when a person reaches
		
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			the age of maturity, they need to start
		
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			praying. They're obligated to start praying, and they're
		
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			also obligated to start fasting. So the age
		
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			of, prayer and the age of fasting is
		
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			the same. It's not like it's different. So
		
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			once you once you need to start praying,
		
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			you need to start fasting and vice versa.
		
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			Yeah. So that's that's the way it is.
		
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			But keep in mind, children who have not
		
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			reached the age of maturity yet, even though
		
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			they're not obligated,
		
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			just like prayer, they're supposed to be taught
		
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			to start fasting.
		
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			So we said that children should be taught
		
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			to start praying at what age?
		
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			Just according to the prophet, peace be upon
		
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			him. 17. The age of 7. They should
		
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			be taught at the age of 7 to
		
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			start doing this. Sometimes,
		
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			meaning to understand what it is, not fasting
		
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			all 30 days, not praying all 5 prayers,
		
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			but getting in the habit, look, this is
		
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			how you do it. Try one here, try
		
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			one there. Here's a little reward for you.
		
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			Here's, you know, we'll take you to, you
		
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			know, the park or something like that. Whatever
		
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			it is.
		
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			By the age of 10,
		
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			as a parent, your responsibility
		
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			is to make them fast and to make
		
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			them pray. You have to ensure that they're
		
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			praying and you have to ensure that they're
		
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			fasting by the age of 10.
		
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			But in terms of when are they gonna
		
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			be held accountable in front of Allah, that's
		
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			when they reach the age of maturity.
		
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			K. So your job as a parent is
		
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			different than the way that Allah is gonna
		
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			be judging them. So this is something that
		
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			keep in the mind keep in consideration.
		
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			And in fact, the companions, you know, they
		
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			used to get their children and even the
		
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			young children, they used to teach them how
		
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			to fast. And one of the,
		
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			companions, one of the women, she was, explaining
		
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			how she gets her child to fast. She
		
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			says she used to make this little,
		
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			little doll out of, like, wool. It's like
		
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			a little,
		
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			little toy or something like that, and she
		
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			says, you know what? I would pull out
		
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			that toy
		
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			the last few hours before fast is about
		
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			to break, that's when the children get really,
		
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			really hungry. The day is gone for a
		
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			very long time, and I would distract them
		
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			with, like, a little little drama, you know,
		
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			kinda play around with them, and then they
		
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			would get distracted, and they would be done
		
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			with the fast for that day. So it's
		
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			really important that we learn we teach our
		
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			children as well to start fasting. Sometimes we
		
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			neglect it. So, oh, they'll fast when they
		
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			get older.
		
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			At least teach them because if they stay
		
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			that way for a very, very long time,
		
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			they're not gonna fast when they get older
		
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			because they were never taught in the first
		
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			place. And they became accustomed
		
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			to not fasting, and it's it's gonna be
		
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			detrimental to their future. So as parents, you
		
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			have a responsibility
		
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			to make sure that your children learn how
		
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			to pray and make sure that they do
		
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			pray. And likewise, that they learn how to
		
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			fast and that they do fast. You start
		
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			it and you have 3 years to prep
		
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			them from the age of 7, 8, and
		
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			9. 3 years. Once they hit 10, now
		
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			they're fasting. Everyone in the family knows this
		
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			child is gonna be fasting now in your
		
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			family, InshaAllah.
		
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			Alright. So that's,
		
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			maturity.
		
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			Number
		
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			3
		
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			is sanity.
		
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			So a person has to be sane they
		
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			they should be free of any mental illness
		
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			or anything like that. Otherwise, they're treated like
		
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			children in the sense that they're not gonna
		
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			be held accountable in front of Allah for
		
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			not having,
		
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			fasted. But, of course, they should also be
		
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			taught to do so and they should be
		
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			encouraged to do so.
		
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			Number 4,
		
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			freedom from from illness.
		
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			Meaning, a person who's ill is not required
		
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			to fast.
		
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			So what you do is you check and
		
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			you say, okay,
		
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			if I'm sick, that means I don't have
		
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			to fast. So
		
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			why and how do I qualify as being
		
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			a person who's ill? So anyone who's suffering
		
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			from an illness,
		
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			where fasting
		
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			is probably
		
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			either going to, number 1, cause harm to
		
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			your body,
		
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			number 2, increase your illness that you already
		
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			have, or number 3, delay your recovery,
		
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			then they're excused for fasting.
		
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			These three things.
		
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			So we're not talking about, you know what?
		
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			I coughed a little bit in the morning.
		
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			If I'm sick, I'm not gonna fast. Right?
		
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			Or if you have a little bit of
		
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			a temperature, and the fast is only, like,
		
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			let's say, 8 hours and it happens to
		
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			be in the winter,
		
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			you could probably keep that fast. You're not
		
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			you're gonna be perfectly fine for the day.
		
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			You take a Tylenol in the morning and
		
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			you'll you'll be you'll be okay for the
		
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			rest of, you know, acetaminophen.
		
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			I don't wanna advertise for giant corporations. So
		
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			you take acetaminophen in the morning and you're
		
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			gonna be fine. Alright. So in this case,
		
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			right, you don't have to skip out on
		
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			fasting. But if you're ill and it's actually
		
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			gonna affect your body, it's gonna really mess
		
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			you up. You got the flu. Right? You
		
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			got, you know, mucus coming out and you
		
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			got a really high temperature and everything. It's
		
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			gonna mess you up if you end up
		
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			fasting that day. So you're excused from fasting
		
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			and you don't need to fast.
		
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			So how do you determine
		
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			what level of severity,
		
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			should be there in terms of whether you
		
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			should fast or you should not fast? Because
		
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			some people look. There's this people are different.
		
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			Some people are, like, really hardcore. So they
		
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			got the flu, 104 degree temperature, then I'm
		
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			doing it, man. I'm gonna I'm gonna fast
		
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			anyways. And then there are other people, they
		
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			have, like, a paper cut. They're like, so
		
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			can I skip fasting? Because it's very painful,
		
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			you know. The thing is you have to
		
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			be in the balance. You have to be
		
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			in the middle. So the best way is
		
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			to consult,
		
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			an expert or consult with someone who has
		
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			knowledge about that condition, whether this is really
		
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			gonna harm you, and in one way is
		
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			it gonna harm you. If you go and
		
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			you ask me, say, how is this gonna
		
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			harm me if I fast and I avoid
		
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			eating and drinking for the whole day? To
		
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			what level is this really gonna affect my
		
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			body in terms of short term, you know,
		
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			effect and long term effect? And you ask
		
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			that, you find out, and then you determine
		
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			should I be fasting or should I not
		
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			be fast? If you're in doubt and you've
		
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			consulted with someone who has knowledge, then you
		
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			go and you consult some someone who has
		
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			Islamic knowledge. So you first consult someone who
		
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			has medical knowledge, and you figure out what
		
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			the effect is gonna be. And then if
		
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			you're not sure, is this an effect which
		
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			is enough of a illness or it's too
		
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			little of a illness or too little of
		
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			a difficulty,
		
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			then you consult someone with Islamic knowledge and
		
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			say, this is what the expert medical practitioner
		
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			said. This is what's likely to happen. Now
		
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			should I fast or should I not fast?
		
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			And then we can help give you the
		
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			answer on that one. Alright. So someone who's
		
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			ill and it's really gonna affect them, they
		
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			don't need to fast.
		
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			Another group of people who falls into the
		
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			same category
		
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			are pregnant women and breastfeeding women. And there
		
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			and that's only if,
		
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			the pregnancy
		
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			or the fasting
		
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			is going to either harm them
		
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			or it's gonna harm their child. The breastfeeding
		
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			is gonna harm them or it's gonna harm
		
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			their child. It doesn't matter. If it harms
		
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			anyone, then they could be excused from that
		
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			fasting.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			But keep in mind,
		
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			when we say someone who has an illness,
		
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			we're talking about someone who has the flu.
		
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			How long does the flu generally last?
		
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			5, 7 days. 5, 7 days. Have you
		
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			ever heard of the flu, like, lasting an
		
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			entire year on average?
		
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			Yeah. A month, but but not a whole
		
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			year. Right? So this is considered an incidental
		
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			illness, meaning it's it's not
		
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			a chronic long term illness. It's acute. It's
		
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			gonna go away after a period of time.
		
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			So whenever you have an illness like this,
		
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			you don't fast on that day, but you
		
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			have to make it up once you're feeling
		
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			better. So once the illness is gone, once
		
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			the pregnancy is over, once the breastfeeding period
		
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			has ended, you have to make,
		
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			that period up. K?
		
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			There's a net another category,
		
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			which is chronic inability.
		
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			K? So the next category is someone who
		
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			has a chronic issue. Chronic means
		
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			continuing for a very long period of time.
		
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			K? It's gonna be persistent.
		
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			So someone who has a chronic inability so
		
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			for example,
		
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			someone who has a chronic illness,
		
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			they have,
		
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			diabetes.
		
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			Someone has,
		
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			some type of other illness, which just happens
		
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			on a regular basis.
		
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			That person
		
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			is in a different category. They don't need
		
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			to fast, but they're don't have to make
		
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			up their fast afterwards either because they're always
		
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			gonna remain in that in that state of
		
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			illness. So if it's gonna keep on persisting
		
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			for a long time, they don't need to
		
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			fast. Someone who's very old,
		
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			they become very weak. It's very difficult to
		
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			fast. Let's say you're in your eighties, you
		
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			know, hitting nineties or something like that. It's
		
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			gonna be very difficult for those people. So
		
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			they don't have to fast either.
		
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			And the other person who falls in this
		
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			category are women who have a pregnancy
		
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			and then breastfeeding
		
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			and then pregnancy
		
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			again, and then breastfeeding again back to back,
		
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			such that it lasts for an entire year.
		
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			So from 1 Ramadan
		
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			to the next Ramadan,
		
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			they missed 1 Ramadan because they had either
		
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			pregnancy or breastfeeding.
		
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			And then
		
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			they had no opportunity to make up those
		
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			missed fasts because they either were another pregnancy
		
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			or breastfeeding until the next Ramadan. So if
		
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			that lasts for an entire year,
		
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			then they're considered to be in the chronic
		
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			category,
		
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			which means that they don't need to make
		
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			up those fasts. Even though you're not gonna,
		
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			you know, you're not gonna keep getting pregnant
		
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			and keep breastfeeding for, like, 30, 40 years
		
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			in a row. So but technically, you consider
		
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			it to be chronic because it's more than
		
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			a year. So any type of thing that's
		
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			more than a year from 1 Ramadan to
		
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			the next Ramadan is considered in the chronic
		
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			category. So you don't
		
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			have to make up those fasts.
		
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			But instead because imagine if you had to.
		
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			Someone has pregnancy, then breastfeeding, and then pregnancy,
		
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			and then breastfeeding, that could last, let's say,
		
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			3 years. Now when you're done, you decide,
		
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			you know what? Let's take a break from
		
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			having some kids for now. Then you gotta
		
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			make up 3 years of fasting.
		
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			That's that's a lot. Right? It it to
		
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			be done in 1 year. So instead, they
		
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			fall in the chronic category where they don't
		
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			have to make it up, but they do
		
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			the expiation, which is feeding a poor person
		
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			for every single day of fasting that they
		
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			missed.
		
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			So anyone who falls into this category
		
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			has to feed a poor person for every
		
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			day that they missed.
		
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			So this is the way it's different. So
		
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			if you are sick and you have the
		
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			flu,
		
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			you're gonna skip your fasting,
		
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			and you're gonna make up the fasting after
		
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			Ramadan is over,
		
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			sometime before the next Ramadan comes in anytime,
		
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			and you're okay. If you have a chronic
		
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			condition like diabetes,
		
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			because it's chronic, or you're very, very old
		
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			and you can't fast anymore, every single day
		
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			you miss, you're not gonna make it up
		
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			and you're just gonna feed a poor person.
		
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			You're gonna use your money to or get
		
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			some food, and you're gonna go and feed
		
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			a poor person for every day. And that
		
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			way, you actually participate and get the reward
		
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			like fasting without having to fast because you
		
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			weren't able to, which you're feeding someone else.
		
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			Okay. So you're fulfilling a very similar purpose
		
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			when it comes to fasting. So that's, another
		
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			category. The next category is,
		
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			someone who's not traveling
		
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			is required to fast.
		
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			So that means that if you're traveling and
		
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			you're on a journey, you're not required to
		
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			fast due to some of the difficulties involved
		
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			with, you know, traveling, some of the inconveniences
		
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			involved.
		
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			So we talked about prayers. So when you're
		
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			when you're when you're traveling and you're praying,
		
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			the prayers are different. Right? The prayers are
		
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			shortened when you're traveling as well. So we
		
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			had talked about that before. So now we
		
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			noticed that even in,
		
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			even when it comes to fasting, there there's
		
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			some changes in the rules in terms of
		
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			fasting. You don't have to fast when you're
		
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			traveling.
		
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			But keep one thing in mind. It doesn't
		
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			mean you're prevented from fasting. It doesn't mean
		
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			you're not allowed to fast. It means you
		
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			don't have to.
		
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			So there's a difference. So if you're traveling,
		
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			let's say, to San Francisco,
		
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			and it's a very easy trip, and you're
		
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			just jumping on an airplane, and you just
		
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			fly hour and a half, and you you're
		
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			gonna land there and everything. You see, you
		
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			know what? This is a piece of cake.
		
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			This this traveling is not difficult for me
		
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			at all. I I handle it all the
		
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			time. It's actually better to fast if there's
		
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			almost no difficult.
		
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			If there's a lot of difficulty involved,
		
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			it's better not to fast. You don't have
		
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			to try to be that hardcore person where
		
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			you're getting hot and you're in the sun
		
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			and you're sweating and all of that. It's
		
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			not the best thing to do. Right? Like,
		
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			my brother and I one time, we were,
		
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			literally
		
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			getting on a plane from Jeddah,
		
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			Arabia
		
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			right after the fast began,
		
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			and we're flying back to LA. So you're
		
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			going back in time. We wanted to be
		
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			really hardcore, like, we're fasting. It ended up
		
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			to be like a 30 hour fast. Right?
		
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			So we're young, we could handle, but
		
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			it's generally you don't have to be that,
		
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			you know, hardcore. If it's gonna be really
		
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			long or difficult, if you're in the sun
		
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			or you're traveling through the, you know, desert
		
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			or something like that, you don't have to
		
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			fast. It's better not to fast. You take
		
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			that. But if it's really, really easy,
		
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			then just go ahead and fast anyways.
		
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			So you have that concession. You don't have
		
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			to fast, and we've seen this concession of
		
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			traveling even when it comes to praying Jummah
		
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			prayer. The same thing. If it's easy for
		
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			you, you're traveling through in the Friday prayer,
		
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			there's a mosque nearby. It's better to actually
		
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			go and, you know, attend the sermon. But
		
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			you're not required to the way you would
		
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			be if you weren't traveling, if you're a
		
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			resident. Alright. So that's the next category. The
		
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			next category is,
		
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			being free from menstruation and lokia.
		
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			Right? So we had mentioned that when you're
		
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			menstruating, when a woman is menstruating or when
		
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			she's going through her lochia period or, postnatal
		
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			period after she gives birth,
		
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			then they're not required to pray.
		
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			And there's some other conditions, you know, associated
		
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			with that. Also, women will not be fasting
		
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			during that time when they're undergoing menstruation,
		
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			and when they're in their period of low
		
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			key, 40 days or less,
		
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			after they've delivered and they're bleeding.
		
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			So they're exempted from fasting. But Ramadan so
		
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			we talked about before in prayer. When a
		
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			woman has this condition, either she's in her
		
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			period of menstruation or her period of lochia,
		
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			does she need to make up the missed
		
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			prayers? She doesn't need to make up the
		
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			missed prayers. Right? So if a woman
		
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			is not fasting because of the same reason,
		
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			does she need to make up the missed
		
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			fast?
		
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			Yes. The answer is yes. The question is
		
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			why why not make up the prayers, but
		
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			why you have to make up the missed
		
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			fast? It's because the prayers
		
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			are every single day. And if you're missing,
		
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			you're gonna at the end, you're gonna be
		
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			missing so many prayers. You have to make
		
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			up, like, 35 prayers right after. That would
		
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			be very difficult for you.
		
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			But when is the required fasting?
		
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			It's only once a year. It's not everyday
		
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			thing. It's only once a year. So if
		
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			you skip, like, let's say, 7 days or
		
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			even 10 days of fasting,
		
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			you can make it up. You have an
		
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			entire year to make that up, and you're
		
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			only making up, like, 7 or 10 or
		
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			maybe 15 at most,
		
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			and you can actually split them up over
		
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			time. It was actually even easier for you.
		
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			So it's actually not very difficult at all
		
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			to do that. So Islam came to make
		
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			it easy for you. It's actually designed to
		
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			not overburden you. So you don't have to
		
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			make up those prayers that you missed due
		
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			to menstruation or low key period, but you
		
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			do have to make up the fast that
		
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			you missed. So it's very important that when
		
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			a woman is skipping those fast, she keeps
		
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			track of them. Keep it, you know, in
		
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			the database or write it down somewhere so
		
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			that you don't forget. And I can't emphasize
		
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			this enough because I get questions all the
		
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			time. I totally forgot how many I missed
		
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			all the time, and you know, from the
		
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			previous year I also forgot how many I
		
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			missed.
		
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			You need to write it down. Right. So
		
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			there's you should you shouldn't be forgetting this.
		
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			You should remember this. It's very very important
		
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			to keep in mind because it's like a
		
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			debt, you know. It's like a debt that
		
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			you owe a lot. You skip this many
		
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			fasts, you need to make up this many
		
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			fasts. So even for the guy, they should
		
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			write it down whenever they're missing number of
		
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			fasts due to illness or whatever it is.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So,
		
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			that is,
		
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			the fasting. So those are the requirements,
		
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			okay, in terms of who must fast and
		
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			who doesn't need to fast. The next thing
		
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			is to determine the month of Ramadan. How
		
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			do we figure out what when the month
		
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			of Ramadan is exactly? So something you have
		
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			to keep in mind is that it's really,
		
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			really important to figure out the beginning and
		
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			the end of the month of Ramadan because
		
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			that's when you're gonna be fasting, and that's,
		
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			you know, how you're gonna know when to
		
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			start and when to stop.
		
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			So Muslims use the Islamic lunar calendar, like
		
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			I mentioned before. And the Islamic lunar calendar
		
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			has 12 months.
		
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			It's not linked with the seasons like the
		
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			solar calendar that we use, in America is.
		
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			And the year consists of
		
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			anyone know how many days in a in
		
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			Islamic lunar year?
		
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			11 days short. It's 11 days short. So
		
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			to be precise, 354.37 days. K. Those are
		
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			how many days are in the Islamic lunar
		
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			calendar, and that's because the meantime between new
		
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			moons is 29.53 days, k, to be precise.
		
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			So basically what that means is,
		
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			every single day in the Islamic lunar calendar
		
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			is either gonna be 29 days or 30
		
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			days.
		
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			It's either a 29 day month or a
		
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			30 day month, but it's not fixed. So,
		
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			like, January
		
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			is always how many days?
		
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			31. And February
		
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			okay. Forget February. March, April is how many
		
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			days?
		
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			It's always 30. Right? But when it comes
		
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			to the Islamic lunar calendar, that's not the
		
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			case.
		
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			So 1 year, it can be 29 days,
		
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			1 year, it can be 30 days. So
		
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			it fluctuates. It could be one of these
		
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			2, and it can't be anything else. And
		
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			there's no leap year or anything like that,
		
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			like February has leap year. So
		
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			this is because you have to make an
		
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			adjustment in certain calculations. So the adjustment
		
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			happens automatically
		
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			in the Islamic lunar calendar rather than having
		
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			a forced adjustment.
		
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			So this is, you know, the lunar calendar
		
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			is determined by the the lunar phase,
		
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			that you find in the sky. So
		
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			the way that the sun
		
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			shines on the moon
		
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			and our position on earth relative to looking
		
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			at the moon and the position of the
		
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			moon relative to the earth is gonna determine
		
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			what what you see in the sky. You're
		
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			gonna either see a little tiny thin crescent
		
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			or you're gonna see, you know, half crescent
		
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			or you're gonna see a full moon, and
		
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			it varies throughout the month. So,
		
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			we actually have a seminar about that
		
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			tonight at 5:45.
		
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			If you can make it for that seminar,
		
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			I really recommend you come.
		
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			But that's the way the month is generally
		
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			gonna be,
		
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			determined
		
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			based on the lunar,
		
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			phases.
		
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			So the beginning of the month is determined
		
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			when there's no moon, the moon is not
		
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			visible, and then all of a sudden that
		
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			little tiny faint side of the crescent begins
		
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			to be shown initially.
		
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			That's considered to be, the beginning of the
		
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			month. So what we do that's called the
		
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			new moon crescent.
		
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			That's called the new crescent, the crescent of
		
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			the new moon. So what you do is
		
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			the 8th month so Ramadan is which month
		
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			in the lunar calendar?
		
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			The 9th month. So So what you do
		
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			is you look at the 8th month, and
		
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			the 8th month in the lunar calendar, which
		
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			is what we're in now, is called Shaaban.
		
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			So Shaaban is the 8th month, and on
		
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			the 29th
		
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			day of Shaaban,
		
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			you look
		
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			at the crescent and you see can you
		
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			see the beginning of that crescent or you
		
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			can't see it?
		
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			If you can see
		
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			it, then that means
		
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			the month of Shaaban is over and the
		
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			month of Ramadan has begun.
		
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			If you don't see
		
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			it, it means that the month of Shaaban
		
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			has 30 days now instead of 29, because
		
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			you can only have 29 or 30. So
		
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			what you do is on the 29th of
		
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			Shaaban,
		
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			Muslims used to go outside, they look out
		
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			in the sky, they look for the moon.
		
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			If they see the moon, the little tiny
		
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			part of the moon, they say, okay, it's
		
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			Ramadan, the first starting tomorrow now because we
		
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			saw the moon, and today's the 29th of
		
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			Sha'aban.
		
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			Sha'aban had 29 days, and now we start
		
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			Ramadan the next day. If they don't see
		
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			it,
		
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			it means that Shaaban is gonna have 30
		
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			days, and it's gonna automatically be seen tomorrow
		
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			for sure because Shaaban cannot have 31 days.
		
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			So Ramadan will be the following day, the
		
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			day after. K. So that's the first way
		
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			to determine, what's happening.
		
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			Now Muslims should be trying to figure out
		
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			exactly when
		
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			the, you know, moon, is gonna be visible,
		
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			and this is something which has been, you
		
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			know, practiced throughout history for a very long
		
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			time that, you search the sky on the
		
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			29th and you start checking. So when you
		
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			start checking, what do you do with that?
		
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			So what you do is, if you see
		
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			the moon or someone else sees the moon,
		
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			the the new moon, the the crescent of
		
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			it, they take these sightings
		
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			and they report it to a recognized Muslim
		
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			authority.
		
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			So there are in the past, there used
		
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			to be an Islamic state and there was
		
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			a Khalifa
		
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			in charge of that Islamic state. So they
		
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			would report it to the official, you know,
		
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			headquarters
		
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			of the Khalifa, who's the leader of the
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			And then they would take those sightings and
		
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			say, okay.
		
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			Who's the person that cited it? In what
		
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			location did they cite it? What did they
		
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			claim to have seen? And they look at
		
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			it and they determine, is this person reliable?
		
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			Is this sighting seem to be accurate? Does
		
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			it seem to be reliable in any case,
		
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			you know, shape, way, or form? And then
		
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			they're gonna determine
		
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			whether or not they should start the month
		
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			of Ramadan or not. Should they accept the
		
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			testimony
		
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			of these people who claim to see the
		
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			moon or not?
		
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			Because otherwise any random person can just say,
		
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			oh, well, I'm just gonna go ahead and
		
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			lie and say, yeah, yeah, I saw the
		
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			moon. So you have there's some criteria involved
		
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			in accepting the testimony of a person who's
		
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			claiming to sight the moon for the beginning
		
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			of Ramadan.
		
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			Today,
		
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			if we don't have a a Khalifa or
		
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			a Muslim leader, we should at least go
		
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			to recognized
		
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			Muslim authorities like a Council of Scholars or
		
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			something like that.
		
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			In the absence of a Council of Scholars,
		
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			we're gonna have a lot of problems. Or
		
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			in the absence of having a a council
		
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			of scholars, but the Muslims are not following
		
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			that council of scholars, we're gonna have, a
		
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			little bit disunity in this regard, especially in
		
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			a locality.
		
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			And that's one of the reasons why we
		
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			kind of have this.
		
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			There are different opinions and there's no unanimity
		
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			because there's no real recognized
		
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			council of scholars in our area. So it's
		
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			okay. It's not the end of the world.
		
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			We're still gonna be fasting, but you gotta
		
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			keep in mind that there's some, room for
		
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			the the real reason why there's people start
		
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			on different days is because of the lack
		
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			of a central authority
		
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			established and respected among the Muslim community. It's
		
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			not due to this person doesn't know this,
		
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			and this person is weird, and this person
		
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			is backwards. The real reason is we don't
		
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			have a centralized authority. And if we did,
		
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			the problem would be solved because everyone else
		
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			would have to give up their own opinion,
		
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			and they'd have to follow that authority. And
		
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			that's the way it would actually have to
		
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			be.
		
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			So,
		
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			generally, what would happen is you give this
		
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			information to the authority, and they determine whether
		
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			or not they're gonna start Ramadan or not.
		
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			One of the ways that they would determine
		
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			it is they would check and say, look,
		
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			is there an obstruction in the sky?
		
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			If there was an obstruction in the sky
		
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			that you weren't able to see the moon,
		
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			for example, it was a cloudy day, or
		
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			there's fog, or what whatever, it's very cloudy
		
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			or something like that, you can't really it's
		
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			it's not easy for the average person to
		
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			see the moon when it's very cloudy. You
		
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			may not be able to see it.
		
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			So in this case,
		
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			they said, we will accept the testimony
		
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			of 1
		
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			Muslim
		
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			witness
		
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			who has upright character.
		
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			Whether they're male or female, their testimony will
		
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			be accepted. If we can tell that this
		
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			person is telling the truth, they know what
		
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			they're doing, they know what they saw, we're
		
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			gonna go ahead and accept their testimony.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because
		
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			it's not likely that most people are gonna
		
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			be able to see anything because it's extremely
		
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			cloudy. So they may have been in a
		
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			region where that cloud wasn't above them and
		
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			they were able to see it.
		
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			But if the sky is clear
		
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			and there's no obstruction in the in the
		
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			sky,
		
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			then
		
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			1 or 2 or 3 people is not
		
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			gonna be sufficient
		
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			to validate that they saw the crescent and
		
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			Ramadan is gonna be started the next day.
		
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			Why? Because it's very easy for everyone to
		
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			figure out.
		
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			Everyone should be able to see the moon
		
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			if it's there
		
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			when the sky is clear. So this person
		
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			is claiming to see it, yet everyone else
		
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			who was looking, no one else saw it.
		
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			So why should we why did this guy
		
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			see it, but all these other people didn't
		
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			see it? Something doesn't seem right. So the
		
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			criteria is if the sky is clear, there
		
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			has to be a large,
		
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			large number of people who are reporting
		
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			having sighted the moon. Otherwise, their testimony is
		
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			not gonna be accepted.
		
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			What is the exact number? That's the for
		
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			them to determine. Right? So it's there's flexibility
		
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			in determining that. Now, here's a little side
		
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			ish issue, which is interesting. Probably not gonna
		
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			happen to you, but it's interesting.
		
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			If you see the moon by yourself,
		
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			you see the moon and you're sure that
		
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			you saw the moon,
		
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			but you go to the Muslim authority and
		
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			your testimony is rejected.
		
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			It's to know we don't trust you, or
		
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			we think you, you know, you were hallucinating
		
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			or something like that. You didn't see it.
		
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			But you're sure. You have a feeling you're
		
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			pretty sure. I I I'm pretty sure I
		
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			saw it. You're supposed to fast by yourself,
		
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			but not go around telling other people
		
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			about what you saw if your testimony has
		
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			been rejected.
		
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			Why not? Because you're gonna cause a fitna
		
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			or you're gonna cause division and problems in
		
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			the community if you start telling them, look,
		
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			they rejected me and I saw it, and
		
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			I'm telling you and this and that. The
		
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			goal is not to go and create disturbances
		
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			and problems in the community.
		
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			But you still since you saw it and
		
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			you have that level of certainty in yourself,
		
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			you have to go ahead and fast yourself.
		
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			So you have certainty for you, but not
		
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			certainty for other people. Right? So that's just
		
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			a interesting, theoretical issue to keep in mind.
		
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			Now
		
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			if the moon is sited anywhere
		
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			in a land where Muslims are present in
		
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			that area to some extent, meaning there's some
		
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			type of Muslim community in that area,
		
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			and the month of Ramadan
		
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			will begin for every single Muslim around the
		
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			entire world. And this is according to the
		
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			majority of scholars. Some scholars have said, no,
		
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			it's every locality has their own,
		
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			sighting of the moon. But this means that
		
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			if in Argentina,
		
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			and there's a Muslim community in Argentina,
		
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			if they see the moon
		
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			and they let the people
		
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			everywhere else in the world know that, you
		
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			know what, we saw the moon, all Muslims
		
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			are gonna start fasting the next day. So
		
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			the sighting of that moon in that community
		
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			is gonna count for all Muslims in the
		
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			entire world, and this is the majority opinion.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			There's another way to aid
		
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			in the sighting of the moon.
		
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			So the question is when you sight the
		
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			moon, does it have to be with the
		
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			naked eye? Or can you use binoculars?
		
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			Or can you use a telescope?
		
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			Or can you use a super telescope?
		
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			Or can you use certain calculations,
		
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			which have actually astronomical
		
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			calculations to determine the crescent visibility
		
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			in a certain region or not. Right? So
		
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			this has been the issue of, somewhat of
		
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			a debate,
		
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			in the last century in particular. Actually, it's
		
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			been throughout history, but even more it's picked
		
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			up in the last century.
		
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			So there's a few, things.
		
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			One of them is to use astronomical data.
		
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			You're allowed to use astronomical data according to
		
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			one opinion in order to reject somebody's sighting,
		
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			but not to confirm somebody's sighting.
		
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			So if somebody comes, says, you know what?
		
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			I saw the moon, you know, and then
		
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			3 guys come and they say, we all
		
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			saw it right in this location and everything.
		
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			And you say, look, according to the calculations
		
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			which we have,
		
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			in that region,
		
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			at that time, you said you saw it
		
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			at 703.
		
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			703 in that location at that time, it
		
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			there is no way you could have ever
		
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			seen the moon because it should not have
		
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			been visible. Unless you guys have, like, you
		
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			know, Superman eyes or something like that, there's
		
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			no way you could have seen it.
		
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			So what happens is their testimony can be
		
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			rejected
		
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			based on these astronomical calculations, even though it
		
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			would have been accepted otherwise.
		
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			That's one opinion. The second opinion
		
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			is to use astronomical
		
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			calculations
		
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			to
		
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			validate
		
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			the beginning of the month of Ramadan without
		
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			even anyone sighting it. They say, if it's
		
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			visible in Argentina,
		
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			and there are Muslims there, but the Muslims,
		
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			they all fell asleep for some reason, and
		
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			they decided not to go out of their
		
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			houses and even check for the moon. We
		
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			know that it's visible in Argentina right now.
		
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			So the fact that it's visible, we're gonna
		
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			go ahead and we're gonna say that since
		
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			it was visible for sure,
		
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			the month of Ramadan is gonna start next
		
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			the next day, even though no one physically
		
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			saw it, but we know it was there.
		
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			And in the right region, in the right
		
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			location, we're gonna go ahead and start it.
		
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			Right. So that's something that,
		
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			you should keep in mind. And in fact,
		
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			there's a lot of discussion about whether or
		
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			not we should use the calculations
		
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			to
		
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			acknowledge the beginning of the next month or
		
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			not.
		
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			And that's the entire 2 hour seminar tonight,
		
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			5:45
		
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			PM, about whether or not we should use
		
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			these calculations
		
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			and how accurate they are and the history
		
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			of these calculations and the science behind these
		
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			calculations. Okay? So I would really recommend you
		
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			check that out coming back tonight at 5:45.
		
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			And that's as long as the data is
		
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			highly reliable. Right? So let's keep that in
		
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			mind.
		
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			How do you determine the end of the
		
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			month of Ramadan? So now you're in Ramadan,
		
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			you know when it started. You're fasting, you're
		
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			fasting, you're fasting.
		
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			To determine the end of the month, you
		
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			start searching the sky, you go outside.
		
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			Which day do you think of Ramadan you
		
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			go out to check? The 29th.
		
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			You go out on the 29th of Ramadan
		
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			and you start going around and looking in
		
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			the sky to see, is Ramadan gonna be
		
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			29 days or is it gonna be 30
		
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			days long?
		
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			And if you see the crescent,
		
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			it means what does it mean? It means
		
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			Ramadan is over. Ramadan was 29 days. The
		
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			next month is starting tomorrow. So that's how
		
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			you determine the end of the month of
		
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			Ramadan. So if it's either seen
		
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			or calculated
		
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			according to that opinion, the next day will
		
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			be the first day of the month of
		
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			Shawwal.
		
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			So you have Sha'aban before Ramadan, and Shawwal
		
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			is the month after Ramadan.
		
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			So Shawwal, just to make sure you're awake
		
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			and following along, is what number month in
		
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			the Islamic calendar?
		
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			10. 10. Very good. Okay.
		
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			So if it's not visible and you can't
		
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			see the moon or you can't determine the
		
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			calculation of the moon, the Ramadan is gonna
		
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			have 30 days and the month of Shawwal
		
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			will be the following day, will be the
		
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			day after that.
		
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			If there's so if you're sighting the moon
		
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			physically, if there's an obstruction in the sky,
		
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			there's it's a cloudy cloudy day. How many
		
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			witnesses do you need?
		
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			So it was one for the previous one.
		
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			But Muslim scholar said for this one, you
		
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			need 2 witnesses.
		
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			So wait a minute. Why one witness for
		
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			entering the month of Ramadan, and why 2
		
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			witnesses
		
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			for concluding the month of Ramadan? Because
		
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			which one is which one is to be
		
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			on the safer side? If you make the
		
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			mistake accidentally by accepting someone's testimony wrongly
		
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			and you started early, what did you do?
		
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			You ended up fasting one extra day.
		
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			If you stopped early and the people were
		
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			mistaken
		
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			about their sighting, what did you end up
		
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			doing?
		
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			You you cut off one day of Ramadan.
		
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			So to be on the safe side, you
		
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			you you make the standard stricter
		
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			because if you fast an extra day, it's
		
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			better. It is not a big deal if
		
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			you fast an extra day. But if you
		
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			cut off an extra day, then it's a
		
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			problem. So it's something that needs to be
		
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			kept in mind.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So you need 2 reliable Muslim witnesses because
		
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			if there's a worldly benefit in skipping. So
		
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			imagine you have a community where there's a
		
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			bunch of people who are not honest.
		
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			Of course, that that would never be our
		
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			community. But imagine there was a group of
		
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			people who are not honest. What would happen?
		
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			They would say, you know what? We don't
		
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			care about Ramadan.
		
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			Get 3 people together
		
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			or a few people together and you come
		
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			and say, come on. Let's just let's just
		
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			say we saw the moon. And one of
		
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			one of them qualifies for being a reliable
		
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			witness for whatever reason, no one knows he's,
		
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			you know, messed up or something like that.
		
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			It's a big problem for the Muslim community.
		
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			So the standards become stricter, 2 or even
		
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			more.
		
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			There's a worldly benefit. But if the sky
		
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			is clear, the large number of people has
		
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			to be seeing the moon, otherwise it's not
		
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			gonna count, has to be very reliable.
		
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			Now if you see the moon yourself,
		
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			okay, and your testimony is rejected,
		
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			what what should you do in this case?
		
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			You not fast because it's certainty for you?
		
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			In this case, to be on the safe
		
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			side, you fast as well.
		
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			Because in the previous case,
		
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			you start fasting by yourself
		
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			because to be on the safe side, in
		
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			case you were right, you're gonna go ahead
		
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			and start fasting. But here, what if you
		
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			were wrong? What if you were seeing things?
		
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			It's better to fast an extra day. So
		
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			in this case, it's opposite, you fast an
		
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			extra day. It's more cautious,
		
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			to continue fasting. So that is,
		
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			determining the month of Ramadan. So requirements for
		
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			fasting.
		
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			So what are the requirements?
		
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			Fasting is an act of worship.
		
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			Alright. So like, as we mentioned before. So
		
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			first, you would need to have the intention
		
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			in order for this action to be accepted
		
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			from you. So how could you not have
		
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			the intention and how could you fast possibly?
		
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			Well, imagine
		
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			you woke up
		
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			and,
		
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			you know, you had the intention of dieting.
		
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			Your doctor told you need to go on
		
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			a diet and you say, okay, I'm gonna
		
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			abstain from food. I have a blood test
		
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			coming up. And you go, you know, you
		
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			you abstain from food, you abstain from drink,
		
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			and then all of a sudden you're like,
		
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			oh, well, this is will this count as
		
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			my fast as well? It's not gonna count
		
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			as your fast unless you actually intended it,
		
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			not only to have the intention for doing
		
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			it for your blood test, but you had
		
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			the intention to actually fast for Allah as
		
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			well. So you have to have the correct
		
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			intention. Right?
		
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			For the month of Ramadan,
		
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			it's sufficient to make a general intention
		
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			that you're gonna be fasting this entire month.
		
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			So you don't need to wake up every
		
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			morning and say, okay, I'm fasting
		
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			for Allah before I eat this food and
		
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			I'm gonna start my fasting. You make one
		
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			general intention. This Ramadan, I'm fasting every single
		
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			day. Even if you wake up late one
		
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			day and the fast you're already in the
		
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			middle of fast, you already had the intention
		
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			to be fasting this Ramadan, your intention will
		
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			not break. Okay?
		
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			If anything causes the intention to change
		
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			such as illness, you get sick and you
		
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			say, oh, well I'm not fasting tomorrow because
		
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			I'm really really sick, right, tonight,
		
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			or you're traveling and you say I'm not
		
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			gonna be fasting, then your intention to continue
		
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			in fast continue fasting Ramadan needs to be
		
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			made again. So if you if you if
		
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			you were ill, let's say tonight, and you
		
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			say, I'm not gonna fast tomorrow, then the
		
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			next day you're ill again and you don't
		
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			fast the next day, and then the next
		
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			day
		
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			you're debating, should I fast? I'm feeling better.
		
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			I shouldn't fast. I shouldn't fast. You need
		
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			to have the intention before you begin. You
		
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			can't start and say, oh, no. I'm not
		
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			gonna fast. And then 2 hours after the
		
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			fasting, you know, started,
		
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			you know what? Actually, I'm feeling better. I'm
		
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			just gonna start fasting. You have to have
		
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			the intention before you start to fast. That's
		
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			very important. Okay? So keep the intention,
		
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			there and make the intention sincerely for Allah
		
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			that you wanna get closer to Allah by
		
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			your fasting.
		
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			What breaks your fast and what is required
		
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			for you in fasting? So we talked about
		
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			eating, drinking, and * are the 3 things
		
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			you absolutely need to refrain from. And this
		
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			is in Islamic law.
		
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			Remember law is the external
		
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			aspect of things.
		
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			Internally, there's a lot more spiritually involved. You're
		
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			not supposed to be using foul language, you're
		
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			not supposed to be getting angry, you're not
		
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			supposed to be getting, you know, upset at
		
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			people and all of that, but we're just
		
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			covering for this one,
		
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			the outward aspects in terms of what is
		
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			legally legally required. If you get angry, it
		
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			doesn't break your fast in the sense that
		
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			you can start eating a burger again.
		
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			But it breaks your fast in the sense
		
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			that you don't get the reward for that
		
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			fast because you just went and yelled at
		
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			someone, and you're not supposed to be doing
		
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			that. So spiritually,
		
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			you've lost the reward of that fast, but
		
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			technically, from a legal perspective, from an external
		
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			perspective,
		
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			your fast is still valid. So when we
		
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			say valid, it means from an external
		
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			aspect, not from a spiritual aspect, which is
		
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			probably even more important,
		
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			But still the rules are important to know,
		
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			so there we're gonna cover the rules mainly.
		
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			So
		
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			what breaks the fast?
		
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			You have to make sure that from dawn
		
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			until sunset, you don't do anything that breaks
		
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			your fast among these three categories.
		
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			So let's define what is dawn again, by
		
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			the way. So we talked about dawn, the
		
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			beginning of the prayer for fajr time.
		
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			Dawn is defined as
		
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			when you're looking outside in the horizon,
		
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			and imagine there were no houses, no mountains,
		
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			nothing, and you could just see out there
		
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			clearly, and you're looking at night. As soon
		
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			as you see the white streak of light
		
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			start coming out in the horizon, that's called
		
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			dawn, the breaking of dawn.
		
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			Okay? It's not sunrise, and many people confuse
		
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			sunrise with dawn, and they're 2 different things,
		
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			so keep that in mind. Alright. Dawn. Sunrise
		
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			is
		
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			when when you're looking out in the horizon
		
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			and the disc of the sun
		
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			starts this is the what you can see,
		
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			the disc of the sun starts to go,
		
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			and you see the top little tiny bit
		
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			of the sun start coming up, that's sunrise.
		
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			But dawn
		
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			is when the sun is actually below the
		
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			horizon,
		
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			but some of the light starts creeping up
		
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			and you can see this little white thread
		
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			of light in the horizon, that's dawn, and
		
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			that's when the fasting begins. So from that
		
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			time
		
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			until sunset,
		
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			and sunset is when the sun is completely
		
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			gone
		
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			all the way
		
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			below the horizon.
		
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			From dawn until sunset, you refrain from 3
		
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			main things. Number 1, eating or drinking.
		
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			Absolutely no eating or drinking. That includes water.
		
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			That includes everything. It includes any substance
		
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			which is intentionally entering your body through your
		
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			mouth,
		
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			which resembles
		
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			food or drink in some way, shape, or
		
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			form.
		
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			K.
		
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			It also includes anything which enters your body
		
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			from another place,
		
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			but it results
		
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			in nourishment to your body.
		
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			So for example,
		
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			if you have a glucose
		
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			drip, you know, glucose going and being injected
		
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			into your body and it's nourishing you,
		
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			that's gonna break your fast.
		
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			Because
		
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			then we'd have people selling to Muslims, hey,
		
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			you don't eat or drink but you could
		
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			just get this glucose injected into you and
		
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			you're gonna feel great through the rest of
		
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			the day. If you're in a hospital or
		
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			something like that and you're getting it there,
		
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			that's breaking your fast because it nourishes you.
		
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			So if it nourishes you
		
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			and it comes in through any part of
		
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			the body,
		
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			then in that case, it's considered to break
		
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			your fast.
		
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			If it nourishes or doesn't nourish you, and
		
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			it resembles food or drink in some way,
		
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			and it goes through your mouth, and you
		
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			swallow it down, then it breaks your fast.
		
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			Anything outside of that
		
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			does not break your fast, technically.
		
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			Okay? So eating or drinking.
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			*
		
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			will break your fast. You're not allowed to
		
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			have *.
		
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			Any other type of foreplay which is done
		
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			is allowed
		
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			as long as no one gets to the
		
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			point of
		
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			being tempted
		
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			to engage in *. So if you if
		
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			you you should know yourself and you should
		
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			be careful about not going a little bit,
		
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			you know, getting too intimate when you're fasting
		
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			because it might you might lose control of
		
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			yourself and you might, you know, end up
		
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			going and doing something you weren't allowed to
		
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			do in the first place. Now this varies
		
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			from person to person. So the prophet used
		
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			to say
		
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			that he used to tell a one young
		
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			man came to him, He said, am I
		
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			allowed to, you know, engage in foreplay and
		
00:45:45 --> 00:45:47
			this and that? And he said, no, you're
		
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			not. And then there was another guy who
		
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			came and he asked him, and he said,
		
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			am I allowed to do this and that?
		
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			He said, yeah, you are.
		
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			Companions were like, well, what's going on here?
		
00:45:56 --> 00:45:57
			Said they realized
		
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			that the young guy, the prophet said no.
		
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			Because young people, newly married, you know, couples
		
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			and all of that,
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:06
			they should not be doing this because they're
		
00:46:06 --> 00:46:08
			not gonna have that level of control. This
		
00:46:08 --> 00:46:10
			other guy who came was really old. Right?
		
00:46:10 --> 00:46:12
			You've been married for a long, long time.
		
00:46:12 --> 00:46:14
			The level of self control that they have
		
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			when it comes to intimacy is very different
		
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			and they have experience. So they know what
		
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			level they can go and what level they
		
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			shouldn't be going to. So that's the way
		
00:46:21 --> 00:46:22
			you determine,
		
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			that. Keep in mind, if you intentionally,
		
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			masturbate,
		
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			it will break the fast.
		
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			K? So intentionally masturbate intentional * will break
		
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			the fast.
		
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			Unintentionally
		
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			having a * when you're sleeping or
		
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			when you wake up during the daytime or
		
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			something does not break your fast because it
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:42
			was unintentional.
		
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			So it's not something that you're gonna be
		
00:46:44 --> 00:46:46
			held, accountable for. But, of course, you do
		
00:46:46 --> 00:46:49
			have to perform your ghusl, your your bat
		
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			before you start praying again. That's category number
		
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			2, *. And number 3,
		
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			vomiting a mouthful
		
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			intentionally.
		
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			K. Intentionally trying to vomit something up, which
		
00:47:00 --> 00:47:01
			is at least like a mouthful of vomit,
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:03
			not like a little tiny bit, where you
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:04
			kinda cough it up or something,
		
00:47:05 --> 00:47:07
			but an entire mouthful or more.
		
00:47:07 --> 00:47:08
			Unintentionally
		
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			throwing something up does not affect the fast.
		
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			K. So if you accident if you're sick,
		
00:47:13 --> 00:47:14
			you get sick and then you vomit something
		
00:47:14 --> 00:47:16
			up, it doesn't break your fast. But if
		
00:47:16 --> 00:47:18
			you try to vomit intentionally, you try to
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:20
			induce yourself to vomiting,
		
00:47:20 --> 00:47:23
			that will break your fast. K. So these
		
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			are the things which do break your fast.
		
00:47:25 --> 00:47:27
			Things which will not break your fast.
		
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			Right.
		
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			If any one of these things so by
		
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			the way, if
		
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			if any one of the things which you're
		
00:47:34 --> 00:47:36
			not allowed to do, if you do them
		
00:47:36 --> 00:47:36
			forgetfully
		
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			and you just you totally forgot and you
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:41
			did them, your fast will not break and
		
00:47:41 --> 00:47:43
			you don't need to make up your fast
		
00:47:43 --> 00:47:46
			because that's something that you accidentally you just
		
00:47:46 --> 00:47:48
			weren't paying attention, you totally forgot. In the
		
00:47:48 --> 00:47:50
			middle of the day, you're thinking, oh, man,
		
00:47:50 --> 00:47:52
			I'm so thirsty. And, you know, it's been
		
00:47:52 --> 00:47:53
			a long day and all of a sudden
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:54
			you just pick up that water and you
		
00:47:54 --> 00:47:57
			start drinking, you get a burger, these these
		
00:47:57 --> 00:47:58
			are really good fries, these are my favorite
		
00:47:58 --> 00:48:00
			fries. And you're eating, you ate like 5
		
00:48:00 --> 00:48:01
			fries
		
00:48:01 --> 00:48:02
			and then
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:04
			oh, my god, I'm fasting.
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:06
			Now what do you do? You stop eating
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:07
			immediately,
		
00:48:07 --> 00:48:09
			you don't have to induce yourself to vomit
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:12
			or anything like that, and you just continue
		
00:48:12 --> 00:48:12
			fasting.
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:15
			Simple as that. Just keep on fasting as
		
00:48:15 --> 00:48:16
			if it never happened and you just say,
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:18
			oh Allah, you know, forgive me, I forgot
		
00:48:18 --> 00:48:20
			and you move on, your fast still counts,
		
00:48:20 --> 00:48:21
			you don't need to make up your fast
		
00:48:21 --> 00:48:23
			after Ramadan is over, you don't need to
		
00:48:23 --> 00:48:25
			make a special prayer, you don't need to
		
00:48:25 --> 00:48:27
			feel guilty for the rest of the day,
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:29
			just be more alert next time, you know,
		
00:48:29 --> 00:48:32
			and just try to keep remember that you're
		
00:48:32 --> 00:48:34
			fasting. Otherwise, it's fine. Allah gave you that
		
00:48:34 --> 00:48:36
			food, you know, maybe you needed it, you
		
00:48:36 --> 00:48:38
			know. So he allowed you to get you
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:40
			that little amount of food and then that's
		
00:48:40 --> 00:48:41
			it, and you're done and you continue fasting,
		
00:48:41 --> 00:48:42
			you're fine.
		
00:48:43 --> 00:48:45
			But you gotta stop immediately. Now you don't
		
00:48:45 --> 00:48:47
			say, oh, well, let me just finish this
		
00:48:47 --> 00:48:48
			fry, which is already in my mouth. I
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:50
			already chewed it and I don't wanna waste
		
00:48:50 --> 00:48:52
			food. I'm a good Muslim. Right? So let
		
00:48:52 --> 00:48:54
			me just swallow that last one. No. You
		
00:48:54 --> 00:48:55
			you you get rid of the food that's
		
00:48:55 --> 00:48:57
			there. Now the following things which are very
		
00:48:57 --> 00:49:00
			common, they do not break your fast.
		
00:49:00 --> 00:49:02
			K. These are, like, the most common questions,
		
00:49:02 --> 00:49:03
			and they don't break your fast. So the
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:05
			first three categories, I said they do break
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:07
			your fast. These are things which you might
		
00:49:07 --> 00:49:09
			think they do, but they actually don't.
		
00:49:10 --> 00:49:10
			Number 1,
		
00:49:11 --> 00:49:12
			tasting food
		
00:49:13 --> 00:49:15
			without swallowing the food.
		
00:49:15 --> 00:49:17
			So if you taste food and you don't
		
00:49:17 --> 00:49:19
			swallow it, then it doesn't actually break your
		
00:49:19 --> 00:49:22
			fast. Now obviously, this is disliked unless you
		
00:49:22 --> 00:49:24
			have a good reason. So you don't go
		
00:49:24 --> 00:49:27
			to the farmers market and say, oh, samples?
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:29
			Can I just taste that? I'm fasting by
		
00:49:29 --> 00:49:30
			the way. I'm I'm just tasting. Okay? You
		
00:49:30 --> 00:49:33
			taste the sugar and you taste that and
		
00:49:33 --> 00:49:35
			This is for people who are like working
		
00:49:35 --> 00:49:37
			in a profession as like being a chef
		
00:49:38 --> 00:49:39
			and you don't wanna get fired. And when
		
00:49:39 --> 00:49:41
			you're making that pasta and stuff like that,
		
00:49:41 --> 00:49:44
			you gotta taste the, you know, recipe that
		
00:49:44 --> 00:49:47
			you just made. You don't swallow it. Just
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:48
			taste it with the tip of your tongue.
		
00:49:49 --> 00:49:51
			If you see, like, enough salt, enough sugar,
		
00:49:51 --> 00:49:53
			enough spice, or whatever it is, and then
		
00:49:53 --> 00:49:54
			you spit it out.
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:57
			If you're it's mainly for cooking, pretty much.
		
00:49:57 --> 00:49:58
			So you do that,
		
00:49:59 --> 00:50:01
			if you have a good reason. So you're
		
00:50:01 --> 00:50:02
			working as a chef or something like that,
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:03
			you can spit it out. Yeah. You just
		
00:50:03 --> 00:50:05
			taste it and you spit it out, and
		
00:50:05 --> 00:50:06
			you're good. The food is gonna be prepared.
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:08
			Like the people who are preparing the food
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:10
			for in the mosque over here for people
		
00:50:10 --> 00:50:12
			who are breaking their fast. Right? You know
		
00:50:12 --> 00:50:13
			what's gonna happen if they don't taste it
		
00:50:13 --> 00:50:15
			and there's a wrong amount of salt and
		
00:50:15 --> 00:50:17
			everything? You got a lot of people who've
		
00:50:17 --> 00:50:19
			gone the entire day without food,
		
00:50:19 --> 00:50:21
			and they're expecting the food and imagine what's
		
00:50:21 --> 00:50:23
			gonna happen to that cook. Right?
		
00:50:23 --> 00:50:25
			Obviously, we're gonna be very easy on the
		
00:50:25 --> 00:50:26
			cook,
		
00:50:26 --> 00:50:28
			but keep that in mind. Okay? So you
		
00:50:28 --> 00:50:29
			can taste it, but you don't swallow it,
		
00:50:29 --> 00:50:31
			you spit it out immediately, and you don't
		
00:50:31 --> 00:50:33
			try and like, it's really good. Let me
		
00:50:33 --> 00:50:35
			taste a little bit more. Just taste what
		
00:50:35 --> 00:50:37
			you need to. Number 2,
		
00:50:37 --> 00:50:38
			chewing food
		
00:50:39 --> 00:50:40
			without swallowing it.
		
00:50:41 --> 00:50:43
			So chewing, not meaning food per se, but
		
00:50:43 --> 00:50:44
			chewing something
		
00:50:45 --> 00:50:47
			without actually swallowing that thing. So if you
		
00:50:47 --> 00:50:49
			choose something, like, let's say,
		
00:50:50 --> 00:50:51
			even chewing food. Right?
		
00:50:52 --> 00:50:53
			If you have a good reason for doing
		
00:50:53 --> 00:50:55
			that, it's allowed. If there's no good reason,
		
00:50:55 --> 00:50:57
			it's dislike you shouldn't be doing. So why
		
00:50:57 --> 00:50:59
			in the world will you choose you chew
		
00:50:59 --> 00:51:01
			food without wanting to swallow it? If you
		
00:51:01 --> 00:51:02
			have to chew it for your children, for
		
00:51:02 --> 00:51:04
			example. Your children are not fasting, and they're
		
00:51:04 --> 00:51:06
			little, and you need to chew something to,
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:08
			you know, just soften it up for them,
		
00:51:08 --> 00:51:10
			and then you put it in their mouth.
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:12
			So you're allowed to chew that food for,
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:14
			a reason, as long as you don't swallow
		
00:51:14 --> 00:51:15
			any of it, and you you spit out
		
00:51:15 --> 00:51:17
			there, whatever remnants are there. So that's not
		
00:51:17 --> 00:51:19
			gonna break your fast, because technically, you didn't
		
00:51:19 --> 00:51:20
			swallow anything,
		
00:51:21 --> 00:51:23
			so it doesn't break your fast. Number 3,
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:24
			using eye drops
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:26
			does not break your fast.
		
00:51:27 --> 00:51:29
			Very common question. You say, well, what if
		
00:51:29 --> 00:51:30
			you use a eye drop or you use
		
00:51:30 --> 00:51:33
			what's called kuhal, which is like a eyeliner
		
00:51:33 --> 00:51:33
			type of thing,
		
00:51:34 --> 00:51:36
			and when you put it in your eye,
		
00:51:36 --> 00:51:37
			you actually feel
		
00:51:38 --> 00:51:39
			this, like, sensation,
		
00:51:40 --> 00:51:42
			this moisture sensation in your throat. It's a
		
00:51:42 --> 00:51:44
			very common sensation that people have. They feel
		
00:51:44 --> 00:51:46
			like a little moisture sensation in the throat.
		
00:51:46 --> 00:51:49
			Something has gone through somehow to your throat,
		
00:51:49 --> 00:51:51
			cavity or whatever. It still doesn't break your
		
00:51:51 --> 00:51:54
			fast. K? So using eye drops is fine.
		
00:51:54 --> 00:51:55
			Using ear drops.
		
00:51:56 --> 00:51:57
			It used to be thought that the ear
		
00:51:57 --> 00:52:00
			canal is connected to the throat canal in
		
00:52:00 --> 00:52:02
			some way, shape, or form, but it's actually
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:04
			not and it doesn't break your fast. So
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:07
			using ear drops is also fine. Using a
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:07
			nose drop,
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:10
			even though the nose is connected to your
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:10
			throat,
		
00:52:11 --> 00:52:14
			is also fine as long as you're not
		
00:52:14 --> 00:52:16
			sniffing it in, it gets to your throat,
		
00:52:16 --> 00:52:17
			and then you swallow it.
		
00:52:18 --> 00:52:19
			So if you swallow it, then it's then
		
00:52:19 --> 00:52:21
			it's gonna break your fast. If you don't
		
00:52:21 --> 00:52:22
			swallow it and you just put the nasal
		
00:52:22 --> 00:52:24
			spray in or you just put the nose
		
00:52:24 --> 00:52:26
			drops, but you're not getting anything in your
		
00:52:26 --> 00:52:28
			throat and then swallowing it. If it gets
		
00:52:28 --> 00:52:29
			to your throat and you spit it out,
		
00:52:29 --> 00:52:31
			you're fine. So using nose drops is also
		
00:52:31 --> 00:52:33
			fine, and using an enema
		
00:52:34 --> 00:52:35
			is also fine.
		
00:52:36 --> 00:52:38
			If you don't know what an enema is,
		
00:52:38 --> 00:52:38
			you probably
		
00:52:39 --> 00:52:40
			think a lot.
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:43
			Enema is something that people need for med
		
00:52:43 --> 00:52:44
			medic medical reasons,
		
00:52:45 --> 00:52:48
			inserting from the rear end. Okay? So putting
		
00:52:48 --> 00:52:50
			that, that's also fine. Those things are not
		
00:52:50 --> 00:52:53
			nourishing and they're not directly connected to, you
		
00:52:53 --> 00:52:55
			know, your stomach cavity. It's not gonna be
		
00:52:55 --> 00:52:57
			nourishing you or anything like that. So these
		
00:52:57 --> 00:52:58
			things are fine,
		
00:52:58 --> 00:53:01
			and the reason why is the medicine does
		
00:53:01 --> 00:53:03
			not reach the stomach or nourish the individual,
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			and that's the reasoning behind it.
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:06
			Number 4,
		
00:53:07 --> 00:53:08
			a medical injection.
		
00:53:09 --> 00:53:11
			Any type of medical injection that you're getting,
		
00:53:11 --> 00:53:13
			whether it's a intramuscular
		
00:53:13 --> 00:53:15
			injection or it's intravenous
		
00:53:15 --> 00:53:16
			injection,
		
00:53:16 --> 00:53:19
			it will not invalidate your fast because it
		
00:53:19 --> 00:53:21
			neither reaches your stomach,
		
00:53:21 --> 00:53:22
			in most cases,
		
00:53:23 --> 00:53:24
			and it does not enter your body through
		
00:53:24 --> 00:53:26
			the mouth. So it's not doing either of
		
00:53:26 --> 00:53:29
			these two things, so it's not going to,
		
00:53:31 --> 00:53:34
			it's not going to, invalidate your fast.
		
00:53:35 --> 00:53:37
			Number I don't know what number we're on.
		
00:53:37 --> 00:53:39
			Number 5. Number 5.
		
00:53:40 --> 00:53:41
			Medical patches,
		
00:53:42 --> 00:53:44
			medicinal patches. So having a medicinal patch,
		
00:53:45 --> 00:53:46
			which you have on your your, you know,
		
00:53:46 --> 00:53:47
			like,
		
00:53:48 --> 00:53:50
			what are those heat patches or something like
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:51
			that? Neosporin,
		
00:53:53 --> 00:53:55
			salon pass, yes, salon pass, those kind of
		
00:53:55 --> 00:53:56
			patches and stuff like that.
		
00:53:57 --> 00:54:00
			It's not gonna break your fast either because
		
00:54:00 --> 00:54:02
			even though it's entering your body, it's not
		
00:54:02 --> 00:54:04
			reaching your stomach, it's not nourishing your body
		
00:54:04 --> 00:54:06
			and it's not even entering through the mouth.
		
00:54:06 --> 00:54:08
			So it's very very safe. It's not gonna
		
00:54:08 --> 00:54:10
			break your fast at all. Number 6,
		
00:54:10 --> 00:54:12
			brushing your teeth
		
00:54:12 --> 00:54:13
			with a wet brush,
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:16
			whether it's a miswak or a stick, or
		
00:54:16 --> 00:54:17
			whether it's a toothbrush,
		
00:54:18 --> 00:54:20
			or even whether it's with toothpaste.
		
00:54:20 --> 00:54:23
			You're allowed to brush your teeth as long
		
00:54:23 --> 00:54:24
			as nothing is swallowed.
		
00:54:24 --> 00:54:26
			As long as you don't swallow anything, you're
		
00:54:26 --> 00:54:28
			allowed to brush your teeth. But you have
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:30
			to be very careful when you're brushing near
		
00:54:30 --> 00:54:31
			the back of your mouth
		
00:54:31 --> 00:54:33
			because it's more likely that you're gonna swallow
		
00:54:33 --> 00:54:35
			and if you gag or something like that.
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:37
			And when you're gargling, when you're putting rinsing
		
00:54:37 --> 00:54:39
			water in your mouth, when you're done with
		
00:54:39 --> 00:54:41
			brushing your teeth, don't go back and gargle
		
00:54:41 --> 00:54:43
			if you normally do that. Don't go, blah
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:45
			blah blah, because then it's actually going down.
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:47
			Now it's true that when you brush your
		
00:54:47 --> 00:54:49
			teeth or even when you take water in
		
00:54:49 --> 00:54:51
			your mouth when you're performing wudu,
		
00:54:51 --> 00:54:53
			It's a it's a fact that the water
		
00:54:53 --> 00:54:56
			is being absorbed by your tongue and it
		
00:54:56 --> 00:54:58
			is nourishing you, but it's not going down
		
00:54:58 --> 00:54:59
			your throat. And it's something that the prophet,
		
00:54:59 --> 00:55:01
			peace be upon him, and all the companions,
		
00:55:01 --> 00:55:03
			they always made wudu and they never stopped,
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:06
			you know, performing the the the rinsing their
		
00:55:06 --> 00:55:08
			mouth part. So just keep that in mind.
		
00:55:08 --> 00:55:09
			Don't gargle, but you rinse your mouth is
		
00:55:09 --> 00:55:12
			perfectly fine. Brushing your teeth is fine.
		
00:55:12 --> 00:55:14
			Even using toothpaste is fine as long as
		
00:55:14 --> 00:55:15
			you're careful.
		
00:55:15 --> 00:55:17
			Don't swallow anything and be careful. And if
		
00:55:17 --> 00:55:19
			you swallow water normally when you're brushing your
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:21
			teeth after for whatever reason,
		
00:55:22 --> 00:55:24
			be extra careful and make sure not to
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:25
			do that.
		
00:55:25 --> 00:55:26
			Number
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:27
			7,
		
00:55:28 --> 00:55:30
			swallowing small bits of food
		
00:55:31 --> 00:55:34
			that have been stuck in your teeth already
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:36
			when you were eating the morning breakfast.
		
00:55:37 --> 00:55:39
			Right. And small, when we say small small,
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:41
			like little tiny sesame seeds or something like
		
00:55:41 --> 00:55:42
			that. Right.
		
00:55:43 --> 00:55:43
			Because
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:47
			you just generally consider them to be kinda
		
00:55:47 --> 00:55:49
			mixed in with your saliva and is you're
		
00:55:49 --> 00:55:51
			not intentionally eating those things, they're just kind
		
00:55:51 --> 00:55:53
			of stuck in there. You can't just keep
		
00:55:53 --> 00:55:55
			spitting out all the time. Some little tiny
		
00:55:55 --> 00:55:57
			pieces will be stuck in your mouth. So
		
00:55:57 --> 00:55:58
			whatever you swallow of that is not gonna
		
00:55:58 --> 00:56:00
			break your fast, because you're not even intending
		
00:56:00 --> 00:56:02
			to eat any of those things. It's just
		
00:56:02 --> 00:56:04
			leftover, try to brush your teeth after, you
		
00:56:04 --> 00:56:05
			know, you,
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:07
			eat your morning breakfast and you should be
		
00:56:07 --> 00:56:10
			fine. The next one is giving blood.
		
00:56:11 --> 00:56:13
			So giving blood does not break your fast,
		
00:56:13 --> 00:56:16
			but it's disliked to give blood
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:19
			if it's gonna weaken you, and it's gonna
		
00:56:19 --> 00:56:22
			make your fasting more difficult for you. So
		
00:56:22 --> 00:56:24
			it's better not to give blood if you
		
00:56:24 --> 00:56:25
			think you're gonna get weak. But if you're
		
00:56:25 --> 00:56:27
			tough, you've given blood before, you're like, it
		
00:56:27 --> 00:56:29
			doesn't bother me, I don't even get light
		
00:56:29 --> 00:56:30
			headed or anything, you can go ahead and
		
00:56:30 --> 00:56:32
			give blood and it's not a problem. It
		
00:56:32 --> 00:56:33
			will not break it too fast.
		
00:56:34 --> 00:56:37
			Next one is using an asthma inhaler.
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:40
			Now this is a lot of debate amongst
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:42
			scholars about the asthma inhaler and whether or
		
00:56:42 --> 00:56:43
			not it can be used. But
		
00:56:44 --> 00:56:44
			generally,
		
00:56:46 --> 00:56:48
			you know, it's something that I've really I've
		
00:56:48 --> 00:56:50
			thought a lot for, discuss with a lot
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:50
			of people.
		
00:56:51 --> 00:56:52
			It generally goes into your lungs.
		
00:56:53 --> 00:56:55
			Doesn't go into your stomach, just go straight
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:58
			into your lungs and doesn't actually provide any
		
00:56:58 --> 00:57:00
			nourishment for your body. So since it's not
		
00:57:00 --> 00:57:02
			falling in any of those categories, using an
		
00:57:02 --> 00:57:05
			asthma inhaler would generally be okay. K. Although
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:07
			some scholars differ with this, because they believe
		
00:57:07 --> 00:57:09
			it's going through your mouth and it's getting
		
00:57:09 --> 00:57:10
			in into your body.
		
00:57:11 --> 00:57:12
			The next one is
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:14
			inhaling incense
		
00:57:14 --> 00:57:16
			or inhaling some other type of smoke,
		
00:57:17 --> 00:57:18
			because
		
00:57:18 --> 00:57:20
			it neither nourishes nor does it reach your
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:23
			stomach. So if you there's incense being burned
		
00:57:23 --> 00:57:25
			or something like that and you smell it,
		
00:57:25 --> 00:57:26
			you say, oh, well, this smoke, you know,
		
00:57:26 --> 00:57:28
			the incense went into my, you know, body,
		
00:57:28 --> 00:57:30
			I inhaled it, or something like that, it's
		
00:57:30 --> 00:57:31
			not gonna break,
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:32
			your fast either.
		
00:57:33 --> 00:57:34
			Now keep one thing in mind, that it's
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:36
			when it comes to smoking, when it comes
		
00:57:36 --> 00:57:38
			to smoking cigarettes, when it comes to smoking
		
00:57:38 --> 00:57:39
			hookah,
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:43
			these are things that are prohibited from Muslims
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:44
			in the first place. We should not be
		
00:57:44 --> 00:57:46
			doing them in Ramadan or outside of Ramadan,
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:49
			but Ramadan is the perfect time to quit
		
00:57:49 --> 00:57:51
			these things. So once you know that you
		
00:57:51 --> 00:57:53
			should not be using these things at all,
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:55
			especially not in Ramadan,
		
00:57:55 --> 00:57:58
			especially not while fasting, this is the time
		
00:57:58 --> 00:58:00
			where you can the best time to quit
		
00:58:00 --> 00:58:02
			if you're, addicted to that. So this is
		
00:58:02 --> 00:58:05
			a great opportunity to get rid of that.
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:07
			Otherwise, any type of other incense or something
		
00:58:07 --> 00:58:08
			is not gonna break your,
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:12
			fast just by inhaling it. And lastly, rinsing
		
00:58:12 --> 00:58:14
			your mouth with water or taking a bath
		
00:58:14 --> 00:58:16
			to cool down. There's nothing wrong with that.
		
00:58:16 --> 00:58:17
			So if you would like, you know, I'm
		
00:58:17 --> 00:58:19
			just really hot and it's a long day
		
00:58:19 --> 00:58:20
			and everything,
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:22
			just jump in the shower. Take a nice
		
00:58:22 --> 00:58:24
			cool shower, you come out, you feel good,
		
00:58:24 --> 00:58:26
			you're energized again. And then you're like, you
		
00:58:26 --> 00:58:29
			know what? That worked for about 3 hours,
		
00:58:29 --> 00:58:30
			but I'm hot again.
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:32
			Just jump in the shower again and cool
		
00:58:32 --> 00:58:34
			down. There's nothing wrong with taking a bath
		
00:58:34 --> 00:58:37
			or shower to cool down. It's not like,
		
00:58:37 --> 00:58:39
			oh, but but but it's not feeling the
		
00:58:39 --> 00:58:41
			fast or something. No. You can go ahead
		
00:58:41 --> 00:58:42
			and take it and there's nothing wrong with
		
00:58:42 --> 00:58:43
			that. So it doesn't break your fast and
		
00:58:43 --> 00:58:45
			there's nothing wrong with doing it either. K?
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:48
			Lastly, before I take questions on this subject
		
00:58:48 --> 00:58:50
			is there are some special rules
		
00:58:50 --> 00:58:53
			about changing from one state to another state.
		
00:58:53 --> 00:58:54
			And that is,
		
00:58:55 --> 00:58:58
			if a person was not required to fast,
		
00:58:58 --> 00:59:00
			let's say you're sick, let's say you're in
		
00:59:00 --> 00:59:01
			a state of menstruation,
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:03
			but then during the day,
		
00:59:04 --> 00:59:05
			it stops.
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:09
			You're fine now, or your menstruation ends, or
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:11
			something like that. Now you've changed to another
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:13
			state where you're supposed to be fasting,
		
00:59:13 --> 00:59:14
			or vice versa.
		
00:59:15 --> 00:59:17
			You weren't you you were gonna be fasting
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:19
			and then all of a sudden your menstruation
		
00:59:19 --> 00:59:20
			started in the middle of the day, or
		
00:59:20 --> 00:59:22
			you got sick in the middle of the
		
00:59:22 --> 00:59:24
			day. What do you do when you're changing
		
00:59:24 --> 00:59:25
			from one state to another state in the
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:27
			middle of the day? So like let's say
		
00:59:27 --> 00:59:29
			even a child, a child becomes mature in
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:31
			the middle of the day. Someone who's not
		
00:59:31 --> 00:59:32
			a Muslim,
		
00:59:32 --> 00:59:34
			they accept Islam in the middle of the
		
00:59:34 --> 00:59:35
			day.
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:37
			Do they start fasting immediately or do they
		
00:59:37 --> 00:59:39
			not do that? What do they do,
		
00:59:39 --> 00:59:41
			in that case? So like a woman too,
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:43
			same thing. Woman begins her period and starts
		
00:59:43 --> 00:59:45
			in the day, what should she do?
		
00:59:46 --> 00:59:47
			So if someone,
		
00:59:47 --> 00:59:50
			is not a Muslim and they accept Islam
		
00:59:50 --> 00:59:52
			during the day, they need to start fasting
		
00:59:52 --> 00:59:53
			for the rest of the day. K. So
		
00:59:53 --> 00:59:55
			they change from a state of not having
		
00:59:55 --> 00:59:56
			to fast
		
00:59:56 --> 00:59:58
			to having to fast. In that case, they
		
00:59:58 --> 01:00:00
			will start fasting even for that half day.
		
01:00:01 --> 01:00:03
			When it comes to a woman
		
01:00:03 --> 01:00:04
			who starts menstruating
		
01:00:04 --> 01:00:06
			or starts having her lokia in the middle
		
01:00:06 --> 01:00:07
			of the day,
		
01:00:07 --> 01:00:09
			k, when she didn't have it, now she's
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:11
			not supposed to fast. So she's going from
		
01:00:11 --> 01:00:12
			a state of,
		
01:00:13 --> 01:00:15
			having to fast to not having to fast.
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:17
			She must break her fast. So she starts
		
01:00:17 --> 01:00:18
			fasting
		
01:00:18 --> 01:00:20
			and she's allowed to eat.
		
01:00:20 --> 01:00:22
			So it doesn't mean that, you know, she
		
01:00:22 --> 01:00:24
			she's allowed to she doesn't finish that day.
		
01:00:24 --> 01:00:26
			She starts eating, but she needs to make
		
01:00:26 --> 01:00:28
			up that day later, because she only did
		
01:00:28 --> 01:00:29
			like half a day or something like that.
		
01:00:29 --> 01:00:30
			K?
		
01:00:30 --> 01:00:32
			If the excuse for not fasting
		
01:00:33 --> 01:00:35
			goes away during the day,
		
01:00:36 --> 01:00:39
			so for example, woman's period ends, traveler
		
01:00:40 --> 01:00:42
			returns back home, and he's not a traveler
		
01:00:42 --> 01:00:44
			anymore, but he was deciding not to fast,
		
01:00:44 --> 01:00:46
			A sick person was he you know, healed
		
01:00:46 --> 01:00:49
			now, he's cured now. That person should refrain
		
01:00:49 --> 01:00:50
			from eating for the rest of the day,
		
01:00:51 --> 01:00:52
			but
		
01:00:52 --> 01:00:54
			they still need to make up that missed
		
01:00:54 --> 01:00:55
			day.
		
01:00:55 --> 01:00:57
			So you say, well, wait a minute. Okay.
		
01:00:58 --> 01:00:58
			I'm,
		
01:01:00 --> 01:01:01
			I'm a traveler.
		
01:01:01 --> 01:01:02
			I started
		
01:01:03 --> 01:01:05
			eating because it was hard for me.
		
01:01:06 --> 01:01:07
			Half the day has passed, and I come
		
01:01:07 --> 01:01:08
			back home.
		
01:01:08 --> 01:01:10
			And now I gotta
		
01:01:10 --> 01:01:12
			refrain from eating the rest of the half
		
01:01:12 --> 01:01:15
			day, but I have to make up my
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:17
			fast anyways. So technically, I fasted half a
		
01:01:17 --> 01:01:18
			day, but I need to make up a
		
01:01:18 --> 01:01:20
			whole day. So why?
		
01:01:21 --> 01:01:22
			The reason why
		
01:01:23 --> 01:01:23
			is because
		
01:01:25 --> 01:01:25
			Muslim
		
01:01:26 --> 01:01:27
			fasting
		
01:01:27 --> 01:01:29
			is a community thing.
		
01:01:29 --> 01:01:31
			So you don't wanna be
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:32
			resembling
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:35
			anyone in the community where, you know what,
		
01:01:35 --> 01:01:37
			you're going and eating. Say, well, well, I'm
		
01:01:37 --> 01:01:38
			not in that case right now. I can
		
01:01:38 --> 01:01:41
			go ahead and do this. If you have
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:43
			an excuse and the excuse is still valid,
		
01:01:43 --> 01:01:46
			like, let's say you're menstruating. Right? You're allowed
		
01:01:46 --> 01:01:47
			to eat and no one can say anything,
		
01:01:48 --> 01:01:50
			about you because you're allowed to eat 100%.
		
01:01:50 --> 01:01:54
			But now here, it's better to even keep
		
01:01:54 --> 01:01:56
			that half a day because technically you're in
		
01:01:56 --> 01:01:59
			a state with everyone else to avoid,
		
01:01:59 --> 01:02:02
			resembling someone who's not fasting because technically you
		
01:02:02 --> 01:02:04
			should be fasting. That's the reasoning behind it.
		
01:02:04 --> 01:02:07
			K? Whoever is excused from fasting, if you're
		
01:02:07 --> 01:02:11
			ill, menstruation, whatever else it is, try to
		
01:02:11 --> 01:02:12
			eat in private.
		
01:02:12 --> 01:02:14
			Don't eat around other people because it might
		
01:02:14 --> 01:02:16
			give them the illusion
		
01:02:16 --> 01:02:19
			that you're violating Ramadan or something like that.
		
01:02:19 --> 01:02:20
			So all of a sudden, you know, if
		
01:02:20 --> 01:02:23
			someone doesn't know, someone's eating eating a burger
		
01:02:23 --> 01:02:23
			and everything,
		
01:02:24 --> 01:02:25
			what are you doing, man? This guy's
		
01:02:26 --> 01:02:27
			they may not even ask you. Right?
		
01:02:28 --> 01:02:29
			Like, man, I'm sick. You probably should be
		
01:02:29 --> 01:02:31
			eating a burger when you're sick, by the
		
01:02:31 --> 01:02:34
			way. It's health, the rule there. But, you're
		
01:02:34 --> 01:02:35
			eating a burger or something and all of
		
01:02:35 --> 01:02:37
			a sudden people look at you and they
		
01:02:37 --> 01:02:39
			don't know you're they don't know that you're
		
01:02:39 --> 01:02:41
			sick. They don't know that maybe, you know
		
01:02:41 --> 01:02:42
			what, you have diabetes, you have to eat.
		
01:02:42 --> 01:02:44
			So it's best to eat in secret so
		
01:02:44 --> 01:02:46
			that people don't get the wrong idea unless
		
01:02:46 --> 01:02:47
			they know.
		
01:02:47 --> 01:02:49
			And the thing is you say, well, that's
		
01:02:49 --> 01:02:50
			their problem. Why they have to be so
		
01:02:50 --> 01:02:51
			nosy and why they have to look at
		
01:02:51 --> 01:02:53
			me and everything? Okay. That's true. At the
		
01:02:53 --> 01:02:54
			same time,
		
01:02:54 --> 01:02:56
			people have natural, you know,
		
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			tendencies, and there's whispers coming from shaitans. Start
		
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			looking at that person, looking at that person.
		
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			It's best to cut the problem at its
		
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			root. So don't you know, if you're excused
		
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			from fasting, try to eat it in private.
		
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			Try to eat in private when you can.
		
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			What is recommended for fasting? So we talked
		
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			about the requirements.
		
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			But what is recommended?
		
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			First of all, it's recommended to wake up
		
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			before dawn and to eat something as your
		
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			pre dawn meal, what's known as the suhoor,
		
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			before you start your fast.
		
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			So why? Why is this recommended? Because it's
		
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			actually gonna help you to remain strong, remain
		
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			healthy throughout the day. A lot of people
		
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			become lazy
		
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			and they just say, oh, I'd rather just
		
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			sleep an extra 30 minutes
		
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			than eat that extra 30 minute meal. I
		
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			guarantee you that eating that even if you
		
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			wake up for 5 minutes and eat something,
		
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			drink something,
		
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			is gonna help you more than if you
		
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			had that 5 or 10 minutes of extra
		
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			rest. So it's very important. The point is
		
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			not to make your life difficult. The point
		
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			is not to get tired during the day.
		
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			The point is to fast and stay in
		
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			control of yourself, but you need to make
		
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			sure that you have that meal.
		
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			And in fact, it's actually better and more
		
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			recommended to delay that meal
		
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			until right before the fasting begins.
		
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			So if you say, well, oh, you know
		
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			what? I usually stay up to, like, 2
		
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			o'clock in the morning. So I'll just go
		
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			ahead and have my meal at 2 o'clock
		
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			in the morning,
		
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			and then I'll just wake up for fudge
		
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			or prayer at, like, 5 AM, and I'll
		
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			pray my fajr and I'll skip the rest
		
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			of the meal. It's actually better that you
		
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			sleep at 2 AM,
		
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			you wake up again right before the fast
		
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			starts. Let's say it starts at 4:50. You
		
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			wake up at 4:40 and you eat for
		
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			10 minutes. It's better that you do that,
		
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			because it's closer.
		
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			It's more, you know, blessing in that time
		
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			anyways and it's something that's recommended. The prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him, and all the companions,
		
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			they used to do the exact same thing.
		
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			And also on a side note,
		
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			you should eat healthy food for breakfast. I
		
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			have to emphasize this because
		
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			Muslim culture has become in many cultures, especially
		
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			like Arab culture, Desi culture especially,
		
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			they eat like
		
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			fried ground beef or something like that for
		
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			breakfast. Okay? This is not healthy.
		
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			Eating, like, really oily fried foods in the
		
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			morning is definitely not gonna keep your energy
		
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			sustained. You wanna eat something that's what would
		
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			generally was called little bit of complex carbohydrates.
		
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			What they do is they give you energy,
		
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			but the energy releases slowly over a long
		
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			period of time throughout the day. You wanna
		
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			eat a little bit, maybe sugary foods,
		
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			little bit of sugar to get you some
		
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			energy. You wanna eat something that gives you
		
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			a good balanced nutrition that you need for
		
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			the day, and and likewise when you're breaking
		
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			the fast as well. So it's very important
		
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			to eat eat good stuff,
		
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			as well.
		
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			It's also recommended to begin fasting
		
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			about 5 to 10 minutes before the actual
		
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			time of dawn.
		
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			Right? So don't just look at the time
		
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			of dawn. It's better to to maybe 5
		
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			minutes before you start. You stop eating 5
		
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			minutes before
		
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			or something like that. And the reason why
		
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			is that, 1, so you don't accidentally keep
		
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			on eating and drinking beyond the time, And
		
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			2, because the calculation
		
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			that's done for exactly the time of dawn,
		
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			it's a little bit difference of opinion in
		
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			terms of how it plays out. So it's
		
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			better to be on the safe side and
		
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			keep some, a little bit of a barrier.
		
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			And that's recommended, so it's not a requirement,
		
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			but if you do, it's better. When the
		
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			sun sets,
		
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			right, when your fast is over, it's recommended
		
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			to break your fast immediately.
		
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			So why immediately?
		
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			Right? You might think, well, if I fast
		
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			an extra hour, that's even better. I fasted
		
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			more. So no. You actually break immediately to
		
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			show that you're following
		
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			the prescribed way of fasting that the prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him, taught us, and that
		
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			way that Allah taught us. So it's not
		
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			about you going and doing what you think
		
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			is better. It's about following the way that
		
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			the Islam actually taught you. So if you're
		
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			in traffic, you're driving home, and you're stuck
		
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			in traffic, and you know you're gonna be
		
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			stuck in traffic,
		
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			you make sure to keep, like, some dates
		
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			or you keep something food with you in
		
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			the car or some water so that you
		
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			can break your fast while you're in the
		
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			car. If you have nothing, you should actually
		
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			pull over to a gas station, get some
		
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			water, get a drink, and break your fast,
		
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			and get back on the road again. So
		
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			you should be breaking your fast exactly when
		
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			the fast is over to show that you're
		
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			following the prescribed way. And so that's important.
		
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			It's also recommended to break your fast with
		
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			an odd number of dates,
		
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			and this is the practice of the prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him. So if you have,
		
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			you know, dates, everyone knows what a date
		
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			is pretty much. It's a type of little
		
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			fruit,
		
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			very
		
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			has a lot of sugar, has a lot
		
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			of calories too, but it's very, very healthy,
		
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			and it gives you a lot of energy.
		
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			It's very healthy, and there's been a lot
		
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			of actually scientific studies that show that dates
		
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			are very good source of nutrients,
		
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			and it's great especially after you're done fasting.
		
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			It helps you rehydrate your body, helps to
		
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			rebuild some of the,
		
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			you know,
		
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			things that, you know, you've lost while you
		
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			were fasting. So you break it with the
		
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			odd number of dates.
		
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			Either one date is enough or 3 dates
		
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			or 5 dates or 7 dates, any odd
		
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			number, of dates. And if you have no
		
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			dates, then you break it with water. So
		
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			this is what the recommended thing is. 1st
		
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			option is dates. If you don't have it
		
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			or if you don't want it, then water
		
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			when you break your fast. And that's why
		
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			you'll notice that in Ramadan, Muslims always have
		
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			dates with them, and you'll find that everyone
		
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			is going and buying a giant box of
		
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			dates. Right? So this is the opportunity. If
		
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			you wanna get those dates, now is the
		
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			time to go and get it. And there
		
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			are really good, like, deals all over Brookhurst
		
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			Street and Anaheim and all these areas. Just
		
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			buy a box of dates, enough for your
		
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			family. If you're fasting by yourself, you just
		
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			need 30 dates. You got a wife,
		
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			you know, or husband,
		
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			60 days. If you got kids, just get
		
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			an entire box. So you got your dates
		
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			for the entire,
		
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			month. When you're breaking your fast, it's recommended
		
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			to recite this following supplication, and that is
		
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			Insha'Allah.
		
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			And that means the thirst is gone
		
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			because you were thirsty the whole day. The
		
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			thirst now is gone because you're gonna be
		
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			breaking your fast and eating.
		
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			The veins are moist
		
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			because you were, like, you know, out of
		
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			water, basically,
		
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			And the reward is affirmed
		
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			if Allah wills.
		
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			Meaning that I'm gonna be rewarded for this
		
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			fast if Allah wills, and I'm breaking my
		
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			fast now. So this is the
		
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			supplication to make when you're breaking your fast.
		
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			You can say it in English. It's perfectly
		
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			fine,
		
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			where however you say it.
		
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			And if you're performing an optional fast,
		
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			k, not Ramadan. Okay. Ramadan is mandatory fast.
		
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			If you're performing an optional fast and you're
		
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			invited
		
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			to someone's house for a meal,
		
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			okay,
		
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			Then
		
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			and and they're like, you know what? I
		
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			put a lot of effort into really making
		
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			this food and inviting you and everything. You
		
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			said, but I'm fasting. I can't eat. I'm
		
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			coming to your house, but, you know, thank
		
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			you so much for preparing all this food,
		
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			but I'm not gonna eat. Can pack it
		
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			up in a box for me. I'm gonna
		
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			go home. That's
		
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			kinda messed up. Right? So, actually, it's recommended
		
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			to break your fast if the person is
		
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			really gonna feel offended. They they put they
		
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			put some effort into it. Even though it's
		
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			because it's an optional fast, and you can
		
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			break it. So you break that fast, it's
		
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			recommended to break that fast, and it's not
		
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			more pious to say, you know what? No.
		
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			No. Sorry. I'm fasting. You know? But Ramadan,
		
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			obviously, is different case. Ramadan is a mandatory
		
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			fast. You're not gonna break that fast. So
		
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			this is what's recommended,
		
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			during fasting.
		
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			Let's talk about making up missed fasts.
		
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			K. So whoever misses a fast and they
		
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			need to make it up, they're allowed to
		
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			make it up at their leisure.
		
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			At their leisure means they don't need to
		
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			make it up immediately after Ramadan.
		
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			It can be done 1 month later. It
		
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			can be done 3 months later. It can
		
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			be done 7 months later. And some people
		
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			who really want the easy way,
		
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			guess which season they choose to fast in
		
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			when they make up their fast?
		
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			Winter, like right in the middle of winter,
		
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			because it's the shortest period and it's nice
		
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			and cool. That's the time to make up
		
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			your fast if you're into that.
		
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			But you have to make it up before
		
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			the next Ramadan.
		
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			So if you delay until the next Ramadan
		
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			comes and you have not made up your
		
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			fast,
		
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			then you will be sinful.
		
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			So don't delay and you should try to
		
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			do it a little bit earlier than later.
		
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			But you do have
		
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			a, you know, a window to work with.
		
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			And they don't even have to be made
		
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			up in order.
		
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			So if you miss 7 fasts due to
		
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			whatever reason, illness or menstruation or something, you
		
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			don't even have to make them up in
		
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			exactly the order. Even though in Ramadan, it
		
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			would have been in order. So you can
		
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			make up 3, and then you hit up
		
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			2, and then you hit up 2 more,
		
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			and you're fine. Even if they had a
		
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			gap in between, that's fine.
		
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			But don't miss. So I know people right
		
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			now
		
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			who are struggling to make up their missed
		
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			fast, like, right now because Ramadan is starting
		
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			next week. You should not be in that
		
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			state where you're waiting till the end end
		
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			end. It's not a good habit. Alright? Whoever
		
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			missed more than one fast, I just said
		
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			it, can make can either you can make
		
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			them up consecutively,
		
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			or you can make them up intermittently.
		
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			You can make them up with gaps in
		
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			between, but obviously if you did consecutively, it's
		
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			better.
		
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			Why? Because it resembles what you actually were
		
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			doing in Ramadan. It's better and it's it's
		
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			more closer to the way Ramadan was.
		
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			Whoever's not made it up until the following
		
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			Ramadan
		
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			like I said, if you don't make it
		
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			up by the next Ramadan, you're sinful.
		
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			But do you still have to make it
		
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			up?
		
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			Yes. It doesn't just drop and say, oh,
		
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			okay. I got the sin, but I'm not
		
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			gonna make it up. You still have to
		
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			make it up, but you're late. It's like
		
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			a late prayer.
		
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			It's sinful for delaying a prayer
		
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			without any good excuse,
		
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			but you still have to make it up.
		
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			It doesn't just drop and go away. So
		
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			you're still gonna be held accountable, so you
		
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			gotta do that. There's a penalty for violating
		
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			the sanctity of the month of Ramadan.
		
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			So we talked about this word kafara, which
		
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			is a penalty for doing something which you
		
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			you weren't supposed to do. So there are
		
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			some rules in Islam where there's a penalty,
		
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			you have to do something. Like, you have
		
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			to fast this many days, you have to
		
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			pay this much money because you didn't do
		
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			something you were supposed to do. Like breaking
		
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			a vow was one example.
		
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			Whoever intentionally
		
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			breaks their fasts
		
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			in the month of Ramadan by eating
		
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			or by drinking or by having * in
		
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			Ramadan,
		
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			not only do they have to make up
		
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			that fast, but they have to pay a
		
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			certain penalty.
		
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			As
		
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			for for doing what? For violating the month
		
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			of Ramadan. The month of Ramadan is a
		
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			special month. Everyone's supposed to be fasting, and
		
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			you decide, you know what? You just you
		
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			were in a really, really bad mood. You
		
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			were in a rebellious mood that day.
		
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			I don't care. I'm just tired of this
		
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			fast. I'm just I'm gonna eat something.
		
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			And then all of a sudden you realize,
		
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			you know, what did I do? Why did
		
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			I do that? There is a penalty for
		
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			that. So the penalty for doing that,
		
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			I'm gonna tell you in a moment. So
		
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			why why is there a penalty? It's to
		
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			emphasize the idea that every single Muslim
		
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			must take fasting very seriously in Ramadan. It's
		
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			not something like something that's very very serious.
		
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			So what is the penalty?
		
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			Penalty is
		
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			to, number 1,
		
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			free a slave.
		
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			Now, you don't have This was the penalty
		
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			in the past. You have to free a
		
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			slave, and it doesn't matter if it's a
		
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			Muslim slave or a non Muslim slave. If
		
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			there's a slave to be freed, you have
		
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			to free them. Now freeing a slave was
		
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			a very expensive thing in the past. It's
		
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			not it's not something cheap.
		
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			So removing slavery from the community or from
		
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			the society is something which is a great
		
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			deed, but it's very expensive. So that was
		
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			the penalty.
		
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			Generally, we do have slavery today, but it's
		
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			very very hard to find, a slave to
		
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			free. So you're generally not gonna find 1,
		
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			and then you say what kind of slave
		
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			there's these kind of slaves, and then there's
		
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			the people who are you being used for
		
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			prostitution. They're considered to be slaves and all
		
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			that. How do you free them when there's
		
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			like a gang mafia
		
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			running all of these operations? It's very hard
		
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			to even do that. So if you're unable
		
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			to do this,
		
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			and and pretty much you're there's no no
		
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			one in this community is gonna be able
		
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			to do that, You're gonna have to fast
		
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			for 2 consecutive
		
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			months
		
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			straight. That means 60 days. You fast consecutively
		
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			straight. It's like 2 Ramadans.
		
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			So you mess with Ramadan one time and
		
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			you have to make up 2 months of
		
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			Ramadan outside of the month of Ramadan.
		
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			Alright.
		
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			And when this when you're consecutively making up
		
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			these things,
		
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			anyone who has an excuse in the middle
		
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			so you say, well, okay, wait a minute.
		
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			Let's say I have to make up 60
		
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			days of fasting.
		
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			In the middle of fasting, I have my
		
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			menstruation,
		
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			so it's not consecutive anymore.
		
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			Well,
		
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			as soon as it's done, you have to
		
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			resume again. If you have a illness in
		
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			between, as soon as it's done, you have
		
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			to resume again without even a one day
		
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			break. It'll still be considered consecutive as long
		
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			as there's no, in other interruption besides that.
		
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			Now, there are some people who will not
		
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			be able to fast 60 days consecutively because
		
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			they're weak, they're ill, they could handle, you
		
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			know, a few fasts, but they can't handle
		
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			this much. So if you're unable to fast
		
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			60 days, then you have to feed 60
		
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			poor people.
		
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			Sixty poor people
		
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			for a day. That's with 2 full meals.
		
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			When you feed someone for a day, it
		
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			means 2 meals.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Anyone who intentionally
		
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			broke their fast more than once in Ramadan.
		
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			So let's say you did it twice in
		
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			1 Ramadan,
		
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			you still perform one penalty,
		
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			but it's still 60 days. So you broke
		
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			your fast three times, you don't make it
		
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			180 days, still 60 days. K. But of
		
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			course, hopefully, you won't be doing that.
		
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			If someone breaks their fast by doing something
		
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			which resembles eating, drinking, or having *,
		
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			but it's not actually breaking it like that,
		
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			then they have to make up the fast,
		
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			but they don't have to pay a penalty.
		
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			So let me give you an example.
		
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			Somebody
		
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			masturbates
		
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			intentionally.
		
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			They don't have to pay the penalty because
		
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			it's not considered *, but it resembles *.
		
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			So if you have * intentionally,
		
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			you have to pick make up 60 days
		
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			of fasting. If you masturbate intentionally,
		
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			you make up that day, but you don't
		
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			have to make up 60 days.
		
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			Engaging in foreplay and then you end up
		
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			accidentally, you know, *, but there's no *
		
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			involved.
		
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			That's also you make up that fast, but
		
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			you don't have to,
		
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			do 60 days. If you
		
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			vomit mouthful intentionally,
		
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			that's outside of the category. You make up
		
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			one day, you don't have to make up
		
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			60 days.
		
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			And if you eat something which is not
		
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			normally eaten by people,
		
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			so for some weird reason you decide to
		
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			eat some dirt or something like that,
		
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			You you make up that fast, but you
		
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			don't have to,
		
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			fast 60 days. K. Other recommended fasts, and
		
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			then now it's coming. So it's highly recommended
		
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			to fast on 10th of Muharram.
		
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			So Muharram is another month in the Islamic
		
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			lunar calendar,
		
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			and the 10th day of Muharram is known
		
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			as the day of Ashura.
		
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			And Ashura is special and significant for one
		
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			and one main reason
		
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			primarily, and we fast on that day. Does
		
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			anyone know what the reason is?
		
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			That's right. So prophet Moses, prophet Musa was
		
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			saved on that day when he crossed over
		
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			the sea and the people of pharaoh were
		
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			drowned on that day. That's the reason why
		
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			we fast.
		
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			It has nothing to do with the death
		
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			of anyone else
		
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			that happened. It happened to be Hussain,
		
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			who's the grandson of the Prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him, also was martyred on that day,
		
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			but that has nothing to do with this
		
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			fast. K? This fast is because of Prophet
		
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			Moses.
		
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			So that's a very recommended day, highly highly
		
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			recommended to fast on 10th of Muharram,
		
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			and it's also encouraged to fast either a
		
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			day before or a day after when you're
		
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			fasting as well on that day, because the
		
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			Jews used to fast on this day. But
		
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			to be a little bit different from them,
		
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			we do an extra day before and extra
		
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			day afterwards.
		
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			It's also highly recommended to fast 6 days
		
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			of the month of Shawwal.
		
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			Shawwal is the 10th month
		
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			of the Islamic calendar. So that's after Ramadan
		
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			or before Ramadan?
		
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			After Ramadan. So immediately the month after Ramadan,
		
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			there's 6 more fasts which you should keep,
		
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			and it's highly, highly recommended
		
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			if you fast those additional 6 fasts. You
		
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			don't have to, but it's recommended.
		
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			And why?
		
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			Because they serve as the completion of Ramadan.
		
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			So if you think about it,
		
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			good deeds,
		
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			if you if you, you know, learn more
		
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			if you if you learned, there's a statement
		
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			of the prophet, peace upon him, which says,
		
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			every good
		
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			deed counts as 10
		
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			10 times the reward or more.
		
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			So if every good deed counts as 10
		
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			times,
		
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			when you fast Ramadan, you're fasting a month.
		
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			Right? That month of fasting is multiplied by
		
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			10.
		
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			In the sight of Allah, that's 10 months
		
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			as if you fasted 10 months.
		
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			So you're only missing
		
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			2 months and you would have it's like
		
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			you fasted the whole year. Every year, you're
		
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			fasting 10 months. You're getting the reward of
		
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			fasting 10 months. If you only you were
		
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			able to fast the extra 2 months,
		
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			you would it would it's like every year
		
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			you're fasting through the entire year. You get
		
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			the reward as if you're fasting every day
		
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			in the year. That would be awesome. Right?
		
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			So how do you do that? So the
		
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			prophet told us, if you do these extra
		
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			6 fasts
		
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			and the 6 fasts are multiplied by 10
		
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			good deeds,
		
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			you got 60 days. Those are your 2
		
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			months. So he said, if you fast the
		
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			6 days of Shawwal,
		
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			it's as if you fasted the entire year
		
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			because you fasted Ramadan times 10,
		
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			6 of Shawwal times 10 makes 60, 60
		
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			divided by, you know, 30, 2 months, you
		
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			get 12 months.
		
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			That make sense?
		
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			Calculation wise. So that's the way it is.
		
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			So if you fast these 6 in showa,
		
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			it's like you're fasting the entire year after
		
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			you finish your Ramadan, if you did your
		
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			Ramadan. Right. So this is great and it's
		
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			something that you should really,
		
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			you know, try to do. Now do they
		
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			have to be consecutive? No.
		
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			They don't have to be consecutive. They don't
		
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			have to be immediately
		
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			after Ramadan.
		
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			They could be anywhere in the month of
		
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			Shawwa.
		
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			Right? So just keep that in mind. Sometimes
		
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			people think it has to be done immediately,
		
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			like the day after Eid. No. That's not
		
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			the case. Alright? So that's,
		
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			that's the the the wisdom behind it. Alright.
		
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			So they don't have to be done in
		
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			order. They could be performed on any day
		
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			of the month,
		
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			of Shawwal, long as it's done.
		
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			It's also recommended
		
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			to fast 3 days every month.
		
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			So it's recommended to fast 3 days every
		
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			month for any any month, any time of
		
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			the year, and it's preferable to do it
		
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			on the 13th, the 14th, and 15th of
		
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			the month.
		
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			Now why do you think that is? What
		
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			does the moon look like on the middle
		
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			of the month, 13, 14, and 15?
		
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			Yeah. It's it's full.
		
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			Right? So it's it's the full moon that
		
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			around that time. That is the easiest time
		
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			to kind of remember when to fast and
		
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			everything middle of the month. So otherwise, you
		
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			could do any 3 days, but these are
		
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			3 recommended days.
		
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			These are known as the white days because
		
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			the moon is at its largest size. It's
		
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			they're they're called the white days,
		
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			and it's recommended to do that. Why? Because
		
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			it gives you some fasting every single month
		
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			You're doing some kind of fast. Right? So
		
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			just think about that. If you fast 3
		
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			days every month
		
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			and each fast is multiplied by 10, and
		
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			you do this literally every month throughout the
		
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			year, it's like you're fasting the whole year.
		
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			Right? So those 3, it's not like you're
		
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			fasting the whole month in terms of reward.
		
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			Right? So that's one of the reasons why
		
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			it's it's done.
		
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			It's also recommended
		
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			to fast on Mondays and fast on Thursdays
		
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			or both
		
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			because this is a a practice that the
		
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			Prophet, peace be upon him, used to do.
		
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			So if you can do that, it's a
		
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			good goal to have in your life. I'm
		
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			gonna start fasting on Mondays,
		
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			you know, for for a period of time,
		
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			or I'm gonna start fasting on Thursdays, or
		
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			both.
		
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			You can almost fast on any day you
		
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			feel like fasting, and it it'll it'll be
		
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			considered an act of worship, and it's a
		
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			great thing, whenever you feel like fasting. But
		
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			there are some days which it's disliked to
		
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			fast on, and then some days which it's
		
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			prohibited, you're not allowed to fast on. So
		
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			it's disliked to fast on a Friday
		
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			or on a Saturday
		
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			only. So if you just pick Friday and
		
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			you say, you know what, I'm gonna fast
		
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			on Friday because Friday is the is the
		
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			day of prayer and, you know, we have
		
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			the sermon and everything. You don't single out
		
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			Friday only,
		
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			unless,
		
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			let's say, it happens to be the 13,
		
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			14, or 15, and you wanted to fast
		
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			those 3 days, then there's nothing wrong with
		
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			fasting on Friday. But sometimes people will think
		
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			in their mind, you know what? Friday's a
		
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			special day, and it is. So I'm gonna
		
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			fast on Friday.
		
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			Just because Friday is a special day doesn't
		
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			mean that you're supposed to fast on the
		
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			special day. So there's a certain way of
		
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			doing things and and, the prophet wanted to
		
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			make sure people don't confuse things and think
		
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			that special means you start fasting.
		
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			You do what Islam teaches you to do,
		
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			not just what you think is gonna be
		
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			the best thing for you. So that's that's
		
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			the reason behind it. Saturday also because the
		
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			Jews fasted on Saturday, and they had their
		
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			Sabbath and everything, so you don't do it
		
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			only on that day, unless there's a reason
		
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			for it.
		
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			Right? Like, it coincides with another day or
		
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			something.
		
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			It's pro so this this one is disliked.
		
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			It's prohibited to fast on 5 days.
		
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			The day of Eid al Fitr, which is
		
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			the day after Ramadan, is the day of
		
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			celebration.
		
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			The day after Ramadan
		
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			is completely prohibited. No one is allowed to
		
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			fast. The day of Eid ul Adha, the
		
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			second day of the festival, after the Hajj
		
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			pilgrimage,
		
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			that's also prohibited to fast on that day,
		
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			and on 11th, the 12th, and the 13th
		
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			of Dhul Hijjah. So the days following the
		
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			the Eid al Alha, the, the second Eid.
		
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			It's prohibited to fast on those days. So
		
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			basically the 2 Eids, and then the 3
		
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			days following the second Eid is prohibited to
		
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			fast on these 5 days. Alright? And the
		
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			reason is because we're celebrating on these days.
		
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			And when you're celebrating, part of the celebration
		
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			is everyone eats together. And if you say,
		
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			no. No. No. I decided I wanna fast
		
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			on this day. You're cutting yourself off from
		
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			the community and you shouldn't be doing that,
		
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			so it's prohibited.
		
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			Otherwise, you can fast almost any other day.
		
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			It's also prohibited
		
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			to fast every single day with the intention
		
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			that you're gonna continue throughout the rest of
		
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			your life.
		
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			So you know what? I'm gonna fast every
		
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			day for the rest of my life. It's
		
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			not allowed in Islam.
		
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			You say, well, why is it not allowed
		
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			in Islam? Because Islam is about moderation, it's
		
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			about balance, and it keeps people in check
		
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			by making sure they don't become extreme. Even
		
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			when it comes to something good,
		
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			being that extreme is gonna weaken your body
		
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			and you won't be able to keep it
		
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			up without difficulty in messing up your life.
		
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			So it's not allowed to fast every single
		
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			day. So if you decide, you know what,
		
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			this year, I'm gonna fast every single day
		
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			this entire year. You're not allowed to do
		
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			that as a Muslim. You should not be
		
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			doing that.
		
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			You lose the purpose of fasting, you become
		
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			accustomed to it, your body becomes weak and
		
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			it's not good. It's also prohibited to fast
		
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			2 days in a row straight, not breaking
		
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			your fast. So if you're in Ramadan, you
		
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			say, you know what? Sun just set.
		
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			No. I feel great. I don't even need
		
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			to eat. I can do another day straight.
		
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			And you just you don't eat at all
		
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			the whole night and then you start to
		
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			fast again the next day. You cannot do
		
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			that. You have to break your fast. Not
		
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			allowed in Islam. You say, well, why did
		
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			it well, it's I'm getting closer to God
		
01:26:13 --> 01:26:15
			that way and it's better for me. No.
		
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			Because there are restrictions to make sure you
		
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			don't become extreme even in that. So,
		
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			it is not allowed.
		
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			Last thing, we're gonna cover is what's known
		
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			as Ettigaf,
		
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			and that's seclusion in the mosque.
		
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			So Ettigaf
		
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			is something which is highly recommended
		
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			that someone goes and they seclude themselves inside
		
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			of a mosque,
		
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			for a period of time.
		
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			The most recommended one is the last 10
		
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			nights of Ramadan.
		
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			So Ramadan has, let's say, 29 or 30
		
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			days. The last 10 nights, you
		
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			know, or as many as possible, it's really,
		
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			really recommended that you go and you
		
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			stay inside the masjid. This is called iqatikaf,
		
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			which means seclusion, and you can do it
		
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			any you could do it any time of
		
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			the year, but in Ramadan, it's really really
		
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			recommended, the last 10 nights of Ramadan.
		
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			What is a mosque? Let's talk about what
		
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			is a mosque. Because many mosques around here,
		
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			they're rental buildings in a commercial area. Was
		
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			that considered to be a mosque or it's
		
01:27:16 --> 01:27:17
			not considered to be a mosque? So a
		
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			mosque actually is defined
		
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			by the intention of the people who started
		
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			that mosque. And one of the conditions is
		
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			that as long as people are generally praying
		
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			in that place 5 times a day, even
		
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			if it's one person or something like that,
		
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			usually they're praying 5 times a day, it's
		
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			considered to be a mosque. If it's not
		
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			and they're not praying 5 times a day,
		
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			they only open for Friday or they only
		
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			have 2 days, you know, they're open and
		
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			then they're closed the rest of the week,
		
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			It's not considered to be a mosque anymore,
		
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			it's called a mussallah.
		
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			Just a place where people pray, but it's
		
01:27:48 --> 01:27:50
			not a mosque. So you go and you
		
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			isolate yourself inside of a mosque,
		
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			in the last 10 nights of Ramadan. This
		
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			is known as iatikaf, and it's a great
		
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			act of worship. So what are the requirements?
		
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			What do you have to do?
		
01:28:00 --> 01:28:02
			What do you mean isolate yourself in a
		
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			mosque? What do you do exactly?
		
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			The requirements are very simple.
		
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			You just you do 2 things. Alright? In
		
01:28:08 --> 01:28:10
			order to be in a state of
		
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			or seclusion.
		
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			Number 1,
		
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			you stay inside the mosque
		
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			and you don't leave without some kind of
		
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			necessity.
		
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			Alright? You just you just stay there. You
		
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			can be reading Quran, you can be doing
		
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			whatever you want, you can be even just
		
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			having a conversation, you know, try to focus
		
01:28:26 --> 01:28:27
			on something that's beneficial.
		
01:28:28 --> 01:28:29
			But the fact that you're inside the mosque
		
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			and you decided, I'm gonna stay here. I'm
		
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			not going to the mall. I'm not going
		
01:28:34 --> 01:28:36
			home. I'm not going shopping. I'm not going
		
01:28:36 --> 01:28:38
			anywhere else. I'm gonna stay in the mosque
		
01:28:38 --> 01:28:39
			for these 10 days
		
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			or whatever period you can do. It's a
		
01:28:41 --> 01:28:42
			great act of worship.
		
01:28:44 --> 01:28:45
			I said without with necessity.
		
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			With leaving without necessity. So what is a
		
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			necessity? A necessity would be that you need
		
01:28:51 --> 01:28:52
			to go out in order to get some
		
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			food.
		
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			Now if you
		
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			have family or if you have friends who
		
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			can bring you food, they need to bring
		
01:28:57 --> 01:28:59
			you the food. You're not supposed to be
		
01:28:59 --> 01:29:01
			leaving. But if you're let's say, you don't
		
01:29:01 --> 01:29:03
			have friends, you don't have family, you don't
		
01:29:03 --> 01:29:04
			have anyone who can help get you some
		
01:29:04 --> 01:29:06
			food, you're allowed to go out, grab some
		
01:29:06 --> 01:29:07
			food and come right back, because you need
		
01:29:07 --> 01:29:09
			to break your fast, you need to eat
		
01:29:09 --> 01:29:09
			something.
		
01:29:11 --> 01:29:14
			Helping someone in an emergency situation.
		
01:29:15 --> 01:29:17
			So if you have the option of staying
		
01:29:17 --> 01:29:19
			inside the Masjid and someone really, you know,
		
01:29:19 --> 01:29:21
			middle of the night, flat tire, they call
		
01:29:21 --> 01:29:22
			you up, look man, I'm in the middle
		
01:29:22 --> 01:29:24
			of the freeway, I really need some help,
		
01:29:24 --> 01:29:26
			can you help me out? So, you know,
		
01:29:26 --> 01:29:28
			I'm sorry I'm secluding myself in the mosque.
		
01:29:28 --> 01:29:31
			No. You leave the mosque and you go
		
01:29:31 --> 01:29:32
			and you help that person. Alright?
		
01:29:34 --> 01:29:36
			Using the toilet, let's say the toilet is
		
01:29:36 --> 01:29:37
			obviously
		
01:29:37 --> 01:29:40
			let's say it's outside of the mosque area.
		
01:29:40 --> 01:29:42
			Alright. Or let's say there's a mosque, but
		
01:29:42 --> 01:29:43
			you have there's no toilet in a mosque,
		
01:29:43 --> 01:29:44
			let's say, hypothetically.
		
01:29:45 --> 01:29:47
			Really, really bad Masjid administration,
		
01:29:48 --> 01:29:49
			but you would have to walk across the
		
01:29:49 --> 01:29:51
			street to use the toilet. Obviously, you're allowed
		
01:29:51 --> 01:29:53
			to leave, the mosque for that, and then
		
01:29:53 --> 01:29:55
			you come right back when you're done.
		
01:29:55 --> 01:29:57
			You don't stop by, you know, the quickie
		
01:29:57 --> 01:29:59
			mart or whatever and get some food and
		
01:29:59 --> 01:30:01
			then come back, unless you needed to. It's
		
01:30:01 --> 01:30:03
			only allowed to leave for the amount of
		
01:30:03 --> 01:30:05
			time that would be necessary to perform that
		
01:30:05 --> 01:30:07
			required task, the thing that you need to
		
01:30:07 --> 01:30:08
			get done.
		
01:30:08 --> 01:30:11
			Women who feel safer and more comfortable
		
01:30:11 --> 01:30:13
			to perform the Atikaf in their house
		
01:30:14 --> 01:30:16
			may actually do so in their house,
		
01:30:16 --> 01:30:19
			provided that they're inside that part of their
		
01:30:19 --> 01:30:22
			house, which is designated for prayers. So most
		
01:30:22 --> 01:30:23
			places they have this,
		
01:30:24 --> 01:30:27
			you know, place in their house where this
		
01:30:27 --> 01:30:28
			is like the prayer area. So you're gonna
		
01:30:28 --> 01:30:30
			be staying in that prayer room or that
		
01:30:30 --> 01:30:32
			prayer area, especially if you live in an
		
01:30:32 --> 01:30:34
			area where it's kind of it's not very
		
01:30:34 --> 01:30:34
			safe,
		
01:30:34 --> 01:30:36
			for women or even for children or young
		
01:30:36 --> 01:30:38
			people or someone to be around. They can
		
01:30:38 --> 01:30:39
			go ahead and do that in that part
		
01:30:39 --> 01:30:40
			of their house.
		
01:30:41 --> 01:30:43
			So that's condition number 1, is just you
		
01:30:43 --> 01:30:45
			gotta stay inside the mosque. That's it. Condition
		
01:30:45 --> 01:30:46
			number 2,
		
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			no intimacy
		
01:30:47 --> 01:30:50
			or * is allowed in Aptica
		
01:30:50 --> 01:30:52
			during the daytime or the nighttime.
		
01:30:53 --> 01:30:55
			Right? No intimacy, no, you know, spousal relations
		
01:30:55 --> 01:30:58
			or anything like that because it's a continuous
		
01:30:58 --> 01:31:00
			act of worship and you're just focusing on
		
01:31:00 --> 01:31:02
			that. If you violate any of these two
		
01:31:02 --> 01:31:02
			requirements,
		
01:31:03 --> 01:31:05
			your is broken and you just need to
		
01:31:05 --> 01:31:07
			start again. But if you wanna do all
		
01:31:07 --> 01:31:08
			10 days, you don't break any one of
		
01:31:08 --> 01:31:11
			these things, and that's it. There's nothing else.
		
01:31:11 --> 01:31:13
			You're allowed to speak. You're allowed to talk.
		
01:31:13 --> 01:31:14
			You're allowed to use the cell phone. You're
		
01:31:14 --> 01:31:16
			allowed to use the phone. You're allowed to
		
01:31:16 --> 01:31:18
			go on the Internet. You're allowed to do
		
01:31:18 --> 01:31:20
			all these other things. Now it's not recommended
		
01:31:21 --> 01:31:23
			necessarily to waste your time because you're sitting
		
01:31:23 --> 01:31:25
			in the mosque for a reason. You're not
		
01:31:25 --> 01:31:27
			there to just have conversations with people. You're
		
01:31:27 --> 01:31:29
			not there to, you know, run your your
		
01:31:29 --> 01:31:31
			your business on Ebay from the mosque. Although
		
01:31:31 --> 01:31:33
			anyone can do that. The goal is to
		
01:31:33 --> 01:31:35
			focus on reading Quran,
		
01:31:35 --> 01:31:37
			reading some books, praying,
		
01:31:38 --> 01:31:41
			making zikr, remembering Allah, just focusing and just
		
01:31:41 --> 01:31:43
			being inside the mosque at that time is
		
01:31:43 --> 01:31:45
			gonna have a change in your environment. You
		
01:31:45 --> 01:31:46
			know, when you go to the mall, you
		
01:31:46 --> 01:31:49
			have a different mentality. When you go,
		
01:31:50 --> 01:31:52
			you know, to, like, some kind of, recreation
		
01:31:52 --> 01:31:52
			area,
		
01:31:53 --> 01:31:54
			park or something, you have a different mentality.
		
01:31:54 --> 01:31:56
			You go to the forest, you have a
		
01:31:56 --> 01:31:57
			different mentality.
		
01:31:57 --> 01:32:00
			Just being inside the mosque for that long
		
01:32:00 --> 01:32:02
			period of time, it just shifts your mentality.
		
01:32:02 --> 01:32:04
			So I recommend you try it sometime. It's
		
01:32:04 --> 01:32:05
			if you haven't done it, try it. Any
		
01:32:06 --> 01:32:08
			anyone done it? Anyone done 10 days before?
		
01:32:08 --> 01:32:10
			Anyone you done 10 days? Anyone done, like,
		
01:32:10 --> 01:32:12
			a few just a few days? In a
		
01:32:12 --> 01:32:14
			few days? It changes you. It really, really
		
01:32:14 --> 01:32:15
			changes you. You could do it in any
		
01:32:15 --> 01:32:17
			mosque around this area. Just Just make sure
		
01:32:17 --> 01:32:18
			you ask the administration that it's allowed,
		
01:32:19 --> 01:32:20
			for you to do it or not. Right?
		
01:32:20 --> 01:32:22
			In some places, they have showers as well.
		
01:32:22 --> 01:32:24
			Some places, they don't have showers, so you
		
01:32:24 --> 01:32:26
			need to go to a a one that
		
01:32:26 --> 01:32:28
			has maybe some facilities or something like that.
		
01:32:28 --> 01:32:30
			What are the etiquettes that you should be
		
01:32:30 --> 01:32:32
			doing when you're at Tikaf? So like I
		
01:32:32 --> 01:32:33
			said,
		
01:32:33 --> 01:32:35
			when you're inside you should focus on your
		
01:32:35 --> 01:32:37
			prayer, on worship, and on reflection.
		
01:32:38 --> 01:32:39
			And it's disliked,
		
01:32:39 --> 01:32:40
			it's disliked
		
01:32:41 --> 01:32:43
			to focus on anything which is considered like
		
01:32:43 --> 01:32:44
			a worldly activity,
		
01:32:45 --> 01:32:46
			like doing business,
		
01:32:47 --> 01:32:49
			you know, unless, you know, apps like you
		
01:32:49 --> 01:32:51
			need to buy food or something that's that's
		
01:32:51 --> 01:32:51
			different.
		
01:32:52 --> 01:32:54
			Speaking about things which will distract you away
		
01:32:54 --> 01:32:56
			from remembering Allah, so it's disliked.
		
01:32:58 --> 01:33:00
			But keep in mind, it's also disliked
		
01:33:01 --> 01:33:02
			to be quiet and not talk to anyone
		
01:33:02 --> 01:33:05
			at all. So there's this mentality and this
		
01:33:05 --> 01:33:07
			idea that you just sit there and you
		
01:33:07 --> 01:33:09
			don't speak at all. That's not true. So
		
01:33:09 --> 01:33:11
			if someone comes says, salaam, how are you
		
01:33:11 --> 01:33:13
			doing? How's your family? You're like,
		
01:33:14 --> 01:33:16
			get the gas. You know, that's that's not
		
01:33:16 --> 01:33:19
			correct either. Okay? Because that used to be
		
01:33:19 --> 01:33:20
			the case in the past.
		
01:33:21 --> 01:33:22
			In the previous
		
01:33:22 --> 01:33:22
			scriptures,
		
01:33:24 --> 01:33:26
			the the seclusion in the mosque used to
		
01:33:26 --> 01:33:29
			involve not speaking as well. And you find
		
01:33:29 --> 01:33:31
			that in some of the stories, like Zachariah,
		
01:33:31 --> 01:33:33
			when he was not speaking for a period
		
01:33:33 --> 01:33:35
			of time, that was part of his yeah.
		
01:33:35 --> 01:33:37
			Tikav and his seclusion in the mosque, but
		
01:33:37 --> 01:33:39
			that's not for us anymore. So it's we're
		
01:33:39 --> 01:33:41
			not supposed to resemble because what happens is
		
01:33:41 --> 01:33:43
			there are people who go into, like, meditation
		
01:33:44 --> 01:33:48
			for days on end. The Buddhists have it,
		
01:33:48 --> 01:33:50
			Hindus have it, some Christian monks and stuff
		
01:33:50 --> 01:33:52
			they have it. And when it comes to
		
01:33:52 --> 01:33:55
			Islam, Islam is supposed to be not resembling
		
01:33:55 --> 01:33:58
			other people. There's good practices where, you know,
		
01:33:58 --> 01:34:00
			we we we do the same thing
		
01:34:00 --> 01:34:02
			among the good things that they do, but
		
01:34:02 --> 01:34:04
			Islam is supposed to actually stand out and
		
01:34:04 --> 01:34:05
			be a little bit unique.
		
01:34:06 --> 01:34:08
			So there has to be some differentiating factors,
		
01:34:08 --> 01:34:10
			and this is one of the very important
		
01:34:10 --> 01:34:13
			differentiating factors that we do we are allowed
		
01:34:13 --> 01:34:16
			to talk when you're in Antica. Doesn't mean
		
01:34:16 --> 01:34:18
			you become a, you know, a chatterbox or
		
01:34:18 --> 01:34:19
			something, but at the same time you're allowed
		
01:34:19 --> 01:34:21
			to talk, when you're an anti cap. So
		
01:34:21 --> 01:34:22
			that's a common misconception.
		
01:34:23 --> 01:34:23
			And lastly,
		
01:34:25 --> 01:34:27
			the day after Ramadan
		
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			is the day of Eid, and it's known
		
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			as Eid al Fitar,
		
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			which means the festival. Eid means festival.
		
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			Fitar means breaking, fast breaking. So it's the
		
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			festival of breaking your fast, and this is
		
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			basically a celebration for Muslims.
		
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			All Muslims in the world are gonna be
		
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			celebrating right after the month day of Ramadan,
		
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			the month of Ramadan is over,
		
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			and we go to people's houses and we
		
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			eat and we drink, we exchange gifts.
		
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			In some cultures, you know, people give, you
		
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			know, gifts to children and give them money
		
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			and cash and all of that. So this
		
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			is a day where you're supposed to basically
		
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			be partying. You're not supposed to be, you
		
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			know, sitting at home. You're not supposed to
		
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			be by yourself. You're supposed to be enjoying
		
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			yourself, going and meeting other people, going to
		
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			people's houses.
		
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			There's a Eid prayer in the morning and
		
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			then the rest of the day, you know,
		
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			you you're supposed to have fun, you're supposed
		
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			to meet people, you're supposed to enjoy.
		
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			You still pray, there's still 4 more prayers
		
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			at the end of the day throughout the
		
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			day, but you're supposed to be enjoying yourself.
		
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			So it's very important, try to prepare for
		
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			Eid. And my advice when it comes to
		
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			Eid, if you have children in particular,
		
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			children look around living in a as as
		
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			Muslim minorities,
		
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			they look around and they see, you know,
		
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			Christmas is full of lights,
		
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			and they see, like, you know, Halloween is
		
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			full
		
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			of devils. No. They're full of, like, decorations
		
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			and stuff like that. There's always, like, something
		
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			going on. Right?
		
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			And when it comes to aid, if you're
		
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			like if you like if you make the
		
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			family like a boring Eid,
		
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			your children are not gonna really enjoy Eid.
		
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			It's like, oh, wow, look it's Eid. We're
		
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			gonna drive to the place, we're gonna pray,
		
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			and then we're gonna go home and you're
		
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			gonna watch me talk to uncle so and
		
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			so while you sit in the corner, and
		
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			be bored out of your mind with some
		
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			kids who you've never met in your life
		
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			before, and you're probably not gonna meet until
		
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			next eve again. You're not setting a good
		
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			example for your kids. Right? You wanna make
		
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			this really fun and special. This is a
		
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			great time to pick up on those,
		
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			unsold Christmas lights, you know, that in December,
		
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			get them for cheap.
		
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			Decorate the place. Even for Ramadan, there are
		
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			places to decorate your house, put some lights
		
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			in there, put some decorations,
		
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			get them some really awesome gifts, like way
		
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			better, like birthdays,
		
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			like whatever you would plan on getting your
		
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			children for a birthday, just outdo it on
		
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			the day of Eid. So like, you know
		
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			what? Well, you know, my friend, they got
		
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			a a a bicycle, you know, on Eid.
		
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			You know, I got you
		
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			a racing car on Eid. Right? So that
		
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			just just blows his bicycle away. Like, you
		
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			wanna really do something special so that people,
		
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			the children, and and you yourself, you feel
		
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			great on the day of Eid. Supposed to
		
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			wear nice clothes, buy some brand new clothes,
		
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			Have it all ready. Get some gifts ready.
		
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			Give it to your nieces and nephews and
		
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			family and all of that. Go out for
		
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			breakfast, you know, as a family and everything.
		
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			This is a great time. Prepare Eid celebrations,
		
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			but here's what you don't wanna do. You
		
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			don't wanna be thinking about how you're gonna
		
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			party on Eid in the last 10 nights
		
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			of Ramadan because that's the most important nights
		
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			of Ramadan. So if you let's say you
		
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			do seclusion in the mosque and you're secluding
		
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			yourself and you think, oh man, I need
		
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			to buy those gifts. How am I gonna
		
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			buy those gifts and those lights and the
		
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			clothes? What kind of clothes am I gonna
		
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			buy? I need to go to the mall,
		
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			I need to go shopping, I need to
		
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			do this.
		
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			Handle that beforehand.
		
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			So now this is the week before Ramadan,
		
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			handle all that stuff now. Get the gifts,
		
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			get the clothes, think about what you wanna
		
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			wear, think about what kind of shoes are
		
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			gonna match your dress, and this and all
		
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			that stuff, and handle it now so you
		
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			have a really, really nice aid and a
		
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			great aid inshallah.
		
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			Alright. So,
		
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			that's about it. That's all I have.