alhamdulillah assalam alikum which is
the greeting of peace peace be unto you
and Ramadan five pillars of Islam
submission to the will of God one is
that you worship none but the creator of
the heavens and earth and not his
creation and you accept Muhammad is the
last and final messenger sent to mankind
which includes Jesus Moses Abraham they
all came with the same message worship
the Creator not his creation and then
you agree to pray five times a day not
6543 or none but five times a day
minimum you connect with your creator
because you love him he loves you he's
giving you everything that you have and
at the end you get Jenna paradise and
you avoid the Hellfire Ramadan that's
one of the pillars along with giving the
poor dude tax and Hajj once in your
lifetime you're physically financially
en able we're goingon to be talking
about Ramadan because it's Ramadan time
and some of you are new to Islam and you
want to know how you can do it in the
best way what are the details of Ramadan
because you don't want it to pass by and
you miss out on all the blessings and
the rewards so we'll be right back with
my next guest from the TV show let's
talk about it shake Abdul kareim Zade
here on the dean show we'll be right
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here with SH kimam peace be with
you please be with you thank you for
finding time to be to be with
us I'm very happy to be with you how's
your program going let's talk about it
people know you from there let's talk
about it what's all that about well um
it's really a show about uh question and
answer where uh people call in with
their questions and we
I try to answer and if I don't know I
tell them I don't know educating the
people yes that's what we're doing today
you heard me open the show Ramadan yes
it's here and Muslims get excited about
it so there are a lot lot of people new
Muslims old Muslims that might have come
back to practicing their Dean this way
of life from the Creator and now we want
to do things right we want to do things
the right way so we can get all the
reward from this blessed month tell us a
little bit about Ramadan why it's so
special uh well Ramadan is an annual um
I would say training uh camp for the
soul for the soul yes um that you get a
handle of yourself once
again um in a way Allah subhah wa ta'ala
sets the stage for you uh he chains the
sh and um the mass is filled are filled
with people who pray uh people are
fasting
St um the spirit of obedience is out
there
um so that uh you have no
excuse and the
incentive uh is so
motivating imagine the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
wasallam uh he basically uh indicated
three golden
opportunities If You observe
the fasting of Ramadan but with these
two restrictions imman that you believe
that you're a servant of Allah subhah wa
tala that you're not doing it because
I'm strong I'm I'm I'm able to do it
rather my Creator my Lord mandated this
upon me and I'm his servant and I love
it and I'm going to say to
him I hear and I obey my my Lord IM um
it's it's a pillar of Islam it's
mandatory and I'm submitting to my Lord
and I know it's all good for me whenever
I submit to Allah subhanahu wa
taala and also seeking the reward uh of
fasting you cannot imagine uh the amount
of reward that you get out of fasting
and maybe we'll we'll shed some light on
this but with those two restrictions
Allah subhah wa ta'ala will forgive all
your previous sins mhm that is one
two whosoever
observes the that we pray after
again we explained those two with the
with the first say those in English now
again believing
believing seeking wanting the reward
believing in your Creator and wanting
the reward from Strictly from him for
that don't say I'm fasting because I
want to be healthy don't say I'm fasting
because I'm strong enough I'm dieting
losing weight no no no even so our
Scholars when they defined fasting in
the technical terms uh they said
abstaining from eating and drinking and
all other things which will in
invalidate your fast look at the
restrict with the intention of the
worship of Allah if you get all these
benefits because we're seeing a Modern
Trend you'll see many personal trainers
and people who are in the fitness world
and they are recommending to fast
they're recommending that you know this
has such great U physical benefit health
benefits but along the side we're not
doing it for that but if we get those
benefits hey we're get to double
absolutely but that's that's how we work
for Allah and we get the and we get we
get
that we work with Allah and we get the
benefits we get the benefits cuz we
trust him tell us this sh tell us before
we go into the dos and don'ts because we
know that Islam submission to the will
of the Creator is is in the Bible you
can see it if you look back to the first
man Adam he submitted to the will of God
he didn't submit to himself to to to the
creation but he worshiped God Jesus
worshiped the Creator he didn't call
people to worship himself he did Islam
he was a Muslim Abraham was not a Jew or
Christian but he was one who submitted
to the will of God he was a Muslim one
who submits to the will of God and
you'll see that they were praying and
you'll see these pillars that we have
because some people think Islam is
something that was brought by Muhammad
weren't they fasting too weren't they
doing these things can you emphasize on
this a little bit well Islam just to
throw some basic rules here is the
religion of Islam is made of belief
system the AA the the Creed then the
rituals then the character you know the
manner manners the etiquet of dealing
with one another and then comes in the
Shar the laws the only thing that
changes is the law from you just said
you just said some I don't want
some people get scared right now they
think the boogeyman's coming to get him
what's what what just take a second is
that something is that like the 10
commandments yes it's the Divine Law
God's law that's it obeying God yes it's
not like something to cut your head off
no no and we believe
Prophet Jesus will come back and
implement the Shar Jesus came with
Sharia I mean Moses came with Sharia and
confirming it he Comm he he confirmed
Sharia God's law and guess what theator
he will come and imp the of Muhammad
that's amazing see when when you have
open heart and open mind you see these
prejudices will go away continue on so
we go back with this sh and
transactions Allah subhana wa tala in
the Quran he stresses that all the
messengers they came to convey Islam but
with one mandate that they come
with but each Messenger will come with
some update some mandate to the LW to uh
meet the challenges of the time because
every messenger comes in a different
time in a different place and the
knowledge of Allah subhah wa ta'ala is
eternal so when Allah subhah wa taala
spoke about fasting in the Quran he said
yeah ye who
believe fasting is mandated upon upon
you obligatory upon you like it was
obligat upon those who came before you
this is the creator speaking yes you're
quoting what the verba and word of godak
yes this is the Quran this is the Quran
the Revelation um now that verse
indicates indicates that fasting was
also mandated upon the people of the
book before us the Christian and the
Jews who who are known to us to be
Muslims the followers of The Messengers
at the time our messenger sallallahu
alaihi wasallam told us the best of
fasting
the best of fasting is the fasting of
David Prophet David he used to fast one
day and break fast another day
um wasallam also told
us what distinguishes you from the
fasting of the of the people of the book
before you that when you wake up for the
early morning meal which is s uh that
distinguishes us from their fasting so
all of these are evidence that they used
to fast so we're actually uh doing
something that the Nations before us
used to do it but with one uh important
difference here which we notice in our
uh and our rituals that we must be
different in the way that we pray and
there there is a little variation here
and there that distinguishes the the
final uh uh message or the final mandate
which came with Muhammad sallallah alhi
wasallam to the previous because what
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam came
with abates what whatever came before it
so the original followers of Jesus peace
be upon them the original followers of
Moses that stuck to Pure monotheism they
didn't worship God as a trinity
absolutely you know a cow you know
intermediary between them and God just
the Creator that just goes with human
nature they were Muslims because Muslim
is one who submits to the will of God
they were Muslims you're telling me and
they fasted prayed abut worshiped the
this is what what talking about this
something foreign that we some religion
that came from Mars or something no this
is from the
Creator Islam the religion of the side
of Allah is in Islam has been in Islam
from day one and whoever comes in the
day of Resurrection with other religion
than Islam it will not be accepted
submission to the will of God yes it's
there isn't it I mean you talked to some
cre we almost got to go to break but uh
Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come
thy will be done that thy will that
means Islam your will means I'm going to
do what you want me to do guys
absolutely now follow my desires
absolutely and that's what we're
striving to do that's what we're
striving to do amazing amazing we got to
take a break we're going to get into the
fasting from A to Z with shik Karim here
on the dean show we'll be right back
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she Kim Karim Sheik tell us now we're
talking about the fast we've in the
introduction we talked about the Five
Pillars we talked about that Islam is
not a new way of life a new religion
it's from the Creator and Muhammad is
just the last and final messenger and
Jesus worshiped God Alone he didn't call
people to worship himself nor did any of
the other Messengers and they fasted to
they prayed and they fasted right to the
Creator so now many new Muslims people
are accepting Islam according to
Guinness Book of World Records the
fastest growing religion in the world
right and it's not just because Muslims
are having more babies some people it's
because people are using their mind and
people who want the truth and they study
they'll see that if they take an
analytical scientific approach Islam is
based on reason and it caus you to think
and Ponder and when they think and
Ponder and reflect over the evidence
they come to the same conclusion as over
1.5 billion this is from the Creator so
God is saying to fast so we want to know
how is the fast some people say okay do
I just give up you know some some uh
some of the things that I love of food
maybe I'll just drink some water during
the day smoke some cigarettes you know
what I mean I I've known people that
they'll give up food and drink but then
they'll still smoke all day so that is
have you have you know about this too
they'll sit doing the nicotine that you
violated your fast talk to us about what
you can and can't do uh well um uh
fasting in the technical term uh like we
mentioned in the first segment uh is
abstaining iMac abstaining abstaining
from uh eating drinking and all other
things which are considered to be
invalidator of fast according to the law
of
Islam and your sexual desire which is
included in there from Dawn until sunset
with the intention of worshiping Allah
subhana wa tala so before the sun breaks
right what can you do now before then
can you can you go ahead and get some
food into your system talk to us from
there from the start before the sun set
no before the the day the day break
before the dawn breaks Before Dawn
before you can eat you can drink of
course s alai wasallam established for
us the Sunnah of uh having the uh early
morning meal uh which which comes before
which we call or both words are correct
uh and he actually
said um wake up and have that early
morning meal because there is a blessing
in it and uh like I mentioned uh it
really distinguishes us from the fasting
of the people of the book the people of
the book don't take that early morning
meal and it helps you uh throughout the
day even if you wake up to take a drink
water a is sufficient before done now at
done the time of
of when the break of day and light you
know
when the white thread and the black
thread are uh you're able to distinguish
them from one another then you up stain
but now you must have uh formulated an
intention before done uh because int is
one of the pillars of fasting intention
intention having the intention to the
extent that Scholars some of the jurists
actually they say that let's say that
you're fasting and um in a way um you
decided by intention to break your
fast like you know you're getting you
cannot fast anymore and in your heart
you said you know what as soon as I get
to a restaurant I'm going to eat let's
say that you arrived at the restaurant
and you change your mind your fasting is
invalid because because the intention is
no longer there uh of course there is
you know a way to deal with that but
that person has to make up that day and
even so he should not eat the rest of
the day because he so the intention you
must have the intention Before Dawn now
the scholars debated whether you need to
have an intention for each single day or
one intention is sufficient for the
whole month of Ramadan uh the consensus
or the majority of the jurist they say
uh that uh an intention is necessary for
each single day and the intention is the
the thought just the
thought how do they Define
intentions that in your heart you the
fact that you broke your fast as you're
eating you're thinking about tomorrow is
another day of Ramadan that's already
that's sufficient so so so you have the
intention that I'm going to please my
Creator I'm fasting for him you you you
got you can't like okay check look at
this shap you can't now or many people
people they won't even pray let's say
they they they let's say they'll get up
and eat but they got say come on let's
go pray fuder they got look at you like
you're crazy you can't separate the two
right well uh we got to look at this in
a in a very smart way in a very da way
uh you see uh fasting will come in your
scale of Hass in the day of Resurrection
abandoning your Salah uh if you're not
doing it uh in a way that takes you out
of the fold of Islam uh um then it comes
in the scale of your say your bad deeds
in a way out of the good da don't tell
somebody because you're not praying you
cannot fast mhm as a matter of fact
please go ahead and fast and if you can
gradually get that person I'm I'm not
judging the person now but I'm trying to
get him to be better a better Muslim but
if you tell him you're not praying don't
fast you lost uh you know hopefully some
some will build up that they'll start
praying yes and we know that when we
repent uh let's say that this person is
going to repent in a year or two yeah
his fasting will be carried on Allah
will forgive him for abandoning the
Salah correct so that that means we
should not totally dismiss the person
and and and turn him away the fact that
he's doing the fasting alhamdulillah
this is good you know a lot of us are
coming back from Jah a lot of Muslims
are coming they don't even know that
abandoning Salah can take you out of the
fold of Islam
so we need to to deal with the people in
in a Da Way educate them and let them
know and give them the opportunity uh
but yes I mean what you're saying is
right I mean if if you do not pray and
then you're fasting uh in fact if you if
you if you think about it the prophet
sallallahu alaih wasallam mentioned that
the first thing that you will be asked
about in the day of Resurrection is
Salah and and guess look at this now if
the Salah is valid then Allah subhana wa
tala will look at the rest of your Deeds
that's the number one thing now
and guess what that number one thing is
notarization for the rest of the Deeds
that would include fasting so
technically what you're saying also is
is absolutely correct and right that the
fasting is is is no good if that person
dies neglecting and abandoning the Salah
but again from a DA perspective we got
to look at it in in in a in a different
uh way so being gentle and kind and
loving with the people absolutely so
okay so now so to give people kind of a
timeline here you wake up with the right
intention right before fuder breaks in
so you eat a little bit and then you
pray fuder and then your day goes on
food drink relations with the wife no no
no not not someone says look there's a a
true story the uh the the brother you
know sent the the woman to the um store
to get him some zabia meat you know for
the fast she said what are you are you a
Muslim no it's for my
boyfriend no this wife right no
boyfriend and girlfriend there is a
story I don't know of the time go ahead
tell us very quickly a sister came last
Ramadan to my mosque in Masid in Abu
Bakr in in Colorado yeah and gu she's a
Muslim sister yeah and she is marrying a
non-muslim and guess what she's coming
to pay Zak you know the zakat that we
pay at the end of the month for her and
her husband uhhuh imagine this she's a
Muslim woman who is marrying I mean it's
not really marriage in Islam because
she's really committing adultery but
she's coming to pay
the Z that the fasting people pay at the
end the $10 I mean should be going out
in in food yeah but I ask her sister
Subhan Allah you're coming to do this
meanwhile here you are sleeping with a
man un L this man is not a Muslim and
she said well I I want to fulfill the
you know and I told her but this guy has
to be Muslim for you to to be married to
him you cannot imagine any I just want
to let you know Subhan Allah this this
man I sat with him look at this woman
man she cares so much about you she's
coming to pay Zak for you she will to
save you and here you are you are the
reason for her hell what do you want me
to do is do you believe in one God yeah
I believe in one God you believe that
Muhammad is the mess yes he actually
accepted and we got them married
islamically so I just want you know this
out of this world that you know yeah
sometime I'm telling you a lot of us are
coming back from J and a lot of Muslim
so but look clinging to one this sister
I'm sure back home I think she's from
Tajikistan bistan one of these
ex-russian countries where they were
really deprived from knowledge but you
know something that clung if this is the
right verb one thing one thing yeah look
CL meanwhile she's violating a whole
she's basically goes out of the fold of
Islam marrying non Muslim a Muslim woman
cannot marry but a Muslim man we know
this for a fact and any woman who does
it goes out of the fold of Islam know if
she's if if she knows it yeah if she
knows what she she didn't know but look
her clinging to that little thing got
her uh you know fixed amazing you can
imag she was so excited she called her
family back home and and that was an
interesting story amazing amazing just
last Ramadan and he submitted that's a
beautiful thing he he he decided to
worship the Creator not his creation
became a Muslim yeah Subhan Allah look
at her man kidding about you she
believes that she should pay s for you
so that you you you you're in good
health and will look that this woman you
know according to her religion which she
is relying on to save you you are the
reason for her going to hell for
eternity come on man I mean you can you
cannot be selfish what do you want do
you believe in one God and then I
explain to him who Allah is are you
willing to submit I mean I know that you
may not be able to completely uh apply
everything and Implement everything but
are you willing please are you willing
just just the will the intention he said
yes I am and he took his and we got them
married Islam is the natural way it
makes sense it makes sense when it's
explained and we'll be right back with
more to make sense of it more here on
the dean show is it's simple to
understand Islam means submission look
at the word submission not to yourself
not to your desires not to anyone or
anything because at the end of the day
you get something you always want more
you get some weed you want more you get
some drugs you want harder drugs you get
a girl you want a nicer girl you get a
car you want a nicer car get a house you
want a nicer house we got so many
pressures by enslaving yourself
worshiping God loving God but submission
to the one who created you and by
worshiping God and seeking his pleasure
you get pleased and you enter
Paradise God
bless back here on the dean show with
shik kareim and we're talking about one
of the pillars of Islam the way of life
of all the messengers of God Jesus did
Islam Abraham did Islam all the
messengers of the Creator our maker the
maker of this whole universe and
everything in it this is the natural way
worship the Creator not his creation
they all prayed to God they gave charity
in God's name to the poor they fasted so
they can build this God
Consciousness and you talked about the
fasting you know it being a time now
that you're developing the spiritual
side it's like a it's like a training
for your soul right we don't want to
miss out on it so we want to do it the
right way you get up in the morning and
now we talked about having the right
intention eating a little bit praying
the fudger praying the rest of the
prayers right that was one we got four
more and then at the end what what it's
really simple you can't eat food or
drink relations with your wife no
boyfriend girlfriend's in Islam uh and
what else can you and can't do what what
else is there is there anything else
well I think there is a big piece about
fasting which is having a good character
good character oh that's really
important can be cursing AB lying that
is where the Prophet Sall wasallam
says it may be somebody who fast and all
what he gets out of his fasting is a
character is I'm sorry hunger and thirst
and maybe somebody who prays tud every
night or every night and all what he
gets his tiresome backbiting all day and
you're fasting why because he wasted in
in his and even even if you're attacked
as a fasting person look at
the the prophet sallam says even if
somebody fights you if somebody acts
with you in an ignorant way um yields at
you tell him I'm fasting I'm fasting
twice you know so don't argue back no so
okay so no I mean you shouldn't be doing
this anyway cursing the tongue that you
know Praises Allah shouldn't be cursing
with tongue right you know I we again I
I always take this back to how we need
to educate about ourselves about our
Dean uh you know the culture where we
were brought up a person in Ramadan
would get so upset and mad why I'm
fasting you know he yells at you and and
he's so mad and when you ask him the
reason why I'm sorry I'm fasting because
you're fasting you're not supposed to do
that no is actually using fasting as an
execuse to do that
um fasting again like I said is is is is
getting a handle on yourself controlling
your tongue control uh listen three
things that you you must you must pay
attention
to uh then when you do anything when you
look when you act then remember Allah
subhana tal is watching
you when you use the tongue remember
Allah hears
you look at this now this is the area
where you really Excel with your fasting
and when you think about something in
your chest remember Allah knows what
you're thinking about if you manage to
defeat these three areas and purify them
purify your act that when you do
something remember that Allah is looking
at you when you do it whatever it is M
when you speak remember the words will
be heard by Allah subhana wa tala so
watch and even when you think because
here in America and and and Ramadan is
coming in in the summer this year as you
know and you know what people do here in
the summer it's crazy you you take your
eyes are just coming in the airpoort man
you take your eye of this you go land
everything is a first look now is is
crazy you can't even sometimes you're
just wishing to be blind or something
but in a way guard your
chest guard your
chest that's what you need to do in
order to uh to to win the Forgiveness of
Allah subh so abstaining from food but
all these other you should come out of
Ramadan with a better character you
can't be watching pornography you know
killing time as they say backbiting
doing these evil things that even if it
was a Ramadan especially Ramadan now but
you should be away from this totally let
me remind the viewers in closing and I
know you have to to close uh the episode
here is remember this dear viewers uh
brothers and sisters in Islam uh
jelam the trustworthy of the heavens and
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam the
trustworthy of Earth they made Dua
against a person who gets to live
through Ramadan and he comes out of it
Unforgiven a
famous said three
times then later he explained and he
said made Dua a loser May
lose may he lose someone whom Allah
subhana wa taala grants him the
opportunity to live through Ramadan and
he comes out of it Unforgiven and I said
a mean to this
subh Brothers we all Seekers of
forgiveness don't waste the opportunity
people can see you at let's talk about
it yeah let's talk about it in goddess
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you up there Shake thank you very much
may the creator of the heavens and earth
reward you for being with us and helping
educate the people thank you and thank
you for tuning in for another episode of
the dean show Ramadan and you heard the
shake say it that look at the end we
don't want to be losers we want to be
winners because this life is short day
of judgment is close and we're going to
be judged for everything we didn't in
this life this life is a test we're
going to die and then at the end
Hellfire or Paradise Ramadan is here and
we all have things that we can improve
on make sure that we're committed to
praying five times a day Min of them
modesty is something that's so important
in Islam we have to work on that for
many of our sisters and the brothers
character development all of us need a
dose of that language should be watch
what we say not just restaining from
food but all of these different curse
words are coming out of their mouth
everything in Islam makes sense and is
telling us to be the best human beings
that we can be because our creator our
maker that's what he wants from us so we
can be the best in this life and have
the best in the Hereafter and if you
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then peace be with you
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