 I just want to summarize some of the points that he made based on the on the fiqh of Ramadan, that there's the many types of fasting. One of the things people don't know that there are many types of fasting. So one is the fast of Ramadan which is far and the other one is the fast of the Ramadan, the fast that you miss in Ramadan then you make up after Ramadan. So that's also far from you to make that up. So people especially the woman who can fast during those days or the men if they get sick or traveling or anything like that they have make it up that's the fast. Then the the wajib is if you make a intention to say I'll fast if this if I get this job or if you have a child in tribulation if a lot removes it I'll fast for it so you can do another you know and that becomes a fast of the that is wajib which is very close to far and then you have the sunnah which is the like he was talking about the sunnah is the aishura in tasu'a like when we the muharran when we fast the you know you fast the two days not the one day the one day is makru the two days is is is this the sunnah and then so then you have the mustahab which is the you know the recommended days so then you have you know like naffal type of naffal thing and then the the three days of the month also the the three days of the month was really good uh really good practice for those who want to fast because there's a beautiful hadith a man came to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he asked ya Rasulullah I want to give me I want to fast and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told him fast ayyamul abiyat you know this the day the white days they call it this is the the 13 14 15 days of the month so this is when the it's a full moon so then he said no I want more ya Rasulullah and then so the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said fast Monday and Thursdays he said no I want more ya Rasulullah and then the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told him then do the fast of dawid alayhi sallam fast every other day when he got older and his old age he said uh what want to me I should have taken the first advice of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam because that was the best advice and the the advice of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was always filled with rahmah and gentleness and there's something that you can actually keep because it became very difficult for him when he was old to fast every other day but if he fasted those three days of the month it would be easier to keep it something that as as a practice now there's another thing that I saw that I I read an article about the study that they did on uh cell reversal you know how people do this fasting for health purposes because the cells they actually they they reverse and they start healing you know people who are diabetic and people have a heart problem other issues they do fast them and one of the thing that it says in that article they said it has to be a minimum of three days you're fast in order for this to work so which is one of the miracles of our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so those three days are good soon as people who want to fast um there's one our teacher he recommended that he said that you know we should start practicing that as an umma uh to do those three days and then obviously um then then you have the the fast of which is makru which is the days of aid makru there's two type of makru explain uh tanziha and tahreema tanziya is right up it's it's it's it's it's not close to haram but tahreema is close to haram so those are the days of aid you know we're not supposed to fast on days of aid and then also uh there's a you know uh the three days after the aid uh of kurban which is the days of hajj um those five days so but then another thing that he said that was very beautiful is that um is that imam ghazali in is here he divides the fasting in three categories which is the the fasting of the aam of the khas and the khas al khas the the the the ordinary people the awam everybody that you know we are and then the elect and then the elect of the elect so for the people of awam would be fast we just fast from uh not eating not drinking and uh we don't get close to our spouses uh for our desire of our bodies that's our fast but the fast of the the elect is not only those but they they control their tongues they don't speak anything unless that's beautiful and if you look at the the quran when they ask mariam the mother of jesus she says i i'm fasting therefore i'm not going to speak in other word they didn't and literally they didn't speak when they fast but our religion because it is the religion of our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and it's a religion of mercy we speak when when when kaniyum minu billahi wal yawmin aakhir fal yaqul khairan awli asma the one who believes in Allah on his last day they say that which is beautiful and good or they keep silence so we speak but we speak beautifully and we do thicker and and we say things that are beautiful so they control not only those three things from upstanding from eating and drinking and and and and thank you but also and sexual desires but also from uh controlling their tongue and their ears from not listening to haram and and basically controlling their limbs but then there's a hustle house the elect these are the saints on top of all of that their heart is in in the state of fasting their intellect is a state of fasting which means their presence but Allah they're always they're they're so connected with Allah that that they can't even have a bad thought so uh it's the heart the mind the body and the soul all of it are state of fasting so the next thing is they the uh what we call the condition of fasting who should fast who is his father and there are three conditions plus one uh some some added it as a matter of fact I had a discussion with my teacher last night about this uh because in the shahab neural idha he talks about the fourth one and he gave a beautiful explanation but traditionally it was only three conditions which is you have to be a muslim you have to be baliq you have to be someone who had puberty and you have to be awkward you have to be intelligent in other words you're not a madman because mad people they don't have to pray they don't have to fast they're mad they don't make sense of the world but that madness what what uh doctor was saying is not someone who says oh like you know how some people they're like kind of gullible but they went to school and they can read they can write that's that's that doesn't give me an excuse not to fast this is really majnun people who are crazy uh they don't have that is they they are uh you know or it's another thing that he said which is very beautiful because you know one thing about fiqh is that a lot of the stuff in fiqh if you are a doctor an md and a faqi it's just it's just uh beautiful it's a it's a gold mine and he he is an md and a faqi so he he said that for example today we have alzheimer they are excused from fasting because they will fall under this condition although they're not mad but they can't remember anything you know they just they fall into this this uh so the fourth one what they say is that to have the knowledge of fasting so that's a good example is someone becomes muslim they just meet a muslim they were interested wow that's a good religion they take their shahada but nobody tells them that they tell them okay we believe in Allah on the last day and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam all this but they don't explain that fasting is farmed on you it's mandatory on you so they don't know anything they don't even know what far does yet then Ramadan comes and they're not fasting they are excused because they don't have the knowledge that's mandatory on them until they know and one of the doctors said which was beautiful is that be gentle with the converts you know don't just put in all the rules in their head that they might just leave Islam say oh man I can't handle all of these so slowly by slowly the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said give converts four years in other words it takes time for them to learn all of these practices the other thing that was really amazing because this a lot of people get this question if somebody is instead of janaba uh so let's say they have some kind of relationship with their spouses or they have a dream that gets them instead of janaba they wake up in the morning in this Ramadan and they're fasting they're like oh my god I'm not pure I have to make whistle I didn't make whistle in my fast uh valid the fastest valid even if you don't make a whistle all day your fastest valid and it was beautifully said by by doctor that everything in Islam is separate you if you're instead of janaba and you miss your dohar prayer you sin for dohar that doesn't take away from your reward of fasting so your fastest separately rewarded your prayer is separately rewarded or anything that you do is separate it's not all oh no if you did this everything is wiped out no so the the the sinfulness of of the person who missed a prayer because they're instead of janaba that separately they get punished for that but the fast is not invalidated obviously it's highly recommended to do also before but some people forget or they wake up in that state their fast is valid so now what breaks fasting there's two types of fast two types of things that break fasting it's so good to have a faqih you just copy them you don't have to do any studies you know I actually did he told me to read so I I've been reading the nurul either in the past week it's good every year to repeat Ramadan and and whatever you know when Hajj time comes to do the hafqaf Hajj and all that so just to be acquainted with it because you forget so what breaks fasting there's two types of Mufsidat of fasting things that break one is that you make qadha you you make it up the other ones you make it up and there's a punishment for it the punishment is basically it's 60 days of fasting for men consecutively so you have to fast for 60 days the reason why they did that is for you not to do these stuff these are there are such big crimes don't do it that's why Allah is you know is you know the the fukhaha when they look at the these these rulings they say this is grievous don't do this otherwise the punishment is great so people would have fear of I'm not going to do this I can't fast for 60 days right so obviously freeing a slave is not in our time fasting for 60 days and then if you can't then you feed people and we'll talk about that as well and if you can't there were people there's a famous story of a sahab who she comes I mentioned this story many years ago to us and it was really eye-opening that he comes and said you know I've destroyed myself or messing with a lot so what did you do because I slept with my wife and while I was fasting and the Prophet ﷺ you know you have to free a slave I don't have any slaves to free like and then he says I don't have any money like you know to do that and then he said the Prophet ﷺ said fast for 60 days he said I couldn't fast in Ramadan I made a mistake he fast for 60 days consecutively and then so the Prophet ﷺ says okay the free a slave he can't do it then he says okay go ahead and feed 60 people so he uh he says okay but he didn't have money to buy food for these people so the Prophet ﷺ he helped them with money to buy these things and he said go ahead now get this food and go give it to 60 people he said who should I he said give it to the poor people he said my family and my tribe is very poor can I give it to them he said go give it to them to do your own family in your you know to the tribe so it's so the religion is about ease it's not about hardship and then if you're unable to do any of those if you're poor you can't afford to do anything and you're sick and you can't make up 60 days you know all of the book of fiqh they say just ask Allah for forgiveness but instead of brokenness inshallah so those are if you eat uh or drink to break your fast purposely so you're fasting but you know what I don't care I'm gonna drink in Ramadan you do that that's 60 days plus the one day of the fast that you missed that that you just broke for the sisters because they can't fast for 60 day consecutive they're away from that but they have to make that 60 days basically and then if you get close to your spouse while fasting uh that you actually do the actual action uh then there are facade that actually uh you just make qadah like uh you know they uh uh those are the things that you you it breaks your fast but it doesn't like one of the thing that he said and I love this very much this counts this explanation of him again uh being a doctor it makes makes much more sense that if you're swimming or you're taking a shower and water goes into your ear your fast is fine it doesn't break your fast but if you put drops in your ear like you know if you have earache or something like that you put drop it actually breaks your fast and he said the reason why is because there is between the throat and the ear there's a canal but when you get infection or earache that there's a there's a little curtain between the ear that's that actually gets there's a hole in it it gets ripped once it gets ripped that drop goes from the ear into the canal in the throat so it will actually go inside your your your body so that's the reason but if you're not sick it doesn't allow you to pass that to go through the canal which is really beautiful uh so but also he mentioned from the book sheikh Abdullah al-Mubayah Hafizullah uh Sana'at al-Fatwa in the book he mentions about a fatwa that was given by the european fatwa council that they actually do allow the uh the use of uh ear drops um eye drops ear drops and also um the um the spray for people who have asthma so that's they allow it but in in the tradition hanifi fiqh they don't allow the spray although oxygen is allowed because oxygen is just air correct oxygen is just air you just you know people have this oxygen that they need to do to help them with breathing that's allowed because there's nothing at it it's the same air that you breathe it just helps you so um another beautiful thing he said which is also in noodle idha it says um if you break your fast accidentally it it it doesn't break your fast so for example you're sitting there you're drinking tea you forgot it was ramadan and then you remember oh my god it's fasting somebody reminds you and that's who you stop at that moment you don't chew or so you spit out whatever you have in your mouth that doesn't break the fast even if you did multiple times and it happened to me uh pretty much all i think every year the first day i had either something in my mouth or or just ate it i'm oh my god it's fasting so it people it happens uh the person that have a beautiful power they say that you're a guest of god like if it happens you're a guest of god a lot is just letting you eat on while you can't eat it lets you eat in in your your fastest delali but he said about the gentleness of our prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and his mercy that the prophet sallam said if you see somebody that is while in ramadan they're they're eating in the daytime he said if they're if they're young immediately tell him hey hey it's fast this is ramadan why aren't you fasting but he said the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said if they're really old and they're weak let them just be gentle let them eat and this is so beautiful of our prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam until they they they remember themselves and then uh traveling obviously uh khilaf on the mileage 48 miles 52 miles 56 miles um it's around that that that area i usually do the 50 56 miles 57 miles uh if you're traveling you have a roxa which means you can not you can you choose not not to fast or you can fast but here's what she told us um if you're traveling on the plane and it's long distances say you're going to new york or you're going to europe and it's eight hours and seven he said you must break your fast because a lot of people if you don't that's why and on the plane they keep bling why they bring you water they just keep bringing you water if you don't drink water you can get sickness is where it can have heart attack and that literally it can kill you and people died on the plane uh from you know if they don't drink a water so if it's a long travel but as doctor said if you're traveling to sacramento it's an hour and a half drive you don't have to break your fast you can just go and and and fasting as long as it doesn't harm you in any way uh you can you know you shouldn't you shouldn't fast if it harms you and then also those people who are sick uh the thickness they don't you don't really need a doctor's notice if you know that you're really really sick that you can't fast a lot knows and you know and that's it that's that's your notice but also if your doctor says that hey if you fast it's this is will make you worse uh then you shouldn't but then about people who are diabetic and we have a lot of people in the community if you're type a type a is the medicine type two is injection right yeah type a if you're taking just the medicine he said you can reverse the medicine and do it at the start time in so who time instead of doing in the morning and evening so you can take the same medicine it's the same distance you you you take your one pill at the start in the other pill you do that so who and you can fast it actually helps people lose weight and actually it's good for them uh but if it you can everybody should just see how things goes if it gets bad don't do it if it gets better why not um I know that you know I know quite a few people that actually do fast and they feel much better in Ramadan than other times and they have uh those kind of sicknesses and then the Sadaqa is is basically um is people who can't fast so if you're young and you're sick that doesn't mean you just give Sadaqa and say you know what hey here's $10 day I'm done and and no if you're young you wait until you get well and then you make up those days all right but if you're old and you have chronic diseases that they can't be healed and you know that you can't make up these days then you have to keep um you have to pay which they say some places they say five dollars it's two meals some say seven dollars but he always told us the past few years at least do ten dollars so people have a hardy meal right and don't eat that to the focara and then it took off a sunnah in the month of Ramadan obviously people used to do that a Masjid um and then there's another it took off that that was my question for him uh there's a second type of it took off that you do um you say if this happened I'll do it to cough right instead of fasting so then you that becomes a wajib on you if you say it becomes wajib we have to do it and then then you would do that at a Masjid for the man and at home for a woman and you have you majority all of my they say you have to also fast and do the it took off uh even if it's not in Ramadan okay so that was the thick and if you have any question at the end we'll take question about thick and doctor is here you can answer uh the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam you you know he used to give good news to the to his companionship you're all his companionsahaba that the month of Ramadan is coming this is a month filled with blessing and everything in life like this masjid as a door you have to enter through the door to the masjid if you go to a mall there's a door you have to enter and so the kulli shay in babu wababu ibadah assiyam everything has a bobbin entrance and the entrance of ibadah is fasting this is really fasting is is the pinnacle of worship because every act of worship right kullu amal ibn adham all of the action of children of adham is theirs illa siyam except fasting a lot it's a hadith kutsi that Allah said except fasting right fasting is whose Allah says it's mine fasting is mine and i'm going to give the reward for it now that hadith why is everything yours and fasting is here because everything that you do you do prayer 10 times the reward you do an amazing prayer spiritual heart 70 times you can get 700 times reward but where's the number that Allah put for fasting there's no number for it he said i will reward it and because Allah's reward is infinite because his treasure houses is inexhaustible when he gives he gives beyond numbers and that's why they say it's his and there's a beautiful tradition of a man who comes on the day of judgment and he has a lot of good deeds but people come and say oh he cheated me get this oh he did this to me and he's are losing all his deeds it's kind of like you know when the government puts a levy if you owe them you can't even what happened to my banking and I had money but no you owe taxes and they take it away from you even though it's your hard earned money but you didn't pay a taxes they take it away from you they were people would put levy on your action on your on your rewards on a day of judgment because it's a day of nafsi nafsi everybody wants it and then this man is left with nothing and they put his little weight on one side of the scale and his acts of disobedience outweighs it and say oh my god but all these things i'm going to go to hell and then Allah says wait he says bring those treasure houses that nobody has access to say what is that he says i thought this was all my no no no the special reward for your fasting and they bring these treasure boxes that nobody can touch nobody can take away and it says open it and when they open it they keep pouring into this and it it just keeps coming all of the rewards into the other side of the skill until it outweighs his sin and then Allah says enter my paradise so the the actions the in a month of Ramadan nobody can touch it it's Allah's and he will come to save you and this is why Asiyamu Jannah the Prophet said that the fasting is a shield it's a shield between you and the fire of hell it protects you from the fire hell from the fire of hell and the other hadith that the Prophet sallallahu wa sallam said and this everybody can testify to this is adha khala shahru ramadan futtihad abwabu l-jannah waghulyaqat abwabu l-nar wasufida the shayateen that when month of ramadan enter all of the doors of heavens are open and every door to the fire of hell is closed and all of the shayateen are locked up and you can feel it there are people that we know that they never do anything good and then in Ramadan they're fasting they're praying they're doing tarawih they're reading Quran they're giving charity because it's a time really the shayateen have no influence over you and the rahmah is coming because of the doors of mercy of paradise open now you still would see people that would do evil in Ramadan and they're Muslim and you wonder how is that possible those are the people that have ruined their souls if you have a good soul if you have a good heart and your heart Ramadan comes and you're good that means shaytan got the best of you in 11 months you're just being tricked by shaytan but you're actually good that's why you do good in Ramadan but if you're doing bad in Ramadan that's a bad sign that means that you have lost your you've sold your soul to shaytan now you become a human shaytan you don't need shaytan to to misguide you so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that lesaimi farhatan that a fasting person has two joys this hadith is very beautiful very beautiful farhatun ainda al-iftari wa farhatun ainda al-iqa'ir rabbi that one of the farha one of the the the the joy is when he breaks his fast and one of the joys when he meets his lord i always had i always like wonder why would eating food be the same as seeing your lord like it just isn't it didn't it's two different things like seeing a law meeting a law and then making like eating something it's not about eating this hadith is not about eating it's about completion of the fast that's how amazing this this these days of Ramadan are that the the fact that you complete the fast and you're all day you're sitting there you're working you're doing things your thirsty water is there you're not drinking food is there you're hungry you're not eating it and you're standing from all of these and you're waiting and waiting until it says allahu akbar and in that moment what a delay immediately you say bismillah and you do your dua and you drink your water or your tea or your ru'afza or whatever or your dates and that is the joy of completing the alhamdulillah i completed the day of fasting and that day of fasting is the meaning of it is so amazing that we will only know on the day of judgment so there are many benefits to fasting soha is one of them that you know it's it's really for people for good health now you know there's a whole movement within the non-muslim community that they do intermittent fasting and it's just fasting has become a phenomenon in the world everybody's fasting now and and then there's also another benefit that it's actually it's actually really good to fast because you would know about the state of those people who really don't have food and drinks one of the tragedies of our time is that our children grow up with refrigerators and they think food and drink is always there they never experience hunger they never experience that concept oh there's nothing one of the advice that alil jifri give us many years when he first came to america about 25 years ago he said one day a week have nothing in your house no food nothing no drink no for nothing no juice everything cleared up hide everything from your children and just have bread water and maybe some yogurt and that's it and children come to your food said that's all we have let them see that not always is luxurious time so they can get used to this idea we might not have food one day and they have this connection with the foqara with the poor people say the umar says it shows you know for in the ni'mat Allah to be rough on yourself because blessings do not last because not always is going to be this there's a rose garden of life where everything oh i want i want water in the water comes in and then they can the fridge the water doesn't come from fridge okay so let's figure this out they think that the water is always supposed to come from the fridge so we have to teach our children that that concept that in in Ramadan especially that you know to be connected with the foqara inshallah but the primary purpose of Ramadan is not for health nor it is to know about the state of the foqara those are secondary the primary purpose of Ramadan is um the primary purpose of Ramadan is is taqwa you know kutiba alikum ussyam kama kutiba alil adina min qablikum la alikum tattakun that we have prescribed this for this this for you now in medicine you have two types of drugs you have over-the-counter drugs and you have prescription drugs over-the-counter drugs is you know is anybody can go and get it is good like what we call like doing zikr is over the counter like seeing subhanallah alhamdulillah allah albar it had no side effect you know but prescription is specific you know it's it's like if you get if you get really sick and you can't go and get hate give me some antibody to get healed from the sickness this is prescription Ramadan we prescribed it for you right it's a prescription that what is what does it bring out at the end of it because Allah says we have prescribed it for you as we have prescribed it for those who came before you so from the from Adam alaihi salam to prophet Muhammad peace be upon him all of them fasted but a different format the fast that we have is very unique in order for you to become God conscious in order for you to know who Allah is in order for you to know if you know who Allah is then you know who you are and if you know who you are then you have a connection with Allah if it's a two-way street knowing yourself iqbal dahmatullah alaihi said he said as hammak as kenar agheer sohbat ashana talab humas khuda khudi talab humas khudi khuda talab he said abandon everyone and seek the companionship of the only familiar one Allah Allah's the only one who knows you Allah's the only one who knows you nobody else knows you your reality right he said seek the companionship of the only familiar one then seek to know yourself through the light of God and seek to know God through your own heart so Ramadan comes in is a month of taqwa where we get to know ourselves we get to know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and this connection is built because without taqwa human being is in loss human being is in loss and that connection is essential and that's why Allah constantly every year he sends Ramadan that if he's disconnected with me i'm going to give you another opportunity to connect it's every year it comes and that's the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he sends down Ramadan every year in order for us to get connected back to to his mercy so so the virtue of Ramadan Ramadan shahra Ramadan aladhi unza lafiha Quran the Quran says that we revealed the Quran this month in this month of Ramadan and we also know that the sohb of ibrahim alisa was revealed in the first of Ramadan we know that the Torah was revealed in the 13th of Ramadan we know that Zabur was revealed in Ramadan as well sohb was Torah was revealed in the 6th and Zabur was revealed on the 13th and injil was revealed on the 18th and on the little qadr Allah revealed the Quran all of them because revelation is you know Sayyidina Abu Bakr was with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi was under the knee of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi was sitting next to each other and then Sayyidina Abu Bakr said my knee I thought it was gonna my joint are gonna break it's just this heavy just start getting heavy and heavy and heavy and it was revelation that was coming to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi was right this this vibration of revelation and then you know it's like when he said it was like a camel sitting on my knee that's how I mean imagine the heart of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi that can take this was just his knee touching the knee of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi of of Abu Bakr said this revelation that when Musa alayhi sallam said I want to see you Allah said look at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai just turned into dust literally just with revelation that it will turn it into dust this Quran this is how this is the power of revelation and yet the heart of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi was stronger than the Mount Sinai that could contain that and this month imagine this month the power of this month that Allah chose this that all of the revelation was revealed in this month the merit of it is so much that Allah divided into three portion that the beginning of it is rahmah is mercy the middle of it is forgiveness and the end of it is freeing from fire if it was a month of mercy it would have been good enough but Allah said no I just give one third mercy the second third is forgiveness and at the end I just keep freeing you from the fire this is the nature of this month the beauty of this month and this is the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so one of the one of the things that this month does is when you are practicing this because the path of perfection it's you know like when you start martial art they do all these moves and you just keep doing this and keep doing that and then at one point the kids they quit a lot of the young people they quit and say okay what's next but they don't know what the master is trying to do right he's trying to he's trying to teach you to become a master and at one point if you stick with it then you would see that's how you become a master martial artist but you have to keep repeating these things so that's where Ramadan comes you keep repeating and keep repeating keep repeating until you turn the the you turn this rock into a diamond it takes time it takes time for it to to to change um and in in iqbal rahmatullah alayhi he said that you know uh in a poem he said the the effect of say qal is you know keep polishing keep polishing keep polishing keep polishing that heart you keep polishing you said if you keep doing it today's rock would turn into tomorrow's mirror right and that's the whole point of Ramadan is that at one point we would become like a mirror from a hard rock into a mirror but it's hard work polishing is hard it's not easy and we just have to continue doing this and be grateful that Allah has given us life to see this Ramadan in a famous tradition they say that so the Sahaba uh the the first six months of the year before Ramadan they used to make du'ay Allah keep us alive to see Ramadan the Allah keep us alive to see Ramadan after Ramadan would finish the next six months of the year they would say ya Allah accept our Ramadan ya Allah accept our Ramadan the entire year year was revolved around Ramadan so that's the that's the the power of this month it's a month of the Quran it's a month of mercy it's a month of forgiveness it's a month that everyone i don't care what people have done in their lives you can become a saint and enter paradise in this month if you just practice and if you just get close to Allah in this month because we have a we have a night in this month if this is the greatest month of the year and Abdullah Ansari said that he said when Allah created the heavens and the earth he created the 12 months were there from the beginning and he said but he veiled month of Ramadan from everybody it was veiled nobody knew the merits of it until it was unveiled when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and in the uh second year of hijrah 18 months after the day uh migrated to Medina when Allah revealed the verse of month of Ramadan that what this month is at the merits of it was was was actually all of him were were were were were not revealed to to anybody else until it's exclusive for our Prophet in his ummah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so uh let's make an intention that you know we actually benefit from this month and in laylatul qadr is a night for sinners is a night for people of disobedience it's a night for people of forgiveness it's a night for people who you know just ordinary people mazlum you know just mesakim just folk at all people who just okay we made a mistake we forgot and Allah gives a second chance uh that in one night he gives you a lifetime reward like literally he gives you a lifetime reward and the hadith says that if you fast in Ramadan Allah will forgive your entire sins in the past but if you can fast there are people who can't fast right the people who are sick and old then if they do qiyam in Ramadan that Allah will forgive their sins of back but then the mercy of Allah says okay if you even do qiyam and laylatul qadr i forgive all your sins of this is the beauty of this religion so Allah is make is is is trying to make an excuse in order for us to enter paradise so just giving us all these opportunities just one night stay up and laylatul qadr and you can you can inshallah give the reward of 83 plus years of worship inshallah if you have any questions inshallah we can entertain that otherwise no it's a good question um well make an amitan on bakar rosa we get them meshaka fidye bedan yeah so the question was if somebody's uh you know people are working they say i'm working they're young then at all and they say oh i can't fast well i'm working you know i go early to work and till late or whatever difficult construction work and people who do things like that can they do fidye and not fast so she said no because they they're not old or or don't have like a chronic disease that they can't fast in the future so they can actually even if they can't fast they have to make it up if they miss it so only for those people who cannot fast in the future they can do fidye but people who can uh and if if they're young then they should just make it up if they miss it i know i know a lot of people who fast and they they go to work before uh suhu like they actually do suhu that work and they're there till like an hour before i start but they do still fast so it's a choice uh but those who can might be a very difficult position but they can make it up inshallah and then another thing that doctor said was very good is that like people who who travel for work so he give a good example that if you work in sacramento and you're like in in here that's like an hour 45 minutes drive uh by sharia you're a musoffer you're a traveler but that doesn't make you a musoffer a traveler to to make you fast because you do that every day so you're not you're not really a musoffer because this is part of your work you go every day there and and then the same thing with the prayer you can you can if you're working sacramento you're coming here you have to do the full prayer you're not doing traveler prayer yeah the eyedrop you can actually put even noodle idon so you can put the eyedrop uh is fine the kuhl and eyedrop is fine uh dalyan as gushef at work but i'm more easy but noodle idon uh yeah yeah and in the in the classic fatwa is basically that you can do surma it's fine the prophet salam did surma uh but the eyedrop you should do it in the after you break your fast and in the suhur time uh but the new fatwa in the european council uh fatwa council they said that you can do it so that you have to just you know choose yourself people that a lot of people have tapua and they really want to follow the classic and a lot of the you know what if it's not necessity then uh then then don't do it you know follow the classic the classic fatwa that's what i follow uh mostly uh yeah yeah yeah so just to be more careful and more you know it is better than to just you know take the easier route they say that you know always take the harder route when it comes to worship and you know and yeah so he said that uh that there's a canal from the eye into the nose and from the nose into the throat that actually will go from there and they said that sometimes you feel that saltiness in your throat is because your tears drop that goes from your eye into your nose into your throat that's the reason so those things will go and it can nullify your fast so the the best thing is to stay away from it but one of the thing is that there are these fatwas that all of my give that is on them and not on us so people need to just depend on how scrupulous you want to be on the issue yourself yeah uh the the the thing is that in the whistle the nose in the in the mouth is is far to do you have to gargle and you have to sniff the water but in wudu is not a sunna so you really don't you don't have to sniff the water into your nose in in wudu you just have to be careful in Ramadan and then gargling as as well yeah just washing your mouth is fine yeah so yeah just you have to you while it's you have to do the sunnas but i'm just saying you don't have to you know and like you know uh it's not like you know you have to gargle the water so you can just wash them out but just be careful about gargling because sometimes it does people accidentally goes to their their throat yeah dental procedure but you have vaccination vaccination or or but yeah this is an issue and so doctor said that uh in the hundredth effect there's a there's a guy that that anything that bring changes to your body you can't do that like any if you put if you put uh for example if you put a ivy it's like food like you just put ivy it does the same thing as food so you can't put an ivy and or if you injection socially vaccinations so that actually brings a change into your body in the fatwa of the european council that he read from the books on the fatwa they say that you can uh they they permit again these are the modern fatwas and i don't have any issue people following it because i actually respect the olama that did this but it is a european olama fatwa so it's very modern and and but it's respectful with no disrespect to them but there's difference between that in the classics i tend to say with the classics mostly unless there's no other way out they say that you can't actually they actually use the if you put even you do tooth operation you pull your tooth out you can do that and as long as the blood doesn't go in your throat so you don't swallow the blood that's the key and that's a very you know when you go to dentist it's uh you just have to be careful because a lot of the blood will be around the throat area but as long as the blood doesn't go in your your fast is valid according to european fatwa but according to the classic hanifi books that injections that changes the body you can't do that or or the especially in the in the in the tooth sure so if if they get their their menstruation in the middle of the day is that what you're saying right or if they have an operation or something as a procedure i can make an emergency operation maybe they have to go to the operating room or when they have to go to the operating room or when they have to go to the operating room but they have to do it on a daily basis so it automatically invalidates your your fast things so you have to make that day up so you you can fast if you do operation or something like that you yeah yeah and if you have you said that if you have uh let's say the next day you have an operation something happens that we're gonna you said that night don't make intention for for fasting so because you know it's gonna break your fast yeah and then you have to make you have to make up for that one day yeah that's a very good question yeah that's a very good question uh so the question was if you get up if you forget to make intention one day but you you intend to fast the whole month obviously but you get up and you don't make intention doctor answered that in the first session he said that when you and the intention in the halifi madhab is in the heart it's not on the tongue if you sit on it hard and on a tongue it's better but it's just in the heart so the fact that you get up for so who why do you get up to fast right that's the intention so that's the that's the intention that i mean when you get up for so who that's your intention even if you don't say anything you already did the intention but if you say it it's obviously better you run on a nude but that's the intention when you get up so the the question is this there's um can they make one intention for the whole month or because the malik is i think they can do that in a but or as every night so it's good to me i always i have forgiveness and uh a couple of times uh last year you know didn't i get up for fajr it was fajr miss suhu so you know it happens and so i make the intention the beginning of the month that you know your law you know that i forget stuff so it's i intend to fast for the whole month of ramadan inshallah and then but i every night obviously try to make the intention and i actually make my kids say the same thing so just make the intention for the whole month uh the days that you are able to fast you're fast yeah so of course it also when you come for prayer uh let's say there's a jama'a going on you come for prayer you don't have to make intention because you came to pray that's your intention so you walk in oh i got it you know that's the intention that you came in just stand in and you can just stand in line and and start the praying you don't have to say oh i intend to pray for unison above asad and i face the that's good it's it's additional but for the hanafi's the fact that you're coming for the mazji to pray that's your intention yeah the intention is very easy for the hanafi's for for other madahe was a little bit difficult yeah yeah they have to say it on the some on the time they have to say if the hanafi is the show of your son yeah show of your son all right seven oh nine five more minutes okay so the question is that if you have the uh a blood work you have an appointment to get some blood and do blood work on yourself and you're fasting obviously when they do the blood work your wudu breaks because the blood's coming out for the hanafi's it breaks your wudu so yeah then the fasting doesn't break because nothing enters you they take it out so your fast is good uh it doesn't break the fast when you when they take the blood out but if they put something in that's when it is problematic but you know just like uh cupping when they do cupping or bloodletting you can do that and still your your fast is good yes a very good question so the quran actually when it was uh came down it was on the low mahufud it's in this protected tablets that Allah has put it on on this protected tablet so then from there on the 27th night or whatever night the lady to qadr was right in Anzal Nahufi lady that'll cover we reveal this quran and ladies okay they came to the semi aduniya to the worldly uh from this heavenly it came to the to this word from there it took 23 years for a portion by portion to come to the Prophet sallallahu so that's that's the the what Allah is talking about in the quran is that that that whole quran coming from the low mahufud into the semi aduniya into the worldly sky and then from there uh it took 23 years but then one night it all came down to that well quran the the original the quran is because it's the uncreated word of god the act the you know not the mushaf that we have like the book that's that's the print out but the actual quran when we talk about zillahu mahufuz that's uncreated word of god so this is beyond time and space right but then when it comes in into the world as revelation it comes in a specific time and space yeah alhamdulillah yes yes yeah no quran the quran is a revelation but it's the word of god is not is uncreated because god is not created he's a creator so anything that comes yeah yeah well well i can because my time i have one minute yeah but that's that's uh it's really actually a nice topic it's it's on akida about the our belief in the quran and because this it is a lot of people it's very hard to understand because when you look at the mushaf they say oh so this is no this is a paper that's printed this is we're not talking about this so you have you have the form and you have the meaning right so these and so a good example i can give you when you open your quran on your phone right so when you open it you have you have the quran written in there right but was that the quran or is it zero one zero one zero one zero one zero zero one zero zero one right so what do we what we see is different than what it is inside of this right so that's where people kind of like they're saying oh is this is this the uncreated word of god or i just but they they can't penetrate the one layer of them to the meaning of that to see beyond that and and and that's part of our akida um i mean akida 101 that that you go through these understanding um it's a fascinating subject you know but uh i wish we had more time but maybe inshallah we can do a class on that uh so yeah this goes in under the i love so if you're milking your son or your daughter your child then you can break it fast obviously and then even if you are milking somebody else's like if somebody says hey you know there are people who milk other people's children you can still break your fast for that as well in terms of children who are half on like let's say powder milk and half on he said that depends on the situation that if if it's going to harm the baby not to give the mother's milk then you break your fast uh and to get to to make sure that he gets the child gets what they need no they they just make up the days that's make up the days no no yeah there's no punishment for it now yeah there's no punishment for it but one of the the other beauty of middle ida and then the woman who come into age on the day in ramadan in the middle of the day so that day they don't have to make it out which is very mercy-based yeah yeah so in in the yeah that day if somebody comes into an age a girl and and they they menstruate on the day in the let's say two and a half to noon and they it's ramadan they don't that day they don't have to make it up so they're they're forgiven for that day but out of respect for ramadan they shouldn't eat anything until after just just out of respect for for the month yeah the question is about 80 cough of uh you know if you're not fast like let's say you want to make it a tough outside of month of ramadan just for ibadah so musheikh said that many of the scholars they say that if you're doing 80 cough it has to be accompanied with fasting so you have to fast and do the 80 cough that's majority of the scholars that's the nafli so the thing is like i think somebody told them that if you come to the masjid you put your feet in and then you did the intention of fasting there's a difference if you if you go by the by the hanifi feikh and by the traditional uh Islamic teachings there's rulings in 80 cough and that's what everybody goes with so if you if you want to do ibadah you can do ibadah all night you can do prayer salat atasbi tahajjud all of that quran reading but if you want to do 80 cough as as as as practice then i think the the best way is what what doctor said is that to do that two types of 80 cough we talked about one is ramadan 80 cough which is sunnah one is uh wajib 80 cough which is nazri when we say nazri if you have like your life if this happens i will do 80 cough right so that's that becomes wajib it's actually higher than the sunnah so you have to do it so um you know like i i know a person who had you know they had their son and in jail or something like that uh juvenile hall and they said if he comes out i'll do it to cough so then when the kid comes out then you have to do it you you know it's it's logic for you to do the 80 cough so when you do the 80 cough you fast that's what majority of the olama they say you fast and you do the coffee do it properly it's it's it's but now a lot of people i know there's a in uh there's all these young kids they're like we do an 80 cough they do the cover in a masjid and then two hours later playing basketball outside and they go to denny's and they come back today i'm like what kind of 80 cough is that but you know but you know i'm i'm happy they're doing that at least they're in the masjid so young people all right yalla give us a few to worship you in this blessed month of ramadan yalla protect everyone who is in this gathering from the olive all of the evil of their time protect them protect their ahlebe protect their children and their families yalla from all the facade and fit now by time from all of the airborne diseases from corona and all this by variants yalla yalla anybody who's here has any hajj and yalla make it easy for them allahumma yassir wa la taas and remove all the problem from their lives yalla anybody who's sick here yalla yara shafi yara khumar raheemim give them shifa yalla healing from from all of the diseases whether it's spiritual mental or physical yalla make the affairs of life easy for everyone and give us to worship you and put your love and the love of your messenger in our hearts in the hearts of our children in the hearts of our offspring until the yawm al qiyamah that we all live with and we die with and we're raised on the yawm al qiyamah with yalla yalla allah, yalla in our children yalla make us amongst the people that you're pleased with us and your Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam his power best in this season yalla yalla sallallahu wa sallam May the peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you.