this is the
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the alhamdulillah Alum greetings of
peace and we are very excited because
we're welcoming the month of Ramadan
Islam is built on Five Pillars and
Ramadan is one of those but the main
pillar you know what it is already if
you've been tuning in is to agree and
accept what's in your very nature that
there there's no God but God there's
only one God and no butts and Zips after
that leave it alone just God Alone
worshiping him and not his creation and
accepting all the messengers of God
including Jesus Moses Noah and the last
and final messenger sent to mankind of
prophet Muhammad peace be upon they all
fasted and we're fasting and we are
welcoming the month of Ramadan and we're
going to be talking about the benefits
of it what is Ramadan what to avoid what
to do and we're going to be right back
to educate you here on the dean show
we'll be right back
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peace
Allah there's only one God and mamad is
his messenger
Allah
Allah there's only one God and Jesus was
his messenger
Allah I don't know why I did that maybe
it's maybe just to break the ice back
here in the dean show Studio my good
friend she Dr Muhammad mahu how are you
fine alhamdulillah how about you
alhamdulillah alhamdulillah nice meeting
you again it's nice seeing you back
again inshallah Allah the creator gives
us life we'll have many more of these
visits mean am mean am mean now we're
welcoming the month of Ramadan it's here
again just knocking at the door right
just knocking at the door few more days
and it's here so people are excited and
we're excited to have you here now many
of our viewers a non-muslim we know what
it is but they don't and they think
we're just starving ourselves so why
don't you explain a little bit what is
Ramadan okay uh Ramadan is a month of
fasting it's month number nine in the uh
Islamic calendar and it's as we know
that the Islamic C calendar is between
29 and 30
days and as you know that there are some
pillars of of of of Islam uh the first
pillar as you know that you've just
mentioned it uh that you bear witness
that there's no God except Almighty
Allah which is the proper name proper
noun of God yes secondly is doing the
daily five
prayers and then thirdly is paying
Charities and number four is fasting
fasting one month in the year and when
we say fasting we mainly mean fasting
from the little bit Dawn time time until
the time of the sunset which is
approximately 12 hours in most of the
countries but in some areas it may
extend longer than this because the day
is longer particularly in summer mainly
the Muslims are abstaining themselves
from uh the eating and drinking and
other things which are more important
than this we'll talk about them later
perhaps when you say eating I mean can
you maybe just have a Snicker bar you
know you give up everything else you
give up you don't eat you have a Snicker
how about you know it's long days you
can do that but if you do this you're
not fasting because in some religions
what they mean by fasting is they'll
give up let's say sweets they say I give
up Twinkies for for a month or so no
we're giving up everything you stop yeah
give up everything every type of eating
every type of drinking okay so we know
that now Jesus he fasted we does fed all
the are we is this
as Allah said in the Holy
Quran oh you those who believe fasting
was prescribed upon you as it was
prescribed upon the Nations before you
referring to the Christian Nation and
the uh Jewish Nations and the other
nations the people of the book mainly
like like the followers of Jesus and the
followers of Moses and all those were
asked to fast as we were fasting right
and unfortunately in the other religions
it it changed by time so they started
modifying it by allowing some food to
enter and some food we Muslims
alhamdulillah kept it as it was
prescribed in the early days that we
nothing enters our stomach either
drinking or eating yeah during these uh
hours or this period of time many people
know already and we want to clear up for
those that don't that Muhammad peace be
upon him was in a line of Messengers who
brought the same message worship the one
God worship the Creator and not his
creation and Muhammad is not the founder
of Islam nor it is Islam a new religion
it's the same way of life that was lived
from the first man ad so all these all
we're doing is continuing the tradition
of all the prophets but the main one
like you mentioned is worshiping the one
God and then establishing all the rules
and injunctions beautiful things he
wants us to do the message at the time
of Moses peace be upon him was there's
no God but Almighty Allah and Moses was
his messenger you got to obey the
messenger of course you have to obey the
messenger at the time that he was sent
yes and then after that came Jesus peace
be upon him and everybody at that time
the time of Jesus who received the
message of Jesus was also saying there's
no good but Almighty Allah except and
the messenger is Jesus now the
difference here between the two messages
is the messenger himself it's the same
message but the one who carries the
message is different the first time was
Moses in the second case it was Jesus
and now it is Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and it will be forever Muhammad
Until the End of This World simply he is
the last messenger so none of them came
and said you know what you thou shall
have no other gods except the one God
including the father son Holy Ghost and
you know worship father One Day message
of this other you know God with his
creation no submit to Almighty Allah
submit to one God to one Creator and I
am his messenger all of them said that
MH yes the same message you did a
wonderful show and it's called people
can go because you have your own people
can read about you at theen show.com you
have your bio there and the other shows
that we did and you actually elaborate
on it so someone who wants to really
know the true concept of the Creator can
go to the Deen show.com and it's called
actually Father and Son yes show that we
did so continuing on now we elaborated
on that worshiping God Alone not his
creation doing all the wonderful things
that he wants us to do and fasting is
one of those things now for the people
from the outside looking in they see
like fasting and so used to eating
indulging in your passion desire and
food is a wonderful thing Wonder drink
is a wonderful thing said man these
people starving themselves this is what
what's the benefit here oh yeah yes yes
of course Allah doesn't doesn't want to
torture his people he did not create the
people to torture them in fact when he
prescribes something upon them this is
for their benefit now let's see some of
the benefits of this
fasting uh first of
all we need to taste hunger if you are
always eating and you feeding yourself
you will never have empathy and sympathy
with those people who are starving who
are suffering yes there are millions of
people and thousands of them die every
day out of hunger
you just hear the news you see them in
the pictures you may have some empathy
and sympathy with them for a little time
but you really don't feel what they are
feeling MH so now one benefit of fasting
is to taste the hunger for some time so
that you would
share the money that you have the food
that you have with other people to save
their lives to make this world a better
world to live and let other live
because if everyone is selfish and
living for himself who's going to
support the poor people and as you know
Eddie and you talked about this in many
episodes that the gap between the rich
and the poor is widening every day every
day that means the possibility of the
people who die every day is increasing
more and more and fasting would as they
will explain later it will make every
Muslim save a meal per day you can live
with two uh meals and you you can save
one meal and if this meal reaches the
poor people the people who don't have
access to to these this food so you will
save their life try to imagine how
beneficial you are to this world if you
save a life of a human being not a life
of a dog or a cat a life of a human
being the most precious creature on the
planet is the human being this is
amazing we'll be right back with more of
the benefits of Ramadan the Blessed
month here on the dean show with Dr
Muhammed Mandu don't go nowhere no
problem you can take my daughter to
dinner you and my daughter and
me let me tell you something it's
natural that's the idea God created it
and he created us to have a good time we
should have a good time only with our
wives though Islam is the fastest
growing religion in the world and most
of the converts are women not men they
see that the rules of Islam instead of
constraining them the rules
us I am not afraid to stand alone if Li
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alone back here on the dean show with Dr
Muhammad mandu and we're talking about
Ramadan it's here just around the corner
we're getting excited and you talked
about one of the benefits there's so
many yeah so many now for the other
people outside still starving yeah
people you you they were like starving
yourself but now they're starting to you
know light bulbs on and said makes sense
it I get to feel because I don't feel
what it is you know we can talk about it
all day but once you walk in that other
person's shoes for a little bit you get
to feel that empathy absolutely let me
tell you that people who sleep from 900
p.m. until 6:00 p.m. they sleep almost 9
hours in some countries the fasting
period is now 9 hours or 10 hours so
most of the people they do fast then
nothing happens to them they don't die
right so they are saving we we are
reversing it we are making it by day
right in instead of making it fasting by
night so they fast by night because they
are sleeping now we fast intentionally
and willingly because we know the
benefit of this first of all it's
obedience to Almighty Allah Allah is the
one who created you who gave you all
these blessings he's the one who
commands you to do this fasting and he's
testing you whether you're going to obey
him or to obey your desires and WIS now
let me this is the first let me ask you
this before you go out don't lose your
place now some people think now okay you
worship God does he like you know get
become a bigger God or does he you know
does is this now to to to amplify him as
a god status you know some people will
think this he's he's he's the almighty
he he is not benefiting at all from our
fasting from our he need it he he
doesn't need it this is for our he
doesn't need it it's for your benefit
and here are some of the benefits first
of all you share to make this world a
better place to help them and by feeling
the hunger that they feel this is one
thing the other thing is that we as
human beings as you know that we are
created from Body and Soul yes the body
we know that it nourishes on the food
and the drinks everybody knows that yes
how about the
soul the soul nourishes only on Divine
food which is this system that he
created fasting the prayer doing
pilgrimage this system is the system
that nourishes the soul to keep it on
equal level with the the body because if
the body is up so you will be a very
materialistic human being you're living
just for your body trying to satisfy all
your desires and your soul is going down
you need to keep the balance and the
balance is made by this system the
Islamic system the five daily prayer the
charity that you pay to the people the
fasting of the one month the pilgrimage
that you make right all these issues
nourishes the soul while you are eating
and drinking you are nourishing your
body so you keep them hand in hand and
that's why you become a balanced person
a perfect human being there's nothing
perfect but close to perfect if you do
this if you do like this and you keep
the soul down what happens is that you
become very materialistic you try to
live to satisfy your desires and forget
about your soul and this makes the
corruption that you see part of the
world because everybody has many desires
and wants to do this and this and this
and this and this
right so it has to be controlled and the
one who makes this system of control is
the creator of your body and your soul
now tell us many of us are neglecting
the soul oh yeah and we keep feeding the
body focusing on the flesh the flesh the
Bor and the flesh so tell us more this
is very very enlightening for many of us
who and many of are not yet Muslim
non-muslims who are out there who are
listening they see that it makes sense
but tell us some more this is
interesting some more of the benefits
yeah the some some other benefits
benefits okay other benefits of the when
when you make this balance you become a
stable human being right and thirdly you
gaina right you cannot control yourself
unless there is a system that's made by
your Creator and this system helps you
control your
desires how many times how can you draw
the line between the soul and the body
how can you make this Soul nourish
without reading the Quran you will never
able ever be able to tame your soul
that's the verbatim word of God the
Quran this is the Quran is the verbum
word of God that by reading it and the
most importantly reflecting upon it and
most importantly related to your life
this is the thing that will affect you
and will make you a good human being
it's not the music that will make you
it's not watching the movie that yes you
may watching the movie May entertain you
for some time but still it doesn't
entertain your soul your soul can be
entertained only by the words of God
when you read what he asked you to do
when he tells you the stories of the
previous Nations you learn from it so
you need an authentic source which is
the speech of allmighty Allah that's
known to us as the Quran that's why in
Ramadan you find a great impact on the
behavior of the Muslim by the end of
Ramadan if you have a measure to measure
the behavior of the Muslim you see that
it improves a lot by the end of Ramadan
why because of the intensity of the
worship that they make they do the five
daily prayers they do the night prayers
they fast and they recite the Quran
intensively and with combination of
these IAS together it raises their souls
to the level of their bodies and that's
why they behave much better than before
so it's a fact that you become more God
conscious absolutely you become more
conscious of Allah tala because you are
need you feel that you are weak and you
need his support and you listen to the
the ayat that you tell when you are so
strong in body and physically you think
that you don't need any other one you
think that you are not in need of you
you may forget about the creator of your
muscles and your body but when you are
in need you feel that you are weak you
remember he is the one who created the
water for you to drink he's the one who
created all these beautiful types of
food for for you he is the one who gave
you his desires the sexual desire that
you are allowed to practice with your
wife so you thank him you need him now I
know the benefit of this I know this
great blessing now now you are trained
to control yourself another benefit by
controlling yourself from the Halal and
from the legal things that Allah asked
you to do like eating and drinking now
you are abstaining from these things if
you this is a training for you if you
reach a good level you will be able to
control yourself not to do the Haram
things not to make crimes not to exceed
the limits so this is a training period
a whole month training for your soul in
order to avoid doing the illegal and the
unlawful things that Allah subhana tala
does not want you to do so this is a
training for you and that's why I say
that we are the ones who get the benefit
he doesn't benefit from it so that makes
a lot of sense so if you can restrain
yourself from doing the illicit illegal
things the bad things that the Creator
wants you to stay away from and I you
can I mean I'm sorry you can stay away
from the the good things the food and
drink so then you'll be able to
definitely stay away from the illicit
the evil things that are out there you
enough training yeah this like a
training 30 days training this like a
training camp huh Ramadan a training
camp become a better human being better
human being to develop your to be at a
higher spiritual level yes now are there
also I've heard from many doctors there
are many s uh uh uh medical benefits
okay absolutely for the book like like
any machine in the world yes like any
machine it needs maintenance yeah you
need to take it to the agent right and
to the dealer to make some maintenance
for it so they keep it there they
supervise it they prevent it from
running it doesn't work right
for some and then then refuel it and
it's ready to go the same thing that you
need to relax as your body needs to
relax and sleep eight hours or whatever
number of hours that's needed for the
body it relax then you can get in the
morning fresh and again you begin a new
life a new day for you exactly after
fasting yes your body gets medically
speaking you need this period this is
the maintenance period for your body and
then you begin a new new cycle of Life a
new year after the fasting exactly like
this amazing amazing Subhan Allah glory
be to God Almighty Allah we'll be right
back with more here in the dean show it
comes to you the truth and the attribute
of the one who created you that he's one
and alone running this universe that he
doesn't become born he doesn't die he
doesn't eat then go to the bathroom this
is not God you got problems here doesn't
make sense who is Jesus worshiping
because it's recorded in the gospels
despite all of the other issues about
the gospels we put those aside we just
say it's mentioned there that Jesus
worship
God back here on the dean show and we're
talking about Ramadan and we just
mentioned some of the benefits so many
more we could talk for hours days about
this course now because it's coming from
the most wise no doubt we think some
people think they're smart but you can't
compare you're intellect with the one
who created you there's no comparison so
he's the one that revealed this created
your intellect your brain everything in
you absolutely tell us now we we know
that there you know
animals have long tongues yet they can't
talk but human beings relatively have
small tongues but a lot of times they
can't control them tongue they can't you
can't get them to stop talking yeah it
doesn't get tired so is this can this be
something that can you know take away
from the fast a lot of times we'll get
indulged in backbiting goip gossiping
and talking about things that you know
what lying lying let me begin with lying
go ahead as statistics say that an
average human being during his or her
lifetime makes approximately 880,000
lives wow may God Almighty protect us
from that I mean how can we control this
one of the benefits of fasting is
abstaining from not just eating and
drinking but abstaining from all evil
things that cause problems in the world
and talking is one of them the more you
talk the more you make mistakes then if
I ask you what's your opinion about this
one and this one and this one and you
start gossiping talking backbiting him
and backbiting her going to ruin the
fast of course it will break the fasting
but you got to keep fasting you can't
stop now some people now think that they
are keeping fasting right and they are
doing something good but their fasting
is not accepted by god wow what is what
is important is that is not the fasting
is whether it's accepted or not you need
to be very conscious is your fasting
accepted or not and you need to to see
things that break the fast and this is
definitely one of the things that break
the fast the prophet sallallah alhi
wasallam explain this very fluently by
saying
that Allah does not whoever does not
abstain from saying lies or gossiping or
any of these evil things things Allah
does not need his fasting God Almighty
does not need his fasting if you lying
in other words he should not fast if he
keeps lying and gossiping this is
amazing because go ahead I'm sorry yeah
in Arabic it it
says so in other words if I can explain
it whoever whoever does not
leave doing the bad things like the
lying and the gossiping right so fasting
is not beneficial is not accepted by him
because part of the fasting part of the
fasting is you abstain yourself from
doing other evil things is controlling
your tongue from backbiting and
gossiping about people again we said
that it's a training for the soul and
now try to imagine yourself that after
one month you didn't make a single lie
you'll be proud of yourself and this
will encourage you to continue doing
this and this is again another benefit
of fasting that after doing a wonderful
job in these 30 days you want to
continue you want I enjoyed myself I
felt that I'm a different human being so
I want to be that better human being
that's why it's recommended to extend
this fasting two days every week the
Mondays and Thursday so this is an
extension of the fast you like the
training this intensive training in the
camp and you want to extend it that's
why it goes with you and that's why this
be you it makes you a better human being
on the long run so definitely stay away
from gossiping backbiting lying all the
evil things any type of falsehood any
type of evil things any negatives in
fact this is the purpose of one of the
purposes of fasting is to eliminate to
the minimum the negative acts of human
beings so then that can carry on over so
they can carry on in open a new for the
next rest of the year and eventually you
can do this for your whole life while
you're alive absolutely thank you we're
going to have to give him a treat and
continue we're going to take a break and
hopefully inshallah we can have you back
so we can continue on cuz this is the
Blessed month of Ramadan and we want to
talk more about it so do you agree to do
some more thank you very
much peace be unto you and that was Dr
Muhammad do we know that you're excited
and you want to know more because you
want to get the most out of this blessed
month of Ramadan you want to
develop to be a better slave to the one
who created you you want to be more god-
conscious you want to eradicate all
these many evil vices from your life
this is the month of Ramadan that is a
training for all those who have
submitted themselves entirely to the one
God the Muslims so we're going to be
talking more about Ramadan here on the
dean show in our next Epis episode so
sit tight we'll see you next time asalam
Alum peace be unto
you alhamdulillah peace be unto you
welcome to the dean show I'm Eddie your
host and we are welcoming in a few days
the Blessed month of Ramadan or you
might be watching this and we've already
entered into it so now we did in our
last episode we talked about Ramadan
what it is and we talked about some of
the benefits and now in this episode
we're going to talk about some of the
things you want to avoid so you can get
the best out of Ramadan and some of the
things that you really want to increase
in so again you can get the most out of
Ramadan and then all of your previous
sins can be eradicated gone finished and
you have a fresh slate a fresh start
we'll be right back with Dr Muhammad
Mandu here on the dean show
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Allah there's only one and muham is his
messenger
Allah
Allah there's only one God and Jesus was
his messenger
Allah I don't know why I did that maybe
maybe it's just to break the eyes Alum
peace be with
you thank you very much for being with
us finding the time is always a pleasure
for people who don't know who you are
who are seeing you here on the dean show
for the first time we've done many shows
with you in the past they can go to
theen show.com they can read your bio
and see some of the previous shows we're
continue talking about Ramadan yes it's
one of the pillars of Islam we talked
about you know the other pillars of
testifying that there's no God but God
Allah and Muhammad is a Slave servant
and final messenger of God Allah and
this would include all the other
Messengers Jesus Noah Abraham and they
all called people to worship the Creator
and not his creation and one of the
things that they all did we talked about
was the fast f now before um we continue
on um for most people they saw part one
to this show tell us people are
wondering now we talked about the
benefits and what Ramadan is tell us are
people kind of nervous when Ramadan
comes around are they excited M yeah in
fact when you go to any
family and I have visited a lot of
families now in Chicago during my visit
and almost everybody is preparing
himself and herself for Ramadan
everybody talks about Ramadan it's not
like they're like man why again I'm
going to have to you know uh uh stop
eating all my food and no yeah you can
if you can zoom the camera in any family
and you will see even the young children
excited ask their parents when is
Ramadan coming they want to fast even as
young as five or six or seven years
although they are not asked to be F
fasting but they like to imitate their
parents they like to feel the taste of
the fasting yeah and and in fact Islam
teaches us how to train them when they
are young so when they become old it
becomes when they become adult it
becomes easy for them to do that like
anything training at young age is
something very important so it's a
training period for them you will find
many people if you go to any MK if you
go to visit I advise my viewers to visit
any family uh during Ramadan and to see
how the kids are competing with each
other in order to fast uh yes they are
kids they don't understand exactly that
they are seeking the pleasure of Allah
but they are imitating the adults in
their house you will see lots of
beautiful things and even in the
community that I live in Virginia you
will find a lot of non-muslims would
like to come to the mosks and to share
with us so they're welcome they are of
course any mid that the not Muslims the
non-muslims a good opportunity to get
free dinner or free come to the mid we
want the non Muslims to come to the
mosque come to the they would love to
see you and you would see the feeling
and the happiness of the Muslims when
they are breaking their fast every day
they feel that they did something I
succeeded I fasted a whole day so it's a
success you see their happiness on their
faces unbelievable things and a lot of
non-muslims try to experience this I
encourage them to come and visit the
Muslims in their family you can visit
myself and my family and you can go to
any M close by and you will see by
yourself the happiness of the Muslims
not only that since the time of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi they used to
spend the after the end of month of
Ramadan they used to ask Allah oh Allah
accept our good deeds in Ramadan the
rest of the year the rest of the six
other month they used to ask Allah oh oh
Allah make us live until the coming
Ramadan until the next Ramadan oh Allah
help us to live until the because they
want to get the blessing of Ramadan you
know that one of the most great the
greatest reward of Ramadan is that we
know that if you do Ramadan successfully
believing that what you're doing is part
of the belief in Islam and you're doing
this fasting and you know that you
perhaps have some hunger and some thirst
so they they used to spend the last six
month of the year asking Allah to make
them live until Ramadan in order to get
the blessings and the rewards from God
because we know that if you do well in
Ramadan if you do a wonderful job if you
abstain yourself from eating drinking
gossiping lying yes looking at bad
things listening to bad things all these
are important things to make you a
better human being if you in other words
it's a month of training yourself to
control your s it's self-control it's
training for you to that if you do this
well you will be rewarded by Allah that
all your previous sins that had been
done will be erased this is how merciful
the the one God the Creator is that he
erase sponge all your sins this also
tells us that he doesn't need anything
from you rather he gives you and he
gives you rewards for your good act so
he doesn't need that he doesn't benefit
no benefit goes to Allah if you fast or
not however he encourages you by telling
you that if you do a good job here in
Ramadan I will erase all your sins why
is this because if you successfully
control yourself for a whole month that
means you have the potential to be a
good human being you have the potential
to improve and to change your bad habits
to change the bad things that you
acquired during your life this is the
month of a change tell us now one more
point before I go to my next question
even those who have some doubts about
Islam and some of them they might have
gotten the wrong impression they think
Islam is about violence and they get
some misinformation are even those
people I think it's an old story it's an
old story nobody believes it now I know
nobody believes the
media yeah but those seldom those few
people that still are having some doubts
and maybe they have some misnomer some
misinformation are they even welcome to
come to the mosque and to to you know
visit of the mosque there's nobody is
sitting at the door of the mosque who is
going to ask you are you a Muslim or you
not a Muslim come on in everybody is
welcome to hide in fact our Prophet
Muhammad Sall Ali wasam encouraged us to
invite the non-muslims to the mosque to
see and to get and to hear the message
of Islam there to see by their own eyes
and to make their own judgment the
choice is theirs this is amazing we're
going to take a break and you heard the
shake come and visit the Muslims right
back
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show when you look at the Bible it says
the the Earth has four
corners the that's wrong yeah
yeah if any Christian can point out a
single unambiguous statement where Jesus
Christ peace be upon himself says that I
am God I'm ready to accept
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back here on the dean show and we're
talking about Ramadan this is one of the
pillars of Islam Islam is based on Five
Pillars can you briefly just for a
minute go over these five pillars and
kind of summarize what Islam is like you
mentioned in our first episode before I
go to my next question please Islam the
word Islam linguistically it means
submission
but if you want to live in peace submit
to the guidelines and the commands that
your creator gave you he is the one who
created you he knows everything every
cell how it functions in your body so he
knows very well about you so that's why
he prescribed a way of life for you and
the only thing that's needed from you is
to follow this way of life like when you
go to for example any uh company or any
Factory in the world yes it has some
guidelines to let you how to make this
machine work for example if you buy a
camera new camera you need to see and if
you're not expert at all you need to see
how it works so you need to see the
guideline right or the manual so Allah
subhana wa tala created us we don't know
about ourselves very well we need this
manual and that's why he sent the
messenger with the manual every
messenger came with a manual with him
like Muhammad Sall alaihi wasallam his
manual is called Quran like Jesus his
manual is is called injil or Bible like
Moses his manual was called the Torah
right so this would guide the people
these are the guidelines that we follow
this is Islam the main pillars of Islam
can be briefed in five they are five the
first one of them is believing which is
very important that there's no God
except Almighty Allah except almighty
God right his name is his proper name as
my name is m his name is Allah right and
there's his messenger is Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam his last
messenger the second pillar is
doing five daily prayers at different
times and the third one is do paying
charity for the poor and the fifth one
the fourth one is fasting the month of
Ramadan as Allah subhana T call it this
month that you see 30 days if you
compare it with 300 almost 60 days per
year that means you are fasting almost 2
and a half days per month it's few days
two days per month mhm or 3 days per
month that means one day per 10 days
that means it's 10% of your life 10% is
very limited it's not 90% it's not 80%
it's not 20% it's very limited and the
final pillar of Islam is performing
pilgrimage once in your lifetime if you
are capable of doing
we talked about in our previous episode
the benefits really feeling what it is
to be hungry so you can be less miserly
and you can give you can give and we
talked about and and try to see how
important this issue is in solving one
of the biggest problem in the world
nowadays that the world cannot confront
is the problem of poverty or hunger or
people who start from the lack of food
and drink so we're getting to feel this
experence exp erience it also we talked
about the ability to refrain from many
of the evil things if you can refrain
from the good things that's a training
training to stay away from all the bad
things and then you know medically all
the benefits and we can go on the list
goes on about the benefits for the body
of fasting but now we want to also
elaborate on because it's very important
you're refraining from food and you want
to develop as the prophet peace be upon
him he said that I have not been sent
except to perfect good manners yes
absolutely now if we go back into
gossiping being rude obnoxious to people
but you're fasting you're staying away
from food and drink but now you know to
the non-muslim maybe you're cursing
swearing lying deceiving cheating is
your fast now of course now you're
fasting of of course not it's not not at
all let's let's really get into this the
prophet said it very clearly said that
there is no need for you to fast if you
cannot abstain stain from doing these
avial things like lying and gossiping
and backbiting and cheating there's no
need for you to to torture yourself or
to keep yourself away from the food now
because this is that the benefit of
fasting is that it helps you to abstain
from these evil things so if you cannot
reach this goal so don't don't fast yeah
so now tell us some people hear the word
backbiting okay this destroys homes this
creates a lot of friction it can divide
people so a the creator doesn't want to
so Define for some people that don't
know what it actually do you mean backb
I want to stay away back biting if you
say something against me while I'm not
present I'm not here so you're are
saying something negative against me or
something even that I don't like to say
for example I don't like you to call me
such and such name and you are using
such and such name this hurts me because
I don't like it when in fact Islam
teaches us when you want to call even a
person call him by the best name that he
likes to be called so when you're using
a bad name against me of course this
makes me right this makes my
relationship with you is a negative
relationship because I don't like to
hear that name and lots of fights happen
between husband and wives and between
friends because of using bad words using
bad words in every culture is something
negative nobody likes it because it has
negative effects so if you cannot
control this definitely right it will
make the society and unhealthy Society
to live in an unsafe Society to live in
can can you elaborate because God
Almighty Allah he also mentions in the
Quran in chapter 43:12 about this about
backbiting something about it's
equivalent to eating the Flesh of your
body Islam the way Islam describes it
when you backbite somebody when you
speak evil about somebody and he is not
there because if he's there he can
discuss it with you he can defend
himself but if he's not there right so
it's as if you are backbiting him as if
you are eating the Flesh of your brother
that is deep so deep wow who can eat the
Flesh of his brother his beloved brother
so you are doing something so bad as if
you can if you can eat the Flesh of your
brother so backbite people MH other
words because it's so bad and so deep
yes so if you really see the the the
importance of this issue and you want to
keep away from it don't backbite people
don't say something negative about
people behind their back it may be less
evil if you say it in front of them so
at least you give them a chance to
defend themselves this is not
recommended of course to use any bad
words but if you are at least to be fair
to give them a chance to defend
themselves but when you backbite this is
one of the major sins in Islam
backbiting because it makes the society
corrupt it makes people hate each other
it doesn't promote love among people it
doesn't promotee help and support among
each other it makes Society everybody
wants to avoid the other person because
they have some sort of hatred and
dislike between them and Islam tells us
how to build a society that's free of
all these animosities and all of these
hatreds it's called a religion of peace
and it's promoting love and it's
promoting peace and love so how how can
it promote something against this so
this is one of the benefits of Islam and
I hope that everybody who is listening
would really care for controlling their
tongues controlling their eyes
controlling their ears from doing bad
evil things right as much as they
control their stomachs from eating and
drinking so much wisdom in the
traditions of the last and final meas
because he's the walking Quran no doubt
he is the one just like Jesus's time he
was explaining the gospel Moses was
explaining the Torah they were teach you
couldn't bypass them to get to God had
to listen to them because they were the
teachers they were the messengers and
the last and final messenger sent toind
the proph M peace be upon them so when
he said because some people have some
confusion between backbiting and slander
but please you're our teacher tell us
about this Hadith where the Prophet Sall
wasallam is talking about backbiting and
he's asking his companions and you know
he said is to talk about something about
your brother that he dislikes and they
said what if you say something that
that's cor that is not even is true
about him then that's slander so the
difference between like you know cuz
people will say like well uh if he was
here I'd say the same thing you know
what I mean so this like even if he's
here if you say it it's bad thing of
course it's very bad if it's in his back
and he's not present and he's saying it
this is considered backbiting right and
even if if he has this quality you're
not making up this quality you are
saying that for example uh he is a a
hot-tempered person yeah and he's a hot
tempered person really so even if it is
one of his qualities but you said it
against him in his back while he was not
present this is called backbiting what
if you say like I'd even say it in his
face yeah oh this would be of course a
bad thing but if you say something and
it is not in him if you give him a name
or a quality that's not in him that's
slander this is the worst thing that
because this is called ban one of the
biggest lies because you are lying so
both are wrong of extremely extremely
wrong and and you can lose your fast for
that of course so we want people not to
lose to lose these benefits of Ramadan
so we got to stay away from gossiping
backbiting and we're going to continue
on here on the dean show and we right
back with more stay
tuned all of the prophets would have
been labeled Muslims because this
essential message was the same message
submission to the will of
God this is God talking to you directly
how could I stand behind the pulpit on
Sunday morning and preach a sermon that
I knew was at variance with the actual
Tap Root of
Christianity back here on the dean show
with Dr Muhammad Mandu we're talking
about Ramadan some of the things to
avoid because we want to develop our
character a healthy Society time you are
building up your character yes so tell
us now we emphasize staying away from
gossiping maybe some brothers coming
around and say Hey you know uh we got to
kill some time so maybe it's better to
kill some time reading Quran praying
more watching the lecture watching Hood
the TV peace TV the de you we don't kill
the time we don't kill the time we don't
we don't kill any so not just sitting
around and say you know and that's how
things happen we use our time
effectively effectively so gossiping so
using our time effectively of course not
by gossiping because this is ineffective
use of time not only it affects the
other person remember this Angel that's
on the left is recording everything
negative that you are saying and this
one is recording everything positive
that you are saying and we need
definitely to have a lot here more than
here so effective use of time to use it
in something very beneficial in fact the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
taught us that when you talk about a
person begin with the best things that
we that he has the best quality that she
has or he has you talk about it right
don't don't begin with any negative
thing and try to avoid the negative
thing and use be very selective in the
words when you talk about people so how
how before I go to my next question so
the advice I don't want to just pick on
the brothers Brothers coming around and
collaborating and then they end up
gossiping about some it's so easy it
just happens like that you know someone
comes in and says so you know did you
hear about this person and someone it's
like someone some people are fishing
fishing they'll throw some out there you
know God yeah and the next you know the
whole everyone it's like a can of words
same thing with the sisters some sisters
sit around next to you know they're
they're backbiting so and so from the
Masid we got to stay away from you got
to stay and keep yourself busy with
something effective something beneficial
Vick reciting the Quran saying Dua to
Allah subhana wa tala keep yourself with
something busy yeah spread peace among
people either by saying Salam alaykum or
actual peace give the advice for that
person that's timid there might be three
of them they started so the other sister
she know this is wrong we can't do this
so how does she should she how does she
stop it does she walk away does she say
sisters she sit down and she would say
if it's already started let's say a
practi go there's five six sisters four
of them started and one sister's like
man this is Gossip or she's nervous
she's like man they're over here
backbiting how does she stop them
because she feels a little nervous say
okay let me say something I remember a
story that took place at the time of the
Prophet bring it back to M bring them
and we mention story like when for
example one of the wives of the Prophet
Sall alhi
wasallam when she said a word about
about one of the other wives which is
safia she was a short woman and she said
that she was short but she and she was
short so she was short she was short but
she shouldn't have said
that in a demeaning way yes in a
demeaning way and the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said to her that you
mentioned a word had this word fill into
the river it would have changed the
taste of a river wow Subhan Allah this
word that she is short and she was short
yeah she didn't lie she didn't make up
something it was short she was short but
it's just so bad in that sense uh but
let me take they can bring this example
definitely now people everybody would be
because Muslims alhamdulillah whenever
they see they hear uh something that
Allah said and the prophet said this is
the way that they remember they become
really scared and they go back and
remember what Allah subh T says so they
feel more polite and they become go back
to their good manners is this the same
thing like is it bad to get into other
people's business you know of it's very
bad to do that this is a golden rule in
Islam whether you are fasting or not
fasting right a golden rule is
that it's to show that a person is a
good quality of a Muslim is that he
should leave out the business of others
he should not poke his nose or her nose
in the business of others you should not
what this is not your business try to
avoid somebody is telling you that this
is not your business I ask myself
instead of asking you uh why do you have
a kitchen here in your studio Ian it's
not my business it's not my business
unless I'm asking you I I'm building up
my my studio should I have a kitchen it
close by it or something this is
something different very polite with but
why do you have why do you have why this
is not my business why this why that
tell me this your business let's talk
more about Dean yes let's talk about
Dean Islam this is the this is Islam but
let me take the chance now here to
remind these satellite channels that
they do their best in Ramadan they bring
the best movies and and the most
expensive attractive episodes and all
these wonderful shows they put all of
them together in the month of
Ramadan I don't know what are these
media people doing they are trying to
distract the Muslims from abstaining
themselves from seeing evil
things some media in the world do this
and I hope that that they would
understand the the real message of this
world they want they say that we want to
spread peace but in fact by doing these
things they affect the behavior of the
Muslims negatively they affect the
behavior of 1.6 billion human beings and
I wish that they would listen they would
take the message very seriously because
they are part of what's Happening Now
there's any stability in the world
there's not enough peace in the world
and I think the media is playing a
negative part in this and particularly
in this Ramadan when they distract the
Muslim if they leave the Muslims yeah to
worship their God in in the way that
they used to do it without uh external
interference I'm quite sure these people
will be better human beings and this
world will be a better place to live in
and in the last minute that we have
please give some closing advices
suggestions to get the most out of
Ramadan
this is a gift from Almighty Allah to
you try to take the gift it's so huge
take as much as you can from this gift
it's a time that you can invest it the
best time to invest with Almighty Allah
is this time so you can get much much
much more than other people in this
Ramadan because you can do lots of
things you can do in the last 10 months
10 days you can do you can wait for
the the night of power in the last 10
days right because it equals 83 years of
worship so be very smart and try to
allocate take some of your vacation in
the last 10 days of Ramadan so you can
do a better worship to Almighty Allah
and then you have the rest of the year
to do the regular things that you are
doing and what I mean by the regular
things I mean the Halal things not the
Haram things may God Almighty Allah
reward your for
being peace be with you with you as
well and that was Dr Muhammad giving us
some great advice so we can get the most
out of Ramadan this comes around once a
year and we want to get all of our sins
erase so we want to be in a constant
state of remembrance of the creator of
the heavens and earth we want to read
more of the verbatim word of God the
Quran we want to watch more lectures we
want to watch more of the good things
take time to do more of the things that
will get us closer to the creator of the
heavens and earth and we talked about
things that stay away from Gossip
getting in other people's business
lowering your gaze because these are the
things that you don't want to just be
going hungry and next thing you know on
the day of judgment none of it gets
accepted because you are rude and
obnoxious cursing swearing and doing
immoral things but you refrain from
eating and drinking but you forgot about
developing your character and all the
other things that God Almighty wants
from us because he wants us to be the
best human beings and that entails
leaving off all the evil things and
doing all the good things that he's told
us to do so get the best and the most
out of Ramadan keep us in your duas and
we'll see you next time here on the dean
show until then peace be unto you obey
your lord submit to him avoid the danger
of the major sins obey your lord repent
to him avoid the danger of the major
sins obey your lord Lord surrender to
him avoid the danger of the major sins
obey your lord submit to him avoid the
danger of the major sins stay away stay
away ignore the
whis
Lord on us have mercy on us
all stay
away ignore the whispers
oh Lord Oh Lord Mercy on have mercy on
our souls avoid the footsteps of Shayan
who plotting scheme in
247 trickery deception falsehood lies
anything to keep you in the fire in line
he'll tell you anything that you want to
hear he'll be a friend when no one else
is there no matter what he says he's a
stone cold liar only wants to keep you
in the fire in night stay
away ignore the
Whispers
Lord Merc on our have mercy on our
soul The
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Whispers
Lord Mercy on
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