 الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل واشدوا الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل واشدوا أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى as you've heard the lecture today is going to be about physical fitness but before I start talking about the topic what I want to say to each and every one of you is our Sharia, our religion has not left a matter except it has explained it to us whether that matter is going to bring us good it told us about it and if that matter is going to bring us harm and problems it warned us against it well the scholars they said that the religion is صالحة للكل زمان ومكان this religion it's befitting for every time and every place and because we have become distanced from the Quran and the Sunnah we sometimes thought or sometimes we think that the Quran doesn't have a response to this issue it doesn't maybe have an answer for this issue or the Sunnah doesn't have an answer for this issue but the true reality is our religion does and today inshallah و تعالى from nowhere else except the Quran and the Sunnah I will show you how our religion spoke about physical physical fitness from the Quran and the Sunnah and then inshallah و تعالى I will open the floor for any questions that you might have if you look at physical fitness it stands on four pillars anyone who wants to be physically fit four things have to be in place four things have to be intact the first one is الأكل the eating and the drinking الأكل و شرب you're eating and you're you're drinking we'll speak about that if you want to be physically fit you're eating and you're drinking has to be what has to be good and we'll speak about how the Quran and the Sunnah spoke about this issue the second pillar in which it stands on is a known sleeping if you want to be physically fit you're sleeping and matters regarding that you have to give a lot of consideration to we'll speak about the manners and the etiquettes of sleeping third one is النضافة كلنزيness to be clean it plays a great role in the person's fitness and their health we'll speak about that and what the Quran and the Sunnah said about it and the fourth one is الرياضة which is work out going to the gym and working out and doing physical work out what does the Sharia say regarding that and has it spoken about it before I move on do you all agree that the pillars of fitness physical fitness it stands on those four pillars do you all agree is there anything you would add to those four let's start with the first one إن شاء الله وطعاله eating and drinking before I go into eating and drinking what we have to know is sports they are permissible except if there comes an evidence that says it's حرام are we all together unless there is in that sport something that the Sharia are prohibited and didn't allow the أصل the default position is that the fitness and the sport is permissible if they connect to that sport something that's حرام which we'll discuss later when we speak about sports and the fitness or the work out but the أصل is what permissibility let's start with the first one which is الأكلو eating وشرب and drinking الله سبحانه وتعالى he says إن صورة المائدة آية 88 الله says وكلو eat مما رزقكم الله eat what Allah has provided you with حلالا طيبا underline that point for me الله عز و جلوة did he say eat from the provision and the risk Allah has given you that which is what حلالا so the person who wants to work out what type of food does that person need to eat that which is that which is حلالا number one that's the first point that we take from in terms of eating also if that food that you're eating is حلالا can you over exaggerate in eating it to eat so much الله وتبارك وتعالى he says إن صورة الأعراف آية 31 الله says وكلو وشربو eat and drink ولا تصرفوا don't go overboard don't eat too much and don't drink too much إنه لا يحب المصرفين الله does not like those who exaggerate we've taken two benefits now the food and the drink that you're taking in the substance that's going in number one it has to be what حلالا and number two you're not allowed to do إصلاف إصلاف is what concerns us now which is what going overboard in your eating why because it harms your fitness it harms your physical ability so you're not allowed to overeat الله commanded us in this ayah and he instructed us to stay away from eating excessively الله says وكلو وشربو ولا تصرفوا and then Allah says إنه لا يحب المصرفين الله does not like those who exaggerate in their eating and drinking we're now going to move on to the second pillar before we move on to the second pillar we've understood the sharia commanded us to eat حلال and to drink what? and it also commanded us to what? to not exaggerate in that which we eat or or drink pay attention the first one what does it harm? the one that if you eat حرام what does it harm? it harms your deen it harms your religion it becomes an obstacle from your دعاء being accepted the Prophet ﷺ told us in the hadith اي من رجل يطيل السفر اي من who's going to travel or a man who was traveling اش عثى اغبر this man was a traveler and he was dusted and etc اش عثى اغبر يمدو يديه الى السماء this man raised his hand and he said يا رب يا رب my lord my lord he's in a time of hardship he's calling onto his lord and he says يا رب يا رب my lord and then Allah tells us the Prophet ﷺ tells us رجل يطيل السفر اش عثى اغبر يمدو يديه الى السماء يا رب يا رب ومطعمه حرام وملبسه حرام وغذية بالحرام فانا يستجاب لهذا this man he's food is haram he's drinking is haram he was nurtured upon haram how is Allah going to accept his دعاء you're asking Allah to look after your physical health for you and to protect your health for you but would he accept that a dua from you if you've eaten haram you've drinking haram you are raising yourself upon haram the second one is israaf which is to go overboard in the eating and the drinking the Prophet ﷺ he tells us that the stomach is divided into how much three what's the first portion drinking second is for what what and the third is for what ثلث للطعامي وثلث للشرابي one third is for what air for you to breathe the second is what your food and your drinking imagine you make it all food and drink and you leave nothing for breathing you can see that the Messenger ﷺ he's teaching us the manners of how to deal with the food the second is your sleeping before I go into sleeping again if you go to the gym and those of you who go to the gym and work out you realize that if you discuss with your personal instructor he will tell you that it's vital that you observe your diet many people they go to the gym and they eat everything eating everything works against your what it works against your gym rather I read an article before I came to this lecture 67% of people working out of your gym it has to do with your diet it's what you eat are you eating the right vegetables are you eating the right substance so you can spend you can do it if you want in the gym and stay in the gym as long as you wish if your diet at home is not good what are you doing whatever you have built you're what you're working against it when is your body going to reach it's pinnacle when is it going to be strong if you're building it and the next day you're eating chicken burger from hardies or McDonald's you're working against the body number 2 is unknown sleeping الله سبحانه وتعالى He tells us in the Quran و هو الذي الله is the one الذي جعله the one who made for you الليل اللي باسن please under 9 this point الله made the night he made it dark the reason why the night is dark is for what it's for you to sleep the night is for sleeping when no masubatin Allah made the day time for you to go out and work and make your provision are we all together Allah made the night for you to sleep and for you to go to bed and the day time Allah made it و جعل النهارة و شورة and the day time Allah made you go out find your provision look for your risk some people what they did is they turned it upside down and so they made their day the sleeping and the night what did they do they are awake this goes against صلل الإلهية the way Allah تعالى و تعالى set for us and the way that it should be when the alika scientists doctors have said that sleeping 4 hours a night is better than sleeping 8 hours day time 4 hours that you sleep at night it's better than sleeping 8 hours what? at day time and this لاشكة we have it in our Quran we're not taking it from scientists merely but it's actually backed up by what by Allah سبحانه و تعالى speech Allah says و جعلنا نومكم سباتن we've made your night sleeping there are manners when it comes to sleeping there are etiquettes that we need to observe when it comes to sleeping I'm going to mention them number one if you want to be healthy if you want to really sleep follow these practical steps number one إغلاق الأبوابي عند إقبال الليل when the night is about to come lock your doors and close your doors this is a sunnah from the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the hadith in صحيح البخاري the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said إذا كان جنح الليل if the night comes فقفوا سبيانكم if your children are playing outside bring them in don't let them go outside at night time why فإن الشياطينة تنتشر the shaitan is spread on the earth now your children are going to be affected by this so if your children are outside and they're playing bring them in lock your doors and your house and the windows remember the word أبواب in the Arabic language it involves the what the windows as well it's not just the doors فإذا ذهبت ساعة من الليل فخلوا مفخلوا هم وأغلقوا الأبواب وذكرسم الله and mention the name of Allah فإن الشياطين because the shayateen لا يفتحوا بابا مغلقة so when you lock the door you say بسم الله الشيطان will never open a locked door but if a door is open what will it do? it will come in so that's the first manners when it comes to sleeping the second one is الوطر قبل النوم before you go to sleep read your witter I'm going to pray a salat al witter أبو هريره he said in the hadith ألمام البخاريه narrated in his Sahih he said أوصاني خليلي my close friend advised me who's he referring to the messenger he advised me بثلاثة بثلاثن he advised me three things صيام ثلاثة أيام من كل شهر every month fast three days there's three days in every month he advised me fast ورك عتي الضحا and he commanded me he advised me to pray الضحا وأن أوطر قبل أن أنام and he's صلى الله عليه وسلم he advised me to do witter before I go to sleep the third is القراءة to read ومسح and to wipe on your body the Quran that you've read on it you read Quran on your hands and then you wipe it on yourself as much as you can read reach on your body عائشة رضي الله تعالى عنها she said أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كان إذا أو إلى فراشه الليلة the messenger every night when he would go to his bed جمع كفه he would bring his two palms together ثم نفث and then he would blow inside it in both of his hands and then he would read قلوا الله أحد قل أعود برب الفلق and he would read قل أعود برب الناس ثم يمسح بهما and then with his hands he would wipe over his whole entire body مستطاع من جسدي however parts he can reach there are parts of your body that you can't reach بهما على رأسه ووجه his face his hands his everywhere وما أقبل من جسدي يفعل ذلك ثلاثة مرات he would do that three times صلى الله عليه وسلم narrations mentioned that when the messenger became sick عائشة said I used to read on him and this is something that the wife and the husband they help each other on that the husband reads on his wife if she's sick and she can't do it he does it for her and the wife she does it for her husband if he's sick and he's unable to do it that she blows into her into her hands and she reads it on to him or she wipes it on his body number four recites البقرة قبل النوم that the person recites صورة البقرة before they go to sleep أبي مسعود للبدري رضي الله وتعالى عنه he said رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the messenger الآية تاني the two verses من آخر صورة البقرة which is the ending of صورة البقرة من قرأهما anyone who reads them في ليلة in one night كفتا who it will suffice him the last two verses in صورة البقرة anyone who reads it at night كفتا who it will suffice him the fifth step that the person needs to do is النوم على الوضوء it will zikr sleep upon وضوء make sure that you have wuduء when you go to sleep and make sure that you do zikr before you go to sleep البرايب العازب رضي الله وتعالى عنه he said إذا أتيت مضجعك if you come to your bed فتوابق وضوءك do the wuduء that you do for praying when you want to go to your bed do a complete wuduء the one that you do when you want to pray Salat وضوءك للصلاة ثم مضجع على شقك الإيمن and then sleep on your right side ثم قل and then say اللهم أسلم to which he is like or Allah I have faced towards you وفوضت وفوضت أمري إليك and I have presented my affairs to you meaning I have placed my affairs in your hands وألجأت وضاهري إليك and I have laid my back face رغبة ورهبة إليك أو الله I hope from you and I fear you لا ملجع ولا منجع إلا إليك there is no way to run and there is no one to find shelter from except you أو الله this is what the person does when they go to their bed اللهم أو الله I have believed in بكتابك الذي أنزلتها I have believed in the book you sent وبي نبيك الذي أرسلت and the prophet that you sent I believe in him the prophet said فإن متة برا إبن عازم if you die that night when you say that متة على الفطرح you die upon the fitrah you are upon the correct way and then look what he said to him واجعلهن make this آخر ما تتكلم بي make this the last thing that you say don't do anything after this once you said this don't talk to anybody make this the last thing that you do imagine those who go to sleep on Instagram or Facebook or on their Twitter and they go to sleep and they have the phone in their hand this is أدب and manners that you need to follow ولي ذلك because people don't follow these steps when they become sick and they get possessed and then عين happens to them then they say how has this happened to me these are practical steps that you need to follow and there are many other things that a person needs to do before he goes to sleep what are the benefits for sleeping what are the physical benefits that a person gets from sleeping number one it brings about for you sleeping strength you get physical strength from sleeping if a person doesn't sleep for a period of time they can't do anything they become tired they sit down and they can't move you can be the most energetic person you want if you haven't slept for a great period of time what happens to you you can't you sit down you're the most quiet person in the room and before you were what you were doing back flips in the room you were jumping around but now you're unable to do anything you're physically fatigued you're tired the second benefit that it has is تنشيطوا ذاكرة if you haven't slept for a period of time you receive memory loss you don't remember things وَلِذَالِكَ العَلَّامِبْنُ الْقَيْمَ زَكِتَابْكُطِبْنَبَوِي the prophetic medicine one of the things that helps a person's memorization he mentions is what sleeping at night sleeping at night is what helps you memorize وَلِذَالِكَ what you do all day your brain registers at night what does it do it starts storing things for you so your memory is becoming strong also things that we need to do if we want to go to sleep a lot of people say I want to sleep but I can't stay away from drinking tea or coffee before you go to sleep don't have a cup of tea and then say I can't sleep or you have Pepsi and you say I can't go to sleep what do you do do you reform tea coffee anything that has caffeine in it Pepsi so we add mountain juice to the list or I'm sure you can I don't know mountain juice is an exception stay away from all of those fizzy drinks the second one is which is something you should stay away from us all and anyways is those who smoke they have problems with their sleeping it causes you what problems in your sleeping also stay away from eating heavy food 2 hours before you want to go to sleep 2 hours before you want to go to sleep stay away from any heavy meal if you want to have something very light that's something stay away from heavy food also don't sleep with an empty stomach because you're going to keep waking up stay away from what الجور حنغة because every time you're going to stand up in the fridge so stay away from an empty stomach also if you want to have a good sleep at night don't sleep a lot at daytime the best sleeping brothers is and I would advise you all is if your time your hours of working allows you is you sleep between عصر قيلولة and you don't sleep any other time in between at night time after you pray عشا you sleep and you wake up for فجر and you wake up for what فجر 1 hour before فجر if you can wake up or 2 hours before فجر you recite the Quran this is the best time to memorize whatever you want to memorize your fresh you had a good sleep you're not hungry you're not sick from the food that you ate the night before this is what it's a healthy healthy diet the third thing is النظافة the third one is النظافة to be clean, cleansiness this is the third pillar how many pillars did we say 4 pillars, what was the first pillar that we spoke about eating and and drinking is very vital when we spoke about eating and drinking what did we say you have to stay away from 2 things what were they and the second one is what going excessive exaggeration in what you eat or or drink the second one is what sleeping and we spoke about how many points or manners that we need to follow before we sleep I mentioned 5 points now we're going to go into the third pillar for a good healthy life is النظافة to be clean الله سبحانه وتعالى يسأل in the آية لا تقم فيه أبدا محمد don't go to that masjid it was a masjid that was built that the hypocrites built in medina to divide the muslims الله to command me the masjid it was called لا تقم فيه أبدا don't ever stand in that masjid and go to it لماسجد أسس على التقوى a masjid that was built upon piety which is the one he had من أول يوم from the first day أحق وانتقوم فيه this one is the one that you should stand in this is the masjid that you should be in not a masjid that was built upon what it was called the whole purpose for this masjid was built to divide the people or to cause harm الله then says فيه رجال يحبون أن يتطهرو in there are men who want to cleanse and who are pure clean and then Allah says after that والله يحب المطهرين الله loves those who are pure and clean so what did Allah praise those companions who were in the masjid أسس على التقوى the masjid that was built upon piety what was the characteristics Allah mentioned for them cleanseiness and purity and how clean they were and then it is very important و لذلك the masjid رضي الله تعالى عنهما he says the messenger came to us one day فرأى رجولا and the prophet saw a man who was standing up it wasn't in a good shape the masjid he saw him and then he looked at him and he said can this man not find a comb to comb his hair can he not comb his hair down are we all together brothers and also the prophet he saw another man and he had garment and it had so much dirt on it and it had so much what dirt on it and the masjid أما as for this one could he not find ما ووتا يغسل به ثوبة that he washes his clothing with could he not find ووتا our religion is based upon cleanliness التهور شطر الإيمان purity and cleanliness is what خاف of إيمان the person has to be what و لذلك when the messenger was told to give دعوة what did Allah say to him قم فأنذر وربك فكبر و واثيابك فطاهر واثيابك فطاهر cleanse your clothing Muhammad if you want to give دعوة don't be a person who gives دعوة and he has what because that will make people not want to take knowledge from you and that will take away from you what so be clean are we all together brothers also واثيابك فطاهر there's another view that says واثيابك here means what purify your heart so what is important brothers is the cleanliness of the heart and the cleanliness of the to be fit you need both of them what do you need to have طهارة القلب وطهارة البدن are we all together brothers your heart has to be clean and so does your clothes what benefit does it hold brothers that if your clothing is clean and you have a white garment so crisp it is white there's no taint or there's no filth on it but your heart is black and it's dark you disbelieve or you're arrogant so you have bad traits in your heart what benefit does it hold are we all together so the cleanliness of the heart is very important the cleanliness of the body and the clothing doesn't entail arrogance some people think if a person wants to be clean and he wants to be beautiful and he wants to be sharp that that means automatically he's what he's arrogant that's what they think and that's incorrect that is what it's actually incorrect he said the prophet said he will not enter the person who has a musted seed of arrogance in his what in his heart then a man he said he likes his house and everything to be clean he thought that was arrogance and then a messenger said الله is beautiful and Allah loves beauty what is arrogance it's to dismiss the truth when it comes to you and it's to belittle the people that's arrogance so having a cloth which is clean what does it show الله جميل الله is beautiful and he loves what pay attention to this the messenger went a step further when he came to cleanliness and the clothing he said that one of you in وجدة if he's able to clean if one of you he can have two garments the companions remember they didn't have much money so the messenger said to them if one of you can try to buy two garments for what one is for Friday and the other one is for his work his worldly one is for Allah when you come and the message you're clean and the other one is for work when you're working to be clean and to be in our religion some people when they saw that the Muslims when they go to the call of nature and they do their call of nature how they clean themselves and how they purify themselves some people were like wow I remember a story something happened to me in college I was studying business I was studying business in college so they took us to Coca-Cola that was situated in Edmonton that's a place in London North London so what I did was we came and when we came to the Coca-Cola they were teaching us how Coca-Cola came about in the history of Coca-Cola and etc so what happened was I had to go to do my call of nature so I wanted to go to the toilet so when I went to the toilet the guy who was doing the presentation for us we had to go to the toilet as well we both had to go to the toilet we went into the toilet at the same time but two different toilets and then we both came out I went and I washed my hands and soap and he just walked out are we all together he was the head of the department of cleanliness of Coca-Cola he overlooks they are following that was his job the branch manager wasn't the one that was talking to us he was talking about cleanliness you haven't even washed your hands imagine this brothers him being a leader a husband of nine wives a father of many had spoken to his companions when they go to the toilet they have to use this much to clean themselves with water are you with me brothers when he came to Salman al-Farisi he said to him who was shocked he said he told you guys everything and Salman al-Farisi said yes حتى الخلاع when we go to the call of nature he told us how to clean ourselves do you know what he said to us he said you can't use less than three rocks he also told us that we clean ourselves with our left hand and we eat with our right hand he told us that we don't face the qiblah when we're doing our call of nature and that we don't turn our back towards the qiblah this shows you what Islam is made for everybody's day to day life this religion covers everything it's Shamil are we all together brothers the messengers of Salman al-Farisi sometimes he would come to the masjid and then he would or he saw Salman al-Farisi once upon a time he came to the masjid and he saw a saliva stuck to the masjid and then the prophet rebuked his companions for this manner he said who did this this is not something that we have to tolerate and Salman al-Farisi also when jibreel came to the messenger Salman al-Farisi how was the appearance of jibreel بينما نحن جلوس عند رسول الله شديد بياط الثياب شديد السواد الشعري لا يرى عليه أثر السفر و لا يعرفه من أحد this man he was what jibreel came in what form clean his thob was white his hair was black know that because he was teaching them what their religion he was teaching them when you come as a student because at the ending of the hadith what did he say when the prophet said أتدري من السائل قال فإنه جيبريل أتاكم يعلمكم is jibreel who came to teach your religion how to dress yourself how to look how clean that you should look so cleanliness is one of the vital relationship in our concept of fitness we are now going to go into the last one which is working out which is the last pillar when it comes to physical physical what fitness الرياضة to work out does Islam give importance to that I advise you guys to read a كتاب called الفروسية المحمدية by ابن القيم it's called what فروسية المحمدية it's written by who ابن القيم he talks about archery he wrote a whole book on that and he also mentions in his 6 volume book زاد المعاد he mentions inside a chapter where he talks about how the prophet was in his physical training what are the objectives of being physically fit in the شريعة what are the objectives number one Islam as a religion wants to nurture strong powerful people the religion doesn't want weak people who are physically weak who are mentally weak who are spiritually weak what الرياضية the person is a component of three things and the religion works towards strengthening these three things body, mind and soul the body of the person the mind and the soul you don't tend to find the Muslims working on each and every one of those three I promise you if you go home every day and you ask yourself how much have I invested towards my body and how much have I invested towards my mind and how much have I invested towards my soul if you balance those what will happen you will live a very happy life the way that the body becomes dehydrated if you don't drink a lot of water the soul becomes dehydrated if it doesn't get the amount of that it needs are you with me brothers that's why you find a person who's fit, who's got six packs everywhere even on his ears he's got six packs everywhere yeah but at that time he wants to commit what he wants to commit suicide he's rich he's got everything why do you want to because the soul has become dehydrated he doesn't want to live anymore the reason is because he distanced himself from the remembrance of Allah the Quran and the heart needs the Quran it needs it craves for it are you there brothers it craves you see a person coming to Islam and he's just crying as soon as he comes into Islam when he says the Shahada he's crying for the person here's the Quran and he just can't the serenity the beauty of the Quran you start crying you feel it why it's because the soul so the religion wants to make you strong in all of those three departments ولي ذلك الله تبارك وتعالى he prays or he speaks about himself الله speaks about himself and what attribute did he give himself الله is one who is قوي and he is العزيز الله is قوي means he is strong and Allah is also what العزيز what does عزيز mean عزيز is the one when he wants something it will happen the way he wants and no one can stop it that's what عزيز means عزيز means we want something it might happen or it might not الله wants it will happen when he wants it so no one can stop it سبحانه وتعالى الله when he speaks about those who spoke wrong about him what did he say الله says they did not honor Allah and they did not venerate Allah and glorify Allah the way he deserves and then Allah says الله is strong and it's عزيز so these characteristics of قوة is Allah's characteristics also Allah describes some of the angels as to be what especially جيبريل قوي look what he said ذي قوة جيبريل is what one who has strength عند العرش المكين الله also he praised some of the prophets with the characteristics of strength what did he say يا يحيا خذ الكتابة بقوة strength الله also said about the believers وقعدوا لهم مستطاعتهم من قوة ومن رباط الخير خير ترهبون باعدوا الله وقعدوا when you're fighting with the non-believers بفايفوا them مستطاعتهم من قوة with strength and the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم ودري he said المؤمن القوي أحبه إلى الله من المؤمن الضعيف وفي كل خير الله أحبه المؤمن who's what فهل يقول المؤمن القوي المؤمن who's strong is better than the one who's weak the strength here what does it mean it means all three that I mentioned the three component of the person because the قوة here is unrestricted so we have to leave it what unrestricted each and every one of them is talking about it but think of this if a person is stronger than you physically he's going to do عبادات that you can't do what is he going to pray at night more قيام الليل because he's physically strong and you're what you're weak you're going to sleep are you there brothers so he's going to do more عبادات than you can do so he's going to be better than you in that regard e-man wise he's stronger than you are we all together brothers so it also involves the physical ability those who think that the physical ability is not referred to in the hadith is wrong it means the physical ability and it means the what the e-man but the e-man is the asal it doesn't matter if you're physically strong you don't have strong e-man what really matters is what قوة to the e-man look at the physical ability how the sharia observes it the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم عبد الله بن عمر بن عاص عبد الله بن عمر بن عاص every day and he used to pray all night what would that do to the person because he's not taking the what the food and the drink that was needed and he's also taking away from what he's what and those are two components we mentioned for what so the messenger look what he said to him the prophet said to him when he بالغني it reached me that you fast and every day and every night that you're standing that's what I had is that true another benefit that we take from this brothers if you hear a rumor of somebody verify don't jump to it and say this is what happened this is what you did and I know this happened first of all ask this is a common practice of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he would always ask before he made the judgment one day he came to the masjid he saw a rope and this rope was in the masjid and the messenger said who's rope was this and what did they say to him they said it's your wife's rope that's her rope he said what does she do they said she prays all night and when her legs cannot carry her she dangles off the rope she wants to just pray all night she's praying and when her legs cannot carry her she still doesn't want to stop what does she want to do now the prophet knows what the rope is for are you there brothers this gives us also an understanding how the companions were strong how dedicated they were are you there brothers some of them do you know what they used to do at night they used to have a stick next to their bed and they would pray and pray and pray and then when their legs become weak they take the stick and they hit their leg and they say stand up you want to compete with Muhammad and his companions to Jannah and you want to get tired right now there's no place for you their dedication and their effort so they never be to jash when the prophet found out what she does with the rope what did he say take it down and then he said whoever wants to pray let him pray upon ability and when he's tired let him go to sleep what do we take from this hadith first of all verifying finding out investigating first what's this rope for who's is it what does she do with it when he found out then he gave the ruling the second thing is how important the religion gives what قوة البدا the observing of your physical ability so when Abdullah ibn amr ibn a'as said ya Rasool Allah it's true I fast all day and all night I am praying the messenger then said to him he said then don't do this why he said your body has a right on you it's physical ability your body what does it have when you're eating the food the way that you're eating and you're just taking it in you're forgetting what that your body has what has rights on you your eyes have what rights on you have to sleep don't do this to yourself and your wife has rights on you why you doing this to her all night you're praying you're not giving her any rights the prophet said and break you fast some days fast some days don't fast the religion of Islam brothers it's against the idea of going extreme in whatever you're doing it falls under ولا تسليفوا إن الله لا يحبوا مسليفين الله doesn't like those who go overboard also the second objective the second objective a maqsad of working out brothers is what it actually strengthens your mindset working out actually brings a characteristics of patience and forbearance you become a person who's very tolerant نعم if you go to the gym and then you're picking up weight and they say okay you do nine and your arms are finished and you can't do and they go go to make that pushing what does it bring about tolerance sometimes that one last one can be more harder for you than that so it brings about all these كلام I'm bringing from is the ملقيم ملقيم is not talking about weight lifting of course he's talking about the concept of what it brings about he says it brings about patience and it also even brings the person becomes like they become when you're working out at the beginning that fear it goes you get rid of it you overcome it that's the benefit that it brings what are some of the examples of physical things that a person can do physical and a workout that a person can do number one is swimming archery riding horse these are things that should be done الله تعالى يقول the prophet said that the strength is in what learning archery if you look at the great scholars وحنيفة وإمام ماليك you look at their biography and you know what you read they were good at archery if ten arrows were given he would get nine accurate and he would miss one that's how good he was he would get nine precise and he would miss the tenth one that's how he was الإمام مسلم narrated in الصحيح and the prophet said anyone who learns archery الإمام مسلم narrated is what anyone who learns archery he is good at archery what does this show you the importance of physical ability you see from them is is running and racing and you all know the famous hadith he was running and who was running with him his wife so this is not restricted to brothers only this is also for what for the women as well ومنها المصارع wrestling is what it's also the prophet said ركانة ابل يزيد and the prophet wrestled ركانة ابل يزيد and wrestling is what it's very good and there should be classes made for wrestling it's good also having animals race one another this is also a sports that was present at whose time the messenger now I want to talk about some manners that need to be observed when it comes to sports in Islam and principles and I'm going to conclude with that Insha'Allah Islam brothers لا يربى الإسلام الإسلام is not pleased with our religion before I go into it I just want to mention the best type of sport in our religion is four the best four because of the hadith of the prophet the prophet said everything is what in another what does it say everything that doesn't have the remembrance of Allah is what but the battle here doesn't mean that it's حرام as Ibn Taymah mentioned in his and and he brings the that it doesn't mean it's حرام it just means that it's you are good what are they ملعبة الرجولي a man playing with his wife playing with your wife whether it be hide and seek playing with your playing with your wife whatever game you like و تأديب الرجولي فرصه and a man nurturing his what and training his what his horse training your horse it's a good sport و مشي الرجولي a man running between two places he's running 100 meters or whatever running sprint good sport و تعليم الرجولي السباحة and a man learning what and a man learning learning swimming this hadith they differed on its authenticity like in and sheikh al-al-Bani authenticated it and the truth is that the hadith is what it is it's a what authentic hadith Islam doesn't like when you're doing sports you have to stay away from these things and I'm going to conclude with it the first one is when you are doing sports don't let whatever sports you're doing don't let it in a hadith واجبات الدينية that it takes you away from what your religious obligation some people they are playing and Salah comes in and says let me just finish this that's not permissible number 2 لا يربع the shari'a is not pleased و مارس الرياضة بشكل غير you can't do the sports if it's causing other people harm some people they play football in the middle of the road or they're playing sports at a time between دور and أسر where people are sleeping in the neighborhood there's a قيلولة some people are sleeping they came from work you're is adj on them or you're playing in the courtyard and the ball is being thrown into the neighbor's house and it's causing what problem the religion doesn't allow that number 3 لا يربع التحزب الممقوط you're not allowed partinism partinism means of my group against yours and then based on that it's about love and hate are you there because this person is part of your group you love them and because that person is not on your side on your group you show hate and enmity are we all together the religion is not for it where love and hate and based upon a group this goes against our religion because all the believers are what believers I mean I remember a couple of years back remember when Algeria and I think Egypt played football and then what they fought each other in the stadium are you there brothers people take this thing very serious are you see it in the UK football sports those who support football they make dua for the team give them تأييد victory not to mention the love and the passion and the hate I've seen brothers who stop talking to each other because football they don't give each other salams at all they're in the same house have you guys seen people like that they don't give salams it goes against our religion also sports that involves opposite genders where men and women are playing together our religion is not it doesn't allow that also the sports it doesn't or the fitness it shouldn't have inside it any magic or spiritual things that are put towards it meditation like some sports does yoga fall on that so let's speak about the spiritual one it's not permissible or you go to a Woon Chung or Shaolin master and he tells you the Buddha master he tells you in order to get this there has to be a greater power and he has to all of this like a juice you're allowed to do the kicking and the punching around but this meditation and this belief that there's a power and there's a strength in this which they believe that when they take their stomach and they put this blade on it they believe that there is a well I check it they work with jeans how they do things they do push up with one figure there's no doubt there's a jean lifting it up all of that is not permissible Shaolin is not it is not allowed and it goes against the concept of sports that we are talking about also the person who is playing sports has to have the spirit that if your team wins if they lose some people they lose it's your fault because of you and they can't take the days they go around and they evolve you see today today you take victory having that spirit is important and that is some of the points that I could come with on the very short notice I was given into preparing this lecture those were points that I could come with anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me and Shaytan and Allah and His Messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشدو الله إلهي اللهم أستغفيرك واتوب إلي any questions let's start from the right side you see the difference between people is sleeping differs from one person to another one particular person he can sleep for 4 hours and that's more than enough for him and there's somebody who can't sleep for 4 hours he can sleep for how much 8 hours 8 hours is average that's what everybody should be 8 hours is normal if Allah did not create you that way don't beat yourself for it or 5 hours are you with me brothers they slept for that much and they were able to work I personally believe you can train yourself to reduce your sleep you can you can train yourself and the way that you do that is you take from your sleep little bit gradually until you reach a point where you can sleep for 4 to 5 hours and you function fine no problem you function but that 4 to 5 hours that we are talking about is that nighttime you may get another 2 to 3 hours inside the day and the best type of sleeping is if you divide your 8 hours like that 8 hours even though is what you should do it shouldn't all be at what all at once it's not healthy what is healthy is what put 5 or 6 hours here or the mother the 3 or 2 or 4 hours and put it here are we all together so enough is subjective 5 hours maybe for somebody another person 8 hours but anybody more than 8 hours that's a bit worrying if you're sleeping more than 8 hours are you sleeping or are you dead any sports that involves the face is not permissible islamically you're not allowed to do a sports that it's what you're attacking a person's face where you have to strike a person's face or do something whether it be punching whether it be sword anything that's to do with the face is not but here's the question what about if there's a guard on the face the person is wearing a gear what is the ruling that needs a that needs a more observation but what I know is that if you speak about your face it means direct face but if a person is wearing a gear that won't harm them necessarily what's the ruling regarding that that needs more observation because some sports the whole objective behind it is to punch the person in the face that's boxing right when the objective is taken can the person ever learn boxing so that the face gear needs maybe an observation and Allah knows best any other question no it means that these five are not disliked you don't get rewarded for it if you just do it but if you want to get rewarded for it and you're doing it because you want to get closer to Allah by doing this and now you get edge for it for example if a man he plays hide and seek with his wife and he does it for Allah's sake he wants to get closer to Allah by it now he gets edge for it it's not doing with any intention no he misses the reward of course any husband who provides for his wife he gives her clothing he gives her a house if he doesn't have the intention he doesn't get rewarded for it and when he plays the spoon that you place in the wife's mouth if you come with the intention Allah I'm getting closer to you this is what you commanded me this is what a slave like me should do if you do that for that sake what happens every single penny that you give your wife what do you get for it reward every month you're sending bills and you're paying everything but you're not coming with the intention you get rewarded for it I mean definitely you have to buy air-conditioner but opening the windows at night is what's been spoken about specifically شرعان is something that a person should especially at that time if you know imagine you knew an enemy is coming to invade your house would you prefer to be inside house or would you let the enemy come in so this is the enemy when he comes in he's going to destroy your family he's going to destroy your children he's going to possess your wife so you lock all of the doors but some people they say you have to cover some of the narrations do come across covering whatever not leaving things out uncovered that had those narrations and stuff they need more observation more looking but what we know is that lock the doors the windows everything close it don't have anything open because if many of us just follow these instructions these instructions what would we have a blessed lifestyle you see a person coming to the door he's talking on the phone and he's opening his door he's talking on the phone and you know you just bought a Shaytan into your house and then after that the food is bought now he's going to eat with you at night you just jumped in bed so you gave him a house to sleep you gave him food to eat and then you gave him a bed to sleep on who's going to use all of that energy that he gets who's going to use it against and then you come and you say of course your Shaytan is strong he's got six packs he's physically strong are you even about حقيقة this is a reality you've nurtured your Shaytan he's living a VIP he's living a VIP life and so he's using every single energy he has against you so weaken your Shaytan how do you weaken him don't let him come into a house don't let him have any place to sleep don't let him have any food to eat don't let him have any what you call it bed to sleep on then insha'Allah watch how your عبادة becomes and your obedience of Allah becomes you become very strong your eman becomes strong your lifestyle becomes strong even the relationship between you and your wife becomes strong صحيح we stop there