The speakers discuss the benefits of fasting, including the ability to worship Allah and reject all idols, the importance of fasting for reducing behavior and charity, and the potential for increased charity and sense of gratitude. They stress the importance of fasting for achieving a status and avoiding disfeasement, and explain that anything engage in during fasting, such as eating or drinking alcohol, is considered a weakness. The speakers also mention a brother from Pennsylvania who converted to Islam 10 years ago and requested a Muslim prayer, and encourage listeners to pray for him and be grateful for their actions.
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Alright.
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Alright. Let us begin.
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In the name of Allah, may the peace
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and blessing of Allah
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be upon his final messenger, Mohammed
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Sallallahu
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Alaihi Salam, his companions, and all those who
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follow him until the day of judgment.
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Alhamdulillah, we are
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we we are in this blessed 1st week
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of Ramadan.
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And
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as,
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as a review, as a as a way
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of refining
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ourselves and
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rectifying our affairs,
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it's always good
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to review
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previous learned knowledge.
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But in in in light of
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the wisdom
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and the teachings
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of our
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of our scholars.
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So
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we have
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a beautiful text
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that we're going to cover
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I pray that Allah makes it beneficial for
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all of us.
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And may Allah
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make it a means of nearness
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to him.
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So the text is
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the text is
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And we we let's got it right into
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the subject
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but you can search
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for his biography.
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He begins with
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Muhammad
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Muhammad. So may may all present due to
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Allah. May the peace and blessing of Allah
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be upon his final messenger.
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And may
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and he says, call us a sheikh al
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Faqih,
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the sheikh,
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the jurist,
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the imam,
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the scholar,
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the mufti of the Muslims,
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or as
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Ibn Zakir al-'ayed,
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coined him as Sultan Al Ulema.
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His name
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is is the dean
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Abu Mohammed
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Abdulaziz,
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ibn Abdus Salam,
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ibn Abi Qasim
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Abi Luqasim as Soleami
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as Shafi'i.
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So he was his well, his complete name
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is Alaihizuddin
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Izzaddin
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Abu Mohammed
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Abdulaziz
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ibn Abdulsalam.
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Ibn
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Abu Qasim.
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As Salami
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Ashaafiri.
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It was,
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in.
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The book of fasting
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or.
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He categorized this book in in in
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in 10:10
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chapters,
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which today will cover 2 small chapters.
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One of them is,
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the legislation
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of
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fasting.
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And in the legislation of fasting and when
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we cover
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a chapter of,
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we
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we tend to look at it
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in in a way of
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what is the
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or the from
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the
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Quran, and what is the
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and the Dalil from the sunnah
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and etcetera etcetera, or the
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or the riyas, etcetera.
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So first, let's look at what Allah subhanahu
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wa ta'ala says in the Quran. So the
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Dalil from the Quran is aya 183 of
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Surat Al Baqarah.
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Allah
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says, oh, you who believe,
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fasting has been prescribed for you
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like it was prescribed to those before you
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so that perhaps
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you can attain
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taqwa.
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Alayzab
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ibn Abdi Salaam said,
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who the meaning of it is
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that perhaps you can attain
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protection.
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Protection
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from by this fast,
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you can attain protection from the hellfire.
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The fasting
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is a shield. It's a means
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is a means
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of also
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forgiveness, attaining forgiveness
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from our sins.
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Right? And if you are
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purified from your sins,
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there's a higher possibility that you can attain
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paradise
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and not be admitted
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to the hellfire.
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In the
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2 authentic narrations,
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in the 2,
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authentic collections,
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Sahihin
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Bukhari and Muslim,
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it was written under authority of
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Abdullah bin Umar and
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the
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author, Rahmadul Ali, didn't put the narrator.
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So it is the hadith of Abdullah bin
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Umar,
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and
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then Ravi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam called that the
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messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
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So he says that the that the prophet
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said
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Islam is built on 5.
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The testimony that there's no god worthy of
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worship except Allah.
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The testimony
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that there is no god worthy of worship
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except Allah.
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And
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so so this is
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and also
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in in in in in one
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in in in in some narrations, it says,
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Right?
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And some says
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Right? But it is implied.
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And this is to worship Allah
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to worship Allah
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and this and reject all
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idols.
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Idols. And to reject
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and and and to reject anything besides
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So in it in this narration, he didn't
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put
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Muhammad Rasula.
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But instead, that narration,
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right, the narration of authentic narration,
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it says, to worship Allah and don't associate
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partners with him.
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To establish prayer, to pay Zakat, to to
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do Hajj, and to fasten Ramadan.
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But there's various narrations.
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If you look at
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Sahih Muslim, Imam Muslim puts
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all the, several variations
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of these
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hadith,
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which which which help.
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Next is
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so if you hear a a a different
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or a different
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wording,
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don't inject it
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immediately
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because of your
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preconceived
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knowledge. Right? Don't don't just right away say,
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oh, this is wrong.
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Right?
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But think about that. There might be a
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possibility that there is a different
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form or a different
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because of a a different narrator
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compiled it in a certain way or heard
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it in a certain way.
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So
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it's this is just trying to increase
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our knowledge.
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Next the next chapter is
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the the favor
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or the virtue
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of
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Ramadan,
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fasting
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and the benefits of fasting.
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For fasting, there are some benefits.
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And
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put 7 benefits in this chapter,
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and that would be it.
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To raise in your ranks
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with Allah
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to expiate
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one's minor sense.
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And to
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tame
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and control
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one's
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desires.
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And to increase
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to increase one's
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charity.
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What
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and to engage in so many different
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acts of worship.
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And to be grateful
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to the knower
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of the unseen,
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to be grateful,
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to show gratitude
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to the knower of the unseen.
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Well, in
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And
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to
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protect yourself from
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those actions
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of
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disobedience.
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So Aloisib
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explained each one of these points.
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So it says when Ramadan
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arrives,
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the gates of paradise are open,
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the gates of the hellfire are closed,
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and the shayateens
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are chained up.
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Now
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When when he says
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there is another narration
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that, we will
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explain this. And went a different route,
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share other narrations, and then he explains.
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Another narration says that
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in a hadith that
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Allah says,
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verily all the actions of the children of
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Adam are for him,
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or the son of Adam are for him,
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except for fasting as I reward for it.
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Then the prophet said,
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or
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So here,
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the prophet
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continues saying, if any of you fast,
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then he should not engage in
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in in decent talk.
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He should not engage in fighting.
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He should not curse one another or fight
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one another.
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And if someone fights him while fasting, he
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shall say,
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I am fasting.
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Or
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I am fasting.
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The prophet said,
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and he who has
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the soul of
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Mohammed
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under his grasp.
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The breath
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of the fasting person.
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It is more beloved
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with Allah on the day of judgment.
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Than the than the smell of musk.
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And then the prophet said,
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It says,
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if for the fastened person, there's 2 moments
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of joy.
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1
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is when he breaks his fast,
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and this breaks his fast
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has two meanings.
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1, daily breaking of the fast gives the
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fasting person that joy.
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Another meaning is
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that the breaking of the fast is
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the day of
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conclusion or completion of the of the fasting
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of the month of Ramadan. So that's 1.
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The second point is that the second moment
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of joy is when the servant meets Allah,
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and he or she has in their account
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that they fasted
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for Allah
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The prophet
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said that in another narration,
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Adam
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Yudaf. All the actions of the children of
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Adam are multiplied.
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Al Hasana
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1
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is multiplied by 10 to 700.
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Except fasting.
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For fasting is for me, Allah says.
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Fasting is for me and I reward for
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it.
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And Allah says,
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My servant abandons his desires and his food
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for my sake.
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In Jannah, there is a Bab. You
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call.
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It is called.
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And through this door will answer
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the,
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those who fast.
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And no one else would answer except those
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who fasted.
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Also,
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when it says
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The person fasting
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who host someone for iftar
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is blessed with the it says, you
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to
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The angels pray upon him. What does that
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mean? They pray in the house.
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What it means is that from the moment
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you are hosting someone for iftar,
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the angels are making du'a for you
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from the moment you host
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someone
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for iftar.
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And this hosting does that
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does not have to be in your house.
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It could be in a restaurant. It could
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be outside in a park.
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Whatever is convenient,
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but it's offering
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the food,
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offering the iftar.
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What now we go back to the Hadith,
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the the Ramadan
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Ramadan The openings of the doors of paradise.
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The reason why it says the opening of
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the doors of the doors of paradise are
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open.
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What does that mean? What it means is
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that
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what it means is
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that due to the increase
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of your
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of your acts of obedience,
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then Allah opens
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the
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these acts of obedience
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put you in the path
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or in the way
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in the way
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towards
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paradise.
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So there's a higher possibility
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that you will be blessed
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with
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entering
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paradise.
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And the closing of the doors
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of
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the
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fire.
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Because of the
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the the the the
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your minimizing
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of your sins
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makes it obligatory
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for the doors
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of hellfire to be closed
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from you because you don't deserve
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to
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go there. Because you're obedient to Allah. Because
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you're making an effort.
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You don't deserve to go
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to the hellfire
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because you're making an effort, and you're preventing
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yourself
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from acts
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of disobedience.
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And brothers and sisters, this is taqwa.
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This is taqwa. Taqwa leads to that.
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Leads to paradise.
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Protects you from the fire.
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And
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the main objective,
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of fasting.
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Alright? So it it is a round a
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round circle. Right? It goes back.
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When it says
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means
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that
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due to your obedience to Allah
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and due to your abstaining from this obedience
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to Allah,
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it cuts the paths
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that lead
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to shaitan
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affecting you.
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The fastened person
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is protected.
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Is protected.
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And
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because the fasted person is not eating, you
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know, sometimes we eat and we forget to
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say bismillah.
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And the prophet
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said, well, you don't say Bismillah, Shaitan eats
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with you. When you enter your house and
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you don't say Bismillah, Shaitan answers with you.
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Right?
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And, everything that we engage
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that we engage in.
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And that's why the scholars, they
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even though the hadith
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has some weakness to it,
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the scholars, they apply that that
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the the the the meaning of the Hadith
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that anything,
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any action that you engage in,
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devoid
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of saying
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Bismillah
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is deficient
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of Baraka,
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is deficient
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of blessings.
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So make sure
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that you
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say
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That you
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say when you begin something
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and that you are accustomed yourself
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to saying
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When
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when Allah
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says,
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I reward for it.
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I reward
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for
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it. I reward
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for all the dedication,
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all the efforts.
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I will take care of my servant.
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A song
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is a shield.
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And
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is the root word of
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taqwa.
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Taqwa.
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Protection,
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a shield
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from
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the punishment
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of Allah
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When the prophet
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said
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the servant of Allah should abandon
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Arafath,
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meaning Kalam Fahish,
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indecent
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talk.
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Like fighting with others. Right?
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And and and if he has fought against,
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he remembers.
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He reminds himself
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not to react
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and lose his fast. But he says he
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says,
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I'm fasting.
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I am fasting.
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When
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Elizabeth
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Al Des Salam.
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When he's talking about
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the breath
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of the fasting person.
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He says,
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And in and in this,
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there is
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there is something
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that is
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hidden meaning.
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And what he,
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derived from it,
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meaning the reward
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the reward
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for the breath
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of the fasting person.
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Right?
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The breath
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is
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is
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is the effects of your fasting.
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The reward of that effect
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is better with Allah
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than
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the
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is better with Allah than the the the
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the smell of of of musk.
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When when it mentions Farhadan
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Farhadan,
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2 moments of joy,
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one moment
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is
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completion of the fast, whether daily or monthly
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of worship.
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And the second is meeting Allah.
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When it says the
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that when Allah says, and my servant leaves
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his desires,
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food for my sake.
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And this is the effect of
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obedience to Allah. Obedience to the Lord. This
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is how
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we teach our
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our souls self restraint.
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Even though one might have desires,
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one controls it,
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and one overcomes
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his
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desires.
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So Allah
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will reward him
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generously.
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Allah
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will reward him generously
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for his sacrifice
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and for his effort
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to overcome
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his own
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weaknesses
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and desires and
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and wants.
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Right?
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When
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Just a moment. Let me cancel.
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The next is
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the next is
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ask for the purification of sins.
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The messenger of Allah. And every time I
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say
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you should say
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because there is a narration
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that cautions us.
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And this narration
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states
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that when the prophet goes up to the
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mimbar,
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he says, Amin.
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Amin.
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Amin.
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And one of those Amin,
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the angel said,
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such and such
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neglected
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saying
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may he be doomed.
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May he be
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devoid
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of gaining benefit.
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And Jibril
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says to Rasoulas,
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say.
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And the prophet
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says Amin.
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So do not
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wrong yourself
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by neglecting,
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sending salawats
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upon our beloved prophet Muhammad
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Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam.
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00:31:04
So in the hadith about
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00:31:06
purification of sins,
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00:31:10
that another benefit of fasting,
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00:31:12
purification of sins,
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00:31:14
and this is minor sins.
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00:31:15
Okay.
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00:31:17
Major sins
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00:31:19
necessitate
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00:31:23
again.
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00:31:25
Forgiveness
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00:31:29
for minor sins, that's fine.
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00:31:34
Right?
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00:31:35
But major sins
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00:31:36
require
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00:31:39
repentance.
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The prophet
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00:31:43
said,
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00:31:44
Ramadan,
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00:31:52
Ramadan.
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00:32:02
Ramadan
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00:32:03
from Ramadan
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00:32:05
to another Ramadan
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00:32:08
or from a Ramadan,
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00:32:10
Ramadan to another Ramadan
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00:32:14
is purifications of sins.
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00:32:18
Alright? From one Ramadan to another Ramadan.
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00:32:20
From last year's Ramadan
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00:32:24
to this year's Ramadan,
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00:32:26
this year's Ramadan is expiration for what happened
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00:32:28
between
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00:32:30
the other Ramadan.
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00:32:36
So Ramadan, fasting Ramadan is expiation of my
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minor sins.
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00:32:40
If the person
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00:32:42
when the person avoids
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00:32:44
major sins,
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00:32:47
major sense.
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00:33:08
Whoever fasten Ramadan
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00:33:10
with iman and hope Allah
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00:33:13
will forgive them their
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00:33:20
sins.
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00:33:22
Also, so here, imanen
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00:33:23
with faith.
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00:33:24
Having
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00:33:26
the hope
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00:33:29
and the confidence
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00:33:32
in the reward with Allah.
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00:33:34
Having the hope and confidence
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00:33:36
in Allah's promise
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00:33:39
that I don't doubt Allah's promise.
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00:33:40
Right? That I believe.
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00:33:55
Hunger and thirst
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00:33:57
tame
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00:33:59
the desires,
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00:34:03
the the the sinful desires.
00:34:06 -->
00:34:07
The prophet
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00:34:07
said,
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00:34:19
Oh, young
00:34:21 -->
00:34:21
men
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00:34:25
at the age of marriage
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00:34:28
were able to get married.
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00:34:31
Whoever is
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00:34:36
able, Now whoever desires and is unable.
00:34:42 -->
00:34:44
Right? Whoever is able, then she'll get married.
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00:34:52
Because it helps you
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00:34:53
tame
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00:34:55
your eyes.
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00:34:59
Now I wanna I wanna pause one one
00:34:59 -->
00:35:00
moment. Right?
00:35:03 -->
00:35:05
It helps you tame your tame your eyes.
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00:35:10
When one is married,
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00:35:14
one should seek
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00:35:17
to learn
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00:35:20
and seek to try
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00:35:23
to gain
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00:35:24
full
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00:35:26
satisfaction
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00:35:27
from that relationship,
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00:35:33
that your desires
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00:35:35
are are quenched,
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00:35:38
right,
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00:35:39
to the point
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00:35:42
that your eyes
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00:35:48
are not wandering around looking at everything that
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00:35:48
moves.
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00:35:51
But you're so pleased
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00:35:53
and so content
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00:35:55
and so satisfied
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00:35:57
with your spouse
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00:35:59
that
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00:36:01
you don't need to look nowhere else.
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00:36:03
So the prophet
00:36:04 -->
00:36:04
said
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00:36:14
It is a great tool for
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00:36:16
the garden of one's eyes.
00:36:23 -->
00:36:25
And it preserves one's chasten.
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00:36:33
Whoever's not able to get married, then he
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00:36:34
should fast.
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00:36:52
So
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00:36:57
this is
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00:37:01
some is a a protection, basically.
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00:37:04
It shields you from that.
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00:37:09
And
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00:37:14
is
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00:37:36
Basically,
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00:37:39
is is is controlling one
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00:37:40
one's desires.
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00:37:46
Right?
00:37:47 -->
00:37:49
Controlling one's desires.
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00:37:52
And
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00:37:56
there's another hadith that says
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00:38:18
in
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00:38:20
the children in the son of Adam
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00:38:26
like the blood run streams through his body.
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00:38:30
Okay.
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00:38:34
So when a person is fasting,
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00:38:37
it's a little weaker.
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00:38:41
He controls himself,
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00:38:45
has more self control of himself.
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00:38:48
The next one is
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00:38:52
increasing of.
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00:38:54
The person fasting.
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00:38:57
The person is fasting.
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00:38:59
And
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00:39:01
when he
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00:39:04
gives
00:39:04 -->
00:39:07
a date or water to someone,
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00:39:10
he gets the reward for that fast.
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00:39:14
He has opportunities to give charity to feed
00:39:14 -->
00:39:15
the needy.
00:39:16 -->
00:39:16
Right?
00:39:17 -->
00:39:18
He becomes less wasteful,
00:39:19 -->
00:39:20
more responsible.
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00:39:22
Right?
00:39:22 -->
00:39:24
So this is important for us to
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00:39:25
to keep
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00:39:27
it in mind.
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00:39:35
There was a there was a beautiful saying
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00:39:35
that says,
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00:40:02
So there's a narration that says that prophet
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00:40:03
or
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00:40:05
Yusuf alaihi salaam,
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00:40:09
When they used to fast, they didn't break
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00:40:11
their fast until everyone
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00:40:13
under their authority,
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00:40:14
8.
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Because they did not want to
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00:40:19
risk,
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00:40:22
they feared
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00:40:26
he said one of the prophets said,
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00:40:31
I feared satisfying myself.
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00:40:33
While
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00:40:36
one of my,
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00:40:40
companions is
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00:40:41
hunting.
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The the next is what the
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the increase of of obedience.
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The increase of obedience that we know.
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Quran,
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fasting,
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dhikr,
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giving salaams to Muslims in the Masjid, so
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many blessings.
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Right?
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And then
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and this is,
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when a person fast.
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When Allah mentions
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so that you can be grateful.
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Right?
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And
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we fast in the month of Ramadan,
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and we're grateful for the
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for the Hidayah of Allah, for the guidance
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of Allah,
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and we're grateful for the Quran,
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and we're grateful for the Muslim community.
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We are grateful
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for the masjid.
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We are grateful for our scholars.
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We are grateful
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for our families.
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We are grateful
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for their guidance.
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Excuse me.
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For the guidance of Islam
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that helps us regulate and navigate
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through all of our
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affairs.
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The guide
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Islam
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is the guide
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to all of our affairs,
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And the Quran is the main source.
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And the example of the prophet
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helps us
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understand the revelation of the Quran.
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So we show gratitude to
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Allah.
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So my dear brothers
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brothers and sisters,
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fasting has many great benefits.
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We know that fasting
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is an obligation,
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the fasting of Ramadan.
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And as as as it was said,
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fasting
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has many great benefits.
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And some of these benefits
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are,
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as we mentioned previously,
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the the purification of sins,
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the rising of rank with Allah,
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the taming and weakening of the desires,
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the
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increase
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the increasing of
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charitable
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opportunities,
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the increasing of
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acts of obedience,
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Showing gratitude
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in secret because fasting is for Allah
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to the one who knows the hidden
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and restraining
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one's desires
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for
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the sake of
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Allah. My dear brothers and sisters,
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next
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next week,
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we will we will be covering,
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as a review, because I know you're fasting
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already,
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May Allah accept
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May Allah accept your fast and your Quran
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and your duas,
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and don't forget to pray for us. Right?
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Free of charge.
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May
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accept that. I wanna take a moment. I
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wanna take a moment.
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Yesterday morning, I went to visit a brother.
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A brother native from
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Pennsylvania
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who converted to Islam maybe, like, 10 years
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ago.
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And
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I was informed that he is at the
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brink of death.
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He was conscious, though, but but they're gonna
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remove the medication
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because there's no
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there's no, improvements.
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And this brother,
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his name is Sean.
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He requested for a Muslim prayer,
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and most of his family is not Muslim.
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They honored the request,
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and I went to visit
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and read some Quran to him and pray
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for him.
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So I ask you to in this time
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that you're fasting,
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make dua for brother Sean.
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Makes this transition
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easy,
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and may Allah
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raise them up
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with the prophets.
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May
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Allah grant them comfort.
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May Allah
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accept
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accept the shahada
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and accept
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his request,
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which is a which which makes us a
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witness of his iman,
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his request
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for a Muslim
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prayer.
