Speaker 1: Mhm Hifahrakatu.
Speaker 2: Smila Rama Rahim sala Ali. He was happy here Jamahin
Speaker 2: once again, my brothers, my sisters, we always praise a
Speaker 2: loss of Hannah Alah. We seek his protection from we
Speaker 2: seek his protection against all evil, and we ask him
Speaker 2: every goodness, not just for us, but for humanity at large.
Speaker 2: And we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammed Sali was
Speaker 2: seldom and all those who were sent from the very
Speaker 2: beginning to remove us from darkness and to take us
Speaker 2: to the light I mean, and we ask a lot
Speaker 2: to bless their companions and to bless everyone of us,
Speaker 2: and to grant us all the best of this world
Speaker 2: in the next Ami, my brothers and sisters. Every year
Speaker 2: the month of Ramavan comes, and this month it brings
Speaker 2: about a different joy. We become happy people masia llah
Speaker 2: during the month of Ramadan, especially when we're about to
Speaker 2: see the moon. And then once the moon is sighted
Speaker 2: and the excitement of the first few nights of Taraweh
Speaker 2: sort of dwindles, we find the message is slightly empty
Speaker 2: and people start beginning to feel like, gosh, I've still
Speaker 2: got twenty seven days to go right. And then when
Speaker 2: you're in this part of the world, subhan allah. It
Speaker 2: becomes so prolonged, especially during these years, but Allah compensates it.
Speaker 2: But a few years down the line, you guys will
Speaker 2: be having the shortest fasts ever. Right, we might have
Speaker 2: to come here for Ramdan at that time. For now,
Speaker 2: you can come over by us. It's fine, no problem.
Speaker 2: It's actually permissible to travel to a place where where
Speaker 2: the fast is shorter. Nothing wrong to do that. You
Speaker 2: can actually travel to a place where the fast is
Speaker 2: shorter in order to spend Ramadan with your children or
Speaker 2: those who might not be so well, or those who
Speaker 2: just cannot keep such a long fast. It's not prohibited.
Speaker 2: Hannahawa tala, make it easy. I know you're looking at
Speaker 2: me like you're gonna give us the money to go
Speaker 2: on holiday, you know, But my brothers and sisters, Ramadan
Speaker 2: is a blessed month. It's a blessed month. When we
Speaker 2: see the moon that goodness, and when you know, the
Speaker 2: lights are turned on in the message, then the people
Speaker 2: are fulfilling their Salah. And even in the homes the
Speaker 2: environment is such that walahi the blessedness. You feel it,
Speaker 2: you can actually feel it. It's different the food you
Speaker 2: consume during the evening in the Ramadan has a taste
Speaker 2: to it that is different from that which was eaten,
Speaker 2: even if it were the same dish before or after Ramadan.
Speaker 2: It's a blessing. But my brothers and sisters remember that
Speaker 2: that initial height, the initial high that we're sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: not talking of cannabis, not at all, but the initial
Speaker 2: high that you feel subhana lah. We need to maintain that.
Speaker 2: You need to keep going. The prophets a lallah ali
Speaker 2: Hua Seldam has taught us about how the best of
Speaker 2: deeds are those that are done regularly, even if they're little,
Speaker 2: small deeds, but done regularly. So when we start Ramadan, yes,
Speaker 2: we're excited. The first day we were the imam, we heard
Speaker 2: the whole of Sorda bakaramasha la Tabarakala. The next day
Speaker 2: we're not there. Why hey, it was a bit long yesterday. Suhanahlah.
Speaker 2: By the way, what's the score, guys? Anyone knows one
Speaker 2: nol la ila wi ali al aldin one new Suhanahlah.
Speaker 2: People are following football. No, it's okay, it is one neil.
Speaker 2: By the way, Mala suhannahuata alaku grant Us is people
Speaker 2: are asking us, why did you time it such that
Speaker 2: you're going to Cardiff tomorrow? I said, just as well,
Speaker 2: we didn't go to Cardiff today. You know, but my
Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, that will only be understood by the
Speaker 2: football fans. Right, so that hype. We have a hype.
Speaker 2: You know, we support a football team and we get
Speaker 2: so excited. I see people my challah. They look so religious.
Speaker 2: They weep, they cry tears when their team is losing.
Speaker 2: I promise you they may do are like they haven't
Speaker 2: even made for their own mothers in law. They make
Speaker 2: do our like they have never made for their family members,
Speaker 2: just for a team, for a ball to be kicked
Speaker 2: this way and that way. The point I want to
Speaker 2: raise is, look at how passionate we become. We'll follow
Speaker 2: the team and keep going and the players and everything else.
Speaker 2: But I promise you the season of Ramadan is far
Speaker 2: more important. We need to follow it with equally important,
Speaker 2: with meaning, with greater zeal. We need to make sure
Speaker 2: that we actually have this within us to say, look
Speaker 2: this the month. I am definitely going to make an
Speaker 2: effort because my brothers and sisters. Without an effort, it's
Speaker 2: not gonna come. You know, don't think that Allah will
Speaker 2: push you along all the way. No, you got to
Speaker 2: push yourself because Allah gave you the energy. Make the effort,
Speaker 2: I promise you. Without the effort, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: If we didn't make an effort, this event was not
Speaker 2: going to take place. And if you didn't make an effort,
Speaker 2: this event was not going to take place. You made
Speaker 2: an effort. We made an effort. We all tried to
Speaker 2: get this thing coming, you know, get it together. That's
Speaker 2: why it is here, and that's why we're all here.
Speaker 2: Imagine if somebody didn't think of it, and if somebody,
Speaker 2: if you guys didn't think of coming and contributing towards
Speaker 2: the success of this beautiful event with such a lovely
Speaker 2: you know place, that venue that we've had al hand La.
Speaker 2: I was just telling one of the brothers, this venue
Speaker 2: is superb. Perhaps we should do more here, sou hanah Lah.
Speaker 2: Will each one of you bring along ten of your
Speaker 2: friends with you, charlah, Yeah, and we can have a
Speaker 2: much more impressive event in Shah by the will of Allah,
Speaker 2: who knows well. If you're really keen, you can always
Speaker 2: write up to light upon light in Shallah and tell
Speaker 2: them that we will make sure that it happens in shallah.
Speaker 2: So if you don't make an effort, you're not going
Speaker 2: to be able to achieve when the first day of
Speaker 2: Ramadan comes. Already you should have an intention that this
Speaker 2: month I'm going to dedicate. I'm going to dedicate when
Speaker 2: Ramadan comes, it is a month where you will feel fatigued,
Speaker 2: you will feel tired. Your sleep is going to be
Speaker 2: upside down, especially in this part of the world. Your
Speaker 2: chores are going to be difficult to fulfill. The night
Speaker 2: is not going to be so easy. As short as
Speaker 2: it is. You've got to eat, You've got to make
Speaker 2: maridrisha tarawih. Perhaps the hendrit becomes a little bit easier.
Speaker 2: You might want to shorten it slightly. You're gonna have
Speaker 2: to have fajor and you're sleeping times. And you will
Speaker 2: also hear about the debates regarding the timings of when
Speaker 2: you're allowed to put a date in your mouth or
Speaker 2: not right. All those debates are in places you might
Speaker 2: be thinking, well, please tell us what's the ruling. You
Speaker 2: want to know it. No, you don't. I might come
Speaker 2: up with a third opinion, and I'm going to cause
Speaker 2: problems here. I'm not from this part of the world,
Speaker 2: so I leave it to the local scholars. They've probably
Speaker 2: studied it more than I have. But I want to
Speaker 2: tell you they can be They can be more than
Speaker 2: one correct opinion. Did you hear what I said? I'm
Speaker 2: a person who firmly believes that if you actually, in
Speaker 2: a matter of each he had in a matter of
Speaker 2: you know where the opinions are valid, you can actually
Speaker 2: have more than one valid opinion loss of Hanah houwa
Speaker 2: talah bless every one of us and accept our fasting.
Speaker 2: So it's not good enough to say, your guys, as
Speaker 2: fast thing is not accepted because you know you you
Speaker 2: ate for an hour more than we ate. If it
Speaker 2: is a valid opinion based on evidence and hamdlilla or
Speaker 2: based on what scholars who are reputable are saying, then
Speaker 2: a hamdolillah mal loss of Hannah howatalah grant us acceptance.
Speaker 2: I know it's a big debate, big debate. The difference
Speaker 2: is what one hour two hours between in the timing approximately?
Speaker 2: Can someone tell me about an hour an hour's difference? Yeah,
Speaker 2: So we ask Allah to make it easy for every
Speaker 2: one of us. Whether you're following the later time the
Speaker 2: earlier time. It doesn't mean that you're a bad person.
Speaker 2: Remember that. So you need to have it within you
Speaker 2: in advance. You need to know I'm gonna be tired,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be easy, but I'm gonna keep going
Speaker 2: because we want the pleasure of Allah. Allah has promised
Speaker 2: you jennah, and Jenna is not free, and jenna is
Speaker 2: not such an easy achievement. When the Hadid says Allah
Speaker 2: in Nasila at allah Hiralia, indeed, the commodity of Allah
Speaker 2: is expensive, it's dear, which means it costs. You have
Speaker 2: to pay for it. If it was something so easy,
Speaker 2: he wouldn't have said that. That's why when there are
Speaker 2: deeds that you do and Allah says in return you
Speaker 2: get jenda, that deed is not going to be easy.
Speaker 2: It's going to be difficult. It's going to be really difficult.
Speaker 2: You need to make an effort. I gave an example
Speaker 2: a few days ago, when the Hadid says, to serve
Speaker 2: your parents, you will gain genna. You need to know
Speaker 2: that's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be one of
Speaker 2: the most difficult things I'm ever gonna be able to do,
Speaker 2: especially as you get older and you've got your own
Speaker 2: family with your own kids, and then you still have
Speaker 2: to juggle between your wife and your parents and so
Speaker 2: on and your family members, et cetera. That is why
Speaker 2: Allah says you will get jenna. You see, because it's tough.
Speaker 2: It's very difficult. It's not easy. Same applies to the
Speaker 2: month of Ramadan. To stand with Iman and yetisab, to
Speaker 2: fast with Iman and yetisap The Hadid says you will
Speaker 2: be totally forgiven. One narration says you'll be given jenna.
Speaker 2: What's iman and what's yetisab Iman is the conviction in
Speaker 2: your heart, the belief that I'm doing this for the
Speaker 2: sake of a love, for the pleasure of Allah, to
Speaker 2: earn the happiness of allahs of Hannah hawat Allah. H
Speaker 2: Tisab means I'm doing this expecting a reward from Allah.
Speaker 2: Allah promises me a reward, and I'm doing this for
Speaker 2: this reward. Some people say, I don't want do it
Speaker 2: for the reward. I don't want to do it for
Speaker 2: this and for that, I just want to do it
Speaker 2: for myself. Well, as a Muslim, you need to rectify
Speaker 2: that intention. You do it for the pleasure of Allah.
Speaker 2: Allah instructed you. That is why you are going to
Speaker 2: do it. Yes, and you will be happy to do it,
Speaker 2: so you are actually doing it for the sake of Allah,
Speaker 2: and you will achieve goodness from it. But you need
Speaker 2: to make your mind up from now this Ramadan, I'm
Speaker 2: going to read Kooran and I'm going to make sure,
Speaker 2: come what May, I'm going to cover the entire Kuran
Speaker 2: in this month. Many of us, unfortunately, perhaps the majority
Speaker 2: of us, we don't complete the entire Koran in Ramadan. Right,
Speaker 2: I want to teach you something this year that will
Speaker 2: make life so easy for you. From now, you can
Speaker 2: download an act perhaps on Koran Central. You can download
Speaker 2: that app for an central. Choose one of your favorite recitors,
Speaker 2: and guess what if the recite is reading a little
Speaker 2: bit slow, what you do is let the reciter read
Speaker 2: a little bit, and you repeat after the recast, and
Speaker 2: you repeat after the reciter. If you have the opportunity
Speaker 2: to open the Qoran in front of you, you can
Speaker 2: hear the recitation and read after the reciter, and you
Speaker 2: just finish a quarter juice after every salah? A quarter jewice?
Speaker 2: What's that? Not more than ten minutes after every sala
Speaker 2: or sit in the evening and do it for thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: You've got the whole Jews done. Sit in the evening,
Speaker 2: sit in the morning while you're waiting for iftar whatever.
Speaker 2: But you need to promise yourself from now. That's one
Speaker 2: way of doing things, and that's for those perhaps who
Speaker 2: might not be professional in recitation of the Koran. And
Speaker 2: you will perfect or improve your Koran. But if you
Speaker 2: don't have a plan, you're not going to get anyway.
Speaker 2: You don't have a goal. What's gonna happen that football match?
Speaker 2: You don't even know where the goalposts are? And I
Speaker 2: think some players are like that, the way they operate
Speaker 2: open goal posts and the guy flicks it right over
Speaker 2: and you wonder, gosh, the juice man? You know? Man
Speaker 2: la grant ease. This is what's happening to us in Ramadan.
Speaker 2: Open goal posts. We're not scoring any goals because we
Speaker 2: don't have a plan. We don't even know what we're
Speaker 2: supposed to be achieving here. So if you have an
Speaker 2: aim and an objective and you have a goal, you
Speaker 2: will achieve one thing that you have to promise this Ramadan.
Speaker 2: And I made you promise this earlier. I'm repeating the
Speaker 2: same thing. Do you remember what promise you made earlier today?
Speaker 2: What was it? We're going to concentrate on our forgotten,
Speaker 2: on our character subhana llah. We're going to you see
Speaker 2: the others you've just eaten Mascha la manchet handle la
Speaker 2: ma lahas or whatever it was. We've forgotten everything else
Speaker 2: Mascha lattabarakala. We will concentrate on our character. Many of
Speaker 2: us in Ramadan we fail dismally when it comes to character.
Speaker 2: In your home, with your spouse, with your parents, with
Speaker 2: your brothers and sisters, with your children, with whoever nowhere
Speaker 2: else they may be out of the home, those who
Speaker 2: work with you, those you interact with, Muslim or non Muslim,
Speaker 2: whoever they may be. You must improve your character. Ramavan
Speaker 2: is a month of shining, and Ramavan is a month
Speaker 2: of working hard on your bad habits and getting rid
Speaker 2: of them. If you have bad words that you add
Speaker 2: in your speech, eradicate them forever, not just for the
Speaker 2: month of Ramavan. You don't need to use those words.
Speaker 2: You're a believer, you're upright. The respect that you will
Speaker 2: enjoy from people is very closely related to the type
Speaker 2: of language and the expressions on the face that you
Speaker 2: have and you use with the people. If you have
Speaker 2: a good expression and you use brilliant language, they will
Speaker 2: respect you come what may. But if you have a
Speaker 2: bad expression, you're looking gloomy, you're looking like you don't
Speaker 2: even want to talk to the people, You're looking angry
Speaker 2: all the time. Trust me, they won't even want to
Speaker 2: come near you. And if you were to talk to
Speaker 2: them them harshly, they will run away from you. That's
Speaker 2: why we always say, if you want to know if Allah,
Speaker 2: if Allah's mercy is upon you, take a look at
Speaker 2: your character. I'm talking of Muslim Muslims we fail to
Speaker 2: realize sometimes the important of greatness of character. How do
Speaker 2: you make people feel when you walk by? Do you
Speaker 2: acknowledge them? Do you smile? Do you maybe greet them?
Speaker 2: Do you at least give a good feeling you know,
Speaker 2: to the people around you? Subhan allah. Sometimes we don't
Speaker 2: thank you so much for listening to the short message.
Speaker 2: I pray that it has increased you in a little
Speaker 2: bit of motivation and hope, and the same applies to
Speaker 2: all of us. Jasako mon lacher as salam alee Komarahma
Speaker 2: Tolao Barrakad