Shadee Elmasry – NBF 41 All of Your Fasting Questions Answered
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Are we on the other one too? Okay Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu
lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah while earlier he was
talking to you might want more mindware there but welcome
everybody to nothing but facts on Wednesday in which we are
discussing the affairs of the ummah. And we will then go back to
the Ramadan prep QA because we just had way, way, way too many
questions yesterday and it just revealed that
there's a hunger, you know, a great hunger to for people to
learn their food to dine. Like the fundamentals for Dane is what
every Muslim has to know. And there's a great hunger for that.
And that's really important to feed that and to be able to answer
all of your questions. Okay, and this time we're going to try to do
it live so that the question is right away as soon as it comes in.
Because we don't know if the question or boughs out right from
the stream or not. So we want to answer the question as soon as it
comes in. But first we will do a little story on the
affairs of the Muslims. Okay, so what we're gonna do affairs of the
Muslims and there isn't so much today that affairs it wasn't
doesn't always mean
like emergencies. Right? It doesn't always have to be like
some crisis that it's an affair of the Muslims. That's like negative.
So the first thing we're going to do today, a US city
okay has now allowed the then. Alright, what US city is this?
Okay? The City of Minneapolis in the US Midwest has allowed the
Islamic call to prayer known as the then ahead of the holy month
of Ramadan. So if you're in Minneapolis,
listen up. Well, Maliki click Well, no, no, he's in Seattle. I
got my he's a Viking. But I thought I thought of Minnesota. He
used to be from Minnesota because all the Norwegians are from
Minnesota. Originally they migrated to Minnesota. That's
probably why they call them the Vikings, because there's so many
Norwegians there. So the City Council approved a bill presented
by gemellus Minh, allowing the prayer to be recited publicly by
loudspeaker between 7am.
Just nothing basically. And 10pm which is basically vote us among
them. So long as the local noise ordinances are respected.
Calling the measure a step in the right direction for religious
equality. A smart said we have a lot of work still to do. Isn't
that what all the activists have to always say? There's still a lot
of work to do, right to make sure everyone is enjoying the same
rights. Every religion is enjoying, okay? Under the measure,
moss will be able to make the call to prayer by loudspeaker three
times a day. It's sort of nice, that's really nice. It's
wonderful. Imagine that you sit in your you can hear that then from
your house. That's one of the big deals of going to, you know,
Muslim countries to be able to hear that and then so now you can
hear that then if you're from Minnesota,
or Minneapolis, particularly just that city, not all of Minnesota,
you know, Minnesota is filled, filled with little Christian
homeschools. And, and it has so many churches, and what was her
name?
Not Fannie Mae. There was basically a husband and wife duo.
They used to be preachers. They had the biggest set Christian
satellite TV station. Okay. Her name was like Manny fey or
something like that. Tammy Faye, Tammy Faye, Who here remembers
Tammy Faye from the 80s? Well, I don't remember at all but there
was a movie made about her. Tammy Faye, and her husband,
Baker, something Baker? Well, they had the biggest Christian
satellite TV channel, and they were out of out of Minnesota. So I
had a case in Minnesota. I know a little bit about Minnesota because
I was called to be an expert witness. Right? There's nothing
better than being an expert witness. Right? Because you
basically get to go out there. Tell the truth. Right? Answer some
questions about your profession. And you get paid from the moment
you step out of the door until you get back home. Right. I loved it.
And what I had to do was to prove or to show that nothing in the in
the curriculum of a certain Muslim Ron charter school was Islamic.
Right that they weren't preaching anything Islam, there was no to
aid. There was no Sierra taught that because they're not allowed
to teach that but they were accused of teaching that right. So
they're not allowed to teach that and the reason they were accused
teach us the Arabic books and you know, all these Arabic books. They
all have, like, this phenomenon that I hate.
Even a single secular Arabic, they're gonna give you a
of Quran versus the Christian, you know, the Arabic Bible, they're
gonna have different samples. So they had samplings of that. And
the people didn't like it. So the they sued the Islamic school. It
wasn't a summer school, most of them run charter school. So
I ended up not even getting to testify, unfortunately. But I did
have to sit in a
deposition that was so fun, right sitting in a deposition, because
the guy he's tries to rile you up, right? Because the way the
deposition works is they take the witness, they sit you down, they
put a camera up, and they ask you a whole bunch of questions. This
is all about a guess what this is like, you know, just to know what
your evidence is, if you then go onto the stand, and you say
something opposed to what you said in the deposition. Okay, then
you're in perjury, you're in trouble. So I get there, and I'm
like, I got I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not lying for anybody. All I'm
saying is the truth, right? So the guy kept trying to rile me up and
get me angry, get me upset, and then and confused me by asking me
a million different detailed questions. He couldn't get me
angry, right. And what I would do is I try to get him angry, right?
Well, what do I have to lose? Right? I got nothing to lose. I
have literally nothing to gain or lose every minute. I'm sitting
here is a billable hour, right. And he's paying it right because
he wants to depose me. So he's paying. So I'm sitting, I was
trying to get him angry. It was so fun. I'm telling you, it's almost
like, like having a Twitter debate, but live. And I saw some
people get flustered, right, and nervous. I don't think Why are you
getting nervous? That guy this guy's putting on a performance,
right? You think he's really a jerk like this? It's just a job,
right? He's putting on a performance. I'm having fun with
this. I didn't get flustered at all. Even the guy told me he's
like, man, you know, you you did a good job, because we were any any
supposed to hate me. Right? Because he's suing. He's from the
ACLU. He's suing the Muslim charter school. Right? But I'm
like, let's look at this. This is all assistant job. Nobody, you all
every every lawyer, very rarely do they get emotionally attached to
their case. So anyway, the point being is that when they showed us
the charter schools, when he had do research on the charter
schools, they got like, hundreds of Christian charter schools. That
means the governor pays the government pays for a charter
school. But he just can't teach religion there. Well, guess where
these charter schools are all are in a say, in the back room of the
church, for example. So obviously, it's like a church run operation.
And they're using the government money, the day ends at three, the
school day ends at three. And then they add an extra hour of optional
Christian studies. So all they did is because the government says we
will your date you have from seven to three to run the school. So
they'll start their day a little bit later. And they'll have this
optional Christian studies class, which happens to be in the
building next door. So they were all doing it. And the Muslims
tried to get into the game, too. You know, what got the Muslims
down. It wasn't this. The Muslims lost that case. Because what they
did was, they got some Muslims to buy land. They bought or bought a
school, a couple of rituals and bought a school, then they applied
to for a charter school, and then rented that land that the Muslims
bought. Right. So that the Muslims are benefiting as the landlords
to. Now that would not have been a problem, except for one thing,
they had the same exact people on the boards of both that you can't
do. So if you're if you're sitting on the board of one school of one
end of the business, and you're and it's a nonprofit, and then
you're on the board of another building. Okay? You can't do that,
right? Because you're done benefiting the nonprofit for a for
profit. Now, even I think they argued that they technically
weren't on the same board, but they were all on the same board of
the same mosque. That's the thing, right? So in that way, they did go
down because of that, and it was shut down. But I had fun. Being a
expert witness. I loved every minute of it. So when they were
doing the billing, I was like, Listen, I don't want to put you
guys in a hole because I want to serve the community here. And I
don't want to put you guys in the hole. So you guys tell me what to
put for the billing. And he's like, Oh, don't worry about it.
what insurance is covering it. We're not covering it. I was like,
oh, okay, well then tell me what what their expert witnesses
getting? Right. What is their expert witness getting? And he
told me, I said, Give me that. It was like 150 An hour or something
like that. Give me what he's getting. So and then I was like,
then he's like, billable hours. I didn't know how to do this was my
first time doing this. He's like, Well, I said, Well, what time did
we start? We started here at 8pm. We went to like 12 He's another no
you sell it. You put it down from when you left the house in New
Haven when I was living in New Haven.
left the house in New Haven all I was like, what kind of this is a
scam? Sign me up. Right? It was a total scam. I was like, from the
time I left, he's like, yeah, that's how it works. That's how
law works. Right? We're taking you out of your time, right for being
expert witness from the moment you leave your home, to get into the
car to go to the airport, which is two hour drive to JFK to to like
JFK airport, which is then two hours waiting in the airport, then
the flight to three hours.
Half a day, basically. But this is my time, I guess. So. Anybody else
needs expert witness. I'm the law. It's a fun job. You should do it.
Now. Anyway, back to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Under the measure, the mosque will be able mosques, many masajid any
Masjid in Minneapolis will be able to make the call to prayer by
loudspeaker three times a day. Except for the morning and night
prayers, provided the volume is below a certain decibel limit.
Well, if they said seven to 10pm, then in the winter, you could
technically get Aisha in there too. Well, you will get Aisha in
there, too. All right, then is one of the most important parts of our
faith said Osman. I guess he's like player of the game today.
Right? Jamala Sman. from Minneapolis. I don't know him. I
don't know his politics. But in this for this, he gets to play of
the game. Right? Oh Ceman wrote on Twitter, you guessed the game ball
today, adding that the call can be made at the same hours allowed for
Christian church bells. All right. Really good. Good.
And he tweets today the Council passed a resolution commemorating
Ramadan mono care about the commemoration, it was an honor to
help carry it and help share my faith with the city. One of the
notable things with the resolution was we acknowledged that the call
to prayer was legal in Minneapolis. And then he goes on
and now he tells us here's the resolution. So I've never I've
never seen one of these resolutions. But let's let's read
it sounds very official. It looks very official. It's got a seal.
And it says resolution and then Trojan text you know Trojan,
anything Roman anything like really formal. They use Trajan.
It's actually traded. And I thought it was Trojan for like 20
years. But
my wife reads about the Caesars, Julius Caesar and all those guys.
And she's like, No, it's Trajan. Does it go all this time? I
thought it was trajet. But it's Trajan. That's a very formal font.
Ryan, you see this?
You know, this font.
You see this font where it says resolution?
It really formal Roman style font. That's, it's called Oh, you can't
see it. Because here you see this. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's really
nice, big spacing. That's what you'll see, like on Roman stuff,
right? It's called Trajan will Trajan was one of their Caesars.
Right. So whereas Islam is one of the world's major religions, and
part of our shared faith, whereas Ramadan is the holy month of
Muslims worldwide, whereas one of the purposes of fasting during the
holy month is for Muslims to gain better understanding of the plight
faced by those who are less fortunate. Whereas, and Amazon is
a time to reflect spirituality builds community, whereas Muslims
have been part of the fabric of America for 400 years. And they
arrived as slaves. I think, actually, there were Muslims more,
but there's, it's hard to prove it. But there's a lot of evidence,
like little pieces of evidence, it's very hard to prove evidence,
anything from hundreds of years ago, but there is actually
evidence, little pieces of evidence that Muslims were there.
We're here in America, as traders as merchants, okay. And that's why
there are cities in in like middle of America called Medina and Mecca
and things like that. Anyway, whether they're there or they're
not, I don't know.
Whereas Minneapolis has become home to one of the largest
populations of Somali and East Africa who are Muslim in their
faith. Okay, of course, Minnesota has a huge population of Somalis.
Whereas mosques around the city can celebrate this Ramadan
everyday with the center of the old, centuries old call to prayer.
Now, this is not just Ramadan, it's permanently right. It's
permanently it's not just the number that but I guess it's
initiating this Ramadan, whereas the traditional breaking of the
fast or the Iftar has been celebrated countless times in
Minneapolis and Ramadan will commence at dusk,
April 2, and will last for a lunar month, the mayor and city council
hereby recognize the Muslim communities upcoming observance,
what is exactly recognize mean, exactly. Right. What does that
mean? You recognize it? I know that it's it's a good feeling.
That's the summary of it. Right? They're having good feelings.
They're being nice to us, basically, right? They're being
nice to us, but I'm just trying to understand what does it mean to
recognize it, right. Like, you know, it exists.
Yeah, it's like a politically safe expression.
For being nice, that's it. It's not endorsing it, but at the same
time it's like we're neighbors we're I guess we're so we're all
sort of stuck together in democracy. So let's be as nice as
possible and that that's the gist I get out of it, which is fine. He
says that now gemellus Mon says that is one of the most important
parts of our faith. Mosque around the city can call the prayer from
seven to 10. I wonder what the how do you how did they judge the
volumes Oh, here it is. Okay. The call should not be louder than 15
decibels good
than the outside noise off the property. That's a pretty
technical limit and any Masjid in the city can follow up with my
office or the health department. How do you judge this? Is there a
decibel meter? Or like put a decibel meter across the street
for example, this Ramadan and moving forward, Muslims in
Minneapolis will get to hear the call to prayer. That's really
great. We have
it's a signal to the equality and community we have built there
here. This is America and we are allowed to share our faith from
the rooftops just like anyone else. I want to thank the city
staff Health Department city attorneys for their hard work
professionalism and attention to details. Alright, so here we go.
And here I guess is the first and then
No, it's not from there's a picture of an event A video of an
event but let's see.
Okay, I don't know if you guys could hear this, but it's
basically I'm watching Jamel Usman mn, Minneapolis and watching him
walk around Minnesota now and then is going off so it's really nice.
Okay, so that's a good story. Not all stories on affairs of the
Muslims is gonna be a bad story.
Let's see what else they said. He called the move a signal of
equality. The call to prayer was first legalized in 2004 in
Hamtramck we just came from Minnesota,
Detroit, Michigan, next to Detroit, Hamtramck
they had allowed this followed by Dearborn and the only US city in
the same state where Muslims are a majority, the city council of
Paterson, New Jersey, we made it to the news where nearly 30,000
Muslims live was the third city well, then why don't I hear that
and then never
from March 2020 I've been to Patterson a million times.
They're allowed. They passed it. Why don't they use it? A give you
a thing like that and you don't take advantage of it.
All right. So that's one piece of news. Next piece of news.
There's no bad news today. Actually. It's just sort of
general Islamic. Be aware of what's happening with your Omar.
Let's football star Clarence Seedorf converts to Islam. He's
from AC Milan. Real Madrid. He played with them Ajax.
Right and happy to be joining the Muslim family. Does anyone know
him? Right? Does anybody
is anyone familiar with him? Superstar Dutch football player.
Clarence Seedorf never heard of him. Well, I don't know half the
soccer players except for Christianna Ronaldo.
He announced that he's a Muslim.
That's great.
He's a manager for who? I guess manager we call that coach does a
special thanks to all the nice message in celebration of me
joining the Muslim family. I'm very happy and pleased to join the
brothers sisters around the world. Especially my adorable wife,
Sophia MCRA. Marathi who has taught me more in depth meaning of
Islam sounds like she's not going to be
I didn't change my name and will continue to get he doesn't have to
will carry my name given by my parents Clarence Seedorf. Okay.
I see you've said that he followed him throughout the 90s so I guess
he played soccer in the 90s Cebu a se Malik. Okay.
He knew about him from the 90s Okay, that's so he was a big
player. He was one of the most Oh, it apparently is because he says
here considered one of the most successful players in the UEFA
Champions League history. I never knew this. Seedorf is the only
footballer who won the Champions League with three clubs.
Who you're getting actually maybe see this from NJ Yeah, maybe hold
on. Let me get my charger
Alright, so Clarence Seedorf, he says here that he joins Khabib as
one of the most prominent Muslim athletes in recent decades, I
think it'd be
probably
up there with number one
Hamid Ali Of course, I love mercy upon his soul.
Hakeem Olajuwon who really hasn't been in the public eye, after
playing with the rockets and winning all those championships,
he wants to win Jordan left.
Hmm, I heard it with hockey when he gave us his rings away, or he
did like their gold rings or whatever. So he gave us NBA
championship rings.
The hard work of versatile midfielder, he speaks six
languages he played on the Dutch national team for 87 games, that's
a lot and in three wafer European football championships. I can't
pretend to tell you what away from means but and then he played to
the 1998 FIFA World Cup reaching the semis of the latter three
tournaments. He retired and then he went on to become manager of a
number of teams including AC Milan and the Cameroon national team.
Last year,
he launched the Seedorf kabhi performance club.
So it's a football academy. And they will use a unique training
methodology that fuses football and mixed martial arts. Okay.
And I guess they're gonna break for us a lot because they're two
Muslims now. We have the same mission in life, we want to give
something back to the younger generations. Alright, nice. We are
going to bring back knowledge, the coaches and methodology FIP and
school of sports, I guess, monitoring and supporting from a
marketing point of view to support growth of each venue. That's
basically some publicist wrote that, that last line there.
All right.
One more story.
Muslim Americans in Alaska,
you've made the news. This is today. Today's New York Times
yesterday's New York Times. They're highlighting Muslim
Americans in Alaska. What's life like if you're a Muslim American
in Alaska,
Alaska, Malika Jones waiting for packages. They say. The one of the
problems in Alaska it takes weeks
to get a package.
And what's the halal food that they have their caribou?
Caribou? No, it's a duck D it's like a big massive deer. Caribou
and there's only one mosque. Okay. And it is 6700 miles from Mecca.
Good. They definitely definitely play southeast for sure. No, you
can't tell me your brand northeast from Alaska.
And they go, they go west, oh, Southwest, because it's so far
over. Me. Who knows. At that point, you're gonna either what
you're you're reaching back either way, southeast or southwest. The
mosque. Their mosque is the northern most in the country. And
it's the heart of a new most growing Muslim compute community
that has 2500 individuals. And this area is Anchorage. Alright,
they're immigrants, locals converts, alright.
Just to show you just to give you an idea of what the Muslims in
Alaska, like your it's your own. It's our OMA, the Muslim community
is quite a diverse population. But we're able to come together on the
common grounds of faith. Now, here's the thing, when you have
masajid, you have two types of massages. You got the town that
can only afford to have one mosque? Because number one,
there's not that many people.
Right? Those massage those communities, you actually have to
keep your actual beliefs to yourself at home. Like you're
gonna You can't be of course, they're going to be sunny,
obviously, that they're gonna have that like those major things. But
the secondary things like what what do you believe about McGraw
Hill? What do you believe about the EDA? Nobody could actually
because you're literally like, a handful of families, right? And
you only have one method.
So it's not it's it can't be that one group takes over. That's the
reality of those. So if you're like ideological, and you're
strong, and you really care about certain data points or something,
that's not going to be the place for you. Right? Whereas in New
Jersey here, there's maybe four or five, six masajid within a 20
minute circle, like if I was to draw a line and go out I forget to
and so much, just
15 minutes, and then 15 minute radius all around, okay?
15 minute radius, I can probably have five massage and so when
you're like that, you can very easily and comfortably put forth
your al Qaeda and your message, if you want to be whatever from the
Sunni men hedge that there that there are
Whatever method you want, because you're not, you're not forcing
anyone out of the community. Everyone could go to a Joma a
Tata, we're
a youth children's class, a Sunday School of their slant. If you know
what I'm talking about, you're not forced to accommodate everybody.
But in these little masajid, these tiny little communities, you have
to accommodate everybody. So you have to keep it to the bare
minimum of what is agreed upon by all these different groups. And
it's not easy because people do have strong beliefs, right. So
he says here that the community is quite diverse, and we come
together on common grounds. Gregory Sohaib. Jones
is an electrician. All right, there are different ethnic groups
and they have slight variations in style of their cooking. Right, but
the core of Islam is the same. So Malika and Gregory Jones, they
actually grew up on the East Coast. They're from here.
They're from our area, and they moved to Alaska in 2009.
And they were in South Carolina first. It looks like he is like
the leader there. He was actually from South Carolina. So east
coast, they're saying East Coast broadly, because usually East
Coast means New York tri state area, but I guess they're saying
East Coast broadly South Carolina. So he moved from the sunniest
prettiest, nicest state, right to this cold and gray Anchorage,
Alaska, where they have six months of night and six months of dark.
Anchorage is one of the nation's most ethnically diverse cities.
With more than 100 languages represented in the public school.
That's insane. People often move to the area as part of the
military, as new immigrants or as refugees.
I wonder what the pricing is the the prices of things there. Maybe
that's one reason people move there too. Many from the Congo,
Somalia, Sudan, Cuba, Iraq, Bhutan, most recently 100 from
Afghanistan settled there.
Heather Barber, she says that she's the leader of the local
Muslim circles, she said, the Islamic Center Community Center of
Anchorage, Alaska has members from 4050 countries, I actually got an
invitation from them once there was a Palestinian brother who
lived here. He moved there, and he was raising funds to build it. And
he said, come visit us. I said I'd love to visit these exotic areas,
right. But I lost touch with him when he went to Alaska. I love the
fact there's so many different cultures, it makes anchorage a
very rich city, the Muslim community is a microcosm of that.
All right, the diversity the can lead to conflict and difference of
opinion, she said, but that becomes one of our greatest
strengths. If you go somewhere like Chicago, New York, you'll
find different mosques, see what I just told you. If you go to
Chicago, New York twice today, Virginia, California, you don't
have to force yourself to get along, you can go find build your
own little sub community, and you're not taking away from
anybody. It doesn't mean I'm not unified, right. But you can do
that you can make your own little sub msgid. So you'll find a
Pakistani mosque and Arab mosque and our Albanian mosque. So if
they're the first generation, they did break it down on national
lines, right. Nationalistic or ethnic lines, the second
generation breaks it down on the doctrinal lines. That's how we
break it down. Right? So the second generation does not care
cares more about what your stance is, or your position on certain
things. And some people think that sectarian sectarian at all right,
it's just, that's what I believe in. That's what I want to practice
and raise my kids on. It doesn't mean I don't get along, it doesn't
mean if I find you, My truck is moving really perfectly in the
street and yours is in the snow, like I'm going to leave you by. It
doesn't mean if you get oppressed, I'm not going to support you. It
doesn't mean if I don't see you, I'm not going to be happy to see
you as a Muslim. But your what's your teaching is different from
what I'm teaching. So let's just keep that cool, and happy. And we
can be friends and everything else. So I don't think it's
sectarian at all. People who love to study alQaeda. Okay, they will
understand that on certain matters, we go are going to do
things our own way, and it's better to have a little bit of a
safe distance. But on other matters that concern the OMA the
concern the general Muslim populace populace, we have to be
together otherwise, it's that's what we call sectarianism. So,
then they said, each of the immigrant culture generation, it's
infused with the culture of that place. Now because this is such a
small community, we don't have that ability. So it forces us to
stick to just to the religion and not let cultural differences
influence what we do. Anchorage is location composed complications
for Ramadan. Now this is this is some fecund volunteer. During the
holiday the Muslims around the world will forego eating from dawn
to dusk. We know this. breaking the fast with a feast called if
not, I don't know about a feast is going to put you to
Even taraweeh. But Ramadan dates very, very dates vary year to
year. This year Ramadan falls in the spring in the northern
hemisphere. So listen to this. They will fast from 5am to 6:30pm.
Not bad. Not bad at all right? I thought they're having like six
hours of winter and six hours of summer. Sorry, six months of
darkness and six months of light. Maybe that's not that's part of
Alaska. But when the holiday falls in the summer or winter months,
the northern cities of the world must accommodate different fasting
times. So this is fifth here in Anchorage experience is about 22
hours of daylight. See, that's what I'm talking about 22 hours of
daylight during the summer solstice and the winter solstice,
only five hours of daylight. To work around such extremes Muslims
in such far northern countries are given a special permission to
adopt one of two things, either the Mecca calendar or the nearest
city that adopt that follows normal times. Right? So he says
you're this is a unique challenge. Here in Alaska. When we first got
here, it's like 1130 at night and the sun is up in the sky. And
we're like what's going on here? He says, Mr. Jones said that when
he moved to Anchorage, he talked to local Muslims and learned about
time adjustments in the summer, because it was difficult to
complete three of the five prayers that are time between sunrise and
sunset, you'll be getting all your prayers in between 11am
and 2am.
And that's just not a normal lifestyle. It's not normal at all.
I could not ever stay in a place that was messed up like them.
He said from 11am Fetch. And then Aisha comes in at 2am
You can't do that, right? You're gonna have to do Gemma. The
anchorage Mosque has been a work in progress for more than a
decade. It's a very pretty mosque by the way,
for about 35 years because I have a picture of it here. for about 35
years members rented retail space in a strip mall. In 2008. After a
fundraising effort, the group bought a plot of land off one of
the city's main thoroughfares and because paying interest on a loan
is for bidding forbidden in Islam. The mosque had to be built piece
by piece as the group collected enough money. Okay.
The community moved on 2011 use of Barber, a physician and a
spokesperson for the center. Of course there has to be a doctor
involved.
Said the mosque is nearly complete with only one minaret and elevator
left Edie? Despite the bigger space the building can feel
crowded on Fridays seven to 800 people gathering for Tata we
it's a good number in this very strong number. The growth in the
community is reflected in the increasing visit availability of
Halal food in the city. Sajid Reza moved to Anchorage in 2016 to do
graduate research at the University of Alaska and he said
it was hard to find halal food at that time. Whenever read about his
food wherever the remarkable development that there's so much
Hello food, its food. Next still ingredients remain hearts. How
many paragraphs is New York Times is going to go on about the food.
Most people if they're from different parts of the world, from
Senegal or Pakistan, bring those spices in I can't believe she's
going on who's the author of this going on? five paragraphs on the
food
is this really something that the editor like thinks people are
going to read this? Families will buy rice lentil flowers?
Vegetables? This is like a high school paper. This is a time where
we start preparing mentally, spiritually and financially buying
certain types of food
read it to us Instagramers Can you
Oh, it's an Arabic photo. Okay.
Let us go in here so I can start to I wonder if the Instagrams can
hear Ryan or not.
Instagram was can you guys hear Ryan or no?
When he talks? Do I have to repeat what he's saying? Or can you can
you hear him?
Next
you know, the part of the article that's introducing you to the
community was good. The part of the article that talks about the
Okay, they can't really hear this. Okay. I'll repeat whatever Ryan
says. The part of the article that says that, you know, how do they
fast you got six days, 22 hours of daylight, five hours of daylight.
That's interesting. But this second
the third part of the article which is on and on about food
Do people really read about food Ryan? Like, is that a thing?
Hungry people I guess, right. But I mean, I guess it's a thing,
right that people like to read about food
I feel like the association with food. The common association of
Ramadan is food. Well, the whole thing is, I guess like the most be
the reverse. Yeah, it's funny.
Okay.
Okay, let's look at the comments, right? The comments here, Prakash,
that guy says paying interest on a loan is forbidden Islam This is
misleading.
Really? What 50 You following lending money at interest was
traditionally forbidden consequently participating in a
transaction involving interest was also frowned upon. Blah blah blah
nobody's saying
okay, Rebecca has a question here she says to work the quote to work
around such extremes Muslims in far northern countries are given
special permission to adopt a timetable of Mecca
so she says permission from whom
I've always understood that Islam is like Judaism and there's no
established earthly authority if you don't like what one leader
says you can go find another okay
yes, there is no earthly authority but of course we do have a concept
of fatawa right where huh
read it
who's the author of the federal
the feds
are that'd be at the bottom Yeah.
Was
this fit our
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Abdulaziz was Muslim I don't know.
All right. So that's that article about the that's our Muslim news
for the day. And we can open it up now for your Ramadan QA. There
were so many Ramadan QA is yesterday. That let us pick it up
again. For those who want to do a Ramadan QA Feel free, and it's an
open QA for the Ramadan only questions related to either the
fifth of praying in the northern and southern hemispheres that we
read. You want to ask a question about or make a comment about the
Muslim news or we go straight to Ramadan prep. So with the Ramadan
QA, yeah, what do you think about like organizing it in a way of
like, same way that the man organizes it in like, the, so we
don't just have random questions from different parts of the
instead it's like first questions on the photo. Okay, as soon thing
is, yeah, that would make logical sense but it might not work for
the Okay. People here because they might just have different
questions. All right, we are free for all we have some free from
free forum. All right, let's hear it but it has to be Ramadan
related. Okay, I'm gonna try to type each of these questions. So
women on their menses should they avoid eating during Ramadan? Women
upon hade. Okay, here's how it works. A woman, a man, anybody who
begins the day
in begins the day with an excuse.
And in the middle of the day, the excuses gun.
That is the only category of the person who is not fasting, who
will continue who will who will abstain from eating. If your
excuse exists for the entire day, then you may eat the entire day.
Is that clear? So anyone who begins the day with an excuse to
not eat,
and then that excuse, like, disappears in the middle of the
day or is nullified in the middle of the day or is no longer there?
That's the only type of person so if a woman has had the entire day,
yes, she she may eat because she has an excuse just like someone
sick the entire day, or someone traveling the entire day. It says
I didn't know it was funny to read aloud prayers aloud. Yes, that is
fun.
But if you didn't do that in the years to pass then you do not have
to. It was so no ACA sorry, it is so no ACA and you will not have to
make up all of those prayers in the past. So what
As outloud the bare minimum of out loud is that you can hear yourself
the bare minimum of silent is that you're moving your tongue
and the maximum of silent
is that you can hear yourself so hearing yourself is the minimum
maximum of silent and the minimum of outloud
que se says is it preferred for women to pray totally at home or
in the masjid in general all of the salah of a woman be in the
format that is preferred to be at home
but and praying in the masjid is permitted. Someone Of course
there's value to bring in semester two there's different values
they're seeing your Muslim friends, etc, etc. Hearing the
Quran from like a reciter someone asks this is isn't that obvious
son of Tripoli, says?
Someone asked how do they make up for Ramadan's Miss due to
heedlessness
you miss them due to heedless or someone? It's not him? Someone
else?
It's due to heedlessness, that means you intentionally didn't
fast
within 20 days
and you owe 120 makeup days.
And 120 Kefalas.
Farah, you making me get my calculator 100 $1,000 Your Kufa
what?
I did 120 times 30 times 3120 times 61 day 140 times
6120 times 600 is 600. Yeah
871 20 times 672,000
bucks dollars you owe your car. What is it?
Like if it's a Mercedes? What is the kuffaar? First of all Kufa is
to feed it is the punishment of disrespecting the month purposely
breaking the fast. Ramadan only has two obligations. two pillars,
intention to fast and the avoidance of what breaks the fast.
If you intentionally without any excuse. There's no
misunderstanding here. You just intentionally broke your fast. You
owe something called cuff FARA. The value of a commodity feed 64
Muslims, the two handfuls of food that two handfuls of food is going
to be around to $10.60 times 10 $600 is the punishment of
baking one fast. It's the Farra expiation of your sin. You didn't
respect God's Will God, He gave you everything. Allah gave you
eyes free. He gave you lungs, your heart beats without anything.
What's the price for all this? It's a bad, obey his obligations,
right that he made and avoid his prohibitions. That's the price we
pay right? Now, if you intentionally broke that fast, you
have to do Kufa. Now this individual miskeen really,
we should help him pitch in he should start a GoFundMe, you know
that you could do that. You can help someone pay his photo. Okay,
someone turns their life around GoFundMe for CO Farah. Okay.
70. He owes 120 days of fasting doesn't have to be an order. And
he owes a Fatah of 72 grand Good luck. So yeah, it was 120 days
times 600 each. That's the Kafala. Right? So you're going to actually
pay that off for the rest of your life. If you pray if you if he
pays $500 a month, right?
He's going to do that. So let's open the calculator again. I mean,
most people could do $500 A month or let's say he can't do that.
Let's say he could do 300 a month.
Okay, that's going to take him 20 years
at $300 a month for the next 20 years but that's also you're
you're you're benefiting people people are eating because of you.
Hey, best if I thought I was the same and all that I had the it's
not. This is the lenient one.
Or the cathedra the same in all them. This is the lenient one.
Okay, because all the other they have said if you're capable, you
have to fast 60 straight days as a cathedra for one day
the poor guy can't even fast one day, right? He's gonna fast 60
straight days madaket method was only one that gives you the
choice. Fast, fast.
60 in a row or feed 60 per day for the sanctity of the month of
Ramadan, the sanctity,
okay. The sanctity of it. That's why if you have an excuse or a
genuine and reasonable misunderstanding that we'll carry
genuine and reasonable misunderstanding, then you don't
pay the kuffar genuine and reasonable. That means you sell
told anybody this, they'd say, Oh, yeah, yeah, that's a good
question. I don't know, maybe maybe not right? Like that. We
have a good confederal question. Cathodic question. Go ahead. And
you feed people in other countries where food will be much cheaper?
Good question. Really good question. This is some good
lawyering right there.
And if he's Hamid, but he's from Harvard, that's why right? He's
from Harvard. So you can probably go down
to a place where you can get a meal for $1. Right? So you're now
down to what he owes 120 days.
Right? And his cafardo will be sick, like $60. So now you're down
to $7,200. Right? So you have to find a country where a meal is $1.
You know, and but you have to find someone who will deliver that meal
to a Muslim. We mean a charity organization, we're not going to
go find a random person. It's going to be a charity
organization, such as Islamic Relief. So go ask Islamic Relief.
Where's the poorest country that you serve in? And then pay the
video? Hey, Ryan, could you look that up? Like where does Islamic
Relief so let's say I wanted to give money to
if I'm in a situation.
Bangladesh, maybe
China Chad, all right, Chad, maybe. So we'll say
sister here she is asking.
Okay.
Oh, shoot. My my Instagram just refreshed. So I lost a lot of your
questions. But I think the sister name here and name Salem are silly
Selma. She said that the women have to pray out loud to the
answer's yes.
Frankie God says how much is it in Jeddah?
Yeah, so whatever two handfuls of food, your local Masjid tell you,
if I if if you're joining just now.
Sorry, if you were joined before us. I had my Instagram refreshed.
I lost your questions. Put your question again.
I'm on Islamic Relief. And they said they have food aid emergency
launched help families facing famine. So
how much is a meal there? This is Madagascar, Madagascar, South
Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria. Okay.
So the question is, if you're doing it to these countries, then
if it's a Muslim country, does that count? Or do you have to make
sure that the person is like on top? You know, you can't you can't
just estimate throw to a Muslim country. You have to tell your
what kill your agent. Yeah. Islamic Relief. This is Vidya or
Kafala. That will go to a Muslim poor Muslim in the form of food.
Yeah. So says $10 is a hot meal though. $10 Yeah, that's not good.
That's still a lot.
That doesn't change anything for this poor guy. Even travel is
absolutely not allowed to use even to me as federal of just make Toba
for fasting. He said that for fasting. I wouldn't, I wouldn't do
that. It's if that's what that's like one person's opinion.
Is there maybe the whole hand of somebody's mouth? Has that? I
don't know.
Is there more of a penalty if the broken fast is from many years
ago? It doesn't make a difference. It's a debt you owe to Allah your
eyes are free, your ears are free. All right, allow me give you a
face, your heart's beating for free. It's to Allah pay your debts
to your Creator. And you will find the Creator has turned to you with
generosity.
How to Stay sincere in desperation into when you feel comfort and
trust in Allah?
That's a good question. I feel I trust a lot so much. How do I have
any desperation? Because hardships are always raining upon the world.
And we're headed into a very difficult era that we're headed to
that the forces of the jet are all around us.
The forces of shutter of cover of facade are so strong that our only
success going forward is going to be by tonnara. Desperate dua. This
is going to end and keeping the Sahaba of Muslims, that's going to
be our only safe salvation. Right? So if you're feeling that right
now I'm comfortable. Yeah, that's wonderful. Allah is great to us
and hamdulillah but the world itself is not at that.
Great, the forces of iblees are strong. So you need to worry about
that. And that's going to make you feel like we need help.
Next, Ryan, what you got? Remember Instagramers if you put your
question my Instagram unfortunately refreshed, I slipped
my fingers slipped. And so I need you to write your questions again
a second time if I haven't answered it yet. Okay, so one
person mentioned that places like Islamic Relief they also do have
like Cydia and so they'll go and zurka options and but someone
separate from that asked, is it better to pay Cydia during
Ramadan? Is it better to pay it's better to pay all your fibia kofod
as a cat during Ramadan because the things are rewarded more. You
go to Islamic Relief. They do have pages for fibia Anka Fatah, I like
you, I would prefer to give it to my local masjid so that the local
pork and they can eat of the community. But the issue is a
person who had an exorbitant amount of fasts that he owed,
which is a very high Kafala. So can he go to another country where
I can't imagine it doesn't make any sense that the video of the US
dollar is the same as the video in chat? That makes no sense, right?
A handful of food, by the way, is a handful of food even $10. They
said a few said it's $1 in Bangladesh $1 So that's your
market edge $1
is the price of the Vidya. So the kuffaar is $60 All right, so go to
his bank bank, some Bangladesh relief organization
and pay them the Kasara right you could pay it over yours if you
need $7,200 It's much easier than 72,000 Right. So I have a question
following up is the is the burden of missed fast not lifted until
the fifth year is distributed or once you pay it is it done with on
your end? It is not
the FARA is not done with unless it's distributed you must be sure
that your agent which we call Joaquin and Sharia is a reliable
distributor if you know he's a reliable distributor then call us
as soon as you pay it you know he's going to distribute it
okay if he's like Islamic Relief reliable distributor right any
advice for converts living with non Muslim family during the month
of Ramadan
take a nap during the day go out in the morning.
Do gardening in the afternoon. Oh isn't busy the Hadith about like
the person who's fasting and and they're sitting with people who
are eating angels are waiting for the door. What was the Hadith?
That's a good one to you look it up. I can't remember that hadith
actually, about someone who is fasting but he's sitting with
people who are not fasting. But in general there's something called
Victrola he filosofi lien the remembrance of Allah amongst the
heedless.
There's a power to that to remember Allah amongst the
heedless, and there's a special reward of a place in paradise
called tuba. Which tuba literally means blessing, but it's also a
location. It's a valley in paradise. Where the Phil Jana.
Alright, it's a
it's a valley in paradise, too. But it's a place in paradise.
Don't Don't quote me on unvalued I was thinking of something else was
a valley. That was random, but it's a place in paradise for the
minorities, Muslims who are minorities their entire life so so
I would say
you need to strengthen yourself by the companionship of Muslims
Sahaba we work like osmosis. In a sense. If I hang around with
people, I'm going to get weak. If they don't if they're pulling me
in what certain direction if I hang out with another group of
people I'm going to get strong. So as much as you can balance out the
company that you keep Alright, so that you're keeping company with
Muslims as much as you keeping company with people who are not
concerned with the mantra Ramadan, and the Hadith the Prophet
salallahu Salam, I entered into the home of Amara Winterguard and
she served in food the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Will you
eat she said, Indeed, I'm fasting and the Prophet. He said, Verily
Angels send blessings upon a fasting person when others eat in
their presence until they finish Subhan Allah angels are sending
blessings according to this hadith who narrated the Hadith? This is
a narrative Yeah, which book? This is Tirmidhi Jeremy the narrator
Hadith Angel Send blessings on a people
who fast amongst those who are eating sounds usually like me and
Ryan basically. Hey, listen, you know what we need? We need an
iPhone
Jack
With a splitter so that you can get miked up to for Instagram.
Yeah. Is there any techie who's on Instagram or YouTube right now?
Could you look up for us a iPhone Jack? Not USB, the old iPhone jack
that leads to a splitter where you could put two mics.
And then I can be miked up with this. This mic and Ryan can be
miked up so the people could Instagramers could hear Ryan when
he talks because we have the mic over here. We have one of these we
have that is it a splitter This is that's a splitter, this is a
splitter but not so we need a splitter female, you know the
receiver, you know they call them male and female, right?
That's what they're called males and females. Frankie G does
getting slapped by Will Smith break your fast. Probably going to
some event with all those Hollywood actors will probably
break your vest.
In Pakistan, it would be Rs 20. That's like 50 pence.
RS is the currency I guess. rupees 20 rupees. That's like 50 Pence,
which is like 50 Pence would be 75 cents.
Okay, I didn't realize my home is in all this time mayhem is
actually in in England. It looks like she's in England. Because she
said pence which is a British soap hate soap. Hey, he says she can
say she's doing intermittent fasting. Right? Pretty smart. I'm
doing intermittent fasting it is intermittent Ramadan. I fast show
what I eat. For daytime my fast nighttime I eat
Okay, there was a guy who was praying in the airport one time
and when they asked him what he's doing he said yoga, right? Yoga,
so they let him go for about 927 Do women who are nursing and are
pregnant have to make up their fast they women who is nursing or
pregnant is not sick in herself.
A woman who is pregnant is sick in herself.
Pregnant is sick and herself she's she breaks her fast and she eats
later. She breaks she makes her fast later. Good. Cut the
woman who is breastfeeding she must try to fast if she starts
going dry and the baby suffering then only then can she break her
fast. And when she owes her fast she owes called up and figure now
remember what these two words are called? Is makeup best fit DHEA is
to feed one poor Muslim.
Why? Because anyone who has to break their fast for the sake of
someone else that type of person has to do make up their fast and
pay video like who surgeons have this bus drivers have this women
who are breastfeeding have this okay.
Bushra bag M says What if you were a little ignorant in that in the
teenage years and don't remember how many fast you broke and a few
opinion please over estimate is your answer. You must overestimate
so let's say what is it going to be 2030
over estimated
that you'd be guaranteed that you got it
all right. So
we have a question from PetSafe elseif go Can you clarify does
taking a PCR test and validate this own just taking a PCR test
which is they just put something up your nose right? There's no
invalidation of the song there.
Okay,
but if What if you take a PCR test and somehow it you can start to go
down your throat now mucus no that's within you but vapor yes
vapor in your nose and down your throat breaks your fast mucus does
not so we can follow up to that
conveniently it's the next question document do humidifiers
with scent break one's faster humidifiers break your fast
because you're inhaling a vapor that makes that will make a
droplet and go down at your throat the key is fluid in the throat or
solids in the stomach. That's what breaks the vast
terms of the food Tibet TV NSM says it's a tree Wait what is a
tree I missed that. What is the tree? Did we mention anything that
would be related to a tree so she can clarify John?
Hey, this sister who about the Convert we do have a convert
Whatsapp group and I'm going to put Alicia
is email right here. Alicia Stigall
at Safina society dot orgy
Okay, for convert
Subhan Allah, it's like someone was listening. Yeah, what
happened?
Maybe this is someone from the stream that texted me. Yeah. A
flyer from some men hedge. I think this was called this is $1 meal $1
meal field. All right, so one, can you put it up so that they could
see it? If the phone connections not so it's hard to transition or
if they give you a link. All right, rinsing water up the nose,
and in the mouth all that's fine. But you because when you do your
nose, you don't go all the way up your nose, you're gonna get hurt,
like that's gonna hurt. You ever were a kid and you're learning how
to swim. And you inhaled that into your nose, that chlorine water,
right? It's not You're not supposed to clean your nose like
that, in will do that extreme that at some point that you hurt
yourself. So it's not going into your throat. But you can do water.
Yes, in the brain during your fast. No problem. I have a
question. Yesterday, I met somebody during the data table.
And we were like bonding over the fact that he swims. And I like to
swim. But he swims on Mondays and the next time he's going is next
Monday. Yeah, it was not a good strategy to go during during
fasting, right? It's not a good strategy to do an unnecessary swim
during the month of Ramadan, because you might get water in
your mouth. But if you can just go in the kiddie pool and not
that'd be fine.
This question says,
making wudu no problem. You could do your mouth, you can rinse your
mouth out because you're hot. You can rinse your mouth out to clean
out your your mouth, no problem to do that while fasting. What if you
sleep more during fasting earns reward? What if one sleeps more
during fasting earns rewards? That's the question. And the
answer is it's not a problem to sleep more but at the same time.
The
day of fasting should involve more a bad than low, low low is waste
of time. Right now who is a waste of time?
I'm a convert. Salam says Aisha. I'm a convert with anomalous and
family that has dogs. No problem, then you're going to adopt the
Maliki school. We do not consider dog and saliva to be nudges. We
just say that it's forbidden for Muslims to keep a dog in the house
because the angels of Mercy do not come in the house. So what you're
going to do is you're going to close off, your fast does not get
invalidated nor does your Salah at all. Nothing gets invalidated. But
I would highly recommend you make a little mosque area in your room.
Close your door and the dog doesn't come into your room. You
do have control over your room. Right? So that's what you should
do. That's my advice.
Hey, Ryan, could you look up so it tells us solo wit
tells us that there's iPhone two female splitter.
And we already have the mic, right. So iPhone two female
splitter.
Right.
We could probably get at the Tech Store to Yeah, yeah, I see. Hands.
Where's it go to dictionary? Is there a better one? Yeah, there's
a website. That is thorough. It's good. It's easy. It's called ad
money. It's a website.
Alright, TVN SM says I thought tuba is a tree in heaven. And her
name is tuba. Wow. Spatola. No tuba. Yeah, we should look that up
to be honest with you. Because what I remember is that it is a
place in heaven. For the people who were my Muslims as minorities.
They were what are that? I'll go to that. For tuba little What
about that hadith? It is said that Uber is means blessing are the
strangers but also Uber is a place
in paradise.
Is the hands Wear app the shorter version?
Yeah, I don't even know about the app to be honest with you.
Is there a group of recovering selfie Whatsapp group? Yes. Just
join ArcView there's a lot of recovering selfies and non
selfies.
Is it just me or there's no audio on IG? It's no it must be just put
the volume up on your phone because we should be fine.
Doing my ArcView dot orgy. Let me type it in here for you. We're
constantly improving this website and this experience
for people live classes are on pause and they're going to start
up again may 22.
In Miami is a website and I believe they have an app too.
So that says is it haram for
Muslim women to put on perfume outside.
It is
the province I sent him for made that so that people don't be
staring at her looking at her getting attention.
And what
do you have any recommendations for learning about medically fit
online in English, we just finished the semester, we're
halfway through even after May 22, we pick up again so and you can
from now, so and what I would say from now until May 22, you can
catch up on the past missed classes by signing up from my Ark
view dot orgy and just go to ArcView basic, right? It's only
$10 A month which is basically free and you could watch all of
the previous classes and then may 22 We start the live class again.
Alright, so I have a question here. Yes. So a couple questions
about the incense or wood I also mentioned like spray, deodorant
and things are these permissible at all to use if there's a chance
of them going down the throat? Say again? Is it permissible to use
incense or OAD or spray deodorant or whatever if there's a chance of
it going down with
incense or food or deodorant if there's a chance for going down
the throat
you can spray it on yourself
in the
on your your torso
not your mouth.
But I have to tell you sniffing good sense is McGraw Hill nomadic
method well fasting because they consider it from the pleasures
right? So it's just micro
efforts. It's cozy Chloe gives us an idea. She says the morning of
God on Safina side channel is really good, but it's 22 minutes
long. It doesn't take me 22 minutes he was reciting slowly
right? Yeah. i We need a fast version. You could do it in 30 I
do it and I do it in five minutes. I do it so quickly. Right but I
don't rush. I just I just do it quickly. So we need to record
another one. Yeah, we need to record another one. So cosy Chloe
we're going to record a second one right what's that's faster? TT and
SARS is what should we do to ensure there's protection and
Baraka in a new home if we move to a new place do a lot of a bed and
Vic there
receiving what you got so not from MS Schiff wisdom. So you know
Korean and Ramadan, any particular time more better in general,
retire or save Quran and Dick. Ramadan Of course, particularly
inside of Ramadan, is there a specific time a specific time
inside of Ramadan, the end of us
right before it comes in and right before so hold.
For French nary prize it permissible for someone to pick
the easiest method due to a severe chronic illness. Yes, that's a
reason. That's the justification to move around your mouth hubs you
have a severe chronic illness, that's something you need neuron H
s, she says is fast invalid. If one was under the assumption that
the intention at the start of the month suffice it that does
suffice.
It does suffice in the medical school all you need is intention
at the start of the month, for the whole month. And the only time you
need to renew it is if you missed paid
sickness, travel. Whatever reason you missed a day with a valid
excuse. You need to renew the intention that for the day after
until the rest of the month.
Let's say somebody fat initiated at the beginning of the month
fasting then they had hide then they were sloppy about checking
and they realized it's the day of its fudge and I have to fast but
they never made the intention
that they had to be made up as one kuduk Naka Farah just one Kedah
can there be two intentions while fasting weight loss and the
footage of Ramadan?
Don't do that. I don't think you should do that. Just Ramadan was
the you don't need intention for weight loss. Right because you
have to fast anyway
nasal spray it will break your fast Yes, it is going to go down
into your throat quick easy says neuron says Does this apply for
after a week of height? You renew your intention?
You mentioned having to renew your intention? Yes. So if Hey or an
or, or sickness or travel interrupts your month
You renew your intention one, and it's only in the heart intention
is only in the heart.
You don't have to say anything
in your heart. So I hope that answers neurons question
I've been making dua for a long time, I received a dream, which
was interpreted. Now I have whispers to relax the DUA.
If you ever feel that you have a reason to relax your diet, because
I got what I needed, then shift your thicker to sugar to gratitude
said hamdulillah said Hamdulillah you answered my prayer and it is
very possible that a person makes a DUA, then he gets a sign from
Allah, whether it be from a dream or other ways that your DUA has
been answered.
Your responsibility now is to believe it. And it's to be
grateful.
And it's continue to do a but if you feel like I'm not, I'm not
stressed about it anymore.
Shift to hummed and shook, which is to worship Allah with the
intent of being grateful.
And then you make dua again later on. Okay, and when you receive a
sign that your DUA has been answered that maybe you don't know
how long it's gonna take until it actualizes I love how you know,
like, our methodology and our belief like it's not even about
the sign or the means anyways, like the sign in the means is just
anyways pointing to Allah all the time. So it's like it's even about
the means. Yeah, it's not about the means. Or the science it is
about your direction being to Allah subhanaw taala as much as
you can.
Okay, now here we go with other questions. We don't want to hear
Go ahead. If women who haven't made up their previous years have
missed fasts should should they continue fasting in the next
coming Ramadan? The question is if women have missed days but they
haven't made up the days and the next Ramadan has come correct,
yes, she fast heard Ramadan like everybody else. And after Ramadan,
she makes up the previous years fasts plus 150 up per day because
of the delay to make up for that delay she owes now one video per
day and the video as we said is feeding one poor Muslim. Alright,
we got a lot of other questions here. For example, what to do if
one wakes up after Sir Hello, do you keep fasting? And most of it
is is how do you get the most out of Ramadan when busy with examine
work, beasts who the DUA before Iftar and the DUA, after soul
before fetch enforced or their MOA during Ramadan. We don't have
more, per se but we have thicker every Friday and Saturday after
Tata we and on the last 10 days. Cozy Chloe have a question about
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam in Christianity, we go
through Jesus as a bridge to God I was told in Islam, there is no
intercessor. Like there isn't Christianity and it's a direct
relationship between you and Allah. That's 100% Correct.
But we do have a bridge in the sense of our deeds are a bridge,
you have to do something right. Nobody is in charge of this
relationship that you can't talk to God, no, you speak to Allah
directly, but you're going to come to Allah with a deed, right?
Fasting is a deed. Putting my hands up and praying with humility
is a deed. Being on Hulu as a deed, being good to my dad and mom
is a deed. reciting Quran is a deed, but also there are deeds of
the heart, loving the right people, loving your parents,
right? Loving the OMA, loving the scholars, loving the righteous,
loving the prophets. Okay, all those are deeds of the heart too.
So
that is the understanding that we go directly to Allah with
something it's not an intercessor in the sense or we should it's not
an intermediary that we worship in lieu of God, we worship Allah
directly, but through a deed or with a deed not through even with
a deed. You go to Allah with what are you bringing him, you have to
bring him something of worship of vicar. It could be of the limbs
could be of the words, it could be of something you wrote for the
Ummah, it could be your heart, someone you love, right? So that's
what it means that you go with something to Allah.
It's not by its with
What did the Prophet eat for soul and Iftar? So who are we don't
know? But or I could say, I don't know right now. Maybe we could
look it up. But for Iftar the Prophet broke his fast on dates
and milk that is very famous and well known. And
what else he ate for If thought is I don't think there's anything
specific beyond that. It said he broke his date with dates milk, or
water.
Are we required to read the DUA WebU sell me every day.
There's no required
to read all the dua or record
ended
the unsavoury do we start our fast once Federa then comes in? No,
it's recommended to stop as she mentioned that it's recommended to
stop a few minutes early where it why that because there's a hadith
in the province I sent him said, recommended to stop eating the
amount it takes to recite 60 verses.
So that's about 1015 minutes. So that's called inSec we should stop
1015 minutes before but if you can't, you can eat right all the
way up to that and then let's say you had a late start. I've had
someone before with me about that there's an answer to belcarra
about, like eating until like, you hear that it's valid to eat, but
it's not recommended to eat all the way to the edge. Valid when
Allah says eat and drink until the white becomes clear from the dark.
Okay? When Allah commands something is not mean it's the
Sunnah it means is permissible, right? Eat and drink but not to
access. What does that mean permissible? So it's valid to eat
all the way up to the advantage. But that does not mean that's
recommended.
Muzammil says How about reading Salah and salaam only during
fasting leaving all of God except recitation of Quran labasa been no
problem. Should we act as if our dua was already accepted and
prepared to receive it? We shouldn't believe that our dua
will be accepted the Prophet rendered this as a condition
Allah Who and to move inaudible job certain you should be certain
that is accepted of absolute certainty.
Or Morava mean what you may Allah accept your DUA.
Let's see if our ad says how to develop a good opinion of a lot if
someone has a negative thinking person. This is excellent. And you
know what it is? It's an excellent question. Look at what you've
already been given. That's how you have a good opinion of Allah. And
if you truly your iman is clean and you understand Allah properly,
you will have a good opinion of him. But look at what do you have
already been given? Like, there's nothing that you're going to ask
for. That's greater than what you've already been given? You're
already been given life?
Out of all the little sperm swimming around the egg. Okay. You
got in, of all those, how many sperms are there?
In one, you know, at one time, maybe it's in the millions? Who
knows? I'm sure there's a statistic for it, right? But you
got in, that Allah gave you eyes, then he gave you a day he gave you
prophets to guide you made you a Muslim gave you so much. So he's
already given me so much. There's nothing that I'm going to ask
that's greater than what he's already given me. So not only
that,
the famous story, the famous stories of dua that Allah has
answered, those people in the past should give you a give a person an
optimism. On top of that you should be scared negative thoughts
will produce negative results. I'm in the opinion of my slave in
Thunderhead and phala Winbond mashallah, and further, if He
intends, if he assumes good, you're gonna get good. If you
assume that you're gonna get bad, so however you think of Allah,
that's what you're gonna get. So, you have something to lose by not
having a good opinion of Allah, you have a lot to lose and you
have a lot to gain by having a good opinion. So these are all one
one things things that is there a dua she asks Yes.
The constant recitation of ya Rahmani r Rahim.
Of all of the Beautiful Names of Allah like Yara gouvia were dude.
Okay. Rufus compassionate would do this loving. To have all those.
Many times the prophet would compare the Mercy of Allah with a
mother.
Right? Is your mother merciful to you? Would she give you everything
she could possibly give you? That Allah to Allah is a million times
more merciful than that. He is the creator of your mother's mercy.
And that's only one portion. Imagine you had two mothers.
Right? The the mercy of two mothers in one person. Imagine the
mercy of three moms in one. Imagine the mercy of 3000 moms in
one.
Imagine the mercy of 3 million moms in one person. how merciful
would that woman be?
Imagine the mercy of 30 million moms in one person. And Allah on
top of that says all of the Mercy that's in the earth, from the
beginning of time to the end of time is one part out of 100 of my
mercies.
So imagine how many billions of people on the earth right now?
Like 8 billion, 4 billion
being women mums. Imagine the mercy of 4 billion women in one
woman. And that is not even all of humanity. And that is not even one
out of 100 of Allah's mercies.
And they say Why Allah has not revealed all his mercy because you
would melt, there will be no kafirs it wouldn't be impossible
to be a calf, if you saw that, so there'll be no test and this is a
place of testing right Subhan Allah
question right.
Can you give all 60 meals to one family? Can you give all 60 meals
to one family? I believe in one of the methods you can do that for
sure. I know that for sure. No magic method. No, it's going to be
different people.
I ematic says if you're awake late at night, can you pray to hedge it
before sleeping? You can pray but it will be counted as pm to hedge
it requires you to sleep first wipe away all the memories of the
day then wake up. Architecture is the waking up
if you break your fast unintentionally, because you
looked at a broken clock, but thought that it was right and
broke your fast what do you do if you broke your fast on a mistake
of time? A genuine mistake of time you owe one day and there's no sin
against you. But you do oh one day ma'am invited her whole little
crew here. Maybe not little
British I think
what is the difference between breaking fast intentionally and
waking up intending that to fast that day? What is the difference
between breaking the fast intentionally and intending not to
fast that day? No difference at all? Because the pillars of
fasting are intention avoiding what breaks the fast That's it
right so if you don't have one of those two then you're not fasting
you oak or Fatah if you had the fast
so here we have a question that is
what's the best way to get your parents to become easygoing and
fair with you? And for you to gain they're better easily
is to constantly be saying you're lucky if you're lucky if you're
lucky if I was to be calling on Allah Yeah, lucky if you're lucky.
If you're lucky, then you pull his lot of down and hopefully the
people around you will become Latif. But if he's gentle.
Muzammil says it's narrated in Hadith, that at the time of
breaking faster is accepted 100% 100% be in Allahu Taala even
Allah Hidin
considering someone who didn't realize the severity of cathedra
would they still be responsible for yes, if someone didn't know
how severe and how bad it was to break them down fast? Is it still
a yes unless they were actually thought it's just a recommended
fast? But if you I think every Muslim child by seven years old
knows that you have to fast Ramadan so it is going the confido
will stand. Someone is asking the question here
is there a specific job for Sophia and doing good deeds for the sake
of Allah?
Best thing to do this is to study to study the fit really well. That
you know exactly this is what Allah wants us to do. Have
confidence in that meant to study the signs of sincerity and signs
of insincerity, hypocrisy very well. Then you avoid those things.
And then you go back go about doing your actions with knowledge
and sincerity.
And then you hope for the tofield then what is the dua of Sofia
qurbana taka Berman in the Qantas semi or let him watch of Elena in
a concert to Weber Rahim. I'll repeat Robina Taco Bell Mina. It's
a Quranic dua in NECA enter semi alim, which Elena INEC entered to
Weber Rahim
there are other Quranic doors this one is not exactly as I said it
is it is the time before breaking the fast when is the door accepted
the moment that you're about to put the food in your mouth to
break your fast
you make dua whether it's before method a slightly before melted
into after the event. That whole period of time.
random question I know a baby. Someone named their baby Mika. Is
that okay? Yes, you can name your baby after an angel.
It of course is the angel of the clouds. Tran Giza dayco sets
and Gaza then Gaza.
Is it okay to make dua and sujood when someone else is leading in
this 100% I get this question a lot and maybe in the Hanafi method
it's something but we can make dua Institute not only can encouraged
should can make dua in the standing to
any effort that says what's the ruling of hanging family photos on
the wall? Would it prevent angels to come in? It's possible in some
of the opinions that it would. So you should put pictures in an
album rather than hanging them up on the wall? What is the limits of
creative lying? You should not do toady atonia is to say something
where the words are technically true but you know that someone
else will misunderstand it
don't do this a lot
because it's going to create a habit of it's it's very close to
lying, right don't do this a lot then your dreams will not be
reliable. You will not receive good dreams because you yourself
are a liar best thinking Ramadan Al Quran with dua number one one
and one a Quran and dua one and one a
everything else after that.
Cozy close has also do you have advice for Ramadan plan for us,
like besides recitation of Quran was do you recommend that we place
priority on this month, I will keep things very simple.
And post that keep in mind the times where dua is most accepted
and never miss them. And then put yourself in aim recitation of
Quran each day
and do that recitation and then we'll have a structure so we have
we will have three streams a day at some point and two and other
points. So every single day on NBI on the MBSE YouTube page, we have
of God of the morning Pseudotsuga seen
before that, and then a short talk up until the sunrises after So,
Eastern Standard Time.
Then at 130 we have the stream
then at 645 We go back to NBRC YouTube channel NBFCs YouTube
channel and we have a virtual Cutsem recitation of Quran
followed by the Quran DUA and any community announcements. So the
two spots you want to be if you want, you know, to help you keep
you on a certain schedule then it's the MBSE YouTube channel
right after so hold on right before market about 40 minutes
before Maghrib and then this stream in the middle of the day.
We're going to go from Monday through Thursday
and then we're going to do this only for the first until the last
10 dates last 10 nights we cancel all work but we will still have
the fetch after fetch and before Maghrib streams on the NBI see
YouTube channel
when you recite yeah let's see do you need to make the intention?
It's good to make the intention but if you don't then even without
it you will get the result just like you don't have to
yes you don't have to make intention to take take Tylenol
right to drink water do you make intention for hydration? No. So
likewise some of these of God are like that. It's not as an
obligatory act of worship that requires a certain intention.
These of God work with the intention or not but with
intention is better. So Muhammad was saying suited to the bucket of
127 Yes, the Taco Bell Mina
in I can just simulate how much of an intellectual Ibrahim What I
meant was that some people say what your body and Yamo learner in
against him they add that right. Can I get some recommendations on
Hanafi phip
books on Hanafy fifth
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myopic view.org You can learn how to flip and he'll tell you the
book to
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got this okay.
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ruling on enemy statues in the room
when are we going to bring Sheikh Hamza Maqbool back in when he's
injured New Jersey no problem
like Evan Imran
Xena says or story or some dudes considered too heavy depending on
the individual reciting them. You don't always need no you don't
need permission for them. But if it's too long and too heavy, and
it's hard for you to swallow in your heart and then do something
shorter.
Who does Salah on the prophets I said how do you know if the dream
is a sign from Allah or not from Satan the dream from Allah is a
short okay
A symbolic usually, it's always usually short, but it's always
filled with the symbols that a dream interpreter will be familiar
with. Demonstrate on is scary and false was scary. But dream from
Allah is not necessarily so.
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How does intention for fasting work he just intended in your
heart and he saw him that's it
alright folks, one more from you Ryan then we gotta go
Alright, I'm gonna try to find one that hasn't been touched on
Okay, so he says Where did wiping the face after dua derived from
sunnah tell me the hadith is on an intermediate that the Prophet did
it.
What if it's a picture with Allah's name on the wall? No, that
picture is fine pictures of humans and things that's what we're
talking about pictures of people on the wall is the issue. So
sisters Akia said what if it's a picture with a lot, no, that's
blessing, but you have to not put your feet towards that direction.
So you have to be careful with that. It's just that add up to do
that.
So he says
What if you are fasting according to one place in the US and then
you fly this idea where the day is a day behind? How do you suggest
we complete our fast so that we don't end up fasting more than the
month or less or whatever it is? Okay, we'll pick up on that
tomorrow because it's a long one. Okay, where the person says if I'm
fasting on one in one place, I move country to another place
they're behind in the day so that if I fast with them now, it's
going to be 31 days of Ramadan for me will answer that question
tomorrow. Quick question that
Junaid M celebrating birthdays. It is neither men Dube nor is it
something that is forbidden. We wouldn't say It's haram however
their stuff could be in it. That's haram. Okay.
In it that's haram. I mean actions in it that's haram such as excess
burdening the people that could be my crew, not haram mcru. Right.
wayfare says isn't the hadith of wiping the face and if we're
allowed to act upon that you've had deeds that are not obligations
or prohibitions or doctrines, right? So we are allowed to act
upon weak Hadith
if someone's unable to speak to their select count and the reading
in their heart, that's how they do it. If they cannot speak, you
would just recite it in your mind. Thank you all very much. Subhanak
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