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yeah
this is the month where forgiveness
comes to you from every angle not
getting forgiveness from Allah in this
month means you worked hard not to get
the forgiveness from Allah every day you
get golden moments where your Dua is
accepted every day you get mountains of
Deeds only Allah calculates it for you
every day you fast your 70 seasons 70
years away from hell if not more 70 if
you finish Ramadan properly 70 * 30 you
got 2,100 years away from Hell Allah
gives multiple folds of reward to get
you to the high ranks of Jenna so if you
don't get forgiven by Allah you sure
know how to dodge but you're dodging
forgiveness of the you're avoiding Rah
and mercy pouring at you from every
angle and forgiveness you desperately
need for blessings in this life and more
important importantly for entry to
Jenna control yourself discipline
yourself restrain yourself that is what
Ramadan is all about you restrain
yourself you control yourself Subhan
Allah so for one whole month I stayed
away from that which was Halal for the
other 11 months I can easily stay away
from that which was Haram
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fasting is a training for the body and
soul a renewal of
Life encouraging the spirit of sharing
and
giving we fast during the day we pray
during the night we read we recite we
memorize we implement the book of
Allah we exalt ourself in obeying him
conquering our lower selves by
emphasizing to our s the importance of
pleasing him we realize the importance
of worship and the relative unimportance
of
this understanding the meaning of the
gates of paradise are open the gates of
h fire are locked and the devils are
chained why do we do this for one reason
hoping for Allah's reward and fearing
his punishment Ramadan is at our
doorsteps it is the month of forgiveness
it is
extraordinary in its
significance in its importance its
Excellence its high station W if you had
sin as much as a firm as the firm on the
sea and you sincerely get back to Allah
tal all your sins will be
forgiven
Ramadan whoever far month of Ramadan
with con with with firm belief and
hoping for a reward all his previous
sins shall be
forgiven there's one who
does and he can't wait for the IM to do
Salam and there's another one who does
it and he's excited as he standing
before Allah and one who just does it
just to do
it some are superficial and traditional
in their worship and others enjoy when
their stomach is rumbling gurgling and
growling because his mind escapes his
body and realizing how beautiful this
fast is he realizes how much he loves
the one he's leaving all these desires
for his stomach is growling but his
heart is laughing at how much further
and further this has taken him from
jahanam and how further and further it's
getting him to
fos he stands on his feet the long hours
excited enthusiastic eager because his
mind is with the reward of where this
stand is going to land him a
palace that the ceiling of it is the AR
of Allah neighbor in Allah subhanahu wa
taala in
J let's have some discipline during
Ramadan and focus on finishing that
Quran at least did you guys know we say
we're s everybody here says they're
following the Sunnah right am I correct
I'm in the right
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place okay I'm going tell you something
most of the sahaba most of the sahaba
most of the sahaba finished reading the
Quran every seven
days most of the sahaba most of the
sahabah most of the sahaba finished
reading the Quran every seven days did
you guys understand that so we say we're
going to follow the Sun and this is not
in
Ramadan this is
normally this was their normal practice
in Ramadan it was
increased so if we say we're going to
follow the Sunnah let's follow the
Sunnah in this because we say we're
following Quran and Sunnah but we jump
past that a lot of times and we totally
ignore that let's try our level best to
read the Quran as much as we really can
during
Ramadan let make let's make that our
joint Mission because that's part and
parcel of Ramadan reading the Quran and
see how many times you can finish it and
see the effect that it has by you
finishing it over and over again and
reciting it to your child and having
your child read to you and these things
like that these are practical things
that will make Landmark changes in your
life so again fasting is supposed to
have a type of Hab a type of attitude
you're not supposed to be playing and
joking around Allah's messenger Tau us
without
Ramadan whoever believes in Allah on the
last day let him say that which is good
or let him shut up that's the language
so we see this is not in Ramadan so it
should be more done in Ramadan we
shouldn't be doing a whole bunch of
chatty chatty talking about all types of
things you know it's like a catapult you
know how a catapult works you have this
catapult and you have a stone you put
the stone at in in one part of it and
you pull it back how much do you pull it
back a little
bit it that uh Stone will actually shoot
out of there very very very far so to me
Ramadan is like a catapult you're
actually pulling back and you throw when
you throw it helps you for the other 11
months by the time the stone lands you
are already in another month of Ramadan
you follow what I'm saying this is
spirituality it's one way of looking at
it there are so many other ways so it is
so vigorous it requires energy such that
you've used it so powerfully in this
month that the rest of the 11 months you
are just sailing you are flying you are
cruising cruising and when by the time
it comes to land you are already you
have the Stone again and you pull it
back and you are again moving for the
other 11 months so the discipline that
is achieved through the month of Ramadan
is unique and amazing let me mention to
you one thing there are certain things
that are Haram to eat do you agree like
for example you have pork you have
alcohol you have so many other things
that which is not slaughtered correctly
and whatever else so many things are
prohibited you're not allowed Now look
for one whole month from dawn to dusk we
stay away from that which is halal what
is halal I cannot have it in Ramadan
during that time from dawn to dusk why
discipline myself for the sake of Allah
Allah said don't have it so if I managed
to stay away from that which was Halal
for one whole month then surely after
that I can appreciate that which is
halal by eating it and stay away from
Haram at least at
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least Allah gave you fasting so you can
protect yourself self what does that
mean let's let's try to understand what
that
means human beings us we have certain
training you have to go through training
if you want to get good at
something especially physical training
like if somebody is they want to become
a soldier or they want to become a
police officer and they have to go
through certain kinds of training and
their body learns to adapt like at at
the beginning it's hard and then it gets
easier and easier and easier for them
right and this idea of training putting
yourself in difficulty it helps you in
not well by the way when you're in
training things are easy when you're in
the training program things are easy
like for example when they train
firemen they set up a fire to put it out
but they control the fire it's not like
a real fire in a building it's
controlled so it's easier they make you
jump down a building but it's easier
it's not like the real thing they go
easy on you and then they when you get
good enough then they put you in the
real life situation you understand that
right now the same thing happens with
fasting fasting you're constantly
feeling something aren't you constantly
feeling thirst you're constantly feeling
hunger there is not a minute that goes
by that you're not feeling it your your
throat is fighting with you your lungs
are fighting with you your throat is
yelling at you and saying give me water
give me water give me water whether you
like it or not there's a war going on in
inside you when you're fasting there's a
war physical war going on inside you
your throat is against you your stomach
is against you your body is getting
weaker and begging you please disobey
Allah please disobey Allah and you stay
the entire day fasting fighting your
body and you say no my heart is
submitted to Allah and therefore I don't
care if my entire body wants something I
will not give it to
it you train your heart to control your
body
that's what you do when you fast why is
that important because when the fasting
is over you have to continue to train
your now your heart is ready to control
your body so you're not just going to
eat what you want you're not just going
to go where you want you're not just
going to look at what you want because
all of those things your body wants but
who has gotten stronger and when you
pass the body got weaker and who got
stronger the heart got stronger and
where does ta
rest
the the heart is the place of ta when
you give your body the the weakness and
you give your heart the strength you
train yourself to stop yourself from
other things so my my dear Young Brother
the young guys that are here if you're
fasting staying at home and watching
movies you're not
fasting you're not fasting because
you're still your heart is still giving
into your the wrong
Temptations the entire exercise of
fasting is is you constantly remember
yeah just like I'm fighting my stomach
just like I'm fighting my throat I got
to fight my
eyes I got to fight my I got to fight my
mouth I got to fight my
tongue I got to fight my my desires I
got to fight my
hormones I have a fight with everything
now the the thing we see is the drinking
and the this you know the the eating but
everything else fasting is your training
for real life and by the way I told you
when training goes on when training goes
on then it's easier controlled fire
controlled situations what does Allah do
Allah make fasting in Ramadan easier
does he C cage up shaan does he put the
Shan away he does doesn't he's going
easy on you so your heart can get a
chance to train and get better without
being in the battlefield the second
Ramadan is
over guess
what Shan is out and the war begins and
all of that training will now come in
handy but if you didn't train yourself
properly
uh look uh I mean just to help the
younger guys here this is for the
younger guys especially if a guy wants
to join the Army he has to go through
physical training so they make the guy
jump over a wall or climb a wall and go
on the other side so two guys join the
military one of them jumps over the wall
the other one goes around the wall they
both got to the other side you have to
do it 10 times one guy jumps over it 10
times the other guy walks over it 10
times
right now when they're on the
battlefield and they have to go over a
wall who's going to go and who's going
to fail you understand they both can say
I did it I made it to the Finish Line
well that's what you wanted to reach the
Finish Line I did it you will Fast and
your brother will fast but your fasting
will not be the same it won't be the
same that the guy who applied himself
and actually trained himself and the guy
who didn't train himself they're not
going to get the same
results
he
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said that whoever
fasts the days of
Ramadan through his IM his belief in
Allah subhana wa ta'ala and his mean he
wants the reward the a from
Allah his past sins will be forgiven
that's the first
opportunity the same Hadith the prophet
wasallam said but instead of un whoever
fast he
said whoever prays meaning the night
prayer during the month of Ramadan also
the two same conditions through his IM
and he's hoping to get the reward
his his past sins will be forgiven and
yet another Hadith the prophet wasam
said whoever
prays
through his IM and his that his past
sins will be
forgiven three
opportunities the Muslims are excited
because they know during this month
there's a night that's better than 1,000
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months whoever is praying and worshiping
Allah subhana during that night 1,000
months of worship who having the scale
of his Good Deeds on the day of
judgment the Muslims are
excited because they know that this is
the month of of the
Quran
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radan the month of Ramadan where the
Quran was sent down they following the
footsteps of the Prophet sallallah
alaihi wasam who used to recite more of
the Quran during Ramadan and the
footsteps of the scholars of Islam who
would stop teaching during the month of
Ramadan just to focus on reciting the
Quran my dear brothers in
Islam as we focus on the preparation for
this
month we focus on about we're about to
enter into the month of Ramadan we need
to remind
ourselves we need to remind
ourselves that there's no guarantee that
we're actually going to enter into
Ramadan this
year we could go out today or tomorrow
and not enter into Ramadan but
insh through Our
intention we intend to benefit from this
Ramadan we're preparing we're excited
about this Ramadan Allah subhana wa tala
if we were to die before Ramadan he'll
give us the reward for what we intended
insh and we need to remind ourselves as
well that this
Ramadan if we're blessed to enter into
Ramadan and to fast it all inshallah
that it could be our last
Ramadan how many people do you know or
that you've heard about who are now 6 ft
deep under the dirt
they didn't they were with us last
Ramadan but they're not with us this mon
this year you need to focus on that
remind yourself take full advantage of
this Ramadan preparation preparation
preparation is the key prepare
yourself think about it mentally what do
you want to do write it down put out
your goals say this month this Ramadan
I'm going to do this and this I'm going
to read this much of the Quran I'm going
to do this many Good Deeds I'm going to
go for um I'm going to visit sick people
whatever type of Good Deeds you want to
do I'm going to give more s every time I
see a worker on the street I'm going to
give him five
R I'm going to give sod to send it to
Syria to anywhere else to the people in
need I'm going to give this much money
of s during the month I'm going to pray
to we every
night I'm going to wake up early and
read more Quran during the night
whatever your plans are write it down
have goals and be careful of the Trap of
Shan that so many Muslims follow
into cuz
Ramadan it's 30 days or 29 days
so it's just like a marathon you don't
Sprint when you run a
marathon if you want to finish the
marathon you have to have a steady Pace
all the way through too many Muslims
what they do when it comes time for
Ramadan they fly into the month so
excited do so many good deeds but
unfortunately they die down at the end
towards the middle but don't forget that
that night
that night that is better than 1,000
months it's in the last 10 days so make
sure you start off on a steady pace and
you finish on a steady Pace prepare
yourself for what's going to come inshal
and Allah knows
best Ramadan the Beloved is a month that
we gain TAA as the almighty Lord says
inah Bak that fasting is prescribed upon
you as as to those before you for one
reason the main reason the wisdom behind
fasting in order that you learn ta so as
you can see this verse teaches us
something extremely important which is
the main reason that or main thing that
we can gain
from fasting what is this self restraint
Tua God Consciousness God God fearing
and basically it means to fulfill the
Commandments of Allah tala and to
abstain from his prohibitions this
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isik an ear
predecessor was in Mecca when Ramadan
came so he decided to escape the heat of
Mecca and go to T bit more cooler like
ramadan's coming 50° cuz it's pretty
hectic so he said I put my luggage on
and I travel to D probably 25°
20° easy
leniency as he was traveling he met Ani
a desert Nomad yeah do nomads huh so he
met a do
Nomad and he asked him where are you
going cuz I'm going to
Mecca he goes but are you not afraid of
the meccan ha heat ramadan's about to
appear why would you want to go from
coolness to
heatness he goes
Malik it is from the
heat of Hellfire that are remain way for
not the hate of
this and how can you do
that by fulfilling your obligations of
Allah Subhan Allah he knows that in mea
is an elite reward an immense reward he
prefer to be in the immense reward in
Mecca H and not in t because there's
more reward in the month of
Ramadan so Subhan
Allah he would prefer to be in Mecca for
the reward saying that I
prefer or I am running away from the
hate of the fire and not the hate of
this
D
Ramadan is a therapy for one's Iman
because as time goes by your Iman wears
out when you wash your clothes and wear
them time and time again you wear them
out and that's thei of the
Prophet Faith wears out of the heart
like any one of your clothes wears out
so ask Allah to renew your faith in your
hearts you ask Allah and you act upon it
too Ramadan dusts your heart off it rep
patches your clothes it revives your
Iman and ignites it for a takeoff you
start off this imic therapy by directing
your inclination INF fighting your
desires shackling your inclination like
the Shan was Shackled if you leave
eating and drinking and your wife which
is otherwise Hal on normal days this is
a boot camp to train you never to do
what's Haram throughout the your
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year fasting on a day of Resurrection
will intercede for you as the Hadith
mentions that fasting will say Ya
Allah I prevented him from thir and From
Desire so accept my intercession for him
well the Quran will say Ya Allah I
prevented him from sleeping at night so
accept my intercession for him and then
the almighty Lord will accept their
intercession
but we have to look at our intention
very very carefully and that intention
is meant only for Allah tala and
unfortunately we see many who fast for
other than the almighty Lord W dear
beloved it is a terrible possibility
that all your actions whether it is the
fast or the prayer or anything else can
be rendered null if your intention is
not sound if you are not intending this
fast or any act of worship solely to the
one that created you you are wasting
your time and you are leading yourself
to destruction so make sure you monitor
make sure you put your intention under
surveillance every day every single day
talk to
yourself ask Allah to give
you you intend in the heart that the
fast is meant solely for worshiping
Allah tala and this should be before the
dawn of each day according to a opinion
and some said that you can say it or
intend the first night of Ramadan for
the whole of the 30 days inshallah
they're both acceptable and
strong so you do it before the dawn of
that day
asuz and IM Ahmed mentioned
from that whoever does not make his
before will have no fast on that
day another narration mentions that when
you are fasting do not act indecently or
argue and if anyone abuses you or wants
to fight with you what do you
say I am fasting I am
fasting
Ramadan a blessing many in their graves
desperately wish to have an opportunity
at a blessing many onlookers will regret
they did not take advantage
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