Tofael Nuruddin – Topic Ramadan Essentials Course
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The conversation covers various topics related to Sun notified, including social norms and hometowns, fasting during winter, and the importance of learning rules for it. There is discussion on the use of "nafl" to complete fasting and the importance of practice setting boundaries for personal health. The conversation also touches on the topic of the Islamic calendar and its relation to science, as well as the importance of practicing writing practices to benefit from the benefits of science. The speakers emphasize the need for everyone to practice fasting and create fit in their practices.
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But it's stay away from it, right?
And we know that so many of our
arguments or so many problems in society is
saved and solved Just if we stay quiet
many times yes or no We can all
think in our life back to some point
where you know, if I just didn't say
that that time Then this wouldn't have happened
Right.
So Allah teaches us in the month of
Ramadan that some of these things are permissible
for you, but hold back Don't do it
Right, and then number three we mentioned unity
We mentioned that in the month of Ramadan
we see more and more people coming to
the masjid Right, and I mentioned that in
the masjid the masjid may be on the
on the surface of this planet It is
what shows you equality amongst people The masjid
is the most equal place that you will
find.
I'll give you an example People that stand
in Saf, is there any preference for if
you are rich or poor or you are
white or black or brown or Asian, is
there any preference?
No The only preference in one hadith in
Jami'at Tirmidhi, the Prophet ﷺ said The
people of understanding should be the ones that
are directly behind me the reason for this
is because sometimes the The Imam might lose
wudu or might become unconscious or whatever.
He's incapacitated So you need someone who is
capable to do istikhlaf, to take his place
so We find equality and unity That is
represented in the month of Ramadan.
So these are some of the wisdoms that
we discussed then we mentioned, you know the
Definition of fasting right?
We also mentioned the things that are makrooh
while fasting that are disliked We also talked
about the things that are masnoon, sunnah while
fasting Some of the things that are sunnah
while fasting, do you remember?
There are a few things that we mentioned,
a few key important things Those are sunnah
fast, those we'll cover today inshallah, but what
is sunnah while we are fasting?
Does anyone know?
One of the sunnahs is To Eat Suhoor
very close to the time of the end
of suhoor.
We remember this?
There's one hadith that we mentioned from Sahih
al-Bukhari What does the Sahabi say about
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam?
How many ayat could be recited between when
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam began to
eat and sunrise?
Do you remember?
50, 30 I gave the example of surat
al-mulk Mashallah good memory so 50 ayat
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam between the
time he started and between the time sunrise
would happen or not sunrise But dawn, fajr
time would kick in.
You could read 50 ayat.
That's not a very long time about 10
to 15 minutes, right?
Then we also talked about one of the
sunnahs which is that as soon as time
comes we should hasten to break the fast
I mentioned that the Shia They some of
the fiqhi schools of the Shia they believe
in fasting all the way till Isha time
All right, so to delay is not something
that is recommended sometimes, you know The calendar
will say a time and then we'll say,
you know, we wait 10 minutes after that.
Is that reasonable?
It's not reasonable Five minutes even five minutes.
We should maybe two three minutes if you
want to be safe, but you know in
today's time This is the most accurate timing
that we have gotten ever and maybe human
history, right?
We know exactly at what time the Sun
sets.
We have very accurate astronomical information about that
so Maybe one or two minutes you can
wait and you can also look outside you
can see you know But to delay, you
know, five minutes ten minutes, then this is
delaying it a little too much, right?
Usually we ask at the end inshallah If
you want you can ask and I'll answer
at the end.
It's a very good question I'll I'll come
to it at the end inshallah.
Well, actually it will be part of small
part of our talk today.
Okay So we talked about we talked about
Sunnah things.
We talked about makruh acts during fasting, right?
We talked about Things that break the fast
the difference between qada and kaffarah, right?
What is qada?
What is kaffarah?
What is qada?
Yeah, so very good.
So qada is you miss for example one
fast in Ramadan You never started fasting and
then you make that up and there are
other scenarios also where qada can happen Kaffarah
means you have to fast 60 days consecutively
And if the if somebody starts the 60
days and in between they break it then
what happens?
They have to restart again, right and then
we talked about a person who cannot do
kaffarah by fasting like a person who is
older or a person who has a medical
condition and They cannot do a kaffarah then
what is the ruling for them?
I mentioned something another option before that not
an option, but what you're supposed to do
before that If the person can fast during
winter Remember this right?
We talked about this.
So if the person can fast during winter
Then like if because winter daytime is shorter
So if somebody can fast during those hours
Then that's when you're supposed to do the
30 days at that time And if somebody
cannot then you pay the fidya and what
was the amount of fidya two meals a
day two meals a day No For one
person two meals a day every day for
30 days basically, right and If a person
does not give an actual meal, then the
monetary amount what is the monetary amount per
meal?
Basically the the fitra amount It's half of
a saar of a of wheat basically Which
is basically 1.6 kilograms of wheat the
market value of that.
That's the fitra amount by the way I
don't know if there was a discussion about
what exactly zakatul fitr is Did you guys
have that session?
I think Sheikh Junaid must have mentioned it.
So we know that there are different types
of Sadaqatul fitr that can be given the
wheat amount.
There's the dates amount raisins amount, right?
These are all different amounts that we can
give but in any case, so basically Times
60 so fitra amount times 10.
Let's say times 60 600 roughly.
That's what the person would have to pay
Okay, and then so we've made the difference
between qadha and kafara and we went over
some Scenarios, which ones require qadha which one
require kafara and then I gave a principle
I gave one principle for when kafara is
due and when qadha is due One general
principle that helps us with all the scenarios.
Does anyone remember the principle?
You have to learn these if you learn
these then you can become a mufti I'm
just joking, but it'll make your life easier
This this is one principle that I mentioned
that you won't even have to ask questions
If you know this principle, the principle is
something has to go through the GI tract
Everyone remembers this the GI tract the gastrointestinal
tract basically which starts from the mouth and
basically the two extremities That we have in
the body and then we went over some
scenarios like for example, if a person takes
an injection Would that break their fast?
No, right because that doesn't go through the
GI tract So and then we also mentioned
another principle that something has to be edible
like if a person eats stones This does
not require kafara only qadha.
You guys remember the principle, right?
So the principle is that something is ingested
through the GI tract that is generally edible
That's the principle and if you have if
you remember this principle, then inshallah you're set
You won't have to you know, ask too
many questions It doesn't have to do the
size of the food But we did mention
one scenario in which the size of the
food is considered Like for example, if a
person already had food in their mouth before
Fajr time came in, right?
You know, sometimes you eat suhoor and some
leftovers, right?
You might have a piece of meat like
stuck in your tooth or something Does anyone
remember the ruling for this then Fajr time
came in then you swallowed that piece of
meat then what happens?
What's the ruling for that?
If it's less than a chickpea Then it's
okay if it's more than a chickpea depends
if it's intentional or unintentional it will be
either qadha or kafara Okay, so this was
some review.
So inshallah today we can get into our
discussion.
So today what we'll discuss is Generally fasting
there are different categories of fasting.
Okay, some types of fast, you know, like
salat for example There are different categories of
salat some some salawat are fard some salawat
are sunnah Some salawat are you can say
wajib some salawat are nafl, right?
So just like that, there are also categories
of fasting And I'll go over each one
of them.
There are seven different categories.
Number one is fard Obligatory, I'm sure everyone
here can guess which ones are fard which
ones The fast of Ramadan, this is fard,
right?
If somebody says, you know, I don't feel
like fasting.
This is okay It's not okay.
This is something that is an obligation for
obviously those who are able to and then
Within the fast of Ramadan, there's ada and
there's qadha Right ada means that you've offered
it at the time of Ramadan qadha means
that you make it up later Right, both
of these are fard.
So to do qadha later.
This is also fard, to do qasara, this
is also fard and Then the the fast
that are of nathar, nathar in the books
of fiqh It's mentioned is basically in Urdu
we say mannat manna, right?
mannat basically means like You say oh Allah
if you make me pass this exam if
I become a doctor then Allah will fast
this many days We understand what nathar is,
mannat.
So if a person does nathar then this
is also fard to To perform this fast
because we've made a promise with Allah.
The next category is wajib If a person
starts anything nafl to complete it is wajib
For example, if a person starts two rakat
of nafl salat But something happens in between
they have to break their salat and they
have to go To remake this, to re
-offer this is wajib Does this make sense?
Anything nafl that has been started.
It's wajib now to complete it Same thing
with fasts.
If a person has the habit of doing
some sunnah fast or some, you know nafl
fast Mustahab fast then to make this up
is also wajib.
So it's not optional For example, what are
some scenarios when a person would have to
break their fast, nafl fast Even the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam recommended that a person
should break their fast at that time Do
we know?
Okay a medical emergency, that's one.
What else?
Very good.
Well not invited to eat But if you
have guests, if you have guests in your
home and it will make the guests feel
uncomfortable that they eat alone Then in that
case the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam recommended
us to actually Break the fast.
So to make up that fast This is
actually wajib Okay, sunnah fast is To fast
on the 10th of Muharram.
This is called sawm-u ashura right, so
to to fast one day before or one
day after so 9 and 10 or 10
and 11 some ulema say that you can
it's better even to fast all three days
Right.
So 9 10 11 some ulema have said
this some scholars of hadith They've said this
and some scholars of hadith have said no
because the hadith specifically says the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam Specifically mentioned that to do
one day with the with the 10th So
either 9th with 10th or 10th with 11,
that's why it's better just to do, you
know those two Okay Also to fast three
days of every month ayam-ul biyil The
white days right or also known as the
radiant days which days are those in the
lunar month 13 14 15 very good mashaAllah.
So those three days It's also some ulema
have said it's mustahab But it's better if
we call it sunnah because the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam used to do this and
also on on a weekly basis To fast
on Mondays and Thursdays.
This is also sunnah The six fasts of
Shawwal, this is also Sunnah of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
So what types of faster sunnah number one?
You have some Ashura, right?
the fast of the day before and after
is also Sunnah along with it and then
you have ayam-ul biyil the white days
and then you have Weekly Monday and Thursday
and then the six days of Shawwal.
So basically you have four sunnah fasts and
then voluntary fast is Nafl fast any other
time any other time a person fast this
is Nafl then you have Makruh tahreemi or
you can even say haram, right?
Does anyone know when it's haram to fast?
The day of Eid so both Eid Eid
-ul-fitr and also Eid-ul-adha and
also what else?
Yeah, so Eid-ul-adha and then the
three days after this is known as ayam
-ul-tashreeq Okay, so five days in the
whole year, it's haram to fast so Eid
-ul-adha Eid-ul-fitr and the three
days after Eid-ul-fitr which is known
as ayam-ul-tashreeq, right?
Ayam-ul-tashreeq you can also identify it
by when we say the takbeer-ul-tashreeq,
you know after salah we say the takbeer
-ul-tashreeq Okay, and then you have makruh
tanzeeh, you have kind of a lower level
of makruh Which is for example to fast
on any any day that Others other people
fast Like for example in the time of
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam there was
Zoroastrians, Zoroastrians They were basically fire worshippers.
So they used to fast on certain days.
They had a day called Nayruz This was
a special day for them and they used
to fast on that day So to fast
exactly on the same day as them this
also becomes makruh because this is doing tashabbuh
This is emulating One thing that we see
that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam made
very sure to do is to establish Islamic
identity and It's worth giving a few minutes
to understand this because this is a very
important and sensitive topic Especially for us, you
know living in the West living, you know
in America This is a multicultural country.
We live with all sorts of people right,
you know, just Last semester this semester before
that I was looking at some of the
courses at Columbia And I was wondering which
one to take so there's one about languages
in New York City Guess how many languages
are listed in New York City?
more than 70 languages What the course description
had is more than 80 actually Languages just
in New York City.
Think about this just in New York City,
right?
This is I think for me at least
I'm not from New York.
So for me, this is amazing Like this
is something astonishing that you have more than
80 languages just in New York City subhanAllah
So What I was mentioning is to establish
identity.
It's okay to be friendly with others There's
nothing wrong with that.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was a
very neighborly person as a matter of fact
You know when he came to Medina, he
is basically the first person that established peace
amongst everybody in Medina There's something called the
Misaqul Medina it's known as the Constitution of
Medina and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
basically made an agreement a deal with the
Jewish tribes there and the Christians there and
the Muslims that were living there that they
will not, you know Fight amongst each other
they will live peacefully and so on and
so forth.
They are a treaty So the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was very respectful to his
neighbors and to his fellow, you know people
So this is also our duty.
This is something that we have to do,
but it's important to establish our identity and
This is also what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam did that when it came to
the fast of the day of Asura because
the Jewish people fasted the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam said That we are he says
we are actually more rightful more deserving to
follow Musa alayhi salam than them Right, and
therefore he said so fast one day before
and one day or one day after Similarly,
for example in Sunan Abu Dawood, there's a
hadith where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
He says that if you wear the imamah,
the turban Then wear it with a hat
under because the mushrikun, the polytheists, they wear
it without a hat Right without a topi.
So many many examples you will see that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam actually showed
us that this is Islamic identity and Also
in one of his long khutbahs about you
know after the month of Ramadan and the
day of Eid and you will see also
in the day for those of you who
Understand Arabic if you don't understand Arabic, I
encourage you learn Arabic inshallah, even at a
older age.
This is possible So on the day of
Eid, you'll see that the khatib will recite
one hadith and in that hadith the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He said لِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ
عِيدٍ وَهَٰذَا عِيدُنَا You might actually you might
have heard it so many times that you
might even have memorized this part لِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ
عِيدٍ وَهَٰذَا عِيدُنَا The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam says every nation every people they have
days of Festivities they have days days where
they rejoice themselves and he says well how
that you do now, this is our Eid
This is when we enjoy ourselves Right.
So again, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is demarcating that these are our days of
enjoying These are our days of festival and
you know, there are other days for other
people to have festivals, right?
Why am I mentioning all of this?
Because this is why the fuqaha the jurists
they wrote that it's makruh to fast When
you know people of other religion if you
are singling out that day to to fast
Then it becomes makruh to to fast that
does that make sense?
Okay Like this also to to fast there's
a fast that's known as some of the
her basically to fast all the time Every
single day.
This is also makruh Why because in one
hadith the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam There
were three people that came to the house
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam You
guys do have a class of you know,
they are the Salihin so this hadith actually
comes in a real Salihin so three people
came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
and They asked the family of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
What is his worship like and So, you
know the one of the wives of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He describes basically Well, this is this is
how his prayers.
This is how his fasting is and she
described she said oh the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam You know, this is what he
does and the the Sahaba that came there
They were like, oh, you know, actually I
will do this.
One person said every single night I will
stay up and pray tahajjud another person said
I will fast every single day and the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam When he heard
this he got upset.
He said do you think are you trying
to compete with me in taqwa?
Obviously no human being can ever surpass the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Can they is it possible?
Let's say a person was the most pious
person.
Nobody can surpass the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam Right as a matter of fact the
closest relationship that Allah has with any human
being forget any human being any creature is
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
We know that during the Iraq Jibreel alaihissalaam
went, you know He went to all the
all the skies and then said that one
time and then after that there was a
point He said there are veils between me
and Allah and if I cross even one
of those veils, then I will be completely
Destroyed but the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
crossed those veils This is in Sahih Muslim
the hadith is there so the closest creature
to Allah subhanaw Taala is the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam got
upset He said are you trying to compete
with me in taqwa?
He said, you know some days I fast
and some days I don't fast Moderation Moderation
is important and this is why the fuqaha
they write that to fast every single day
continuously There's something that is makruh also to
fast Two days consecutively without any iftar or
suhoor Consecutively means like you don't eat even
at night two days consecutively.
This is also makruh well, it's gonna be
more like 36, but Yeah, basically, that's the
idea because you're starting in the morning doing
one whole day and then so it's roughly
36, right?
so This is also something that is Considered
makruh.
So we went over the seven types of
fast right starting with falut then we went
to wajib then we went to sunnah And
then must have basically and then we went
through, you know, makruh tahreem or haram and
makruh tanzeeh Okay, we talked about how does
basically the The month of Ramadan get determined,
right?
The brother was asking basically should you rely
on science?
So a few things number one I'll mention
what we have in the the books of
fiqh and then I'll get into the question
of just Islam's relationship with science.
Like what is the relationship between Islam and
science?
Do we deny science too?
Sorry Sure, we'll cover that as well inshallah.
So As we know the month of The
Islamic calendar the lunar calendar they get established
by The lunar cycle not the solar cycle,
right?
We know that the Gregorian calendar like for
example, you know, January February and so on
and so forth.
This is established through the Sun right the
the cycle of the Sun or the the
Basically the Not rotation Why am I forgetting
the word for this?
I want to say ellipsis, but it's not
ellipsis either But anyway, basically the motion of
the the the earth around the Sun Sorry
No, it's not ellipsis that I'm looking for
this the orbit Yeah, right anyway, so The
the the Islamic months are through the lunar
cycle so the way we know that the
next month the new month has started is
basically by The sighting of the crescent moon,
but then sighting of the new moon and
The requirement that is there If for the
beginning of the month of Ramadan if there
is clouds Like let's say there's obstruction not
only clouds But any kind of atmospheric conditions
that you know fog or something like that
Then the sighting of one upright trustworthy person.
This is sufficient, right?
For the completion of the month of Ramadan
basically for Eid then there must be at
least two free male witnesses And if not
two male witnesses then one male and two
females that's basically for the end of Ramadan
for Aids basically if there are no obstruction
in the sky if there there is no
atmospheric condition no cloud No, you know fog
or anything like that Then there must be
a large body what we know in fiqh
as al jammul ghafeer Large body of people
because there is no obstruction.
It should be clear Right to to cite
the new crescent and then for Eid al
-adha the same ruling is applied now when
it comes to Global versus local versus, you
know astronomical calculations, so I'm going to explain
this in a very short summary Because this
is not necessarily the the topic of our
discussion so If you buy if you go
back to the time of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam, right?
Everyone was very localized in the sense that
the people of Medina were aware of the
things in Medina Like I said, you know
that we act on impulses today So if
you want to say something negative to somebody
all you have to take is all you
have to do is take out Your phone
and write a couple of words and it's
gone right back in the days If you
were angry at somebody, what did you have
to do if you wanted to say something
to them?
And they live in a different city.
What do you have to do?
Yeah, not only that you write a letter
give it to the pigeon the pigeon finds
the person right by the time you finish
writing The letter you're like, okay.
I don't want to write this one.
I'm not even upset at the I'm not
even it's not even that bad, right so
My point of mentioning this is that things
were a lot more localized today.
Things are very globalized.
We have social media Right anything that happens,
you know hours of flight away we can
find out about it You know seconds or
even maybe instantaneously as it happens, right?
there is Benefits to this and there are
confusions that are also called caused by this
the benefits of it are actually very great
for example Right now the situation in Gaza
the reason why we are so aware of
it And as a matter of fact more
than ever more than ever in history Even
non-muslims Non-palestinian they're also more aware
of it.
Why because it's not just coming from CNN
and Fox News, right?
It's coming from independent sources decentralized media basically
people on reddit people on you know, Twitter
people on Well, it's called X now, I
guess but on discord right people are just
sharing basically media so there are benefits of
that there there's also Disadvantages that we're too
aware of things that happen elsewhere, you know,
for example, you'll find a person that will
say Oh the day of Arafa is happening
in Mecca on this day.
Then why are we doing it differently here?
Right.
This is a common question that a lot
of people have at the same time Can
somebody ask this question if they're praying author
over there at this time?
Then why don't we pray author over here?
The umma should be united, right?
The umma should be united let's pray at
the same time as a matter of fact
We can even follow the amount of the
harm.
Can there be a better Jama'a than
the Jama'a in Mecca?
No, right.
So obviously these are confusions.
These are not bad questions.
I'm not gonna say they're bad questions There's
just confusions because of like we have too
much information right?
Well now what do we do with that
information?
So In the time of the Prophet.
There are some things were very localized.
There's one Asar in the time of Omar
radiyallahu anhu, one person was visiting from outside
of Medina, right and he came to Medina
and He was about to go back and
he asked Omar radiyallahu anhu.
He said Ya Amirul Momineen, should I Follow
the sighting that was done in Medina tul
Munawwara or should I go back to my
people and see what they've done and follow
That and he said look if you reach
there before then follow what they say don't
follow what what is happening here again Things
were very very decentralized things were very localized
So the the local position this is where
it comes from That the Asal from the
time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi was to
keep things basically localized, right?
Now there's a whole question like how far
is local?
Is it your city?
Is it the country these country borders?
It's not something that Sharia has defined its
nation-state.
They came together someday There's a there's a
lot to be said about the idea of
borders There are many authors that have written
papers on this right the idea of this
kind of like Social construct this invented idea
of a nation a nation is not something
real like somebody else.
You know, I'm Pakistani I'm Bengali.
This is not even something real.
Why is this not something real who made
these borders Allah made these borders?
Did he know at the end of the
day?
We're one united Umma Our brotherhood our fraternities
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
through Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam It doesn't
matter where the border ends tomorrow.
There might be a new border, right?
So So what is local what is global
that's another question Generally the Fuqaha the Muftis
of the last century.
They have agreed that Roughly Where an entire?
Like for example, if you were to receive
sighting from one place To apply it to
another place would be a completely different day
The the sighting can can apply that's still
considered local In my opinion, this is a
very wide definition of local because that's like
maybe one quarter of the globe, right?
That doesn't sound very local to me But
this is what the Muftis the majority of
Muftis basically they have agreed upon Then you
have the global position the global position the
global position means that anywhere in the world
where the moon is sighted This is sufficient
for people to follow This is something that
some ulama have opted for In this camp.
You also have two groups one that follows
The the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and One
that says Saudi Arabia is not reliable will
follow any other sighting except Saudi Arabia You
also have this this position and the reason
for this is because there are many times
where when Saudi Arabia Announced that they said
Oh somebody sighted the moon, but astronomically It's
impossible that anybody could have sighted the moon
at that time over there again Like I
said now we have enough technology that we
can tell when visible.
These are called actually visibility maps Right, you
can see you can see maps if you
guys want I can even share examples of
it with you Basically, you can see where
the moon will be visible and roughly around
what time right astronomically we can know what's
gonna be visible What's not going to be
visible?
So how somebody sighted the moon at that
time in Saudi Arabia even with the telescope
would basically have been impossible, right?
So this is why some some global councils
they discredit Saudi Arabia, so within the global
camp you have like two two opinions The
third camp which is a much more recent
and new new Opinion is to follow astronomical
calculations Astronomical calculations will say we will say
we will calculate from years like the next
let's say 15 years We will calculate will
it be possible for people to cite the
moon or no?
Right, if it is possible for them to
cite that means that the month of Ramadan
will start and if it's not possible Astronomically
than the month of Ramadan basically through calculation
what humans were usually would have done to
look at this thing Look the Prophet said
that we were we are nations We are
a nation of people that are not very
literate But today we have enough science and
enough technology so we can know for the
next 15 20 25 50 years When the
moon can be cited and when it cannot
be cited.
Let's follow the calculations.
However This is actually a very fringe and
minority opinion, right?
if you look in the like Twelve thirteen
hundred years of Islamic scholarship.
You will only find like five people that
have held this opinion one of them was
a very famous Shafi scholar a sub key
Rahim Allah and Majority of the Shafi is
disagreed with him on this, right?
So you will not find too many opinions.
They were literally amongst thousands of scholars Within
the history of thousands of jurists Fuqaha within
the history of Islam you will find literally
five people Roughly five people who have held
this opinion so it's a very minority opinion
and it's something that has been adopted much
more recently and the reason for adopting it
is mostly so that people can tell their
work or Their school that you know, this
is what they Idol me and I need
some time off So these are the different
opinions My recommendation to you is whichever Masjid
is your local masjid and your local community.
I won't say the local Muslim in New
York is There's too many masajid.
You can go to any masjid if you
want, right?
So I'll say your local community the one
that you know You're comfortable with you like
the imam there you ask all your questions
you attend all the programs there.
I will say whatever they're doing just follow
that there is no need to you know,
create fitna and And such if the other
thing is I will say if there is
one scholar One mufti one shaykh whoever that
you have a good connection with right and
you always ask him your fifth question You
can ask him and whatever he tells you
just follow that, right?
But I have laid out the three or
four different positions, right?
One was local moon sighting.
This is the safest local moon sighting is
the safest because that's what was done since
the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and the Hadith in you know Bukhari
and Muslim is clear When you see the
Hilal, so the purpose is not whether the
moon is there or not the purpose is
Did you actually see it or not?
Right?
So the Hadith is very clear.
There are multiple ahadith There's over 30 ahadith
for this, right?
so that's you can say the safest position
global is also an accepted position and Calculations
is a very recent and new position that
many masajid and imams have decided to adopt
But from a fiqh just evidence based Perspective
it's not a very strong one.
But again some imams follow it I wouldn't
say that this is something that you should
start disrespecting people over or start arguing or
you know Starting causing any kind of fitna
like I said that if you rely on
one scholar you like one scholar Then just
follow them and inshallah abide by that.
May Allah create barakah in our decisions If
there are any questions inshallah and we can
take the questions Yeah,
so I'll just repeat the question from the
brother He said that we mentioned a few
categories for fasting and within there We had
you know makruh and halaam types of fast
We noticed that some people during the hajj
season they fast So during the hajj season,
there's nothing wrong to fast as long as
it's not on the day of Eid which
day of Dhul Hijjah is that?
Day of Eid Right and then 10th 11th
12th, right these four days if they're fasting
in these four days Then this that's not
permissible other than that anytime before that anytime
after that is fine Some people go early
for hajj some people stay later.
So if they fast those days, it's fine.
There's nothing wrong Yes Yeah, so
I'm not aware of the exact details of
the sickness so I can't give you like
a exact opinion But I'll give you the
general guidelines Generally for any medical condition what
I would recommend the proper way to do
it is you find either a Muslim knowledgeable
doctor if you cannot find so for example
There there are scholars who are also medical
doctors like dr.
Mateen Khan in New Jersey.
Dr. Hussain Abdus-Sattar There are multiple doctors
that are also scholars like their ulama.
They've studied seven eight years and you know,
they're Proficient you can ask them.
That's one option Second option is that you
You take what the doctor has said and
you take it to a mufti you explain
the exact condition This is what it's called.
Let the mufti do do research For example
when I was a student in the Darul
Ifta when I was studying to become a
mufti We received questions like that like of
a medical nature, you know, can a person
perform abortion and XYZ scenario?
Can they do this?
Can they do that?
Is it okay for them to take like
cannabis, you know Basically marijuana for medical purposes.
So we have to give fatwa on these
what we did is we always collaborated with
doctors with experts medical experts So you can
combine that basically you go to a mufti
explain the actual condition and he'll see the
condition and let you know if this is
valid a lot of times a non-muslim
doctor will not really understand the significance of
fasting and Like exactly how how bad is
it if she fasts they're not clearly explaining
that So to go up to an actual
medical expert and then to take the opinion
of a mufti that that's better But if
it's basically something that we we conclude that
she cannot be fasting then she should just
do kaffarah The other option again, like I
said during winter if it's better if it's
easier for her to fast at that time
Because the day is shorter.
That's what that's the first priority.
She should do qada in those days She
should remake the fast days during that time
because it's shorter days If even that she
cannot do then kaffarah like kaffarah, not kaffarah,
sorry, fidya Yeah That's
a very good question Actually, a lot of
people have this question if you already have
some qada and kaffarah from the previous Ramadan
Then is that a problem for the next
Ramadan?
It's not a problem You can fast for
this Ramadan finish it and then do the
qada for last year or the past five
years or the last 15 Years, whatever you
can do them anytime.
Obviously don't delay it When you delay them
it never happens.
So try to do it as fast as
you can but it's not an impediment It
doesn't become an obstacle for this Ramadan No,
no, you cannot combine the two intentions in
one fard.
So any fard whether it's falat or whether
it's fasting like for example, I cannot fast
today and make intention that I'm fasting for
Ramadan and also for the 13, 14, 15
You cannot actually mix any intention with the
fard.
Same thing with asr salat Or like fajr
salat that I'm praying two rakat fard But
also I'm praying two rakat salat shukr or
like salat tawbah or something like that You
can't combine other intentions with fard Any other
questions?
Okay, so very good question.
If you haven't missed any other fard prayer
in your life Now this is very rare
for most people.
This is very rare even for my case,
for example, right?
This is not my case.
So if a person has never missed any
salats in their in their Life when they
missed their first few salats, they are known
as sahib ut-tarteeb Basically what they're supposed
to do is they're supposed to pray those
salats in sequence Like if they miss fajr,
then dhuhr, then asr, then before they can
they can pray maghrib They have to finish
those prayers and then they can pray maghrib,
right?
This is taken from hadith However, majority of
people they missed more than five salats, right?
If a person has missed more than five
salats in their life, then anytime you can
do qada so If you're asking can I
just do nafl instead?
No, you have to do qada.
So For example, you missed dhuhr, then my
recommendation would be that, you know tomorrow after
salat ul-dhuhr, pray another four rakat, make
intention of Doing qada for that one And
so on and so forth, but you have
to make intention that this is the qada
for the dhuhr I missed on that day
Okay, inshallah, if there are no other questions,
then inshallah, we will leave it at that
Jazakum Allahu khair for attending.
I am hoping that most of you has
attended all four sessions I'm sure we've learned
so much me and you both.
So may Allah bless your time.
May Allah reward you I'll just leave you
with one small thing, you know, this might
feel like a small act for us, right?
Now we came to the masjid, chaloo, you
know, this program was going to happen So
we'll sit, there's nothing small In the eyes
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is
one of the best things that anyone can
be doing In one sahih hadith, the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he says وَإِنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ
لَتَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَهَا رِضًا لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ That the person
who comes to seek knowledge Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala He says, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam says that the angels, they lay
down their wings Out of respect for these
people, right?
And in the same hadith, the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam says that the entire creation,
the makhluk of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
As long as these people are seeking knowledge
They're making dua for their forgiveness And the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says even in
the fish in the sea They're also making
dua for their forgiveness In a different hadith,
in Sunan Abi Dawood, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam says مَنْ أَتَى مَسْجِدِ هَذَا The
person who comes to my masjid لم يأتِهِ
He didn't come except لِخَيْرٍ يَتَعَلَّمْهُ أَوْ يُعَلِّمُهُ
Except for some good things that he came
to learn or teach And then he says
فَهُوَ بِمَنزِلَةِ الْمُجَاهِدِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ Right?
So it's nothing small We might feel like
this is something small Yeah, I had some
time so I said no This is something
that Allah is very happy with So may
Allah reward all of you And all of
me as well And accept it from us