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in the name of Allah the beneficent the
merciful we praise Allah subhana wa
ta'ala and we send peace and blessings
upon our beloved Prophet Muhammad sallam
forever and we begin with the greeting
words of Jenna alayum
we thank Allah subhana tala for the
month of Ramadan we pray that Allah
would help us to understand the virtues
of this month to understand the
blessings that we have and as time is
moving as we're going toward the center
of the month we need to try to really
benefit from this period of time that is
so sacred and so important to a healthy
Muslim life Allah subhana ta'ala in
verse 185 in the offre repeated verses
has revealed to
us the month of Ramadan is the time in
which the Quran was revealed as guidance
to humanity and clear evidence from the
guidance and from the foran that which
separates truth from falsehood so in
this month Allah subhana wa ta'ala has
given us a time where we separate truth
from falsehood he has given us a
physical state a mental state where if
we follow it correctly if we realize uh
where we are in this world we would be
able to see truth from falsehood we will
be able to change our lives and so the
struggle against evil fasting itself the
whole issue is
movement fasting is movement Ramadan is
movement the sun is moving the Moon is
moving time is constantly moving and so
Muslims also in the month of Ramadan are
supposed to be moving we are not living
in
monasteries in the Muslim world today
many things have changed
we find that the time of the Prophet
Sall wasallam fasting was in a time of
increased activity but in many parts of
the Muslim World during the day it's the
opposite in some countries when the
people begin their their day they start
with Salat F they make Salat F if Allah
has Mercy on them and then they go to
sleep and they sleep all the way to
Salat then they get up for Salat if
Allah has has Mercy on them and they go
back and they sleep all the way till
Salat then they get up after Assa if
Allah has Mercy on them and they pray
the Salat Assa and then they get up and
now they start their day so after Salat
they make their drinks they make their
samosas or whatever they want to eat for
the if so most of their day is between
Assa
and this is not the way of the Prophet
Salli wasallam what happens in many
Muslim count countries is that um during
this time that the day is
sleeping like what we would call in
Northern country's hibernation when an
animal literally hibernates or goes
under the ground during the cold season
and then comes out in the warm season so
in this case many Muslims hibernate in
their bedrooms and sleep throughout the
whole day then they come out at night
and after M they stay up all the way
until f
after F they go back to sleep this is
not how it was in the time of the
Prophet Muhammad sallallah Ali wasallam
in his time they stayed up in their
prayers at night but during the day they
were involved in activities it is a time
when we should be able to still
accomplish things in our schoolwork we
should still be able to perform our jobs
as a matter of fact we should do more
than we normally do in the regular parts
of the year if you look at the life of
the Prophet Muhammad Salli wasallam you
will see times of
action the prophet peace be upon Him
fasted uh nine uh uh successive uh
months so in nine years he was fasting
during the Medina period in this time we
find constant movement Not only was this
time considered to be the time of the
revealing of the Quran but also it was
considered to be a time
of
where the Muslims called to the good and
they forbade evil things in the second
year after the
hij the prophet Muhammad peace be upon
him was made aware of the fact that Abu
sufyan had taken the goods of the
Muslims and he was on his way to Syria
to sell them and so in order to gain
back the wealth that was stolen he put
together a group of Believers and they
finally met when Abu sufyan escaped
uh and was able to dodge the Muslims
they finally met on the way back at a
place called
bed and it was at that time in the
Battle of BEDA when the confrontation
happened between truth and falsehood
that Allah subhana wa ta'ala
separated righteousness from Evil this
day was called
y it was the 17th in the month of
Ramadan so in in a time of fasting in a
time where people are thirsty and hungry
and they feel their bodies are weaker
than normal the Muslims confronted evil
in the greatest confrontation in the
history of Islam following this in the
second year after the
hij um
Zak was prescribed and so the people
were then supposed to now think about
giving zakat at the end of the month in
order to purify their wealth so this
happened now in the month of
Ramadan in the fifth year after the
Hijra word came to the prophet Sall
wasallam that the mush of Mecca had
gathered together a large army in order
to attack Medina and when these aab were
moving toward Medina the prophet
sallallah wasallam gathered his
followers together and he took sh he
consulted them what should we do with a
large army coming to to Medina Salman
Al informed him that we in Persia when
we are faced with a large army we build
a trench a hundu around our city around
our village and this moat or this trench
is a form of defense and a large army
becomes a small army the prophet Sall
wasallam took this advice showing the
importance of sh even for the highest
level of individuals within our umah he
took this advice and they began to build
a church Medina was separated on the
Eastern side on the right side and the
left side with har with lava volcanic
lava so they could not come through the
Eastern or the western side the southern
side was protected by the forts of the
yahood and an agreement was made that
they would protect the city but the
northern side was was was open so a
trench was built in the month of
Ramadan the prophet peace and blessings
be upon him was the best example for his
followers and so even though the weather
was very cold he was he was the one who
showed the way and when they found a big
Stone inside of the trench and they
couldn't break it they called raso
wasallam and he hit the stone and a
light came out of it and he said I see
the opening up of Persia he hit it again
I see the opening up of Rome and it was
strange for his followers that here in
the month of Ramadan in this cold um
with their lives at stake he was still
optimistic he was still positive that is
another great lesson that happened in
the month of Ramadan we find following
this in the eth year after the Hijra the
prophet Sall wasallam with a large
contingent of the Muslims headed toward
Mecca and they confronted disbelief in
one of the greatest uh challenges in the
history of Islam they surrounded the
city and alhamd
they were able to uh take the city of
Mecca F Mecca the opening of Mecca which
happened on the 21st day in the month of
Ramadan there was only 10 nights left in
the Blessed month and the prophet
sallallah wasallam came into the city
not arrogant he came as a simple humble
individual the leader a messenger of
Allah he lowered his head and came in
upon his riding animal alhamd
Mecca was opened up in the month of
Ramadan so we see that this was a month
of action this was a month to confront
evil and not to hide in the home not to
live in a monastery but to come out of
ourselves this is what Muslims should be
doing in this blessed month in the ninth
year after the hij word came to the
Muslims that the Roman Empire was
gathering together a huge huge Army of
possibly 100,000 men to face the prophet
Sall wasallam and to totally destroy
Islam forever in the month of Ramadan
the prophet peace and blessings be upon
him put to put together the Muslims and
the events surrounding tabuk or what is
known as the Battle of tabuk took place
in the month of
Ramadan it was a severely hot time and
they traveled through the
desert great fitt Temptations and trials
were on the Believers but even though it
was a fasting month even though they may
have felt hungry and may have felt
thirsty they still were able to confront
the greatest evil they had ever met
within their existence all of this was
happening in the month of Ramadan they
returned from tabuk before the end of
Ramadan when they returned returned they
found that a delegation came from hyar
and the hurite kings of Al Yemen H uh
visited Medina and came to the prophet
Sall wasallam he treated them with
respect and and he had written a
document for them this is a very
important document for people accepting
Islam and giving them guidance this
happened in the month of Ramadan also in
this blessed month in the same year the
people
ofif the people who had stoned the
prophet sallallah Ali wasallam when he
was in Mecca and when he went to h a TF
high in the mountains seeking assistance
the people of T sent out their urchins
and they stoned the messenger of Allah
peace be upon him but it was because of
his Mercy even though the angel of the
mountains came to him and informed him
that they would
destroy this whole village this whole
area the prophet sallam said in words
leave them because maybe they will come
from their next Generations or from them
people who would
say and because of this patience because
of this perseverance the people entered
into Islam in the month of Ramadan in
Medina in the 10th year after the hij
the prophet sallam sent
Ali to Yemen he sent him there with the
message of Islam during the month of
Ramadan when Ali reached Yemen he went
directly to hamdan and the the tribe of
hamdan which is one of the important
tribes within Yemen all embraced Islam
on one in one day in the month of
Ramadan so Ramadan was a time of daah
the spreading of Islam Ramadan was a
time to confront evil Ramadan was a time
of action to go out into the desert
Ramadan was a time even in cold weather
to to to build trenches it was a time
when Muslims confronted their fears came
out of themselves and took a stand for
Allah subhana wa taala so we today in
the spirit of the Prophet Sall wasallam
in the spirit of his companions we
should also not hide ourselves in our
home sleeping during Ramadan but we
should come out into the world and give
the blessings of this month to all of
the people I leave you with this thought
and I ask Allah to have mercy on me and
you