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alhamd all praise are due to Allah lord
of the worlds and may peace and
blessings be constantly sent upon the
Seal of the prophets and Messengers
Muhammad the son of Abdullah and his
family and his companions all those who
call to his way to the day of judgment
as to what follows
alayum
alhamdulillah Ramadan is a great
blessing Ramadan is a time when we
separate truth from falsehood Ramadan is
a time when we come out of ourselves it
is a time when Muslims have historically
come to the surface when the real inner
Islam the real Muslim has shown itself
very clear Allah subhana has revealed
inak in verse
185 Ramadan is the month in which the
Quran was revealed as a guidance to
humanity and as clear evidence from the
guidance and from the Criterion that
separates truth from falsehood so the
themes that we see coming out of this
Ayah is not only is that the month not
only is this a month of the revealing of
the Quran but it is also a month of the
time of B clear evidence that Allah
subhana tal manifests the difference
between truth and falsehood
righteousness and evil and so
historically it has been a time when
Muslims have called to the good and
forbade the evil the prophet peace and
blessings be upon him in the nine times
that he fasted with his followers made
it very clear to his example it was not
a month of sleep it was a month of
activity it was a month of movement
throughout the planet and the followers
of the Prophet Muhammad Salli wasallam
in line with his Sunnah took the example
and brought this to life so we see in
the time of
the we see the Muslims very active in
the month of Ramadan we see in the time
of
the Muslims are very active in the month
of Ramadan and when we look at the whole
of Islamic history you'll see so many
important issues that actually happened
in the month of Ramadan and we should
take this as a sign for ourselves that
we need to also be extremely active in
this sacred
month in the 53rd year after the hij
Muslims responded again to the attacks
of the Romans the Byzantine Romans had
conquered the whole Mediterranean area
and they were controlling much of the
Middle East and Muslims responded to
this the armies of Islam then took
control of these areas and liberated it
for
Muhammad in the 53rd year after the
Hijra the island of Roads was conquered
and was taken for Islam and so in the
month of Ramadan Muslims were able to
even travel on the Seas and they were
able to confront evil on the sea in the
water with the wind blowing they were
able to confront evil in the month of
Ramadan in The 91st year after the
Hijra Muslims responded to a call that
came from the people of the book who
were living in the Iberian Peninsula and
then in this area which is now known as
Portugal and Spain the people of the
book were being uh persecuted by The
viig Goth ruler Rodrick and so A call
came to the
Believers of that area
M he dispatched uh Muslims to the South
Shore of and of the Andalusian islands
and they were struggling in the month of
Ramadan to open up the islands and to
prepare themselves to go into Al andelo
the following year in the month of
Ramadan again the 92nd year after the
hij Muslim Muslims went across the
Straits and they landed on a mountain
and they called it jabal Tarak and this
mountain this area jabal is now known as
gibralta they entered into the area led
by TDK IB zad
Rahim TDK with a small group of
Believers landed on the shores and lo
and behold the leader of the Christians
came with over a 100,000 Warriors to
confront the
Muslims even though the Muslims had come
to protect the people of the book those
Christians who believed in one God and
the Jewish people who were living in the
area they were still confronted by this
massive Force reinforcements were sent
but the Muslims found themselves
outnumbered 10 to one this did not stop
them in the month of Ramadan they
confronted evil in the month of Ramadan
they were outnumbered 10 to
one
and faced them and showed them
clearly there is no Authority there is
no power except with Allah subhana wa
taala and they went forward and in the
month of Ramadan Allah subh T separated
truth from falsehood and they opened it
up and not only did they drive back the
king Roger
he disappeared from history but they
continued on in the month of Ramadan
they continued into other parts of Al
andelo which became one of the greatest
empires in the history of Islam in the
361st year after the hij the well-known
institution of Islamic learning
J was opened up in alah in Cairo for for
worship and for the teaching of Arabic
and Islamic sciences and this began
right in the month of Ramadan so this is
a month of learning its activity not
only the physical activity of struggling
against the evil but also the mental
activity of learning Islam and
struggling against the evils that
confront Us in the 5 184th year after
the
hij sulan Salah Al
Rim confronted the forces of the
Crusaders and after he had already
defeated them in Jerusalem they still
wanted to come back treachery happened
the kings that were allowed to return
gathered themselves together with
Richard the lion hardit and they came
with a massive force in order to destroy
Islam but
Salah had gathered together the
Believers and they confronted the
Crusaders in the month of Ramadan and
won decisive victories and they were
able to uh gain uh that which um history
still remembers up until
today it is said that when they were
confronted by this large force and
Ramadan arrived the advisers to the
sulan rim they said you should rest you
should rest it's the month of
Ramadan because maybe in some of their
minds they should go to sleep but Sultan
Salah Rim he replied and he said this
life is short and Our Fate is not safe
so he continued his March until he
conquered the high Fortress of of safad
in the middle of the month of Ramadan he
went into high areas and he opened up
territories for the Believers so Ramadan
was a time of action
and in in confronting uh the Crusaders
powerful forces Muslims were propelled
by their fasting they weren't put to
sleep fasting woke them
up one of the most decisive victories in
Islamic history happened in the year
658 after the Hijra this happened when
the armies of the Mongols the armies of
al-
mul had entered into the Muslim world
and it is well known that these armies
were carrying a force that was never
seen before by Muslims the destruction
that it carried forth in the Muslim
world was almost
unimaginable they went from town to town
from area to area from country to
Country killing people destroying
institutions murdering children burning
books destroying civilization and it
appeared that they would destroy not
only the Muslim world but they would
continue on into Europe and they would
find every civilized country on the
planet and they would destroy it but it
was during this month that Allah subhana
wa ta'ala raised up the forces of al-
mamluk who came out of Egypt and they
were able to gather together the
Believers into a fighting force and they
met and they confronted with the forces
of the Mongols at a jalut which happened
in the month of Ramadan this was a
decisive action this was one of the uh
most uh uh Cru one of the most crucial
events that happened in Islamic history
the Believers saved not only the Muslim
world
but they saved the whole of the planet
and so Allah subhana tala separated evil
from truth opened up the lands of the
world in the month of
Ramadan again the Believers in the
tradition of the Prophet Muhammad peace
and blessings be upon him they didn't go
to sleep they didn't look at the fasting
as a time to escape the world and to
live within a fantasy world of Dreams
but they recognize that Ramadan is a
door opening them up and that even
though the sun was hot or even though it
was cold out and the wind was blowing
Ramadan is a time that we confront our
fears Ramadan is a time that we confront
the evil things around us that we come
out of
ourselves that was the spirit of the
Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be
upon him and his followers that was the
spirit that made Ramadan a source of
energy it wasn't an opium as they would
say religion is the Opium of the
people it was not something that put us
into a dreamlike state but it was
something that woke us up from our
dreams and we Face the reality Muslims
face the reality of their bodies that we
are weak human beings we Face the
reality of the material world and we
Face the challenges that Allah Suba tala
had put in front of us in this material
world with a lightened physical load a
lightened spiritual load but a
connection with Allah subhana wa ta'ala
creator of the heavens and the Earth so
let us take advantage of this as we are
deep in the middle of the month let us
take advantage of the blessings that
Allah has given to us and now that the
fast should have become an easy thing to
do part of our natural flow let us take
Islam to a higher level and let us spend
as much time as we can in the waking
hours of the day in
studying in traveling in the path of
Allah in confronting evil whatever we
can do to gain Allah's Mercy in this
blessed month I leave you in peace
Asam