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the month of ramadan
is a life-changing experience
every muslim
even the sinners among them
sometimes he would think
to himself and he would say
i wish i can be on the straight path
i wish i can be guided
and have the joy in this life to be
close to allah
and this is the opportunity for us for
all of us to change our lives
so that after ramadan
we are obedient servants to allah
when a person looks from far away at the
life of those who have taqwa of those
who have obedience to allah
you might think
that the life of these people is
difficult because there is halal and
haram permissible things and
non-permissible things
they have to pray on prescribed times
they have to go to the masjid many
obligations and things of that nature
but as long as the person is far away
he won't get to see
that this is the joy of this life
happiness is something that allah
subhanahu ta'ala put in the hearts of
the believers
it's in the heart and the heart is the
creation of allah ta'ala
so this heart which is the creation of
allah can never have the real happiness
unless the person fulfills the orders of
allah
and these are the people that have the
real joy in this life
he said
that there is a jannah paradise in this
world
whoever enters it he will enter the
paradise in the hereafter
this paradise on this earth
is to be close to allah subhana
but there has to be a time
of a test
striving in the cause of allah
to see who is truthful and who is not
after this period of being tested
and the person not necessarily feeling
the goodness and the joy in the matters
of worship but after he fulfilled this
period
then his the life becomes
the joy of this life becomes when the
person do the good deeds when he refrain
himself
from disobeying allah
and under any condition
we are created to worship allah subhana
wa
whether we feel like doing the acts of
worship whether we don't feel like doing
the acts of worship we are nothing but
servants of allah
so for us in the month of ramadan it's
very important that we have the
opportunity
to pass this period of being tested
in which after ramadan
our life would have been changed
changed to the better to be among those
who have taqwa as we heard last time
how can we achieve this
if we do our fasting
in the proper way as allah subhanahu
ta'ala ordered us
that fasting has been prescribed for us
the same way it has been prescribed on
the nations before us
so that we become among those who have
taqwa that means fasting
can do this for us
but is it any fasting
or it's something that is very specific
we need to know the reality of fasting
as we know
a person for his fasting to be valid he
has to abstain from food and drink and
sexual relations from the break of dawn
from federal time to margaret time
and with the certain rulings of fasting
in which if any of these
rulings
is not valid then the person has to
repeat the day according to the rulings
of fasting
but this is a level that we need to go
over it and elevate ourselves
to benefit from the fasting and to be
among those who have taqwa to have our
whole entire life to change to the
better
how was that
by doing the rulings
mentioned in the quran and the sunnah
obeying allah subhanahu ta'ala we
refrain from the necessities of our
lives for the sake of allah and that's
something that is of a great reward from
allah wa also
we refrain from committing sins
we refrain throughout the month of
ramadan
from the bad habits that we acquired
before
as we know for example smoking is not
permissible
and a person for his fasting to be valid
he has to abstain from it throughout the
day of ramadan
if he is capable or she is capable of
abstaining refraining
from such a bad habit throughout the
month of ramadan
this is an evidence
that it's something easy to be done
you cannot say anymore i cannot leave it
i'm very weak
if you're fasting the month of ramadan
you are a strong individual
our hearts has to fast from envy and
before that from associating partners
with allah subhanahu ta'ala
tawheed
is the basic thing in our religion
worshiping none but allah subhanahu
ta'ala having the hearts attached to
other than allah subhanahu ta'ala is a
form of
associating partners with allah
in fasting we have our hearts attached
to allah subhana wa
no one can really see if you are fasting
or not that's why it's an act of worship
of sincerity
we purify our hearts
by fasting and abstaining from envy
from being not sincere
from being not truthful
and this is a way of purifying our
hearts
elevating ourselves to fast in the real
way of fasting elevating ourselves with
the rewards
the different parts of our bodies we
need to make it the way that allah wants
it to use it
so our eyes
we only make it see what allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala wants us to see
we abstain from looking at things that
allah forbade us from looking
and that's why radul basar lowering our
gaze in ramadan and in other than
ramadan
something there is an obligation for us
to do but in ramadan it is made easy for
us so we protect
throughout the days and the nights of
ramadan our eyes
from looking at things that is forbidden
for us
we protect our ears
from listening to something that is not
permissible for us to listen to whether
it's back biting whether it's musical
instruments things of that nature we
abstain from all of that
it is time for us to listen to the quran
to read the quran
and this is something else our mouth
how can we use our mouths and the things
that pleases allah
abstaining from foul language
abstaining from backbiting which are all
sins
and the prophet salallahu mentioned in
the authentic hadith
the meaning of which that if a person is
fasting
then he should not
say on any of
the foul languages of our words
he should refrain from raising his voice
and to be loud
if anyone
quarrels with him
or cause any harm
in many in meanings of speaking and
physical actions he should say in
islam he should say i am fasting i am
fasting
so fasting is not just abstaining from
eating and drinking and sexual desires
but rather it's something that is more
than that
abstaining from all the things that
allah subhanahu ta'ala forbade us from
doing
making the believer
purifying his heart and the rest of the
parts of his body to be according to the
way of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
if we have this
manner
throughout the month of ramadan making
sure that it's 30 days or 29 days in
which the person will
have a perfect way of life
following the way of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi exerting ourselves
even if it seems difficult
we would do it we would do this for the
sake of allah only 30 days
you would see the effect afterwards
we would see the effect afterwards if we
are patient with regarding to the orders
of allah subhanallah
so this is something that should be a
mean for us as a life changing
to fast in the real way
in the in the way that allah wants us to
first to fulfill the level of taqwa to
be among those who have taqwa in the
month of ramadan so that we live the
rest of our lives the same way and this
is a sign of acceptance of the fast and
the good deeds done in ramadan
we ask allah subhanahu ta'ala to accept
our faith
and to make us among those who believe
in allah subhanahu ta'ala and fulfill
his orders
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