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praise ad du to Allah lord of the worlds
and may the choices peace and bless
blessings be delivered to our beloved
Prophet Muhammad to his family his
companions he is the Seal of The
Messengers may Allah give it to him and
shower it upon him to the day of
judgment as to what follows I begin with
the greeting words of Islam
asalam we thank Allah subhana tala for
the month of Ramadan we thank Allah
subhanahu wa taala for being followers
of the last prophet Muhammad peace and
blessings be upon him we also thank
Allah subhana t for being part of the
umah of Muhammad Sall Ali wasallam to be
of those who came in line with all of
the prophets because this umah is the
final Nation it will be the largest
Nation on the day of
Resurrection the prophets came to teach
their followers a complete way of life
the prophets taught their
followers they taught them the Oneness
of God the prophets taught their
followers to pray the prophets taught
their followers to give zakah Sak to
give charity to give the poor the
prophets taught their followers to fast
and to make pilgrimages to a special
place but what we
recognize is that in this teaching we
recognize that the prophet Muhammad s
Ali wasallam is the Seal of the prophets
and Messengers and he came to All
Nations to all people and to all
tribes and within this
dimension of fasting and in the time of
the month of Ramadan we recognize that
the prophet sallam taught us as did the
prophets that we need to look to this
fast for something else other than the
base
level the prophet peace and blessings be
upon Him delivered a message that was
good until the day of
resurrection and he informed us in an
authentic Hadith
the prophet peace be upon him said
whoever does not
leave scandalous words and acting upon
them then Allah has no need for that
person to leave their food or their
drink and so you can see in this that
the prophet sallam is saying leave
Scandal go past the point of negativity
coming out of the mouth and take this
fast to another stage and so we reach
the stage or we try to understand
another dimension within the fasting the
great Scholars have identified for
usw that the basic level is the level of
the struggle of the physical body is a
level where the individual
is dealing with staying away from food
staying away from drinking staying away
from sexual activity and so they focus
upon this and they worry about this and
they structure their day around
exstension from the food they structure
their day around abstaining from the
drink they structure their day around
protecting themselves from falling into
the level of the physical struggle the
next stage we could call the the next
Dimension is
s and that is the fasting of the
specialized people it is a higher
Dimension and when we use the concept of
specialized people we are not
necessarily talking about a special
category of people that is not
attainable unless we make a special
right or unless we gain certain Secrets
but what we are talking about is a
dimension which is attainable by any
Muslim because when the prophet sallam
said that we should stay away from from
this
scandalous word from testifying you know
in this evil against another Muslim this
was not for a special category of people
but this was for all of the Believers
and so in this light
and the fasting person is not only
fasting with the physical desires but
the the limbs of the person are fasting
and so if we can begin to look at this
symbolically the very tongue of the
person is fasting the eyes are fasting
the ears are
fasting the private parts are fasting
the feet are fasting all of the limbs
are also within a type of abstinence or
iMac during the Blessed month of Ramadan
but the question would come how can the
tongue fast the great Scholars of Islam
have shown us that there are many uh
sicknesses there are many evil actions
that come out of the tongue and we
should try to avoid these if we want
this new dimension this higher dimension
in the month of Ramadan so therefore we
should try not to tell lies this is one
of the worst things that can come out of
the mouth of an individual and of course
the worst lie is the lie on Allah
subhana wa tala to try to say that Allah
has revealed a certain body of knowledge
and it is not true is the worst thing we
can do the next level of lie would be to
lie on the prophet sallam and the
prophet
said whoever lies on me
openly can be assured of a resting place
in the fire
so lying on the prophet Salli wasallam
is also a terrible thing but we should
not tell lies on Muslims we should not
even tell lies to non-muslims the only
time of course that the prophet has
given us an exception to the rulers if a
person lies in a state of
war or if a person is lying to
flatter uh an individual the husband
flatters his wife the wife flatters her
husband and they say something something
that's not actually true in order to
bring love and peace in the home or if a
Muslim uh tells a a little lie in order
to bring peace between two individuals
who are fighting so there are some
exceptions to the rule but generally we
should not be involved in lie the tongue
also can produce
backbiting and that is where the
individual is carrying evil or hateful
information about another individual
saying things about somebody behind
behind their back saying something you
cannot say in front of their face but
you say it behind their back so the
tongue in the month of Ramadan should
avoid
backbiting the tongue also should avoid
namima carrying um these scandals
carrying this backbiting this evil IND
individ uh information about an
individual the prophet has told
us that the person who Carri
Scandal will not enter Paradise so the
month of Ramadan is actually protecting
us from the Hellfire if we go to that
other dimension of
the and that is where our tongue is
actually
fasting along with this the tongue tries
to a avoid Kord and that is the Scandal
that goes to the level where we would
actually um testify against a person we
would say something which destroys the
character of an individual in front of
other Muslims so we should
avoid anything that comes out of our
mouth some Muslims cannot control
themselves when they're angry and so
they say swears they are saying terrible
filthy things out of their month in the
month of Ramadan we need to control our
tongues also not only the tongue should
be fasting but the eyes should be
fasting how can our eyes fast we should
abstain from Haram sights so in other
words we should not be looking at the a
of other individuals especially the male
looking at the private parts or looking
at the body of a woman the man should
not do this the woman also should lower
her gaze and so we should try to avoid
this our eyes should naturally lower in
the month of Ramadan this does not mean
that we live in a monastery we live
inside this world but we need to control
our eyes in the month of
Ramadan one of the greatest fitas coming
to the Muslims is the wrong use of
technology I say this that through the
television alhamdulillah we have
stations such as Huda TV through the
television there is positive information
that can be gained by individuals but
through the television also can come
fitna can come confusion can come lies
about Islam so we should avoid those
Haram sites in the month of
Ramadan also the ears should be fasting
how can the ears fast if a person is
giving you backbiting talking about
another individual we shouldn't be
listening to this in the month of
Ramadan if a person wants to bring you
Scandal to bring you k
if a person wants to bring you a
terrible thing a terrible act that
another person done we don't listen to
this in the month of Ramadan unless of
course it will cause a difficulty a
serious difficulty or endanger the
health or the life of a Muslim our ears
should be fasting in the month of
Ramadan also our hands should be fasting
in the month of of Ramadan how can the
hand
of a Muslim fast a Muslim should also
not be involved in interest in The
Taking of usury in giving interest or
take or giving usury we also should not
be involved in witnessing The Taking of
the interest we shouldn't be involved in
any way but our hands should not be
involved in it we also should not use
our hands to cheat the Muslims to raise
the prices in our
stores we should not use our hands to
oppress the people of Islam or the
people of Any Nation so our hands should
be fasting in the month of Ramadan our
hands should be a source of Mercy a
source of giving a source of benefiting
increasing life and beautifying the
environment our feet should also be
fasting how can the feet be fasting our
feet should not walk us towards the
places of Haram our feet should not take
us to the discotech to the Rave to the
drug dealers to the places of the taking
of intoxicants our feet should not also
take us to places of gambling in the
month of Ramadan whether it is during
the daylight hours or whether it is even
in the evening because Ramadan is a
complete month
so even though the fasting is over our
feet should take us to the Masid and
should not be taking us of places of
adultery and fornication or places of
intoxication or places of evil our
private parts of course should be
fasting and that is obvious through the
basic rules of the month of Ramadan but
we should remember to take our fast to a
higher stage that it is not only the
stomach that is fasting it is it is not
only just the desires that are fasting
but all of the limbs of the individual
is fasting the whole body is fasting
when we are able to raise to that level
male or female then we
reach we reach a higher dimension of The
Fast and inshallah Allah subhana T would
bless us and give us a higher darah a
higher level and help us to gain his
Mercy in the month of Ramadan I leave
you with this thought I ask Allah to
have mercy on me and
you