 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستهديه ونستغفره ونؤمن به ونتوكل عليه ونشكره ولا نكفره ونعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيات عمالنا من يهد الله فهو المهتد ومن يضل الفلن تجد له وليا مرشدة واشد ولا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له واشد أن محمد عبده ورسوله ثم ما بعد يقول الله عز وجل في كتاب الكريم يا أيها الذين آمنوا كتب عليكم الصيام كما كتب على الذين من قبلكم لعلكم تتقون ويقول سبحانه يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله حق تقاته ولا تموتن إلا وانتم مسلمون ويقول سبحانه يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله وقولوا قولا سديدة يصلح لكم عمالكم ويغفر لكم دنوبكم وما يطع الله ورسوله فقد فاز فوزا عظيما الحمد لله that we are here still alive and still have an opportunity to do something with our lives something better something more and one thing that is important to have is to always have an ambition to be an ambitious person to improve yourself to want more not less it just depends on what do you want more of so الحمد لله every day is a new opportunity and every day represents our entire life from beginning to end from death to life to death death means your soul is not joined with your body it doesn't mean you don't exist according to the language of the Quran before we came to this world we were souls which means we were dead but we were souls then we came to life which means our soul joined our body and now you are a human being full human and then from here your soul will leave you so then you become what? dead again then your soul will join you and you will become alive and human again this is very important to know why because sometimes philosophy gets to us and we say we are spiritual people in آخرى we will just be spirits and we will be souls that's not the Quranic point of view that's not the truth that Allah revealed to us in the Quran for you to be a human you have to have body and soul if it was more honorable for you to have a soul without a body then after resurrection when you enter jannah you will enter only as a soul and that's not what Allah said so you need a body to be a human a full human an honorable human and our faith promotes this understanding that your body is important just like your soul is important so for you to say I don't like my body I just want to be a spiritual person that's not Islamic philosophy that is driven from Quran from the traditions of our Prophet the example that we have so we have to embrace ourselves as body and soul in jannah Allah satisfies your body just like He satisfies your soul in jannah there is food in jannah there is drink in jannah there is things that totally appeal to the body and to the human nafs to the human nafs in jannah you get companions in jannah you get to wish whatever you want and Allah talks about birds meat and fish and fruits and it's similar for the lack of because you don't know it's a whole different realm of time and space it's similar but it's not the same similar but not the same so that's why it's very important to know how to deal with your body it's very important to know how to deal with your nafs with your desires and with your wants and it's very important to reach that balance in which it's playing its role your nafs it's playing its role your heart is playing its role and heart here we mean emotional heart in the Quran Allah names it and then your deep consciousness which is قلب in Arabic in Urdu you say قلب you mean your emotions this is the modern Arabic the old Arabic قلب deep consciousness your deep understanding your deep عقل so you have a body you have a nafs you have a فؤاد you have a قلب you have a عقل you have a deep secret this part of you is something called a deep secret and then you have a soul so there is 7 of you in you that's why you are so complicated and sophisticated and that's why good luck trying to guide yourself without a divine revelation that's what the human wants so the human start manufacturing like exercise exercise does the body need exercise it does does it need to eat healthy it does there is no argument about that why argue it doesn't make you more righteous if you don't take care of your body and it's not the sunnah of our prophet not to take care of your body but if you satisfy your body and you eat the healthiest and you exercise and you become an athlete and a world famous athlete does not mean that you're going to live a happy peaceful purposeful life because life shows us I don't have to teach you the Quran doesn't have to teach you we have many examples of people who attain the peak of athleticism most possible thing that a human and the next thing you know they just were so happy that they had to take their life away but نفس desires and wants there's needs and there's wants and that's how your نفس functions it tells you what your needs are and what your wants are and your نفس is very skillful it turns a need into a want and it turns a want into a need you want a 70 inch TV my generation we call it flat screen TV because the new generation have never seen a pregnant TV before so we call it flat screen TV so whenever you look you want 70 inch that's a want your نفس keep on nagging and you are nagging and you are nagging you and making a want but what a need it's not a need it's a want but your نفس is very skillful in doing that you have a need you need to eat true or false true and stay with me and answer me so that you stay awake إن شاء الله because the lighting I think they made it low lighting if we can even put some more lights I'll be very happy if you have a control so that people don't go to sleep many people tell me my voice is so relaxing it puts them to sleep I don't want to put you to sleep إن شاء الله actually one of my teachers one of my dearest teachers used to fall asleep when I talk and he had a hard time falling asleep so he would bring me and he would say talk talk I was glad to be of service so when you look at that you need to eat right? true or false? very true but do you need to eat a lot that's when your نفس turns a need into you want some people exert an amazing willpower they are in control of their نفس and they don't have to be Muslim when it comes to diet it's like they have no نفس they'll eat exactly the same amount every day every week every month do you gain weight are you a human or something why can't you gain weight like the rest of us but being in control of your نفس does that satisfy the all of you does that put all of you in peace no that's tackling one part of you dealing with the willpower in your نفس you have emotions and these emotions we human beings to make a long story short we rely on two emotions one is respect and two is love to us this is the food of your emotions if a human being is not loved and respected to a certain level every day that human will not function right that day so what happens to children who are born and raised in such a reality harsh reality that they're not getting love or respect on daily basis do you expect them to grow to be a normal human being no is it their fault no Allah knows how long it will take them for one day to discover what they have been subjected to because all what they have heard even from their mom that's if they have the pleasure of knowing who's their mom and dad was disrespectful and they trust nobody and nobody trust them and they grow up in such an environment my heart bleeds for such a situation and then we come sometimes and judge these people not knowing what they went through and if you actually know by Allah you will cry for a month to realize that there is a human that grew up not knowing love and respect on daily basis والله that's worse than torture that's worse than so we need love and respect طيب we need love and respect and we need to love and respect it's something that we need to have on daily basis it's normal so now from there we go on and we move on in our life but let's say someone got love and respect they got loved by their loved ones they dreamt of marrying somebody they married them and they love them and they love their partner is that enough to make their entire life happy and at peace? no then you have a deep you have a mind and the mind needs feed and the mind uses the five senses your eyes your ears touching, smelling, tasting the whole thing but most important for knowledge processing is your ears and your eyes so the mind takes that, processes it and then that's the function of the mind it makes out of it if it's good the mind has an operating system part of this operating system is given to it by Allah you're born with it you don't have to learn it my proof is when Allah said ونفسي وما سواها فألهمها فجورها وتقواها قد أفلح من زكاها وقد خب من دسها الله said and by the one who formed it and by the one who inspired to the nafs what is right and what is wrong what is good and what is bad what is evil and what is good so all human beings share a certain level of knowing what is right from what is wrong through or false through otherwise we will not be human imagine someone is born thinking killing babies is okay and the other believes killing babies is the most horrific crime in the world with these two human live together life will become impossible yet in the world of lions when a new lion comes first thing he does he fights the old lion the alpha lion he either kills him or he makes him run away and the first item on the list is to kill the babies of the old lion one by one so that they don't grow up to be rival to him for three days the lionesses mourn the death of their children after three days they forget and they go back into heat and they deliver new babies and life goes on so Allah shows you that I could have created you different with a completely different set of common sense but all human beings share the idea that killing is wrong murder is wrong lying is wrong you don't need a religion you don't need because you were born with it this is what we call fitra your inner instinct your basic God given in doubt basic minimum a human nature so part of your mind knows how to function knowing between rise and wrong but that's not enough it needs more and that's where the revelation comes right revelation comes to compliment your mind not to replace it not to put an X on it but to compliment it and empower it and give it what it can never reach on its own that's the job of the revelation otherwise Allah didn't say in the Quran I created you dumb knowing nothing about nothing your whole life no Allah said you were born knowing nothing then He taught you then you know some of what you know is inherent in you and some of it you learn it some people have an amazing intellectual power you hear of these people who can multiply in numbers numbers numbers numbers I saw a programmer guy who can calculate the pie he reached to around 2000 numbers like all from his head and it's very difficult to calculate the next pie you know it's a mathematical number or you give them 6 numbers times 6 numbers they can calculate you hear these people who are very smart in school with PhD's or doctors or this or this or that to have a smart mind an active mind an amazing mind does that make the human happy for his entire life and peaceful the answer is no that's not enough unlike wise you have a soul and the soul has its own food the food of the soul is talking and connecting with Allah how many meals do we eat every day be honest 4 5 breakfast snack lunch snack dinner snack and then the midnight is not calculated anyway you're half asleep anyway you sleep walk to the fridge you eat and come out and you don't even know what you ate just like your body needs to eat 5-6 times a day your soul needs to eat 5-6 times a day and that's why why are you surprised that we pray 5 times a day each meal is 5-6 to 7 minutes we do and Salah alone by yourself is 5 minute process if you want to add to it 10 minutes process distributed not at once but during the whole day so why are you surprised so that is the food of your soul what happens when someone doesn't feed their soul their soul start screaming at them but the soul doesn't have a voice like this voice the soul shows you you wake up in the morning depressed and you don't know why because you're not eating when you don't eat what do you feel hungry when you don't pray what do you feel hungry but in a different way so that's why it's what it's we pray 5 times a day this Islam when you look at all the Ibadat and all of it's teachings in a very complicated calculated sophisticated way it is doing giving every part of you it's food and it's what and it's the nurtured and the nutrition that you need together when you put all the teachings of Islam together then you can feel what you feel that feeling that we're all chasing the peace the tranquility sometimes what we call happiness the relaxation the meaningful life the purposeful life the productive life the progressive life this doesn't happen by applying one thing and saying I'm spiritual you can feed your soul but if you're not feeding your body and mind and heart and every other part of you your deep consciousness where all of your solid values are settles that's where your deep consciousness that's where your deep calculator do I do this or do I do that it's all the value when it comes to your wedding night your قلب shows up I'm not talking about emotions your قلب what kind of a wedding do you want your deep settled core pops up and you can either have a wedding that pleases Allah and makes the believers happy and everyone goes to it have a blast or you have a wedding that this pleases Allah and everybody walks and saying huh the flowers were cheap oh the food was not good oh it was not cooked right and you spent north of $50 a plate and still they're not happy something was not done right something was not the intention so where does your deep core pops out with major decisions it doesn't pop out every day just like that for small stuff small stuff this makes the calculation your عقل deep stuff big decisions here one of the MSA students came to me and said my mother raised me Islam, Allah, Islam Islam, Islam, Islam until I reached to high school and then the message was if you don't pray it's okay Allah will forgive you what's most important right now thing in your life is your grades the girl her mother raised her so well that by high school she's solid Muslim so daughter better than her so good for her right let's look at the positive side so the girl is in a state of shock that in the deep calculations of the mother grades are more important than Salah you can let go of Salah and Allah will forgive you when does that that's what's in your قلب what has settled in your heart that's the accumulation of years of convictions and things that go in your heart then there is your sir and your sir is your deepest motive in life and may Allah enable us one day to discover our own secret because you could not know your own secret so what is secret sir sir is what you know but the others don't know you know something you know about yourself or you know about someone else but the other doesn't know this is called in Arabic what is more hidden than sir Allah says يعلم سر و أخفى he knows the sir and what is more hidden than the sir you know what's the sir what's أخفى is what you don't know about you but it's part of you it's your deepest motive why do you do what you do and that's your journey as an adult over the years if you've been hearing everyone around you saying what are people going to say about us what are people going to say about us how are we going to do this what are people going to say about us and you heard that over a thousand times how many times did you hear and what is Allah going to say about us zero so when you grow up what's your أخفى what's your most hidden what's your أخفى deepest motive in life what is it Allah or people and you spend your life thinking of yourself you're sincere but in reality you have not reached the deepest what is hidden from you as they say there is that which you know and you know that you know are you a doctor you know you're not a doctor so what are where are you high school college where what year which country so he knows he's in which year he knows what he knows and he knows what he doesn't know but the third thing that is our blunt spot is what we don't know that we don't know and that's what your deepest secret what is deeper than a secret صر is secret you know but the others don't know is what you don't know and you don't know that you don't know did I twist your mind process it a little bit I'll give you five seconds so that's why the teaching of Ramadan and the coming of the month of Ramadan is very very very crucial and important and that's why the journey of being a believer is the most amazing journey one can ever take in their life it's the most adventurous journey it's the most exploring journey that you can take in your life it's so much full of surprises and ups and downs it's the most hard terrain that you can ever hike that's yourself the hike that you take inside we have a woman in our history called رابع العدوية رابع العدوية started her life as what as a woman that was known for doing things that are not Halal let's leave it at that then people started bidding one righteous man الجنيد and they said if رابع shows up to الجنيد will not handle it she's so beautiful so she showed up to him and offered him herself so he looked and he said how beautiful of a body and what a loss that such a body will end up in hell so he shocked her this is the first time someone said no to her she attacked him basically she showed him herself is it right so she cried and ran away these stories so then she became righteous what she did not know about herself is that deep inside she is the righteous woman but from outside she was raised by an evil environment so she ended up taking that path so الجنيد awoken that thing inside her this story is prescribed to different ladies so but what we know about رابع is she became one of the most amazing people in the world of taking a journey to Allah and she said something that's why I'm mentioning it she said I'm amazed at people why are you amazed رابع العدوية she said people are willing to take a six month trip on feet on foot to go to Hajj and six months trip on foot to come back from Hajj but they're not willing to take a trip that is that big this is in Arabic from this tip to this tip when you open your hands called شبر in the hadith it's mentioned in this so you don't have a measuring tape so you go one, two, three so you go one, two this is شبر so she said I'm amazed people will travel six months on foot for Hajj and six months coming back but they will not take a trip this شبر and they're like what are you talking about she says I'm talking about that people will not take a trip from here to here from here they discover themselves and what's deep and to change it and to make it a better person and when you start diving deep you're going to be disappointed in the beginning and if that disappointment is going to make you depressed and deter you from continuing the journey then you got the wrong listen but if that disappointment turns into I am mad I want to become better I want to become the best you're going to overcome and the best of thing the best of all Allah will help you to overcome and if Allah is with you who can be against you and if Allah is against you who can be with you that's why every raka'a we say ya Allah we worship you ya Allah but even in worshiping you sorry ya Allah sorry you know as you created us you created us to worship you but even in worshiping you we need your help help us reach our maximum potential as human beings help us reach our best that we can ever be open our minds to the truth open our hearts help us reach the maximum that we can be don't make us be happy with who we are and happy with ourselves and happy where we are in our faith help us to desire more and to worship you more you know imagine and mix this and mix a dua سلام عليكم ورحمة الله سلام عليكم ورحمة الله that's when you finish your Salah دعاء الله هو أكبر أستفر الله الله من تسلام ومنك السلام تباركت وتعاليتي هذا الجلال والكرام next dua اللهم أعمي على ذكرك وشكرك وحسني عبادتك ya Allah help me remember you على اللهم يعني على ذكرك and so that I will thank you وشكرك وحسني عبادتك that my Ibadah will be excellent help me to get one excellent worship isn't that interesting your Allah creates you to worship him then you say can you please help me when that's your job but Allah says I will help you that's why this journey of faith this journey from here to here the Prophet said it's easy for those whom Allah made it easy for them and it's hard for those who don't seek Allah's help so why am I always excited about Ramadan because this is the chance that you my God it's like you know fireworks on 4th of July that's what Ramadan is for a believer it's fireworks and every explosion is a different beauty and different colors and different it's like going to a garden going to a garden full of flowers and every time you run to another flower oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God feeding the poor it's like oh my God the whole time you're like you almost can't focus and that's the beauty of Ramadan if Ramadan does not excite you then nothing is going to excite you and that's why we say something interesting about Ramadan because Ramadan is a blessed month chosen month by Allah and let me tell you about when something is chosen Allah tells us in the Quran 3 examples Allah chose amongst people prophets and messengers and even average people Allah chooses amongst them may Allah choose us لقمان prophet or not a prophet? not a prophet yet there is a surah in his name in the Quran the 7 youth of the cave 7 8 6 5 whatever right prophets or not prophets? not a prophet surah dedicated to them Surah Tiasin Allah sends 2 messengers support them with the 3rd one they're not the focus of the story who ends up being the focus of the story the believer who came from the farthest part of the city and believed he becomes the hero and he's the celebrate what happened to the 3 messengers yeah there are 3 messengers but he is the hero واجاء أمين أقصى المدينة رجل يسعى right do you have to be a prophet? you don't have to be a prophet or a messenger but the door is still open for you to be what? to be chosen so something very simple about Allah if you're excited about Allah Allah is royal Allah will not force himself on to you that's why he gave you the freedom of what? choice and that's why you're not an angel Allah created angels in a way do angels eat? do they drink? so is there fasting for them? no there's no fasting do angels get married? and have children? so there's no spouse bothering them or children bugging them you this sacrifice your whole life for a child? only what's your reward? get away from me 18 years that's very get away from me get away from me get away from me get away from me get away from me get away from me you're bothering me leave me alone you know what would happen if I left you alone when you were a day old or a month old or a year old you wouldn't live to say this leave you alone so do angels go through that struggle? they don't and that's why sometimes we get so stuck in our world I just sometimes wonder what does the name Arrazaq means to an angel who doesn't need to eat or drink? it has to mean completely something else different what does the name the name the name the name the name it has to be a whole different world subhanallah so an angel that doesn't have a desire that doesn't have a lust that doesn't have needs that doesn't have wants if he wished he would have created you like that so stop wishing being an angel and stop saying I am not an angel as our youth say of course you're not an angel stop wishing being an angel because you're not an angel and you were not meant to be one stop believing the lies of shaitan that because you have a desire that because you have a lust you're evil that's not what Allah said I give you the desire I'm just asking you to fulfill it in an honorable way because you're an honorable creation of mine I never told you don't fulfill your desire I told you fulfill it just in an honorable way so you see how shaitan twist the word in your head that's why it's important that in Ramadan in one hadith means the masters and the leaders of shayateen and another hadith to give you a break but this is something very important for us to wake up to and to realize so brothers and sisters whenever we talk about Ramadan we're talking about us embracing our maximum potential like here comes the boot camp the campaign the crash course that's going to make the best out of you and if you actually understand the depth of Ramadan from all angles because you have to be patient with yourself it's not good that you learn everything at once your mind cannot process it so my goal today is not to just knowledge knowledge dump on you knowledge knowledge knowledge because what's that going to do it's not going to change you but if you can walk away today with one thing one goal one thing that you can change about yourself then you have one if you walk away with wow that was a nice speaker and he was amazing and he was kept all did you come here to say something nice about someone else and then you walk away and that was a nice speech and then it all turns to be entertainment and there's no change this talk that I'm talking with you Allah said this is a serious talk it's not it's not for mockery and joking and then Allah says it's a life changing talk that is not supposed to be taken for entertainment so as they say tighten your belt get excited know that everything in you needs Ramadan from your body to your nafs to your فؤاد to your قلب to your خفاء to your روح it all interacts with Ramadan and it eats and it takes something from Ramadan and it restores your humanity to you and restoring your humanity is a big project because Allah in the Quran told us I have honored the children of Adam I have carried their descendants in the land and in the sea I have given them of all good things and I have preferred them over a great portion of my creation and only Allah knows how much he created Allah told us in the Quran I create things that I don't tell you about people today are so happy oh my god we discovered there is new theory in physics what is it? the multiverse what is that? so universe is uni means one but now we are talking about this whole huge universe could be just one bubble and there is another universe another universe we are like really I said come on people you better come up with something more exciting why? because that is at the end of Surat Yaseen this is على أي خلق مثلهم بلا وهو الخلاق العليم isn't he who created the skies and the earth is capable of creating the like of them yes he did and he will بلا وهو الخلاق العليم خالق means creator خلاق is the exaggeration of the word خالق in Arabic it means the one who creates again and again and again and again بلا وهو الخلاق العليم then Allah says and do you know why is that so easy for me? and we say why? he says إِنَّمَا أَمْرُهُ إِذَا عَرَادَ شَيْئَنْ أَيَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَقُونَ when he desires something he says to it beyond his so to you it's a sophisticated thing oh my god it's a huge universe to Allah is nothing more than a command command to exist and to maintain command to vanish to end it it's all commands no request no please no asking just command B and it is and after it is الله says الله is not tired by keeping the skies and the earth that's on your level but on Allah's level this is nothing you understand so that's why we are very excited about Ramadan الله chose amongst people إن الله استفى نوحا إن الله استفى آدمة ونوحا وآل إبراهيمة وآل عمرانا على العالمين الله has chosen Adam نوح آل إبراهيم وآل عمران over the rest of mankind interestingly Adam individual نوح individual when it came to Ibrahim and Imran الله mentioned them and their family and the goal that you want to have you and your family be chosen أل الله مصلي على محمد وعلى كما صليت على إبراهيم وعلى your family you want honor for your family too spread the honor share the honor right and be smart about how you want to do that so Allah إن الله استفاد okay angels are talking to Maryam عليه السلام سالة الملائكة يا مريم hold and low and behold when the angels said oh Maryam إن الله استفاك الله has chosen you وطهرك and he has purified you وستفاك على نساء العالمين and he has chosen you above the women of all mankind no women had a baby without a father except Maryam end of the story they were chosen or not chosen but what you see in all of this Adam نوح إبراهيم and Ali Imran and Maryam they all paid the price even Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم he paid the price meaning he wanted to be chosen after really spending lots of time and reading lots of books about the seerah of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم I have come up with one sentence that I can summarize the whole thing this man صلى الله عليه وسلم chose to be chosen and if you don't get that you will never be able to follow his sunnah because you will always think of him as someone Allah chose him خلص no no no this man chose to be chosen who goes to a cave for five years you go to a cave five hours and you come back bragging on it five days and you are like camper like five weeks and you are like whoa guru right five months and like where did you go nobody goes back and forth and leaves his life this man paid the price his entire life he was keen into doing the right thing and being chosen and he did and he did and he did and finally he said ya Allah I just want you to talk to me just talk to me please and if a jibreel didn't come at the end of the five years when he was four years old the prophet would have stayed another five years until jibreel came and talked to him he would have not given up you understand Allah chose him when Allah chooses a person Allah makes that person blessed what does it mean to be blessed it means to have a value above any other value extra and above average good value so Allah tells us that Jesus is giving a speech as an infant in his mother's womb in his mother's hand infant he says where are you and Allah made me blessed wherever I go wherever I am I am blessed translation Sayyidina A.S. used to go from little food he used to feed the masses blessed value extra value extra good value and this blessing in something يعني Allah will suspend or over activate the rules of cause and effect what are the rules of cause and effect like I become a doctor doctors are paid half a million dollar a year I become a doctor I end up making half a billion dollar a year this is extra what value above and beyond the world of cause and effect you understand so blessing sometimes a person doesn't have a lot of money but they have a blessing wherever they go they solve the problem Allah give them a talent a barakah no matter what the problem they can sit down they can solve the problem so that's why this to be chosen and to be blessed go hand in hand so please notice with me what we do every Salat كما صليت على إبراهيم وعلا كما صليت على إبراهيم وعلا what's the next one وبارك you see the barakah very important على محمد وعلا ألي محمد كما are you with me okay so very good so now having said that second, Allah chose from amongst places what is the place a place like who can give me a place that has been chosen by Allah someone said Madina before Makkah you're biased okay Allah says which was the first house that was built for Allah so that people can worship Allah in it which one Makkah إن أول بيتن وضع للناس للذي ببكة مباركا وهودا للعالمين when Allah chooses a place that place becomes مبارك what's مبارك what's barakah extra value so you go to Makkah you pray 100.000 no more cause and effect above and beyond extra value this idea of extra value is so attractive to us that Walmart and Macy's adapted it big sale extra value you receive what in the mail value pack do you know the value pack that you never use you feel sad that they cut the trees to make such a thing anyway when it comes to Ramadan the Prophet ﷺ used to tell his ushab just so that you understand the similarity when Allah chooses something no more cause and effect when Allah chooses something it becomes blessed so you used to say this أتاكم رمضان here comes to you the month of Ramadan like this is around رجب شعبان شهرو باراكة what did Rasool Allah call Ramadan شهرو a month of extra extra extra value طيب what happens يا رسول الله in the month of Ramadan one of the most fascinating hadith يغشاكم الله تعالى فيه الله عز وجل makes himself present amongst you on that month how, where, when don't ask just Allah makes himself present amongst you on that month so what does he do فينزيل الرحمة so Allah brings رحمة with him and Allah forgives the sins ويستجيب فيه الدعاء and Allah answers that دعاء in it وينظر الله إلى تنافسكم فيه الله sees your competition in worshipping him in this month الله looks and sees and he's all knowing all hearing, all seeing sees your competition in worshipping him that month فا يباهي بكم ملائكة الله takes pride in us in front of his angels so Allah tells the angels look, look, look, look you don't need to sleep that's why I mentioned it you don't need to sleep these, if they don't sleep they can't survive yet they leave their sleep you don't need to eat I created you with no need for eating these need eating and they're not eating for me you don't need to drink they need to drink and they're leaving their drink next to you you don't need to mate they need to mate and they're leaving their mating even in حلال husband and wife they leave it for me I take pride in my ibad in front of my angels the prophet mentioned that twice in the month of Ramadan and in the day of Arafah in Hajj that Allah takes pride in his ibad in front of his angels so Allah did not create you an angel so stop crying and embrace embrace the value that Allah has given you as a human because at the end of the day Allah told us in the Quran that Allah told Adam to bow down to the angels true? no that's a test for you awake or asleep Allah ordered the angels to bow down we were in his line the lion in the back we were in his back in his spine when the angels made that sajdah to him we were all present in his spine when they made sajdah to him a sujud of respect not a sujud of ibadah I trust you know the difference it's a respect can the son ever be better than his father and mother? in value? but yet يقوب his wife the parents of yusuf and the eleven brothers make sujud to yusuf it doesn't make yusuf better than his parents but it makes yusuf very special that his parents made sujud to him out of respect do you understand now? because Allah mentions to us that they made sujud to him and it was at that time حلال to make sujud of respect but at the final version of Islam Allah said you don't make sujud to each other don't make sujud to each other because what? because then people get confused and they start worshipping one another so that's why brothers and sisters we need to what? discover the value اتاكم شهر رمضان يغشاكم الله تعالى فيه فا ينزل الرحمة يخبر المرسي مع كل المرسي ليس one color it's colors different types different kinds different ways of Allah's mercy ويحط الخطاية ويحط الخطاية because you made a choice an angel doesn't sin you sin but an angel doesn't have a choice you have a choice it makes you special and different ويستجيب فيه دعاء and Allah answers the dua and Allah looks at your competition in that month so he takes pride in you in front of his angels and here is the final line the punch line that gets me excited and should get you excited فأروا الله من انفسكم خيرا show Allah some goodness of yourself you wanna show off show off to Allah don't show off to people do you know what we call show off to people what do we call that show off رياء do you know what we call show off to Allah اخلاص it's the same thing it's the same thing in you you can use it to impress people and look there's a psychology to this show off the more the person is special the more you wanna show off to them the more the person is special the more you wanna show off the more the person is knowledgeable like do you wanna show off to a sixth grade or you wanna show off to a PhD do you wanna show off to the guy who opens the door and closes it or do you wanna show off to the president للمرحب ، للمرحب ، أكثر من the position the more you want to show off. The more knowledgeable the person the more they want to show off. The more unique and special and known is the person the more you want to show off. So the question is who's more knowledgeable than Allah. And who's more in control and in position and in power than Allah. And who's more unique than Allah when he is one of a kind قل هو الله. So this whole idea inside you that you want to show off. Take it and direct it to Allah. What do we call show off to Allah? إخلاص, sincerity. That's what Allah says. صورة الإخلاص. قل هو الله. الله. One unique self-reliant. لم يلد. ولم يولد. And again to emphasize the meaning. ولم يكن له. لا يحدث أكثر منه أو أكثر منه. إمتنظر ، إذا هذا الفق يتبع في رأسك ، now you're going to have energy to show off to Allah. That energy to show off to Allah. Because Allah is unique. And he's in control. And he's the Lord. And the King. قل أعوذ بربل. قل أعوذ برب الناس. Who's the Lord of the people? الله. What's the next one? ملك الناس. Do you like to show off in front of a King? Or in front of the guy who opens the door to the King? Of course in front of the King. قل أعوذ بربل الناس. ملك الناس. إله الناس. Interestingly, in Surat Qullu, والله أحد, the word إخلاص is not there. It's the only Surah. Its name is not mentioned in it. صورة الفلق. صورة الناس. صورة الأعلى. صورة العلق. Only Surah doesn't have the name in it. It's صورة الإخلاص. The name of the Surah is what you're supposed to get out of the Surah. Do you get it? So that's why in the month of Ramadan we're supposed to get in that energy of إخلاص. Because Allah is one and unique. And you are about to do something that is different. One of the things that I have, I never understood fasting until I traveled. One of the colors of fasting, the depth of fasting and how fasting makes you closer to Allah. It clicked with me. I was traveling around the world and in countries that have temples. And in these temples there are idols. You're walking in the street. You look inside. You see the temple. It's open. You can see the idols. You don't even have to walk inside. One thing that kept on a repeating theme is in front of every idol there is food. The first time. Okay. The second time. No. Every time. And in front of every idol there is. So it clicked in my head. I said سبحانك يا رب. These people wanted you but ended up going somewhere else. And what they are offering their God that they worship is food. But you don't need food. And you don't need drink. Allah says in the ayah you know that every Muslim knows وما خلقت الجنة والإنسة إلا so that they will worship me. I did not create the jinn in this. Do you know what's the next ayah says? ما أريد منهم الرزق. I don't want them to give me income. رزق. وما أريد أن يطعمون. I don't want them to feed me. Because the Arab used to do the same thing. Slot her a lamb and leave it in front of the idol and put the blood on the idol. So Allah said I don't want you to give me a rizq. I don't want you to feed me إن الله هو الرزاق with القوة. ماتين. What it occurred to me that in Islam سبحان الله this faith is from Allah. We don't offer Allah food. We offer Allah hunger. It's the opposite. We offer Allah the denial of our own need for a certain hours of eating and drinking to show Allah, ya Allah. We can't offer you food. We can't offer you money. We can't offer you rizq. We can't offer you anything. All what we can offer you is that focus. All what could reach to you all what we what you would appreciate from us is that focus that you are the one and only in our hearts. But we offer you what we show you that ya Allah even our needs food, drink this pleasure we will suspend all of it so that we can focus on you. And that's really really deep. Interesting that you offer Allah سبحان تعالى. And then I found out that that's an ayah in the Quran when you slaughter in Hajj Allah said in the Quran لن ينال الله وَلَا دِيْمَا أُوْهَا To Allah will not reach the flesh and the blood of what you're slaughtering. You're slaughtering in Hajj. You know the day of Eid they call it يوم النحر In Hajj they don't call it the day of Eid they call it the day of slaughter. There's the name of Eid In Hajj it's not called day of Eid it's called يوم النحر the day of slaughter. You slaughter. So Allah said when you slaughter I just want you to know that to me will not reach the flesh and the blood. Who's going to eat the flesh? The fellow human feed it to the poor ولكن يناله تقوى منكم What reaches to Allah is the Taqwa from you. What is the Taqwa? Total focus and consciousness and devotion inside you and outside you in words in intentions and in actions You are showing Allah that you are focused and that's what Allah appreciates Does Allah need that? No, but he appreciates it. Does Allah need that? No. You have an 18 years old again Leave me alone Don't talk to me Can you stop nagging on me this and that, right? If you say you left them alone you said okay you see that door open it and leave and don't come back and they left Can you breathe without them? Can you breathe or you need them in the room to breathe? Actually you can breathe better now Can you eat or no? Actually you can eat better because they keep on emptying the fridge They're like an eating machine at age 18, right? Can you sleep or no? You can actually sleep better because always their TV and their friends and they're talking midnight to their friends You don't need them But if they come back and kiss your hand would you appreciate it? Of course And that's why I believe one of the reasons Allah made us get married and have children is just to understand our relationship with them If you just focus on that you stop paying attention all of the people that they have problems with Allah ya Allah why you did this to me everyone Just look at the relationship Allah give you an example so that you can understand and then we say ولي الله المثل الأعلى until Allah belongs the highest example because at the end of the day we human beings when we grow older we need our children to hold us take us host us talk to us Allah doesn't need at the end of the day so it's just the temporary example that gives you some understanding you take your child 2 years old he's running around blabbing all the place active running you take him to the doctor where are we going oh we're to the doctor the child doesn't know what's hitting him you enter the doctor the doctor comes wearing nice white coat looks like an angel I have my mom and I have an angel in the room 5 minutes later this angel walks in with 4 needles what's going on here are we ok here ok maybe maybe these are not needles so then they start taking off your clothes they start rubbing you with something cold and you taste the first needle and you scream and now where do you run to your mom so your mom hugs you and you're like thank you mom and it turned to be she's only holding you for him to finish the other 3 needles total betrayal you lost faith in everything in life خلاص no angels, no this and you start questioning why and you grow up and say thank you mom for doing that the people who didn't get the vaccination died from the smallest virus polio or this or this or that and you run to Allah and Allah holds you and embraces you and then he tests you and now you're objecting why are you doing this to me and if you just paid attention a little bit to what's going on in your life Allah gives you an example of everything that happens with you He gives you an example of it in real life so الله عز وجل is telling us to what to awaken to this so when we come to fasting Allah عز وجل is telling us all you who believe fasting has been prescribed to you like it was prescribed to those who came for you before you more literal translation all you who believe fasting has been written upon you like it was written upon those who came before you so that you may gain Taqwa why do we need to gain Taqwa because at the end of the day the only thing you can offer Allah in your entire life span is Taqwa what's the only thing you can give is Taqwa so that's why brothers and sisters we really need to start thinking okay Ramadan is coming and in Ramadan Ramadan is a blessed month and in Ramadan we fast and in fasting we do what we deny ourselves basic things to show that ya Allah in this month you are my number one focus with no number two insight you are my number you are Ahad in my mind and heart and soul you are Ahad and I will focus on you totally ya Allah and that is what you are able to do what in Ramadan so please when we fast in Ramadan don't turn the day into fasting and the night fast all day eat all night don't do that because you ruin it right then you have offered nothing Rasool Allah ﷺ his diet year around in Ramadan simpler year around his diet humble what do they call today today raw food diet for three months our mother Aisha she said from the crescent to the crescent to the crescent يعني two months to three months we have not let a fire in the house of Rasool Allah ﷺ to cook food there is nothing to cook dates milk dates milk nothing to cook raw food diet three months another three months they will slaughter and eat meat another they will cook something so the Prophet's diet year around low calorie diet closer to raw food diet closer to when you eat something eat it like the Arab the most sophisticated dish that the Arab had was the Thread Thread you cook the meat in soup in water you make bread you put the bread in the plate you pour the soup on the bread and then you put the meat on the top of the bread so meat bread saagd with what with soup Thread Thread fanciest dish سبحان الله and the Prophet ﷺ always asked us to يعني he advised he said if one of you cooks food if one of you cooks food let him or let her increase the water and let her or him feed his neighbors the water brings more give soup سبحان الله now we know soup is alkaline when meat is acidic the soup full of minerals the minerals makes the soup alkaline the meat itself is what acidic that's why they found out is a number one in the world after plugging in 100,000 studies in the united nation reason number one is eating red meat again and again and again and again and specially processed meat and specially burnt meat with barbecue and the very interesting thing that I fall into hadith that the Prophet never ate a barbecue before he always eat meat with the soup that was what he liked it's not haram but this is his liking so in Ramadan you are dehydrated what do you need? soup soup and salad soup and salad soup and salad soup and salad make this your way in living during the month of Ramadan so isn't it Adhan Maghrib now? this is a perfect time to break may Allah bless us benefit us from that which we learn and teach us that which benefit us may Allah make that which we learn change us from inside and from outside insha'Allah and insha'Allah we meet you after Salat Maghrib and now we're back to our presentation this presentation talks about 5 to 6 subjects in order for you to fully understand Ramadan you need to learn primarily about 4 subjects and then secondary about 2 subjects the 4 subjects that form the matrix of Ramadan is number 1 the Quran number 2 fasting number 3 guidance and number 4 these are the 4 major subjects that form the matrix of Ramadan Ramadan is like a matrix that you have to learn, understand and figure out so that you know how to literally utilize the month utilize the month whether you are a man or a woman whether you are on your period or not you still have to know the full knowledge so you can utilize the month and that's something very important because there is a notion if you're not fasting in the month of Ramadan then you know there is nothing much to do it's like a normal time and that's not true if you're breaking you're fast because you're of old age or young age or sick or pregnant or breastfeeding or on your period or post delivery this does not mean that you are not going to come out of Ramadan as a winner and come out with Allah not a little so this is something that is very important for us to know and insha'Allah I'm going to take you into a quick journey of what could be a long presentation but insha'Allah it revolutionizes the understanding of Ramadan and you start seeing the whole thing in a whole different way and the reason being is that not because I'm different or special or I'm unique or I'm talented or any of that it's a very simple it's because when you go back to the Qur'an itself and you just make it your base and you stop paying attention to word by word and you go back to the prophetic saying جزاك الله خير من الله ريوض you عزك الله masha'Allah masha'Allah see how lucky I am الله يبارك فيك الله يزيخر بسم الله الرحمن الرحمن الرحمن الرحمن so going back to the Qur'an and to the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ there is no more impressive words of a human more than the words of the Prophet ﷺ and there is no impressive more impressive word period than the word of Allah and I mean it with the full meaning of the word impressive, miraculous mind blowing eye opening heart enlightening mind enlightening it's unbelievable and it's all between our hands and then I find that people just keep on repeating a presentation that they heard from their teacher and they just keep on repeating the same thing without actually allowing themselves to go back to the sources and just not without inventing anything new we have some people that they want to just completely leave the Qur'an and hadith or another people that will completely want us to read exactly what is in the books and not to add anything even if what we are adding is also from the Qur'an and Sunnah so there is a way in the middle without being an inventor like a meaning an inventor of a whole new thing or without forsaking the whole thing there is a middle path my anchor my base my enlightenment came from this ayah 185 Chapter 2 صورة البقرة you see it on the screen شهر رمضان الذي انزل فيه القرآن هدى للناس وبينات من الهدى والفرقان فمن شهد منكم الشهر فليصم ومن كان مريضا أو على سفر فعدة من أيام أخر يريد الله بكم اليسر ولا يريد بكم العسر ولتكمل العدة ولتكبر الله على ما هداكم ولعلكم تشكرون this ayah is like a sample from the whole Qur'an that if you read nothing about the Qur'an but this ayah you can figure so many things about Islam in general about the Qur'an in general about the prophet and the messenger just from this ayah one ayah is enough to represent the Qur'an and that's very impressive so this رمضان الله يقول شهر رمضان so I'm gonna ask you a question let's do this social experiment and be honest right I want you to give me the first thing that comes to your mind not the right answer for the sheikh not the sophisticated answer not the complicated just the first thing that comes to your mind are you ready when someone tells you in the last two months when someone every year comes and tells you it's like not far from now what's the first thing that comes to your mind first thing first thing that comes to your mind رمضان is coming what's the first thing that comes to your mind first thing right most of you said that one says blessing one said let's sleep true yes if tar you're positive masha'Allah you remember the good part masha'Allah someone says the special cookies of Ramadhan here we have a nice masha'Allah depends what culture you come from depends on the dessert right yes but I'm asking the first thing that comes to your mind رمضان is coming usually what comes fasting right so I just ask myself if we were at the time of the prophet ﷺ we will find out that Ramadhan became part of the matrix of Islam the teachings and the structure of Islam in the second year in Medina and the first time Ramadhan was introduced it was optional you either fast or feed a masking third year it became obligation so Muslims were Muslims for 13 years in Mecca 2 years in Medina and if I were to come and ask سيدنا أبو بكر الصديق حضرة عائشة خديجة رضي الله عنها you know one of these early believers سيدنا عليبنا بيطالب if I come and ask them this is the first 13 years رمضان is coming are they going to think of nothing because there is no fasting yet right and there is no Salat التروح yet and there is no giving افطار to other person yet and there is nothing none of that what's in your head none of that would they say like oh okay okay so what's the big deal or is there something special about the month of Ramadhan that they would say exactly something happened in the past and because of that thing that happened you and I are here 1400 years later sitting down in a place called a Masjid calling ourselves Muslims believing in Allah and in His Messenger following the Quran because something happened that thing happened in the month of Ramadhan and that's where the story started the birth of the Quran يعني the first revelation in Ramadhan the birth of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم as a messenger in Ramadhan the birth of Islam in Ramadhan the birth of Muslims in Ramadhan the whole story in Ramadhan and that has to become very clear in your head before you ever think of anything else when it comes to Ramadhan otherwise you don't get it now here is an interesting thing the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم is asked يا رسول الله why do you fast on Mondays he said because that's a day that I was born in and that's a day that I received the revelation in so رسول الله marked his physical birth and his prophetic messenger spiritual birth he marked both of them celebrated them by doing what so think for a second when we want to celebrate a birthday what do we do? lots of food lots of cakes lots of calories when Rasool الله عليه وسلم wanted to celebrate a birthday his birthday not once a year once a week what did he do? I wonder where did he get that from and I have a suspicion I have no proof of that he got that from that when he saw that Allah made the month the revelation came in a month of fasting he took that and he made the day he was born in and the day he received the revelation in also a day of fasting because in this faith you don't celebrate with overeating and consuming and you celebrate back again to what we said in the beginning by fasting and offering something in the name of Allah for the sake of Allah so this is something that is very important for us to get that the month of Ramadan is a blessed month independent of you and I fasting in it we need a proof and the proof the prophet SAW when the first night of Ramadan comes all the gates of heaven open until no gate is closed meaning all good deeds are welcomed because the gates of heaven the door, the gate of charity the gate of humbleness the gate of fasting the gate of umrah and haji the good deeds every gate represents a good deed so all good deeds are welcomed and all gates are open now I'm just wondering brothers and sisters if we have our sensors that the soul of us polished and the sensor is not covered with dust only Allah knows what you can feel when the gates of heaven opens and the winds start blowing and when the gates of hell closes until no gate is open so all of that heat is gone and all of those blessings all of this wind blowing you only have to have a sharp sensor to feel it and that all happens on the first night of Ramadan I'm asking you a question by the first night of Ramadan has a single Muslim fasted yet now I'm going to repeat on my question by the first night of Ramadan has a single Muslim fasted Ramadan yet that has nothing to do with your عبادة it has nothing to do with the عبادة of 1.5 billion people it is has to do with Allah Allah's generosity Allah's mercy and Allah giving you a gift with before before you ever even start fulfilling one of the pillars of Islam and before you start offering already the action started in the unseen world رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم in another hadith in this hadith actually all the gates of heaven open until no gate is closed all the gates of hell closed until no gate is open and then the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and then Allah chains the شياطين and then Allah sends angels to call public announcement يا باغي الخير أقبل و يا باغي الشر أقصر oh you who want to do something good come forward come this is your time angels are calling but who is listening someone with a sharp sensor يا باغي الخير أقبل يا شر and oh you who want to do evil go back this is not your time for you to have a sharp sensor you need to start fasting and preparing yourself in شعبان what this شعبان does it sharpens your sensors so you start feeling maybe you're not hearing the call exactly of the angel but you're feeling it you understand because you've sharpened your sensors you removed the dust that Allah gave you that you call your روح and then the Prophet ﷺ said and Allah releases and pardons certain number of souls from hell their name is written off from hell they will not go to hell do we know who are these names do we know who are these names that Allah writes off that they're not going to hell for sure do we know them does Allah share them with us I'll tell you a secret again how رسول الله ﷺ interacts with this and his interaction becomes a Sunnah a revelation رسول الله ﷺ was asked يا رسول الله why do you fast on Mondays and Thursdays because those days the deeds the files the worship are offered to Allah ﷺ so when my book of deed when my report for the number of days from Thursday to Monday by the time my book of deed is lifted up to Allah I want when Allah looks at my book of deeds He looks at me and he sees me fasting so Allah pardons and forgives the mishabits and mistakes in this book of deeds you understand and from Monday to Thursday it's reported on Thursday from Thursday to Monday it's reported on Monday so when your book of deeds for the whole year becomes reported to Allah ﷺ and Allah looks at you on your fasting Allah forgives you and pardons you imagine the possibility our entire life we work so hard to gain this one goal and this one goal is offered and Rasulullah ﷺ specified the timing they said when your Rasulullah when every day Allah pardons names from him he says yes he said when he said every night every then Rasulullah in another hadith he says there is a night in Ramadan all the believers all of those who fasted and did their best Allah forgives them they said ya Rasulullah we know it's leila tul qadr he said no they said which night ya Rasulullah he said it's the last night of Ramadan and then he looked at them and he said when does a person get paid except at the end of his job are you with me are you paying attention first night so much action on the unseen last night is the big prize every night is prizes are distributed to the ibad and all of this happening at night and it has nothing to do with what you're doing because you're fasting in the day not in the night the month of Ramadan I find in the books of hadith a hadith that are weak but it's okay to use this weak hadith in such matters we're not establishing a new system of belief or a new hukum or a new ruling in fiqh so from the days of Imam Ahmad ibn hambal the hambalies always use the weak hadith there's a difference between weak hadith and fabricated hadith fabricated hadith you cannot use it at all weak the ulama said our judgment of it they say this is a weak hadith but it's meaning is صحيح because it's mentioned in another hadith this meaning is acceptable we don't see anything wrong with it so the meaning is okay but the hadith our judgment of it of the chain of narrators that it is weak it has some weakness in it so Imam Ahmad ibn hambal in his mind he said I'd rather take a weak hadith than make ishtihad myself make up my opinion I'd rather follow a weak hadith and make it fine so we'll take this hadith life are you ready for this رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم says الله revealed صحف إبراهيم on the first night of Ramadan and he revealed the Torah to Musa on the seventh night of Ramadan and he revealed the injeel to Isa on the 14th night of Ramadan and he revealed the Zaboor to Wibawood on the 29th of Ramadan and he revealed the Quran on the 25th night of Ramadan حديث do you know what that says to us Ramadan is anciently a blessed month from long time ago because I want you to think with me what is fasting the technical fasting is not eating from dawn to sunset true or false true fasting not eating from dawn to sunset I'm asking you a question if to fulfill the ibadah of fasting can't we fast just hypothetically can't we fast in the month of Shaaban because it's from dawn to sunset and a sunset in the month of Shaaban or there is no how about the month of Rajab how about the month of Shawwal there is no lack of dawn and sunset in any of these months but what you want to know is Allah for our ummah did something very very very very special Allah has chosen something for us that put us ahead of everyone else in view of all other nations because he sent for us because he sent for us the final message before because he made us fast in the month of Ramadan because this is what's happening the month of Ramadan you come to it from the first night to the last night to every night and did I forget to talk about 10 nights of Ramadan or did I not I did do you want me to remind you of the last 10 nights of Ramadan do you want me to remind you of the last 10 no 5 odd nights of the 10 odd nights of Ramadan you already have heard tons of Hadith about this right and what is it talking night or day night and you are not fasting in the night so the month of Ramadan anciently in Allah's knowledge is a blessed month independent of anyone's action or Ibadah or worship and in this month Allah سبحانه وتعالى has taken this pillar of Islam fasting fasting الله عز وجل took this fasting that could have happened in any month skipped شوال دل قعدة دل حجة محرم ربيع الأول ربيع الثاني رجب شعبان and then came into Ramadan and dropped fasting in the day so now what do you have you have a 24 hour 24 7 action you are in a washing machine that does not stop washing 24 7 you understand we could have fasted any day and here is where Muslims lose it because they're not paying attention to their own book they fast in the day and once they break their fast حمد الله خلص we broke our fast where is the games bring the games what TV shows come here man let's go and watch a movie let's go and hang out you are missing the hold it's like someone ran a long marathon and when he reached the finish line he's on the first he looked around and said hey guys how are you doing and he walked sideways and didn't finish the finish line you understanding this is what happens when you don't know your deen and when you don't read your book and we don't read the hadith of your prophet your prophet people run a marathon long days and hours 18 hours of fasting do you remember last year right by Salat al-Duhour you're thinking when is Maghrib right it's already like 8 hours passed from 5 445 or something you are 12 o'clock and you're running this whole marathon running running running running running you break your fast and the whole point of you running the whole marathon is to get into the finish line and to receive the trophy the trophy is distributed at night not in the day the trophy is distributed at night not in the day so for you for you to be able to capture the blessings of the night to be one of these names that are now honorable in the eyes of Allah to reach your goal the reason why you are alive altogether the whole day you have this sponge of fasting and you're washing and washing and washing and washing the whole day صلاة رين القرآن استغفار دعى ذكر you're washing you're washing you're washing so at the end of the day you're sitting and you're like ya Allah am I qualified to receive the blessing now can you please look at me can you am I clean do I deserve can I be one of these names can you like please ya Allah so the Prophet ﷺ is saying show Allah of yourself goodness in this month show off the whole day you're working hard and now at night you work harder you go make your iftar make sure you eat nurture the body the Prophet ﷺ especially in Ramadan he used to break his fast with water milk and sometimes soup liquid liquid liquid so that you nurture the body because fasting is not meant to kill you or harm you it's meant to nurture you so you eat and now you're going to ترويح واللهي brothers and sisters if it's up to me سأتب nor أن تعap and if this Dean was designed by a human I will prescribe for people while they're fasting and you're fasting you know when you're fasting why don't you double u why don't we fast and after arraine we Berry though I wow that sounds impressive right but that's what the human thinks but what you're not realizing Brothers and sisters this is what's happening قام من اللوح المحفوض، سيكرت تابلس، سيكرت تابلس تابلس بسيقل اللوح يستخدمه لكي تفهم أن هذا هو العلم الخاصة من اللوح أن اللوح لا يستطيع أن يشاهد أجلs حتى أنه يريد أن يشاهد أجلs لكي يحصل على أجلs و ليس كل أجلs العلم الغيب هو مع الله عز وجل when Allah wills to show it to a human He will show it to a human like the prophets and the messengers sometimes Allah show it to you in your dreams The Quran was unknown to Jibril Jibril the one who brings all the books and he doesn't know So Allah عز وجل revealed it from اللوح المحفوض to the sky of this world Imagine how many light years is that Unmeasured distance That's something from outside of our universe from outside of this bubble that we call time and space comes something then travels through time and space and comes and Allah says when I revealed it I revealed it you know the Surah come on إنا أنزلناه في ليلة القدر and if you are like passed by this like your maybe day or night وما أدراك so maybe you're still not getting it right so he hits you third time with it ليلة القدر take a thousand months خيرون it's not equal to you know the bigger than sign in math ليلة القدر خيرون من ألف شهر better than not equal take that I took that ألف شهر ألف شهر how many months in the year 12 take your phone you take a thousand divided on 12 83.3333 83 years one night what you can accomplish in it is better than 83 years what is an 83 years the maximum average potential of you living on this planet you know Allah saying one night do you get what's happening إسلام is full of opportunities it's full of just make it just try I'm gonna throw at you ليلة القدر not once in a lifetime every year I'm gonna throw what happens if you're ready and Allah throws at you ليلة القدر and you receive it and you witness it and it's written for you now you're gonna meet Allah with the worship of let's say you lived 85 years 9 years 100 years you're gonna meet Allah with 100 years whatever worship you did in this 100 years which is not much by the way plus 83 years so as if you lived your life twice what happen if you witness ليلة القدر twice you've lived 85 years 95 years and you witness ليلة القدر in your entire life you fasted 50 Ramadan but you witness ليلة القدر only twice you're meeting Allah with 95 years of ibadah which is not much plus 83 plus because خيران خيران better than is a plus so it's not equal so 83 plus so you're meeting Allah with 95 years of life plus 83 plus plus 83 plus because other than that we're doomed you realize when I say average life of a human the Prophet ﷺ said my life is average umma of my life 60s to 70s and he died at 63 60 years and if you lived on average from birth to death with the variation for 8 hours a night you've slept 20 years out of the 60 years through or false mathematics 8 hours is one third of 24 20 years is one third of her if you worked and went to school from birth to death average 8 hours there goes another 20 years if you sat down and ate breakfast and lunch and dinner drove to work and drove back 4 years there goes another 10 years masha Allah you are namazi hijabi amazing you prayed 5 times a day Allah is great how long does it take you to pray 5 times 5 25 minutes 60 years you are barely meeting Allah with a year and a half of worship out of 60 years that's a problem that needs fixing so Rasulullah showed us how to fix the problem before you go to sleep you make dua you intend your sleep for Allah there goes 8 hours added to the worship you wake up from sleep you make dua to Allah الحمد لله الذي احيانا بعدما آماتنا وإليه النشور بسم الله لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله أصبحنا وأصبح الملكني لا يجوا make dua صلاة the 8 hours of work added to your worship you sit down you put the food just take one second بسم الله الله مبارك لنا يا الله bless this food that you've given us because what kills us what gives us sick the food that you eat so you're saying يا الله make this food blessing and take the sickness away from it that's what means الله مبارك take the sickness and put the blessing يعني this poor person I was paying attention like why Allah مبارك لنا فيما رزقتنا and it occurred to me a billion people out of one billion to two billion people are under poverty line in the world all what they can afford is a piece of bread طيب where is the mineral and the proteins and the vitamins and the faties acids and the fats they tell you you have to have these all of this you got nothing but a dry piece of bread يعني pure dead carbohydrates and you're going to eat it and that's all what you can afford you say الله مبارك لنا فيما رزقتنا I say الله you're a piece of bread is this piece of bread I'm not going to be unhappy with you just bless it بسم الله and you eat الله مبارك لنا and the proteins and the fats and the vitamins and you live your life and you're eating bread and you're healthier than Layla that lives in Santa Clara and you know Fatima that lives in New York and Layla and Fatima that lives in Africa she's eating a piece and she's healthier than both of them what's happening الله مبارك لنا فيما رزقتنا The Prophet ﷺ يعني milk and dates for days for months how is he surviving so now we come back this Layla القدر الله says إنا أنزلناه في Layla القدر وما أدراك Layla القدري يعني 3 nights so that you would wake up it was at night تبا تبا you understand my dear brothers and sisters what is صلاة الترويح صلاة الترويح is you going through the mood that رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم went through of being at night receiving the revelation from Allah except in your case it's the قاري نأجبري ليس جبريل. ماذا هو الإجتماع من صلاة التراويح؟ هل تعلمون ما هو الإجتماع؟ والناس start arguing. هل تراويح فرض؟ او لا يحب؟ الحمدلله. It's not fard. ماذا تريد؟ الحمدلله. The Prophet didn't make it fard. هل تراويح هذا؟ فقط تذهب and listen to the Qur'an. Do you know what ladies in Palestine used to do in Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa and in Madinah Al-Khalil and this? They used to go pray inside the Masjid. When they get their monthly period for a week they will come to the Masjid and sit around the Masjid to listen to the Imam reciting. They will not miss it. So that, do you know why? Because there was no tapes. The only chance that they had to hear the Qur'an from beginning to end is when the Qari reads it in Ramadan. So they're not going to miss that. So they hear the Qur'an whether they're on their period or not in their period. They're smart. They found a solution. Either inside the Masjid or outside the Masjid. But they're listening. They're not going to miss it. They're not going to miss it. So do you know what's the exercise of Salat Al-Tarawih? You're literally listening. Did Jibril عليه السلام come on Laylat Al-Qadr and say, I have a tablet with me. إقرأ يا محمد. Read this. Did he do that? How did Rasulullah receive the first revelation and every revelation? How? Jibril recites and he listens. And you know what you do in Ramadan? You go to the Masjid. The Imam is reciting and you are listening. And you're doing it at night. Exactly when the Qur'an was revealed at night. And you're going through the exercise of receiving the revelation from Allah through the Qari to you. From Allah to Jibril Jibril to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. From Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. But I should have served him the tea instead of him serving me the tea. To what? To your ears. A connected chain of narrators. From رب العزة جل جلاله to you. Throughout history and time. So you're not any less than the believers who lived around the Prophet ﷺ. وقاله وسلم. اللهم صلى على محمد وعلى آل محمد. So brothers and sisters understanding that will help you understand the value of the month of Ramadan. This is a month of worship. A month of ibadah. A month of receiving the revelation. Except you're not the Prophet on the Messenger. But you're walking in the footsteps of the Prophet and the Messenger. And nights anyway throughout the year. The Prophet ﷺ said. اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم. Descends upon this worldly sky in the last one third of the night. And Allah asks. Is there anyone who needs something that I will give it to him? Is there anyone who's seeking protection from something. Something is scaring you. Bothering you. You want protection. So that I can protect him. Is there anyone that wants to talk to me so that I will talk to him? And that's the last one third of the night. That's year-round. Now imagine in the nights of the month of Ramadan. You understand. I was reflecting upon that. And I realized. Do you know. When we get out. When we get out of planet Earth. Do you know there is nothing but night out there. The default state. Between the galaxies and all of this and this. Is what? Is darkness. That the scientist came back to us and said. Sorry, sorry, sorry. What happened scientist? We misinformed you. How? We told you that the world is made of atoms. And atoms are made of nucleus. And the nucleus has protons and protons and electrons outside. But we found out that that's not true. So what is true? We missed the truth by some 96%. What are you talking about? Only 4% of the universe is made of atoms. And 96% is made of dark matter and dark energy that we have no clue what it is. It's not made of atoms. And then they come and say. Oh no, no. There is no God. And we're very sure of it. Habibi, in 20 years you changed your mind 96%. And you want me to trust you and believe you? 96% you missed the truth. The world is made of atoms. The world has been always there. So there is no beginning and end. Therefore there is no God. Oops, sorry. We detected the microwave radiation. And actually the world has a beginning. And it started from a very small point. And then it exploded. And we think it's going to have an end. Sorry. You understand. And they keep on fooling us like that. But we say. Okay, if it's dark matter and dark energy. How do you know that it exists? They say we see its effect on the world. We see its effect on the world. We see that dark matter and dark energy. It's effect on the galaxies. Pushing the galaxies away from each other. So you say you believe that there is something called dark matter and dark energy. That you haven't seen. You've just seen its effect on the seen world. They say yes. We say now you're talking like us, Mashayikh. And people of religion. Why? Because we say we haven't seen Allah or angels. But we see Allah's effect and angels. And the unsung effect on the existing world. And you used to make fun of us when we used to say that. Now you're talking like us. So be aware and be smart and learn. Because knowledge opens your eyes. So Allah is telling us. So brothers and sisters. Just to throw something. The Quran, Allah did not say worship numbers. So we don't worship numbers. We worship Allah. We don't put number one in front of us. And we start worshiping it. We what? We worship Allah. But just a gift for you like this. This is what called a contemplation. It's not the truth what I'm telling you. It's just contemplation. How many letters in the word Layla? Lam, Ya, Lam, Ha. Layla. Four. How many letters in the word Al-Qadr? Now the one who said five is scared is saying four. It doesn't have to be the same answer every time. Alif, Lam, Qa, Da, Ra. Al-Qadr. So there is an expression called Layla Al-Qadr. Layla Al-Qadr is an expression, phrase. Layla is four plus five equals? Times three. What did you say? Just a thought. Just a thought. إنا أنزلناه في Layla Al-Qadr. This Layla Al-Qadr, the Surah Al-Qadr is made of what? 30 words. 30 words. This Surah was revealed early in Makkah. Very early years in Makkah. The Quran ended up how many juzo? 30 juzo. طريق. It's okay. What if I tell you that إنا أنزلناه في Layla Al-Qadr. From إنا, Alif. إنا أنزل. سلامناها حتى مطلع الفجر. Ra. What if I tell you that it is exactly 114 letters? Exactly the number of Surahs in the Quran. طيب. إنا أنزلناه في Layla Al-Qadr. وما أدرى كما ليلة Al-Qadr. ليلة Al-Qadr خير من ألف شهر. تنزل الملائكة والروح فيها بإذن ربهم من كل أمر. سلام. هي حتى مطلع الفجر. حتى مطلع الفجر. word هي. It means it. سلام. Peaceful. It is it. What is it? ليلة Al-Qadr. This letter, this word هي, which means it is, is word number 27. Just what? Remember we don't worship numbers. You understand? Just what? This is what we call the icing on the cake and the cherry on top. It's just something for you to think about. Something very interesting. Okay. So brothers and sisters. الله سبحانه وتعالى has blessed us with this month and he has kept it as a gift for us. This is something Ibrahim عليه السلام and his grandson Yaqub عليه السلام said to their children, said to their children when they were on their death bed and Allah mentioned that. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يابنية إن الله صطف لكم الدينة. إبراهيم has told his children before he died and Yaqub told his children. الله أكبر الله أكبر. What did they tell their children? What did they tell them? They told them, hold on to your faith. But this is what they told them. يابنية oh my children. إن الله صطف لكم الدينة. الله has chosen for you this dean. I'm going to ask you a question. Your loved one goes to the flower shop. Spends half an hour, checks every flower and then he goes and pick a flower. And then he comes to you and said, I have chosen you for you. I have chosen for you this flower from a whole field and a whole flower shop. It is so huge and big. I felt that this is the most beautiful flower and I give it to you. Do you understand? You know what Allah said in the Qur'an. إبراهيم أن يعقوب. They told their children, oh my children, Allah has chosen for you this faith. And one of the ways that Allah has chosen this faith is this month of Ramadan. For Allah to keep it as a secret. For Allah to keep it as a hidden jewel until he exposed it to the Ummah of the Prophet ﷺ. It's something really fascinating. So brothers and sisters, I want you to like the Prophet ﷺ, this chosen month of Ramadan for you. He says, My Ummah was given five things in Ramadan. No other Ummah was given these five things. One, the smell of hunger that comes out of the mouth of the believer. Because he is fasting is more beloved to Allah than the smell of musk. Please brothers and sisters differentiate between a bad mouth smell and the smell of hunger. Because the Rasool Allah used to use to kill the bad mouth smell. But what you cannot kill is the smell of hunger. And the smell of hunger, it depends from one person to another. But in general, it's well-known defined. Like when you talk to someone and they are hungry, they haven't eaten. There's a certain smell. We don't like it. We try to hide it. We take a gum or something else. What happened when Sayyidina Musa ﷺ took a gum? But it wasn't a gum because there was no gum. He took a leaf from the tree after fasting for 30 days. Because the time of him talking to Allah came. Allah gave him 30 days of appointment. At the end of the 30 days, he's like, my God, this is embarrassing. My mouth smells like from hunger. He went to a tree and he chewed the leaves. Because now he's about to speak to Allah. And you look how the adab of Sayyidina Musa ﷺ. He doesn't want to talk to Allah with a bad mouth smell. So Allah said to Musa, why did you do that? He said, O Allah, I was embarrassed of you. To speak to you with my mouth. Allah told Musa, يا Musa, don't you know that that smell that comes out of a hunger. That came out of devotion and dedication and love to me is more beloved to me than the smell of musk. I'm explaining the hadith to you. So I'm inserting words. Don't you know that the smell that comes out of what? Of the mouth of the hungry person is more beloved. Why is it more beloved than the smell of musk? Because the hunger came out of a dedication and devotion to Allah. And that's why from this hadith. I deduced that do not say I'm fasting so that I can lose weight. You ruin this for yourself. Because now you're doing shirk. You're fasting for Allah and you're fasting to lose weight and you're fasting for yourself. If you fast right like the Prophet ﷺ used to fast, which is fast in the day, drink a lot of water, a lot of milk and a lot of soup at night, I guarantee you you will lose weight in Ramadan. It's given to you without you focusing on it. But to say my intention is to lose weight and to fast, you ruined it. Because the hunger comes from a dedication and devotion to Allah. So we need what? We need that dedication and devotion to be pure إخلاص. Remember? To whom we're doing it? To قل هو الله. To the one and only, the one and unique. You're with me. You're an understanding what we're talking about here. So don't ruin it. Use miswak but that hunger. So imagine that hunger smell makes you closer to Allah. حجيب. So fasting pays off. It gets you closer. Allah loves you. To Allah now you are like you opened. You know the عطر? When you open it the smell is everywhere. Now to Allah you are a bottle of عطر. And the smell coming out of you in the unseen world is making everything beautiful. Number 2 In this month Allah makes angels make استغفار to them. So angels thousands upon them when رسول الله visited البيت المعمور in الاسراء والمعراج he said I saw البيت المعمور it's the Ka'ba of the Malayka in the sky. Centered above our Ka'ba And رسول الله said I saw 70,000 angels make Hajj to that house every day and they never ever go back again. So how many 70,000 angels that Allah create only Allah knows. Allah makes the angels make استغفار to you يا الله اغفر لمحمد يا الله اغفر لي علي يا الله اغفر لي فاطمة يا الله اغفر لي سيدة يا الله اغفر لي The angels are working for you making استغفار for you because Allah is telling them you don't get hungry they do and they are getting hungry for my sake so make استغفار to them You know when you see someone righteous you say please make dua for me I'm going to ask you if you see an angel what are you going to say they're already doing that in the month of Ramadan ويزين الله عز وجل كل يوم جنة And Allah every day decorates his Jannah and he tells the Jannah very soon My devotees will come to you very soon they will shed off the burdens of life and the bothers and the worries and the stress and the depression very soon they will what put it off and come and enjoy you Do you know why people don't get bored in Jannah if you go to a place very beautiful on the lake you buy a house what happens after 10 years what happens after 1 year you're not even looking out of the window you've seen this lake until now it's like printed in your memory it's no more now when you go to the desert you're like wow this is beautiful and the guy in the desert is like can you show me a house oh my God you're living in a Jannah and you're like mosquitoes smell when it dries up in the summer this is beautiful look everything is clean everything no bacteria survives here from the heat so now do you know why people don't get bored in Jannah for infinity because every day Allah puts it in a new shape every day it's a new view and Allah in the month of Ramadan uses his creativity and Allah calls himself creative right he's the creator so he's creative every day he puts new possibilities of joy in Jannah so that when you go to it you will never be bored when does that happen in the month of Ramadan and the Shayateen become chained in that month that's another thing so that the shaitan by the way people get overwhelmed oh my God I have shaitan and my shaitan is inspiring evil to me and this and this and that okay hold it let's hold on number one you have two angels go with you wherever you go and they are angels they are what doesn't matter they're writing good deeds and bad deeds they are what so you have two angels with you going another angel that Rasool Allah said that Allah dedicates for every person an angel to inspire him to do good but people don't talk about that so you don't know it so the Prophet when you see an inclination like inside you like an idea comes out evil know that that's shaitan and if you see something they're like just let's do this like someone is talking to you that's an angel that Allah put to inspire you to do good so now we have two one the right one the left and the third one is doing what every time the shaitan inspire you to do evil he comes and counters his argument then there is angels that Allah put them to protect you around you just protection then there are angels that carry your dua to Allah and there are special angels that carry your salah and salam to the Prophet and they bring the answer back يعني I feel sorry for that one shaitan he's surrounded by so many angels he doesn't know what to do I feel like like his whole life he's like waiting waiting waiting he goes and whispers to you one second and he runs away like that was too many angels for me this is his whole life and then when he gets close to you and you feel there's something not wrong you're getting angry out of order something is not something is this so you know Allah سبحانه وتعالى says my bad when shaitan comes and take over they remember so they mention my name أعود بالله من الشيطان رجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم now the shaitan is running very far from you you worry you know people we have become consumed by talking about shaitan and seher and nazar and jinn position that's question number one as if our deen did not come to liberate us from that يعني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم who nothing can harm him without Allah's permission يعني Allah made him go through a human experience that otherwise he wouldn't go through it what was the human experience that he went through someone did seher to him you know when Allah made him go through that just so that he's an example for you and I like رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم one day prayed صلاة الظهر صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم صحابة ليك يا رسول الله did salah change he said no did it change from 4 to 2 he said no they said يا رسول الله you prayed 2 ركعة he said I prayed 4 they said you prayed 2 يا رسول الله he said I did they said yes he said okay he got up prayed another 2 ركعة finished the salah made sujud al-sahu صلام عليكم صلام عليكم and now we learned what happened when we forget in salah Allah made him forget so that he can be an example for you Allah made the prophet go through the experience of seher and then he told him you don't have to worry you and your ummah I just made you go through this experience just so that you know what to do just read قلوا الله وحد قلوا عوذ رب الناس in the morning in the evening 3 times 3 times and I took a course one time and no shaitan no seher anything that is harming you will dissolve have zero effect on you خلص we're liberated now we can think what's the entire Muslim world is consumed in every Muslim country seher seher seher you know people believe in seher more than they believe in Allah and they believe in the power of seher more than they believe in the power of Allah and they fear the power of seher more than they fear Allah شرك or not شرك والله that's shirk you shouldn't be you shouldn't be the scared so in Ramadan what does Allah do he chains the shayateen for you that's number 4 and the Prophet ﷺ say and number 5 he forgives them in the last night of Ramadan because that's when they're done with their ibad that the next day is the last day of Ramadan and Allah جل جلالوه forgives them so all what we have done today discover the first subject and this is the end of it and then now we move to another subject from Ramadan to talking about the Quran but I don't believe we have time for that I want to leave a time for question and answer for you so please you know if you can if you want to ask questions ask questions and inshaAllah you can maybe watch the rest on this but there's no way for me to summarize another 3 out of 4 so that you can have a full picture of Ramadan this is just talking about the month of Ramadan independent of any fasting month of Ramadan is a blessed month every night and that's why you fast in the day so that you can be ready to receive the blessings of the night that's why you fast in the day so Allah matched a very special month with a very special ibadah very special month with very special ibadah fasting with Ramadan واخير دعوانا الحمد لله رب العالمين any questions the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يعني may Allah accept from your grandfather and grandmother inshaAllah the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم forbid the Muslims from fasting on the day of Eid he told them you shall not fast this is Allah's gift to you so accept his gift the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when a man told him I want to fast every day he said the most that you should do is fast one day and break the fast the next day fast one day and break and that's the best siam the siam of my brother Dawood عليه السلام because Dawood عليه السلام used to do that by the way fasting is recorded and very clear in the bible for the Jews and the Christians it's just we chose to carry the command and keep it and someone else chose to interpret it and not do it that's not our problem that's their problem and that's their interpretation but fasting is mentioned also in the bible that's why when Allah said I've written up it's upon you like I written up on those who came before you just so that you know that it's not you're not the only one who were fasting even Musa عليه السلام was fasting right way before right and fasted for 30 nights then he fasted for another 10 nights so now we have 30 plus 10 equals 40 and it was fasting the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم explained that to us next question yes what age do you have to start to fast? in general the age that you reach puberty the beginning of your puberty you start fasting but if the person reaches puberty and his body or her body is very weak then they wait until their body become strong but when if they do not reach puberty and they reach the age 15 so in both cases by age 15 most of the has chosen age 15 to be the age that the person has to fast but that's provided that they did not reach puberty up to age 15 or they've reached puberty with a very weak body that if they fast they will die so you don't let them fast obviously next and once you open the books of every madhap says a different thing so we say at the end of but that is the average between all of them next yes sister I'm sorry yes may Allah bless you if you cannot make it to the masjid and pray then pray at your home let me tell you what our mother عائشة and the other ladies in Medina used to do for Abdullah ibn Abbas the cousin of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Abdullah ibn Abbas used to be a kid but he used to memorize a lot of Quran so they used to make Halwa you know Halwa and they say if you lead us in tarawih we will give you Halwa and he used to lead them in tarawih at their homes when they couldn't go and make it to the masjid and they used to give him Halwa he is happy and they are happy so which tells us that also what you said what people don't realize it's a separate عبادة to listen to Quran other than reading Quran reading Quran is عبادة listening to Quran is another عبادة Allah told us وإذا قرئ القرآن فاستمعوا له وأنصتوا لعلكم ترحمون when the Quran is recited listen to it get into the revelation mode listen to it وأنصتوا and settle down give it its due respect I don't like the Quran to be a background you're working and talking in this and this we just want the Quran to be blessing for the home and the Quran is running in the background and everyone is talking when the Quran is recited you sit down do all of your housework but then sit down the other advice I really have for all of you you have a عبادة of coming and listening to the Quran at night from the Qari in Taraweeh or at home but add to that listen to that juzo recited in Arabic then the translation in English recited in Arabic then the translation in Urdu recited in Arabic then the translation in Persian so that you understand what Allah is saying to you so now you're getting both one, you're listening to the word of Allah good done two, you understand what's recited and when you understand you're gonna pick this and pick that and pick this and pick that until you what until it hits you and you have understood something brothers and sisters the Quran is not to be sung it's not a song only for people to sing it oh this Qari beautiful the Qari beautiful this Qari make us cry it's a book that Allah said why are they not contemplating their meanings why are they not contemplating its meanings يعني the Quran meeting or are their hearts have locks on it so in other words if you're not understanding and contemplating there is a lock on your heart unlock it take it throw it out in the garbage and get yourself into the habit of listening and understanding and then try your best to implement once you do these three things listen read or listen but specially read understand and implement the Prophet ﷺ tells you with every harf you get ten hasana with every harf you get ten hasana so that's because you put the effort in listening reading understanding and implementing otherwise we're fooling ourselves by just saying oh I read the entire Quran did you pick one thing no did you decide to change one thing no يعني come on it's going to get better than that so read listen understand and implement and walk away with Ramadan with one change so that Allah will bless you and bless your change in sha Allah last رمض in Arabic is when your mouth become dry from thirst you know when your tongue become stuck because there is no one of the meanings of that is رمض right and there is a a disagreement between the linguistics but you have to know something there is a problem with all of that reason is the Arabic months are lunar months and lunar months are not attached to season so you're going to have a Ramadan that your mouth become dry and you're going to have a Ramadan that your mouth is never dry and when the time of iftar comes at 4.30 4.45 you feel like I didn't fast I'm not even hungry still my the food of Suhoor is still in my stomach you understand so to say that Ramadan is only in the summer that is a problem with that but maybe to say it means thirst maybe there is better yeah you get thirsty you know but it's a name of a month there's a lot of benefits in fasting definitely health benefits they used to ostracize us and make fun of us for fasting then they started doing fasting and they called it intermittent fasting and they call it wet fasting with water then now the latest craze and phenomena in the world of diets is dry fasting and what's dry fasting no eating no drinking because they found out that it resets every cell in the body and every cell gets rid of the DNA that's full of the cancer stuff so it's a blessing from Allah definitely but we don't fast for that for the medical health because Allah said when you're sick break your fast He didn't say when you're sick fast so we just want to be careful how much we run with that stuff we want our base to be the revelation and then if anything benefit comes أهلاً وسهلاً welcome لزاكم الله خير let's read Surah Al-Asr بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والعصر إن الإنسان لفي خسر إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وتواصلوا بالحق وتواصلوا بالصبر سبحان ربك رب العزة عما يصفون وسلام علي المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله عليه وسلم ورحمة الله عليه وسلم