Yasir Qadhi – Ramadan Q&A

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			I said I'm Monica Monica Tula who bought a couch Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala
Rasulillah who Allah Allah, he was so happy he went by the hammer. But today's our final q&a Before
the blessed month of Ramadan, we're going to be doing this q&a And then pausing this series until
after Ramadan. And so today's q&a will be entirely dedicated to various issues pertaining to the
month of Ramadan. And we're going to dive straight in. So the first question that I have is, Chef,
can you please in a brief summary explain between the controversies of Moon sighting that comes
every single year? So this is the issue of of Course Moon sighting. Now, I'm going to answer this
		

			question briefly. And please be aware that I've given a much longer lecture on this online. And I
will answer this question. Firstly, by saying that, let us talk about this from a perspective of
classical Islam early fifth. And then let's see what we can do in modernity. Second point. And then
third point, let's conclude with the practical position that we should all follow. So first is
traditional fifth, second is modern. And then third is what we're all going to actually end up
doing. So as for classical physics, there are two primary positions and you've all heard of these
positions that is called a global versus the local Moon sighting. And of course, this is a
		

			simplistic way of phrasing it in reality, the OMA was never ever united on the global Moon citing
this is a theoretical position, because I asked you to think about the Muslims of under Luce versus
the Muslims of Hejaz, Arabia versus the Muslims of Iraq versus the Muslims of China because they're
Muslims in the eastern Western Province. Do you really think ever in history that all the
		

			Have those Muslims celebrated and began Ramadan and Ramadan at the same time, it is actually
impossible for this to happen pre modernity. It is only the advent of the telegraph and the
telephone and the Internet, that we can even conceptually think about this. So realistically, it
wasn't global versus local. This never happened. Realistically, it was okay if we hear the news that
a neighboring province has started Ramadan just in time, and we did not see the moon but a
neighboring province that for crier came within the 12 hour span or five hours whenever they came.
And within that time, we heard before the dawn of frigid that the neighbor, the neighboring province
		

			in the neighboring city saw it, should we follow it or not? And this is the controversy that is
found in early Islam. And there are some aroma that said, yes, let's follow as far as the new
spreads. There are others who said, Let us follow every single region or locality or what is called
Murphy's Law, which is basically the hemispheres are the latitudes that the sun is gonna rise in. So
let's follow everybody in within that same. And then others said, No, we follow the people of our
own local locality. And generally speaking for the bulk of Islamic history, before the advent of the
telegraph and the telephone, people would follow that which was within a reasonable distance and
		

			that's about it. And that's really the way that the OMA has proceeded. In fact, if you look at one
of the earliest
		

			incidents that we have about a controversy inciting This is a Hadith founded Sahih Muslim, so very
interesting Hadith. And it's, technically it's not a hadith because the prophets ism is not directly
mentioned, but it involves some of the Sahaba it involves more or we are the Allahu Anhu was the
governor of Syria. And it involves Ibn Abbas who was in Makkah, and even Abbas his fried servant,
his Mola, Corrib, went to a beloved the sham went to Damascus, in the month of Ramadan, and he was
in Damascus when the moon was sited, and He then left Damascus, and he came back to Medina or
Morocco or the Hejaz, he came back to the edges and it takes around three weeks. So by the time he
		

			got back, they're still in Ramadan. So notice, it takes two to three weeks for the news to reach
from Baghdad, sorry, from Damascus to hijas. What do you think of Andalus? What do you think of
China is not going to happen? In any case, he comes back to pages he meets even Abbas ibn Abbas asks
him, when did you guys see the moon? And Quran says, we saw the moon on the night of Friday. So we
began fasting the next day, even Abbas said, well as for us, we saw the moon on the night of
Saturday. And so we are going to keep fasting based upon what we saw. So Kareem said, Isn't the
sighting of Mao we're good enough for you? And you've been Abbas said, No, this is how the Prophet
		

			salallahu alayhi salam taught us. In other words, this is a bit ibises interpretation that the
Prophet system is telling us we follow what we have seen. So from a purely theoretical perspective,
I would like to state that the position that is has been the default historically, and the one that
I personally
		

			subscribe to, from a theoretical perspective, from a classical perspective, is that every locality
every region should follow its own citing. So if we're possible within one land, if you like, or one
country, which is basically one group of people, they should follow their own citing. Now, this is
from a purely theoretical perspective, what a lot of people don't really take into account in this
regard. And I've given a longer lecture I asked you to, to listen to that lecture, which is was
given actually last year only a year ago, is that in fact, one needs to also take into account our
extenuating circumstances. And the issue of extenuating circumstances is something that is well
		

			known even in the great ruler of Islam. The great scholar the Shafi scholar, taketina Sookie, he
says that if the Mufti wants to take a position that is not as strong as another one for the sake of
a religious benefit, then it is permissible to do so. And even Raja also has the statement as well
in this regard, that it is permissible for the one who's doing he had to go to a weaker position, if
the stronger position from a textual perspective is going to cause greater chaos or greater evil.
And even Tamia also has many positions in this regard, and many are undermined. This is a well known
principle. And I have explained in my longer lecture, the fact that the whole issue of calculations
		

			has really been taken to an emotional backlash that people have just become, they've just become
bitter at the notion of calculations, and they just don't even want to listen to it anymore. And
this goes back in my humble estimation to how the whole controversy was introduced back in the late
90s. When I was also a student in Medina. I remember this very clearly that when this happened, it
really did cause a huge backlash, and I think we are still, at least those who are alive back then.
They're still you know,
		

			I mean by that for those that are above the age of 30, or 40, meaning we were alive back then we
were we were we were cognizant as for the next generation, as for those who are in their 20s, or
even late 20s, those of the next generation coming, my prediction is, and mark my words and listen
to me carefully, and mark this and remember the date two years 2020. This isn't the COVID crisis.
I'm saying this clearly, whether you or I like it or not, whether we want it or not, within a
decade, not a generation, within a decade, the vast majority of misogyny in this country in America,
and even maybe in the western world will be following the position of calculations. And my opinion
		

			now is that it's not a problem at all. 10 years ago, 15 years ago, I did, I was very much against
the position of calculations, but I am following now Ibn Taymiyyah and a subkey, and many greater
LMR who said that in extenuating circumstances, we go to a position that is not as strong it is a
weaker position, and we leave a stronger position because there is a greater good that will come to
the community, and anybody who has witnessed the moon fighting wars over the last 1520 30 years, and
anybody who understands that the next generations Islam, and they're coming to eat will be dependent
on whether they know when he does or not, they will understand that there is a huge benefit a
		

			massive benefit in our children in our societies, in our school districts, in our workplaces, and
our bookings of the halls. The list goes on and on that we know when it is going to happen. And it
is not a position that is a progressive opinion. Rather we find it in well part of Hebron Abdullah
Shaheed, one of the great Tabby rune, we find this in Russia through God is the greatest imam of the
last century. We find this in the show for us her Mufti al Morales, who died 1945 We find it in the
rich color of Hadith machaca, who died 1958 Alia Tantawi Mustafa Zarco Yusuf al Qaradawi. Sherif Ali
Hola, Cora Dagi Sheikh Hasina Shafi, Alicia Abdullah Judea Shia Faisal Mola we, and it goes on and
		

			on. And of course, as we're all aware, the fatwa of calculations was given by the European Council
of fatwa in 2007. The field Council of North America, which I'm a part of it was given before I was
a part of it, but now I'm a part of it. And I agree and endorsed this fatwa, and more and more
scholars and informally speaking, informally speaking, anecdotally speaking, I have been talking
about this issue for the last 10 years amongst odema, and students of knowledge and Imams across
this country. And I would estimate from my own conversations, that over 80% of the people that I
have spoken to the Imams and the dots and the scholars they are sympathetic to and they want to do
		

			the position of calculations, but they're worried about the backlash of their communities and they
say that oh, the board is going to get angry or the people are going to get irritated. But more and
more of the students of knowledge and aroma are understanding that Islam is not that strict in this
regard. Now, all of this is abstract and theoretical. If you are in charge of your Masjid. If you
are the chef that everybody is going to get fatwa from then you have the right to endorse the
position. All of this put it aside. What will you do and what will I do? You and I we will follow
our local masjid and community regardless of what their position is why? Because it is not my right.
		

			It is not your right to go against your own community when it is a gray area. It is not haram and
Khaled it is not should Ken Cofer versus bid and Yvonne verse No, it is a gray area. It is a
position that people have been debating since the beginning of Islam and you are not authorized to
go against your own group your own people that's breaking the unity of the Muslims in your own
region. So if you're Masjid that you continuously go to the group of people that you associate with
if they follow calculations, follow them if they follow local, follow them if they follow global,
follow them, stick with the GEMA as much as you can, and Allah azza wa jal will bless you in that
		

			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, hadith is intermediate. And this hadith is really
really profound that he said a somo Yamato su Moon while futro Yamato Tarun or Sol mu yo Mata
Simone, the set the day of fasting begins the day that you're all fasting and the fitter is the day
that you do the fitter. Now at first glance, this hadith seems bizarre. What does that mean? A Soma
Yamato Simone Emma metonymy the the one who reported the Hadith he comments he explains, and he
says, and I quote from scientificity He says, this has been interpreted to mean that one fasts and
celebrates their Eid with the group of Muslims and their majority and the scholar of Hadith Hassan
		

			Ali from Yemen. He writes in his Sobotta salaam, this hadith proves that what counts for Eid is that
the people agree to the fact that it is read and so
		

			If a single person sees the moon, but it is not followed by his community, he will follow his
community and ignore what he himself has seen. In other words, when our Prophet system is saying,
The Day of fast is the day when all of you fast, what he is saying is, Who cares what happens up
there, down here, when your community begins, you stick with them. When your community breaks, you
break with them, do not break away from your own community, I want to be as explicit as possible.
Listen to me carefully. You just heard my opinion right here. And that is that I endorse
calculations. And I believe that calculations are the way to go for the future of Islam in this
		

			country. And I believe that is going to help preserve Islam. Because the fact of the matter is a
good percentage of Muslims who live in this land, the only time their spouses and their children
even come to pray is on the day of read, we see people on their EEG, we don't even see any Friday of
the month, a good percentage of people will not even pray read when if they are not able to take off
if the if the days are, you know, two days and he's a engineer, doctor, he's a pilot, whatever our
skin, our kids school, et cetera, they're not able to take off two days, they only take off one day,
if it's not the day, they thought they're not going to come. Besides that. That's my position. Now.
		

			That is that has been my position for over a decade. In my previous community of Memphis. They never
followed this position despite the fact that they wanted to why because we had one masjid and the
other masajid in the community did not want to follow it. So I said to them, we will not break away
our messages from the other massage and even though my Masjid was willing to break away, they were
willing to follow me I said no, we're going to stick with the other massage and because yet Allahu
Allah Gemma because Allah has baraka and Allah's hand comes when we all combined together so for 10
years in that community, we never followed calculations even though that was my opinion. Now I have
		

			moved to this great city of of Dallas and now we're finding the masjid that I'm with and most of the
massage with here are not following calculations. I will not follow calculations in my personal
life. Why? Because I'm following the community. But I will continue to push and I will continue to
argue for and the day that the community changes the day that our messages are the majority of
messages change that is the day that I will follow until then, even though I believe that it is the
better position in my own life I will not follow it. Because we should be together as a community we
follow the community because Allah's blessings come when we follow the community if you want to
		

			bring about change change comes from within it is not super imposed from without so the answer of
our first question after all of that long journey, and I've given a longer lecture online, just find
it online, I forgot the title, but it's basically called, I believe it's called ending the moon
fighting wars or something like this. So you can find it up on online on YouTube, to conclude all of
this, all of that is theoretical. What will you do in your personal life? Do your Muslim the masjid
that you associated with follow them? The community you consider yourself a part of follow them and
leave the rest to Allah subhanho wa taala? That is our first question. The second question that we
		

			have here.
		

			A brother asked that, how do we calculate the timing for Fudger? And can we follow these charts that
our Masjid prints? And what if two masters of the same city have different charts? How do we
understand this, this difference? So the issue comes over the early timing or the to the beginning
timing of selected budget. And again, in a nutshell, all of these questions can be given in long
detail but we don't have time in a nutshell from the Quran and Sunnah. We learn that Fajr there are
two types of Fajr they are what is called the false budget and what is called the true budget. Okay,
the Federal Academy will find your Sadhak now, what is the federal Academy so imagine yourself
		

			sitting in the desert in the middle of the night and imagine the sun is slowly going to be rising
from the horizon, okay, so as the sun is coming closer to the horizon, or as the Earth is rotating
circle so that the sun is, is appearing to be close to the horizon, the first thing that you will
see, you will see a slither of light come out straight from the middle of the horizon, you're gonna
see just the very first pinnacle, just like a vertical column of light. That will be if it was pitch
black, there was no lights that's gonna disturb, you know, atmospheric problems. There's no clouds.
Just imagine you're in the middle of the desert. On the moonless night. No moon, we don't want any
		

			light and you're sitting there at 3am I don't know what you'd be doing at 3am in the desert, but
just imagine you are what would you see? You would see a slither of light come slowly the slither
would expand, expand, expand, expand, right until finally it's going to be straight in the horizon.
That is called alpha or sodic. That is called the real time of the year.
		

			As the true dawn that we're waiting for, we're not waiting for the early dawn or it's called the
Zodiac dawn. We're not waiting for that Dawn, that Dawn is the false dawn, we're waiting for the
real dawn when the entire horizon has a sliver of light and it's going to be horizontal, it will not
be vertical. That's the key here. So the real Fajr is the horizontal one and the fake Fajr begins as
a vertical and then slowly is going to go until it is horizontal. Allah says in the Quran, fekola
shabu Hector yet LBNL Akumal hyphal abbiamo meno Hyten SVOD mineral Fajr. Go ahead and eat and drink
until you can distinguish the white thread from the black thread. And the Hadith explains what this
		

			means is the horizontal rays of light that why white and black you can clearly see them. So when the
real Fudger comes in, that is when we begin our fast and that is one solid Fajr can be prayed at the
other end of Fudger. That is when we start our fast our if thought should be before that point in
time. So who should be before that point in time. And then when the event comes. And obviously if we
are late for whatever reason.
		

			And we hear the Advan with the water is in our hands, we know the Hadith of the process. And who
said that, if the dawn is called on you have a glass of water in your hand and finish the glass of
water. So it's not like any literally when you hear that, but we should try to give some minutes
before us and the other so that Emanuel Fajr is the actual timing one we call what would is called M
sack starts okay.
		

			This whitish light that we see, it is not something that is scientifically precise. It's not
something that we can calculate via an equation. Now, can we calculate any prayer timing with with a
very specific astronomical calculation? Yes, we can, we can calculate the end time of Fajr to a
millisecond, we can calculate the beginning time of Maghrib to a millisecond, we can calculate the
time of war essentially, you know, to a half a minute or so. Why? Because the end time of Fudger is
when the sun begins to rise, the disk of the Sun is just beginning to rise from a flat horizon, we
can calculate with very precise calculations, we have enough knowledge now for astronomy to know the
		

			precise second that the disk of the Sun would be visible from a flat horizon, not from a mountainous
not from a skyscraper from a flat horizon, we can calculate. So that is the end timing of physics,
we can also calculate when the disk of the Sun is going to disappear under a flat horizon. Imagine
yourself in the ocean as the classic example, if you're in the middle of the ocean, and you see the
sun come up, or you see the sun go down, we can very easily astronomers can calculate to a second
really, those two calculations beginning of of Maghrib, and end of Fajr. As for beginning of Fajr.
And as for salatu. In Russia, that is a gray area, pun intended, it is great, it's a gray area, and
		

			it is not a scientifically precise calculation. And there is no formula that anybody can use to
predict this. What has happened in the last 3040 50 years even more than but especially in the last
30 years is that astronomers Muslim astronomers have attempted to try to model equations and try to
figure out when we can begin Fajr and when we can begin Orisha based upon so imagine the horizon is
flat, the sun is going to do well, you get the point the sun is doing it 360. Metaphorically it is
the earth that is rotating, but you get the point, the sun is below the horizon, on one side for
Fudger. And then below the horizon on the other side for Asia. So the question arises, at what angle
		

			does the sun have to be beneath the horizon for Fudger Assad to set in? So again, imagine one degree
two degrees, three degrees 40, you get the point is going slowly this way, obviously, 90 degrees is
too much. At what angle? Will the sun be beneath the horizon for Fudger to come in. So for the last
4050 years, people have been attempting to be precise, by the way, you do find some medieval Muslim
astronomers attempting to talk about this and they have some figures. But in the recent times,
obviously our knowledge of astronomy has has grown
		

			exponentially. And so for the last 3040 years, you've had a number of great conferences or with ama
committees, and we've had numbers anywhere from 1314 all the way up until 19 and a half even 20. I
heard in one paper that I read so you have from 20 From 20 degrees. So 20 degrees would be the
earliest all the way up until even 1213 degrees which will be the closest right so obviously the
higher the number, the higher the degree so the more time for the sun
		

			to rise up, and the majority of councils of the world, they have a number around 17 or 18, some say
17 and a half, some says 18. Some say I've even had 16. And the fifth Council has said 15. And in
the last 20 years in particular, quite a lot of specialists have attempted to themselves go to the
desert on a daily basis. I know a group that went in California in the 80s. I know of another group
in England, two years, or I think a year or so a group of Rolla, ma went every single year, every
two three days. And they wrote down the timings for Fajr. And what all of these people discovered
every one of them that actually did it for multiple days throughout, you know, a long period of
		

			time, what they discovered is something that is, I would now say, an incontrovertible fact, it is
cannot be disputed. And that is that there is no one magic number, there is no one number that you
can apply across the entire globe. Rather, the equation are the degree that the sun has to be below
the horizon. It varies from time of the season to place in the world, to even the weather conditions
because the cloudy fog and not not cloudy, excuse me, I didn't mean cloudy, the there's something
called the visibility of the horizon. So there's something called atmospheric dust, how clear the
horizon is not cloudy. So there's just the horizon being clear is different than the horizon being
		

			cloudy, not cloudy, keep on saying cloudy, dusty is a better word. So there's something called as I
said, the, the the visibility factor within regular air, it changes from city to city. So for
example, in play in the ocean, for example, generally speaking, the visibility is much better than
in let's say, Los Angeles or China or something, the visibility will be different because of the
smog, you get that point there. So the notion therefore, of there being an exact number is false.
There is no exact number. And that is why one finds these differences in the charts that to try to
plug in an equation, well, then what degree are you going to use, and most of the
		

			the counselors that are now looking into this, they're also advising that we don't have one
particular number, even though like I said, many of them they gravitate towards around 17 to 18
degrees, and some of them gravitate to 15 degrees and Insha Allah, Allah Allah the differences, for
most of us is like 510 minutes, 15 minutes in Scandinavia and other countries, obviously, that
difference is very much but for most of the world, it's just a few minutes, 510 minutes difference.
So again, I would say follow your Masjid. It's not a big deal your Masjid the people in charge of
it, they're taking one of these opinions and Insha Allah, whichever position they take in sha Allah
		

			to Allah, there should be no hemorrhage or blame the people in charge of your community they should
do the research about which council or which parts are they want to follow if they it and it also
depends on which region of the world they live in, because those that live closer to the equator are
different than those that live further north and south. So there's differences between that so every
community should look at its own locality and its own rhythm and get the number from them and then
they can plug and chug and calculate these charts that come out. And in sha Allah Tala, you may
follow these charts and you are not likely follow knifes and Allah wasa you are not obliged to go
		

			out yourself and you cannot in the city anyway, you wouldn't see anything anyway. And you can follow
your locality because they're going with a standard position and whatever it is, Inshallah, to
Allah, it is permissible. It's not a big deal. Either way, whether it's 1516 1718, whatever it is,
the matter is very trivial. Insha Allah, Allah, and it's not up to you, you don't have to worry
about this. You may follow whichever one. That having been said, if you want to be extra safe, and
you follow the more conservative, there's no question that is a sign of caution. And it's best to do
that. The third question that we have today
		

			sister says that she is pregnant, and she's wondering if she does not fast, what must she do? And
I'm going to add here that what if a mother is feeding her child and she feels that she cannot fast?
So this is the standard question that every Ramadan we get asked every single Mufti gets asked this
question about the issue of pregnant ladies or breastfeeding ladies, if they are not fasting, what
should be done?
		

			Realize first and foremost that the notion that a lady who's pregnant or a lady who's feeding her
child is automatically exempt. That is not totally true. Rather, we ask every individual lady that
she needs to see herself whether she's able to fast or not. It's not an automatic excuse. And I have
spoken to a lot of doctors and the
		

			Here's something that is well known, but you ask your own doctor in this regard, but generally
speaking, especially in the first two trimesters, it would be possible to fast in most countries
when it's like 1314 hours without any harm to most ladies and most cases, but again, I'm not the
doctor, go to your doctor's and get a specific answer, generally speaking, and especially when it
comes to feeding as well, that it is possible to work your way around this. My point in saying this
is that a lot of people think that if they are pregnant, the house is an automatic exemption. No, if
you look at the books of fit without any exaggeration, all of them state, if such a lady feels that
		

			it is a hardship, if they feel that they're not able to, if they're worried about the child, there
is always that conditional, you don't find that when it comes to a person who has a high fever,
know, a person a high fever, you don't want him to fast, he's going to not fast because of the
fever, sick people that are very sick, they're not going to fast, no question about that. But ladies
that are pregnant ladies that are feeding their child, they need to see are they able to fast or
not. And what I suggest if you are healthy, and everything is normal, and your doctor gives you the
okay that you give it a try. And if on a particular day, you feel extra nauseous, or something
		

			happens that you feel very weak, okay, that day you break and then try again, don't just give up
from day one. Why? Because it will then pile up, I have had cases and we all know of these cases
where one year she's pregnant, then the next year she feeding the child and the third year she gets
pregnant again. So she might have four or five or six years all to make up and then she comes and
says What should I do? I have six years you know to make up. So, before you just jump to this issue
of not fasting first see, am I able to fast with some difficulty, you know or not if I cannot fast
and Hollis no problem. And if your doctor says is dangerous, no problem. Now, suppose that it is?
		

			Suppose that it is a problem too fast? Well, this issue of the lady who is pregnant or the lady who
is feeding? What should she do? This is a controversy interesting point to fit here. It was a
controversy from the time of the sahaba. The famous scholar adjust sauce he has a book called Camel
Quran. And he says that the early scholars differed about this issue and three opinions highly
ignited the authority of the Sunni love the Prophet system. He said that if the pregnant lady are
the best breastfeeding lady breaks the fast because of that, then she must make it up afterwards.
And there is no financial penalty, no fifth year upon her. And even Abbas, the cousin of the Profit
		

			System also said that she must give a financial fit the penalty of feeding of one person per day,
and she does not have to make it up. And Ibn Omar said she must give the video and she must make it
up double whammy double penalty, right. So I know the Allahu Anhu said she has to make it up. Even
Abbas said she pays the money. Even Omar said she has to make it up and pay the money. This is what
happens in early Islam now and the next generation and then the third generation those three
opinions essentially move down to two. And Ibn Abbas. His position was not practiced by any of the
major med hubs. And the format hubs vacillated between ideas opinion, which is that she makes it up
		

			and Ibn Omar's opinion, which is that she makes it up and she gives a penalty. And so the issue of
just giving the penalty was essentially abandoned by pretty much all the OMA and that is because, as
I'll explain it does not make any sense from a from a technical standpoint. And the Hanafi said that
the pregnant lady and the breastfeeding lady if she feels she cannot fast, then she does not fast.
And she makes up those days as soon as she can after Ramadan. The Maliki said the pregnant lady, she
makes it up and the breastfeeding lady she makes it up and she feeds for every single day. There
shall freeze and humbly they said that if she fears for herself, and she fears for her health, then
		

			she makes it up afterwards. However, if she fears for her child safety as well, if she's worried
about her child, then she makes it up and she feeds a poor person. In other words, all of those
opinions all of them they said she makes it up. None of the famous Madonna have said that she only
pays the financial penalty. Why it will Kodama, the famous humbly jurist. He says in his morning,
that the reason for this is that the pregnant lady and the breastfeeding lady that she will make up
the fast and I don't know of any difference of opinion amongst the people of knowledge for this, it
will for them is saying he does not know of any afterlife amongst the aroma there is enough amongst
		

			the Sahaba the first generation there was an opinion by that even Kodama comes in the sixth century,
the seventh century he says, I don't know of any scholar who says she only gives the money and then
he gives you the reason why. Liana Homer Bremen Zillertal mareel Alhadeff infc
		

			Yes, because the status of the pregnant lady, and the status of the breastfeeding lady is the status
of the sick person who's worried for himself and he cannot fast because he's sick, then he is cured.
And so he has to make it up. So the point is that if you look at the two scenarios when you don't
fast in the shittier, number one when you're sick, number two, when you're very elderly, when do you
give the financial penalty, you give the financial penalty when you are too elderly to make it up
yourself? So an 80 year old man, I'm just giving an example of any elderly person who knows that
from now on, I'm not going to be able to fast so for example, a diabetic, even if he's 50 years old,
		

			and the doctor says you cannot stay away from food for five hours or else you're in trouble, Hollis
so he is permanently sick, permanently sick or elderly, these two people the permanently sick and
the elderly, without any controversy. As per the Quran, Allah says in the Quran for Vidya tone to
amo miski. This is a versatile Bacara. If you cannot fast, then you give the Vidya or the penalty
the food of one day. So for every day, you do not fast you feed one poor person around $10 You feed
so for the month of Ramadan, there are $300 for America, for different countries, you ask your own
aroma. In America, generally speaking, it's $10 or a bit less than $10 per day, that is the feed
		

			here. So you will feed a poor person, you're gonna give money to a poor person to get food. Now as
for the one who has a fever, but he's otherwise healthy, as for the one who has a temporary illness
that is only for that day, or for that year that he is prevented from fasting, then he is going to
come back normal or the one who is traveling. So it's a temporary issue. That person, by testimony
of the Quran by text of the Quran, Allah subhanaw taala says very determined a Yemen, aha, they make
up what they have not done a later day. So if a person is in fever, right now, there are some of our
brothers and sisters, you know, with the virus with COVID-19, we ask Allah to cure them to give them
		

			a chauffeur, they have high temperatures, they're feeling fatigued, they're hungry, they're they get
these people, of course, they're not going to fast. And they will drink as much water as they can
take medicine as much as they can. Now insha, Allah and sha Allah, they will get cured. Once they
get cured. What should they do in a month by unanimous consensus? If they miss three days, if they
miss five days, they're going to make up those three or five days after Ramadan. Okay, that is
clear. Now, the pregnant lady, which of these two scenarios, is she closer to? Is she closer to the
one who's temporarily sick and is going to become normal? Or is she closer to the one who is
		

			permanently sick and will never become normal? It's common sense that the one that she's closest to
in terms of you know, which of the two paradigms is the one who is temporarily sick because she will
regain her energy and strength 100% After that phase is over. And that is why after the time of the
Sahaba, there was no controversy and it is something that is pretty much unanimous position that the
only issue comes this you have a double penalty and insha Allah she doesn't she just has to make it
up without giving the fifth year or the financial one. She just makes it up and inshallah that is
good enough. So to conclude this question, the lady who is pregnant or the lady who is
		

			breastfeeding, if she feels that she is unable to fast that she's going to have a great amount of
hair, Roger, great, it's just not possible to fast and she knows best. And she has to answer to
Allah, nobody can make that decision for her. Obviously her and her doctors, right she did. That's
something that she has to make in consultation with her doctors, she knows best and people are
different. Some people have more strength than others. But I'm saying still the default generally
speaking, that to abstain from food for 1314 15 hours in most scenarios is not something that is
		

			impossible to do. But still, you know your situation best all of these I keep on bringing it back
that I'm speaking generic specifics is up to you. Suppose you decide that I cannot fast okay, don't
fast. And after the pregnancy is over and after you recover it ever after everything is your energy
is back then Insha Allah, Allah, Allah, you will make up your fast if it so happens that you're
feeding, and two years go by well, then you will have to make up to two months of Ramadan. And
that's that's just like you got off for two months. Now. You have to make it up for two months bit
by bit slowly but surely, and this is as a male Kodama says, without any controversy amongst the
		

			scholars of Islam, yes, there is a position from the very earliest times and perhaps one or two
people in our times are you wanting to follow that, but I don't, I don't see this as being within
the you know, it's not a reasonable position because as I said, the two paradigms, the pregnant lady
is closer to one of them than the other. And in the end, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala knows best. The next
question that we have
		

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			sister is saying that she has to go to the doctor and get an injection. Does that break the fast
		

			the issue of whether injections break the fast or not, you can literally give an hour long lecture
with seven opinions about this issue. We don't have time for all of this, literally at least seven
opinions of with all of the details, we can get seven, but we don't have time for all of this, I'm
just going to give you the spectrum that is most important. Some say that any injection breaks the
fast. Some say that no injection breaks the fast. Some say that an injection in the vein breaks the
fast. And an injection in the muscle does not break the fast. And frankly, that is the most bizarre
and the weakest position because anything that is in the muscle will also end up in the blood. Every
		

			doctor knows this is just something that our scholars sometimes they don't know medicine that well.
So it was a common position like 2030 years ago that if it's in the vein, it breaks too fast. If
it's in the muscle, it doesn't break the fast, but there's no reason for this distinction. Anyway,
some aroma said this, the position that I follow, the one that makes the most sense is the position
of my teacher coming out with me and also the position of the measurement of fair pay the council
the Roberto Alamos mouthfeel. And they said, we look at the type of injection not where it is put
the type of injection, if the injection is meant to increase your energy, then it invalidates the
		

			fast and if the injection is meant for anything else, if it's meant for a pre surgery for numbing
for something that is something else you know, because sometimes for example, you're getting some
type of CAT scan or something they have to put in a special liquid that's going to go through your
system let's say or for example going to the dentist and you have to get a numbing sensation in your
mouth before the dentist does the operation or the surgery or whatever that type of injection does
not break the fast because nothing has happened that would break the fast however, if the injection
is nourishment straight drop of glucose for example the drip of you knows irregular drip clearly
		

			you're kind of cheating the system here and you're trying to get some energy so that would break the
fast otherwise and so by the way, so what if you went to the hospital you got admitted and they put
you on a drip for whatever reason, a legitimate reason Okay, fine, no problem you're in the
hospitals something is happening. Just remember if inshallah you get normal and healthy then you
have to make up that fast. And if it's not something that you're gonna get no matter how you're
going to pay for the the Kasara of that day but the point being that
		

			any type of injection that is non nourishing, and we have many scenarios and examples of this, that
is inshallah not going to break the fast and by the way, one we're on this topic let me just add
here that as well in shallow data, it does not break the fast if you put eyedrops or ear drops or
asthma sprays if you suffer from severe asthma and you need to just have a spray you know an inhaler
to inhale it in. This is a fine mist and it is not the same as drinking water. Even though there is
a physical difference only not a chemical difference because what is the fine mist if you take a
glass if you take a mirror and you do your spray a few times you will get a few drops of water right
		

			now if you were to drink that water, we all know it would break your fast but again we look at the
goal we look at what is happening here that fine mist it is meant as a medicine it is not meant to
be swallowed it's actually an air particle. If you were in a hot sauna room and you're breathing in
the water droplets you know the the high concentration of water in the atmosphere that does not
break your will do but if that same water were to be condensed in a cup and you were to drink it
that would break your I said we'll do it that will break your fasting. So fasting is not broken by
asthma sprays. And this is the photo of most of my teachers Some said it did but in Sharla that's it
		

			does not make any sense because it's not drinking liquid, it's a liquid that is a mist that liquid
that is in the air and fasting is also not broken by medicinal drops. Now some aroma were strict and
they said if you put it into the eye and it goes into the throat and then you swallow it so I mean
if you can get out of it and don't do it when you're fasting it's better but inshallah to Allah if
you need to take medication that is not going to be swallowed because swallowing down your throat
will break the fast anything that swallowed on the throat will break the fast so if you take
medication via the eyes or via the ears or something of that nature that you're not swallowing or
		

			that there is a necessary medication that you have to inject that is not going to increase your
energy then inshallah Tada that does not invalidate the fast according to the image man filthy and
also according to many aroma and Allah subhanaw taala knows best
		

			the next question that we have here
		

			is that once I broke my fast accidentally before it's time do I have to make it up or was the fast
valid? So what is to be done if one mistakenly breaks too fast before it's time?
		

			What do you mean by
		

			A mistakenly breaks the fast What do you mean by I mistakenly broke the fast do you mean that you
ate accidentally that you pass by water and you forgot you were fasting and you simply took a swig
of the water? And that's it?
		

			Or do you mean that you broke before Margarita time thinking that it was Maghrib time
		

			if you drank accidentally not realizing you were fasting. So it's human nature. For example, when we
used to work in the offices, right nowadays, we're all working from home, but when we're working in
the offices we passed by the water machine, okay. And so subconsciously, you're like, Oh, let me
just drink some water. And then you drink it. You're like, Oh, I'm fasting. So it already went down
your throat if you accidentally drink. So very clearly from the Hadith it is very explicit. Our
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, when NESEA was not immune for ACCA, OSHA arriba failure to massamba
who for a number of Tama hula who was caught whoever forgot that he was fasting, and he ate or
		

			drank, out of forgetfulness, then let him continue his fast because it was Allah subhanho wa taala,
who gave him food and it was Allah subhanho wa taala, who gave him a drink. So essentially, if you
accept completely accidentally forget and you eat or drink, then no problem. It is a gift from Allah
subhana wa, tada. You know, this reminds me of a funny incident in my own life. Let me just quickly
tell you this, then move on. My eldest son Amar. So when this one when he was young, he was only
like, I think 10 or 11 years old. And it was really a hilarious thing that I still remember to this
day that one day, I saw him drinking. And Ramadan, he said, You're drinking. It's Ramadan. He goes,
		

			Oh, I forgot. Sorry. So he just left it there. And then after a few hours, you know, I saw him
again. It passed the kitchen and he was drinking and I said, it's this is you drinking again? So he
shrugged his shoulders. Look at it looked at me. He goes, is it my fault? If Allah gifted me twice?
It's like, so you know, my shoulder? The kids have some smart responses like this. So SubhanAllah?
No, it's not your fault if Allah gives you twice, but you also have to pay attention that you're
actually eating or not eating or drinking. By the way. If you see somebody eating or drinking,
that's a Muslim. And you know, they're supposed to be fasting, you may remind them, hey, it's
		

			Ramadan. No problem. You may remind them, they are forgiven. But you overall, you remind them Hey,
isn't it Ramadan no problem with that. So the issue comes now that the brother said, or the sister
said, I don't know is the gender of the mistakenly breaking my fast before it's time, if you broke
it accidentally not intending to break, that's what I mean. If you ate or drank, without intending
that you want to break your fast, then you are 100% forgiven, and you continue, and it is a gift
from Allah subhanaw taala. However, if you intended to break your fast, and you found out it was a
mistake, that is where the issue comes. So classic example. Suppose mohareb is at 8pm. Okay, and
		

			let's just suppose that you have a watch that is five minutes early in your room, you didn't know
it's five minutes early, the watch hits 8pm. And you're like, Okay, it's time to break you're
eating, drinking. Somebody walks in, you know, your wife, or your child says, No, it's not time yet.
You say it's eight o'clock? No, but that watches five minutes advanced, right? Or suppose in your
mind, Missouri was 758. And you forgot that was two days ago. And today's time you didn't look it
up? And today's timing has moved on to eight o'clock, right? So 758, you're counting on the
milliseconds up as soon as it's 758. Then somebody checks. It goes, No, that was yesterday. Today is
		

			eight o'clock, right? So two, three minutes difference. I mean, if it's 30 seconds between watches,
we're not alone. But we're talking about something that is you know that it is clearly too early. So
if you wanted to break your fast, but you mistakenly broke it at the wrong timing, ie, you thought
that it was mercury, but it was not marketing, then realize that the safest position and the
position of all four schools of law is that you are not sinful, but you need to make it up after
Ramadan, you're not sinful because you didn't intentionally try to break the fast obviously, if you
intentionally break the fast that is a major sin. So the opinion of all formatives and it is
		

			definitely the safest one to follow is that even if you are off by a minute or two, and you thought
that it was marketed, but it was not Maghrib and you ate, you broke the fast, then your fast is
invalid and you need to make it up. Now realize that there is a strong dissenting voice in this
particular issue. And many of the early scholars, some of the Sahaba the tabby rune, the great
scholar of Hadith, even Hoceima shareholder, some Ibn Taymiyyah very strongly argued my own teacher
had been entertaining as well. They argued that if it was a genuine
		

			mistake, a genuine mistake, then they are forgiven and the fast is also valid. That was their
perspective. And they said that Allah says in the Quran that led to Archana in the scene, our
thought and that oh Allah don't call us to account if we make a mistake or make a genuine
forgetfulness, then Oh Allah forgive us. And it is reported in Sahih Bukhari that Osama bin the
burqa, the Allahu Anhu said that once we broke our Iftar and the time of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam on a cloudy day, and after we had broken or if thought then the sun rose up, and
she did not say whether they made it up or not. And the fact that she did not say indicates that
		

			they didn't make it up. Well, she would have said that is the interpretation of it to me, I'm saying
and also we have the narration of formidable hubbub in the Sunnah of a very healthy that once armor
Malhotra was sitting in the masjid and it was cloudy and they broke their fast and then when the
clouds disappeared, he was told or the sun is still there. So we have to make it up. And so Bob said
la Hola. Hola, Ana de no, we're not going to make this up ma Jaffna the Earthmen we did not intend
to commit a sin so this narration is also used by the other dissenting voice nonetheless that having
been said and I'm kind of seem to be defending that position but I'm just letting you know this is a
		

			minority opinion and to follow the majority is safer it's just one day it's just best to make it up
and you know let's get out of this this controversy and Allah subhanho wa Taala knows best.
		

			The final question for today inshallah ALLAH
		

			given that the messages are locked down, can we do erotica in our houses? Can we do eddakath in our
houses?
		

			So ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says in the Quran surah baqarah verse 187 wala to Bashi ruhuna one two
Maliki fauna filled masajid do not come close to your women, when you are doing it to gaff in them
as Jude and our Prophet salallahu alayhi salam always did it to calf in his masjid. And that is why
all of the schools of Islamic law have said that article F for the men must be done in the masjid
the concept of erotica means you seclude yourself and you really cannot seclude yourself. It adakah
means to basically seclude to cut away from so the concept of erotica is that you break away from
society from family from your daily routine, and you seclude yourself to worship Allah subhanho wa
		

			Taala as Max as you can during those time and you only exit that seclusion for the very bare
necessities if you have to go to the restroom, then you have to go outside the Masjid. If there is
no food coming to you, you will go and get food you know if you have to do hosel and it's not
inside, otherwise as much as you can you remain in the message. Now there are some very, very small
dissenting voices on the far right and the far left. Some are Aloma said that a decaf can only be
done in Makkah Medina and Jerusalem the harem of the two markers and the Masjid Al Aqsa, but this is
		

			an abandoned opinion. Nobody actually follows it except a very small group of literalist and perhaps
one scholar in the entire Ummah, as far as I know, it will do Baba al Maliki, he said that yeah,
tick off can be done anywhere that you want. But these are positions that are very like you can find
them mentioned in the encyclopedias. But in reality, nobody ever acted upon this in Islamic history.
And therefore, given that the massages are shut down. And given that erotica is not obligatory, then
there is no need to reinvent in this regard, because there is no like you can you can always get out
of this in a simple way and that is by secluding yourself for whatever period of time for the
		

			worship of Allah and it's not a technical error to gaff, but it is a seclusion and you expect Allah
to reward you, logistically, you can tell your family you can shut off your cell phone or you can
say you know, from 3pm to 4pm, please nobody disturbed me I want to read Quran. This is a type of
I'm not going to it's not a technical article, but it is a seclusion and you can expect Allah to
reward you that you are doing this for the sake of Allah that you are sitting in a corner reading
your Quran doing your Abba doing your vicar, there is no problem in doing that. So given the fact
that erotica is not obligatory, and given the fact that you can worship Allah in a type of seclusion
		

			in your house, there is no need to radically reinvent this position. And the the standard position
of all of the scholars of Islam for all of Islamic history is that erotica is linked to the massage.
Now, footnote here. Many of you are aware that the Hanafi school and only the Hanafi school, it
allowed erotica for women and only women if a number of conditions were met. One of them is that
they have a private space in their own house that they regularly worship and ie they have a room or
a corner that is known to be their regular Masjid corner. That's the high level position. The other
three methods actually say no the call
		

			concept of decaf is linked to the massage. Even the wives of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, when he when they will do air take off, they will do it in the masjid despite the fact that
their houses were connected to the masjid. And this is actually one of the strongest evidences that
the majority have. And it's a very strong evidence that a take off is linked to a masjid. Because if
anybody should not do or take off in the masjid, it should be the women the wives of the Prophet
Allah Allah sent him yet the Hadith in Bukhari and in Sahih Muslim that Alma Salem and Irish and
others, they will do air to calf and they would set up a small portion of the masjid and they will
		

			put their tent over there, and they would sleep over there, and they would worship Allah over there,
despite the fact that their houses are literally connected to the masjid, but they would not do
article further, they will do it inside the masjid anyway, that is the position of the majority,
whoever is 100 Who wants to follow their school, there's no problem. Having said this, I want to
also point out, dear Muslims, the religion is so beautiful. Whoever sincerely had the intention to
do erotica this year. Guess what? Allah gave you all the blessings and reward with zero effort?
Because in them and Mr. Lubin, yet, you had the intention? You got it? hamdulillah What more do you
		

			want? You want it to do it, you are sincere for doing it. And Hamdulillah you got it. So if you were
sincerely wanting to do it, gaff and it was your goal to do and take off. Then this year, Allah
gifted you that while you're at home, you will get the rewards of erotica. And for those of you who
want to try to do a ticker, well, you're not going to do something technically called an air to
golf. But why not? Dedicate a day, half a day, a portion of the night and tell your family and check
your cell phone off and tell them look, I just want to worship just don't disturb me and consider
that your equivalent and Allah will bless you for that knee. And for that attempt, even if it does
		

			not technically constitute an ethic if nobody's going to say that what you're doing is wrong will
lie. What you're doing is good. If you break away from everything, just like the process and when
you went a lot of hair out just break away from everything and just worship Allah. privately without
any interruption and consider that the equivalent of the earthy gaff, we ask that Allah subhanho wa
Taala blesses us to see a regular Ramadan, we ask Allah subhana wa Tada protects us throughout this
month, we ask Allah subhana wa Taala to protect our loved ones in our families, we ask Allah to
accept our good deeds to exalt our ranks to forgive our sins. And final point, as you're probably
		

			aware that I've advertised this as well that inshallah Tada in this month of Ramadan. My goal will
be that every single day at 10pm We're going to start from Thursday day after tomorrow, every single
day at 10pm. We will be doing some recitation with Officer John and then we're going to be doing a
summary not a Tafseer a summary of that entire juice, so that inshallah then you can read the juice
after I finished that summary it will prepare you for that summary. It's a type of Cliff Notes if
you'd like to type a summary of what we're going to be doing so that a shallow to other than you can
read that portion and better benefit from it. So I hope that inshallah Tada we will follow daily
		

			regularly so that inshallah you can read it on a daily basis. Zack moolah heron, Santa Monica
rahmatullahi wa barakato.
		

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