my beloved Brothers the first
request I have is for you to put your phones down
inshallah we are recording this and
we will make it available on YouTube by the will of Allah
in the house of Allah to have
everyone stand and everyone's phones come up and
all the lights shine bright
personally I think it's a disturbance
not only for the speaker but even
for the others who want to concentrate
my brothers and sisters I start off
with the Dua a supplication a prayer may Allah forgive all of us may Allah
grant
us steadfastness may Allah be
pleased with us may Allah alleviate the suffering of all those who are
struggling across the globe may
Allah Grant ease in all your lives whoever is struggling in whatever way
may Allah Grant you ease may Allah
answer our duas obviously the Halal ones
may Allah Say Amen may Allah
Almighty protect us from Haram
may Allah Almighty make us realize
that we need to develop a relationship with
him and make it easy for us I was
told to speak about utilizing your
time during the month of Ramadan how
to do it perhaps the preparation the run-up to the month of Ramadan
and I think one of the most
important things for us to note is why the fasting was prescribed in the first
place on
simple reason made mention of
directly why did Allah tell us to fast
he says that's the reason oh you who
believe fasting has been
prescribed upon you just like it was
to those before you in order that you achieve takawa what is taqwa when you
hear people speak about it they say
the consciousness of Allah the fear of Allah
what else do they say they say
various other things
I'm sure you've heard consciousness
of Allah I'm sure you've heard
the fear of Allah there was a
question that someone raised
a few years back which resulted in a
beautiful explanation that I want to share with you
they said the question from a young
lad why should I
be scared of Allah meaning that when
you say fear of Allah fear Allah you know
it's a good question one of the
primary things you and I need
to understand is the consciousness
of Allah which means
to know that he is your lord he made
you he he is in control of everything on
Earth and you are going to
helplessly go back to him helplessly go back to him
meaning the day you are in your last
no one and nothing will be able to delay
You by a moment
if only you knew when the fixed time
of Allah comes for you or for anything or
anyone it will not be delayed not
even by a moment you gotta go you gotta go
you could have had all the wealth on
Earth or all the health on Earth but
your time is up it's up something
will happen to ensure that you're gone so I need to be conscious of that all
the time all the time I need to keep
thinking about the fact that I came from
somewhere I am somewhere and I'm
going somewhere Consciousness but the fear of
Allah do I worship Allah because I'm
scared of him
good question right when you're
scared of someone what type of a relationship would you have so you
need to put the sphere of Allah into
context what is the context there is a
way of explaining it or there are
perhaps more than one way there is more than one way of explaining it perhaps
but here's one so when you love
someone and you love
them dearly think about someone you
love you love them so much
I'm sure you guys have someone in
your minds right oh the way you're nodding your head I
hope it's Halal bro you have someone
in your mind I love
this person so much right would you
do anything to hurt them would you do
anything to be in their bad book so
the relationship
is Disturbed would you do something
like that the answer is no why don't you want to
do something because I don't want to
spoil this relation that I have do you understand what I'm saying so I fear
spoiling the relationship with the
one I love so this fear is born out of
tremendous love you understand the
point because I love Allah so much I fear
getting into the bad books you see
what I'm saying so takua is
if you look at the Deep explanation
that some have given they have said
taqwa comes from the term wikaya
which refers to a barrier so create a barrier
between you and what that which
displeases Allah or the
punishment of Allah I make a barrier
how do I make that barrier well by doing the
right things and staying away from
the wrong things as simple as that so that is taqwa in essence so Allah says I
have
prescribed fasting so that your
relationship with me can be on the
highest level you you realize who I
am you worship me correctly you become
compassionate in all the other
benefits of fasting and at the end of that
prescribed time you should have
achieved a better relationship with Allah that's why they say
you might have heard that one day
the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said
amen Thrice as he was climbing up
the member the pulpit and when he was asked later
he said jibril made a few duas and I
was saying Amin to them what was one of the
duas one of them was that woe be
upon the one who witnesses the month of
forgiveness and doesn't achieve the
forgiveness something is for sale literally for sale
and you don't make use of it yet you
need it yesterday I gave the example and I'd
like to give it again of Black
Friday which month is Black Friday in
November everyone knows right why do
you know you know because you wait for it you
know because I can't really afford some
of the stuff through the year but I'm going to Market I'm going to watch it
and I'm waiting for Black Friday
because there's going to be some awesome specials and as soon as the sale is
announced we are on our phones we
are on the laptops and we're busy buying and we
want to be as quick as possible
before it's sold out and we've got what we wanted and the next best thing is
everything's delivered at home and
we feel rich but what did we do we achieved during a sale a sale I wanted
something
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