Yasir Qadhi – How this Ramadan will be our best

			Tip number seven
		

			I said what a Kamala Harris Allahu wa barakato Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam O Allah Milena de
vida. Dear Muslims, the doors of Ramadan the doors of gender in Ramadan are about to be opened and
when we look at the excitement that people have for this dunya when we look at when the latest
iPhone is coming out and people are counting the days down when we look at the the Thanksgiving
sales that take place, you know on Black Friday, people are lined up the night before. To be
brutally honest when we look at the latest movie coming out with the Marvel or whatever Batman or
whatever these things in our kids are literally maybe even the kids parents are counting down the
		

			days that they can go see that latest movie. Well. The doors of gender are about to be opened up, as
we all know, barely a few days or left before Allah subhanho wa Taala will command the angels to
fling open every single door agenda. How excited are we? how eager are we to be lined up like the
people of this dunya are lined up to get something of this world? How excited are we like our
children are excited when something amazing is about to happen in their world in their paradigm when
our Lord gela gelato who will announce to chain up every single shape on when our Lord will announce
every single night that people will be saved from Jehan and people will make their way to Agenda
		

			because of what they're doing in this month of Ramadan. And you know all of us to be honest, our
spirits are a little bit down because of this lockdown because of this pandemic. But what better
time for Ramadan to come? Because we need something to cheer us up. We need something to break our
routine we need something to do and Ramadan is the opportunity to do Ramadan is the time of action.
We all know that this month of Ramadan is the only month that Allah subhana wa tada has mentioned by
name in the Quran. No other month is mentioned by name Shahada Ramadan Allah says in the Koran, the
month of Ramadan is the month that Allah subhana wa tada revealed this port on the month of Ramadan
		

			is the month that our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was sitting and holiday Hara was
contemplating and when gibreel came down and said to him if Allah intentionally chose the month of
Ramadan, and intentionally chose the day of later to cut the night a little further the day after
that was the day that ikura began to come down to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. This is
the month where one of the main causes of forgiveness for the Muslim our profits a little low, why
do you send them said whoever prays the five prayers and whoever prays jumar to Juma and whoever
fasts, Ramadan, Ramadan, all of the sins in between them are going to be forgiven. We all know the
		

			blessings of the fast we've heard whispers about the blessings of the fasting, inshallah we'll be
reminding ourselves today's Club boasts about that. And there is the next code bus as well
throughout Ramadan are going to be about all of these ayat and a hadith that we always hear about
the blessings of Ramadan, the famous one the Hadith, which is motif of it, in which Abu huraira said
our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that Allah azza wa jal says, so this is how do you see
that every single deed that the son of Adam does, it is his, and I shall reward him from one to 700
times from 10 to 700 times every single deed, except for the fasting, that deed, I have taken it.
		

			And when Allah says I have taken it, it is a matter of honor. It is a matter of wanting this great
and magnificent thing for himself. Allah is saying all the other deeds, I'll let the son of Adam
take it, and I will reward him from 10 to 700 times, but this one deed that he does the deed of
fasting, I want to take it myself, it is something that is an honor, in Arabic, we call it a Sharif,
it is a lot of shut off that he is saying that the fasting is a deed that I will claim directly for
myself, and only I will give the son of Adam his reward, meaning the rewards of 10 to 700 will not
apply to the fasting. If I give $1 in charity, the minimum I will get back on the day of gentlemen
		

			is a reward for $10 some people for that same dollar might get 100 reward. Some people might even
get the reward of $700 It depends on their intentions on how much they needed it on the
circumstances. So $1 can literally stretch 700 in the eyes of a law, every deed can stretch from 10
to 700 x
		

			except for a few, a few of those deeds, they go behind her herself without counting. And of them, of
course is the fast of Ramadan. And this is why this month of Ramadan is so precious. This is why
every single Muslim on the face of this earth, no matter how weak their Eman is no matter how much
they're struggling in this month of Ramadan, every one of us who has an atom's weight of a man, we
raised our bar, every one of us who has a beating pulse of Eman, we do something extra we would not
do outside this month of Ramadan. And that is a great blessing from Allah subhanho wa Taala our
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that on the Day of Judgment, the fasting of Ramadan and the
		

			Quran of Ramadan, the both of them will intercede on behalf of the people who would fast and the
people who recite Quran and the both of them will say that Oh Allah, the first thing we'll say this
person I deprived him of his food and his drink so forgive him and the Quran will say I will love
this person I deprived him of his sleep, meaning here his preamble in his the head Judas Torah where
I deprived him of his sleep, so forgive him. And so Allah subhana wa tada will insha Allah, Allah
forgive those who are righteous in this month of Ramadan. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
reminded us that this month of Ramadan comes with so many blessings. As I already mentioned, the
		

			doors of Jen are opened the gates of jahannam are shut every single shape one of the evil gltn are
locked up. And every single night the angels announced every single night, whoever wants to be
forgiven, come forward, whoever wants to come, and whoever wants other than this, then go you will
be destroyed. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us in that famous Hadith in Sahih, Bahati
that the one who is not able to be forgiven and honorable bond will never be able to be forgiven. If
you cannot be forgiven in Ramadan, there is no hope for you because Ramadan has all the
opportunities laid out for us now, today's brief lecture, I'm not going to be talking too long. I
		

			didn't want to talk about the blessings that are available and you've heard them all before. We've
all heard these ideas and had eaten inshallah we'll continue hearing them in the whole buzz. And in
the other lectures, what I wanted to do is to talk a little bit about Ramadan in light of the
lockdown, and I'm Oban in light of this COVID-19. And in light of us, all of us being at home, and
give us some practical tips that what can we do in light of this reality that we are we are facing,
and then we shall allow to either mention some of what our messages epic is going to do as well in
this month of Ramadan and how you can help out especially in this month of Ramadan. now realize that
		

			this question of Ramadan, or this issue of Ramadan is in fact, an opportunity that Allah subhanho wa
Taala has given us the movement always looks at every single thing that happens as an opportunity.
The movement never has a losing attitude. The movement is always optimistic. The Mothman sees
whatever happens and says, Allah wants good for me. Allah is doing this for a wisdom that's going to
benefit me. So there's a lockdown taking place. All of us are shutting our homes, all of us are not
even socializing. And now this month has come it is there's no question an element of depression we
all feel it, I feel it, you feel it that we're not going to have that spirit that we're accustomed
		

			to. Fair enough. But this means we need to rediscover a new spirit of Ramadan, we need to rediscover
the original spirit of Ramadan, we need to go back to the way it used to be in the time of the
Prophet salallahu idea he was setting up and at the time of the Sahaba and realize that this notion
of optimism, this notion of reading in the best this notion of striving, this is the whole point and
Alhamdulillah insha Allah to Allah because this Ramadan is taking place in this lockdown, we
actually have the opportunity to make this Ramadan, our best Ramadan, but in order for that to
happen dear Muslims Dear viewers, dear fathers and mothers, dear sons and daughters, dear every one
		

			and I speak to myself before I speak to any of you were going to have to get into the right frame of
mind. We're going to have to get rid of these shackles of pessimism dem depression, we're going to
have to shake off the laziness that has struck so many of us in the last three weeks, we're going to
have to shut down those soap operas and those dramas left and right that we're watching. We're gonna
have to get out those copies of the Quran and to get into the mode in the frame of mind. Dear
Muslims, if you're not going to stand up and do something, nothing is going to happen. You have to
put in the effort to see the result. Remember what our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that
		

			Allah subhanho wa Taala said once again, this is a hadith bootsy that Allah subhanho wa Taala said
that if a servant comes close to me, a hands with I come close to him and arms with
		

			If a servant comes close to me walking, I come to him running. And if a servant comes to me with an
earth full of sins and asks my forgiveness, I shall come to him with an earth full of forgiveness.
Notice this, if my servant comes close to me a hand span I come close to him at arm's spend an arm's
length meaning what you put in a little bit, and Allah will bless it manifold, you walk to Allah and
the process of said Allah is going to come running towards you, you put in the effort, if you are
not going to put in the effort, if you're going to be lazy, if you're going to be pessimistic, if
you're going to be depressed all day long, well then don't blame anyone but yourself. Ramadan is
		

			around the corner, barely five days or left in all likelihood, Thursday night is the first thought
all week it's already Friday night. So Thursday, most likely, depending on again, you know, their
circumstances, you know, but most likely Thursday is going to be our first thought out where we had
better get into the spirit, we had better start preparing from now and insha Allah to Allah in light
of this, this this lockdown in light of this COVID pandemic. In fact, let let us look at the silver
linings, let us look at the positives rather than the negatives. As I said, we have the potential to
make this Ramadan, the very best Ramadan of our lives, why and how? Well let us look at the
		

			differences. In the past, we would always give excuses that I'm too tired. work has been very long
for me, I have a full day of work by the time you get home. By the time you've you, you've used all
that energy in your office, you're you're mentally drained, you're completely psychologically tired,
you're physically exhausted, most of us now are working from home, most of us now don't have the
same type of schedule and the same amount of pressure that the workplace itself gave us. And we have
some more leeway now that we're at home. So insha Allah huhtala will have extra energy for the body
of Allah subhanho wa Taala in the previous years, you know, we would spend so much time in the car
		

			driving, driving the kids to school, driving ourselves to work, maybe some of us would spend an hour
maybe even two hours every single day in the car back and forth doing this doing that chores. Well
all of that has now been shut down. There is no long car journeys and so we have that extra free
time. What excuse Do we have then for not using that time to do extra Koran? What excuse do we have
for not opening the book of Allah subhana wa tada and paying attention to the Quran, which is this
this is the month of the Koran Shahada, Madonna lady on zero fee Hill Koran dear Muslims before
Allah tells us that Ramadan is about fasting twice Allah tells us Ramadan is about the Koran, let
		

			that point sink in Ramadan is more about the Quran than it is about fasting if you read the actual
verses, and yet for many of us, the Quran does not play a central role now insha Allah we have the
time and we have the energy to spend more time with the Koran and Subhana Allah previous years. The
fact of the matter again, let's be brutally honest here that previous years a lot of times that
Ramadan was not our healthiest month, many of us would in fact to gain weight in the month of
Ramadan despite the fact that we're supposed to be losing weight it's an opportunity to make our
health you know better and and the reason of course we all know is that almost every second day or
		

			some of us everyday Mashallah we're invited to some sumptuous meal, some multi course, meal that we
don't even get on an average, you know, feast outside of Ramadan. Now, every single day of Ramadan,
we will be eating fancy meals, well guess what? All of that and hamdulillah in some ways that
hamdulillah it has now been shut down. So what better time for you to sit down with your family and
literally plan out a healthy meal plan, plan out a meal plan that insha Allah, Allah will take care
of your body. Yes, we're taking care of our soul I hope so. Now Ramadan is also the time to have a
positive excuse to to get our body in shape. Add along with the spiritual regiment of the Quran and
		

			the Torah, we add some time for exercise, add some time for some type of house activities, some type
of ways that you can burn some calories, add a healthy meal plan. Now you have no excuse that
somebody is inviting me and the host is going to be not feeling good if I only take the salad and
leave all of that as if that was really to say anyway, we all know we want to support certain
quarters but that's besides the point. There is no excuse you can give now. Right? It's your house
you are in charge now. So sit with the family and make a healthy meal plan. So that insha Allah
huhtala you take care of your body along with taking care of your soul. And you know what that is
		

			Islamic as well. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said it ethically they happen to give
everything and every person the right that is
		

			Do to it your body has a right over you to hide he says literally in knowledge Jessa dakka dakka
help your body has a right over you. Many of us are neglecting the health of our bodies. This is a
month where insha Allah tada we have that entire month we are not going to be eating for more than
15 hours a day. Let us not overeat and splurge for the rest of the eight nine hours let us eat in a
healthy manner and we will realize how beautiful it is. When we eat healthy and we live healthy,
we're going to feel spiritually better and we're going to feel physically better as well and give
some time to the body like we're giving some time to the soul also in the previous years. In the
		

			previous years, we would go to the masjid every single night many of us most of us would go every
single night we would leave our houses half an hour before Tara we spend time you know in the
parking lot figuring out where to park get out and socialize and then stand you know very tightly
packed you know in cramped in cramped rows. There's noises here, you know people not everybody is
smelling all the way the best. Some people are belching you know, awkward and whatnot. This is the
reality. Now at hamdulillah. We are in charge of our own rituals. Nobody's going to tell us what
time no parking lots, no busy crowds, it's us and ourselves between in front of Allah subhana wa
		

			Tada. The way that private rituals are supposed to be our prophets of the law while you sit and pray
to hedges and preamble late and taraweeh by himself. It just so happened once or twice in his life
that some people prayed behind him accidentally, he never announced that all we thought we was never
a public ceremony in his lifetime. And in the lifetime of a worker. And
		

			even when the law one allowed to be prayed, he himself would pray at home along with the elite of
the Sahaba because they understood that pm and Tara we're anti Jew is better at home because you
have privacy. So you can do as long as you want. You can make the recitation as long as you want.
You can choose the sutras that you want. You can make the doors that you want, you have no worries
about people looking at you are jostling or shoving it is between you and Allah subhanho wa Taala.
And that is the ultimate spirit of the yam. Dear Muslims, this opportunity might not come back
again. Because let us be honest, and I will be the first to admit that who doesn't love praying
		

			behind somebody with a good voice that has a beauty, no question about that. But I'm not going to
deny or I'm not going to change the fact that more important than the beauty of the Koran is the
spirit of your doula more important than somebody else's recitation is your own EClass in your
heart, and that is lost and that sincerity and that humility, it can be developed. In fact, it is
only developed in secrecy and private, you cannot have the level of loss that is necessary. When
you're always in public. You have to put yourself in the privacy of between you and ally in the
middle of the night. That is the ultimate pm. And I remind you especially dear Muslims, I remind
		

			you, especially of the last third of the night, perhaps no other opportunity will come when we're
able to pray regularly and Ramadan in the last third of the night, wake up the last two hours before
so that'll fudger wake up at that point in time and spend some time in drop in privacy and secrecy
between you and Allah subhana wa Tada. No one else needs to hear you. Open up your heart to Allah
subhana wa tada began a conversation the likes of which you've never had, because that is the
ultimate point of an autobahn. And in fact, really, of the worship of Allah subhana wa Tada. And
what better time to discover the sweetness of that conversation, then this lockdown and pandemic,
		

			what better time for us to gain allows reward and allows mercy and a loss protection and allows Mo
Farah than right now when we needed the most. So this might be the very best keyamo laid into we we
have ever prayed in our entire lives if we have the correct spirit, as well dear Muslims, typically
speaking in the previous years, typically speaking, Ramadan was at the expense of the family. The
schedules were so busy, you're bustling between your job between your sleep between the masjid, you
hardly have time to sit with your family. Well guess what? This will be the normal lawn of and for
the family. This is going to be the normal lawn where we rediscover the importance of the ties of
		

			kinship and we strengthen and we solidify that bond that Allah azza wa jal wants us to solidify. Let
us look at this Ramadan as the opportunity to perfect that bonds of the family or in Arabic It is
called pseudo Russian. In the famous Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that the the
the pseudo Torah him or the concept of family. It's an interesting idea.
		

			Family how we did so we do not know but the family it held on to the throne of Allah when Allah
created the concept of family. So Allah created the concept of family and around him or the concept
of family it held onto the throne. And it asked a lot, what status do I have? What is my macom or
Allah and Allah azza wa jal said, Are you not happy that whoever fulfills you, whoever connects you
is connected with me and whoever breaks you has broken off with me. So whoever connects the family
is connected to Allah subhanho wa Taala. Whoever breaks off the family stuff with Allah but he has
broken off with a loss of Hannah which either This is the month of connecting with a law through and
		

			via the means of connecting with the family, and go ahead and be selfish. What do I mean by this?
Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Mancera, who Anoop SATA Felicity, he was 30 he found
Yasuo rahima, who, whoever wants to increase his wealth, and to live a longer life, let him be good
to his family. This is an authentic hadith in the sooner that our Prophet system explicitly told us
go ahead and want to be wealthy and want to live longer. And I'll tell you how to do that. How do
you do that be good to your family established the ties of kinship with your family, we're kind of
all of us suffering economically these days, right? All of us were pinching, you know, from what's
		

			going on, we want more risk from Allah, Well, then let's make this Ramadan, Ramadan of the family,
let us spend, spend time with our children. Try dear parents to inculcate some Islamic knowledge,
sit down together as a family, listen to a highlight or read a book or go over a hadith a day, or go
over a chapter of the Quran a day or even an ayah a day, try to pray that are we and if you are able
to combine between a group data we and then the private one in the last third, that would be ideal,
maybe two or four cards with the kids. And then maybe at the end of the night by yourself, or
however you want to do that. But try to spend some time have a bother with the family and insha
		

			Allah to Allah, the bonds of love that are established Yes, with the yelling and screaming and
shouting that comes with the love. That's all a part of the family, the bonds of love that will be
established insha Allah, they will last a lifetime after this crisis in sha Allah, I pray that
decades from now, all of you will look back to this timeframe, you're with sweet memories with fond
memories with nostalgic memories. Because you might never have this opportunity, again, to form the
ties of kinship between siblings between spouses, try your best to make this that bond of the family
concentrate and prioritize on that. And this leads me to my next point, which needs to be set as
		

			well. That's of Hana law. Let us be honest here and I speak to the men folk, but let's be honest
here, dear men folk, that a lot of times we had expectations on the women that they would spend a
large amount of time in the kitchen, preparing the school doing the thought, you know, most of the
Ramadan might even be in the kitchen. And we would say the excuse for those women who didn't work
I'm talking about that. The men would say, Oh, I'm too busy, because I'm working. I'm too busy,
because I'm not home. And our women had to share that had the lion's share of doing all of these
chores. And you know, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he was not the commanding husband. He
		

			was not the husband, who would snap at his wife do this and do that. When somebody asked Chateau de
la Juana, what was the lack of the Prophet sallallahu, I said, she said he would stand up and milk
his own goat, he would mend his own shoes, meaning he wasn't a domineering person do this and do
that and make my tea. That's not the character of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So this is
an opportunity, dear husbands to be honest here. And I know maybe my wife is looking at this, I'm
putting myself in the spot as well, when I say this, that we have to increase our share, we have to
take charge as much as is reasonable. And maybe if the husband is not working and the wife is
		

			working, then the situation is reversed. But I'm talking about the default generally speaking, I'm
speaking not as a gender role, but as a generality within our customer and culture, that typically
the men are the ones who work more than the women. And so, they would say that you have to do more
chores while now the both of them are at home. And the both of them are within the confines of you
know, the house and therefore, let us be fair, and let us try to take on and help those that were in
charge if it was the other way around and let the women do more than they used to. And if it was the
typical scenario, let demand do more than they used to. And as well go back to my three points ago,
		

			cut back on the quantity of food cut back on this lavish meals because truth be told that is not the
spirit of Ramadan and we all know that deep down inside, that's not what Ramadan is supposed to be.
It has become a time of festivities and a time of festivals around mobile and has become eight
course meals every single day and on mobile and has become delectable dishes on the
		

			daily basis and that is definitely definitely not the spirit of Ramadan. So let us use this
opportunity, this Ramadan to rediscover you know Subhan Allah, when I break my fast I always think
our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you know, we eat that one Cujo one one date and we move on
to the full meal, our profit system, the meal was the dates, that's it, he would have five or 10
dates and that is it. That was his dinner, his supper, that is what he would typically eat, that is
all that he would eat. And he we that is just the token one day to sweeten our mouth before we jump
to the entire dishes in front of us now hamdulillah we thank Allah that Allah has blessed us you
		

			know to to have the opportunity to eat I'm not saying don't eat anything more than this we're all
going to eat more than dates but don't have to go overboard we don't have to have that much quantity
at the expense of one person who also has to worship Allah subhana wa tada rather let us take on
some chores cut back you know the quantity of dishes and inshallah tada together, worship Allah
subhana wa tada in a better manner as well, this Ramadan, we don't have the opportunity to even host
multiple if Thor's because as we know, every household every one of us, not only would we visit, we
would host and what we host we would spend a fortune. And we would go to great extents and decorate
		

			and, you know, cutlery and this and that. Well guess what? This is the opportunity instead of
spending those 500 or $1,000 on the authorities for Hamdulillah, middle and upper class people,
let's use that money and gift it to authorities. For those who cannot afford it. Let's find the
opportunity where are people who cannot even afford a meal, we would all spend money on our lavish
if Thor's let's be honest here. This Ramadan, there are no lavish if stars let us make sure we spend
the same amount or even more on if stars might not be as lavish but will lie there are more
essential and there are more rewarding, and there are mobile Bartok than our fancy lavish stars that
		

			we were used to doing. So let us spend that money that we would spend in other previous normal
bonds, let us spend it on those who don't even have that meal a day. And there are plenty of
charities around the globe, there are plenty of opportunities in refugee camps in smaller places or
villages, in places where socio economically there are underprivileged people, so many opportunities
are there. And you will always can find this online or also many of you have family or friends that
can help out no people elsewhere. And even here in Dallas, there are opportunities as we are coming
to as well. And one other point as well, before we move on to some of our programs here for this
		

			month and share our low data, one of the points as well that in this month, we will kind of sort of
be locked up right not fully locked up like prisoners, but still locked up. And perhaps we will get
just a partial, just a a 10% or even 5% or even 1% of what it's like for people around the world who
might be refugees who cannot go anywhere because they're in camps, who might even be in prisons,
like the Uyghurs like the people who are unjustly put in prisons by tyrannical regimes who are
torturing them, just because they say there are Muslims. And I'm not allowed to be like comparing
our five star luxury treatment here in our houses with what they are doing with the villa. But
		

			there's just a whiff, just a small pinch that, you know, if we are finding this awkward and
difficult, how about people that are far more difficult than us, perhaps this normal bond, we can be
reminded of their plight not so that so that we can be more grateful to Allah and then do whatever
we can to help those that are less in need. My point for going over all of this list, dear Muslims,
was so that insha Allah to Allah, we have a different frame of mind, do not approach this from a
bond, as if it's going to be your worst. I am telling you, we have the potential that this animal
bond is our best Ramadan of our lives, we have the potential that this Ramadan will be the sweetest
		

			Ramadan that we have ever experienced. But only if we put in the effort because we have to put in
the effort. Allah azzawajal may even give give us a miracle if we put in the effort. You know, by
the way, even the miracles of the prophets, they had to put in some effort, every single miracle
without exception when Miriam is giving birth, and she is starving and there's nothing to eat and
there's nobody around her. What does Allah say in the Quran? Well, who's in a budget in Allah go and
shake the tree and the dates are gonna fall. You know, if Allah had willed, it would have rained
dates, and muddy and couldn't even have stood up and she's in the pains of birth. Still, Allah says
		

			reach over and shake, just shake. Then the dates are gonna fall. when Moosa is with Fidel and he's
rushing and he sees the sea and he doesn't know what's going to happen and he asks ally need your
help give me a miracle. I will law a lot quicker
		

			Blink and I'll show you the miracle but what did Allah say? Raise your staff and strike the ocean,
even when the ocean is going to split and it is going to split right that point in time when the Red
Sea is going apart. Even then Moosa has to put in the effort and Moosa has to do something to get
that miracle if that is for a blatant miracle that the Quran talks about, how about the smaller
miracles that we want the miracle of a man, the miracle of sweetness, the miracle of the lead of
very bad, we're gonna have to put in a little bit of effort to get that miracle back from Allah
subhana wa Tada. And if we don't put in that effort, we have no one to blame but ourselves. So
		

			there's a lot of opportunities dear Muslims, and because of this in sha Allah, Allah, we here at
epic we had we sat down multiple times, not physically, we had meetings online and whatnot. Don't
worry, we're being very careful about the six feet social distance thing, and we figure it out and
we tried our best what is the best way forward? What can we do here at epic? So we're going to have
a bunch of lectures, specifically for every single segment we have youth lectures, we have lectures
for the sisters almost daily sisters to see it almost daily, which dad
		

			said Barry, Jude is going to have a daily lecture daily, every single day before if thought he is
going to teach you a new drop in the DM is going to have a lecture as well every single day, myself.
I'm going to team up with Hafiz suggested and every single day at 10pm from 1110 to 11. Every single
day live, Hafez Sajjad is going to recite a little bit of Quran and then I will explain that Jews
we're going to do 30 Jews in 30 days in shallow data every single day, we're going to have a summary
of that Jews and maybe concentrate on one or two verses the goal being many of us have never ever
read the Quran cover to cover with meaning many of us don't even know what Jews number three says
		

			Jews number seven says so the goal of this is in 30 days inshallah get a bird's eye view, it's not
going to be a detailed of see it. I've done that for a number of suitors. You can log online, I have
a 30 part series of pseudo five to 15 party pseudo gov, I have many very detailed pseudo use if I've
done in many, I think over 20 lectures, I haven't sued a user. So that's a detail to see. And that's
one genre of deceit, this Ramadan, I've decided to do something I've never done before brand new
class. And that is essentially a summary of the entire Koran, especially for our youth who have
never read the Quran. And even for the adults, if they've never read it in a simple language is not
		

			going to be advanced and going into hermeneutics and philology. And the reason why it was revealed
and the different resignation of this note is just going to be in a nutshell, what do we need to
know from the first use than the second day? What do we need to know from the second juice? What do
I want my own children, I'm going to have my own young teenagers in mind what I'm going to do this
class, like what do I want them to come with with this juice every single day. So that insha Allah
Tada, when we finish this journey, at least we'll have a bird's eye view, a holistic, you know,
summary of the teachings and the message of the Quran. And that's the goal that I have, I'm very
		

			excited, it's a new class for me, and that's going to be every single day insha Allah live at 10pm
from the beginning to the very end, and inshallah tada it's going to be in light of something unique
and, and interesting. So this is, you know, our programs in a nutshell. And before I move on, I
wanted to show a brief video as well about some of the social outreach programs, I want you to see
the video then I'll come back and I'll explain to you a little bit of what I'm doing and what we're
doing here at epic. So Bismillah if we can play the video now in sha Allah
		

			hamdulillah
		

			epic has initiated help your neighbor drive through pantry. This program will happen every Saturday,
from 6pm to 7pm.
		

			We have many volunteers who are dedicated, we hope to help as many families as as we can as they
drive by through it's a very simple system that we created here and the volunteers drop the box,
maintaining the social distancing requirements, and safely the people come to benefit from this,
they leave.
		

			So we encourage that all those that want to come and benefit from this program come to Epic every
Saturday, between six and 7pm in Sharla.
		

			So shallow. That was the brief video, we're gonna have more videos about this. I want to just
conclude by reminding by explaining what you just saw. We've already begun our
		

			social outreach programs. And in particular, I want to emphasize four programs that epic is doing.
Firstly, we're doing help your neighbor. And this is going to be every single Saturday is going to
be a drive by you saw the video over there where anybody and by the way, all of these programs, all
four of them, they are for anybody regardless of background regardless of race regardless of faith
regarding to anybody who needs it, that is here. And we need you to spread the word to those who
need. This is what our religion commands us to do. It's not just talk, it's not just going to the
masjid part of our religion, much of our religion is black, it is service it is hidden. It is
		

			feeding the poor Ramadan is about feeding the poor rather than those fancy of thoughts. This is what
we're doing this Ramadan insha Allah tala, so the first thing we're doing is we're having your help
your neighbor program, and in this help your neighbor every single Saturday, from six to 7pm, we
will be standing outside the masjid and there's going to be a line of cars a row of cars, and
they're going to come because we've advertised to them. We've handed out pamphlets inshallah, we're
thinking of actually giving paid advertisements if possible. And we want you to spread the word to
those who need anybody who needs food, no questions asked. If you feel that you need food, then we
		

			are here for you in Sharla tada and we're going to give you a box of food products, pasta and rice
and wheat, anything that was long term, we're going to be giving it to you in Charlotte data. And
we're going to keep our social distancing, we're going to make sure it is done in a proper manner.
And inshallah tomorrow we plan to distribute over 250 boxes, that's just tomorrow, we hope insha
Allah to even increase the number every single Saturday. And we need you to spread the word if you
know anybody that needs any type of assistance, you can even anonymously tell them just come and
just come by here and just stand in line or drive up the car and from six to seven o'clock insha
		

			Allah to Allah every single Saturday. The second program is help your neighbor delivery service and
this is with collaboration with Aigner, the Islamic circle of North America that help your neighbor
delivery program. It is instead of you driving up here, if you are not able to drive for whatever
reason, if you're not able to go shopping, then you call us up and inshallah tada we will deliver
groceries to you or will deliver our pantry box to you will deliver our food packages straight to
your door if you're not able to leave your house. And this is especially if you know somebody who's
elderly know somebody who's sick know somebody who doesn't have a car, they're not able to come and
		

			drive up to the masjid or they're for, for medical reasons, they're not able to go outside, then
please give them our number. And we will arrange to have the food delivered to them. And then
hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah, it's not even Ramadan has not even begun. And we already have over 120
houses that we have delivered food to at hamdulillah. Well, we thank Allah subhana wa tada for that.
But once again, we need your help to advertise the program. Maybe you have a neighbor, who's
elderly, and they're not able to go shopping, maybe you know somebody who's sick or who has a child
and they're single parent or whatever it might be and they're not able to leave, this is the perfect
		

			thing that they can week that we can help them out with and a shout out to either just give them our
epic number, and they can then call and have their name added to the help your neighbor delivery
program, which is being done in collaboration with akena. The third program that we have is the epic
medical call in clinic. And this is a hotline, it's a call in clinic and the number is 97227715 to
three I'll repeat it again 972 to 771523. And maybe if that can be put on the screen as well. If you
can put the number on the screen and see if you can keep it there for a while. So the epic medical
call in clinic and what the call in clinic is is that during office hours, we have medical staff we
		

			have trained doctors who can answer generic questions, questions about if you feel you have COVID
symptoms or any other issues of a medical nature, just a generic call just for your
		

			information so that you can speak to a trained doctor or physician and get your questions answered
again, people of all backgrounds and all faiths when it's the open service everybody who wants to
they can do this. It's the epic medical call in clinic once again it is 972-277-1523 And the final
thing that we have right now is the epic tele clinic, the tele clinic, it's also a medical service
but this is a medical examination is not just a call and it's not just a quick service to have a
generic conversation for those who need a little bit more analysis to have a diagnostic done then
over teleconference and of course they have the the you know video and whatnot to do that you can
		

			schedule an appointment
		

			And the doctors can examine you via video conferencing Skype call or whatever it is the technology
they're using. And you can schedule a time in order to get that done. And you can get a more
detailed one on one with a physician. All of these four programs are absolutely free sebelah
absolutely no questions asked no money at all, from the people that are benefiting. And no, I mean,
everybody of all backgrounds can benefit equally. We're not it's not just only for our epic members,
it is anybody in the greater Dallas community, because we firmly believe that this is what our
religion calls for, as our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that whoever wants to enter
		

			agenda should spread silence to the people and feed food to the hungry, and be good to their family
and pray at night. This is the month we can do all four of those things. So let's try our best in
sha Allah. Now, we don't expect anything from those that are benefiting from these programs. But we
all know that these programs they have a cost. And we expect all of us all of you watching that
Alhamdulillah are able to we expect all of you to chip in and I'm being brutally honest here. This
is the program that we should all be proud of this is our flagship program. This is what Islam is
about. An epic is going to raise the bar for what a Masjid should be like in any city in this world.
		

			And in this country. And in the state of Texas, we will be the epic Masjid insha, Allah Allah in
this country, I am really proud to be a part of this community and this Masjid, and to have these
four activities. And that's just the beginning, we need to do much more than this, we want epic to
be the number one center that this whole city knows that if anybody is hungry, anybody needs a
clinical advice, anybody does anything, they can go to the Muslim community, because they're number
one in feeding the hungry. They're number one in distributing pantry food, they're number one in
helping the poor and underprivileged. That's what we want. But in order for that to happen, you and
		

			I both know, we need not just you're not just your support, not just your volunteer hours. And by
the way, we also need that. And for those who are in our volunteer groups, they know that we're
going to be reaching out to them for some of these things with social distancing, making sure
everything is done. But yes, there will be people that we're going to have to bring into actually
volunteer to carry the boxes, that's you will be contacted if you're on the volunteer list. But we
also need all of you without exception, we need your financial donations if you're able to do that.
And I asked all of you to, please be generous from now and throughout the month of Ramadan and
		

			continue to give because I can't think of any better project and cause than to feed the hungry of
your own city and your own locality than to be the flagship Mr. This is real data. real data isn't
handing pamphlets and Carranza that's 1% of our real data is showing what Islam is through your
actions, not through your tongue showing the clock showing the reality of our faith, which is
service to others for the sake of Allah, not for their sake for the sake of Allah subhana wa tada as
Allah says, In the Quran, when you monitor Allah, Allah, he'll be he miskeen. Anyway, Tillman was
zero, they give food, even though they need that food. We are all pinched right now, maybe not as
		

			tough difficult as the Sahaba, of course, but we're all pinched right now. Allah says they give
their food when they most need it. And they give their food to the miskeen to the team to the
prisoner. And they say in monado, Mo commonly YG law, we are feeding you for the sake of Allah learn
to do them in cages and will actually poorer, we don't want your thanks. We don't want the people
who come to even feel that they are some type of burden. We want them to understand. We appreciate
them more than they appreciate us. That is the spirit of Islam. We want them to feel honored. And we
can do that in shallow to either by Allah's help, and then by your generous support. So please, dear
		

			Muslims, dear viewers, if you are a part of this committee to frankly, even if you're not wherever
you're from, this is something all Muslims should be proud of. Please do help out the information to
donate is on your screens right now. So please give whatever you can, and if you're able to even
sign up continuously, because really, this is an amazing project. And you know what, if this program
launches successfully, the sky is the limit to what we can offer honestly and humbly Latham
Alhamdulillah we have the potential to go much more. Why should we only be 250 people. The
joblessness rate in this country has been the highest it's been for 100 years since the Great
		

			Depression. This is the opportunity for Muslims to come out as the winners of this entire timeframe
to show the people what real faith means. All of this negative PR that's happened for the last 15
years. I swear to you we have the opportunity in the upcoming months to erase it and all of it. We
have the opportunity and already look at what's happening in England by the way in England. The
frontline of the doctors and medical services people have been
		

			Muslims as you're aware of, and all the debts as of yet have been to from the Muslims and from the,
what they call the the end of the NHS staff or the the the hospital staff, they're all of them have
been people who migrated to England, and the majority of them have been Muslims. And this has caused
a huge support for the Muslim community and for the quote unquote immigrant community, and the far
right parties and the racist people that were always spouting their hatred. They've been very quiet
for the last few weeks, because they cannot say anything, when the dedication of the Muslims and
when the education of those who came to England is being shown that's happening over there. And of
		

			course, their crisis is much worse. In terms of the number of deaths, the percentage, as you know,
in England and whatnot, and what's happening over there is slightly different. Still, we have that
opportunity here to show them what real faith and real Islam is. So I encourage all of you to join
with us and insha Allah, we can all get the rewards the same in the end of the day, we're all
working together as a team epic is doing its job, we need you to do your job as a part of epic and
put together insha Allah to Allah for the sake of Allah azza wa jal will raise the bar and we will
show people with the meaning of Islam is And with that, I conclude for today's lecture and I'll be
		

			back in sha Allah on Tuesday to talk about some questions of q&a of the the ACA and the rulings of
fasting. And then Wednesday we'll have our final day of judgment talk before Ramadan, and then we'll
continue that series after Ramadan jazak Allahu
		

			alayhi wa barakato.
		

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