ISLAMIC STUDIES FAH 0013

ISLAMIC SPEECH REVIEW

Topic:Ramadan


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Table of Content

1.0 Title
.
2.0
Preface

3.0 Speaker Biography
3.0.1 Dr. Bilal
Philips
3.0.2 Nouman Ali
Khan.
4.0 Resources
4.0.1 Dr. Bilal
Philips
4.0.2 Nouman Ali
Khan.
5.0 Video Details
5.0.1 Dr.Bilal
Philips.
5.0.1 Nouman Ali
Khan.
6.0 Video Description
6.0.1 Dr.Bilal
Philips.
6.0.1 Nouman Ali
Khan.
7.0 Video Transcription
7.0.1 Why Fast ?
..
7.0.2 The Month Of
Forgiveness
8.0 Positive
Feedback..
9.0 Negative
Feedback
10.0 Suggestion and
Recommendation..
11.0 Lesson
Learn..
12.0
Conclusion

























2.0 Introduction

Alhamdulillah, with His Grace and His Guidance, we managed to fulfill the task
given by our lecturer, Ustaz Ahmad Rushdi bin Haroon. Although, this is part of our course
work, we had gain a lot of information about Islamic knowledge after we successfully
accomplished it. In fact, we are compulsory as Muslims to seek for knowledge of Allah s.w.t
creations.
We chose the video that entitled as Why fast? and The Month Of Forgiveness
as our project work. Dr. Bilal Philips and Nouman Ali Khan are the solo speaker in these
1hour 3minutes 8seconds and 1hour 24minutes 45seconds Islamic Video. The main
reason we choose the topic about month of ramadhan because it describes about what we
had done wrong during Ramadhan and what we actually must do during Ramadhan. We as
Muslims scholars have to prepare ourselves in all edge of perspective because there are
many benefits in this month of ramadhan.
Insides Speech, Dr. Bilal Philips talks about us(Muslims) that during Ramdhan
we(Muslims) are likes feasting not fasting and brief explanations that we should not about to
do that.

Ramadan, the month of uncountable blessings and a golden opportunity for a Muslim
to elevate himself spiritually and get even closer to his Creator; is a time of the year like no
other. Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan explains in detail the historical background of Ramadan and
reasons why Muslims are the chosen ones to be blessed with such unique gift, in an
exclusive 2-day event at FANAR on 27th - 28h June 2013.

3.0.1 Dr. Bilal Philips

Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up
in Toronto, Canada, where he converted to Islam in 1972. His whole life has been
exemplified by his goal of seeking and conveying Islamic knowledge in order to
Change the Muslim Nation through Islamic Education.

In preparation for this goal, he first acquired a B.A. from the College of
Islamic Disciplines at the Islamic University of Medina (1979), then an M.A. in
Aqeedah (Islamic theology) from King Saud University in Riyadh (1985), and finally
a PhD in Islamic Theology from the University of Wales (1994). Interestingly
enough, his PhD thesis was on The Exorcist Tradition in Islam.

After graduation from the University of Medina, Dr. Bilal spent ten years
teaching Islamic studies in an Islamic high school in Riyadh, and another ten years
lecturing in Arabic and Islamic studies in the American University in Dubai, UAE.

In 1994 he founded the first Islamic Information Center in Dubai. He has
served as the head of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Preston
University-Ajman, UAE; lecturer and director of the Dawah and Education at Qatar
Guest Center, Doha, Qatar; founder and head of the English medium Islamic studies
department of Knowledge International University, Riyadh; founder and head of the
College of Dawah and Islamic Culture (English Section) at Omdurman Islamic
University, Sudan; founder and head of Preston International University College in
Chennai, India; and founder and Dean of the Islamic Studies Academy in Doha,
Qatar.

But perhaps his greatest achievement, and the one for which he was listed in
the Jordanian publication The 500 Most Influential Muslims is the historic founding
of the Islamic Online University (IOU) which by the end of 2013 had over 150,000
students registered from 219 countries in the world, making IOU the number one
university in the world with respect to the diversity of its student body. Unlike the
other educational programs he has founded and overseen over the years, IOU makes it
possible for any person from any location in the world to receive an Islamic education
absolutely free or degree in Islamic Studies and other fields tuition-free.

IOU was launched in 2007 with a free diploma program in Islamic Studies and
introduced its fully accredited tuition-free Bachelors program (BAIS) in 2010. New
IOU departments were introduced in the beginning of 2014 and plans are currently
being made for a Masters program (MAIS) to be launched later in 2014. Dr. Bilal has
served as IOUs chancellor from the beginning.
Dr. Bilal Philips has written, translated and commented on over 50 published
books on various Islamic topics and he has also edited and published the 56-book
Eemaan English Reading Series for children and Muslim schools. Dr. Philips has also
presented Islamic programs for a number of years on Riyadh Channel 2TV, Sharjah
TV, Peace TV, Huda TV, Islam Channel, UK, and the Deen Show, Chicago, USA and
GuideUS TV, from Washington USA.

Currently (2014), Dr. Bilal is the imaam and khateeb at Abu Hurairah
Center where he teaches 5 free university-level classes weekly and counsels Muslim
families two days per week.
3.0.2 Nouman Ali Khan
Nouman is the founder and CEO of Bayyinah, as well as the lead instructor for a
number of Bayyinah courses including the Fundamentals of Classical Arabic and
Divine Speech. His first exposure to Arabic study was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
where he completed his elementary education. He continued Arabic grammar study in
Pakistan, where he received a scholarship for ranking among the top 10 scores in the
national Arabic studies board examinations in 1993. But his serious training in Arabic
began in the United States in 1999 under Dr. Abdus-Samie, founder and formal
principal of Quran College, Faisalabad, Pakistan who happened to be touring the US
for intensive lectures in Tafsir and Arabic studies. Under Dr. Abdus-Samie, Nouman
developed a keen methodical understanding of Arabic grammar. He further benefited
from Dr. Abdus-Samie by internalizing his unique teaching methods and later
translating his work into English for the benefit of his own students. Nouman served
as professor of Arabic at Nassau Community College until 06 and has taught Modern
Standard and Classical Arabic at various venues for nearly 7 years with over 10,000
students nationwide. Currently he has dedicated himself to a seven-year-long project,
of conducting a linguistic & literary focus Quranic Tafseer series in English.
Recordings of sessions conducted so far can be downloaded at
www.bayyinah.com/dream.
Brother Nouman discusses many important issues such as Islamophobia, hypocrisy,
parenting, misconceptions about Islam, and many more. Visit Video Lectures page
and find the topics discussed on the right sidebar.

He has also done many classes of Quran tafseer / explanation. Find Quran tafseer for
Suras number 78 - 114.







4.0 Sources :

1. http://www.bilalphilips.com/
Screen Capture from Dr.Bilal Philips Official Website

















2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uR9xiEQrCU


Screen Capture of Dr.Bilal Philips Speech Review Video


2. http://www.nakcollection.com


Screen Capture from Nouman Ali Khan collections website







3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4hUli7A4d8

Screen Capture of Nouman Ali Khan Speech Review Video

5.0.1 Video Details
Video 1
Title : Why Fast ?
Year : 2014
Duration: 1hour 3minutes 8secons
Speaker : Dr.Bilal Philips
Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uR9xiEQrCU

Video 2
Title : The Month of Forgiveness
Year :2013
Duration : 1hour 24minutes 45seconds
Speaker : Nouman Ali Khan
Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4hUli7A4d8








6.0.1 Video Descriptions1

Based on the video, Dr. Bilal Philips gives a concise account about an
important big topic during Ramadhan. Through this video, he highlight an important
things to us , Why Fast?.

From the beginning , Allah has been prescribed fasting is obligatory for
muslim like been stated in our holy Quran. All religion also fasting but in a different
way. So, why muslim need to fast? It was a biq question said by our speech.

When Ramadhan, we are fasting and we will feel starving, qoing thirsty,
prohibiting ourself from doing something. Through all of our sacrifice in Ramadhan,
actually we will gain a lot of benefits when fasting eventhough we didnt realise it.

Our prophet s.a.w also fasting through his walking life. In his description
also, our prophet Muhammad has prescribed for us the best days as a group in the
month we dont know the physical issue that are involved well , that was the pool of
the moon on the earth and been said the night of decree is better than a thousand
months.

6.0.2 Video Description2


The speaker started the talk with explanation on the understanding of a
particular ayah of a surah. The ayah tells about when the change of kiblah of Muslim
from Madinah to Makkah. Then, Allah says that this is the new nation of Islam. The
speaker also uses the resemblances of empire with its capital holding the identity of
the empire. It was said that the Jews in Madinah feel insulted on that time; the Jews
actually believe that they are the same with Muslim. Their religion are the same with
Islam, means that they believe Muhammad SAW is the true messenger. So after the
kiblah has changed, the Jews know that they only be in the accepted person if the
kiblah is at Madinah. The exercise (fasting) was also given to the Jews but they were
different from Muslim. The difference is Jews do not have taqwa, taqwa is meant by
protection. Fasting actually is training for Muslim as when we are fasting, there is
physical war happening in the body. Fasting will make our body weaker but
strengthen our heart. Nowadays, the faults in Muslims thought of fasting as burden
but oppositely it is opportunity to recite Quran particularly. When we missed our fast
during Ramadhan, we are given 2 options which are replacing it or to feed poor
people. Allah recommended us to replace it than to feed poor people. The ayah of
Quran is guidance for all mankind directly states that it is not for only certain people
but to all. By this, equality of man is made. Speaker said that he notices that a lot of
Muslim has Assabiah in them. He also continuously says the ayah of Allah which
stated that Ramadhan is special with its Quran. The origin of the name of Musa been
slipped into the speech. The speaker come back to the training during Ramadhan with
the more we train, the stronger our faith. He reminded to all Muslim to memorize
Quran during this Ramadhan, with it must come its sincerity not to show off. The
comparison between meeting with Allah and people. If we want to meet important
person, we need to make an appointment according to their schedule. But, we are able
to meet Allah whenever the time is as from the reply of Rasulullah SAW if someone
asking about Allah, he will tell that Allah is near. Besides, the prioritizing Allah in all
activity in our daily life. Allah said that we need to be grateful of the gift or nikmah of
Quran. We need to appreciate the Quran. We also are given the direct link to Allah
which are salah. The ayah of Quran are recited in the salah. Explaination on the
deeper meaning of when and if, by the word of Allah when the slaves ask about
Me meaning that Allah is waiting for His slaves to ask about Him. The uses of word
I, My are used when there is too much love or too much anger. Allah says that when
someone asking about Him to Rasulullah SAW, Allah will put Rasulullah SAW aside
and answers him directly. There are a lot different meaning or description of Allahs
names which tell that Him near. Speaker cleverly used the analogy of the teacher and
student. Especially in class, students tend to become disciplined only when there is the
presence of the teacher. They will behaved themselves if the teacher is near but when
the teacher get out of the classroom, the students will do things according only
themselves. This same goes to the attitude of the human, they will only obey to Allah
if and only if they realized the presence of Allah near them. Allah said that He always
near to His slaves but it is only us that do not aware of it. The dua of each person
will be answered immediately by Allah nevertheless of the person as long he makes
the dua. Allah still answer the dua of the one even that the guy do not do prayers.
Allah also said that He responds to the one who call, the caller. The qualification of
the caller is already enough for Allah to answer to. Allah also specifically knows the
one who make the call to Him different from the president of country unable to know
each one of his citizen. It is said that when is the suitable time to make dua, then
Allah says WHENEVER. For Allah to answer our dua, we have to provide Allah
things that we can give before we ask for something from Allah. What we do for
Allah need to come first and what we ask from Allah come second. But during
Ramadhan, what we ask from Allah will come first and Allah making Himself comes
second. The goal of fasting is taqwa. The goals of Ramadhan are to complete 30 days
of training, to declare the greatness of Allah and to be grateful. The real threat is
materialism as we are obsessed with it, the dunya. Young of this ummah are put to
sleep by this new gadgets, apps and websites. They can be so strong if Quran be
internalized thoroughly. The detoxification of this threat need to be done especially
during Ramadhan. The ways of making memorization of Quran interesting in family
is by giving incentives. Speaker gives three surah ; 62, 63 and 64 : these surah tells
about man losing his iman and tried to regain of it. Every Muslim in the world to
listen of speeches explaining the surah. This is people tend to remember what they
heard. Muslims are adviced to memorize the surah with its meaning and then
understand the meaning of surah from the speech given.





7.0.1 Video Transcription ( Why Fast ? )

Alhamdulillahirobbilalamin . alamin wassolatuwasslamu ala saidina muhammadi
asyrofil anbiya'I wal mursalin , our praises due to Allah and may Allah give a peace and blessings be
on the last prophet Muhammad S.A.W and all those who follow the path of righteousness until the last
day the topic. Why fast is one which addresses the actions of fasting. Why did behind fasting? Of
course! the simple answer if a Muslim is ask "why do you fast?" They would say because Allah(God)
commanded me to do so , so that's a simple answer , God has commanded so we do it but when people
asking , "why do you fast? why fast?" Why put yourself through all goals changes , starving yourself ,
going thirsty , prohibiting from yourself , things which are in fact good things , Why go through all of
that Why would God of us do that. Is it necessary ? Is it something necessary for God to worship on we
have too suffer? This is the big question. If God in the bed neverland got , a good God. Why would he
require his creation to have to struggle like that , to suffer like that. For us, as Muslims though it is
basically sufficient for us to fast because God commanded us to fast, at the same time it is very
important for us to understand, why god prescribed fasting for us , to understand it. Why because if we
don't understand it and we cannot convey that understanding to our children the next generation. Then,
they may find themselves confronted by people from other background who would question them and
because they couldn't find answers for those question then you might find them giving up fasting.
Believing them , that we can worship God without having to fast. Is nothing necessity . So , that is why
it is important for a children who are raising on one hand to be able to comprehend to understand. What
is behind fasting and also on the other hand for fasting to being real.

For fasting to be real in then we need to know what the actual goals of the fasting are . This falls
under the general headin which I talk about from time to time they heading all in living is I'm in Islam
the Libyan free Islam the way all like 0 every component all that way up life 0 has to be needed in of
being is just one component I'm a component which as to be a living Oct a worship in an active
worship which is a lie in not a dead act and apt on ritual tradition but one which we partied in where
Ian we understand that dole's rites and rituals I'm are there for us to achieve a greater goal I'm a goal
which is beyond the rite and the ritual the rite and the ritual are a mean a vehicle which would take us
to the actual goals of fasting and when we look into the Quranic texts speaking about fasting we see
that Allah from the very beginning after describing the fact that fasting has been prescribed is
obligatory for muslims "quran texts" that this obligation was not New it was an obligation places on all
of the prophets and those who followed them before "quran texts" as it was prescribed for those before
begin still fine in the scriptures of the torah and spider the changes which have taken place it still
recorded their the profits fasting ,prophets Moses fasting 40-days 4o nights in Prophet Jesus fasting
forty days and forty nights neither eating food , nor drinking water it was prescribed before and actually
even if you look into the Hindu scriptures you do find in a principal , a principle sanskrit principle of
fasting called "upavaasa" or however it's pronounced them thing it according to whats written in
translation and it's "upavaasa" and Allah knows best afterwards somebody who knows sanskrit can tell
me but anyway the point is that it existed there even in Hinduism and if you look into Buddhism you
look into all the various religions you find it there if you asking so there is a purpose usually that
purpose is focused on atonement people have committed certain sins so does that mean the atonement
the move all sins or you will find it I focused on Thanksgiving however when we look at the Quranic
text we find that Allah mode had stated right from the very beginning he most important principal of
fasting in simple and clear terms la'allakum tattaqun" in order that you would develop ,
consciousness of God that you would develop , an awareness in your day-to-day life in your life
beyond that day of fasting or that month of fasting you will be more conscious of God and of course
when you're more conscious of God then you are going to do more righteous deeds you're going to be a
better person that goals hand in hand that is the driving force behind righteousness , true righteousness
rightnousness which is not with a hidden agenda because of course you have people were righteous but
there's no consciousness of God at all they're doing rightous things because they want to get you
trapped , you owed them something they have done you a favor are they will give it to you if you do
what they want you to do so you have that kinda of righteous also it externally right as but internally
there is an agenda they have certain things that they want to achieve and in order to win over the people
it will use acts of rightousness but the real and the true righteousness where they call altruistic good
good done for it sake has to be motivated by consciousness of God ultimately that's what behind it the
consciousness of God and that is why Allah identified right from the very beginning the most important
principle of fasting consciousness of God and it is ture that consciousness as we said that we become
better people so we have to ask ourselves before the previous Ramadan an hour after the previous
ramadhan was there a difference are we coming to a new Ramadan this same way and that we
approached the previous ramadhan this is the question we have to ask ourself because if we are coming
into Ramadan in the same way that we came into the previous Ramadan then it is not what we are
supposed to be doing the Ramadan that we're doing is not the Ramadan which has been prescribed for
us we're doing another ramadhan we're doing another kind of fasting kinda of fasting which is not the
one which was prescribed by God it may be traditional it may be customary that this is what people
traditionally do in our country everybody does this I do it because everybody else does it yes that
maybe the case but to say this was the fast that was prescribed by God if it doesn't have an impact on us
if we have not improvement if we are not better people then we have to say of fast is a failure instead of
fasting we were feasting instead of fasting we were feasting we spent most of our time enjoying the
wonderful dishes of ramadhan and this is what ramadhan tense to be noted for , noted for the dishes so
the women spend most of the time just cooking Ramadan you know and we encourage them because
we like those Ramadan meals , ramadhan , sweats , things so we encourage them but this is not the goal
of ramadhan this is How Ramadan has become corrupted it is corrupt and corrupting into that like the
Christians and Christmas you know , how christmas has been commercialized corrupted in the same
way Ramadan has become commercialized and corrupted so all of the focus is on the food of Ramadan
we miss the goal ramadhan so we end up on eat ten kilos more than we were on the first day of
ramdhan you know we have to spend spend the next year working of those kilos only to come and do
the same thing over again , you know this is what we end up doing this is the ritual a ritual cycle and
every time before the beginning of Ramadan we have the doctor's recommendations in the newspapers
people watch out for all reading because new Ramadan we have so many cases of people are brought
into the hospital you know with all kinds of disorders as a result over over eating this is about to be the
month of fasting and we have so many Muslims in the hospital suffering from over eating because the
whole purpose goal direction accent lost why fast why not feast why not feast we feast so if in fact God
consciousness is the gold as the Allah said and we are supposed to experience a change that month the
day of ramadhan should be impacting on us we should be changing our behavior changing our way of
thinking where our behavior is not good a way of thinking is not good in we should be improving
should be getting better we should be addressing he problems that we have so that day of ramadhan in
fact will be a month of purification because from "name" said you know whatever fast the month of
the Ramadan and doesn't have his or her sin removed they have thrown away a great good luck this was
an opportunity which they had which they did not apply as they should have a great opportunity thrown
away and there's no guarantee that we will make it to the Ramadan following this is the bottom line
we're thinking well we still have many more Ramadan to go but do we ? how many people make it to
the next ramadhan how many people make it to this Ramadan this is reality we're fooling ourselves we
think we have time and that's why the Prophet may God's peace and blessings be upon them Warren
death about this issue of time think you have time he said two things about which people I deluded fool
"nikmatani ma'bulul fi'hi ma ka'fi roon minal nas"
to blessings "ha'si ah tu wal far'ar" good health and spirit time people are deluded you think you have
time but we don't have time time is with Allah , you know none of us knows , if we will make it to
tomorrow we all assume we will and we worked as if we will but reality is , none of use really knows
so it is incumbent on us , it is the obligation on us to look at this fast which is coming up this month of
ramadhan look at it as we haven't looked at it before look at it from a new perspective to make
Ramadan real to make Ramadan truly alive bring it alive take it from the feasting ritual tradition to real
fasting so we can experience for the first time the impact of faith on ourselves ramadan is opposed to
be a month of rejuvenation charging our batteries for the coming year it should be something like that
we come out strong we went in the year on fast which reach the lowest point and we rejuvenated we
come back out strong stronger than we did the year before and stronger than we were when we went in
so to achieve that we need to keep in mind this principle of God consciousness on all levels of the fast
and you know of course the fast has a variety of levels you could put them into as much as 6 different
levels in the end , they all come down to realizing the principles of God consciousness in all aspects of
the fast so if we begin with the ritual level up the fast the ritual is that according to the rules we don't
eat drink or have sexual intercourse between dawn and sunset for those 29 or 30 days that the ritual
now if we just keep ramadhan on there again the night we will feast we will enjoy and will do exactly
what it said will follow the letter of the law will have fulfilled the letter of the law no one can say you
didn't fast according to Shariah but the gold of the shariah , the gold of that acting fast you didn't catch
even on that level that ritual level if we are conscious that as we go into this fast following of the ritual
we are in fact obeying Allah so our focus is on obedience to our Allah command that can have an
impact on us that can have a spiritual impact on us conscious of obeying Allah command because that
is the accent of the day Islam is obedience that is the accent of islam obeying Allah it was the accent of
Islam from the time of Adam when he was instructed not to eat from the tree it was about obeying
Allah and it is the same principal with regards to allof islam it is about obeying Allah obedience and
that is why worship is called Ibadah it's called ibadah , ibadah taken from 'abd the slave the servant
who has no choice he or she has to obey the master so that essential principles there and everything that
we look at we should look at it from that perspective on that ritual level are from that which were level
weekend shift to what may be called the physical love love the past when the physical level of the fast
deals with eating in moderation at the accent of it that in this fast there is a level that we should
experience of hunger and thirst this physical level we should feel hunger pangs pain which hits our
stomach thirst enough for all we should experience it if we're not experiencing it then we're feasting
simple were feasting were not fasting were feasting were preparing for soho , soho is briani 'ahhh...'
full-fledged a full meal rise chicken mutton 'you know' we all sit around we have knock it off ready so
what happens after that then we go to sleep whatever our stomach is still you know breaking down the
food all day zuhur or asar still digest it maybe about hour before maghrib , or half an hour before
maghrib the digestive process end and now time to breakfast what fast what fast time to feast again and
again we see that the table all the foods are all line up waiting for the azan you know a mouth is
watering and again that goes and we just dive into it two or three times that we ate so there is no
wonder that we gain weight in Ramadan no wonder because the principal the physical principal of
moderation in the fast are lost, we're not were not controlling ourselves in terms of our eating because
that physical level when we experience the pangs of hunger and thirst is supposed to give us a sense of
realizetion sympathy and empathy for those people in other parts of the world or maybe in the end of
the world who are suffering hunger suffering thirst, not because they chose to fast because they have
no food they have no food nor water to drink starving to death people are dying in different parts of the
world as we sit here every day that fast when done in moderation is supposed to motivate us motivate
us to want to help those people we can understand what it is like to be hungry it's not quite the same as
there is because is not going away for them we know it's gonna go away at the end of the day was not
quite the same but there is some kinda commonality we felt that hunger pain but if you never feel the
hunger pain and how you want to be motivated it's going to be missing it's gonna be here or it's going to
be weak very weak in so when we look at the prophets Rasulullah saw on the physical love love the
fast we have to fast as his fast when he went into zuhur he was just eating you know some olives olive
oil some hoboes something light in that's it okay, have an egg sliced a bread, okay, not five egg half a
loaf of bread, no no and how he broke his fast, he only break his fast with a few of dates and a glass of
water then he went to pray.Prophet Muhammad has said the worst container that a human being can
feel
is his or her stomach.A few morsels of food in to keep their purses box trade are sufficient You just
how a few morsels which I enough to keep you from being doubled overin hunger .Sahih Al Bukhari
predicted that the time would come there are something unknown except for rare cases people had
some biological disorders rare cases and the average person on that time obesity did not exist but today
we know from about eight years back the UN announced for the first time in the history of humankind
as they know It that the number of obese people exceed the number of people where starving to death
for the first time.The prophet S.A.W predicted that would come 1400 years ago he had said that you
will see amongst them the obese that would be many and he was also talking about the muslims he was
talking primarily about the muslim nation which was supposed to be following his Sunnah of
moderation eating never felling one stomach how many people here could say that I have gone
throughmthe last week without ever felling my stomach. Put your hand up. you see that not a single
hand the Prophet S.A.W said the worst container .We can feel is our stomachs but that's what we do
every day.We feel that the meal is complete when you stamach is full you eat until satisfied and that is
against the way of the prophetic way and prophet said most of the diseases comes through the stomach
is the root on the thing that we take into a body that that joint stomachs that a from there comes all
about the problems and while on one hand the physical level of the fast is supposed to benefit us 1in
terms of our sympathy are concerned.A love for our fellow human being we want to help them at the
same time the medical profession has identified a variety of benefits that come from the physical level
up fast among them is a feeling when one fast properly of course is the point fasting properly a feeling
of well-being that comes from the fast .It is a product of the fact that when we fast .we stimulate the
brain the neurotransmitters in the brain to create endorphins .the endorphins are what give you this
feeling all well-being of your exercises you get it there when you exercise finish you feel good that is a
product of the endorphins which are produced similarly when you fast without all the exercise it
produces it also and of course they have shown that breaks down uses up destroyed cholesterol you
know we all know about the problem the cholesterol checking our cholesterol levels and all this kind of
thing.So its ultimately minimizes the dangers of heart attacks there major physical benefits that come
outta physical level however as I said what is most important is that consciousness that God conscious
that we can achieve on the physical level when we fast eating in moderation because that's what's
gonna stop us from that three-course sophomore I'd what's gonna stop us from a three course or the
consciousness.So we apply that consciousness we are aware of Allah that's going to affect the rest to
the fast when the time comes to break the fast again the consciousness stop this from over then it's
going to how that for the impact as not to say okay after you finish your fast then you can go eat but
again appointed eating in moderation and overeating excess in green excess in other areas of our lives
because we everything isn't a good connected sowastage which tends to come with it the excess you
know now living in a society we have huge among them waste produced by excess fasting in this way
with moderation should raise our level of consciousness of God or Allah and caused us to be aware of
this excess and try to avoid it try to encourage others to avoid stay away from the excess,.. Fasting also
has an emotional level and a psychological level the emotional level where emotions like anger are
supposed to be controlled you're not supposed to get angry while fast is not to save you become angry
or your fast invalidated that's not the case but you should avoiding argumentation and things that are
gonna get you worked up the Prophet Muhammad said "if anybody tries to pick an argument with you
tell them,, 'i'm fasting' that the way out to tell 'em excuse me sorry im fasting I'm I don't want to get
involved in such an arguments that restraints in the time of fasting off course once you get out of the
fast we finish Ramadan and we have done that successfully then obviously that is going to have an
impact on how we deal when we're not fasting.. it will be much easier for us then when situations arise
to say it's okay you're right. I accept no problem ,,avoid argumentation some people was say hey look
it's good for you win all getting a good argument and let off steam in express yourself dash out screen
yeah the time the people that this was a good thing but a few years back scientists said act it's not a
good thing because every time you get to that point where you and mangers begin out in your neck and
your head when you reach that point what's happening in that bloodbath are bursting in your brain that's
what happen not good for you it's not good that they say to get it off your chest no it better for you too
he did keep it inside there was gonna come up another way okay you could control avoid comes out
another way better that then letting it all hang out so argumentation also the backbiting because this is
what's happening all around most of our conversations are about backbiting especially from the female
section you know we know it's happening among the men to but the women tend to be noted for it..
when they get together they've got to be talking about somebody you know the one,,,, you see the way
she was dressing you see that did you do try Hall yeah back by did it the men they tend to talking
envious way all you seem sort of new car this kind of talk when the fasting the Prophet Muhammad
said "if we can't give that up then Allah has no reward for us" in of fast on all we're experiencing from
it is just hungry there's no real we wanted ,,,,yes the obligation of fasting has been removed from us
but the reward that was supposed to get out,,, the life-changing principal of fasting so we have to
control not just anger which is like the excess the extreme but even other things which are normal,,
where the habit of doing it its common but it's not good it's not good it doesn't make our lives in the
better,, it only makes our lives worse because the more you are jealous of other people what they have..
you want to you become dissatisfied why me why do I have this why don't I have my bad you always
complaining become a complainer that stressin comes along with it life becomes miserable wretched by
the problems Thats why Prophet Muhammad saw said "don't look at the people about you" no matter
how bad you think your situation in I know people below you in worse situations that you look at them
look at them you seem now I'm not in that situation .so the fast have to develop this kind of character
we're not focused in our conversations I'm back by Dean and jealousy in NV these kinda emotions
which are negative destructive emotions instructive for our own personalities destructive for our
families destructive for communities and the 6 level of fasting,, of course the last level is that the
spiritual goals OF the fast... that was the consciousness that we spoke about of Allah a consciousness
which prophet Muhammad put in the instruction that whoever doesn't make me intention for fasting
before fajar has no fast what prophet mohammed saw said and this hadith is in sahih this hadith is
authentic Prophet Muhammad saw said who ever does not intend to fast before fajar will have no fast
every day every day and why we could have done it the first day,, why can we just go with that ,,why
every day sold out each day of fasting we r conscious making decision,, so we don't go on automatic
.you know you on automatic pilot you just switch it into that gear and then you flow through ramadhan
no consciousness stress everybody you non-muslims said,,hey you just turn in the night into the day
reading all night fasting all day outside the Ramadan you eat all day ,,you fast all night that's how they
perceive it because unfortunately that's what we're doing that's what the actually are doing so it is
essential for us if you can keep this principle alive every day before fajar (sohor) we make the
intention,,,,.. there's nothing to be sad no special thing we say making the intention but is just reflection
.I'm fasting what am I gonna do today what the principal those fast that going to try to work on take
each day separately each day at a time have a plaque for each day of ramadan... if we have a plan then
we have a program that we can follow but we have no plan we just he did like we do every year .I did
come we just go with the flow anyway anyhow the end of the ramadhan say ''ahhh'' I did it again I blew
my ramadhan maybe next year I'll try again so,,we need to put Ramadan in its proper context that it is
in fact design to change certain things about us about ourself things that we build up over the years..
bad habits bad practices.. bad words these bad deeds that we have become habituated to we're now
have been habitual when we doing all the time.we know it's not right.Ramadan is chance to stop to
clear it to correct it in you know that so many people who smoke and probably more people smoke in
the Muslim world anywhere else in the world even though for us is HARAM rest of the world just
looking at the package says dangerous to help to get pictures them black lungs and the kind of
these.SO,, people everybody knows you shouldn't smoke IN Ramadan never seen anybody smoke in
ramadhan during the daylight hours but as soon as the that goes they break the fast with smoke
breaking the bath with HARAM so what's happening see the that there is enough motivation there with
pressure from society or everything that they don't SMOKE for that stretch of time outside the
Ramadan if you tried to get him to stop for those hours cant..no icant yeah chain smoker ones burning
the next one is being lit up you know that life but Ramadan actually stop in but they don't take
advantage of it don't really benefit that the ideal time with the smokers to quit because you do it every
day quit every day for that period of time just gotta follow through at all when the time comes don't
break your fast by smoking thrown away.. Ramadan crush up all your boxes cigarettes get rid of home
you know tried to get to Ramadan without the cigarettes give it up stop it did in this is the best way.so
we need to we look at ramadhan,,what are we doing we only fooling ourselves because surely will not
fooling Allah along knows God knows what we're doing if the fast is not been accorded with what he is
prescribed then we only fooling ourselves we r checking ourselves we are harming ourselves at the
bottom line.so we have to decide we have to decide here tonight we have to decide the Ramadan
coming with going to make the proper ramadan we're going too fast as we have never fasted before we
want to make this coming Ramadan Real.. if ALLAH blesses us to reach Ramadan.. Then we're going
to give thanks to Allah by fasting as we were supposed to fast and no doubt no doubt it is 100% and 10
percent sure if we fast because we were supposed to fast there would be major changes in our lives
after ramadan your major changes for the good book.. no doubt the promise from Allah,, you do it right
he's gonna help.. so all the people while issues problem cannot find a job do it right and the ALLAH
would help you this is the ALLAH promise in and of course after Ramadan we all know this six days in
show while we are encouraged to fast on the basis that the 30-day of Ramadan is equivalent to three
hundred days why .. because one we did is worth 10.. Allah has said in AL QURAN so six more
days gives us , sixty and add 300 with 60 , it is the year. So, FASTING those six days give us the
reward of fasting the whole year along with drama is reward of fasting the whole year. So, we
should try our best soon as we get past the eat, none of those things ..tried to keep them the same
way we did Ramadan don't change the quality , fast that quality of fast, and we have that reward
. An outside up to six the prophet muhammad still gave us three days every month in the three-
day that the full moon not because we believe in where wolves in we don't believe in where wolves
but because those three day the prophet muhammad has prescribed for us as the best days as a group in
the month we don't know the physical issue that are involved well was the pool of the moon on the
earth ..the tides is something happening there maybe there's some benefit that comes out of fast
specifically on those days ALLAH knows best but these are the recommended days every month 3day
and further he recommended Monday that Thursday's every week .So if you add it all up you're getting
into almost that more than a third between the third and half of the month you fasting,,, if you do it like
this thinking Mondays and Thursdays three days on the full moon you know just make that a regular
habit masyaAllah.. thats fasting the way of life that's what the prophet muhammad was trying to get to
a molded were fasting is that we life not just Ramadan it is with us all time because everything that we
stand to gain from Ramadan we needed throughout our lives in throughout the rest of the year we
needed those same principle keep in the meantime fasting those extra day will just help to reinforce
those printable of eating in moderatiom that controlling our emotion controlling being psychologically
sound in how we deal with people you know all the different things compassion looking out helping
people all these different positive things would come from that consciousness the Allah and our bodies
taking part in the consciousness of allah where the fast touches our hand,eyes,ears,mouth,feet
everything take part in fast trying to do what is pleasing to ALLAH .So the fast ultimately has give up
what is HALAL..this was that question that the non-muslim with the very beginning he said why give
up what is HALAL ? you just hurting yourselves... the point up giving up what is HALAL abstaining
from what is HALAL for that period of time is to make it easier for us to abstain from what is
HARAM the pressure which called us to the HARAM so is so great that among the only things that can
help us over calm it enticement.its magnetism draws us is fasting abstaining from what is HALAL its
training.. it is much easier to abstain from what is halal than abstaining from what is hara in Arabic
they said that the forbidden is desire and what is forbidden now you interested you didn't know weren't
interested at human nature like that so knowing that that is the factor INSYAALLAH I ask and hope to
Allah would help us to reach this Ramadhan and take it as we have never taken Ramadhan before
knowing that Ramadan there for us to make a change in our lives to turn our situations around some
people it's a great turn big change other people lasted weary each and every of us has something there it
is there for us Allah prescribe it because each and every one has a bit there is non of us everything is
perfect we all have perfection and all committing we all in need of repentense we all in need of
purification Ramadan has been prescribe for us as it was prescribed for those who came before us I
hope the point is clear Ramadan needs to be brought alive as a life principal and making Islam real

7.0.2 Video Transcription ( The Month Of Forgiveness)

Assalamualaikumwarahmatullahiwabarakahtuh
in sha allah
i was asked uh... today to speak about
sort of an introductory does on the coming of ramadhan
all of you know on all of us are excited about the approaching ramadhan and i
pray to allah helps us witnesses this month once again in that
all of our ibadat before then and especially during that
are accepted by allah alzawajal
and i pray that every single one of us in every single one of our family
members is able to find
lailatulqadr this uh... this year inshaallahutaala
so,
i want to to share with you some reflections about the way the QurAn
talks about Ramadhan
and there are a few things all of us have to know
allah only talks about ramadhan once
allah talks about taqwa many times
allah talks about akhirah many times
allah talks about different profits many times
allah talks about many ahqams many times when it came to ramadhan
there's only one place that's it
there's no repetition it's not mention anywhere else
and that is in suratulBakarah any of you know that
but the place in which it is in suratulBakarah important to note
you know
the first half of suratulBakarah
is allah give reasons to bani Israel why they are not the choen ummah
anymore
what mistakes did they make
allah make a list in suratulBakarah
at the end of that list
he talked about Ibrahim A.S why
because Ibrahim A.s is the link between the arabs and the jews
why he is the link between the arabs and the jews
the arabs are children of
Ismail and the jews are children of
Ishak so that the common bond between them is the grandfather which is
Ibrahim A.s
Ibrahim A.s is reminded of IBrahim A.s because
they say we will always except the prophet that comes from our ancestors
and by our ancestry they need the children of Ishak
and Allah reminds then why are you obsessed with the children of Ishak
and you don't care about the children of
Ibrahim A.s because Ibrahim A.s
Also is the father of ISmail through when mohammed rasulullah S.A.W
so the idea was that this.. this chosen ummah
is the children of ibrahim
and it used to be true the lineage of Ishak
and through lineage of Ismail A.s
but at the end of the day there's still all what
children of
Ibrahim so there's not a change
this is not really a change so they are told after they've given all the reasons
why they will not be given risalah anymore
then they are reminded of abrahim A.s and the story that is
mentioned Ibrahim A.s
is
when Ibrahim A.s was building the foundations of the Kaabah
that is mentioned now at the end of this first half
of suratulBakarah
why is that important
because the kaabah that allah just
you just hinted at it that he's building that Ibrahim A.s build the kaabah
a few ayat later you know what's gonna happen Allah will command the
muslims
that they should not pray to the masjidil al aqsa
they should pray towards
Masjidil Haram they should pray towards the kaabah
but before he told the muslims they should pray to kaabah he
mentioned that Ibrahim A.s was the one who
built it why
because the jews
and us muslims until then we used to pray in what direction
Al Aqsa
we prayed in the same direction as them
we pray the same direction
until the ayat came and now the muslims is commended
to pray in the direction of the kaabah now you should know also
that when the prophets S.A.W was in Makkah
it is possible to face the kiblat at the same time faced Al Aqsa
you can stand in one part of the kiblat and when you're facing you where also
facing the masjidil Al Aqsa as possible
but when you go to madinah
you don't have that option anymore either you faced the kaabah or you
will turn your back to the kaabah and face masjidil Al Aqsa
you cannot face both at the same time anymore
When Rasulullah S.A.W was in Makkah he was able
to face both of them
when he's in Madinah he can only face
one of them and he was facing Al Aqsa and it hurt him
he didn't like .. he missed facing the kaabah
that's why Allah have been mentions in the Quran
the change of the people are mentioned
that's why Allah says
we saw your face turned into the sky
so returning the kiblah
Allah says
but anyway the point i wanna make is
a nation
and please listen to this carefully a nation is known by its capital
when you have a nation you have to have a
capital
and especially if you are a big nation
and you have to have a respected capital in the capital as part of their identity
you know if one city in a country falls to the enemy
the enemy takes about one city or one village a one town no big deal when the country
is completely defeated
when you take over the capitol
when you take over the capital of the country's no more
cases at the capitol represents the identity of the nation
the kiblah for the muslims
is our identity it's our capital
makkah is our islamic capital
you all face in this direction
when Allah change the direction of the kiblah and changed our identity
he changed our identity
now the jews
of that time
interestingly enough Allah wants us to become a separate nation yes
that's why he change to the capitol and as soon as he changed our capital
he says
after he change the capital and he says
that is how we made you a little nation he inaugurated us has a new nation now

because now we have our own capital
the other thing that's important to know this is a conversation especially where
i come from because i talk to christians and jews a lot
where i come from Taxas
AllahHazawajal taches in the Quran that the jews did not like
when the kaabah when the kiblah changes
they didn't like t
the question arises why didn't they like it
mean do any of you have non muslims friends
if you do if you have a christian friend we have a jewish friends ever hindu
friend
or you have a buddhist friend
whether you pray this way or that way or that wouldn't do they care
it doesn't matter
if the jews are a separate religion
you are a separate religion
if the muslims are prays towards kiblah or they don not pray towards kiblah
if they're prayin g towards Aqsa or they're not praying towards Aqsa we shouldn't care
but Allah says
the idiots among the people are going to say how can they turned away how what can
turned away from the kiblah that they used to on how come they change the direction
in other words the jews were offended
jews in Madinah were offended why were they offended because deep down inside
the new that so long as they're praying towards that direction that is still the
capital which means we are still part of the accepted people

but as soon as the direction changes that means we no longer have our capital
we have to accept this as the capital
which means we have to accept the children at the Ibrahim and Ismail
we cannot no longer hold on to our advantage are supremacist is gone and
the site of Allah
and this proved
that they believe in the messenger of Allah S.W.t
you know they don't like to know their own kids
being the only the messenger of allah and that's why they were offended
and then by being offended
proved that deep down inside they had accepted him as the messenger we're
still refusing
the fools gives up the secret hahaha...
But Allah says the fools were say what turn them away from kiblah you understand
so the first thing that made us a separate ummah
was the change of kiblah
this are official
we use the by the way we used to fast on the same days as the jews
we used to pay the same direction as the jews and made before the five grams we
had the same al"""" at the same time of prayers same as the jews
why because it was the syria Musa A.s until a new syaria comes
we adopted the syaria that was given before us
the prophet S.A.W had adopted all of the things from the syaria Musa until Allah
give him his own syaria
all of it was maintained now
we used the fast the same days as the jews.. ayat came down
those of you have in mind fasting and have been made mandatory upon you. okay
just like it was made mandatory upon the people who came much before you or those
people
who had fasting his emm
fardhan them
the jews bani Israel
this realize the syaria of Musa A.s
so even Allah has say part of their identity is the same as the
identity of
the jews
but in the same surat already separated us from them by separating are kaabah
he separated but now he's saying we have something in common with them which is
what
fasting is the same between us and then
and he says lallakumtattakun so that you
can have taqwa
you people can have taqwa now it's interesting
that in the first
half of suratulBakarah
Allah tralk about who again if you were paying attention who was it the talk about the jews
and Allah complained the entire time why don't you have taqwa
the entire time the problem is they have no
taqwa
and now Allah says you are given the same exercises as them
which is what fasting and what's the point of all of it
so you can have
taqwa so lets ..the first conversation i want to have with you
was that fasting is something we have in common with the previous nation
but why do we fast
why do we fast is also the same
why the fasting was to get taqwa while we fast also to get
taqwa and one attack talk to you practically what does that mean
taqwa you know pople translate that is the fear of
taqwa comes from the word """""" actually means protection
taqwa is similar to ittiqad to seek protection to try to protect yourself
that's why on judgment day
on judgment day everybody will try to protect themselves
so Allah says ''''''''''
how will you protect yourself on the
day you disbelieve
the day on which of these babies gonna turn gray
so he uses the word tattaqun to decribe protecting yourself
that's what the real meaning of taqwa is to protect yourself allah's says
have gave you fasting and so you can
protect yourself
what does that mean let's try to understand what that means
human beings
us we have certain training
you have to go through training if you want to get good at something
especially physical training
like if somebody is
they want to become a soldier
or they want to become a police officer
and they have to go to a certain kinds of training
and their bodies start learns to adapts
like it and at the beginning it's hard to make it easier and easier and easier
for them
and this idea of training putting yourself in difficulty
it helps you in not about by the way when you were in training things are
easy
when you were in the training program things are easy
like for example when they train firemen
they set up a fire
to put it out but they control the fire
it's not like a real fire in the building
it's controlled so it's easier
they make you would jump down a building but it's easier it's not like the real
thing
they go easy on you and then when you get good enough then they put you in the real-life
situationunderstand that
right
now the same thing happens with fasting
fasting you're constantly feeling something aren't you
especially in qatar
specially in the college you're constantly feeling thurs
we're constantly feeling hungry there's not a minute that goes by that you're
not feeling it
your throat
is fighting with you
your lungs are fighting with you your throat was yelling at you and saying gimme water gimme water
give me water
whether you like it or not you throat are begging on you
and you'll tell your throat shot up throat
it's not maghrib yet
your stomach starts talking to you sometimes very loudly
and hey man come on what's going on up there
wheres the supply you know
and you like it's fajr dude you already start already you know
little conversation with yourself
but you know what there is a war going on inside you when your fasting
there's a war physical war going on inside your throat is against you your stomach
is against you
your bodies getting weaker and begging you please disobey Allah
please disobey Allah
and used in the entire day fighting your body and say no
my heart
is submitted to Allah and therefore i don't care for my entire body wants
something i will not give it to it
you train your heart
to control your body
that's what you do when you fast
that's what i do when i fast
why is that important because when that fasting is over
you have to continue the the train of now your heart is ready to control your body
so you're not just any eat what you want
they're not just go where you want
you're not just in a look at what you want because all of those things is your bodies want
but who has gotten stronger when he fast the body got weaker and who's got
stronger
the heart got stronger
and wheres taqwa at rest
the heart is the plcae of taqwa
when you get your body that the weakness you give your heart the strength
you train yourself to stop yourself from other things
so my my dear young brother the young guys that are in here
if you are fasting
staying at home and watching movies
you're not fasting
you're not fasting
because then it still your heart is still giving into europe at the wrong
temptation
the entire exercise of fasting is you constantly remember yeah just like
fighting in my stomach
just like im fighting my throat i got to fight my eyes
i've got to fight my mouth
i've got to fight my tounge
i gotta fight my my desires i must fight my hormones
i have to fight with everything now didn't really see the drinking and the do you
know that the eating
but everything else
if we don't remember this then we become just like Bani Israel they fasted but
they didn't have a what
they didn't have taqwa man they didn't have taqwa but they fasted
if you forget why they're giving their fast
then you're just doing what Bani Israel did
Allah said to you
especially on you and it's your turn now
i'm giving you what i give to them
they did not benefit from fast and they didn't get taqwa hopefully you will
get taqwa
thats what Allah say
that's what Allah says when they give us fasting
what is the first thing people think that what they think the fasting they
think of iftar
hahahaha....
they thinking of iftar
fasting is you're training for real life and by the way and told you when
training goes on
when training goes on
and it's easier
controlled fire
controlled situations
one of the.. Allah made fasting in ramadhan easier is it cage up syaitan
does he put syaitan away...he does ...doesn't he
so he's going easy on you so your heart can get a chance to train and get better
without being in the battlefield
the second ramadhan is over Aid Mubarak guess what
syaitans is out
and the war begins and all of that training will now come in handy
but if you didn't train yourself properly hah...
look i mean just to help the younger guys if this is for the younger guys if
especially
if the guy want to join the army has to go to physical training
so they make the guy jumped over a wall or climb a while ago on the other side
so to what is going to military
one of them jumps over the wall the other one goes around the wall
it will go to the other side
you have to do it ten times one guy jumped over a ten times the other guy walks over it
ten times
now when they are on the battlefield and they have to go over a wall
who's gonna go on and whos gonna fail
you understand
they both can say i did it and then to the finish line
but that's what you wanted to reach the finish line i did it
you'll fast and your brother will fast but your fasting and will not be the same
it won't be the same
because that guy who apply himself in actually train himself with the guy who not train himself they
will
couldn't get the same results
now let's move on
Allah says ''''
wich means very few days
you know what that means
the ayat i just talk to you about is not about ramadhan it's not ramadhan yet
the word """" in arabic grammar they called it jama""""""""
which means less than ten nine or less
wich means this ayat is about the old fasting
the fasting before ramadhan wich is the same day after jews
or or you know in the middle of 3 days of the month and all of that few days
Allah said i make fasting mandatory on you just like the old nation meaning just like
them same days as them
Ayyamam""""""""
if any of you is sick
or you're traveling than you can make it up later
:''''''''' and the people who
don't have the ability to do that
ill they can't make it up
then they can feed a poorperson
so now i'm going to remind you say you pay
attention.....................................................................................
there are two things you can do if you missed the fast this is before ramadhan
what did Allah tells the muslims there's two things you can do one of the two things
you tell me
was the first thing
no if you missed the fast what can you do
you can make it up
you can make it up what the second then you can do
feed the poor
two options there's two ways you can fix it
two ways to fix it remember that two ways to fix it
but two ways to fixed it before ramadhan or after ramadhan
na na na na na this is before ramadhan came down
these ayah is not about ramadhan this ayah is about
the muslims didn't know about fasting yet
they just knew about the fasting like the fasting of the jews
and if you fast those fews days when you mised it then you can make it up
or you can feed the poor person okay
then Allah says:
now if you give a poor person sadakah or you feed the poor persons or you
volunteered to make up the day
Allah says if you volunteered to make up the day then it's better for you
is better eventhough i giving you both options
you should make it up
okay but it's not sinfull if you
feed the poor persons this is what the sahabah had okay
"""" if you fast is
better for you if you knew fine
now Allah talks about ramadhan
so i want you to understand the history first
when the muslims first about heard about fasting the sahabah heard about fasting
'''''''''
it was less than ten days number one
there were two days to get out of it
number two
and even if you want to voluteered you can make it up
but you have the option
you have the option okay
now Allah says ''''''
the month of ramadan is the next ayah this is the only ayah actually about the fasting of
ramadhan
this is the one
''''''''' now listen i've told you when people think the ramadhan was
the first thing that comes in their head
iftar '' '''
make sure you have enough ketchup in the house you know
you go extra shopping for all the sodas and all things
people muslims usually they don't lose weight in ramadhan regain weight in
ramadhan
hahaha right
thats our practice even
fasting
even if ..if you think of ramadhan the first thing you think of is fasting
if you don't think about the food at least you are fasting
and you say man ramadhan this year is coming this summer ohhh
this going to be hard
that's the though goes in your head
Allah says in Quran the first thing you should think about when you hear the
word ramadhan
shahru ramadhan
''''''''''''''''''
not """
the one thing that wich Quran came down
ramadhan the month in wich Quran came down
the thing that makes ramadhan special is not the fasting
the thing that makes ramadhan special is the
Quran thats is Allah telling us
thats is Allah telling us now you have to ask yourself
if you are fasting in ramadhan but you don't recite any Quran
you are fasting in ramadhan but you didn't memorize not even one page the whole 30 days
not even half the page not even two ayahs
you not memorize anything in the Quran
then how do how do you understand what Allah is saying
the entire purpose of ramadhan is to celebrate
the Quran and i've told you the first thing you need for a nation
is a capital
what's the new capital kaabah
the second thing you need for a nation in the constitution
whats the constitution Quran and when that the constitution is written and pass
every nation celebrates
every nation that has a constitution has the constitution day
the day on wich their constitution was implemented they have that day
our constitution is celebrated it was revealed
in the month of ramadan Allah didn't give us one day to celebrate he gave us
thirty days to celebrate the coming of the Quran
this is the month of Ramadhanis the celebration of the fact that a Allah
made us an Ummah
now we have our own capital and we have our own constitution and we have our own
days of fasting
no longer the same as the days of the jews
no more """"""""" now ''''''''
they did not have ''''''
so Allah distinguishes us from the previous nation now completely
now it's done
now if you want to be you want to consider yourself """"""
"""""
you gotta change the direction you pray and you've got to change the days you
fast
you don't have the options beyond before they were told '''''''
they were told you can make Ruku' of those who make Ruku' and they might not
have had a problem with that why
because it is still in the same direction but now it's change
it's gone now
by the way on a side note
recently i made friends with a rabbi
and back in texas
and i you know he is the research scholar in judish studies and i talk to him
about Musa a.s other things
so i asked him one day when you guys pray
do you have do you have ruku'
Quran says about the jews """" it
didn't say '''''''' so they says how comes Allah said that to the jews
let me ask you if you have ruku'
i mean i know they have such that they have ruku'
he says we have some ruku'
we do it once a year
we used to have it all the time and i ask you have sujud?
and he yeah we have such those
we did put our head on the ground but we have a prayer now in which we
complain about how we don't do it anymore
(laughing) okay
that's that's i mean thats im not making this up he told me this theres a rabbi tell me
this stuff you know
so they they lost such that and they have something from the ruku'left
''''''''''''
and he also told me what their in their prayer actually
the final part is ruku'
the ruku' comes after and the sajda comes before
for their prayer
if they do make sajda they make it first and then they make ruku' later and when Allah talking:
to mariam'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
they told him to make sajda make ruku' because they syaria' sajda cames first and
ruku' came second
so it's appropriate to the ayah but anyway coming back to our subject in the in
the month of ramadan ''''
and he says """""
this part of the ayah is a slap in the face
he says Quran is guidanc
for all people
this ayah is not just for the muslims
it's also to the jewish community of Madina
they believe that when wahi comes it comes from who?
just themselves
just themselves
Allah says no
you are not going to this time this wahi is not just for you it is for
all people ''''''
he didn't says """"
no no no no no ''''''
this guidance is for all people
this is one of most beautifull things about our religion folks
it is one of the most beautiful things about our religion i don't care if
you're going to masjid in america
or australia or the khalij or paskitan
if there are multiple nationalities
multiple nationalities and standing in one row
you don't make a distinction the rich people should be in the first row
middle class in in the second row
the general should be in the third row no
everybody stands in the same row
and it could be that the boss and a worker are standing together
and it could be that the workers in the first row the bosses in the last row
that could be to
it could be that that that works for you and you were praying behind him that could be too
Allah makes this guidance for all people and you know what that means he makes all
human beings equal
just by Quran by the institution of solah
we cannot be racist
because we have solah
we cannot be supremist we cannot be my nation is better than your nation
my nationality better than your nationality my language is better than
your language
my skin color is better than your skin color
my village is better than your village we can't do it and you know we are
reminded that we can do that
on the stand together in solah
when the bilal radiAllahhuanhu is standing next to Usman radiAllahhuanhu we
are reminded that were equal
is '''''
that's what that means
you know why am highlighting that because i know it's in muslims
i noticed asabiah in mhslims
i noticed muslims made fun of other nationalities look down on them
talked bad about them
talk bad about people that speak a different language
the arabi makes fun of the non-arabi
the bangladeshi makes fun of the paskitani the pakistani makes fun of the
indian
the filipino makes fun of the malaysian
what's going on here don't we make solah
or we make solahs
as if that's what i if we're not learning from our solah if we're not
learning from this Quran then
we're just it's like i tell you we just the shell you know if you have the shell
and you have no any eggs inside it
thsts it's our islams sometimes it's just that you look like muslims you say the
words that muslims say
but inside your heart there is no
theres no love for your deen
everyone of us here
that are sitting in this audience so many different countries are sitting in
this audience right now
it's such an international gathering right here
this is the united nations meeting right now
you know
let me tell you i don't know yourname some of some of you knows my name i don't
know your name
but you know what do you have a relationship with each other
that is thicker than blood it's thicker than blood justse Lailahaillallah just because of that
Quran binds us together
and this was told to the jews you know why
because the jews believe there were special
everybody off a second-class or first class
everybody else's is gentiles
where the chosen nation
Allah says anybody can become the people of Quran
''''''
open invitation to humanity
that eradicate racism nationalism tribalism
egotism and get rid of this things
subhanallah
we are amazing religion
isn't such an incredible thing even in america i can tell you
they are black churches
in our spanish churches
there are greek even on the same denomination and then in the in the
heart of brooklyn you're gonna have
in new york and brooklyn you have different churches different ethnicity
you walk into the masjid it was an international conference again
all the same ethnicity standing together
they not even speak the other languages but they are praying together
the same Quran unifies us because when we stand in solah what are we listening to
the Quran
''''''
""""""
and there are multiple proved
clear evidence is for guidance
Allah took this ayah was supposed to be about ramadhan '''''
the ayah began with shahru Ramadhan
but so far he says Quran came down
it's a guidance for people it's got multiple pre-approved from the guidance
meaning the
the guidance it serves miracles that if you look at them you will
know this is only th word of Allah ''''''''''''''''
and it distinguishes between right and wrong
all of this up until now Allah didn't say anything about ramadhan
what he's only talking about
Quran
more than half of this ayah is about Quran why is
he doing that
because he wants to make sure no muslim ever forgets
that ramadhan is about the Quran
Ramadhan is about the
it's about the miracle of this book
i've told you i makes friends with who?
rabbi huh?
and i told you the fun story about the rabbi
so rabbis of course which prophet do they loves most
musa we talk about musa a.s
the rabbi talks about musa a.s
we disagree on everything
we talk about musa a.s
and i don't talk to him to insult him i want to understand his position
i did really want to know about the bani israel from bani israel haha
i would really like to know because Quran talks to them so much
ya bani israel ya bani israel
it talks about their prophets it became our prophets
so much for what i know what you guys think
so we talk about Musa a.s
and one time i told him one of the great miracles of the Quran if don't know is the
name musa
the name musa
i said so what is
musa means
and they all say musa in hebrew they say mushay
so taraktul musa so traktul mushay
thats hows they pronounce it
musa..what the mushay means
the words mu for them is similar to the arabic were ma
what is ma means
water is the one from water
that to them the one from water okay
now the thing of it is
that means that the words musa is hebrew
words musa is hebrew
i told him the words musa is not hebrew
it cannot be hebrew
and he says why not musa a.s is from bani israel hebrew
i said listen
where was he born
of the egypt
when he was a baby where did he end up
in the castle of firaun
who took who is incharge of him?
firaun
''''''''''''''''''' and the mother came as a servant
so when there's a newborn bab
who will name them? the person who incharge or the servant?
people in charge
and the people in charge will name him with the language of the slaves?
if they're going to raise him as a prince
it will raise him as a prince yes?
they should give name him in the language of the slaves or the language of the
master?
the language of the master and language of the master is egyptian not hebrew
his name is egyption he mane is not hebrew but the problem with the egyption
is that the egyption lagunge is died
the agyption language was already dead three thousand years
when Rasulullah came s.a.w no body knews the egyption language
so if somebody ask at that time of the rasulullah s.a.w
what does musa means
nobody can tell you
why not
because the egyption language is already dead
we live in fortunate times
we live in time wheres because of the egyptology the egyption language was revived
and translated
the herographics and the the fanatics of the egyptian language have now been
translated
so now we can go back to egyption and find out what . what means?
musa means . before i tell you the musa means let ,me tell you the ayat of the Quran
Musa a.s came to the castle his mother is his foster mother
queen picked him up
she took him to firaun
and she said you know she said to him
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
maybe he could benefit us or we could take him as a newborn
we could take him as what
a newborn
the newborn the word musa in hebrew i mean in egyption means newborn
the musa in egyptian means what
newborn she came to fir aun and said maybe we could take him as a newborn
maybe we can take him as a musa
Quran translated musa a.s name until waladan
the Quran knows the egyption languages even it was dead
even it was dead
Quran translate it accurately
she must've called him musa because musa in arabic ..in egyption is musa.
and the Quran says we should take it as a newborn
''''''''''''' subhanallah. but you people doesn't have what we have
we'd i disagree with him on everything
and as part of our identity we have to disagree
on our kaabah our days of fasting
on our prophets all of it
but anyhow now coming back to this really awesome subject
Allahhazawajalla gav us how many days
thirty days
thirty days of fasting and now you tell me was more days before or less day
before
it was less before
how many ways to get out
what are those two ways to get out
either you can make it up or
feed the poor okay
this time he says ''''''''''''''''
if you are traveling or sick you have to make it up
you have to make it up
how many options
one no option number two
no number two
so the previous ayah was you have not thirty days a few days less than ten
and you have two ways to get out
then ramadhan came and now you don't have
three days or four days you have how many? 30 days
and you don't have two ways to get out now you have only
one way to get out of the things gets easier or harder
things got harder
things got harder
and as soon as it's got harder Allah says to us"""""
"""""""""""""""""""""""Allah one ease for you he doesn't want
difficulty for you
subhanallah the moments he make it harder
immediately after making it harder he said by the way i want ease for you
ya rabbi you just made it harder why you telling me you want ease for me
how is it easier this is harder
he's telling us something very powerful
he's telling us something very powerful
first lesson from this
is Allah will give the muslim
the power to fast in Ramadhan
that he will be fasting easier in ramadhan than any other time of the year you
i can guarantee you when you fast in ramadhan it will be easier and
and the week after you fast in ramadhan it will be ten times harder
because Allah says he want to ease for you
those thirty days will be easier than thre days inside ramadhan
subhanallah. thats the first meaning
''''''''''''''
Allah wants ease for you
the second thing
is if you have two days of training three days of training four days of
training
you've got some training
but if you have 30 days of training are you stronger
stronger
well that training last longer
last longer
Allah gaves us 30 days with no syaitan
Allah gaves us 30 days of all Quran
Allah gaves us 30 days of the heart controlling the body
thirty days of that
he really really prepared us for this training and one of the training is heart
by the way when training gets hard
then when you finish if you've got a certificate and celebrate
you go to people and sais i finished i got my certification
people congratulate you to give you a hug
when we finish our training what are we have
we have aid
we celebrate
subhanallah we can successfully completed this year's training
why were we given this training
so that we can deal with the real-life situation now the war with syaitan and
yourself begins again
let's go
go into the battlefield
but you know what even though the fasting is no longer with you every day
what should now go inside you that you never want to go of? Quran the
real weapon you will have against syaitan will be your Quran
that's why we when we recite Quran we ask Allah's refuge first
''''''''''''''''''''''''
you will come out of ramadhan stronger because you will have more Quran in your heart
i'm telling you guys brothers sisters everybody that's listening here
you have to memorize quran in ramadhan
you if you've been lazy
stop it
gets started i don't care if you do two ayah i don't care if you do two pages
set your goals high '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
aim high
aim high say i'm going memorize a whole juz this month
im going to memorize twenty pages im going to memorize ten pages
i want to finish the juz amal or something aim higher
even you don't finish
but put yourself in that position
when somebody tries to memorize Quran your you know you go to fin yourslef a masjid
and you decided to stay back a couple of hours and you're just gonna
sit there were maybe thirty minutes forty minutes
and you just gonna memorize Quran
i can tell you that is one of the most sincere acts of ibadah will you ever do
in your life
because you're not memorizing Quran to show off to anybody else
when you memorize Quran the only one who will know is
you unless you have the problem you go over hey brother by the way i know suratul Ghasyiah
sup? if you have that problem then see me later
other than that if you're memorizing Quran who is it for?
yourself and you're spending so much time on every ayah
and every time you repeated the angels writing it down
because when you memorize don't you have to repeat yourself?
every time you repeat yourself the angel write it down and everytime everytime everytime everytime
it's not one time for you it's ten times for you
twenty times for you per ayah
the you the the barakah of the Quran entering into your life
this is what we have to do when it's come to ramadhan
now the real reason i came to talk oh my god
i've only have like how much time do i have?
fifteen minutes
i need like an hour
i just need an hour
can i have an hour
we pray isya' and continue to? Alright
okay okay
so this is the part i really want to talk to you about
all set the scene for you first
i am the head of small institute and i have sixty students
in a year i have sixty student
i teach them for five hours everyday
when i finished teaching five hours i'm tired
one student comes to me
and ustaz can i have five minutes i only want five minutes
i said okay
and given five minutes
then another one comes and says i only want five minutes and then another comes says i only want
fiveminutes
and another one five minutes and other one five minutes
sixty students come to me
each one of them said i only want
five minutes how many minutes
is 3 hours is 300 minutes? mashaAllah that is a good math program in Qatar
excellent phD in mathematics in the house
five hours i was already done
from teaching. now i in the ICU
but each of the students says i've only got five minutes
i didn't get any time
theres five hundred people sitting here maybe more
if i only talk to each of you for one minute
one minute
it's 500 minutes it's over eight hours. huh.hahaha.. thats eight hours of one minutes
and each of you says man i only have sixty seconds.








that wasn't a real conversation ,you understand let me give you another example my one of
my daughters had a health problem and we have to go to a specialist we don't just go to the regula
r doctor you have to go to the specialist now the specialist is very busy you can't just walk in his office
you have to get an appointment and they give you an appointment three months later and you say 'you
don't have anything sooner?' no he's booked for three month what can i do okay and if you miss your
appointment ,it's nine o'clock, show up at nine of five, gone we have to get another appointment after
four months so if you wanna meet important people you cannot do it on your schedule you have to do it
on their schedule you have to go on their schedule if your boss calls you you don't say when i have time
insyaAllah you go because you on his schedule, he's not on your schedule you on his ... you
understand?
that's the nature of important people, now would you're a children that's not the case if you call your
child , he better show up he's not gonna say 'Dad take an appointment, i will get back to you at eight
forty five or something you know i'm free then, eh no you want he show up, he has to show up right
away you understand? now, last example if you have the uh... s the employer of a company a CEO the
owner he has five hundred employees five hundred employees does he knows all of them he only
knows
a few managers and those managers have a few team and their team has their manager has sub-team
and sub-team so he knows ten people fifteen people you doesn't know everyone doesn't know
everyone and if everybody sent him a request directly and he answered them no, he doesn't even care,
he doesn't care who's this guy? is he the security guard? , i don't care i'm the CEO, who is this guy ? is
this guy an accountant? i don't care he's just any employee now understand this ayat when my slaves
ask you about me when my slaves ask you about me that i'm near i respond to the call of anybody who
call and at the moment they call me i will not put you on hold he will not go to a voice mail you will
not
be told within twenty four hours i won't respond whenever you call whenever you call that is not
possible for a human being it's not possible even i love , i can't answer you i love my children when
they're sitting in the back, my four daughters are sitting in the back and they're all talking at the same
time can i answer them no and even if they asks me, one wants to eat ice-cream, one wants to eat pizza,
one wants to go home and go to sleep and the other one says let's go to the park i can only do one of

those i cannot answer all of them at the same time i don't have the ability even if i love them after, i say
sorry i can't Allah said to His Prophet SAW when they ask you about Me, tell him that I am close and i
will answer whenever they call i will answer their dua' whenever they call The thing in Ramadhan the
secret to Ramadhan it's ok children cry should not bother you by the way, sister if your kids are crying
it's okay other sisters stop looking at her stop staring at her this look look away look at the pretty lights
on top or something else
stop giving her the look of death
now if your child is super crazy then just take a walk and come back
because those are only my conditions
we should be happy that mothers come to the program, man, its hard
if you complain your hard, the baby has been a much harder
we should be happy they're here, the mother with their child and their
life and all the children that are here, that take a lot of effort to do
that, i know i have kids
getting them into the car are a jihad fisabilillah, that on top of that
that on top of that you've got to drive in this traffic
one guy have to go to the bathroom, the other one is hungry, the other one fell asleep
when you wake him up, he is cranky.. oh my god ..
you know it's not like you single guys out here ......
its not like that, it ain't like that bro
you know and
and how many of the father he recognizes that his son screaming and if
you do, you like Alhamdulillah , my wife is here i don't have to hold the baby
but the the talk i'm going to give you guys after solat
is about dua'
and these ayat
specifically these ayat they had so much treasures in them
there's so many gifts from Allah in these ayat
that they can't even be counted but a few of them i wanna share
with you insyaAllah
why? because i want to encourage all of you
this Ramadhan should be a month of Qur'an and should be a month of a lot of dua'
and you can combine both of those things
insyaAllah we will talk about how you can combine both of those things
....
every time you have an option to earn halal money and on more options are a lot more
money but it's not exactly halal
then you remind yourself
Allah is greater than that money
so i'm not going to go there
every time you're lying down in bed
and the azan is being given
for fajar
and Satan is holding you down
i can't, i can't do it
just five more minutes Satan says to you and then you say to yourself
five more minutes
i can catch the first rakaat
i could do it no problem
i'm amazing at waking up
whenever i want and then next thing you know is ten a.m.
right when that happens
that at that moment you say that Allah is bigger, Allah is greater
than my sleep
Allah is more important than my sleep that's what this means the prioritize
alone
Allah is bigger priority than my own temptation my own laziness my own desire
my own urges my own hunger my own greed all of those things are less
Allah is greater
that's the training of Ramadhan
and the ayat ends beautifully
and so that you can be grateful
now the question is
grateful for what
the ayat began... so the first nikmath,
the first blessing that you and i should
be grateful for is what ?
The Qur'an so you can be appreciative of the Qur'an
now let me tell you
if i come to your house and i give you a gift
and i bought this for you
i bought you some silly crystal thing pakistanis like crystal things i give you a
crystal thing
you are 'ahh this is so beautiful, thank you'
Infront of me, is that insulting
i give you a gift and infront of me what'd you do
and say you thank me, why would you throw it away
or i say hey i bought you this book i thought you would like it
owh thanks so much and you take a piece of cloth and you wrap it up
you put it behind the fridge
i didn't give you the book
so that you wrap it up and put it behind the fridge
if not why i give you the book .. so that you read it
you're not grateful for this gift
you understand ? Allah say so you be grateful
meaning you appreciate the Qur'an like you never did before
once the Ramadhan is over at the flight you found this new relationship with
this book
you can't put it down
you always want to know more about it you always want to recited
more
Allah has given us a direct link to him
no other religion has this
no other religion has this , what we experiencing in solat
is a direct link to a lot
literally the word solat means link
that literally means solat is connection
literally
and the words of Allah that are being recited are what .. connectors to him
it's a stretch road of Allah from the sky to the earth .. the Qur'an itself
though more connected you are to the koran
the more connected you are to Allah
the more disconnected you are from the Qur'an
the more disconnected you are from
Allah.. that's a fact
you have to be and i have to be on a life mission
to get closer to this book
and nobody can say that they're close to the Qur'an
nobody
this is an ocean that doesn't have an end
i can say Alhamdulillah this talk is for you it's not for me it's actually
more for me
than it is for you
so does the deeper you go , you realize i don't know anything
i need to go more I need more I need more I need more
now the ayat of dhuha
SubhanAllah every word of this ayat .. we begin with the word izza
izza is .. what is izza , so we begin with izza
izza in english means when
there's a difference in english and in arabic between when and if
i want you to understand the difference between when and if
1so what's the difference between if and when

lt me tell you a story

here's a mother
she sent her .... her son joined the army
and he went to war
now she's missing her son and she doesn't hear back from him ... no calls
coming or no emails coming nothing he's at war
when you talk to her about her son
does she say
when my son comes back i would be very happy or does he say if my son comes
back i will be very happy
which one will she say
she says when my son comes back i'll be very happy she does not say what
if my son comes back i'll be very happy because if he says if my son comes back
and she has accepted that he will die
if she say when and then she's expecting him to come home
you understand
when you lose someone and you really want them to come back
and your heart cannot accept that they won't come.. you don't say if, you say when
Allah says when my slave asks you
he does not say
if my slave asks you, why
because He's not saying oh maybe they won't ask.. Allah is expecting you to ask
He's waiting for you to ask
is not just possibility it's like Allah saying when are you gonna ask ?
SubhanAllah Izza
there's a tawaqu'
there's an expectation.. there's a love inside the word Izza
if Allah was talking about people He didn't care about then wheather he asks or not
who cares... he would be ......
He said izzasa'allah
and there's sa'allah itself .....
you can say that izzasa'alu also
izza would be that comes with
the present tense and of the comes at the past tenses
when it comes with the present tense it means over and over again
meaning if my slaves ask you over and over again that would've been izza'asaluka
and
but the izza'asaalaka
izza'asaalaka is the past tense
the past tense
one time something that
happens one time
meaning I'm waiting for my slave if they can only ask me about me how many
times
once i'm not even when I'm waiting for a lot of times i'm expecting just one time
then He say saalaka
they ask you Rasulullah SAW
Allah is awaiting somebody says
that i want to know more about Allah
whose he gonna asks
Rasulullah SAW
and then He didn't say
saalaka ha'ula these people, saalaka lazi na'amanu those who
believe
saalaka mu'minun the believers
saalaka muslimun ashabuk none of these
he said saalaka ibadi
my slaves
my slaves
and he didn't even say ibaduna or ibadallah ...he said ibadi
the ibadi at the end of that means i ... my slave
Allah uses my in Qur'an .. my, you know sometimes He uses he
sometimes He uses we
sometimes He uses i .. right you know that right
when does He uses i... He only uses i when He have a lot of love or a lot of anger
its only in two time
if you read an ayat of Qur'an with i in it
it's either Allah showing a lot of love
or He is showing
a lot of anger it is only goes to.. there's the normal situation
this is an i on a lot of love
so he says ibadi not ibaduna
my slaves
their mine
you know even when you when someone is distant from you but they're yours my
brother
my sister my mother my father wasn't it's not it's not just you own them that
you love them
when you say might have someone
it's an expression of love
and there had not held these people may not be worshipping Allah
but He still calls them ibad
now who did they ask let me ask if you are paying attention the people who
asked about Allah, do they ask Allah or they ask the Prophet
they ask the Prophet
they ask the Prophet SAW
so what do you expect is , let we say in english
if they ask you about me
then tell them
i'm near
but the ayat does not say tell them, the ayat does not say tell them
Here's what the ayat says
when they ask you about Me
then I am here
then I am here ... what is missing
then tell them ......
there's no ...... there's does no tell them why not
the people came to ask Rasul SAW
somebody comes to ask, will Allah answer my dua'
i have a lot of mistakes i missed a lot of solat
will Allah still answer my dua'
will Allah put me in hellfire
asking the a'lim , in this case
asking Rasulullah SAW
and Allah says He put Rasulullah aside and He answers him directly
He starts talking to you
instead talking to me he's not talking with Rasulullah anymore
..... I'm near
I'm so near, I'll talk to you
i wouldn't even tell the messenger to talk to you
i'll talk to you myself
that's the beauty of Qur'an
people came and ask Rasulullah SAW
and Allah did not tell him
you go tell them
Allah said No-no I'll tell them myself
I'm so near
you don't believe me ?
why did i say 'you don't believe me' he said inni,inna is used in arabic
so if someone is in doubt
then you use inna
Allah is saying that don't you ever doubt that I'm here
why are you doubting that I'm here
why do you think i would go away from you
you would turn your back on Me I don't turn My back on you
you turned your back on Me
you disobey Me
you stopped loving Me i never stopped loving You
you become distant, I stay near
the work karibu also means I always near
and the sentence actually means certainly i always near
let My slaves know
now the other thing is
how many names does Allah has
these ninety nine
these ninety-nine so many beautiful names of Allah
and the one with ....
and some and the messengers was told when people ask
you about me, when you ask Prophet about Allah
then the most important thing you need to
tell them are which name of Allah or description that He is near
near... why
because when he is near it's easier
for you to talk to him
when someone is far you can't talk to them
when someone is near you can talk to them when someone is near you can
respect them , listen
kids you guys how many kids in school here kids from school
four kids excellent okay
what about the rest of you do anyway anyway
if you're in school
and the teacher walked out of the classroom
the teacher walks out of the class, do you behave the same way or not
no and don't lie and you're in masjid okay
go outside and lie, I'm kidding
when the teacher is needed
you behave differently
you do, don't you
now they're taking a test
the teacher walked by
he just walks by
you cover your exam a little more
just of his shadow .....
especially if he put his hand on your desk
and he looks down at your paper and he goes
Hurmmm .... hahaha
Malaikal Maut
i do that to my students because i really enjoyed torturing them
psychologically
is one of the great joys of teaching you get to mess with students
owh my god
Allah says if My slaves ask you about me tell them i am what ?
near when you know someone is near you act differently when you know the police
officer is near you act differently
when you know your boss is near you act differently when you know the teacher is
near you act definitely
when you know your mother is there you talk differently to your friends
when she goes to the other room, you elbow them in the face or whatever when she's
there you talk differently when you realize Allah is near you will become
different forever
he's always needed
but uniquely
now
if he's so near
then what would you say
ujibu
well ujibu means to respond demand for it
but there's another word in arabic which is istajaba
he said he responded to them their master responded to that
so there are two words in arabic ajaba
and istajaba
ajaba means immediate
when you answer somebody immediately without any delays that is called
ajaba
when you take time to answer
you don't answer right away would you answer over time that is called
istajaba
Allah says ujibu
he says i've responded when
immediately
i respond immediately
some people made dua' they say when is Allah going to respond
when is the help of Allah is coming i'm sick when is Allah is going to make me better
i can't find a job when is Allah going to give me a job
I can't get married when is Allah gonna get me married my mother keep turning
the list down
when is Allah gonna change her heart
this one noses was too long, this one's eyes are too far apart this one is
you know don't know take care child properly i can get married my mother is killing
everything
ya Allah, when is my mother ... you made dua' to Allah
Allah says i will respond when
immediate and by the way by the way these are the ayat of Ramadhan yes
so if you really really want immediate answers when you made dua'
Ramadhan man
and if you really want Allah to be close, get close to Allah 1st recite Qur'an and make dua'
recite Qur'an and make dua'
owh men you'll enjoy Ramadhanadditional
you don't make alot of du'a, you won't enjoy Ramadhan
The joy of Ramadhan is in dua'
so He says
I respond
then he says ........ such powerful words
he says I, by the way i is used when ... what i say I, we and you used when
what it means
too much love, too much anger
what is this , too much love
i respond
i myself respond
immediately respond
now responds to who ? you might responds to someone who makes a lot of dua'
i only make a dua
like once in a year
when you have exams ya Allah i have an exam
amin
you know when you cut the red light and you're about to get the five
thousand riyal ticket
ya Allah
get the angel between me and the candid license plate and the camera
don't let me get the text message the sms
anything but the sms you know then you remember Allah
Allah now if someone makes a lot of dua' use the word dua'
if someone makes the dua' one time
just one-time you call that daqwatun
daqwah with ... because this is used for
with marrah
is used for the words in arabic that happen one time
........ means hitting madonna but .... means one-time heads
.... would mean food but ... is a single meal
the tamarbuta' makes it
one time
Allah says daqwatadai'
i respond to even though one call,the guy make dua' how many time
one time, Allah said to him where were you all year
you never make solat', you only make one dua' to me whole life
forget you
you only remember me one time
you know if you are an employee
and you only show up to your job one time the whole year
you don't have a job
also who were you
i won't care what what
i got my job last year
what do you do here,you know i i was uh...
i don't know what i'm here now at least
can we start all over again is your boss was going to say yeah sure
of right away sir please get promotion
these are can't offer you that
Allah giving you daqwah in the way even answer the person who never
makes only one dua'
one-time even they should say ya Allah that he will answer
don't you say i don't even have a beard, Allah won't answer me
i only have mustache uh... you know
I just watch three movies
before Ramadha because i figure i'm not gonna watch in Ramadhan
you make dua' ,don't watch movies
but don't expect never think Allah not gonna answer
even the guy who makes one dua' now you say okay okay that guy made one dua' and
maybe it's a really good guy
maybe it's like solleh , mukmin
someone with a lot of taqwa', lots of ilm and also maybe the guy made taubah
.........
I respond to the dua' of guy who made taubah
he didn't say that
he said i respond to the guy that that one dua' of the guy who
called .....
the one who call
the description of the guy is that he did what
he call
in other words that Allah put up any other expectation on him
did he said that .......
........
.......
he didn't say that you have to have taqwa that you have to have
iman that he have to have ilm
none in this why
because Allah is talking to people who are so far away from the Allah
and the first thing he tells them is look I'm near
you're far, i'm near
and then He tells them look
i know you have nothing but this one dua' right now that's ok just give me
just give me this one dua'
even if you just ...
just the caller
and i have no other description for you
i can't even call you solleh yet mukmin yet muslim yet , I can't
call you anything
i'm just calling you ... the caller
that's not even a qualification
does that
as good or not
just call me subhanallah
what an invitation from Allah
and before i go on
i told you sometimes the boss has five hundred employees does he know their
names no
especially if the employee only sentiment his entire life only sentiment
how many emails
one emails , how's gonna he remember
every sent text messagges, he doesn't have his name saves , he dunno where this
number came from
Allah did not said ...
He said ....
the alif lam in the word makes it ..... which means it makes it proper
specific in other words anybody who call Allah
Allah did not just say someone who called me, He goes to that one who called me
that one particular he is you are specific to Allah
Allah know you especially
personally
nor doctor remembers your name if he sees a hundred patients,he did not know your name
He just tries his best with come here muhd.
haha,
every one is muhd. by chance
he doesn't know you by nameyou know i meet people, i meet people , subhanallahi

i was in Baltimore this elderlyfellow came to me How are you ?

uh... how are yo

i remember wen you were so little used to run around in the west of allentown

I'm from texa man uh...

but i said yesi remember too .. that ok

yeah he did ot remember

did not reember

Allah .. een knows you in particular you might say

how is te CEO of the company got to know my name and i'm just a security guard

he is sohigh and so low how did he know my name

how cn the president of the country know one citizen

how' that possible

howwould i know if u all of you came up to me and told me your

nae ... will i remember

i on't know, i don't know

i some of you got my phone number please don't take my phone number but if

ou got my phone number of and you sent me in a message i don't have your
numbers and sir do i know who is this
i don't know i only have your number
Allah said you call Allah , Allah knows exactly you are
and he wants to answer you immediately
he wants to start a new relationship with you immediately
whatever happened yesterday is done
start today you become muslim today
you become a caller to Allah today ....
now the question i told you before was
the problem i gave you before was if you want to meet someone important
that happens on your schedule or on the important person schedule
the important person schedule you don't say i would like to meet the minister of
education
let me just you know walk over to the ministry and say
hey let's go, i want to talk to you for a minute
i can't do i can't fly to d_c_ and then have a pizza slice with obama
i cannot do that
you can't just go and walk up to the president
i can't even if you are an employee like if somebody works of microsoft back in
the day
when bill gates was still the admin of the microsoft
hey bill you gonna grab a pizza or something
well you not gonna do that
he doesn't have time for you
when can you what's a good time to call Allah
people say when is the good time to make dua'
people say that
right and of course we're talking about Ramadhan but what He say ...
He says
whenever
whenever, whenever you call me
whenever you call me
i will answer you one in the morning i will answer you
called me in the afternoon i will answer you
before you go to sleep you call , i will answer you
this is not the whole ayat
the first half of the ayat
i will answer you whenever you call
this is the invitation of Allah
how is it that we don't listen to this invitation
how can a person stay away from dua' after listening the words of Allah
then he says it now i've given you my invitation
my invitation is I'm near to you
I'm ready to listen to you whenever
even if you haven't made dua' except only one time
doesn't matter if you have no other good islamic qualities except dua'
listen to you what should you do though
this is what Allah doing for you
what should you do for him
he says ...... the other word
is that that istajaba also means to try to answer
somebody's brother i want to have lunch with you i say i will try to make
time
i don't know if i can do it but i'll try
trying means maybe you will succeed maybe you will fail
Allah said ..... they should at least try to answer me
you want asking things from me Allah says you're asking me for better job
you're asking me for health
you're asking me to protect your children you're asking me for your
parents you're asking me for a house you're asking me for all kinds of things
I want ask some things to you too
what about what i'm asking you
........
then they should respond to me
they should respond
now the the thing is
in the fathihah
........
what we want from fatihah anybody know
we want guidance
but what Allah want from us is ibadah
.......
.......... nastaie means we want help
but before we ask Allah of what we want
we tell Allah what we will do for him
what we do for him ...
he'll help us
so what you do for Allah should come first
what you want for yourself should come second
but in this ayat of Ramadhan
i will answer
i wil answer you whenever you call me
and then he said you should answer me
he didn't say you should answer me then i will answer you
subhanallah
even put him seconds and me and you first in this ayat
people themselves i think .....
they should respond to me
this should have real iman
mission really believe in me
.......
so that they can be set straight
so they can be good people
they can change themselves
subhanallah this few ayat of Ramadhan is transformated
imcompletely change the way you think about this month
if we reflect from this ayat
the relationship you are going to have with the Qur'an
the relationship you're going to have with dua'
the relationship you will have with Allah is done
that these are the things you have to internalize
now as i conclude with you guys i'm going to give you
at the end of the new some practical things but today insyAllah at least
let me give you some observation the thing that you have to look out for
the thing we want out of the Ramadhan
for the goal of fasting is taqwa
the goal of Ramadhan
is three things
to complete the thirty day training
declared the greatness of Allah
and to be grateful
........
three goals of Ramadhan itself
but now i want to tell you what the real threat to your taqwa is
in countries like the one you living
like qatar like dubai ,much of the arab world much
of the muslim world the big danger
to you and to your children
is materialism
that is the big danger
your children and you are becoming obsessed with the car
with the brand-name clothes
with the brand name phone
with the gadgets
with the new movie
with the new song download
this is uh... but you know what uh... hanging out at the mall
with facebook
and how many like you got on your comment
you're getting obsessed with these things your entire life only means these
things
nothing else
and this is a tragedy
because the youth of this ummah are so powerful
when the young people of this ummah internalize the koran they can change
the world
really the world will be a beautiful place it just the young people of the
ummah wake up
but the young people of this ummah being put to sleep by the iphone 5
by this samsung galaxy touch
by the ipad
by the facebook
and those things can be used for a lot of good
they can be used for a lot of good but man those things are poison too
and
the sword is good if you put the point from you
but if you put it at
pointed at yourself
you know if that's what it is these tools
the are the force of good, they can be
i am on facebook
you know how much
my pictures on facebook
some things i say are on face book
i actually almost never on facebook
i'll tweet things once in awhile
I tweet some messages and never check responses are
its never respond to your twitter as i'm leaving a sunnah
wait and say something good that will benefit somebody else
don't worry but don't caught up in online conversations
you have more important conversation
you have time for all those conversations where
you have time to read all the content of your youtube video
when you do find the time
where do you find the time i'm shocked
so you have to let you and i have to detox we have to get rid of the gadgets
especially on the Ramadhan guys
get rid of the gadgets
delete the video games on your delete the game app off your phone
delete them
during Ramadhan... then you will redownload them later and i don't care
at least for Ramadhan
every .. sisters too
sister get off of facebook right now
i see you but i don't see
and the joke is on you but anyway
get off of your devices
you have to do this
with materialism is killing us
and i tell you the real anecdote the real solution to the materealism is
understanding the book of Allah
personally
personally understand the book of Allah
the more you start understanding the book of Allah for yourself
you will no longer be interested in materialism it would not
it will not fulfill you will leave you empty
this will start giving you joy that you never felt before
you get to talk to Allah
get to talk to Allah when you
recite Qur'an
well get what you ask for
so this is the practical or some advice i want to give you the
warning i want to give
uh... you guys in particular
and of course materialism is it was happening everywhere
but i notice like the malls
like the glit like this was walking towards this thing
and i don't get angry with them
i just feel like we haven't given them the Qur'an
we haven't given them something to be excited about,its our fault
now the last piece
especially for the parents that in the audience
here's how you can be a good use of your Ramadhan
everyone here
should have some goals on Ramadhan
here is my recommendation
my recommendation is you should
memorize
a couple of
short short surrahs
short surrah means a page , a page and a half
a couple maybe four of them if you can
you know to between two and four of them in the month of Ramadhan
and you should not do it alone you should do it with your family
you do it
your children do it husband does it the wife does it first one to do it gets
two hundred riyals
now the father will do it very quickly
became so
but do it
memorize koran as a family
make it as family project we're all gonna memorize the surrah
it's a beautiful thing when a family gets together get closer to Allah swt
my recommendation
is uh... the mussabihat
like if you memorize .....
.......................
they're really help your iman
the next thing you want to do
this is a getting Ramadhan my recommendation is to actually listened
to ......
of those same surrah like that you memorize
listen to lectures and explanations of the things we know that you know memorised
and a surrah i recommended to you a surrah as it is sixty-two sixty-three and
sixty-four
those are the numbers of the surrah
i pick both of those on purpose because those three surrah are about a muslim ummah
that is losing its iman
analyze fixing the iman again
that's what those days was the ummah becoming week
Allah make it strong again
he protects it from the hypocrisy
and he shows them the fruits of real iman
right so that's why does so those are very particularly beautiful and easy to
memorize also
okay what's the surrah again if you're paying attention
sixty-two sixty-three and sixty-four now
what you can't i don't recommend doing other studies during Ramadhan but like you know i
i personally is the big believer in arabic studies and other studies but
those aren't spiritual studies ....... that their tools
to get a higher studies
you can put the academic studies aside and on the Ramadhan only thing you should do on Ramadhan
you know study with Allah directly
immediately
for arabic students don't do arabic studied on Ramadhan, do Qur'an studies
in Ramadhan
do tafsir studies during Ramadhan
for tajweed student , don't do tajweed studies but do memorize the Qur'an
in Ramadhan
You understand now
there's a project i'm working on that i've basically dedicated my entire life to at
this point
and the project the goal of this project is to do only two things i believed
every muslim in the world who can speak english at least
every muslim who can speak and understand english
should have access to learn the language of the Qur'an
not not just at a beginner level but at a very advanced level
that's my belief that every muslim should be available to them
and the second is that every muslim should have the opportunity
to listen
through an explanation of the Qur'an
not read
well what did i say
listen why is that important because when you listen to something you
remember
and when you read something what happened
we forget
i remember the speeches i heard ten years ago
i don't remember the articles i read ten years ago
i don't even remember the article i read this morning
but i remember the speeches when Qur'an is presented as a speech you tend to
what
you tend to remember
when you go home and read the ayat of fasting today you'll remember a lot of
things i said
because you were listening
if i gave you a print out of my speech and you read guess what will happen
you won't remember it if you want an ummah
to get closer to the Qur'an we have to make the explanation of the Qur'an
available in video and audio so they can listen and then remember
that is a mission
the mission by itself Alhamdulillah the first phase of that mission is complete
i was i started tafsir at our basic that's your project and local time
when i was going to do and translation of the pond and explaining easy language
so that the entire family can listen to learn something about the book Allah
Ayat by Ayat by Ayat
its called the cover to cover project it's done Alhamdulillah
posted online
i told you try to memorize surrah number sixty-two sixty-
three and
sixty-four than what i would like to do is go to the website
listen to do so
onsite joomla
when i think one and problem-based utilized
the lectures on those those are already up online
listen to them two three four times
until the message of those surrah gets inside your head
it inside your head and next time you standing solah then you recite those
surrah you have a real solah
your really connected with Allah because you memorize the ayat and you understand
what they mean
and this something is inside and inside the whole family
so when you're at home
and sometime you're not in mosque
performing the solah at home and whole family understand
the whole family will have kushu' in that solah
that's what i want you to read so the website for that is bayinat.tv_
if you don't know how to spell bayinat, that's hard spelling
i'll spell it out for you
ba
use your phones cell out so you can put it in
you know i know you have cell phone don't blame me
seriously
and then after i've Done telling you this i'll talk about marriage
no i won't but that guy just woke up
negative
self-harm
yeah
what marriage ....
the website is bayyinah.tv
you can check out the surrah .... and ... and...
i think you'll gain benefit from that surrah insyaAllah
i hope you guys benefited from
that the conversation today about Ramadhan
dua' on that i have a safe journey back and insyaAllah i will make dua' for you too..assalamualaikum.







8.0 POSITIVE COMMENTS
Always gives an explaination on what he discuss so that makes the audience be more
clear.
He managed to makes his explaination be on a simple form so that could make people
easier to understand.
Also mention the evidences from holy Al-Quran and Hadith to strengthen his points
during his sermon.
He always gives an appropriate examples on each of his point that he has expressed
during his sermon.
The audience tend to listen his sermon because of his presentation skils.
He makes a good relationship with other so that people excite to pay attention to him
He makes a good performance when he speaks
He has a calm face on his smile that makes people whoever listens be pleased and
relaxed






9.0 NEGATIVE COMMENTS


Every one cannot run away from mistakes. Same goes to Dr. Bilal Phillips and Ustadh
Nouman Ali Khan that could make mistaken during his speech. There are least
mistaken I would like to mention which is:
He often repeated the same Quran verses.
Sometimes, he use a specific words that could make people difficult to understand.
He always uses the same word to strengthen his argument which is not good for the
speech.
10.0 SUGGESTION

We would like to suggest something to improve the speech expression in order to make their
respective speech be more interesting. My suggestion is :

1. Make use of technology in giving speech to ease the presenter and the audience in all aspects.

2. Make use some of warning during the sermon to scaring and awaken muslim about their
responsibility as a muslim.

3. Make a beautiful speech script in order to attract the people either they muslim or not.

4. More use of evidence from holy Quran and Hadith to make the people be more believe on the
statement or law.

5. Convey the sermon in a loud voice to ensure that people always pay attention during the
sermon.
11.0 Lesson Learn

1. Patience
We learned in this month how to discipline ourselves for the sake of Allah. In our
morning and evening, we follow a strict schedule of eating and drinking. We were
constantly aware that even in our such mundane activities as eating and drinking,
we must remain under divine injunctions. We changed our habits in our daily
routines because we learned that we were not the servants and slaves to our habits,
but always the servants of Allah. Then after Ramadan, we have to keep this spirit of
discipline in other modes of our life and must continue with our submission to the
commands of Allah.

2. Jihad or struggle
Fasting in Ramadan and Jihad both of them were prescribed in the same year, that
is, the second year of Hijrah in Madinah. Fasting prepares for hardships and
sacrifice. These are two important things without which Jihad is not possible.
Muslims learn in Ramadan how to struggle against the forces of evil in their own
selves, in the society around them and in the world at large.





3. Taqwa
To summarize all the moral and spiritual gifts of Ramadan, we can say that
Ramadan has given us the great gift of taqwa. Taqwa is the sum total of Islamic life.
It is the highest of all virtues in the Islamic scheme of things. It means, God
consciousness, piety, fear and awe of Allah and it signifies submission to Allah and
total commitment to all that is good and rejection of all that is evil and bad.

4. A Fresh Sense of Care and Sympathy
Fasting in the month of Ramadan helps us to understand the suffering and the pains
of the poor and needy. By our voluntary hunger and thirst we realize what it means
to be deprived of basic necessities of life. Ramadan is called the month of charity
and sympathy. We learn how to be more kind and generous in this month. Many
Muslims also pay their Zakat in the month of Ramadan.

5. Renewal of Identity with the Ummah
Ramadan is not an individual experience only, but it is an experience in community.
The whole Muslim Ummah fasts together in one and the same month. We identify
with one another in our obedience to Allah. This gives us a new sense of
togetherness and association. Ramadan teaches us that the Muslim Ummah is the
community of piety and devotion to Allah and its members derive their strength
from each other in deeds of piety and virtue.


6. Renewal of Contact with the Qur'an
Ramadan and the Qur'an are linked together from the beginning. It was in this
month that this divine message was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). We are
told that the Prophet peace be upon him was fasting when he received the first
revelation. Fasting prepares the faithfuls' heart to learn the Word of Allah. It is the
most suitable condition for our spiritual and mental communication with the Qur'an.
The Muslim Ummah pays more attention to the Qur'an in this month. This renewed
contact with the Qur'an must help us in following its message.

7. Renewal of Devotional Life
Ramadan renewed our enthusiasm for worship and devotion to Allah. In this month
we were more careful of our daily prayers and had special prayers at night. There is
no religion without prayer and Muslims learnt in this month how to strengthen and
deepen their religious life.










12.0 Conclusion


With the advent of Ramadhan, a mixture of feelings overwhelm the hearts of
Muslims all over the world. The hearts are full of hope, based on truthful promises and great
tidings, given by Allah and His Messenger (S), of great bounties and endless bliss.
My very dear muslim sister and brothers after reading all this I hope that we all are
are going to prepare ourselves to fast as perfectly as possible this coming month of Ramadan
by purifying our intention to Allah and following the footsteps of the Prophet, s.aw and his
companions. We hope to be among those who shall be granted full atonement of their sins by
the end of this month, and among those who will be most happy with their fast when they
meet their Lord.
Let us not miss this opportunity of Ramadan to be in the hereafter in Paradise in
the company of our beloved Prophet Muhammad s.a.w and all the other Prophets. Successful
indeed are those who, during this Ramadan, will fast during the day and pray at night. Those
who did not will regret it, and regret it strongly ...