Yasir Qadhi – The Takeaway Lessons of Ramadan

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			hamdulillah All praise is due to Allah subhanho wa Taala we praise Him and we seek His help and we
seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls and the consequences of our actions. Whomever Allah
guides, none can misguide. And whomever he misguides none can guide him to the straight path. I bear
witness and I testify that there's no deity worthy of worship other than a larger leggera Lu, and
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			Manu topo la hapa Ducati y La Tomatina Illa one two Muslim on dear Muslims here we are bidding
farewell to the month and it was just yesterday that we were welcoming it and such as the reality of
time the Swiss sniffs of which time passes. And as we come to the final Friday of this blessed month
of Ramadan, not knowing how many more Ramadan's every one of us has, or even if any Ramadan we have
guaranteed, as we come to the final Friday of this month of Ramadan, it is worthy of us to
understand and check what are some of the benefits and lessons all of us have learned? What are some
of the takeaways of this month that we can inshallah to either utilize for the rest of the year.
		

			First and foremost, perhaps one of the most obvious ones is that of the purposes of this month of
Ramadan is to make us appreciate the simple blessings that we take for granted. We are voluntarily
giving up food and water and we know that there's a sumptuous meal when mulgrave comes every one of
us and hamdulillah somebody hamdulillah we know that when the other hand will be called the dinner
will be laid fully on the table. But there is a reminder for us that not all of us are so fortunate,
there is a reminder that there are many in the world who cannot take even food and water for
granted. So Allah subhana wa tada is calling us to task that these are blessings that you are
		

			voluntarily depriving yourselves up for my sake. But there are others who are in that situation
perpetually. This should soften our hearts brothers and sisters, imagine those people who are
fasting and they don't have much on the dinner table, perhaps even a date. And there are places
where not even that is guaranteed. So put yourselves in their shoes. In this month, we develop a
compassion for the poor and for the underprivileged. This compassion should charge us to be more
generous and to be giving throughout the entire year of the blessings of this month, is that this
month allowed us to control many of our sins, to curb our desires, even the halaal desires were
		

			curbed. So Allah subhanho wa Taala is demonstrating for us that we don't need our sins to live, we
can conquer our sins, we can rise above them. And we actually feel better for them of the blessings
of this month is that every single one of us increased our attendance in the masjid. And we loved
coming to the masjid. And especially after last year when the masjid was closed down because of
COVID. We even more appreciated the blessings that we used to take for granted. So now that we have
developed an association with the masjid, and many of us were coming every day, all of us increased
our coming to the masjid in this month. When this man finishes, let not our attendance diminished
		

			with it. The massages are still open, the massage will still be calling the agenda Salawat will
still be coming and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned that of the people who will be
sheltered our day of judgment is somebody whose heart was attached to us. What would you call boom
Allah combustion. He wants to go to the masjid and our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Do you
know what is a type of jihad a type of revolt. They said what he said sitting in the masjid waiting
for the event to be called waiting for the Salah. When you wait for the Salah. It is as if you are
doing jihad in the way of Allah subhana wa Tada. So this month of Ramadan has increased our Masjid
		

			attendance, my strong encouragement to myself and all of you don't cut off your Masjid attendance
when the Ramadan finishes. The Lord of Ramadan is the Lord of chawan. Allah azza wa jal is worthy of
worship in this month and in all months and a person who comes to the masjid frequently his Eman is
renewed and Allah azza wa jal praises those who come to the masjid even in the Quran. And Allah azza
wa jal says it is a sign of a man in Nima Yamato Masada de la human armineh Billa he will Yeoman
afriad. The people who frequent the massages, Yamato here means come regularly and they frequent
they are pillars in the masjid the people who come frequently to the masjid are those who believe in
		

			Allah and the final day, Allah subhana wa tada associates the masjid with believing in Him and
believing in the final day. So when Ramadan finishes make it a part of your schedule. And I know in
America it's not the same as back home you can walk to the masjid or is five minutes away for some
of you it's 20 minutes drive. For some of you it might even be more than this. But I encourage you
all to schedule at least one solid daily if you can't, if not every day, then every two three days
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			Allah put it into your calendar that I'm going to come to the masjid. This is a place where you will
reconnect with Allah subhanho wa Taala. And especially we need that boost for the rest of the year
of the blessings of animal bond of the blessings of Ramadan that reintroduced us to one of the core
pillars of our community and faith is the blessing of brotherhood, the blessing of being surrounded
by people of the same background, the same belief, the blessing of who will Islam, it is reinforced
to normal bond we stand rows and rows, we come together for a thought that reinforces the notion of
an oma. So as we finish this month of Ramadan, make sure that our hearts and our minds are thinking
		

			of the global Ummah, there are so many tragedies taking place Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah, we in our
little bubble are protected. But the same cannot be said of our Muslim brothers and sisters in China
and in so many other places in Kashmir and in India, what is going on and across the world, the
refugees of Syria as we speak right now Palestine is once again under attack and there are areas
that are being occupied right now as we speak by the apartheid regime we have to make do offer them
keep them in our hearts. This is one of the goals of Ramadan to reintroduce us to the Muslim Ummah,
and brotherhood of the goals of Ramadan and of the takeaways of this month is that every one of us
		

			we increased the punctuality of our Salah, we prayed regularly, many of us we are not able to pray
or we don't pray five times a day outside the month. In this month, we started praying five times a
day now that this month is independent finishing now that this month is ending, we have to take the
habits we've learned and maintain them throughout the year. Brothers and sisters the bare minimum,
the bare minimum to be a Muslim in the eyes of Allah subhanho wa Taala a minimal Muslim that is safe
from punishment is to perform the work on the five pillars and the first of those pillars after the
Shahada is the Salah. I encourage all of you and myself to be punctual in your daily Salawat make it
		

			a part of your schedule. Make sure all of you are praying five times a day this is the minimal
requirement to be a Muslim that is accepted by Allah subhana wa tada anything less than this and you
are encouraged and you are incurring Allah's punishment. So how to love brothers and sisters how
punctual we'll read with Salah 10 federal and Margaret we are looking at the minute and we know
exactly when the Muslim Dawn is going to be called and we pray McRib after we eat our if thought it
is so sad that perhaps on the day of read mostly will go by and you will be oblivious to it because
you're not going to have to break your fast Okay, you don't break your fast but make sure you pray
		

			Muslim on the day of read and the days after it and you yourselves will see that the punctuality
that we had for budget and mothering especially that it's so easy to become lacks in that Subhana
love once we have perfected the sort of water of the month of Ramadan, we should perfect the sort of
work outside the month of Ramadan. Those of you who increased your Salah those of you who are doing
nothing those of you doing sooner, make sure you add on to the bar. As I've said many times the goal
of Ramadan is we push the bar up higher and we add more rituals every month that we didn't do so
that those rituals maintain a last with us until the next Ramadan have the takeaways of the month of
		

			Ramadan over the blessings of animal bond over the lessons of animal bond is the increase in the
Tower of the Koran in the listening to the Koran in the recitation of the book of Allah subhana wa
tada all of us are coming to the masjid and listening to the Quran. All of us have opened up the
Koran and read something of it and we know that it encourages our Imad, it increases our
spirituality so to when Ramadan finishes, make sure we have some relationship with the Quran. Make
sure we are still listening to some parts of the Quran. Make sure we put it a part of our daily
routine. I encourage myself in all of you to make sure that you have a daily dosage of or on every
		

			single day. Add the Quran to your schedule, like you eat breakfast before you go to work. Open the
Quran for even five minutes. Read one page a day if that's all you can do even half a page it is
better than nothing before you go to work before you start the day. Open the book of Allah subhanho
wa Taala like you feed the soul like you feed the body with breakfast feed your soul with the Quran
like you will not function without having breakfast on a regular day. So to your room needs its
spiritual breakfast and the breakfast for the room is the recitation of the book of Allah subhanho
wa Taala when you're driving to work or when you're doing other things, instead of listening to news
		

			or that which will be of little benefit. Put some foreign on as well listen to us on to our our
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as we're all aware, in the month of Ramadan, he would both
recite and listen there are two separate actions of worship recitation has its reward and pleasure
and listening has its reward and pleasure. So every single day, incorporate some Koran to read and
some Koran to listen to as we did in this
		

			month of Ramadan have the takeaways of the month of Ramadan. And of the lessons of the month of
Ramadan is our increase in charity many of us gives a cat all of us must give us a cattle fatale in
this month. So as we increased our charity and as we gave to the poor, make sure it is something
regular that we do every week or every month, assign an amount whatever is reasonable for some maybe
students $10 is all they can do for others amongst us $100 but be ritual be ritualistic in your zeca
Well, levina home lyza catify Elune those who are constantly giving charity far Iran, there's an
active engagement don't just give once a year. Allah doesn't give you once a year Allah gives you
		

			every millisecond you are getting blessings from Allah. We cannot pay back every millisecond but
make sadaqa and make your zeca routine. Put it into your schedule again once a month or once a week
give some thing because that perpetuity that continuity is what demonstrates our Eman and taqwa and
remember what our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said the most beloved of all good deeds to
Allah is that which is consistent even if it is small $5 a week $10 a week something give it for the
sake of Allah subhana wa tada and make it routine as we have done in Ramadan of the takeaways of the
month of Ramadan and of the blessings of the month of Ramadan is that all of us may do during this
		

			month, especially before if thought and in Korean and in winter, we're making dua to Allah Subhana
what to Allah and da is of the greatest actions of worship. Let us make this a routine in our daily
lives as well. Da is of the easiest and the most blessing actions of worship as we made throughout
throughout this month. Let us open up a new relationship with Allah. Let us begin a conversation
with a law through the art of drop through raising our hands to Allah subhana wa tada and beseeching
him regularly of the blessings of Ramadan and of the takeaways of Ramadan that Ramadan will leave us
with is that Ramadan causes us to reorient our priorities we rethink through our purpose of life, we
		

			rethink through many things that are happening in our personal routine and lives. You know, in the
Western culture, they have the new year's resolution when the first of January comes they need to
rethink through for us Ramadan should be that time that we rethink through everything Ramadan should
be that time we have an assessment of our lives, what am I doing, what have I accomplished? What do
I want to accomplish? What are my actual goals as this Ramadan is winding down? Let us think about
what exactly we have accomplished for the sake of Allah subhana wa tada what legacies will we leave?
What achievements have I done that I can show a lot on the day of judgment that this is what I have
		

			done? And if we are not happy at what we have done, there is still time make sure we have our
priorities and we reorient our paradigm. What exactly are we doing here? And what exactly are we
spending our time with? This is what Ramadan should also leave us with the blessings of the month of
Ramadan and of the takeaways of this month. Perhaps one of the greatest takeaways is that Ramadan
reintroduces us to the sweetness of emotion and I've said this before and I'll say it again, if the
only gift of Ramadan were that it tells us that there is no pleasure higher than the pleasure of
worshipping Allah and there is no sweetness that is greater than the sweetness of a bada than that
		

			is enough of a blessing of Ramadan. Ramadan teaches us that worshiping Allah subhana wa tada is the
most fulfilling and the most satisfying aspect of being alive. In fact, it is the reality of life
because it is the life of the soul. Ramadan teaches us that not only can we be better, not only can
we raise the bar, not only can we abandon our sins and increase our worship, but more importantly
than that, we like being good Muslims. We feel good when we are connected with a love but Ramadan
introduces to us the reality of what is called Halawa, chill Eman the sweetness of faith. Our
Prophet sallallahu wasallam called it the sweetness of he man he man is sweet Eman is the sweetest
		

			of all experiences. And when we experience eemaan then nothing compares to it. And Ramadan teaches
us what is the head our tool Eamon therefore as Ramadan comes to an end, and we have tasted that
sweetness well llahi we all have tasted it. That's why we're fasting that's why we're coming to the
masjid. That's why we are here when we realize that nothing is better than the worship of Allah. Why
would we abandon that worship or minimize that worship when Ramadan is over? This is Allah he have
the greatest blessings of this month. It is what recharges our spiritual batteries. It is a gift
from Allah. That's what Ramadan is. Ramadan is a gift from Allah. Ramadan is a gift that Allah is
		

			giving us that Muslims realize it
		

			Want you to worship Me and even you deep down inside you like that worship you like being better. It
helps you to be a good human being and a better Muslim. So as this month winds down brothers and
sisters, that religiosity should not wind down our emaan in Allah should not wind down the ritual
should not wind down the month comes to an end, but the religion and religiosity must continue. One
of the great scholars of the past said, What's an evil group of people they are who worship Allah
only in Ramadan, the Lord of Ramadan is the Lord of all other months. And yes, in Ramadan, we give
an extra boost, no doubt about that. But when a normal bond finishes, we don't go back to how we
		

			were every one of us do your Muslims, increase the bar, raise that status that we have, and make
sure as Ramadan comes to an end, that we are better for it after this month than we were before this
month. One of the Sahaba said, the sign of an accepted good deed is that you are better after the
deed than you were before the deed. Because Allah says in the Quran, in
		

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			Allah accepts deeds from the motorcade. So if Allah has accepted your deed you are in with Turkey
and if you have Taqwa, then your actions will increase. So the sign of an accepted deed is that you
are better after the deed than you were before the deed Ramadan is coming to an end we want to learn
to accept our deeds. Therefore let that demonstrate in our actions after the month that we are
better after the month than we were before this month. May Allah subhana wa tada bless me and you
with through the Quran, and may make us of those who is versus they understand and applies halal and
haram throughout our lifespan. I ask all those forgiveness you as well ask him for he is the food
		

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			hamdulillah All praise is due to Allah, the One and the unique. He alone It is we worship and it is
His blessings that we seek all Muslims, there are still a few days left. And in fact, the greatest
night and the highest candidate of NATO to Qatar, as we know is the 27th. And this is something that
is authentic from the sooner all of the Knights are bless it and all of the odd nights are blessing.
And yes, the 2123 2527 29 haven't mentioned my name. But the one night that the Prophet systems
specified out of all of the 10 and Hadith in Sahih Muslim he said whoever wants to find Laila to the
Father, let him find it on the 27th. This is an authentic hadith, which indicates that the 27th
		

			indeed does have the highest probability and the greatest chance of being needed to the puddle. So
if we have been lazy up until now, do not lose hope there is still 27 and 29 that are left try our
best to do what we can on these nights. Also, as we wind down the mud, we have to remind ourselves
of other obligations of them is the cattle fitter. The cattle fitter is an obligation that is due on
every single person who can afford it and it is due on every single Muslim in the household, even
those who are not fasting so much so that the Sahaba a fatwa that if a lady is pregnant, even the
unborn child It is good to give the cattle fitter on the unborn child we gives the car to fitter on
		

			every person living in our house and it is around $10 if you can give more it is better. And the
purpose of the cattle fitter will lie how how merciful is our Lord that He told us that in order to
purify your fast this is a cultural filter, just $10 just a small amount. And the goal of it is that
if we lied or if we looked at something we shouldn't look at or if we did something we shouldn't do
during the days of Ramadan that spoils our fast the purpose of the cultural filter. Allah is saying
look, this is your cofounder This is your way to get out a small amount Allah doesn't need the money
but it's the spirituality it's the fact that we're giving it understanding that Allah subhana wa
		

			tada will purify my fast for a small amount I give and inshallah tada any shortcomings will be taken
care of so is that God's will filter must be given before so naturally and it is allowed to give a
week or so before so now give it so that insha Allah Allah you are given, you're out of this
obligation as well brothers and sisters, read the Salah to read itself scholars have different is it
wajib on the individual or not? The personal position that I follow is that it is obligatory on all
Muslims to come upon women and men upon the elderly if they're able to children, and this is the
position of many of the odema. That Salah to read is an obligation on every single Muslim who is
		

			capable of coming obviously in COVID. If there's an issue then that's a separate case altogether.
But the default in normal days and scenarios is that read is a photo the iron is an individual
obligation so please take some time off if you're able to from your work make sure you come for
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			up underneath and in a way that is acceptable in our study, and to perfume and to make a deal on the
days of read and Allah azza wa jal reminds us what he took a bit Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah to
read and take bureaux to read or mentioned in the Quran, we are supposed to make the tech Bureau to
read in an audible manner in a loud manner so that we are praising Allah azza wa jal in Muslim
societies the Sahaba would raise their voices on the day of read the souk the markets would be
buzzing with the tag bureaus on a read read is a day of joyous celebration. Why? Because Allah has
guided us to Islam, what do you took a bit Allah Allah Maha da come what Allah komitas Quran so on
		

			the day of read, be thankful to Allah, the spirit of he is the spirit of joy for being a Muslim. The
spirit of happiness for having been guided to Islam and the tech the road are done to praise Allah
azza wa jal for having guided us. And of course, on the day of read, it is a day of celebration and
joy for family and friends. And I advise all of you, especially the parents, or Muslims, especially
parents, make read a day of memories for your children, you know, this society on its holidays on
Christmas or Fourth of July, it goes crazy and does so many things well eat is our celebration. We
want our children to be happier on an IED than they are on the Fourth of July. So we have to make
		

			them happy. We have to create a bubble of happiness and joy, shower them with gifts and love, show
them this is what it is. So that insha Allah to other one, they grow up and they become parents they
have those memories, it will believe it or not. This is one of the mechanisms of preserving Islam in
our communities and traditions that they know this is the day of read. So make sure your families as
well are involved on this day and make it a day of community and celebration. And make sure of this
day as well that we ask Allah for acceptance. One of the Sahaba said the real read is the read of
the one whose good deeds have been accepted by Allah that is the one who should celebrate on the day
		

			of read the one whose deeds have been accepted. So we work to have that real read and we ask Allah
azza wa jal as we wind down on this month to forgive our sins and to have Ramadan clean all of our
slate of evil deeds and that this Ramadan finishes upon us with all of our sins forgiven, and all of
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