Riyadh Walls – Sunday Talk 1443 Sunday 10 April 2022
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The segment discusses the foundational principles of fasting, including the importance of restraining oneself and avoiding distractions, as well as the benefits of fasting for overall health and well-being. The speakers emphasize the importance of fasting for overall health and well-being, including physical and mental benefits such as expanding spiritual consciousness and reducing health risks. They also highlight the emotional and psychological benefits of fasting, including the release of the concept of time and the ability to be conscious of time. The segment encourages viewers to continue pursuing their spiritual journey and build up the spiritual shield.
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We started last week
looking at what is the definition of sound?
And we said that linguistically it is a limb sack
it is to restrain oneself.
In the case of
say the Maria, it was restraining herself from speaking
when they came to ask her about the baby Teresa,
Allah salatu salam.
So that's the linguistic meaning of some
means to restrain oneself.
And because I gave the list of the 10 foundational principles of
every science, one of the brothers afterwards said no, and we're
going to hear about the other nine.
So inshallah we'll try and go through, go through them all the
delay to Allah.
Today, I'm going to concentrate on the fruits.
If we go back to what the poet said, in Namibia coolie funding
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He said, Indeed, there are 10 foundational principles for every
science, or science that we are studying is the science of, of
soul fasting. I've had the definition, well, we'll do the
subject matter.
And there's a range of topics that we can put under that the subject
matter
pertaining to our discussion is, of course, some Ramadan.
And all the outcome and all the rulings, the foreign aid and the
Sunnah, and the compulsory acts and the optional extra acts that
we can engage in in the month of Ramadan. But what I'd like to
speak about today is the third foundational principle and that is
a thumb IRA, and HUD do well Maduro thumb, Maasai Mara, what's
the benefit
of fasting?
Because I think this is something where we really fall short
is focusing on why we are doing something
instead of just doing it because everybody else is doing it, and
focusing on what we hope to get out of it.
Because they are so many benefits with this act of fasting. Remember
the Hadith of the prophets, Allah Salam, Aleikum, Bassam for in
Allah and Allah
fast because there's nothing like fasting
in terms of its benefits, nothing can come even close to fasting for
the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. And while we are speaking about cm
Ramadan is because this is the only compulsory foster days
and it's out of His mercy Gela fear Allah, that he has made it
compulsory because if it was optional, how many of us would
have fostered it
and thereby not benefiting from it?
So
the first aspect I want us to look at today of the benefits of
fasting is, of course the physical benefits of fasting, and I'm not a
doctor. So I just did a quick Google
and just to name a few.
Number one, it says, your body will enter into a fasting state
approximately eight hours after your last meal. When your gut
completes the absorption of nutrients from your food.
Fasting is an excellent means of detoxing.
Must remember the hadith of our beloved Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu sallam, he said Ma Mala
Ibu Adam, we are
a sham in bacne. Mankind is never filled the vessel more detrimental
to themselves than the stomachs.
This is where all the elements come from, what we are putting
into the stomach.
In another Hadith, he says
take fee Luca Hema Lokomat you came up here salvo
a few morsels is enough to make his backstraight
a few more so
which is enough to keep mankind to keep his backstraight are the
words for him to survive? Like we say, we eat to love we don't love
to eat.
When can Allah Buddha mean but if you must have a solid meal if you
must have a solid meal so a few morsels is enough
like it's Hadith could see the manga Camilla Creek on top Luma yo
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make the cut Hazet Lika dunya bajada philia Oh mankind you have
that which is enough for you. But you want that which is going to
send you a stray, you're not satisfied with a little bit.
Neither are you happy with a lot you always want more. If you have
your health
and you have your refuge, your safety and security, your home
Dacor your cup and you have your daily provision to keep you alive.
Then you've attained the dunya and everything in it, Allahu Akbar.
So at the end of the Hadith says we're in Canada put them in so if
you are going to have a solid meal, instead of just a few
morsels to keep your back straight, for full of the Holy
bomb, then 1/3 for food.
Well full of the Holy shut up and 1/3 for drink 1/3 of the Hulan
nevus and 1/3 for air
and the 1/3 for a there's a lot of Hikmah behind that. Because what
happens if you go and visit philon in the office, your cup of tea?
You say no, I've just stuffed myself.
I wouldn't be able to drink delicious tea.
So you might as well see me this month of Ramadan is truly a
restraint in terms of
the way that we live our lifestyle, which is comparatively
speaking, we eat too much.
We overindulge.
And so month of Ramadan is an opportunity for us to restrain
ourselves to keep that stomach empty that we are it's the Prophet
said the most detrimental vessel to mankind is his stomach. And
they by detoxing ourselves. And I believe it has such a good effect
on our sugar levels. And it has a good effect on the heart and
inshallah you can go and google yourself. We don't want to spend
the majority of our discussion today speaking about the physical
benefits, but the physical benefits of guaranteed Bismillah
to Allah.
For those of course that don't have chronic illness, for those
that have chronic illness and the Muslim doctor tells them that they
cannot fast than they must and fast
and they can pay the fee do.
So that is the physical benefits. Let's move on from there.
Then we have
the spiritual benefits which I touched on last week. And it's not
going to be our main focus for today. But just as a reminder that
the spiritual benefits
is building or
is summarized in the building the renovating the restoring of the
shield of taqwa, that shield that we wear on our hearts
that we shield or with which we shield ourselves from the
displeasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala and how that works is quite
simply this
How long does it take to make Salah roughly speaking, five
to eight minutes 10 minutes
how long does it
take
even whether it be
any form of every burger?
If you look at the difference in terms of time
fasting
is has a long duration
let's stick to the comparison between Salah and Sia. So Salah
What did you say what is Salah? Hi Barbara and Hara Curtin was second
earthing tip Daddy will be turbidity but it will be teslim.
Salah is an expression of movements and stillness is which
begins with Allahu Akbar and ends with a Salam o aleikum wa
rahmatullah Beshara atma Souza with specific conditions between
like a brother says between five and eight minutes
how many hours brother Salima we fasting now that 14
Anybody know?
Is it easy first
12 hours as you name children
know when you are
of when you are in Salah when you in that state of haram because
your first idea is to grow to the Haram when you're in that sacred
state speaking to Allah subhanho wa Taala and that took Veera
actually keeps you focused and conscious of Allah subhanaw taala
for the entire duration, you're not turning out of the Qibla
you're not looking at anybody else, you're not speaking to
anybody else. You focus solely on Allah subhanaw taala you are
conscious, or at least we try and be conscious of Allah subhanaw
taala in that duration, when you are fasting, you are attempting to
be conscious and mindful of Allah for the entire duration of UCM.
So somebody comes to you and offers you something to eat. Or do
you say, I'm fasting? And of course for Allah. You like
something to drink? Can I have your cup of tea?
Thank you, but I'm fasting. Somebody wants to argue with you
fight with you. We're in Serbia who are
in Imran Simon. And if somebody wants to fight with the fasting
person, if somebody insults the fasting person or wants to fight
with them, says the prophets Allah Salam, then let them say I am
fasting. So it's literally an exercise in consciousness.
You're constantly in awe and concerned
about your behavior whilst you're fasting. What did we look at the
other day? A Soma junda Mala Mia Rika fasting is a shield. As long
as we don't break it, what breaks it a messenger of Allah. He said
Al Heba backbiting. So, we are careful, what we are looking at,
we are careful what we are listening to, we are careful what
we are speaking, because we are conscious of Allah subhanaw taala
during that period of 12, or 13, or 14 hours from true dawn until
sunset for 29 or 30 days.
So this has an incredible effect on our spiritual state.
And bringing that Allah consciousness, increasing it,
making it stronger, so that in future posts Ramadan, before we do
something, before we say something, before we look at
something, before we go somewhere,
we first ask ourselves, Is Allah going to be pleased that
consciousness is awake?
It's vibrant, it's alive?
And if the answer is yes, Bismillah The answer is no. May
Allah forgive me for even thinking about it in the first place?
And then
one of the main benefits of this month of Ramadan is the socio
economic aspect, sugar, the physical benefits of fasting,
we've got the spiritual benefits of fasting, and we've even got the
socio economic benefits of fasting. Why?
What did
he say? Well, Hamble Zhu, Li unabIe, he wrote Calbee. He said,
I love
hunger, because when I'm hungry, my heart is softened.
When we are feeling those pangs of hunger,
we feel even for a moment, we feel what it's like to experience
hunger. It's not starvation. But it's a taste of what the hungry
person is experiencing every day of their lives out there. And so
what happens, we develop more empathy. But how does that come
about? That fruit of empathy for the poor? Where does it come from?
It comes from the fact that whilst we are building up the shield of
taqwa, besides shielding ourselves from bad words and bad deeds, we
are even shielding ourselves from bad
actions, attributes and spiritual diseases that plague the heart,
namely, a shock,
a shock
and inherent disease that everybody is actually born with.
It's a big test from Allah. So Allah says, we'll have data till
emphasis.
Every soul has been given its portion of greed.
Every soul has been given its portion of greed.
Like first thirst is natural, you get thirsty, you take a drink, you
know under this advert or buy your first.
Now imagine, and this is what's happening in the world today.
People are not just obeying this Thursday obeying the greed.
The world is plagued with greed.
And the Prophet wonders Iacob Tama phenol Fackrell howdy B way of
greed because greed is immediate poverty.
If you're not satisfied with what you have now, no matter how much
you attain in the future, you will never be satisfied because you
will always want more Let's greet immediate poverty the eyes of
Allah subhanaw taala so
Whilst we are building up the shield of Taqwa we are also. It's
like installing antivirus on your computer. All you have to do is
install it. Once it's installed it does the job for you.
So we fasting Ramadan, building up the shield of Taqwa. And what does
Allah say? Well, may you wash your hand FC, and whoever is shielded
from the grid
for Hola, Iike homomorphic, then they and they alone are the
successful ones.
Because one of the primary ingredients of taco is what
said daddy said, a taco. I'll hold for a minute jelly. Taco means
taco is to feel the punishment of Allah that keeps us away from
haram.
Well, I'm going to return zeal to implement the revelation of Allah
subhanaw taala. To do what you must do and stay what you must
stay away from.
Number three, we're riddled with colleagues, to be satisfied with a
little bit.
We remove the love of the dunya from our hearts, we are satisfied
and contented with the little bit that we have. And it makes it so
much easier to then go and spend in the path of Allah subhana
Huhtala and that's why in that hadith of why they've been 11,
which you mentioned, in one of the Juma has.
When the prophets Allah Salam got to the part about Psalm he said
was so Medina, was sadaqa to Theo, I'll help you come up with my
honor. Say that fasting is a shield.
Fasting is a shield, shielding us from our greed,
making us satisfied with what we have, because we feel what it's
like to be hungry. So we develop empathy, and we spend of our
wealth in order to make it easy for the poor and the needy that
are out there.
And then immediately talks about sadaqa and fasting is a shield and
charity will wipe away your sins, just like the water puts out the
fire.
And Hamdulillah that is what is happening in this month of Ramadan
can enjoy the nurse, the Sahaba sin of the Prophet Salah Salem, he
was the most generous of people. What can I do my Hakuna Ramadan,
and he was the most generous in the month of Ramadan.
Whenever you are spending in Ramadan, you're getting 70 times
what you would have spent in the path of Allah outside of the month
of Ramadan. So alhamdulillah there we have it. These are some of the
fruits that are ripe for the plucking.
Let us benefit from the
from the physical benefits. Let's take the physical benefits in the
justice the car like a hawk for articulate the hurricane hackle
every person's body has a right over them. So give every possessor
of a right it's right. It's the right of our bodies that we should
fast and not just in Ramadan. But that's another topic for another
time. It just plucked the benefits of this Allah consciousness and
all we have to do is to keep renewing that intention, your
Allah and fasting for your sake and for your sake alone, your
Allah, I know this fasting I can't show fasting so it's only for you
you're Allah excepted from me. And you will see that Allah
consciousness will increase and also make the DUA that your Allah
cause this fasting to be a shield from any form of greed or the love
of the dunya that I might freely put my hands in my pockets and
spend in your path your Allah your beloved me for indeed we know.
Allah says the hadith of courtesy and for
the poor and my dependents will often hear over color, and the
wealthy are agents for either Bucky locally or yearly. So if my
agents are stingy with my dependents as Octomore, barely
winner or barely, then I will strike them with my punishment
that will not concern me. May Allah subhanaw taala truly causes
to benefit from this fasting of the month of Ramadan. Guide us on
the Serato Mr. Kim Illa Jannetty nine well after that, why not? And
in hamdulillah Alameen wa salam aleikum wa rahmatullah