 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu. Welcome to Annesheed. I am Abdul Razaki Ngutia. Or if you like, you can call me Razaki the Golden Boy. Piazakunipata kwenya Facebook, Twitter na Insta, lakini hiyon takupati hapo badae hivi sasa nipuna mwenzangu. Ambae ako tayari, akumzima kama... Siniu, kwa mbevi. Piazani. Munyei tuha pa minimaliza. Yua itwa Fatma Yakuba. Assalamualaikum. Waalaikun salam, warahmatullahi wabarakatu. Asante sana kuni karebisha hapa. And I'm so happy to be here in the Sheed Show. And this being Ramadan and... I'm so excited that we're here to remind other fellow Muslims, I'll say they are, how to prepare for it. Because it's starting on Monday. So, well, I'd like you first of all to tell me, you know, when it comes to the Ramadan, every time when it comes to the Ramadan, people don't understand what exactly is the meaning of the Ramadan. And it's the only month that people know, you know, and it's the only month they know about Islam. They don't know that it's a month in the calendar and all that. So, Islamic month, I think, most of the Muslim people they know about this, it is the nine month of the Islamic calendar and it's one of the five pillars of Islam. So, every Muslim has to fast on this month. Not everybody, but those people who are healthy. I have this idea. Kwa yuleamba enafunga. Is it just everybody who fasts? You know, there is this crazy thing. First of all, let us to talk about the crazy things that happened during the Ramadan. And yuleamba, you've gone too fast. And in the middle of the day, you feel like... Umia kula kama umesa hao. Lafuba day, you're like, oh my goodness. Has it ever happened to you? Ya, it happened once, especially during the first week, the first day especially. So, umasa hao, like your first things you go by PK, like the normal day. So, no, no, PK, and then you first eat the first pallet. And then you're like, oh, I'm fasting. And then you speed it up. I remember you once told me, oh, kuna kula kama, I'll be watching you, I'll be watching you during the Ramadan so that you don't eat one pallet and then you're saying, oh, I'm fasting. But you didn't forget, it's okay, you're allowed to continue fasting because if you... But some people, when you feel like, when you feel like you're in a bad situation, you feel like you're in a bad situation. So, no, but some too, I mean, in my mind, maybe I'm a peak. I can imagine you cook all this process you take while cooking with Maliza and make her food and then you start eating. Allah fukisha maaliza, you're full and then you say, oh, I was fasting. Is that even, does it make sense to you? It doesn't even sound logic. Well, it doesn't make sense, but there is this question. I think we should post to the viewer. You know, when you're ready for the Ramadan, how exactly are you prepared? I'd like you to comment on our Facebook page, that's at Y254channan. And just tell us what exactly you have done to be ready for the month of Ramadan. And also just comment there and we'll be very glad to receive from you. So, yeah, so you know, Ramadan is just coming up on Sunday or Monday. What have you done to prepare yourself? As if you also have to tell us, you've got to tell us as well. Okay, to prepare myself for Ramadan, obviously, I'm ready like mentally. I have to be prepared mentally. And also prayer wise, because there is no point of me fasting the whole day and then I'm not praying to be pointless. So I have to pray like the five daily prayer, even if I'm walking or I'm somewhere and maybe there is no must. Interesting, any concept here that you have to pray the five daily prayers? Exactly, that is like preparing yourself for Ramadan. It's part of the preparation. There are some people who don't pray. Yeah, I know them. When I told them that I'm praying for Ramadan, I told them that I'm praying for the month of Ramadan. What month? I told them that I'm praying for the month of Ramadan. Thank you very much. But what I want to tell you is that for Ramadan to prepare me to eat this kuzingine, it's not going to be enough. In my reality, we only become like faithful Muslim, kufa tasala and doing everything right only during Ramadan. We also have to live this kind of lifestyle even when we're not fasting. I have this Christian friends of mine who ask me when you're fasting, do you not take anything in the middle of the day? And I tell them, yeah, we don't take anything in the middle of the day. And they're like, how about water? And they say, no, you don't take water during the day. And they ask you, so you fast from six to nine. I think you should make it really clear because I always sometimes find and for the sake of our friends who are non-Muslims and they're watching this show, they really wouldn't have to understand exactly what's going on when you're fasting then. You know, when you're fasting, when Muslims are fast, you know, we have different types of fast. We have the fast that Christians do and also we have the fast of Muslims do. Somebody took me to the fast of Muslims do. When we fast, we do the dry fast. So complete dry fast. No eating, no drinking, it's just dry fast. So we are starting to fast from, is it done to sunset? Yeah, so yes, that is how we fast. No taking anything until sunset. So, so you see, if you're fasting, I'd like us to talk about what's allowed and what's not allowed. It's very exciting that, you know, I like the way Islam is structured. You have to follow, you know, there is a clear direction of what is supposed to be, but there are some things like in the hadith it said, among the things that are haram or allowed and some things that are not allowed in Islam. They are very clear, but in between there is some elements of confusion here. If I may ask you, and also for the sake of the viewer, if I've eaten, say, meat last night or in the morning when I'm taking my suhur, alafu kati kati asiku, I just realized that there is a piece of this taken with me in my teeth. Or you brush your teeth before you went to bed after suhur. Or let's say, you go to sleep after suhur. You brush your teeth before you go to sleep. No, you go to sleep after suhur. No, you don't go to sleep. Like maybe after doing the fajur prayer, then you can go to sleep. Well, yeah, but that's still not allowed according to the sooner to go to sleep. So you want to tell me if you wake up for suhur at around 4.30, some people they prefer to wake up very early in the morning. So you have your suhur and then you just maybe you read the Quran until maybe fajur prayer, you have your fajur prayer and then you just stay awake till, I don't know, you can go back to sleep if you don't have anything to do. It is allowed, but then you're forgetting a very important sooner here. When you are going for the fast, it is said that you delay to take your suhur. You don't wake up early and eat early and then wait for fajur and then you start your fast. You eat closer towards the fast that's among the sooner. So if you tell me that you go to sleep after suhur, I'm like, okay. When you delay suhur, some people maybe they do that and then maybe you oversleep in the process. So you find yourself maybe waking up, maybe you oversleep and then you find yourself waking up during fajur prayer and you miss your suhur. And some people they have this excuse that when they miss their suhur, they're not going to fast. So it's better you wake up early than maybe a few minutes to suhur. Well, yeah, you have a point there. So my question was if you are eating, I mean if you've eaten something during the suhur and then somewhere in the middle of the day say during, you're nearly towards the prayer, basically during the day and then you find that you have a piece of meat in between your teeth. If you solo it and you know that you've soloed it, does it really break your fast? If you know. Yeah, you know you've soloed it and it's just, you know, it's been in your teeth. Okay, according to my thinking and according to the teaching of the prophet, peace be upon him, he said that as the most famous supposed to eat wherever you start between your teeth is supposed to remove it and spit it out. So for me, I think if you take it in, that is going to be like you. You've broken your fast. Exactly. So I don't think it's allowed, but if you do it unintentionally, maybe you didn't know your fast is still there, but if you took it in intentionally, it's going to break your fast. So in your own words, who's not supposed to fast? I think, yeah, who's not supposed to fast? Who's not supposed to fast? We have, first of all, you can say, travel us. If you're traveling, it's not like, if you're traveling long distance, let's say from here to Ganda, not from town to town. So that way, you're going too fast, but if you're going for a long distance, maybe 12 hours flight or maybe three hours drive, more than three hours. But you, I mean, three hours in you are, you're not using an animal, you're not walking. Let's just say maybe five hours and beyond, you're not allowed to fast, but you can pay back the missed days that you didn't fast. And also, a pregnant woman is not allowed to fast, also breastfeeding, and also our mom was just given birth, and also... There is something I'm a bit jealous about here. Why is it that, you know, when ladies are in the middle of the day, I mean, how do I put it? I'm trying to find the best words. I don't want to be so graphic. Okay, in a time, you're on the top of the month, if they understand what that is, and you're allowed to go without fasting, I think it's a very important thing for people to understand, but also they have to pay for it after the Ramadan and make sure that they pay for it before the next Ramadan. So what is the issue here? Well, I'm just jealous that you will be eating and fasting. So why are you jealous? Because you're going to pay for it afterwards, and you don't have any to pay. You should fast with us. No, I'm not supposed to fast with you, because if you did biology back at primary school, I think you understand why. They're not allowed to fast. They're exempted from it. Yeah, exactly. And it's something that people really have to understand that you're not supposed to fast. And also, I think also, there are some other people also not allowed to fast. I think you also know these. Maybe very sick people, diabetic people, because diabetic people, they have to take their pills, I think, every. They have to take it every time. They have this specific time during the day that they're supposed to take. So such people are exempted from fasting. First of all, before we continue with the sickness thing, I think we have to make it really clear because of the benefit of the viewer why this lady who's at the top of the month is not allowed to fast. I know you're a lady, you will understand it more than me, but also, let's just put a little more information into this so that we can accurately guide them into why they're not allowed to. They are allowed to eat while it's in the month of Ramadan. And the information basically is, you're not allowed to fast during the time when you're having your menstrual cycle because when that is happening, you know this, I don't know if I should call it sickness or the kind of difficulty that lady goes through. It's not a sickness, it's a process. Okay, yeah, the process. Thank you for giving that correction. That process that the lady is going through at that time and there are so many things apart from mood swings, there is also just the difficulty that's experienced there. And I also think the body changes and could also be right if I say that when you're undergoing this process, you have to, you're losing blood, which means you have to eat to make sure that you maintain a healthy body or how should I put it? Is that the correct way? Okay, when there is a woman or a lady is not allowed to fast when they're having their menstrual cycle, it's mainly because at that time, the body is going through a biological change and also their system is not on its right on its normal state. So this lady is losing a lot of blood and then she gets so weak. So when you add fasting on top of it, I think it's because maybe some maybe medical problems or maybe she may even collapse. So maybe they've been as cues. You know what they say that when a wakini is naive. So they say you can just go ahead and maybe eat and you return back the blood and stuff, the energy that you lose. So that maybe after when you're done with the Ramadan it's over, you can pay back these. On days that you are. If it's five days, if it's six days, three days you have to pay them back. It's a must. There are two things that we have to make clear here. First of all, Islam is here to make, I'll just say it from the hadith, it's the din that was brought to us through Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him to guide us and to also help us. And so the intention of Islam is not to make worship hard for the believers, but it's to make them, it understands when there is a point where you have difficulty. And so one of the difficulties that's there is when someone is experiencing the menstrual cycle or when someone is sick or when someone is traveling basically, something that they have got to understand. But I have a question about this. They say like the reward of someone who fasts all the Ramadan, like the all of 31 days, 30 days precise, you get all this reward. Is it the same with this lady who was undergoing menstrual cycle and she missed like few days? Is it the same with the four passage like y'all? If she pays for those days then, I don't see any difference as long as she's paid for. So we will get the same reward. I believe so. Mashallah, that's good. And also the second thing that we all have to understand including the view about the tom is that when this lady has been allowed to eat during the month of Ramadan and in the 21st century we always go to work and we go to public places, both men and women. So if you have a reason to break your fast and eat during the day, I think it's also very important to do it in private, not in public because it's going to mislead people about that. So when you're saying that it's good to do it in public, do you mean that let's say for example I'm in town, I'm in the city and doing my stuff and then maybe I feel like going for lunch. I'll be eating in public at the restaurant. So do you mean I should just buy maybe to kawai and go maybe eat somewhere, hide myself and eat? Okay, hide yourself. Why should I just eat in the restaurant with other people? It brings controversy, brings confusion to people. They will be wondering exactly what's going on and I think it will also be uncomfortable for the lady to start explaining all you know I'm encountering this particular process. I know you will not be comfortable to explain that. This is some people like some people have seen this happening but I'm not going to mention where exactly. So I see this person eating and what they do they put some pills there like let's say a potadol just beside or maybe a syrup they put it beside their table. So that when you passing by and you see them eating they just know ah she's sick I'm not sick. So on a kula to say don't. So you see so I think did you think these people are pretending some are cause why do you have to put this medicine there so that people can see? You yeah you have just reminded me something but we're going to make it this really brief because you know we also have to go and take out musical break and address also a little bit but first I'm going to make it really brief. First of all you know the ayah in the Quran where it says those people who are performing acts of worship for the sake of pleasing other people they are not pleasing Allah and also there is this hadith which says that you will get there what exactly your intention is. So it's wrong for someone to put the medicine there and start eating and so that when you come around it will be self explanatory for you that this guy is eating because he's sick and it's during Ramadan and it's not correct. I think right now we should be wishing people should be able to just you know just fear Allah to the best of your ability. So I think that if you've been eating all these days and it's just one month once a year that's which are a lot too fast so I think you should just do it like obediently because you've been eating like all the time and it's not like you're not going to eat in the evening you're still going to eat so you should just eat a whole lot exactly. So I'd like to wish you all Muslims are very very happy Ramadan and also to appeal to the viewers that you know all of you are Muslim brothers and non Muslim brothers and sisters we love you so much and it is very exciting month of Ramadan and you're not excited. I'm so much excited because this is the month that we're going to get so much reward in it it's going to like cleanse us mentally, spiritually we're going to get closer to Allah. Exactly. So it's a very holy month. I think we should also say to our non Muslim brothers and sisters to join us within this month of Ramadan. We're not only allowed to come and eat with us in Tabur also to fast with us. Yeah. So this is a very good month where we're supposed to be very peaceful. We are also supposed to fear Allah. We're supposed to be kind. We are supposed to do every good thing. There is also a forgetting this one thing that we are supposed to do the most we are supposed to read the Quran. Yeah, to read the Quran. Like they're supposed to make sure like every day if you just read one Juzul like every day you're going to finish it by the end of the Ramadan. Yeah, fantastic. So right now we're going for a very very interesting musical break. But remember to hit us up on our first page and tell us exactly what you think how you have prepared for your fasting in the month of Ramadan and for you all you can ask us questions and we'll be very glad to respond to the comments to the best of our ability. But right now let's get the music. Don't we? Yeah.