 من حمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستغفيره ونتجه إليه ونعود بالله ننشور نفسنا ونسيات عمالنا من يحبه الله وثلا مبين لك ومن يدر الفلاه هادي لك وانشرو الهار لها إلا الله وحده وانشرو تلاه وانشرو أننا سيدنا من ملانا وحمدنا عبد المستفى ونبيه المجترى ورسوله المرتوضا خاطب الانبياء الإمام الأكفياء وسير المرسلين وحبيب رف العالمين صلى الله عليه وعلي ولا آله وسحية العين الله مسجد وسدم على سيد محمد مفتاح باب رحمة الله وسير الأسرار نول الأنوال المجتبى والمختار ولا آله وأساب لخيار المهاجرين والأنصار وسلم تسديما كثيرا نعود بالله من الشيطان رجل بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا أيها الذين آمروا اتقوا الله حق تقاته ولا تموتون إلا وانتم مسلمون صلق الله صلق الله العليد العظيم قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعلي ولا آله وسلم إنما برفتوا لأتم ما مكارما أخلاق كما قال عليه الصلاة والسلام ما بعد يا عيدات الله يمي أوسي نفسي وإياكم بتقوى الله فتقوى الله حيث ما كنتم ستبقى مع الأشياء الأخيرة التي قدها أريد أن أخذ الوقت today to analyze ما يقول الله سبحانه وتعالى في القرآن عن التقوى نحن في المنزل الحمد لله لأننا نأمين أسئلة sometimes that are mind boggling أسئلة that are عجيب and قرير من مسلمون شخص يسألني قرارا هل تقوم بأسئلة شيء that is found in the Qur'an أو هل تقوم بأسئلة شيء that these mullahs and mullahs we invented هذا المسؤول أنه mind boggling to me أولا أنه يتفقد أننا لدينا أسئلة very low opinion أننا يجب أن نرحب المسؤول هذا يهم جدا أن هذا هو أسئلة من عامنا أنه يوجد خرص يوجد خرص من المسؤول الشخص يقول أنه مرثة الأنبياء فمن أكرمهم فغل أكرم الله ورسوله أو قم قاله عليه السلام يقول أنه يرحب المسؤول أنهم يأهلون للمسؤول من يرحبهم يرحب الله سبحانه وتعالى ومن يرحبه sometimes we Muslims get stuck into this sort of progressive mindset this so-called progressive and we get into this like post modern intellectualism so we start to say things without knowledge we start to say things like you know fasting that was for back then because there was a shortage of food in the desert so we don't have to fast this is when our heart our intellect gets in the way of our إستسلام, of our譜سليم أعلمنا بحيث في تعالية ، نحن يتصلنا لعضاء وطعالة وعلى الله عندما يجب أن نعرفونا أنه هناك شيئ مننا منذ ناحية ونحن تتقدم بيلة الإسلام ، نحن تتقدم بيلة عندما ستمكن من the فرعون يجب أن يجنون تلك العشراء من مفتوحه ومجنونه ومفتوحه وباني أسرائيل ويساق إنّها لمدركون كنا قاموا بأنهم يفكرون بها من المستخدمة من أقل ، نحن نحو at the Red Sea ، لا يوجد مكان لن يذهب ، نحن مستخدم ، سوف يستخدمنا ما فعلت موسى عليسلام سيك؟ كلا إنه معي ربي سيهدين ، لا يوجد طريقة معي كما هو my lord ، سوف يساعدني ثم الله سبحانه وتعالى سيسفا أوحينا إلى موسى ، لأننا لدينا واحي ، نرد موسى عليسلام اضرب بأصاب البحراء ، اضرب the sea with your أصاب ، with your staff موسى عليسلام لم يقوم بخير ، ماذا سوف يفعل؟ اضرب بأصاب بأصاب ، لن يفكره ، لن يجد أقل في طريقة مؤعجيزة ، هذا مؤعجيزة من عليسلام سيك ، sometimes we have to resign ourselves to the will of Allah سبحانه وتعالى ، into the orders of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ، there was a Hadith in the Shaman of Tidmiddhi the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was invited to a meal a gathering by a man named Abu Urbaid and Abu Urbaid he cooked this sheep for the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and a group of Sahaba were there and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says Abu Urbaid he says now will me abgira give me its four-quarter the shoulder the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he liked to eat from the shoulder of the sheep now will me abgira serve me the four-quarter so Abu Urbaid he gave him the four-quarter and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he didn't eat much he took a few bites and then he passed it to the Sahaba and they would eat from his leftovers this is how they would get to parro blessings from the prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and then he said to Abu Urbaid now will me abgira give me the four-quarter so he gave him the other four-quarter and he took a few bites عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم and then he passed it to the Sahaba and then he said now will me abgira give me the four-quarter and Abu Urbaid said يا رسول الله what can this شادي من دراع how many four-quarters how many shoulders does a sheep have maybe he lost count والنفسي يدي the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said i swear by the one who holds my soul in his hand لو سكت if you had been quiet if you had been quiet لن أولتني اتراع ما دعوت او كما قال عليه الصلاة والصلاة if you had been quiet you would have served me a four-quarter every single time i had asked you صلى الله عليه وسلم we cannot paralysis from over analysis they made wudu back then because they were dirty أصلاف من الله what are you talking about if you took a one hour shower and you scrub yourself for one hour and then you step out of the shower and you broke wind guess what you have to make wudu it's because you're dirty لا we have to resonate ourselves to the will of الله سبحانه و تعالى so what does the quran actually say about fasting الله سبحانه و تعالى says السلط البقرة i number 183 يا أيها الذين آمنوا and when الله سبحانه و تعالى uses this الذين آمنوا اسم موصول there's تخصيص he's talking about the believers المؤمنون the muslims he's not talking about everyone there's some again post-modern intellectual muslims so-called progressives who say that every time الله سبحانه و تعالى says الذين آمنوا he's talking about anyone who believes in god anyone who believes in any god so he's talking to the jews and the christians he's talking to hindu's he's talking to buddhists no how do we know that because when this ayah was revealed to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in madina did he impose this سيام on the bani israeel in madina if they're الذين آمنوا did he say you jews have to fast now no has there ever ever been a muslim polity in the history of islamic history that has imposed siam on a group of non muslims living under a muslim polity a muslim government no so الذين آمنوا it's for the muslims المؤمنون who are the muslims do we mean muslims and we're all we're all submitted to god everywhere the hindu is submitted the atheists are submitted الاسلام there's an al-ithlam that means there's تخصيص this is a rarefied form of islam al-islam وما يبتغي غيرا الاسلام يدين فلا يقبل منه whoever desires a religion other than al-islam this rarefied form of submission what is al-islam belief in the quran and the finality of the prophecy of the holy prophet محمد صلى الله عليه عليه وسلم يا أيها الذين آمنوا كتبا عليكم السيار كتبا من كتبا means to write or to prescribe when الله سبحانه وتعالى says كتبا that means it's been ordered it's logic or followed like he says in surah al-baqara ay number 216 يا أيها الذين آمنوا كتبا عليكم القتال وهو قره لكم prescribe upon you is قتال قتال is the third form musta which is associative not prescribe upon you is to go attack and be aggressors no to defend yourself ita to fight in the battlefield if need be even though you detested الله سبحانه وتعالى says وان عصا تتره شيئا وهو خلل لكم maybe there's something that you don't like but it is good for you because الله سبحانه وتعالى knows the حكمة he knows the wisdom behind it so you say to yourself what is fasting i don't understand it why don't you make wudu why if i break my wudu i have to wash my feet what does that have to do with anything الله سبحانه وتعالى he knows the wisdom behind these things so fasting based on this آية كتبا عليكم السيان يعني كتب الله عليكم السيان but this is مبني على المجول كتبا is in the passive voice which adds to the eloquence of the arabic so the the herbalm of fasting then is quality it is compulsory upon every muslim muslim that has أقل that has insane mind that has بلوف that is an adult and has knowledge of the fast they must fast it's interesting i heard from a muslim lady recently in her late 30s born and raised muslim she said i'm doing so good this year i just have a light breakfast and a cup of coffee in the afternoon i'm doing so good this year i'm doing so good you're muslim your whole life you didn't just convert to islam you've been muslim your whole life it's haram to eat during this time this is farad right the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he said farad allahu عليكم السيان this is this is this is this is this is in the farad we have the fast it's farad what does farad mean what is the shakum of farad the legal ruling of farad mean that if we do it we're rewarded by allah سبحانه وتعالى even though we're supposed to do it this is a mercy of allah سبحانه وتعالى even though we're supposed to do it and we do it we're rewarded by allah سبحانه وتعالى but if we don't do it then we become liable for the rap and anger of it of allah سبحانه وتعالى this is what we have to keep in mind كتب عليكم السيان what does سيان mean it means to stop something in its archaic meaning that the arab say it قد سامل الشمس the sun has stopped meaning it's reached the meridian the زوار it's going to descend now that's when ذهور starts right to stop something abstinence abstention what do we stop from doing we stop from eating and drinking we stop from relations with our spouses and there's other things we stop as well we're going to talk about it means to stop this is a time in which to listen the the حلال لي comes haram upon us what did the salaf said you'll never reach true تقوى unless you let's you leave the permissible for the sake of allah سبحانه وتعالى what does that mean your mom شاشر he said things that are مباش or haram upon me because i am a شاديق what is مباش like you spend two hours a day working out you don't have to do that spend 30 minutes 45 minutes if you go over even though it's permissible to do that the orama the خاص they get they'll say you're wasting your time even though you're doing something permissible so this is a training program in which we want to mimic the خاص and the awliya and those are near to allah سبحانه وتعالى and and anliya which we leave the list it we leave the permissible we leave the permissible the discipline the soul this is سيام كما كتب على الذين يقبلكم كما كانت تفكر على الذين قبل أنكم إسلام لم يتكلموا سيام أو سوم هذا يجب أن يكون هناك مقلوبات كثيراً لأكثر من العالم وفي العالم الأسلحة والأسلحة when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم قد يذهب إلى مدينة ولكن قبل ذلك الوقت even before islam before the بيأثار the جهة الهرب they would fast on يوم عشورة they would fast on the tenth of محرم and this was almost seen as a وجب amongst their community that you have to fast on this day and there's some there's some reports that don't have strong senate that mentioned things like the art of new alaihi salam it docked them jeban judi on يوم عشورة it's alaihi salam ascended on يوم عشورة الله العالم these things don't have strong senate but for some reason the the pre-islamic eras the foresh were fasting on يوم عشورة so when the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam he went to مدينة ولنورة he noticed that bani israel was also fasting on this day so he said ما هذا in other words why are you doing this and they said this is to commemorate the exodus of who's alaihi salam from the grip of the fir'aun and the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam he said we have a greater claim upon who's alaihi salam so we ordered the sahaba to fast on this day although according to abu haneepa this is a sunna muakada to fast on يوم عشورة and he also said to fast on the ninth day as well to differentiate yourselves from the bani israel the fast on the ninth and the tenth or the tenth and the eleventh this is a strong sunna of the prophet sallallahu alaihi salam actually abu haneepa says it's a group just a fast on يوم عشورة you have to fast on two days consecutively right so this is something that was ordered beforehand the new testament and it says that of course this is not a strong source there's no senate it's in the wrong language right this is fyi for your information right so don't talk to me after the khutba and say brother you shouldn't put the bible in the khutba this is according to their own sources this is fyi for you isa alaihi salam would fast 40 days on end in the wilderness he'd go into the wilderness and back then they would fast and they wouldn't even speak it was haram to speak for the previous umam it was haram to even speak you have to take a vow of silence إني نظرت الراحمان صوما فلنقوا كدري من يوم إنسية as الله سبحانه وتعالى tells us that man you have any a salam said i have vowed a fast to the ar-rahman to the most gracious i'm not allowed to speak to anyone today this is how they used to fast so this is something that was made obligatory upon those who came before us لعلكم تتقون in order for you لعلا right this is تواقر this is for expectation expecting you to become people of تقوا this is the expectation from الله سبحانه وتعالى to become people of تقوا كم انساء من ليسا في سيامه إلا ذهما the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said how many people fast and they get nothing from their fast except hunger they complain all day i'm hungry i'm hungry they get these grouchy moods you can't even be around them non-muslims notice it i heard a non-muslim yesterday she said my cousins are muslim they fast but i can't approach them when they're fasting they're so moody i said it's tough but oh no i have to be extra happy for her i'd be extra cheerful put on a big happy face because other muslims are being grouchy when they're fasting this turns people away from Islam we're hindering people from the path of الله سبحانه وتعالى لعلكم تتقون what is the objective what is the the حدف what is the objective the aim of fasting then is to become people of تقوا and the urlama say there's an axiom that the reality of something is known by its objective the objective the objective of تقوى is تقوى therefore fasting is highly exalted in the eyes of الله سبحانه وتعالى in no anthropomorphic way it's a figure of speech that's why the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is the greatest of creation he's the greatest human being period the greatest of creation of why because his only objective was what was who was الله سبحانه وتعالى that was his only objective so تقوى in pre-islamic times because these words تقوى obviously these were around before Islam what does تقوى mean before islam it meant to parry a blow if someone lunges towards you with a sword and you parry the blow that's called that تقوى it means a shield we're kayak we're kayak a shield what are you shielding yourself from you're shielding yourself away from the disobedience of الله سبحانه وتعالى because there are seven inroads to the heart there are seven inroads to the heart it's not just the stomach yes if we eat and were satiated then enough it becomes restless and it wants to disobey الله سبحانه وتعالى so we deprived the stomach but the stomach is only one in one inroad to the heart and there are a few things that i'm talking primarily to the شباب there are a few things of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he did not like for people physically i have to mention these things there are a few things of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he pointed out he didn't like about people physically he didn't like a shaved face with a huge mustache that's covering your mouth he didn't like that don't have this look the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he didn't like it right and some this is an ancient persian type of look that many iranians still have i can pick on the iranians because i'm from iran don't have this look the prophet didn't like it also in mohawk i see muslim children all the time with mohawks what are the parents doing it's no it's not a mohawk it's a foe hawk it's it's fake it's not million one oh it's a mohawk don't have a mohawk the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not like that look the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not like tattoos he didn't like this this is haram in our sharia one time her brother texted me from another state he said i'm a tattoo parlor how haram is a tattoo i said haram is haram how haram haram جدا very haram what's the difference it's haram right the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he did not like a big stomach he didn't like this big stomach the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he had three folds in his stomach when he was in his sixties he had a six pack صلى الله عليه عليه وسلم he didn't eat a lot صلى الله عليه وسلم but this is one of the ways which protect our heart what we eat we preserve our stomach but there are seven inroads to the heart the next is the eyes when we're fasting our eyes have to fast when we have to do this all the time obviously but when we're fasting it's it's more prevalent it's at the forefront of our brains it's on our when we're fasting to guard our eyes tell the believing men and women to cast down their gazes don't stare at people right the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said if you look at something beautiful you look at the haram for a man the first gaze is for you but if you keep staring and you don't turn away if you keep staring at the haram he said your eman is going to be pulled out of your eyeballs as long as you're staring at the haram as long as you're staring but if you said if you avert your glasses you look away and you get that bitter feeling the men know what i'm talking about you get that bitter feeling in your heart i want to look again i want to look again i want to look again the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said bitter feeling that you get that's converted into a lure into light which becomes the light of eman and you takes the harawat of eman you takes the sweetness of faith so we guide our eyes from looking at the haram eman صلى الله عليه وسلم said the greatest barometer of eman in our times is the computer the computer it's the greatest barometer of our eman because when you're in your room it's your computer and you think yourself this is absolutely private i have absolute privacy believing in absolute privacy is kufr you're never private وَهُ أَمْ مَعْكُمْ أَيْنَ مَا كُمْتُمْ الله سبحانه وتعالى is with you wherever you are wherever you are we have to be careful about this it's again it's a disease of our age we have to guard our ears from hearing the haram get rid of these 99.9% of the music you you hear on the radio is haram don't listen to it it makes you forget things it puts you into into states are not even reality listen to the lyrics we have to realize this the youth have problems with this get away from these gadgets listen to the faram listen to the the the the hadith of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said well i don't like doing that well the nus has to be trained and after a while it becomes part of your habit that's why you have Ramadan to get away from these gadgets to train the nus so that becomes part of our habit our adat so that we love listening to the Quran we love reading the Quran we love listening to speeches and lectures that deal with الله سبحانه وتعالى and his messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and then the hands and the feet or the next two and then the genitals and the tongue the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said whoever can guarantee for me that which is between his jaws يعني his tongue the tongue is not making غيبة غيبة to a shajam in a zina he's not making غيبة he's not slandering people it's not backbiting people he's not lying about people he's not speaking excessively the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not speak excessively and when people and people spoke to him excessively he would have like he's not even hearing them he would ignore them he didn't like that صلى الله عليه وسلم people have catarmouth chatting all the time they can't have a moment of silence with their lord they get uncomfortable looking at their watch we never look at our watch we're watching tv of four-hour movie marathon bali with video right they have these مسلسلات during ramadan they put them on specifically during ramadan all night long these cliffhangers you have to sit there and watch four hours forget about the tarawih forget about slater isha they sit there after they're eating and they watch four or five hours of these these tv shows that have cliffhangers you have to watch the next week you have to watch the next week all shows are like this now if you notice reality television i guarantee he says i guarantee for you if you guarantee what is between your jaws your tongue right and between your thighs meaning the genitals then i guarantee for you and jannah i guarantee for you paradise نفس الله العافي والسلامة we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to give us soundness and well-being they give us a to beat to implement these words and then الله سبحانه وتعالى says a few days fasting it's a few days because no it's so long it's too hot i can't do it i can't do it's too much i can't do it then we have muslims going on these almond shake diets they have two almond shakes one for breakfast one for lunch and they have like 500 calorie dinner and they do this for their entire life that's hard i tried to do this one time i got the day two fasting is easy ايام المعدودة it's just a few days why are we complaining why do we convince ourselves that islam is something hard it's not hard الله سبحانه وتعالى does not want to put us in the hardship he doesn't want to do that he wants us to glorify him سبحانه وتعالى and this is not something that's hard even in the summer months don't tell yourselves this is hard and then الله سبحانه وتعالى says فمن كان منكم مريضة لو عنا سفر فئدة من ايام الوخى if you should be sick or traveling that means sick legitimately sick you're ill you don't have to fast you can make those days up later or if you feel sickness coming on you don't have to fast you can make those days up later but what you can't do is intentionally make yourself sick or being neglectful being negligent and make yourself sick like we eat صهور i've seen i've been around صهور and so what is mustaha it's a recommended practice to eat the pre dawn meal and to delay it just before fudger this mustaha it's a beautiful practice to do but people have these five course meals and then they get stomach issues and like that diarrhea during the day they say i'm i'm sick i'm gonna eat now so you spoil the fog for the sake of a mustaha we should have discipline or they have a porterhouse steak for صهور and they don't drink any water it's a dawn oh i didn't drink any water so the next day they're completely parched and they convinced themselves i'm sick i'm sick no we should have discipline we should eat the صهور but have discipline and hydrate ourselves it's very important or if you're on a journey and the opinion of the حاليفة here the opinion of the حاليفة school here in the عبدين is relied upon opinion that you have to start the day as a mustafa in order to qualify as a mustafa you have to start the day at fudger as a mustafa and there's other there's other opinions but then Allah سبحانه وتعالى and people ask me all the time about this issue we'll mention it briefly we had a fifth seminar about a week ago though what happens if i accidentally break my fast so what if i intentionally break my fast we have to know these things this is basic fifth we have to know the fifth the the essence of our religion fifth and etymology means means the the essence of something that if you break your fast if you should accidentally break your fast this is why we have to be careful let's say you're making ولو and you're rinsing out your mouth and you accidentally swallow some water because the reflex of swallow when you're fasting is very powerful we have to be very careful or you're brushing your teeth people always have these questions about toothpaste or toothpaste mafia can i brush my teeth the toothpaste yes it's my group be careful and so i swallow some toothpaste don't brush your teeth with toothpaste just don't do it your breath is going to stink anyway and that smell is beloved by Allah سبحانه وتعالى but mr جونز if i work doesn't like it okay keep your distance from mr jones a little bit right it's going to smell regardless so if you break your fast accidentally you drink some water and you know you were fasting then you have to make of that day you make up that day but you can't continue to eat it is to continue to eat you have to stop all eating you can't say well i broke my fast bring on the uh samosa no you can't you make up that day this is right this is right if you should do it if you should forget let's say you completely forgot you were fasting and you had three samosas and you're done and then you remember Allah i was fasting you don't have to induce vomit no Allah fed you there's no you don't have to make it up if you completely forgot you were fasting but if you break your fast طائع متعني دانا عمدانا on purpose right willfully you're not being forced no one's compelling you and you do it intentionally then you have to make up the day and you have to do the kaffara you have to do the expiation the expiation we need to study these things it's fasting 60 consecutive days or feeding 60 poor people masakeen two meals a day the same 60 people or freeing a slave which is somewhat obsolete 60 consecutive days and if you get to day 58 and you break it guess what you have to start over again so we have to take these things seriously right we have to know the fifth but if it's hard for you if you can hardly fast then you can pay the فيديا which is half an hour of wheat it's very small you make a payment you feed the poor and this is for who this is for شيخ فاني or عجوز فانية a very elderly man or woman so you can't say well i'm a senior citizen i'm 62 years old but i play an hour of basketball every night i don't have to fast i'm 62 the law says they have to pay the فيديا or someone who's chronically ill someone who's chronically ill that's like really hardcore diabetes right and you just can't do it the blood sugar won't let them fast and you pay the فيديا but everyone else has to fast my respected brothers and sisters don't make excuses for yourself at islam والعقل والبلود والإل these are the شروط you're muslim you're an adult you have sound mind and you know you have to fast then you have to fast it is thought it is from to aim upon all of us to fast and then he says but if you give more that is better for you you fast that is better for you and if only you knew it's better to fast if only you knew the prophet said in a حديث قتسي this الله سبحانه وتعالى speaking in the first person on the tongue of the messenger محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم every action of the son of adam is for him except fasting that is mine fasting is mine leave in the holy and i will reward him for it and this reward is beyond your your imagination because only الله سبحانه وتعالى knows your fasting so even if you're sick if you look at the khas if you look at the elite the elite of the elite even when they're sick even when they're fighting in the قتال they're fasting at the bar of mu'ta جاء خل ابن عبي طالب who is the brother of imam ali one of the older brothers of imam ali كرم الله و جاء in the battle of mu'ta against the Byzantine empire in the north the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was not there at the time but he received the vision in awakened state where he was able to follow the battle while he was in madina and he said that his arms had been amputated in the battle he was carrying the niewa and his arms had been amputated he had 70 wounds to his torso 70 times they had punctured his flesh on his torso they found him face down in the hot stand its face was laying in the stand no arms brother of imam ali imam jaffa so they turned him over they turned him over and they wanted to give him water they cased to give him water and that saw him i'm fasting he was fasting صلى الله عليه وسلم because these people understand that fasting is better if only you knew if only you knew means if only you knew fasting is better and then الله سبحانه وتعالى says شهر رمضان الذي انزل فيه القرآن that the month of ramadan is the month in which the quran was revealed and the whole quran was came down و انزل إلى السماء الدنيا it came down to the first heaven and then and then it came peace meal to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم over the next 23 years who done in nas a guidance for all of humanity again we have this this postmodern muslim today that's found in western academy that says all religions are talking about the same transcendent reality it doesn't matter which religion you follow they're all the same right and they say things like the quran it's contextual for the Arabs it speaks to them psychologically culturally theologically what kind of revision is garbage is this do you read the quran what is it what is it who done for the Arabs no who done in nas this is for the entire whole of humanity for everyone this quran is a guidance for everybody and the guidance and the quran a criterion by which we judge truth and falsehood the quran is our judge the quran is our barometer whoever witnesses the month let him fast and there's two ways of doing this and this shouldn't be a cause of fitna and these two ways were done by the seller one way is you actually site the moon you site the moon right and if it's the 30th of شعبان or the first of Ramadan and the cloud is and there's clouds in the sky then you then you take Ramadan is 30 and you take شعبان is 30 days it's very easy or you can calculate it and this is something that the seller used to do these people in the past these were brilliant polymaths and these people were unbelievable geniuses you don't think they thought about calculation no they thought about calculation but in the end they said the sunnah is better because you get the barakah of the sunnah but both ways are permissible we shouldn't make an issue out of this والله you shouldn't make an issue it's dividing our community both ways were practice calculations will be this is two ways to make shahada of the moon and then Allah سبحانه وتعالى continues to say if you're sick or on a journey he repeats this but that you know that this is not hard you read والله ولا يريد بكم العسرة he does not want to put you in difficulty he wants to make it easy for you look at the Prophet ﷺ this حديث بخاري one of my favorite حديث and then broke his fast intentionally in Ramadan he came to the Prophet ﷺ يا رسول الله i had intercourse with my wife what do i do the Prophet ﷺ said fast 60 consecutive days say I failed on day eight or nine i can't do 60 days the Prophet ﷺ said to him go free a slave so i can't afford it say go feed 60 مساكين i have nothing the Prophet ﷺ himself went out and got a huge basket of dates and himself gave it to the man see you take this and feed people he said feed who i'm مساكين the feed the poor people the man said والله there is no people more poor more poverty stricken in the city of Medina except Ahli my own family my own family is the most poverty stricken people in Medina the Prophet smiled at him and said take it and feed your family with it right the Prophet ﷺ is trying to find a way for this man but that doesn't mean we're negligent about our fast no this is something we have to take very very seriously this just demonstrates that the Prophet ﷺ is بالهوبنين العوف الرحيم حريس عليكم he's deeply concerned about us ولي تكملوا العدة and in order for you and in order for you to complete the period want to compare الله على ما هداكم and to make tapir to praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى because he has guided you i've heard from muslim youth a lot that they're envious of not muslim they get to eat they get to have fun i have to fast they're envious i want to do that الله سبحانه وتعالى singled you out amongst the ظلمات amongst darknesses and gave you a نور called الاسلام this is the greatest نعمة the greatest نعمة and we don't have we don't have شكر we don't make sugar to Allah سبحانه وتعالى we envy non muslims because they get to eat their environment you're going to eat in a few days يا أخي be patient وصبول you're going to eat a lot right so we should thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى لعالكم تشكرون ربما يمكنكم تشكير نحن نقوم بعمل الوقت but the very next verse you know the verses in every surah because a surah is a literary unit there's cohesion in every surah nothing's half hazard this next verse is related to what came before when my servants ask you concerning me say i am قريب i am close don't listen to these anti-muslim يتكلمون أن الاسلام is a distant god he's not a personal god he's a remote god he wants to crack the whip on your back you're a slave and he's your master الله سبحانه وتعالى is a closed god he's imminent not in the sense that i'm close like i'm close to you in terms of a spacetime or dimension he is close to us he is قريب in the relational sense in the sense that الله سبحانه وتعالى will never forsake us as long as we don't forsake him سبحانه وتعالى that he is close to us and we should know this and this is a call to make du'a during this month وجيبوا دعوة الدعاء إلى الدعاء i hear the supplicant whenever he calls upon me make du'a our prayers are five prayers those are in arabic and we don't move on those things we don't change we're not in catholic church we don't we don't say okay pray in any language you want no they're in arabic because this is our tradition from the prophet الله سبحانه وتعالى and this unifies muslims and the prayer has a discipline and they're done in arabic but after your prayer the next 23 and a half hours a day be in supplication to الله سبحانه وتعالى in the language that you know best don't make rules for yourself i can't make du'a because i have to be sitting on my sajada in a certain place in the musalla i have to have my kufi on i have to have a five o'clock shadow i have to have my clean phobon i gotta raise my hands up doesn't have to be in wudu in fact i have to be in busul no you don't need to do that you can make du'a driving in your car eating your food sitting in your cubicle till it work constantly you be speaking and talking to الله سبحانه وتعالى constantly speak to الله سبحانه وتعالى constantly the sahaba had to put stones underneath their tongues when they're in the bathroom to remind themselves to forget to remind themselves to forget when they're in the bathroom because they're constantly making du'a they're constantly making adkaar making dhikr of الله سبحانه وتعالى we should be speaking to الله سبحانه وتعالى throughout the day فل يستجيبوا لي so let them answer me what you mean to be and believe in me لألهم لألهم يرشدون for chance they might be guided spiritually إرشاد is spiritual guidance we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to give us spiritual guidance أقولوا قولي هذا وستاقر الله لي ولكم فاستاقروا فلو إنه مهول وقول الرحيم تبوا بالله للتواب للبعنين الحمد لله رب العالمين صلى الله عليه وسلم رسول الله ومسكفه وعلى ساداتنا وإمةنا ببكر أمار رفما وعليه وراضي الله تلعن أسحاب رسول الله يجمعين يقول الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتابه العزيز بعدما قولوا أعوذ بله من الشيخان الرجيم إن الله وملاه يكتبوا يصلون على النبي يا أيها الذين آمنوا وصلوا عليه وسلم التصليمات وصلت القلوبنا على طاقتك اللهم إنك عافون تحبوا العفوة فعافوا عنا يا كريم وصلى الله عليه وسلم رسوله محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم والحمد لله رب العالمين إن الله يعمل بالعديد والإحسان ويتائل القلبة وإنها عن الفحشاء وإنها من خلوة بارية يعيدكم العدكم دفتوا لون وأقيموا السلام