What is your advice for us in Ramadan?
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The questioner : Peace be upon you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
The questioner : What do you tell us, O Shaykh? What do you advise us, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I advise you, first and foremost, you and those around you, to fear Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in everything He has commanded and everything He has forbidden. This is the first point. Second: let your fasting be abstention from both the material things that break the fast and the spiritual things that break the fast. The material things are well known to you, such as eating, drinking, sexual intercourse, and other matters on which there is consensus or disagreement. As for the spiritual things that break the fast, which you may not have heard referred to by this name, I mean by them the sins in which, if a Muslim falls, his fasting is at least deficient, if not rendered invalid. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) pointed to this reality in a hadith in al-Bukhari’s “Sahih”:Sahih al-Bukhari 1903, Sahih al-Bukhari 1903; therefore, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said, explaining the wisdom behind legislating the fasting of the month of Ramadan: [Al-Baqarah 2:183]; that is, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) did not make the month of fasting, Ramadan, obligatory merely to make a person hungry or to make his body hungry and thirsty, though that is necessary. Rather, the command, the wisdom, and the ultimate goal that Allah intended is to cease from all sins. Therefore, he (peace be upon him) said: Sahih al-Bukhari 1903 And he also said in another authentic hadith: Mishkat al-Masabih 2014 This is my advice: first, a general advice that is suitable for every time and every place, which is to fear Allah; and second, and finally, a general advice regarding your being in the blessed month of Ramadan, that you fear Allah in your food and drink and in everything your Lord has commanded you and forbidden you. Peace be upon you.
The questioner: May Allah reward you a thousand times, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you. Is there any other need?
The questioner : If Allah wills, we will take the advice.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
The questioner : What do you tell us, O Shaykh? What do you advise us, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : I advise you, first and foremost, you and those around you, to fear Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in everything He has commanded and everything He has forbidden. This is the first point. Second: let your fasting be abstention from both the material things that break the fast and the spiritual things that break the fast. The material things are well known to you, such as eating, drinking, sexual intercourse, and other matters on which there is consensus or disagreement. As for the spiritual things that break the fast, which you may not have heard referred to by this name, I mean by them the sins in which, if a Muslim falls, his fasting is at least deficient, if not rendered invalid. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) pointed to this reality in a hadith in al-Bukhari’s “Sahih”:
Whoever does not give up forged speech and evil actions, Allah is not in need of his leaving his food and drink
مَن لم يدَعْ قول الزور والعمل به فليس لله حاجةٌ في أن يدَعَ طعامه وشرابهWhoever does not give up forged speech and evil actions, Allah is not in need of his leaving his food and drink
مَن لم يدَعْ قول الزور والعمل به فليس لله حاجةٌ في أن يدَعَ طعامه وشرابهdecreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous -
كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَWhoever does not give up forged speech and evil actions, Allah is not in need of his leaving his food and drink
من لم يدَعْ قول الزور والعمل به ؛ فليس لله حاجةٌ في أن يدَعَ طعامه وشرابهMany a one who fasts gets nothing from his fasting but thirst, and many a one who prays during the night gets nothing from his night prayers but wakefulness.
كم من صائمٍ ليس له من صيامِه إلا الجوع والعطش ، وكم من قائمٍ ليس له من قيامِه إلا السَّهر والتَّعبThe questioner: May Allah reward you a thousand times, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you. Is there any other need?
The questioner : If Allah wills, we will take the advice.
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