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for
brothers and sisters in Islam wherever
you are I'm taking this opportunity to
share with you and to congratulate
everyone of you about this holy month
and this blessing which Allah subhah wa
ta'ala bestowed upon us we Muslims
followers of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and followers of all the
prophets and Messengers who preceded
before him and I am going to talk about
some something which is about the fast
and maybe some uh topics are little bit
overlapped and our MH who maybe
conducted the sessions before they
elaborated on that but I feel it is
necessary to just go again and shedlight
on certain aspects to remind ourselves
as we are delving and as we are heading
towards the end of the holy month of
Ramadan may Allah help all of us and may
Allah accept our deeds and your deeds
and may Allah help us to fast the month
of Ramadan and to stand and pray the
nights of
Ramadan uh the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam prior to the arrival of the
month of Ramadan he conveyed the glad
glad tidings to the
companions he informed them that now it
is month of Ramadan is going to come and
he said Hadith is authentic Hadith ined
and
he said Ramadan has come to you Ramadan
has come to you a blessed month Allah
has made it obligatory on you to fast it
during this month the Gates of Heaven
are open the gates of the Hellfire are
closed and the evil devils are chained
to Allah belongs a night in it which is
better than a thousand months whoever is
prevented from its good then he has been
deprived here in this Hadith the prophet
Sall alhi wasallam he conveyed this glad
news to the
sahabah why in order to first of
all to draw their attention that this is
a golden chance they should not
miss secondly that they should prepare
themselves and they should dedicate all
their efforts to Devotion to the worship
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
unfortunately many Muslims
during the month of Ramadan they waste
the month of Ramadan they don't exploit
and uzee every second and minute of
Ramadan so here the prophet Sall alaihi
wasallam he informed his sahabah to get
them ready and to dedicate the whole
month of Ramadan to the worship of
Almighty and I'd just like to emphasize
upon the last portion of the Hadith
where the Prophet Sall wasallam is
talking about and he said whoever is
prevented from its
good then he has been deprived if you
miss in Ramadan then you really lost a
great
thing you lost a great thing and you are
a loser no doubt so please brothers and
sisters wherever you are those who are
seeing me and those who are listening to
me right now that we should from day one
of Ramadan dedicate our efforts to
maximize the prophet and try to come out
of Ramadan and all our sins have been
washed and forgiven by Allah
amen also Ramadan by
definition the name is derived from an
Arabic word as you know which means Ram
which is excessive heat because it fell
on that the the month happened to be in
a hot climate but the definition of or
fasting which is derived from the root S
which means to abstain or to refrain
from doing certain
things so that means this is the
linguistic meaning this is the
linguistic meaning to refrain and
abstain from doing
things she
said in inia so she she said I vowed to
fast to fast from what that means to add
abstain from talking I'm not going to
talk or indulge in any speech with
anyone okay so that is the meaning and
the leg the legal meaning or the
technical meaning of fasting as the
urist defined it they say it is a
complete
abstinence complete abstinence from
eating drinking sexual intercourse Etc
from the D break of the D the true Dome
because we are going to know that are
two dones two fages the true fer from
the true fer the true da until the sun
sets so you abstain from this this is
just the the definition of the fasting
but the real fasting actually the core
of the Fast and the spirit of the fast
that all our
limbs the tongues the ears the eyes all
these things should abstain
from Yes Should abstain from uh being
indulged in anything that Allah subh
doesn't like and the prophet Sall Ali
wasallam said
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said may an observer of fasting will not
receive from his fasting any reward but
the pain of
hunger and thirst so many people they
will not they will come out of Ramadan
with no
reward no reward at all they fasted but
what they got from this fast only hunger
and
thirst so we don't want to be among
those and Allah subhana tala made it
very clear
the objective of fasting the goal of
fasting he says subhah waala
yeah fasting has
been prescribed and imposed upon you
Muslims as a was prescribed for those
before you the previous Nations Jews and
Christians why lest that you gain piety
tawa in order that you achieve the tawa
and what is tawa so we can know that the
fruit that we have to reib at the end of
the month is the tawa so what is the
TA defined tawa he said tawa is to fear
Almighty to fear Allah subhana wa ta'ala
and to be satisfied and comp complacent
and content with the little thing that
Allah provided you with and to implement
and act upon the Revelation and to
prepare yourself for the day of
departure that means death so that is
tawa so tawa it means to fear Allah
subhana taala and to avoid committing
the Deeds that Allah subhanahu wa taala
does not
like and we know in the Hadith which is
uh known by every Muslim every Muslim
knows it by heart by bukari and Muslim
that it is the fast is one of the
pillars of
Islam fasting is one of the pillars of
Islam as in the Hadith ofar the prophet
Sall Al wasallam said Islam is built and
constructed on Five Pillars and among
them is the fasting so fasting is one of
the pillars of Islam for instance if one
doesn't accept fasting and one rejects
fasting then he's not a Muslim
because he is demolishing one of the
pillars of
Islam narrated also in the
Hadith he said I heard Allah's messenger
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
saying when you see the Crescent of
Ramadan then start fasting start
observing fast and when you see the
Crescent of the month of sha stop
observing and if the sky is overcast
then regard the cent of Ramadan as to be
30 days so here in this Hadith which is
in bukari the prophet Salli wasallam is
telling us that how we should begin when
we start the fasting when we break
fasting we start fasting when we see the
moon when we site the moon when we see
the Crescent of the Moon we it's not a
matter that we are should not follow the
calculations or we should not use the
high technology no because of the
Simplicity this is one of the main
factors one of the main ingredients of
This Dean it's
Simplicity very simple and it's very
easy to implement and uh follow its
teachings the Arabs as you know the
Arabs as you know they were illiterate
Nation they were illiterate they were
nomadic tribes
so they don't know how to read or write
so Allah subhana wa ta'ala out of his
wisdom he tied all the with signs that
he made which is what the moon is one of
them the Moon is one of them very
precise no error at all not even zero
not even1 error at all so the sun will
will the five prayers are attributed to
the appearance of the sun Etc so here we
have to follow the moon if we see the
moon we fast if we don't see it we we
don't fast and the same thing for theid
and the same thing for the for theid and
even if only one Muslim imagine even if
one Muslim saw the moon and he reports
it to the then the whole um the whole
nation should should fast unfortunately
we see now this disunity and division
among the Muslims that this country is
fasting the other one are not fasting
this is really very sad and we ask Allah
subhana tala to unite our hearts upon
the truth inshallah and maybe the whole
um one day will Fast together
inshallah and also the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said in
another Hadith he
said uh he said we are an illiterate
Nation we neither write no no accounts
the month is like this and this and he
said the month like this
that's 30 days then and then nine days
so it means the month because we in
Islam We are following the moon so our
calendar is Luna calendar not solar
calendar so the month can be 30 days or
29 days this is the month in in in in
Islam it never the month will never be
31 days and month will never be 28 days
it's either 13 days or 29 days that's
what the prophet Sall alai wasallam said
and when he said we are an illiterate
Nation some Muslims might pose the
question you know this Hadith is applied
to the past when the the sahab and the
companions they were illiterate but now
we are educated so this Hadith cannot be
applied here there is a a mistake there
is a misconception what the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam meant here
that the simplicity
that we are not complicated Nation
there's no complexity that we have to
use the telescopes and we have to track
the moon what is the use of it just by
the naked eye wherever you are the
farmer who's in his farm the farmer
who's in his farm will just go and see
if he sees it that's all he has to fast
if he didn't see it this is actually
this is actually a credit for Islam that
it is so practical and so simple so
practical and so simple
and the final Hadith I would like
inshallah to
mention is the prophet Sall wasallam
said uh regarding breaking the fast we
should immediately break the fast
immediately break the fast the moment we
see this if you are seeing the sun and
the moment the sun sets break your fast
don't wait for the Adan even but if you
can't see the sun if you can't see the
sun then for the Adan and no need for
you to wait until the Adan finishes
immediately break the fast he say s Al
wasallam the people will remain on the
right path as long as they hasten their
And Delay the so the we delay and thear
we hasten it immediately we break the
the the fast and we break it as we're
going to know inshallah in on Dat Etc
and so this is
inshallah uh a brief introduction about
the fasting and I ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to uh increase our knowledge in
his Dean and unite our hearts upon the
dean and unites our heart upon the true
Dean the dean that was revealed and the
dean that preach and taught by Muhammad
s. wasam and his companions and I think
now we are heading towards the end and
i'mah going inallah now to give you for
10 minutes I think dedicated for
question and time and it's time I think
now for questions and
answers
yes we know that the month of Ramadan is
a special occasion in the life of the of
the Muslim uh would you kindly tell me
about the exemplary way to make the best
use of my time in during the day of
Ramadan to get the desired uh spiritual
benefits from
Ramadan this is a good question because
unfortunately that many Muslims they uh
they forgot the real and objective of
fasting which is the TAA so what they
fast they they fast only they abstain
from eating drinking Etc but at the same
time how do they spend their day they
spend their day watching things which
are displeasing Allah subhana wa ta'ala
I request you brothers and
sister at least for the holy month
during the holy month of Ramadan that we
have to try not to watch this little
window at home you know it what is it
the
television try to at least during the
holy month of Ramadan so that you you
will increase your Iman how you want
your Iman to increase while you are
watching things that Allah subhah wa
ta'ala will not reward you for it which
is dis basing Allah your ey should
practice the the fast your eye should
abstain from watching Haram things your
ears should abstain from uh listening to
the Haram things your hands your tongues
not that you are watching these things
and then you think Allah subhana wa tala
will accept your fast Ramadan is the
month of
Quran we read in history of our Pious
predecessors what we call them the
Sal that they even they leave the study
circles when the month of Ramadan comes
they would leave the study circles and
they would dedicate themselves to the
holy month of Ramadan praying worshiping
Allah
reading the book of Allah subhah wa
ta'ala and regarding reading the book of
Allah subhah wa ta'ala some
Muslims the way they treat the book of
Allah first of all many Muslim they have
deserted the book of
Allah throughout the year and they only
open it on
Ramadan and this is what the prophet
Sall wasallam complained to his R to
Allah the prophet am brothers and
sisters is complaining against us to his
Lord oh my Lord my followers they have
deserted and neglected this book so you
find them only they open the book of
Ramadan during Ramadan the the book of
Allah the Quran during
Ramadan after Ramadan they put it on the
Shelf even we got used that we should
not listen to the Quran except at a
certain time the Quran became an evil
Omen in our life for instance if I hear
the Quran at a time I'm not supposed to
hear it then I would conclude and I
would say who died right I conclude who
died that because we are not used so we
it is high time now this is the holy
book the book of Allah which is the
Quran that we will will chain our
life and only by turning back and going
to the book of Allah subhana wa ta'ala
the umah the Muslim um the Muslim Nation
they would gain their glory and regain
the Lost glory and their power and
strength without going back to the book
of Allah Imagine by just reading
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got 30 H by listening to the book of
Allah also the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said whoever believes in Allah
and the last day should read in the book
of Allah should read open and now there
is no excuse there is no excuse for any
Muslim even those who are illiterate
even those who are illiterate who cannot
read and write they can listen they can
put the tape lay the tape and they can
listen to the Quran I ask Allah subhah
wa ta'ala to Enlighten us and to open
our hearts and to guide us to the state
path
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