 والسلام عليكم الحمد لله الحمد لله الحمد لله الحمد لله والكافق مزيده ربنا لك الحمد تما ينظر لك نجلان بجشف وليعدين سطامك سبحانه وبركاته نتحدث لها المعريض احمد كما احمد على نفسك وأشهر لنا إلهي وليعدين لها شريكرة واشهر لنا محمد أبده ورصوله وخلينه ووصيله وخيرنا بيه أبصارك أبصاركم باهرة حالك بليه بصيره ورديره ودعمه إلى الله بإذن المصيرات النورية اللهم صلي وسلم وبارك على سيبنا محمد ومعراء سيبنا محمد صواتنا صراما داري مين متلازمين where we will haverecognized and we will havebeen and never havebeen all praise be to Allah واصل وخاله وكذلك while seeking forgiveness and guidance and the persistence when we take refuge with them from the evil within our souls and from the consumers of his deeds where my Allah Allah gives guidance to that in his need and the refuge in his need To take advantage of the time that we've had, remain I believe that about half a point in love for Ramadan We asked Allah to accept our fasts He accept your prayers, your recitation And reading of Quran and your singing at night تشاركك وكذلك all your good words during this month of Ramadan as a blessed season and we should realize it as an opportunity to re-set our spiritual clock or moral compass and hopes that beyond this month, Allah سبحانه وتعالى will الله يجب أن يدخلنا المساعدة والإمكانات لنا بإمكاناتنا قادمة للأمر. إن شاء الله هذا بالنسبة لي أن الله يكون لدينا حياة في المنه. وإن شاء الله أنه ينفق أمامنا المنه والأمر. عبد الله عبن مشتود رجل مهوان was a great Sahabi he was one of the first people to accept Islam in Mecca as a matter of fact, he was one of about six Muslims of the very first Muslims in Mecca of course being among the Prophet himself our mother Hadidah was the way عالينا بيطالد أبو بخص سديق وزيب الحديث من الله سبحانه وتعالى بيجهدهم وصول الله عالي على رسوله عالي السلام عبد الله المشتود was known as ابنه أمي عبد he was known as this among the Quraish he was the king identified with his mother and his father as well عبد الله المشتود was the very first Sahabi to actually come out publicly and recite the Qur'an in the midst of the Mushriqin after the Prophet ﷺ had done it he was the very first of them to do so and on one particular occasion the Sahaba were sitting around and they were wondering if it may be possible for them to bring this message to the Mushriqin this is before the Prophet ﷺ was given the command to publicly call his people but they had an idea is there a man among us who would go out to the Ka'bah and recite the Qur'an so the Mushriqin can hear it and no one wanted to take it on but Abu Ibn Massoud was young and he says I'll do it so they say well no no no we don't want you to do it because you don't have a tribe to protect you he wasn't a member of the Quraish his father himself was one who migrated there he had an alliance with one of the clans in Mecca so if you said you had an alliance when times of persecution like this occurred you really didn't have the tribe's protection even the one that you had the alliance with so they were fearful that he would come get hurt he said no I'll do it so he goes to the Ka'bah and he spots the Mushriqin in their gatherings and he starts بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الرحمن أللو قرآن خلق قلنزان he starts to recite so the Mushriqin are looking at him and they hear something but they really don't know exactly what they're saying they say what was this little guy doing they say it over there and they say I think he's saying some of that stuff that Muhammad brought and once they realized this is what he was doing they attacked him they punched him in the face and he drove him away and he comes back to the Muslims and they say well this is what we feared what happened to you and they said I swear to God their kids they were like what we would say today it was like being hit by a little girl it really didn't mean anything they told me I'll go out tomorrow again once again if you want me to do this no no no don't do that but anyway Abdullah al-Mas'ud was a very important Sahabi not only because of the courage but also because of his knowledge that Abdullah al-Mas'ud he was a very very private and special student of Rasool Allah and sometimes the Prophet ﷺ would even ask him to recite the Quran for him and he would say well you want me to recite you're the one who we've revealed to you and the Prophet ﷺ would say yes I'd like to have others recited as me so Abdullah al-Mas'ud would recite for the Prophet ﷺ as well Abdullah al-Mas'ud was reported to have said later in his life a boasting of his knowledge of course with no sort of arrogance he would say that there's not a single verse of this Quran that was revealed except that I know when it was revealed where it was revealed and with regard to what incident it was revealed and of course word no one objected they acknowledged the knowledge of Abdullah al-Mas'ud I need to write I'm beginning with this short story about him because I want to share with you a quote from him about the Quran itself he reported to have said for our he said anytime you hear Abdullah say oh you believe then give it your full attention give it your full attention فهنه خيره يقرويه الشمرن ينه علمه because it is either that he is ordering you to do or it is evil that he is permitting you from permitting so anytime Allah says oh you believe give it your attention and all throughout this book كتاب الله الله سبحانه وتعالى over and over and over says yeah sometimes yeah throughout the Quran he is calling on the believers oh you who believe pay attention to what I'm about to say it duck Allah take a shield against Allah be conscious of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and so right away from the beginning is where first thing Allah typically will call us to after getting our attention is it duck Allah have consciousness and awareness for Allah سبحانه وتعالى why because تقوى is the key to unlocking the secrets of the Quran if you are not a person of تقوى then you really can't do that you really can't do that the Quran teaches us that that is that is a guidance for humanity and even in the verse which begins the discussion of asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى says yeah كتب عالي كمصيام كتب عالي لعلكم تتقوم that fasting not the fast of Ramadan but fasting has been prescribed for you is been ordained for you as it was ordained for those before you لعلكم تتقوم in order that you achieve تقوى what is تقوى تقوى is defined generally as two fundamental things one is the fulfillment of Allah's commandments and the avoidance of His prohibitions sometimes the commandments and prohibitions are related to outward acts some of them are inward acts things prohibitions of the hearts things that your heart are expected to comply with as well and that consult is a the summary of what تقوى is fundamental and the scholars they say to us they tell us that that is easier for them to avoid Allah's commandments than for them to avoid Allah's prohibitions isn't that the case right we are all fasts how many of you are fasts Allah says don't eat don't drink don't torture thousands during the day time it's some kind of thing that can be hard all of those or some of them it's going to be hard but there's great reward in avoiding the prohibitions of Allah's and this because I'm actually on this issue of prohibitions it wants to clear a misunderstanding that I come across from time to time unfortunately it's a minority of Muslims who would think that simply because a woman is unable to fast and pray that means that men themselves have a particular advantage over them with regard to the number of acts of worship that they are to do thinking that because of the increase in numbers it is necessarily an increase in closeness to Allah so I don't know who it's out but a woman can pray and fast if she wants to I don't care what the law says I'm going to fast in you I'm going to pray anyway even though I have my cycle but she avoids the prohibition right and so the prohibition itself there's great reward in avoiding the prohibition then fulfilling the man who's Allah SWT but at any rate Allah SWT is calling us to be conscious of him to be people of Tuqwa and he tells us elsewhere and cooperates in a bill which is righteousness in its broadest sense and in Tuqwa or one way you can see this is that Tuqwa itself is a sub-category of bill or Tuqwa is a means to a bill and bill itself is a means seeing something beyond beyond that this is why the Prophet SWT said said about yourselves to honesty about yourself to honesty about yourself to honesty because honesty it leaves to Bir but in the Bir and at Bir it leaves to Jannah Bir or righteousness in its most general sense it leaves to Jannah and in one there is in Fila-Huida Allah it leads to God's satisfaction that the Prophet SWT has come to us but if someone to give us a whole bunch of rules do's and don'ts we know that especially when it comes to like basic financial transactions call the Abu Bakr and the Abu Bakr says that that they actually are about 56 financial transactions which are prohibited all others are permissible that be presumptive so basically you can count the number of things that are prohibited everything else the things that are permitted are many more than the things that are forbidden but the Prophet SWT his ultimate mission was to help us to perfect our humanity to show us how we were to perfect our humanity and this is why he said in the famous I've been sent for nothing more than to perfect or noble conduct the noble characteristics of a lot or conduct and behavior and in other narratives I've been sent as nothing more than a teacher معلوم and معلوم is not simply someone who as we would generally understand to be a teacher when standing in a classroom taking your math problem but a معلوم is someone who leaves an impression on your heart who leaves who makes a mark on the individual معلوم this is why in the Arabic language not only means instruction it means to actually leave a trace or a mark or a sign on someone to leave an alama on something and this is why every ayah is an alama a design of Allah SWT all of them they point to a law's existence or point to a law's power or a law's life among other things that is fundamentally the rule and the teacher is to leave this make this mark an impression on the individual إِنَّ مَا بِعِتُوا لَا فُبْعَسَ اللَّعَانَا I would not sit as a one to curse others إِنَّ مَا بِعِتُوا دَارِي مُرَحْبَةَ I've been sent as an inviter and as a as a mercy that is what the Prophet ﷺ was sent and that is to say in a point from the ministry he just sent me that that we as people we know that there's a difference between one who who says something and another who acts upon what they says that you walk your talk that we don't respect people who say things and they don't do others that you may be in a position of prestige you may have a prestigious career you may be a great politician or an athlete or an entertainer or you may be a great educator but at the end of the day what matters to Allah ﷺ is how good of a person you are but how do we know you're a good person by the way that you treat others by the way that you talk to others it's not only talking about the people when you're in contact occasionally like in the ministry writing to your home with your spouse with your children with your peers with your neighbors with your cousins with your uncles how do you talk to them how do you treat them are you charitable towards them and this is something that you're perfecting your humanity that is what Ramadan and fasting are all about about perfecting our humanity it's not just simply a thing that Muslims do it's just one of our customs yeah it is a custom but it's also worship but it has a goal the goal is to perfect our humanity to protect our conduct and if we put too much reliance on our actions we're told that it is a type of subtle idolatry that is even to the extent that if you were to believe that look how many prayers I've made one time look how many months of Ramadan I've fasted look how many times I've made hunts look how much charity I have given Allah has to give me Allah doesn't have to do anything He doesn't have to do anything for you and if you see another person who may do none of those different things mother of those things Allah has to put that person in the hellfire no Allah does not have to do anything that you want for him to do that is only out of his grace he gives you a promise of course Allah doesn't break this promise but this is not a thing where Allah has compelled to do anything and so when you think okay these are the things that Allah is going to guarantee but automatically give me what I'm seeking that we have to make sure to be very careful about this because we can be placing too much reliance on the act itself too much reliance on the act itself Allah wants us to come out in a certain condition He wants us to be certain types of people He wants us to be people who want to do good even when we have the opportunity to do so He wants us to be people who don't want to do bad things even when we have the opportunity to do so that is what He wants us to become people of virtue people of virtue in this state is what we call a birr a birr of supreme and universal this is what Allah is going to teach who teaches it in the Quran he says when will you have come people who worship what motherly be when I came the birr man that birr it is not birr that you turn your faces they Easter wefts but it is birr those who believe in Allah and the last day the angels and messengers and the books when I said when I came the birr when I'm the father and give wealth out of Islam out of love for Him to relatives to the orks to the poor to in the way of in order step 3 slaves to those who ice and the travelers and those who pray and establishes a prayer وهم يتحدثون بقوة أخوات تقوى وقوات أخوات تقوى. ولكن هناك نعرف أن الله سبحانه وتعالى يجعل هذه التصميم بين نحو نقل ونقوم. أن أقوم بقوة الأخوات. ولكن حتى إذا كانت أقوم بقوة أخوات تقوى أن أقوم بقوة أخوة الأخوات. أقوم بقوة أخوة الأخوات هو أننا نحب أن نردو بقوة أخوة أخوة. أنه يتفكير حياتنا وإصدقائنا بإيجاد أفضل أفضل أخبارنا ويصدقائنا على كيف نحن تساعدنا هذه الأخبار لذلك نسألنا بحياتنا أخبارنا حتى نستطيع أن نستطيع أن نحصل على أخبارنا ومع بلداء من هذه الحياة قبل أن نتعيش هذه الأمور ونسألنا أن نسجلنا إلى أعياننا على محاولة أعياننا وصف رب الله قريب ولك المريسة المسلمين المسلمات وصف الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أشهر المضيات أسي المسلمين الذين أحملهم على أثاني المسحر المعين هو أمام فائقه للخطر ومعينة الهيود ومحاولة هو مواقع زميب أو حقم زميب وكانوا أسيهم والفعل أبقائت جميلة او جميلة و بل بير is interesting especially when we compare to its hotlates that we have in the Arabic language a number of words which relate to this and so one word is بان is the opposite of البحر the land as opposed to the sea and every one of the words that are connected with بير indicate what the Arabs call a توصف a type of expansion or opening up for others because the land itself is spacious and expands enough for people to live upon so Allah refers to the land as an above He refers to the most expensive and perhaps the most utilized of all staples ويت as a بور which also connects with it to the word بير الله is one of His names as بان which means that مكوصير will be the one is the one who proliferates rewards that He grants so many different opportunities to reward us that He gives us a five compulsory acts and He gives us the voluntary acts and then He rewards each act according to a different type of criteria some acts He only gives us 1.4 some He gives us 10.4 some He gives 700.4 some of them He leaves rewards for us to find out مكوصير in particular the facts as it says that the fastest reward is 700 but exactly how much we will find out when we meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى but Allah also beyond that Allah سبحانه وتعالى He creates seasons for a great reward رمامان goodness in رمامان it's not like doing things outside of the رمامان it's the same thing for the sacred months of إسلام just as sin as well during these months it's considered to be by many the scholars to be greater more severe than they are outside of these months Allah سبحانه وتعالى He creates certain places where He magnifies these for us like مكو right how long is not like سلاف here or the مشد نبولي so I think that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is one of His names that He is one who proliferates reward that He gives us expansion and spacing opportunity to a match reward and so many different levels that He gave us of جهنم or seven that He gave us of جهنر or eight which will give more opportunities for us to gain closeness to Allah سبحانه وتعالى but the human being it also is called as and the human being is referred to as as باك or a person who is as باك is an individual who is as مصور what is that a person who proliferates acts of obedience and worship how much worship are we committed how much worship do we do on a regular basis and I'm not only talking about again the سلاف and our or our regular charity or the fast of Ramadan but how often do you smile on your brother or your sister's face how often do you treat your family to a happy day or a day out and you enjoy yourselves how often do you lower your tone when you talk to one another how hard do you try not to be abrasive to others how often do you share kind words or kind experience with someone else how often do you console someone who has died or has a family member who has died how often do you visit them when they are sick so what types of these are involved in what type of acts of worship are they involved in so all of these are examples of words that are connected with what we call and build and to what sect and to what sect and so we ask الله سبحانه وتعالى that He أدخلنا among the Abraham and this is why we find in Quran that الله سبحانه وتعالى He says of the Abraham إنه أبرارا لفنعين the Abraham they are in lists وإنه تجارا لخيج أكين and the wicked they are in a blazing fire the Abraham are in lists and the wicked are in a blazing fire أخلا إنه كتابة أبراري لفنعين the record of the Abraham is in a place called an ADD a higher place so we ask Allah the places among the Abraham were directed among them among the Abraham Allah we ask you to forgive us and to guide us and to assist us in everything that we do well Allah please accept our fasts please accept our fasting please accept our prayers please accept our charities Allah please allow for us to increase our worship and come close to you than this best month and we ask from Allah to grant us tough work and utilize that tough work to reach the بقام of the book and through the book there will be a change in our satisfaction إنه الله والله ملاكك سوف يصندون على إنه لي يا إله إلا إلا إلا يصندون عليه وصلينا وصدنا ربنا تقبل إنه كأن تسمع إنه كأن تسمع عدينا وصبعنا لا إنه كأن تتواب الراكين ربنا تحبب مننا سيامنا اللهم تحبب مننا سيامنا اللهم تحبب مننا سيامنا اللهم تحبب مننا في يامنا اللهم تحبب مننا رقوعنا رسولنا يا رب العالمين اللهم تحبب مننا صحاتنا في هذا الشحر المبارك يا رب العالمين اللهم تحبب مننا جراحتنا بالقرآن يقل القرآن يا رب العالمين ربنا آتنا ربنا لا تزل قلوبنا باعته اهده ديتنا باحت لنا بالإنك رحمة إنك اعتباء انك اعتباء حار إنك اعتباء حار ربنا انك دام الناس يوم الى ريلوهي إن الله لا يتكلم يعاد الله مغفر للمسيين ومسيمات بلومين وموميات الحياقي منهم والانواد وغفر لنا اللهم ومعهم يفضلوا بأحساني يا أحمر رحمين ربنا حبت الله محبد بلينا الدمان الله محبد بلينا الدمان وزينه في بلوبنا وكرك بلينا كفرنا في الصوته من أحسان وجعلنا من الرجمين ربنا آجنا في الدنيا حسنتهم وفي الآخرة حسنتهم وقنا عذابنا وصلى الله وسلم وقارك راسينا محمل وعلى هاله مأساني أخيام وصلى المسيما كثيرا وصبحانه ورحمة الله بنا قصد الحمام ستون وصرام العالم وصري و الحمد لله رحمه رحمي محمد صراحة