Yasir Qadhi – How Ramadan Trains Us To Have Taqwa

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			All praise is due to Allah subhanho wa Taala we praise Him and we seek His help and we seek refuge
in Allah from the evil of our souls and the consequences of our actions. Indeed whomever Allah
subhana wa tada guides, none can misguide. And whomever Allah subhana wa Taala chooses to misguide,
none can guide him back to the straight path. I bear witness and I testify that there's no deity
worthy of worship other than a loss of Hannah Horta either, and I bear witness and I testified that
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is his final prophet and his most perfect worshipper. Know that
the best speech is the speech of Allah subhana wa Tada. And the best guidance is the guidance of our
		

			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the worst of all affairs is any innovative matter for every
innovation leads to the fire of help. Know that Allah subhanho wa Taala has commanded us to be
conscious of him in the Quran, when he says yeah, are you hola Dena Armando taco la her wahoo
Conan's de la Dida or you who believe have Taqwa of Allah and say good speech. So in today's
holtville, insha, Allah who tada we will be commenting on this very verse that deals with duck wha
Why? Because in the Quran, we learned that the purpose of fasting is to achieve taqwa. Oh you who
believe fasting has been prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you so that you
		

			may achieve dakhla the goal of fasting is not the fast in and of itself, the end result of fasting
is not the fast there is a higher purpose there is a higher cause and that higher purpose is the
achievements of dakhla so in today's hold button, shout Allahu Tada. I will summarize some of the
main factors of how fasting inculcates taqwa What is it about fasting that causes us to be conscious
of Allah subhanahu wa Tada. First and foremost, fasting necessitates that we train our sincerity our
airfloss. Why? Because fasting is all about sincerity. We have to be sincere. We cannot monitor each
other's fasts. We all know that fasting is a private we're active worship. We cannot monitor even
		

			our spouses fast. Even our child's fast fasting must be done sincerely for the sake of Allah. No one
is monitoring the fasting person 24 seven, no one is watching the fasting person in the privacy of
their individual lives. For a person too fast. A person must develop a philosophy and a class or
sincerity is the key to our entire religion. Allah says in the Quran warmer O'Meara
		

			yabut aloha mahalo, Selena Houdini. The only command they have been given is that they worship a lot
with sincerity. They worship Allah with a loss, making the religion completely for him. Fasting
polishes the heart fasting causes us to be sincere fasting removes this concept of showing off of
reality. And of course showing off is the antithesis. It is the opposite of sincerity. When we do
something for Allah versus doing something for other people and fasting cannot be done for the sake
of showing off. You cannot show off your fasting in Ramadan because everybody is doing it. And
because no one can monitor your fast so by its very nature, fasting inculcates it class and the
		

			class is the key in class is the cornerstone of our religion as well if lost or sincerity is based
upon three pillars love of Allah and wanting Allah's desire and fear of Allah's punishment. And of
course, in Arabic, this is muhabba and Raja and hope and fasting once again, it embodies all three
of these things. In order for you to give up something you love, you have to love something more
than what you are giving up. When we give up our food. We are demonstrating we love a lot more than
we love our food. In order for us to fast we have to hope for a higher reward than the pleasures of
eating and drinking and that is our job or hope. In order to fast for the sake of Allah. We need to
		

			have a fear of the punishment of Allah subhana wa Tada. And so fasting trains all three of these
principles of loving for the sake of Allah wanting Allah's reward and fearing Allah's punishment,
and all of this deals with his class. The second manner that fasting brings about taqwa is through
the medium of suburb of patience, because patience is one of the pillars of a man. It is one of the
keys of human. In some narrations, we learned that patience is half of a man and fasting is half of
patience. This is a heavy concern, is it? Our Prophet sallallahu I think he was setting them said
that a solo missile or solver that fasting is half of suburb. When we master the concept of fasting,
		

			we are mastering the concept of patience and patience is a cornerstone to Eman and taqwa. Therefore,
once again. When we fast we are training ourselves for the concept of taqwa. And that is why Ramadan
is actually called in some a Hadith, it is called shadow Saba the month of Sabah not just the month
of fasting, but the month of Sabah, and that is because summer is the key to fasting and we all know
that you cannot have the taqwa of Allah without patience for the sake of Allah. We all know that
patience brings about Allah's rewards that patience is what causes us to enter agenda that Allah
subhana wa tada says, The people of gender are those who When the angels will come to greet them,
		

			they will say set up a combi mouse autumn because you had sober now peace be unto you in gender. So
once again, fasting is linked with one of the pillars of taqwa. And that is sovereignty. And of
course, the reality of fasting being linked to subud is self evident what is sobor sadara in Arabic
linguistically, it actually means to withhold to withdraw when an animal is most war is tied up.
That's what sobre means is to withdraw or to abstain or to withhold and it is obvious that when we
are fasting, we are withholding our desires, we are withdrawing our limbs from reaching out to eat
and to drink. So we are mastering the concept of suburbs. And if we are demonstrating to ourselves
		

			in these summer months that we can live without food and water, which is essential for life. If we
are showing ourselves that when Allah says do not eat and do not drink, we are not eating and
drinking, then we are showing ourselves that we don't need the how long outside of this month of
Ramadan if we can live without food and water which is halal, which is an essential component of
life that we can definitely live without that which is how long outside of this month of Ramadan. So
we are once again manifesting one of the keys to taqwa and that is the reality of silver. One cannot
attain takua without silver and fasting teaches us the reality of silver. In fact, it is said our
		

			scholars mentioned that the best way to train our silver, the easiest way to increase our silver is
through the medium of fasting and fasting trains us on a daily basis. We're counting down we're
looking at the clock we're saying we're not going to eat and drink until that time 13 1415 and 16
hours go by and we are patient for the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada. We're monitoring what we're
doing. We're monitoring what we're saying we're taking back that which is might even be mcru We are
not doing it. And so we are conquering this reality of suburbs and of course suburb is a multiple
types and have we've given talks about this the three types of suburbs
		

			Fasting demonstrates all three types of sub, and especially the sober, of not doing something and
the Sovereign of the persistence of worship. One of the one of the categories of sub is to be
persistent in the worship of Allah and fasting inculcates this reality of sober and so this is a
second mechanism of how fasting leads directly to taqwa. And that is by training us in sub. The
third mechanism that fasting helps us to attain taqwa is via the means of perfecting our clock via
the means of treating one another in the best manner and that is because you cannot attain taqwa
without being good mannered. The modality is a person who is humble. The motorcade is the person who
		

			controls his tongue. The motorcade is the one who controls his anger while Calvin Meena Laila
dafina. And in us, those who control their anger and forgive people, the mood today is not far on
with aphasia are busy that it is not uttering vulgarities or being crude and nasty to people. How is
that linked to fasting? What are we told in the Hadith? If one of you is fasting, and then somebody
comes in curses? Somebody comes and utters vulgarity, what is your response? The prophets of the la
vida who was send them said for in sub bucha had OSHA 10 like if somebody comes in curses, you uses
vulgarities then respond back Aloma in nice lot him. I am fasting. We are taught to have good
		

			o'clock when we are fasting. We are taught to master the harshness of the tongue. We are taught to
leave evil deeds. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said man Lamia dakoda zuhdi when Amma levy
for this Allah hi john fiato ifeoma who was shot up whoever doesn't stop lying. Whoever doesn't stop
acting upon vulgarities and evil, then Allah has no need that this person gives up his food and his
drink. And so once again, we have the mechanism of fasting perfecting our taqwa via perfecting our
o'clock and of course, the concept of good manners is essential to our religion. We all know our
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sent to perfect good manners, as he said in NEMA borders to
		

			Luton mimma Makati, Malala I have only been sent to perfect good manners and our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said that the heaviest matter on the meezan on the scales of the day of judgment
will be a person's good manners and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said a crab
accompaniment Zilla teneo will kiama the people who will be the closest to me on the day of judgment
and also ingen will be those who are a haciendo come o'clock, the best of you in your life. And once
again, in this month of Ramadan. we control our anger, we forgive people. We do not alter
vulgarities. We treat people in the best of manners, and therefore we are training our luck we make
		

			sure that we don't do any cheating and stealing anything that hurts anybody else. We all know the
Hadith that the one who is hurting other people while he is not eating and drinking. The Prophet
system said I don't care or Allah is saying I don't care if he doesn't eat or drink if he's hurting
other people. So we train the mechanism of taqwa via the means of good o'clock. That is point number
three. Point number four. One of the mechanisms that fasting leads to taqwa is that we begin to
control our knifes and our urges, and that is because taqwa and controlling one's desires, they go
hand in hand. You cannot have Taqwa, if you let your desires go unchecked. Allah says in the Quran,
		

			Jada will do in janica Holly fetch and fill out of the Falcon vein and NASA will have paid while
temporarily how old would we have made you a hurry for on this earth. So be just when you judge and
do not follow your desires for whoever follows his desires will be led astray from the path of Allah
subhanho wa Taala or would have been absent as he said, the ducky is like the one who is tied up
because he has tied all of his desires and he cannot go wherever he wants. Notice how he explicitly
linked taqwa with tying one's desires. You cannot have Taqwa. If you act upon every urge, every time
you feel something, and this is what this modern culture wants us to do. This culture of me, myself
		

			and I, this narcissistic hedonistic culture where whatever you feel whatever you want to do, go
ahead and validate your feelings. No, not every feeling should be acted upon. Not every urge is
healthy. And fasting tells us keep your urges in check. What power is there on earth that can come
between a person and cold water in the summer months? What power is there that when it is so hot
outside, and there's cold water available? And he says, No, I'm not going to do that because my lord
has told me to not drink that is the power of taqwa that is going to be instilled via controlling
our knifes and that is why
		

			Hola subhanho wa Taala criticizes the one who just acts unchecked upon his desires. In fact, Allah
calls this person a type of deification of his own self, or ATM and into her the illa Huwa of our
item Anita illa Huwa Have you not seen the one who has taken his own desires as his own God? In
other words, the one who lets his desires go unchecked, it is as if he has worshipped himself
besides Allah subhanho wa tada and that is why the one who is fasting is training himself or herself
that I will control my desires, even the halaal urge of eating and drinking. It's not just Hello it
is necessary you cannot live without eating and drinking you cannot live without this food and
		

			drink. So in when we fast we are conquering halaal urges How about how long urges How about desires
that are not permissible during the fast we give up even intimacy with our spouses that which Allah
praises in the Quran and other regular things that it is good to shoot them. But in the days of
fasting we give that up as well. So the one who can give up Hillel urges in the days of Ramadan can
definitely master and conquer how long urges our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in the
famous Hadith in Sahih Muslim that temptations are shown to the heart one temptation after the
other. And every time the heart follows one temptation. The heart is poked with something dark and
		

			something evil until finally the whole heart becomes putrid and rancid, infested and asked for the
heart that turns a temptation down then it has an element of purity and the more temptations it
turns down. It becomes the heart of purity until our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said until
finally there are two types of hearts left the heart that is pure the heart that is good and, and
the heart that is mid above the heart that is fasted and infested with with impurities. And how do
these two hearts become pure and impure by turning down or accepting one temptation after the other.
The heart that turns temptations down becomes the pure heart, the strong heart and the heart that
		

			follows one desire and then another and then another it opens up the door for destruction. And that
is why our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said cell phone maharlika three are the things that
will destroy a person and one of them one whatever desires that are followed unchecked. A person who
opens this door a following every single desire, that person will be destroyed. Fasting comes and
says no. You have the power. Allah is giving you that power. Allah is demonstrating for you that I
can control my neffs I can control my desires. It has no boss it was said was asked which jihad is
the best jihad. He said the jihad against your own desires, that is the best jihad. And that is very
		

			true that the one who can conquer his desires can conquer anything. And that is why once again in
this concept of fasting, we understand how and why we will achieve taqwa by conquering our desires.
Point number five and my final point for today's hold the well and of course much more can be said
as usual time is always limited. Point number five. How does fasting increase our taqwa point number
five fasting increases our taqwa by allowing us to taste the sweetness of a man because the jockey
will never be a jockey. Unless and until he understands how pleasurable it is to experience the
Aqua. The afar movie man, the profitsystem said, there's something called the thumb or the tastiness
		

			of a man. In another head. He said hello to the man, the sweetness of a man. The one who does not
know the sweetness of a man will never achieve the heights of piety and taqwa The one who does not
understand how beautiful it is, how how pleasurable it is to worship Allah, the pleasure of the
knifes the pleasure of the soul, the pleasure of the filter, the one who has not tasted the
sweetness of Ilan will never rise high in the ranks of a man, they're always going to be struggling
at the lower levels. And so fasting comes along. soem comes along, and it causes each and every one
of us without exception will lie what a gift from Allah. What a gift from Allah, every single Muslim
		

			on the face of this earth without exception. Anyone who has an ounce of Eman they appreciate this
month of Ramadan. They embrace the blessings of this month their Eman goes up, they realize how
beautiful is the worship of Allah when Rama bond is over when hon bond finishes even though we all
like to go back to our schedules and we like to return to the eating and drinking still
		

			One part of us, we miss the beauty of Ramadan, we miss the sweetness of Ramadan. And that is the
reality of faith across the globe. And what even what Saba what solemn does, what fasting does is
that it causes each and every one of us every year to taste that sweetness of emotion. And that
sweetness, it is a motivational factor. We need that sweetness to rise higher up, we want to desire
success, and we will desire success when we know what success feels like tastes like smells like.
And in this month of Ramadan, we demonstrate to each and every one of us we can taste the sweetness
of a man, we know how pleasurable it is Subhana Allah is it not amazing that our bodies are going to
		

			be tired even within a few days in a few weeks that our throats are going to be parched and dry. And
yet we have an inner sense of contentment, an inner sense of happiness that money cannot buy the
pleasures of this world cannot buy food and drink cannot buy the man that we feel that is Halawa to
the man and how did we feel that what caused us to feel it? Allah subhanho wa Taala told us too fast
because fasting leads to duck walk and it will lead to duck walk when we taste that sweetness of a
man. It is reported that Harley Davidson Willie the famous Companion of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, he asked the people around him that Do you know how happy the groom feels on the
		

			night of his wedding? He is excited to meet his bride. They said they all joked they said yes of
course we know. So he said to them while law he the sweetness and happiness that I feel when I'm
riding my horse for the sake of Allah subhana wa tada on the battlefield. It is much more to me than
how you feel on the night of your weddings. He's talking about the * out of him. And he's talking
about the sweetness of a man how great it feels. One of the famous scholars of the past I build up
an issue here. He said, If these princes and these kings if they knew how sweet we feel when we
prayed to hurt you and we'd caught on they would fight us with sores and they would open our chests
		

			to feel that happiness if they could do that. But they think happiness isn't money isn't wealth
isn't pleasures, they don't know how we feel so that pleasure of a man How will us average Muslims
feel it? Allah has gifted us we are not hardly been worried. We are not the famous to have your own
and Sahaba okay, but Allah has gifted us a mechanism where we can every one of us without exception,
we can begin to taste that sweetness of a man and that sweetness of the man. That is what is going
to cause us to arise in our taqwa. Dear Muslims. This is the month where all five of these
mechanisms these are five mechanisms. We're all five of them. They're going to help us achieve the
		

			higher goal of taqwa. And so indeed embrace this month embrace this month of fasting thank Allah
subhanahu wa tada for having blessed us with a mechanism to increase our taqwa and ask for Allah
acceptance during this month. May Allah subhana wa tada bless me and you with and through the Oran
may haymakers of those who is vs. They understand and who implement is headed and held on throughout
their lifespan. I asked all those forgiveness you as well ask him for he is the fool and the ramen
		

			Alhamdulillah Hilda hidden ahead of Samad a lady that muted what am unit what am Yokozuna, hakuho
and I had what I do if fasting has been prescribed for the reality of taqwa, then we should remind
ourselves as well very briefly, what is the what because too many of us we get too involved in the
mechanics of fasting which is important, we need to know the outcome and how that we need to know
that.
		

			But let us not neglect the higher goal which is dukkha because fasting is not an end goal, the end
goal is dukkha the fasting is the mechanism to get there. So let us remind ourselves of very briefly
what is this reality of dukkha dukkha. Of course, the concept of taqwa is to protect yourself from
the punishment of a law and that is the root word taqwa it comes from Wikipedia, or walkoff, which
means to put a barrier or to play something between you and something else. And so the concept of
duck law is that you place a barrier between yourself and the punishment of Allah Subhana Allah to
Allah. And Allah subhanho wa Taala commanded all of the prophets without exception to tell their
		

			people to have Taqwa Allah azza wa jal says in the Quran, that to the prophet who that is set up to
the prophet SAW that to the Prophet nor to the Prophet sure as to the Prophet Ibrahim, when others
say the lead in order to get up in public what an eternal law that we told all of the peoples before
you all the people that will be booked before you and we are telling you as well to have Taqwa of
Allah and Allah says in the
		

			Put on that their profits came to them were either either a home holder and a home loan and they
said to him Allah to own the people said, The Prophet said to the people will you not have Taqwa of
Allah subhanho wa Taala. And so taqwa is the core of our faith. It has always been the faith and we
translated as God consciousness. But in reality it is many, many factors. Obviously God
consciousness is the core of taqwa. What are some of the blessings of having taqwa? Well, obviously,
the one who achieves taqwa achieves the love of Allah subhana wa Tada. Allah azza wa jal has a
phrase in the Quran, Allah who you have bought a lot of loves. And the most common or one of the
		

			most common phrases that only occurs around 1112 times in the whole Quran that Allah loves not that
many categories are mentioned. But one of the most categories will law who your herbal matcha cane,
Allah loves the people of taqwa that is the highest category that we went to achieve the love of
Allah subhana wa tada as well of the blessings of taqwa is that taqwa causes us to be enveloped in
the aroma of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Allah Rama envelopes The one who has taqwa Allah says in the
Quran, where I met, he was the article lashay for the actual Dena, *. My Rama encompasses
everything. But I shall especially write it for those who have Taqwa. So if we want to have the Rama
		

			of Allah, we need to achieve it via the mechanism of taqwa, also of the blessings of taqwa is the
taqwa causes us to be amongst a laws camp, and to be amongst those whom Allah azza wa jal calls his
own and whom Allah azza wa jal will help. Allah says in the Quran, that in Allah humma Allah Dena
taco, Allah is with those who have Taqwa Allah is with us and when Allah is with us, then all of our
problems are solved. If Allah is with us, we don't care who is against us, because we have Allah
Subhana which Allah when we have a law on our side, it doesn't matter who is on the other side, we
need Allah azzawajal and we will attain that when we have Taqwa. If a law is on our side, every
		

			single problem of this world and the next will be taken care of. And that is achieved primarily
through the mechanism of taqwa, as well. of the blessings of taqwa is that even this world is given
to them with Turkey. Even the blessings of this world is given to the one who has taqwa, Allah
subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran, woman yet tequila hija Allahu Maharaja Zuckerman. Hey thula
Yeah, Jessie. Whoever has the taqwa of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Allah will create a way out from
every difficulty. We are facing the biggest difficulty of our lives in this Corona lockdown, the
entire globe is shut down. There is a pandemic, there is a crisis of global magnitude and
		

			proportion. And the only way out especially for us of faith is through the taqwa of Allah subhana wa
Tada, woman yet tequila hajjaj Allahu Maharaja, whoever has taqwa of Allah, Allah will make a way
out for him while you're a zoo main highway through LA and allow will provide for him sustenance and
blessings. Allah will provide for him originally from sources he never expected from we are all
feeling the pinch of this virus. Some of us more than others we need the risk of Allah subhana wa
tada especially in this timeframe. So the month of Ramadan comes and this month is the month of
taqwa and via taqwa we will attain the the the way out that we need from this pandemic and this
		

			crisis. And the last thing that I'll mention it again so much can be said is that Allah azza wa jal
reminds us that the best mechanism to prepare ourselves for every problem and every calamity is the
mechanism of taqwa what is overdue for in heroes, the taqwa take precautions, take measures Be
prepared a lot is saying the xad hear the word xad. Here it means when you go on a journey, you'd
better have what you need for the journey. You know, when we go into long drive, we make sure we
have water our car is full of gas, we have food for the kids, everything is there. In Arabic This is
called Zed. There is no one English word is just the preparations for the journey. A lot is saying
		

			whenever you go on a journey, be prepared with the zoa do and then Allah reminds us but remember,
for in the higher Azad a taqwa the best way you could prepare for any journey, any problem, any
issue any path that you're taking. For every single issue of life. The best mechanism to protect you
is going to be the mechanism of taqwa. These are some of the blessings of taqwa, dear Muslims, and
realize that all of these five things that I have said about the concept of fasting, which is sub
and controlling one's desires, and mastering the reality of being conscious of Allah Subhana, WA,
tada and having sincerity. All of these are mechanisms that directly link us
		

			With the taqwa of Allah subhana wa Tada. You know, we have heard this phrase very often that fasting
is like going to the gym for our soul will love it, it is so true because it is literally going to
the gym for our soul. We are training our soul via these mechanisms every single day. Any one of us
who has trained our body after a week or two, the weight that you were lifting becomes so easy to
live because you've trained the body. Well, Ramadan is the gymnasium of the soul. Ramadan is when we
worked out our soul via these mechanisms and more, obviously, more can be said. So when we do this
fast every single day, all of these things are going to help us and they're all helping us for the
		

			same goal, just like the goal of going to the gym as a healthier body. So the goal of the fast is to
have the taqwa of Allah subhanho wa Taala. And there is no one action of worship that leads to taqwa
more easily for the average Muslim then the act of war of fasting, and that is why fasting is such a
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that, obviously in this month of Ramadan, all of us are suffering and especially our Masjid as well
that we don't have we are having financial issues so please if you can donate whatever you can May
Allah subhanaw taala bless you in you in this timeframe and May Allah azzawajal make it easy for all
		

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