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in the name of Allah the beneficent the
merciful we send praises to Allah the
Creator and we send peace and blessings
to all of the prophets to the prophet
Abraham the prophet Moses to Jesus to
Muhammad peace be upon them all to all
those righteous ones who have walked
this Earth from the beginning of time
and we begin in the greeting words of
the righteous
allum alhamdulillah all praise to Allah
the month of Ramadan is upon us this
blessed month has finally come like an
old friend who is meeting us after a
long time Muslims will be fasting all
over the planet Earth in China in Russia
in Southeast Asia in Africa afca in
America in Europe in the Middle East in
all parts of the planet All Nations all
Races all people will be fasting in this
blessed month we want to take this
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Allah would bless them and would give
them the best of this month and would
give them blessings for all of their
actions the prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him was the last of a long series
of prophets and
heat wasam taught the people in the same
Traditions that came from the prophets
of
all all of the prophets taught toit they
all taught the belief in one God and
that as human beings we should submit to
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
we should live a righteous life in this
world we should not lie we should not
steal we should not kill the weak and
innocent but we should try to live the
best kind of life one of the important
actions Within These teachings was
fasting the prophet Muhammad peace be
upon Him gave special teachings and in
that he was blessed with the presence of
the month of Ramadan and so this blessed
month is the time that we are reflecting
in and we pray in this series to be able
to look at some of the virtues of this
month and to try to gain insight into
the real power and the real blessings
that Allah asael has given us the
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him on
the eve of the month of Ramadan reported
and he spoke to his followers and Salman
Al
far he is the person who reports this
Salman tells us that the prophet peace
be upon on him said oh people a great
and blessed month is here it is a month
Allah has enjoined on you its fasting as
an obligational Duty and all of you must
fulfill it and he has encouraged you to
pray during its nights as an extra act
whoever performs a good deed in this
month he will be considered as one who
has performed a major obligation in
another month whoever performs a major
obligation
will be treated as one who has performed
70 obligations in another month so the
prophet peace be upon him was giving us
the background to the power of this
month that even simple actions simple
Good Deeds can take the place of major
obligations in Islam and that those
obligations we fulfilled will be giving
us countless numbers of blessings he
also peace be upon him said to his
followers and to us Ramadan is the month
of patience and the reward of patience
is Paradise it is the month of sharing
and a month in which a believer's
provision is increased so a Believer
does not lose in this month a Believer
by abstaining from the material things
of this world and by carrying out the
actions of this month and sharing of his
time sharing of his wealth will actually
be
increased the prophet peace be upon him
also informed us it is a month which
contains a night which is more excellent
than a thousand months whoever is
deprived of its blessings he is deprived
of a great blessing and so this month is
one whose time contains special
blessings and mercy from Allah subhana
wa ta'ala it is a special time time
chosen for believers regardless of their
nationality regardless of their language
that they should carry out the fasting
they should abstain from food and drink
and from sexual activity in the daylight
hours and they become part of an
International Community that is lifting
up its hands in prayers and that is
abstaining from the material Delights of
this world and looking for the special
blessings
the prophet peace be upon Him gave his
uh
teachings drop by drop step by step to
the followers and he led us toward a
great reward so we thank Allah asael
again for this opportunity to be in the
Blessed month of Ramadan for this chance
to be of those who have health who have
wealth those who have the strength to
abstain from their needs their daily
needs and do it for Allah those who will
stand up in the night those who will
give up their sleep and they do it for
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
there is immense reward in this month it
also is a time that through this
abstinence we are able to identify with
the poor we are able to identify with
people who have no food and so Ramadan
is a time of great
it is a teaching time not just teaching
with words but the teaching is done by
the very State and condition of the body
that the believer finds himself in it is
a time when all of the Muslims are
fasting regardless of their agenda and
so it is obligatory upon males and
female and The Young and the old all
those who have reached puberty are
obliged by the Creator to fast in this
month and and through this obligation we
are actually gaining blessings even
young people can fast and Muslims
throughout the planet will be
encouraging their young people to fast
in this blessed month even if they fast
for a few hours or if they're very small
and they fast for a few moments if they
do it for Allah subhana wa tala then
they become part of the community who
has chosen or been chosen specially for
this time to be restricted in this life
and to receive countless uh blessings
and mercy in the next life so we thank
Allah subhana wa ta'ala for the month of
Ramadan we pray that Allah would bless
us in this month and we pray that Allah
would give us increased understanding
during this time that we as the
followers of
Muhammed carry out this message of toed
this is a message
that did not only uh reach the people in
the Arabian Peninsula it is a message in
line with that which came to the
prophets of old the prophet peace be
upon him has showed us that prophets
came from All Nations prophets came to
China prophets came to India prophets
came to Russia prophets came to Africa
prophets came to all parts of Europe to
all parts of to the Americas all
sections of humanity have been blessed
with those who have been raised up to
teach them that they should not bow down
to created things but they should bow
down to the creator of the universe bow
down to the one who is in back of
everything that we see the one who
created the Sun the one who created the
moon the one who put the sun in such a
perfect order that it continues to flow
around the earth and so in the same way
that the sun
submits as a Muslim we can say submits
in its order submits in its path the way
that the moon goes around the planet
Earth the way that the planets revolve
in the universe all of this is
submission to the creator of the heavens
and the Earth and so similarly in the
month of Ramadan the Muslim also submits
and is able to uh join that grouping and
that category of the planets and the
animals and the plants and insect life
and all different parts of the universe
that submit to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
so the month of Ramadan has finally come
people have been waiting sometimes for
years to be in a Ramadan that they
really understood so it is a blessing
for us to be able to communicate this
message to each other it is a blessing
for us for our families to be able to
sit around and to break the fast
together to wait for the next day and to
start the fast together to stand up in
the night and to pray to Allah
asael to join the ranks of the Muslims
when they are praying to become part of
that Community Guided by the lessons of
the last prophet Muhammad peace and
blessings be upon him for surely he did
not speak from himself he spoke from
above seven heavens and he informed us
that fasting is a special condition in a
hadithi in a Hadith which is reported
where the Prophet peace be upon Him
reports in the name of his Lord the
prophet sallam had said that Allah Asel
has said
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Allah subh has reported to us and given
us this message that all of the actions
of the children of Adam male and female
are for themselves except for fasting
surely that is for me and surely I will
reward specially for it so a person can
give in the path of Allah
they can pray in
Jama they can go to Mecca they can
perform many actions but the actions of
fasting are a special set of actions
where we abstain from the physical
Delights of this world and we submit to
the Creator in our minds in our bodies
in everything that we
do the double blessing within this month
is that we are not only abstaining for
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
but we are doing it in a special month
we are doing it in a time that this
abstinence which normally would get us
one hassana one blessing will get us
70 and by giving it'll give us countless
rewards so we pray that this would be a
month of great success for the Muslim
umah we pray that Allah subhana Wa
ta'ala Would bless
the children of the um of Muhammad Alat
wasam we pray that Allah would bless the
women of the um of Muhammad wasallam we
play pray that Allah would bless the men
of the umah of Muhammad Alat wasam and
we pray that Allah would give us the
success and I leave you in peace with
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