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brothers and sisters of Islam in this
session we'll be talking inshallah about
the virtues of
fasting Ramadan is the month of the
Quran Allah subhana says in his
book the month of Ramadan in which was
revealed the Quran a guidance for
mankind and clear proofs for a guidance
and the Criterion which it judges and
distinguishes between the right and the
wrong the Quran is the only book that
Allah subhana
preserved the previous scriptures the
previous books the
Torah and the injil or the
gospel theyve been Allah subhana wa
ta'ala trusted those men to take care of
the book of Allah the clergy men the
priests and the rabis but they
adulterated the scriptures and they
chained the scriptures but then the book
of Allah which is the last
Revelation the Christians and the Jews
they have two books
one they call it the New Testament and
the other one is the Old Testament and
we Muslims we have the last testament
which is the book of Allah which is the
guidance that leads to the best way it's
the way of Salvation the way which will
take you and deliver you from this life
and take you to the everlasting life the
life if the here after life of Eternity
so this is the book of Allah and Allah
subhana wa tala as we Muslims believe
that it is the true word of
Allah Allah spoke the
Quran it is the true word of
Allah the Quran Isam Allah Allah spoke
it and what will happen also towards the
end of the world the prophet Sall alaihi
wasallam he said a night will come a
night will come when the Quran will be
taken away from the books and from the
chests and breasts people will get up in
the morning there's no
Quran they will open the books there
will not be Quran so it is now our
chance brothers and sisters to read the
book of Allah because this Quran will go
back will be taken by Allah subhana wa
ta'ala so Allah subh revealed this Quran
the month of Ramadan in which was
revealed the Quran and jel used to come
to the prophet Salli wasallam in Ramadan
and to read the Quran to the prophet
Sall wasallam and in the last Ramadan he
read the Quran with the prophet Sall
wasallam
twice twice and this Quran
revealed to the prophet Sall wasallam
Allah spoke it and jel conveyed it to
the prophet sallallah wasallam so it's
not something that the prophet Sall
wasallam made up made it up no it is the
word of Allah subh waala and it is
indeed a guidance as Allah subhah wa
ta'ala
it's a guidance not only for the Muslims
a guidance for
mankind the whole Humanity brothers and
sisters is suffering people are lost
people they don't know their way and we
Muslims have the
solution we Muslim can show them the way
by
just tell them this is the book of Allah
read it
objectively read the book of Allah
objectively read don't be biased leave
your emotions away objectively read the
book of Allah and that will show you the
way and that will explain you what Islam
is Islam is what is in the book of Allah
and what is in the authentic traditions
of the Prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
not what some Muslims might do that
doesn't represent Islam Islam is if you
want to know Islam go to its reference
go to the book of Allah go to the
authentic narrations of Allah of of the
Prophet Sall Ali wasallam that where you
will know what Islam
is so the Ramadan the is the month of
the Quran is the month of the of the
Quran the prophet Salli wasallam also
says in the Hadith which is authentic
and it is in mus ahed and which is he
said s wasallam fasting he's explaining
to us fasting is a
shield which a servant protects himself
from the fire
so it is a shield The Shield that the
warrior
use
junah okay which is a shield that
protects the the fighter so the fast
protects
you the fast protects you because the
fast it
weakens the defish desires and
tendencies which are within ourselves
fasting eradicates and abots these
devilish tendencies which we have inside
that's why when the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam he advised the youth he
told them fast if you cannot get
married he prescribed for them the
fasting why because he said fasting will
weaken your sexual drive your sexual
desire and that how you can control
yourself those who are the the
youngesters who are suffering so they
should resort to this medical and this
prophetic prescriptions that given was
by the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam so fasting is The Shield that
protects us from all types of
evils also he said sallallahu alaihi
wasallam in bukari I swear by that being
in whose possession is the life of
Muhammad in other words he is swearing
by Allah in whose hand is the life of
the Prophet Sall alaihi wasallam he said
the smell and the odor of the mouth of a
fasting person is sweeter to Allah than
the fragrance of the Musk
you see when you are fasting and your
stomach is empty there will be
unpleasant smell coming out due to the
gases that will come
up this smell though it is unpleasant in
the sight of Allah it is better than the
smell of the musk which is call it MK in
Arabic okay so does this mean that we
should not use the Sak in order to leave
this smell there no that's why some of
the urist of the shaf they dislike that
to use the Sak after but the majority of
the scholars they refuted that they said
the Sak and brushing the teeth has
nothing to do with the smell because the
smell is not coming from the mouth it's
coming from the
stomach okay so there's nothing wrong to
brush your teeth even after or use the
Sak the prophet wasallam was using them
the Sak before the Za and after the Z
before and after there's nothing wrong
with that also he said said Sall Ali
wasallam as
inani fasting is exclusively Allah subh
is saying fasting is exclusively for
Allah the reward of it the fast no one
knows besides Allah no one knows how
much you are going to get of the fast
except Allah subh tala so the reward the
price of fasting the reward we are going
to receive no one knows but Allah
subhanahu wa taala also he said
sallallahu alhi wasallam the fasting
person experiences two occasions of
delight and happiness at the time ofar
and the time of meeting Allah subhana
tala that the Muslim will feel happy
twice he feels happy when he breaks his
fast I'm sure every Muslim now who's
watching me he's looking to his watch
and he is happy now alhamdulillah I
fasted the whole day and now just few
minutes I'm going to break my fast so
you see the happiness and a person who
who didn't fast the day some Muslim they
don't fast may Allah guide them uh they
don't fast you'll see them him his face
when it's time for is so black and he's
so sad because he didn't fast the day
but the Muslim who fasted the day his
face is so bright and you can see the
smile on his face and the happiness
that's only what the first happiness the
happiness which is greater than this
brothers and sisters is the happiness
when you see Allah
it's the happiness when you meet Allah
on the day of judgment that's the true
happiness when you are in real life when
you see Allah subh when you are inside
the Jenna so you will experience
happiness twice here when you break your
fast and also when you meet Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
and also he said sallallahu alhi
wasallam and this is in
andan the authentic Hadith uh
Abu said I said oh messenger of Allah
tell me of an action by which I may
enter Paradise he said s wasallam take
to fasting there is nothing like it he
said you want me to tell you something
that will take you to the Jenna will
make it easy for you to reach the Jenna
he said yes he said
fasting you know brothers and sisters if
you fast only one day for the for for
pleasing Allah subh tala not for showing
off not for showing off but for pleasing
Allah subh tala for instance Monday or
Thursday you will be
distanced you will be removed from the
Hell Fire a distance that will be
covered in 70
years you'll be so far from the Hell
Fire just by fasting one day which is we
call it na fast or optional
fast so fasting that will make your way
easy and we read in the history of our
examples our forefathers the pious
predecessors that they they love the two
seasons winter and
summer summer because it's a long day
and very hot to
fast to fast because when they are
fasting and you experience the hunger
and The Thirst the reward will be more
and they like winter why because the
night is long for
tud
for tahajud so the winter they love it
because the light is long so they can
make tahajud they can pray and they love
the the summer because the day is long
so they can't
fast
also he said sallallahu alaihi wasallam
in the Hadith which is in mused and as
well he said fasting he said
fasting will say Subhan Allah oh my Lord
I prevented him him from food and
desires so accept my intercession for
him Subhan Allah see in this Hadith that
the fasting will intercede for you
fasting because what will happen to the
Deeds because some people might ask this
question I can't understand I can't
comprehend this Hadith that the fast
which is something
immaterial fast is something immaterial
it's not something you can touch
how the fast will come to defend
me so what will happen Allah subhana
tala when he wants something he says to
it be and he it is so what will happen
on that day the deeds will be
materialized the deeds will be
materialized and the fast will come to
defend
you we know in the for instance in the
Hadith about the black stone which is in
Makkah the black stone ha Aswad on the
day of Resurrection Allah will give it a
tongue and
eyes and this black stone is going to
talk and witness and and uh testify
whoever kisses it or touched
it those who kissed the Blackstone and
those who touch it the black of stone he
said oh Allah he touched me oh Allah he
kissed me
so the black stone will
speak so it's not difficult as you can
if man man delimited he managed to make
things speak which are
immaterial now all these receivers and
electronic receivers who made them what
are they made of of the Silicon they're
made of what silicon which is sand the
ic's and the transistor Etc and they
convey right how about Allah how about
Allah subhana wa ta'ala who created
everything Allah subh will make these
things to happen so just don't question
the the power of Allah subhah
waala and
fasting as it is known to many of you
was not imposed
overnight Allah subh out of his wisdom
he made things gradual like how he
prohibited the alcohol he didn't
prohibit it at one go the same thing
about fast ing so in the beginning it
was recommended to
fast even when you and if you fail to
fast because it is little bit difficult
then you can Bay kafar and experation
then after that Allah made it obligatory
that the moment you side the moon you uh
you fast you fast and inshallah we reach
the end of this session until I see you
inshallah next time may Allah preserve
all of you may Allah reward all of you
and now it is question time inshallah
now it's question time
yes you have said at the beginning of
this session that Ramadan is the month
of the Quran so would you please shed
some light on the importance of reading
Quran during this holy month and also
what is the best way for reading the
Quran the as I said Ramadan is the month
uh of the Quran and we have to read as
much as we can we can read
and we can do during the month of
Ramadan but not in the parrot fashion
you know what I mean by the parrot
parrot the bird that repeats
things they call it in Arabic okay so we
should not read it in a parot fashion we
should read it with contemplation and
reflection we should
contemplate don't they Ponder and
reflect about the Quran or there are
locks and seals on their hearts so we
have to ponder and reflect reflect upon
the book of Allah and only then and only
then you will enjoy the sweetness of
reading the book of Allah because you
find some Muslims especially in parts of
the Muslim World they compete with each
other there is a race how many did you
make that means how many times you
finished the Quran so might say I I
finished it this number of times so they
are competing but do they understand
what they are
reading said your aim and your int
should not be how to finish the chapter
but just reflect in what you read you
should read it at your own pace with
understanding enjoy reading it even one
letter you will get 10 H 10 Good Deeds
by reading just Al L
30 so enjoy reading the book of Allah it
try to get a t next to it so the ayat
that you don't know just refer to
understand their meanings and the most
important thing that you put the Quran
into your
life the Quran should change our life
brothers and sisters it should change
our life as it changed the life of the
sahabah what
chained he know he buried his daughter
alive but the Quran changed him so much
so that when he's walking in one way the
Shan will run away from Omar though the
Shan was a companion permanent friend of
Omar before Islam but after Islam the
companion the Shan is afraid of Omar the
Quran changed
Omar so the the Quran which transformed
the whole nomadic tribes the Arabs the
barbaric
tribes and made them
leaders and bearers of guidance who went
just I will conclude with this one story
what the Quran did to the Companions and
that is
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
sent him to rust the Persian leader and
rust when he saw he was short and his
sword is we is short as well and shabby
clothes he said why did you come what
brought you here you want food date date
uh clothes whatever whatever you want
ask he said no Allah has raised us to
bring the people out of the darkness
into the light and from the narrowness
of this word into the vastness of the
Hereafter and from the oppression of the
human beings in this world to the
justice of Islam so the Quran brothers
and sisters should chain our life and we
have to implement whatever we read when
you hear oh you who believe immediately
Allah is addressing you leave the Haram
leave R leave leave leave all these
things that that is how we should read
and deal with with the book of Allah may
Allah accept our deeds and may Allah in
increase our knowledge in his de am mean
until we see you inshallah in the next
section may Allah preserve all of you
may Allah accept our deeds and
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