Waseem Hendricks – 6 Steps Towards A Better Ramadhan
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The segment discusses the importance of being proactive and staying true to Islam, particularly in achieving the spiritual state of Islam. The speakers emphasize the need to be mindful of one's actions and emotions to avoid harms, and emphasize the importance of forgiveness and staying true to Islam. The segment also touches on the importance of keeping a scorecard and not giving up on one's responsibilities, as it is often considered a detox process. The segment ends with a discussion of upcoming events and a women's program with a female representative.
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In the name of Allah, the
Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
In
the
name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most
Merciful.
Alhamdulillah, all thanks and praises are due to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who has gathered
us once again on the best day of
the week.
The best day of the week, as Rasulullah
ﷺ mentioned to us, is the day of
Jumu'ah.
This time that we find ourselves cutting ourselves
off from everything related to dunya.
And we will focus completely on Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا۟ Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala speak to the people of Iman.
When Jumu'ah comes, فَسْعَوْا إِلَىٰذِكْرِ اللَّهِ that
hasten to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's remembrance.
This is amazing.
That if you are a believer, at this
time, nothing matters.
This is so amazing.
Can you imagine this?
It's almost like we're in Makkah.
The Adhan goes, everybody's busy with tawaf and
everything and sa'i and everything.
But when Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar goes, that
calling to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, what
happens?
Everyone stop and they fold their sufoof.
In a matter of seconds, everybody is straightened
in their line, sitting and waiting for salah.
This is amazing.
Jumu'ah exactly the same.
Whole morning we are busy, indulging and seeking
halal's rizq, and sustenance from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
We are seeking.
We must do this.
It's halal for you to go and seek
your rizq.
Allah allow us all to seek halal sustenance
insha'Allah.
And to acquire halal sustenance insha'Allah ta
'ala.
And then suddenly what happens?
There's an hour during the day when Allah
ta'ala says, Now fas'au ila dhikrillah.
All of us who are believers, whom Allah
gives the ability, we stop everything, and we
focus on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
How amazing is that?
How amazing is that that Allah chose you
and I to be here today.
Why?
Not because of man's calling.
Not because of man's calling.
Because of Allah's calling.
Fas'au ila dhikrillah.
Allah gives a command, Hasten now to my
remembrance.
Where?
In the masjid, in Allah's house.
What Allah calls the best places on earth.
The best places on earth is the masajid.
It is the masjid, the houses of Allah
ta'ala.
And Allah accepted us to be present here.
The worst places on earth is what we
love.
The market places.
Ramadan...
Ya Rab, the market places.
Who will you see in the market places
now?
The Muslims.
Subhanallah, it's the order of the day.
Why?
Because I'm not going to stand in line
a day or two before.
So we make preparations.
Amazing.
It's good to make preparations.
It's good to make preparations.
But did we make the proper preparations for
what is to come?
What is to come?
It is shahru ummati Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
It is the month of the ummah of
Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
The shahr called Ramadan.
Shahr where we will burn all that sins.
Every wrong that we have committed.
Ramadan.
Ramadan is derived from the root letters, Ramadan.
Which means that you burn it away.
We will burn away all that shortcomings and
sins that we have acquired for a year.
Why do I say a year?
Right?
Between one salah and another salah, it is
a means of expiation for you from your
sins.
Amazing.
So if I make fajr, mashallah, and I
make du'a, everything in between fajr and
du'a, Allah has forgiven me.
Which of the favors of your Lord can
you deny?
Can you imagine as a Muslim, no other
deen can tell you this.
Ask them.
They can say somebody died on a cross
for them.
And they doubt it till today.
Subhanallah.
Is it really so?
Is it not so?
All these debates and conversations happen.
We don't doubt it.
Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say between two
salahs, expiation for you.
Then, what's after that?
Allah ta'ala mentions that between two umrahs,
what will happen?
Allah ta'ala will expiate you from your
sins.
So if you went for umrah, make intention,
Ya Rabb, take me again, take me again,
inshallah ta'ala for umrah.
Because between those two umrahs, Allah ta'ala
says expiation for you.
So if you went in 2015, and like
myself, mashallah, and now I went, 2024, Allah.
Everything believe.
Allah has expiated and wiped out all the
sins in between 2015 and 2024 for me.
So you get a Buddha standing in front
of you that is free from sin.
Astaghfirullah, I'm joking, that's not true.
Don't say that.
We all make mistakes.
But Allah gift us all these gifts.
And then, bayna ramadanayn.
From one ramadan to another ramadan, Ya Rabb,
Allahumma ballighna ramadan.
We have been fortunate enough the previous ramadan
to have fasted.
And inshallah, we will be fortunate enough to
fast this ramadan as well.
And between those two ramadans, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam is saying, Allah will expiate
your sins for you.
You will be like a newborn baby.
May Allah allow us that.
Amin, Ya Rabb al-alamin.
But today, mashallah, we have a few, only
but a few advice that we can give.
Otherwise my wife will give me, I don't
know.
There's no such thing as advices.
It's advice.
I will advise and advice.
So some advice with regards to how we
can better our ramadan.
How we can better our ramadan, subhanallah.
Because every year, we know that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, that no two
days of the believer is the same.
It cannot be the same.
Because if one day is similar to another
day, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say,
then they are losers.
So we don't want to be losers.
We know last ramadan, we can now take
stock.
What did I do and acquire and achieve
last ramadan?
I made intentions, did I achieve that goals?
So I must be proactive.
This is where I lacked, this is where
I can do more, this is where I
can utilize my time to the best.
This is my best time of the day,
this is not so good time of the
day, so I can work around that.
So we understand how it was the previous
ramadan.
How can I am better?
Because how can Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
mention about two days?
So what about two ramadans?
Can two ramadans be the same?
It can't.
Because we will indeed be the losers at
the end of the day.
So let us strive and utilize these few
things that we mentioned inshallah ta'ala with
regards to, how we can improve and have
a better ramadan.
So the first thing that we want to
acquire obviously is, that Allah ta'ala says,
we perhaps will achieve taqwa.
So to achieve taqwa, there are certain steps
that we're going to inshallah ta'ala, make
a reality in our life throughout the month
of ramadan, in order to acquire taqwa inshallah.
In order to acquire taqwa and to make
us, to be better muslims and better believers
in Allah ta'ala.
And better servants to Allah ta'ala.
And mashallah there is one thing that we
bring alive in our lives now, it is
to remind ourselves that we are only but
servants to Allah.
The moment that we tell ourselves that, the
act of kibr will be removed from our
hearts.
That I'm just a servant.
I'm nothing but a servant.
A servant to who?
Rabbul Izzati wal Jalal.
The Lord of the worlds.
I'm not a servant to no one, but
to Allah.
If I can remind you of that, telling
myself constantly, you know who you are, Allah
created you from nothing brother.
So you're but a servant to Allah.
You're just a slave.
A slave to the Lord of the worlds.
And as much as we remind ourselves of
that, then kibr will be removed from our
hearts.
Ameen ya Allah.
Except, because we do not, we really, we
do not want to be a person who
have kibr in our hearts.
Aqsumu billah.
Jamaatul Muslimin, if you understand what kibr means,
kibr belongs, it's a quality that only belongs
to Allah.
The one that adopt that quality upon himself,
he actually put himself on equal grounds with
Allah.
La'udhu billah.
How can we?
What does the Mu'addhin say when he
starts his adhan?
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
Allah is greater than everything.
That's what we say.
But now if we adopt the quality of
kibr, who tried this?
Shaytan.
Shaytan tried this.
What happened to Shaytan when he tried it?
Allah made him what?
What do we say?
La'udhu billah.
He is the accursed one.
Allah cursed him.
And when Allah cursed an individual, like Shaytan
is cursed, today the entire creation curse him.
Is it true?
Because Allah cursed him, it is halal for
you and me to curse Shaytan.
We can say Shaytan, la'natullahi alayhi.
No problem.
But can I say Wasim or Mustafa or
Astaghfirullah.
We can't say that.
How can I curse an individual?
Our Rasul is our example.
When the people of Ta'if were battling
with Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, with his message
and everything, what did he do?
The angels came to him.
He said, I did not come to curse
nations.
I did not come to doom them for
*.
I came here as rahmatan lil'alamin, as
a mercy to them.
And we are?
We have Allah.
Who is He?
Ar-Rahmanir Rahim.
A Lord of Mercy.
We have?
Wama arsalnaka illa rahmatan lil'alamin.
A Nabi of Mercy.
And who are we?
Ummatul Rahma.
The Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The Ummah of Rahma.
Rahma is in our hearts.
It's in our genes.
We must always show Rahma and kindness to
people.
And people will test you.
It's not the people that test you.
It's Allah that test you.
But they will come and they will be
that sabab.
Allah say, MashaAllah, things are going so good
in your life.
Let me throw you a curveball.
That curveball is who?
It's your own brother.
The one that you love so dearly.
And here he stabs you.
Allah in the back.
He say something in front of you, but
he say something at the back.
Now you're like, why is this happening?
How can you be like that to me?
And you are moping and moping and going
into a depression because of this.
Although Allah says, there is khair for you
in that.
That is not him.
That is my test for you.
What are you gonna do and how are
you gonna handle the situation?
Muhammad, how did you handle Taif?
How did Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam handle Taif?
He say, He complained to Allah.
About who?
About the people of Taif?
No, he did not complain.
He didn't worry about what the people of
Taif did to him.
His worry was himself.
Ya Allah, how I failed.
I could not reach and penetrate their hearts
to show them the beauty, to show them
the beauty of Islam and Iman.
Ya Rabb, if not them, may the offspring
that come from them, may they all be
of the people of Iman.
And subhanAllah, look at that sincere dua from
rahmatan lil'alameen.
And this is the point I mention is,
sincere dua.
That person hurt you, there must be sincerity
in your heart to say, my brother, my
sister, I forgive you.
Who are you fighting?
Who are you fighting at the moment?
Are you fighting that person?
No.
You're fighting yourself.
You're fighting your nafs.
Because your nafs is going to tell you,
how can you say maaf to this?
Rubbish.
It's standing in front of you, I seek
refuge with Allah.
How can you do this?
He did this, and she did this, and
they did this, and they did this to
you.
You should not ask maaf.
And that is your battle inside.
Because that is going to run through your
mind.
Go with them.
Who is me?
I own this, and I did this, and
this is all mine, and now he wants
to just come on the gravy train.
Allahu Akbar.
All that, we know what we're talking about,
right?
But now Allah says, you are a person
whom I have, mashallah, guided for so long,
now let me throw you a curveball.
Here's the test.
What you're going to think of your brother
now?
Now you tell your brother nicely, my brother,
ya salam, what you've done, you know it
hurt, but subhanallah, I think I had a
part in that.
Maybe because of my attitude, maybe something that
I do.
So please, you give me maaf.
How difficult is that?
And look how nice Allah speaks.
Allah says, قُلْ يَعِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ
How Allah start this verse?
First Allah don't call us, ya, you, what,
you criminals.
You sinners.
You guys, I despise you for what you
do to me because I give commands.
As Allah speak to us like, look how
nice Allah speak.
Muhammad, قُلْ, say to them, يَعِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا
My servants, those who worship me, all my
worshippers.
Allah calls us, knowing that this Buddha just
violated my law.
He broke every law in the book.
But Allah still calls us, عِبَادِيَ Oh, I
love them so much.
You are my worshippers.
You are my servants and my slaves.
Allah calls us so nice.
أَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ Look how Allah speak.
Allah says, whom has done what?
Whom has sinned against themselves and oppressed themselves
and caused dhulm on themselves.
Allah say, you've done it to yourself.
Allah don't say, what others did to them.
Allah could have said that.
No.
Allah says, أَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ You've wronged yourselves.
This is a reminder for us.
Always the finger, like the old people say,
point one finger, but the other three fingers
are pointing back.
And the thumb is calling you.
MashaAllah.
He's looking at the three pointing back.
Sometimes we don't see the three pointing back.
It's just him.
It's his fault.
It's her fault.
It's him.
He did this.
It's never us.
It's never us, subhanAllah.
Allah protect us.
Allah protect us.
Wallahi, jamaat-e-muslimin, the world can be
such a beautiful place, if we just listen
to Allah speaking to us.
You are wronging yourself by stressing about that
person.
Make right with yourself.
Why shouldn't you worry?
لَا تَقْنَتُ مِن رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ Don't worry.
You are Allah's mercy.
Allahu Akbar.
وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ It encompasses everything.
Allah Ta'ala's mercy on Allah's Arsh, it
stands.
It, what?
It's upon us.
It is way beyond غَضَبِي Allah's anger.
Allah loves His mercy.
Allah speak about His mercy way beyond the
anger.
It's just by the way.
Allah don't want us to focus on that
anger.
Allah want us to focus on that mercy.
There's hope for you.
Don't lose hope in your Allah's mercy.
Don't worry that what that person did.
Fight the battle with yourself.
That nafs that is there.
That nafs, أَمَّارَ بِالسُّوءِ That evil within yourself.
It's literally called that.
أَمَّارَ بِالسُّوءِ Evil desires within yourself.
It is fighting you to say, don't forgive.
Say this about that person.
Type this about that person.
That is your nafs.
But if you are strong, and what makes
us strong?
عِبَادَةِ What is عِبَادَةِ?
Being present with Allah.
Is my Allah pleased with me?
Is my Allah not pleased with me?
Then I will make a decision.
Allah is pleased with me?
فَبِهَا وَنَعِمًا I'll carry on and I'll do.
If Allah will be displeased with me in
this action, I will not do it.
What is that?
That is asking ourselves that.
At the beginning, it's going to be us
asking ourselves, is Allah going to be pleased
with me?
Is Allah going to be displeased with me?
If we do it constantly, eventually what will
happen?
It's second nature.
Allah will not be pleased with me.
You're not going to need to say it.
Naturally it comes.
My Allah is not pleased with me if
I do that?
I will not do that.
My Allah is pleased with me?
MashaAllah I will carry on doing this.
There's khair in this.
I can see the khair in this.
I can bring people together.
We have mahabbah here.
MashaAllah.
But this is going to cause this array.
It's going to cause tafriq bain al-ummah.
Split up between the people.
No, no, no.
This is not what I can do.
I can't do this.
This is shaitan's job.
That kibr.
What is kibr?
Kibr is?
Batr al-haq.
That is batr al-haq.
The truth can be in front of me
and they can explain it to me in
every way possible.
But I will not accept it.
Why?
Because I've got ego.
Do you know who I am?
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't actually want to speak about him,
but they call him as an imam.
An imam that had many, many, many, many
views opposing a legacy, a dynasty that came
from Muhammad ﷺ.
He had views that subhanAllah, how can any
Muslim in the same mind accept it?
We couldn't.
And Allah ta'ala snatched the life away
from them.
How do we justify?
We don't justify the action that has been
done, but what he has said, we cannot
justify that.
That is totally against Islam.
That brings irtidad.
That takes you out of the fold of
Islam.
So we're not going to be apologetic for
that.
But we're going to have compassion against how
the act has been done.
Yeah, that is Islam.
You can't do that vigilantism that was never,
ever a part of Islam.
We cannot be barbaric.
And we stand with that Qawlius.
But for what he has said, it's maa
khaji.
Now the hukum is Allah's hukum now.
We're not going to make hukum of people,
but we understand that what you have done
and what you have said, subhanAllah, it caused
fasaad.
Takun fitna wa fasaad fil awt.
It caused a lot of fitna and fasaad
on the earth.
And Allah protect us from that.
May Allah ta'ala grant us understanding and
protect especially our children.
Because this is happening, jamaatul muslimeen and the
universities, all they are being indoctrinated and bombarded
with these ideologies.
And if we are not strong enough to
install the faith within their hearts, within their
minds, within their actions, then they're going to
face a very difficult task out there.
Make dua for your kids, make dua for
your children.
Let me start inshaAllah firstly, how we can
improve our Ramadan.
And the first thing is, remember the greatness
of the one you are fasting for.
If we fast, the first thing that we
need to do is, remember the greatness of
the one that we are fasting for.
I'm not fasting for no one.
So the angry man, that man is not
going to exist inshaAllah.
Because shaitaan is not there.
I almost want to say, Wasim, there is
no shaitaan.
I'm that shaitaan.
I don't want to use everybody's self.
I'm talking about myself.
You are the shaitaan.
How are you going to get that shaitaan
out of you?
Because all year, daaam, brr, animal.
SubhanAllah, look at me.
Now Ramadan comes, I want my Ramadan to
be a successful Ramadan.
So that animal, I need to bury that
animal now.
We supposed to do that preparation long time
already.
But in Ramadan at least, the consciousness is
there.
Because I'm fasting, but I'm not fasting for
that person.
So whatever you say, Rasulullah s.a.w.
give us a beautiful answer to when that
happen, what should we say?
All I used to say, all I can
say is, As-salamu alaykum habibi.
He's like, I'm fasting.
As-salamu alaykum.
And there I go.
And that brother will still say, you and
you, you, as you walk away, and slowly
as you walk away, I don't care, because
now, this Buddha said nothing back.
And everybody look at him like, At least
that man, mashaAllah, he's fasting.
You can see that he's walking away.
He doesn't want to indulge in this.
This is what a Muslim should do.
We, Allah ta'ala, bring us back to
our nature.
Our natural state when we're in a state
of fasting.
Rasulullah s.a.w. say that, when my
deeds are presented to Allah, how does he
want to be?
He wants to be in a state of
fasting.
Because fasting brings you back to your own
nature.
I'm a calm individual.
I'm not becoming angry for somebody that's, Allah
knows what problems this guy has.
When somebody does that, he always asks, Shame.
Something must happen in his life, man.
Brother, may Allah make it easy for you.
Imagine the perplexity in that guy's face.
He's telling you about you this, and you
then say, Oh, shame.
May Allah make it easy for you, brother.
Ya salam.
I can't even imagine what you're going through.
I make dua, ya rab.
Make it easy for this brother of mine.
I love him so much.
But he's facing heavy task, man.
That man's gonna be like, What is this
guy doing?
What is this?
This is reminding ourselves that the action that
I do is not for this.
It is for the one much greater than
this, and that is Allah.
And if we constantly remind us about Allah
ta'ala while fasting, then mashallah, we'll have
a successful fasting, inshallah, bi-idhnillah.
Ameen.
Ameen, ya rabbal alamin.
Especially now, it's gonna be long days.
*, when you're fasting, ya Allah, no water,
no drinks, no mochi that you can look
with like, no, astaghfirullah, no, you can't.
Stay away from that mochi.
Stay away from that liquor, Gatsby's that you
eat everyday.
Woolworth's pies, and chips, and aye, aye, aye.
Enough, *.
Now it's Allah time.
Allah brings you back to your nature.
One third, one third, one third.
Your day without food.
Eat at night, and sleep.
That's all you need.
And then you will be one of the
richest people in life.
Allahu akbar.
Allah brings us back to our natural state.
That's what fasting does.
So remember the one, right?
Allah ta'ala, the greatness of the one
that we are fasting for.
Ponder in His greatness.
His awareness, His beauty.
See His beauty through fasting.
And see the warmth and the kindness of
Allah ta'ala through fasting.
Draw upon His nearness.
How close Allah is with us when we
fast.
Because you don't want to do something wrong.
That's what fasting does.
You know, you usually walk towards a place,
but nah, you can't.
That gaze, yah, Allahu akbar.
Nah, that gaze is low.
Sometimes you must look up.
Depends on where you see yourself.
You'll find yourself, right?
Because many of the beach got set in
Ramadan.
It's puasa, you know.
Subhanallah.
So, lower your gaze insha'Allah ta'ala,
right?
Why?
Because that will bring nearness to Allah.
Everything is now about looking after Allah's law.
Fulfilling what Allah ta'ala desires from us.
Number two.
Keep a scorecard.
Everything that you do, right?
Masha'Allah.
Now it must happen already.
You draw up what do you want to
achieve.
And your own scorecard.
Because there's many scorecards out there.
But some scorecards can work for us.
Some scorecards won't work for us.
Because we understand our day.
We know how busy my day is.
And last year I had a Ramadan that
I recited one verse.
So this Ramadan, I can't now say, okay,
I'm taking this.
This scorecard is telling me I must read
the whole khatam.
Nah, I'm not going to be able to
do that.
We know.
So we know our level.
Where we're at.
So, ten lines.
This year insha'Allah I've prepared myself well,
up until ten lines.
And if I can do more, I'll do
more but ten lines.
That's my goal.
Keep a scorecard.
Your du'as, a da'ia, sabahan wa
masaa'al.
This is what I've memorized from the Rasul
s.a.w.'s du'a in the morning
and the du'as in the evening.
Every day I must go through this on
a checklist.
Masha'Allah.
Scorecard.
I score myself.
Right?
We keep a record of what we are
doing.
Why?
Because in the next Ramadan insha'Allah, if
Allah allows, and Allah will allow us many
more Ramadanins.
Ameen ya rabbal alameen.
Then we will know, okay, this is what
I achieved last year.
So now I must top it a bit.
I must top it a bit.
But keep a scorecard insha'Allah ta'ala.
And then, number three, the elegance of silence.
And this is something very difficult in Ramadan.
Why?
Because you are agitated.
You do everything for but in Ramadan.
Why don't you ask your children?
But subhanAllah *, it's your duty.
It's your turn.
Unfortunately now your month is in Ramadan to
clean the yard.
Your child already cleaned in the previous month
because masha'Allah we share the responsibilities.
We teach our children also responsibilities and to
be responsible.
But this is your chance now and Allah
wanted you to clean it in Ramadan.
No, no, no.
Elegance of silence.
When something agitate you, bite your tongue.
Allah ta'ala speaks so nice about this.
Our Lord teach us, when you angry, what
must you do?
Bite your tongue.
Swallow your anger.
And then after that, then forgive.
If that happens and you say, okay, who
did something to me now?
Hussain?
It's finally for Hussain.
I love him so much.
Masha'Allah.
You know that Hussain has harmed you today
or said something today?
Right?
Not the lawyer Hussain.
I'm talking about the other Hussain.
Right?
Then masha'Allah.
You forgave that person.
What's after that?
Wallahu yuhibbul muhsinin.
Allah ta'ala loves the good doers.
So what is that?
There was a bad intent.
But nal hasanat, yuhibbul nasayi'at.
Now a good action has been done and
Allah wipe away the sins.
Allah clear, purify you.
Masha'Allah.
You know that is what a Muslim should
do.
The elegance of silence.
Keep quiet.
Bite your tongue.
Say, I'm fasting.
Nothing will take me out of the obedience
of Allah ta'ala now.
This is the month that Allah has gifted
me that I can maximize.
And insha'Allah this might be that Ramadan
that Allah ta'ala will enter me through
the doors of Jannah with Muhammad s.a
.w. I'm not gonna sell this for nothing.
And for no one.
Allah, Allah.
So the elegance of silence insha'Allah.
The women in the time of the Prophet
s.a.w. once ask permission to break
their fast.
Can you imagine this?
The women ask the Rasul s.a.w.
to break their fast.
For the heat was so exhausting on them,
they thought that they would die.
Is that not how we feel now?
Now here is Ramadan, I can drink water
now but the heat is killing us.
Subhanallah.
The women, it was very hot that time.
And Yusuf s.a.w. then sent them
an empty, listen to this, an empty bowl.
Rasul s.a.w. sent them an empty
bowl.
What did he say?
Listen to what the Prophet s.a.w.
said.
Vomit.
The Prophet s.a.w. told them, you
the women, vomit.
Why?
What's the reason?
Listen to the hikmah of the Prophet.
They vomited the meat and blood of backbiting.
Because in the Ramadan, speak about this one,
speak about that one, speak about this one,
this was the Ramadan.
The Prophet s.a.w. said, Moses is
a terrible prophet.
The neighbours sent me vomit, subhanallah.
Can I eat a pancake with jam?
I said, Steve, can I eat a pancake
with jam?
He said, yes, it's like a coconut, it's
plain and platter cloth.
I seek refuge in Allah.
Astaghfirullah.
There is nothing wrong with jam.
I love jam.
Send me a jam pancake, please.
I love jam.
Okay, it depends what the jam is.
No, no, I'm joking.
Astaghfirullah.
But anything, you know, backbiting, we're eating.
We're eating.
Oh, it's quarter past, subhanallah.
Right, my time is almost done.
So eating, backbiting, that was what they did.
Vine talks lead them to haram talk.
For this reason, you will experience a serenity
of heart.
Vomit.
They had to vomit.
And a glow to your countenance every day,
every time you embrace the elegant stance of
silence.
May Allah s.w.t. allow us in
such times, that we don't need to speak.
We'd rather keep quiet, inshallah.
Or do good.
And then, I'm just gonna fly through the
other three, inshallah.
Planning the food.
Planning the food.
Yeah, no, no.
Really.
I'm not gonna eat ten plates a night.
I'm planning myself, because Al-Tarawih is very
late.
I'm not gonna eat too much after Maghrib.
I'm gonna eat a little bit, that's suffice.
Then I'm going to have enough energy to
go stay in Ramadan.
And then after, mashallah, I can have another
bite.
But also not too much, because Fajr is
early.
So I'm not gonna eat too heavy, because
I'm sleeping Fajr, ya salam.
No suhoor for yawni.
Now I'm hungry.
Allah knows best, subhanallah.
May Allah protect us.
Then, surfing the web, our young ones, ya
ahlul shabab, listen to this.
Surfing the web, sacrifice.
Sacrifice for who?
For Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
It might actually be easier to avoid food.
It's better to stay away from food.
Wallahi, you know yourself, and I know myself.
It's better to stay away from food, than
to stay away from the web.
Today.
So the fasting today, that can make your
fast even to another category of greatness, is
to stay away from the web.
Surfing the web, subhanallah.
We should view our fast as a detox
from everything that is not the dhikr of
Allah ta'ala.
It's a detox from everything that is not
the dhikr of Allah ta'ala.
And may Allah ta'ala accept our efforts.
And lastly, is being ambitious.
Imam al-Ghazali, rahimallah, he further noted that,
the brain eats and digests its own food.
The brain eats, and it digests its own
food.
Its thoughts, hence our phrase, food for thought.
Food for thought.
So, take care of your thoughts.
Take care of it.
Your brain, mashallah, there's food there.
And you are the one that's going to
nurture, and send all the beautiful ingredients to
your brains.
What is that ingredients?
Quran, salah, dua, indulging in Allah ta'ala's
worship.
The two fast, he teaches, Imam al-Ghazali
says, is one in which we can discipline
them.
All the things that we've mentioned, may Allah
ta'ala accept, inshallah.
These are the six points, bi'idhnillahi tabarak
wa ta'ala.
So Ramadan will even be better for us,
because we'll discuss many of these things, how
we can make our Ramadan, the greatest Ramadan
this year, inshallah ta'ala.
May Allah accept.
Jazakumullahu khairan, wa aakhiru da'wana, hum anilhamdulillahi
rabbil alameen.
Just a few announcements, inshallah.
We have Habib Ahmad al-Sakkaf, who will
have his ladies program this weekend here with
us.
Alhamdulillah, I think there's only about 30 places
left for ladies.
We, inshallah, will host up to about 300
ladies.
They have already almost filled the walls, both.
So if your wife and your daughter is
not yet on that list, wallahi, this is
a person, mashallah, known for his fiqh.
The topic is Rasulullah s.a.w., love
for the Prophet s.a.w., and its
effects on the heart, through the eyes and
through the lens of women.
So the mothers of the believers and all
of them will be mentioned, inshallah, tabarak wa
ta'ala.
Please register.
And then we have a Ghazda demonstration today,
5pm, and our date sells after Juma.
We only have a few dates left, so
they say early bird catches the worm.
So the first ones that will go, astaghfirullah,
the last ones that will go, inshallah, will
receive the dates.
Why do I say that?
I don't want everybody to run out of
the Juma today because of dates.
Take your time, inshallah.
Allah put barakah.
What is good for one will be good
for two.
What is good for two will be good
for four.
What is good for four will be good
for eight.
What is good for eight will be good
for sixteen, and so on.
So Allah ta'ala bless that all of
you must get dates, inshallah.
Ameen.
Shukran * for those who kept quiet.
May Allah ta'ala accept, inshallah, all your
efforts.
Jazakumullahu khairan wa salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa
barakatuh.
And also, we have the Khatmul Qur'an
for one of the founding members of our
masjid, Uncle Nuri, Mamu Nuri Faki.
Now, he is not doing too well.
So please, anybody, inshallah, there's a link that
was sent out.
Add your name onto that link, inshallah, wa
tabarakah wa ta'ala, and read a juz
in order for Allah ta'ala to make
it easy for him and to make it
easy for the family as well, inshallah.
One of the musallis requested du'as for
the following individual, Ghulam Rasul from PE, who
will be going for a heart operation today
as well.
May Allah grant shifa kamila min kulli da
and guide the hands of the surgeon, inshallah,
wa ta'ala, and grant him to accept
that operation, inshallah, better than he was before,
and for all our sick as well, inshallah.
Shukran.
Salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
I bear witness that there is no god
but Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
of Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
of Allah.
Come to prayer.
Come to
success.
Come to success.
Allah is the greatest.
There is no
god but Allah.
There
is
no god but Allah.
Allah is the greatest.
There is no god but Allah.
Allah is the greatest.
There is no god but Allah.
There is no god but Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
of Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
of Allah.
Come to prayer.
Come to prayer.
Come to success.
Come to success.
Allah is the greatest.
There is no god but Allah.