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alhamd all Praises are due to Allah lord
of the worlds and may peace and
blessings be constantly sent to our
Prophet Muhammad forever as to what
follows I begin with the greeting words
of
paradise
alhamdulillah again we thank Allah
subhana tala for this opportunity in the
month of Ramadan and we pray that
Muslims throughout the world will be
able to enjoy this month we pray that
Allah would provide for the Muslims the
ability to break their fast properly and
if not we pray that Allah would give us
all the patience to understand the the
importance of imsak to abstain ourself
and to follow the methodology given to
us by the last prophet Muhammad Sall Ali
wasallam the prophet Muhammad peace be
upon him did not speak from himself he
gave us a message from above seven
Heavens which came directly from the
creator of the heavens and the Earth and
so we need to look at the Quran and see
that the prophet peace be upon him was
the living expression of the Quran and
when they used to ask AA
about the prophet wasam she would say if
you want to see the Quran walking and
talking and living then look at the
messenger of Allah peace be upon him so
these words give us living expression it
gives us detail guidance that we can
follow in this month and that we can
actually learn how to maneuver ourself
while we are in a state of fasting and
what will be the rewards that come from
our out of that
maneuvering now in this light the
prophet peace be upon Him gave an
important Hadith and we have heard the
beginning of this Hadith so many times
it is the hadithi I want to read the
full Hadith and of course when we say
hadithi it is a saying um which is not
the Quran it is the words of Allah
subhana tala which is given by the
prophet Muhammad peace be upon him in
his special way of speaking the Arabic
language and so in this Hadith
Allah Asel has
said all of the actions of the son of
Adam are performed all of the actions
performed by the son of Adam are for
himself except for fasting it is for me
and I will reward especially for this
and I am to decide its rewards fasting
is a shield so if a person is fasting he
should not engage in foolish Behavior or
shouting or yelling if someone rebukes
him or fights him he should not
retaliate but he should say to that
person I am fasting I am fasting then
the prophet peace be upon him said I
swear by the one who holds my soul in
his hands the odor or the smell of the
mouth of a person who is fasting
is dearer to Allah than the fragr
fragrance or the smell of the sweetest
musk and so we learn from this uh
blessed
tradition that Allah subhana wa ta'ala
gives a special reward for those who are
in a state of fasting and that the
prophet peace be upon him has shown us
that if we are in a living situation and
a person now argues with us a
confrontation to develops with another
human being we should not respond to
this but we should maintain our fast and
we should say I'm fasting I am in a
special condition I am a fasting person
this then gives us the special condition
that we are in in this month also the
prophet Sall has given us a double
reward or an extra reward because
normally the smell of a fasting person
that the food in the stomach would come
up and then the smell smell comes from
the mouth and it is not an agreeable
smell and we use the miswak we should
not be putting H sweet things or sweet
uh types of fragrances down into our JF
or into our stomach area we can rinse
our mouth out uh with water and we use
the miswak but no matter what we do the
smell will still come out the prophet
sallam has informed us that this Hulu
this smell is actually better to Allah
than the sweetest
perfume the sweetest musk or M this is
such a great blessing that even
something that normally is disagreeable
becomes agreeable in the month of
Ramadan and so the prophet peace and
blessings be upon him has given us
guidance and has shown us how to act
with people inside of this month in
another
tradition and now the prophet is showing
us what is the benefits coming out of
this he said that a person who is
fasting has two Joys he has one Joy when
he breaks his fast and he has another
Joy when he meets his Lord and then he
will be happy again this is reported in
buari and Muslim and so that
continuation of the Hadith that beauty
that comes from the word of the Prophet
sallallah wasallam shows us that a
person in a state of fasting will gain
in this life and gain in the next life
surely every single day when we break
our fast at the time of if there is a
type of Joy when that Sugar hits the
body when those spices hit the tongue
when the stomach when the stomach when
the body is nourished again there is a
happiness that comes over us daily but
the greatest happiness inshallah will
come when we meet Allah subhana wa tala
the prophet sallam in a Hadith reported
in bukari and Muslim has also informed
us there is a gate in Paradise called a
ran through which only those who were
fasting will be allowed to enter on the
day of Resurrection an announcer will
say where are those who used to fast
accordingly they will proceed to enter
the gate and when they all enter the
gate will be closed behind them and so
fasting is a preference fasting will
give us insh
the entrance into
aan into a special gate only for the
Believers and we pray that Allah would
give us that chance to be of those who
would enter into this gate and so the
prophet peace be upon Him continued in
His blessings to his companions and when
he gave these a Hadith he gave them not
only to his followers but he gave them
to Muslims who would read them and live
by them until the day of judgment in
another Hadith the prophet sallam said
whoever fasts the month of Ramadan while
cherishing his true faith and seeking uh
confident or having confident
expectation in the reward of Allah all
of his sins will be forgiven he added to
this saying in this next reah or report
whoever stands to pray the night of the
night of Glory while having true faith
and seeking reward from Allah will also
have all of his sins forgiven and this
is also in bukari and Muslim so we see
in these Traditions that the month of
Ramadan is a time of great blessing that
the month of Ramadan is a time when the
believer gains happiness it is not
necessarily A Stern time and it is so
strange for people who watch Muslims
fasting you would normally expect that
when a person person doesn't eat and
doesn't drink the whole day that they
will become mean and cranky and uh they
would not enjoy what they are doing but
many Muslims not all of the Muslims many
of the Muslims actually expressed Joy
when the month of Ramadan comes we know
that some of the companions like
Ali he used to love to fast on a hot day
he would look forward to a difficult uh
fast to be able to sacrifice himself for
the creator of the heavens and the Earth
and so Ramadan is that time when the
when the umah gains happiness in this
world as time goes every day and if you
look at the different time zones as sun
sets people are breaking their fast so
we can say in one time zone in Europe
there is happiness and also in the
western part of Africa West Africa in
that time zone there is Happ happiness
it grows it goes across the Atlantic
Ocean it reaches the Eastern Seaboard of
America happiness comes to the Believers
it goes to the central zone happiness
comes to the Believers it goes to the
Western Zone and into the Pacific Ocean
happiness is coming to Believers in
Hawaii and the islands of the Pacific it
goes now to Japan to Korea to the
Philippines happiness comes to the
Believers it goes into China to Mongolia
and down in that time Zone into
southeast Asia happiness comes to the
Believers it goes then uh to India to
Tibet happiness comes to the Believers
it goes over to Pakistan comes into
turkey into the Middle East happiness
comes to the Believers it goes then into
Africa happiness comes to the Believers
all over the world at the different
times Joy is coming to the um of the
Prophet Sall wasallam just for the
simple Act of breaking the fast look at
the mercy that is involved in that and
so people even who are depressed about
their lives and they fast gain happiness
just by Thea and if we can give an IFA
to another person if we can invite in
people who do not have as much as us
then we can be giving joy to other
members of the um of Muhammad s Ali
wasallam if we could take our wealth and
then find a section of the city where
there are needy
Muslims give it to them make them happy
make their faces light up when they eat
the beautiful dates make their faces
light up when they have nice uh cool
drinks and when they are eating healthy
food make their faces light up when they
have enough to last them through the
evening and to begin their next day that
is what the umah is we are all blessed
with happiness and so we should share
that happiness amongst ourself but not
only that we can take it a step further
we will be blessed
inshallah with an entrance into
paradise and when they enter enter into
Paradise it is
said they will live inside of it forever
there are sounds that nobody has heard
there are tastes that nobody has ever
tasted there are sites that nobody has
ever seen and inshallah it is said that
the Believers at some point if they are
blessed they even come into the presence
of Allah subhana wa tala that is the
highest joy to see the face of Allah
subhana wa taala that is the mercy
within this month that through this we
are able to enter into Paradise it is a
special place Baba
ran and so the prophet Sall Ali wasallam
gave us this Bushra he gave us Glad
Tidings of blessings in this world and
blessings in the Hereafter all we have
to do is follow his words be sincere let
our IM
be we say it with our
tongues we confirm it in our
hearts and we practice with our limbs so
in this case we
say I am a fasting person our hearts
should confirm this statement and our
limbs should confirm what we have said
and what we have believed in we carry it
out we follow the words of the Prophet
Muhammad Sall Ali wasallam we stay away
from food we stay away from drinks we
stay away from sexual activities we
purify our mouths and our lives and
inshallah we gain happiness in this life
and the next I leave you with these
thoughts and I ask Allah to bless you
and
me