A New Approach to Fasting - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini

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Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo
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Ramadan 2021 - Night 2 (4/15/2021)
A New Approach to Fasting - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini
at the Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo

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[0:32]respected brothers and sisters assalamu alaikum last night we spoke about the

[0:41]beauty of the month of ramadan and we said that it is

[0:43]a month like no other month during the year and we spoke

[0:49]about the sermon of rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam about the merits

[0:54]of the month of ramadan now probably the most beautiful or the

[1:00]most unique aspect i would say of the month of ramadan is

[1:04]fasting siyam the fact that we no longer eat and drink during

[1:09]the day we can only eat and drink during the night you

[1:12]know it's a complete transformation or a change in our lives because

[1:18]remember before ramadan all we do is we eat during the day

[1:21]we don't eat during the night and especially when the nights are

[1:25]long or when the days are long like these days we don't

[1:29]eat anything during the night even our dinner many of us is

[1:32]during the day but all of a sudden when the month of

[1:35]ramadan begins we have to completely stop eating all those meals breakfast

[1:41]lunch and dinner during the day and we have to move to

[1:45]the night and all our meals either one meal iftar or some

[1:48]people they'll have as well it will be all during the night

[1:52]so fasting is a very unique factor and aspect of the month

[1:56]of ramadan now the hadith of they have spoken to us about

[2:02]the benefits of fasting i'll mention this as a as a prerequisite

[2:08]or introduction so that inshaallah we can speak about taqwa which is

[2:12]one of the greatest benefits of fasting the hadith of ahlul baytiss

[2:16]alaihi musalam they tell us about the benefits of fasting if i

[2:19]were to ask you why do you fast every individual will have

[2:23]a different reason some individuals they may fast because it's just the

[2:27]ritual that everyone else is doing my father is fasting my family

[2:31]is fasting my friends are fasting i was born to fast during

[2:35]the month of ramadan but why do i do it they don't

[2:38]know beyond this what are the benefits what am i really trying

[2:41]to achieve after thirty days of fasting they have no clue it's

[2:45]just thirty days of starvation for some individuals when we go to

[2:50]the hadith of ahlul bayt the imams of ahlul bayt they tell

[2:53]us about some of the benefits of fasting and i will mention

[2:56]five inshaallah four tonight and the fifth one we'll speak about tomorrow

[3:00]the first benefit of fasting which is probably an obvious benefit is

[3:04]reward allah has a has promised a great reward for fasting a

[3:11]hadith of imam ali alaihi salam states he says that whoever fast

[3:27]during the month of ramadan because of his faith because of his

[3:32]iman and belief in allah so he does it purely for god

[3:35]because allah has required this and he does not break his fast

[3:39]with haram i don't break my fast eating some haram food then

[3:44]allah will give you the greatest reward of allah will be given

[3:50]to the one that fast and the rasulullah spoke about paradise i

[4:02]can't even explain to you how great it is the prophet says

[4:04]it is beyond anything you have seen or heard and it is

[4:08]beyond your imagination so this is number one when i fast the

[4:12]most obvious and first benefit of fasting is the reward and the

[4:15]greatest reward of allah has promised for fasting as imam ali says

[4:20]paradise that's number one number two the second benefit of fasting is

[4:25]that fasting forgives us of our sins it erases your sins there

[4:31]are certain rituals that also have this same outcome for example salah

[4:38]according to the hadith of the holy prophet is when you when

[4:40]you pray to allah your five daily prayers one benefit of your

[4:45]five daily prayers is that each prayer erases your sins from the

[4:49]last prayer till now so for example when you pray if you

[4:54]had committed sins after they will all be erased if you had

[5:01]committed any sins from the tell allah will erase all your sins

[5:07]it's five times a day that allah has give us an up

[5:11]given us an opportunity to erase our sins and there's a famous

[5:14]hadith of the prophet he gives the analogy the example of someone

[5:18]taking a shower five times a day it's a famous hadith he

[5:22]says imagine if someone lived by a river and five times a

[5:24]day he took a shower would he be dirty would there be

[5:27]any dirt on his body of course not he would be the

[5:29]cleanest individual nobody takes five showers a day even now now back

[5:33]then that was even more strange but now even with the you

[5:37]know advancement of water and so easy to take a shower in

[5:40]your home nobody takes five showers showers a day so the prophet

[5:44]keeps your soul clean from all the spiritual diseases viruses and stains

[5:51]likewise has the same desired effect al imam says in one hadith

[5:57]whoever fasts during the month of ramadan as ramadan finishes allah will

[6:03]shave away all of the sins that burden that person's back such

[6:07]that when ramadan finishes that person will be like you'll be like

[6:14]a newborn a newborn that has absolutely no sins this is what

[6:18]ramadan does to us and you know this term usually we read

[6:22]about it where in hajj people go to hajj they say i

[6:27]want to go to hajj so that i stand in the desert

[6:29]of arafat and i ask allah for his forgiveness because the hadith

[6:34]tell us that whoever goes to hajj and stands in arafat allah

[6:38]will erase their sins they will be they will be like a

[6:41]newborn likewise if you fast for allah during the month of ramadan

[6:46]says allah will take away all your sins and there's a similar

[6:51]hadith from al imam where he said that every night of the

[6:56]month of ramadan allah frees thousands of people from he frees them

[7:01]from the fires of he forgives them of their sins every night

[7:06]until the last night of ramadan the last night of ramadan allah

[7:11]will free as many people from the fires of hell as he

[7:15]did throughout the month so however much he freed throughout the month

[7:19]he will free that much just during one night and that is

[7:22]the night the last night of the month of ramadan so this

[7:25]is the second benefit of fasting brothers and sisters every day when

[7:28]we are fasting yes it's difficult yes we struggle but it's worth

[7:32]it not only are you getting that great reward which is al

[7:34]jannah the paradise the ultimate grand prize of god but allah has

[7:39]also because you're struggling and you're going through hardships allah will forgive

[7:44]us of all our sins just because we are fasting this is

[7:47]number two number three a third benefit of fasting is a physical

[7:52]benefit you see is for your soul and it's also for your

[7:57]body the hadith of the prophet says what does that mean the

[8:02]prophet says fast so that you can reap the health benefits there

[8:06]are health benefits for your body allah wants your body to be

[8:11]healthy some fasting is one of the ways that leads you to

[8:15]having a healthy lifestyle and a healthy body a couple of weeks

[8:20]ago i'm sure many of you read this it was all over

[8:22]the news the cdc they released the leading causes of death for

[8:27]the year 2020 what was what number was covid everyone's eye was

[8:33]on covid right because it killed so many people covid was the

[8:36]third cause of death number three it killed almost three hundred forty

[8:41]five thousand people in the year 2020 and we were so afraid

[8:45]of it right but it was number three there was another cause

[8:49]that killed twice as much people as covid what was it does

[8:54]anyone remember heart disease you could read it cdc leading causes of

[8:59]death heart disease killed twice as much people in the year 2020

[9:04]than covid did everyone is afraid of covid but we're not really

[9:08]too afraid of heart disease right covid changed our lives but all

[9:12]this sickness all these diseases and death because of heart problems it's

[9:16]not really changing our lives almost seven hundred thousand people i believe

[9:21]it was six hundred ninety thousand people they died because of heart

[9:24]disease now why do people die of heart disease i know we

[9:27]have doctors that know more about this than me but this is

[9:30]general knowledge one of the leading causes of heart disease is what

[9:35]is food isn't it when you eat fatty food when we eat

[9:39]these you know processed foods sugars it leads to so many problems

[9:44]it leads to you know you have high cholesterol and then your

[9:47]arteries start to get blocked and this is why people die because

[9:51]of their heart this is one of the main causes of heart

[9:53]disease it's because of food so food brothers and sisters is very

[9:57]dangerous it leads to obesity and now they say obesity is either

[10:02]the leading preventable cause of death or number two after smoking it's

[10:06]easily preventable now some diseases they're not easily preventable like cancer you

[10:12]can't really prevent it it just happens and you don't really know

[10:14]why it happened but obesity and the problems that it leads to

[10:18]like diabetes right it also could be caused because of eating too

[10:23]much or because of bad health you know bad diet and cholesterol

[10:27]high blood pressure all these things they are caused by food and

[10:31]that's easily preventable we can easily prevent it and this is why

[10:35]the hadith of the prophet and the imams it's mentioned by more

[10:38]than one of the they say this the stomach of yours it

[10:46]is literally what the imam is saying it's the house of disease

[10:49]it's the house of sickness meaning it's the source of many of

[10:52]your diseases many problems that we have in our lives many health

[10:56]problems is because of our food it's either because we don't exercise

[11:00]or because of your food your food is not healthy it's junk

[11:04]food that we're eating processed food that we're eating or we're we're

[11:07]eating too much food and that's why the second part of the

[11:10]hadith says which is to diet to watch out to monitor your

[11:16]food don't eat too much don't eat unhealthy foods eat healthy foods

[11:20]right eat fruits and vegetables and foods that aren't processed this is

[11:25]this is the imam says this is the key to your pureness

[11:31]to your well-being so you have to watch out for what you

[11:34]eat and this is where ramadan comes into play the holy prophet

[11:38]says for eleven months we eat eat eat eat too much ramadan

[11:43]says take a break brother sister you've been eating too much for

[11:48]one month let yourself relax let your stomach relax give it some

[11:53]time to breathe now unfortunately sometimes you know when iftar comes we

[11:57]make up for all those three meals that we missed and even

[11:59]more some people they stuff food in their mouth you know in

[12:03]the end of their iftar meal they can't breathe i hear some

[12:05]brothers i can't breathe after because they eat so much now of

[12:09]course this all those benefits that we gain during the day were

[12:13]just you know destroying it at night we don't need that much

[12:16]food but subhanallah when you're hungry sometimes you lose track so we

[12:19]need a break at least once during the year don't eat too

[12:23]much because all this food will lead to so much problems for

[12:27]you when you grow up now you're young thus once you hit

[12:30]the age of 40 45 50 i've seen so many people it's

[12:34]all problems you have to take all these medications because you have

[12:37]high blood pressure because you have cholesterol because you have this diabetes

[12:41]that so yam teaches us to be moderate to always live with

[12:46]moderation that's why the hadith of imam ali says do not leave

[12:50]do not you know leave unless you you want more food when

[12:53]you're dining when you're eating do not get up unless you want

[12:56]more basically says don't eat until you halal you can't you're full

[13:00]your stomach hurts no reach a level where you've had enough but

[13:04]you still want a little more you still crave a little more

[13:07]stop so don't get too full because all that excess food that

[13:11]you're eating you're destroying your health in the long run so ramadan

[13:16]teach us to relax recently a couple of months ago i met

[13:19]someone he's in his sixties he used to have diabetes and he

[13:24]told me that recently i've been cured of my diabetes so i

[13:28]asked him how he said i fast every day but not the

[13:31]you know the ramadan fasting it's just a health you know a

[13:34]diet that he's doing he says i eat one meal a day

[13:38]i eat just one meal a day and i think he says

[13:41]he eats it around two or 03:00 and that's it it's a

[13:43]pretty big meal not too big just enough so that he can

[13:46]live he says alhamdulillah i did that for a couple of weeks

[13:49]or months i went to the doctor my diabetes is cured so

[13:54]many of the diseases we have it's because of food i remember

[13:58]once i saw a video of a health nutritionist expert he said

[14:02]for the last twenty five years i never got sick this is

[14:06]what he claimed i never got sick how you don't need any

[14:09]medication you don't need any vaccine he just said one thing he

[14:12]said watch out what you eat for he says i never eat

[14:15]sugars sugars i never eat unless it's natural probably from fruits but

[14:21]the you know from soda and cake and all this junk food

[14:24]he says i never go i never eat any of that and

[14:26]i don't eat processed foods just healthy foods he says i've been

[14:30]doing that for twenty five years i never get sick i don't

[14:33]get the cold i don't get the this is a couple of

[14:35]years ago before covid he says i don't get the the flu

[14:39]i don't get sick at all so he may be exaggerating a

[14:42]little that he never gets sick but the point is if you

[14:45]try it your immune system will become stronger and you won't get

[14:48]sick so that's why the hadith says your the food that we

[14:54]eat is the source of all our health problems so during the

[14:58]month of ramadan we take a break so this is number three

[15:02]remember during ramadan it's not only giving you benefits for your soul

[15:06]but also for your body so this was benefit number three of

[15:23]fasting benefit number four of fasting is what is fasting teaches us

[15:29]to be more empathetic and compassionate with poor individuals you know of

[15:36]the biggest problems of the world today is poverty is it because

[15:40]there's not enough wealth to go around no brothers and sisters there's

[15:43]so much wealth in this world it's enough for everyone to live

[15:46]a good decent life the problem is they call it the inequal

[15:51]distribution of wealth there are handful of people that own too much

[15:56]billionaires multi billionaires millionaires and multimillionaires and then there are people that

[16:02]can barely live there's people that live on less than a $100

[16:06]a month millions of them throughout the world they live on less

[16:10]than $100 a month so there's an unequal distribution of wealth and

[16:15]there's so much resources that are wasted even us unfortunately sometimes we

[16:20]do israf we cook more food than we need we order more

[16:23]than we need what do we do with the rest because we

[16:25]don't like to eat leftovers right we're spoiled we throw all of

[16:29]it away unfortunately and there's people that are dying brothers and sisters

[16:33]they're dying for just you know just a little bit of food

[16:36]just to stay alive so ramadan teaches us to be a little

[16:41]empathetic to be compassionate with the poor you see you won't care

[16:46]for a poor individual unless you build empathy for them empathy means

[16:50]what means you feel what they feel and we can never build

[16:54]empathy unless we taste the bitterness of hunger if i give you

[16:59]10 lectures every night this ramadan about the miseries and the plight

[17:03]of the poor people of the world you're not gonna be too

[17:07]motivated yes maybe it's a little motivation but it's not gonna be

[17:12]like if you yourself feel hunger when you feel the agony when

[17:16]you suffer this is when you start to be what to sympathize

[17:20]that's why if there's someone that has cancer we just hear about

[17:24]his problems his suffering his plight we don't really sympathize unless i

[17:29]myself go through what they did what they went through if you

[17:32]see someone that has family problems he has a problem with his

[17:35]spouse she has a problem with her husband he has a problem

[17:38]with his son with his daughter family issues right unless you felt

[17:42]it yourself you're not really gonna sympathize with that person with every

[17:47]single problem this is how we human beings are once it's about

[17:50]me subhanallah we're selfish once i feel that problem this is when

[17:56]i start to become an advocate and i start to sympathize and

[17:59]i start to feel what other people feel and that's why you

[18:03]know i always mention this example of you know and there are

[18:08]some ni'am here there are some luxuries i call them they're not

[18:12]just basics they're luxuries that we take them for granted we don't

[18:15]even know they exist one of them brothers and sisters is what

[18:18]electricity right we have power all the time power is never shut

[18:24]down here we have constant twenty four hour power you can watch

[18:28]tv your refrigerator works your tv your internet works lights if it's

[18:34]cold in the winter you you can have the heat on if

[18:37]it's hot in the summer you can have the ac on this

[18:39]is a that we don't understand its existence when do you understand

[18:44]brothers and sisters once you lose power when you go to iraq

[18:48]brothers and sisters in the summer and it's a 120 degrees a

[18:52]130 degrees and you notice constant outages of power constant outage even

[18:58]if you have money money doesn't do anything really for you there

[19:01]because there's no power you have to go buy your own generator

[19:04]and you think it's easy there's so many problems that come with

[19:07]buying a generator you have to hire someone that has to twenty

[19:11]four hours monitor it because you need fuel for it and sometimes

[19:14]i hear there's no fuel because obviously this generator needs fuel you

[19:18]go to the market there's no fuel today you have to stand

[19:21]in a three hour line if you want to buy fuel right

[19:25]and then you have to keep on turning it on turning it

[19:27]on you it needs maintenance it's a biggest headache it's a biggest

[19:32]headache for people that live there in the summer and they have

[19:35]no power there when you go to iraq in the summer this

[19:38]is when you realize what you were in when you had twenty

[19:41]four hours and not just iraq many countries i know in lebanon

[19:44]in the south likewise they have so much power outages in other

[19:47]parts of the world this is a that we don't when do

[19:50]you start to sympathize with someone when you hear all people of

[19:53]iraq have no electricity when you yourself feel it when you yourself

[19:57]go in the summer and you feel the pain of the heat

[20:01]this is when you start to sympathize or else when i'm sitting

[20:04]under my ac in the summer here i'm not gonna sympathize with

[20:07]someone i'm i'm happy i'm comfortable under the ac i'm not gonna

[20:11]sympathize with someone you know having to deal with this problem on

[20:15]a daily basis so when we suffer ourselves when we feel what

[20:19]other feels this leads to what this builds empathy inside us we

[20:25]start caring about others that leads to what we want to change

[20:28]we want to help them the hadith of ahlul bayt tell us

[20:31]this is the point of fasting we fast so that we feel

[20:35]hunger because remember brothers and sisters if it wasn't for ramadan some

[20:39]of us we never get hungry recently someone was telling me i

[20:43]was trying to remember before ramadan when was the last time i

[20:46]got hungry like really hungry not just normal hunger right it's like

[20:50]i can't even remember for the last months probably five six months

[20:54]i cannot even remember the last time i was really hungry just

[20:57]waiting for food because we wake up we eat after a couple

[21:01]of hours just as we're getting hungry we have lunch couple of

[21:04]hours we're getting hungry we have dinner before sleep we slip some

[21:07]you know some desserts we're eating the entire day there's never a

[21:11]time that we're really hungry until ramadan comes i wake up seven

[21:16]six some people five eight nine whenever in the morning and then

[21:20]i have to refrain from food for twelve hours this is when

[21:24]i feel the bitterness of hunger what happens this develops inside me

[21:30]that empathy oh no there's people that have to go through this

[21:33]every day every single day says this in a hadith he says

[21:44]so that the wealthy that have all the means and resources they

[21:48]will be just like the poor individuals they both cannot eat the

[21:51]poor cannot eat because he does not have food the rich cannot

[21:54]eat because he can't because allah has forbidden him during the day

[21:57]so allah wants us what the imam says that he does that

[22:01]so that the rich individuals can feel some of the hunger that

[22:05]the poor people feel because when i'm wealthy anytime i want anything

[22:18]i can just go and buy it i have it it's all

[22:20]there at my disposal but in the month of ramadan allah tells

[22:24]me don't eat when i feel that hunger i begin to sympathize

[22:27]with the poor when i begin to sympathize with them what do

[22:30]i do i go and help them so this month brothers and

[22:33]sisters the month of ramadan we have to think why am i

[22:37]starving why is allah asking me not to eat and drink so

[22:40]you can think about the less fortunate because at the end of

[22:43]the day it doesn't matter how hungry you are before maghrib when

[22:46]it's seven 07:30 right when it's 08:00 you know at the end

[22:50]of the day you're gonna go and your iftar will be ready

[22:54]your wife will have cooked you the best food your mother your

[22:57]whoever cooks for you or you're you're a cook for example alhamdulillah

[23:01]you have delivery door dash whatever you guys have you have the

[23:04]best food waiting at 08:30 08:35 but you have to remember there

[23:09]are people brothers and sisters in the muslim world and all across

[23:12]the world when it's time there are fast continues because they have

[23:16]nothing to eat they don't have anything do you know how difficult

[23:20]this is brothers and sisters especially when i am a father and

[23:24]my i have children i have to feed them and i can't

[23:26]feed them allah this completely breaks the heart of the father of

[23:30]the mother their children come and they're hungry and you can't feed

[23:33]them in ramadan this is a that when it's a i can

[23:36]have all the foods that i love and that's why the prophet

[23:39]said let this feeling of hunger lead to action the prophet said

[23:44]in his sermon about ramadan he said what this is the month

[23:51]of brothers and sisters it's the month of charity you have felt

[23:55]the bitterness and the pain of being hungry imagine if this was

[23:59]your life every single day and iftar time there was nothing for

[24:02]you to feed your family what would happen to you that's why

[24:05]use this opportunity to help other people throughout the muslim world the

[24:09]hadith the prophet then continued in a sermon he said if you

[24:15]give food for a for someone that's fasting so that they can

[24:18]have iftar with allah the prophet says we'll give you the of

[24:22]as if you have freed a slave and he will forgive you

[24:27]of all your past sins so let us remember brothers and sisters

[24:31]that during this month of ramadan how much allah is merciful with

[24:35]us how much he's kind with us that when it's i can

[24:38]eat whatever i want not everyone in the muslim world is fortunate

[24:43]couple of days ago i saw a video they sent in lebanon

[24:48]no lebanon wasn't a poor country and when you think of poor

[24:52]countries you think of other countries in africa right or in india

[24:55]or somewhere lebanon was not a poor country but subhanallah what happened

[24:59]to them as we say just overnight they had to suffer so

[25:06]much and and you know they lost all those naan that they

[25:08]had i saw a video people are fighting over what they're fighting

[25:13]in a supermarket over a bag of sugar a bag of sugar

[25:17]brothers and sisters what's the worth of a bag of sugar for

[25:19]you go to your local supermarket go to kroger walmart see the

[25:23]price a bag of sugar i think it's probably $34 not more

[25:27]the sisters i think they would have a better answer right they're

[25:31]fighting over it like they're fighting for their lives you know that

[25:33]these people are starving remember these individuals during the month of ramadan

[25:38]if you can help them help them send food for them people

[25:41]in in in lebanon in iraq in pakistan in in afghanistan all

[25:46]the muslim world if you are able allah has given you the

[25:50]financial capability the prophet says help people across the muslim world because

[25:55]this is our duty this is why we're fasting so that we

[25:58]can feel the hunger and we can sympathize and help them imam

[26:02]al bakr says in a famous hadith he says the imam says

[26:23]if i can feed a family a muslim family that is in

[26:27]need a dignified family a father a mother and kids if i'm

[26:32]able to feed them give them food give them shelter give them

[26:35]clothing and because of that i will have protected them i will

[26:39]have preserved their dignity their karama he says this is better for

[26:43]me than going to hajj 70 times imam al baqarah says if

[26:48]i'm given two options to hajj 70 times with all the tawab

[26:51]that comes with hajj but instead i can use that money to

[26:55]help people that are in need give them food give them shelter

[26:58]give them clothing he says i would do the latter he says

[27:01]i would help that that poor family so remember ramadan yes it's

[27:06]a month of allah it's a month of it's also a month

[27:09]of charity it's a month of every night pay a whatever your

[27:14]means are $1 a day put you know in your piggy bank

[27:17]dollars 5 a day dollars 10 a day the more you can

[27:20]do the more allah will bless you and accept your tomorrow night

[27:27]we will speak about taqwa the final benefit and probably the greatest

[27:31]benefit of fasting

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A New Approach to Fasting - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini

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التالي

استكشاف المزيد

اختيار طريقة الدفع

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