 We know that niyat is wajj, one of the first masalah about fasting, fasting is in ibadat and you had to do the niyat. What is niyat? Niyat doesn't mean whether in namaz or rosa or hajj or whatever you are doing. It doesn't mean that you had to verbally say it. We are very young, we cannot comprehend the concept of niyat and therefore we are taught by the parents or the motherless teachers, okay, get up and say, you know, or in Gujarati or in Urdu or English that, you know, I am going, I am doing two rakat namaz wajj, this is taught verbally because as children we cannot comprehend the meaning of niyat. After we graduate nobody tells us you don't have to say it. In the masahil niyat is not verbal, niyat means you should know what you are doing. You should have that understanding, it's not just, you know, habitually you're like a, you know, robot you just stood up and started doing something. No, you should know what you are doing. And as long as that awareness is there, it is sufficient. And this is where we see that, for example, when it comes to the niyat or fasting, just this thought that I'm doing this in obedience to the command of Allah SWT to please Allah SWT, just that thought by itself is sufficient. You don't have to get up every day before a fajr. After in saik you sit down and say, okay, I'm doing the niyat, that today is day, I'm doing the niyat of the fasting of the first of Ramadan year 1440. And then next day again for fajr you stand up and you don't do the niyat there, no. You don't have to say anything. As long as you know what you are doing, that is sufficient. You don't even have to say all the details that I'm doing this, you know, Rosa in the sense of I will refrain from this eight to nine things. None of those things are part of the niyat. You don't even have to say actually that it is wajib or sunnat or adha or qaza. In namaz we are taught, you know, say adha wajib adha qurbatan ilallah. In Rosa, if it is Ramadan, can it be qaza? Can it be sunnat? Everybody knows it is wajib. So you don't really have to say even wajib or sunnat or adha or qaza. And this is where we have to realize that when we say that, you don't even have to say it every day. Sometimes I get questions, one or another, today I got up, didn't do the sehri. You know, it's already nine in the morning, what happens to my niyat? You're okay. Do you have to do niyat for every day of the month of Ramadan? No. Right in the beginning, you do the niyat that, you know, I am going to fast during this month of Ramadan. That one niyat is sufficient for the entire month. One of the important issues is that when we talk about the niyat, the issue of niyat is that the niyat should continue from Fajr to Maghrib. So I said all these things, you don't have to say anything. Now I'm saying it should continue from Fajr to Maghrib. So do you have to always repeat that? Or constantly remind yourself, I'm doing fasting? No. What it means is that from Fajr time till Maghrib time, you will not do the niyat which will be contradictory to your niyat of fasting. By six in the morning or six in the evening, your wife decided to cook something, your best dish. You're sitting in the living room, the smell comes in, and you say, well, it's still not time of iftar. You know, you feel that urge. That is okay. But if your resistance goes down and down, an hour before iftar, you do the niyat, you know, well, you know, I'll pay the kafara and do the qaza. I'll go now and eat. As soon as you say that, that I will go now and eat. Even if you then, after going into the kitchen, you come back. Or your wife told you, you'll not get it. So you didn't eat. But your niyat already has become counter niyat of fasting. That is the meaning of continuity. Means between Fajr and Maghrib, you should not do a niyat which will invalidate the niyat of fasting. If you do that, your rosa becomes batil. And this is only you didn't eat. You just had the intention of going and eating, but then you stop yourself. Your rosa becomes batil, and you will just have to do qaza. If you ended up eating after that before iftar, then you also have to pay kafara. And so this is something we had to keep in mind that, you know, when we talk about the issue of fasting, this is, you know, very crucial for us. Allah says that when it comes to the niyat, this is very important. And Alhamdulillah, the action of fasting, as I said on Thursday night, by itself, is of a nature that we cannot really show off that we are fasting. Because fasting means not doing certain things. Whereas all everything, namaz and giving charity or doing Hajj and things like that, are actions that you can show and display to others. And therefore, Allah swt, He uses the term as-sum-dee, that fasting is for me. And therefore, I myself am going to reward those who are fasting.