Night 5: Double Dating During the Month of Ramadan - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini | Ramadan 2024

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[0:02]Alhamdulillah.

[0:37]for Illuminate your malice with a loud salawat for Muhammad and Muhammad.

[1:06]Respected scholars, brothers and sisters, for the last few years, if not

[1:21]the last few decades, I'm sure you've noticed that we have had

[1:28]multiple Eids in our community.

[1:33]We've had double Eids, meaning People of the same community will have

[1:41]different to celebrate.

[1:44]I will celebrate the day of on Monday but my wife on

[1:53]Tuesday.

[1:51]You will celebrate the day of on Thursday but your brother on

[2:00]Friday.

[1:58]So double Eids in one community.

[2:02]And many people have asked over and over again why why do

[2:07]we have two Eids double Eids?

[2:11]Why is there not one unified Eid for everyone?

[2:14]The answer usually is the fingers are pointed towards our well that's

[2:28]how our like to happen.

[2:32]Each one has his own theory, his own method of calculation on

[2:38]what day the Eid is.

[2:39]And because of the and because of our our following of the

[2:43]we have the different it's as simple as that.

[2:49]But when you ask themselves, maybe some of you should try if

[2:57]you ever get a chance, go and ask if you go to

[3:01]or ask the Why is there more than one Eid?

[3:02]Why can't you have one unified Eid for our community and Dearborn

[3:08]and Dearborn Heights?

[3:08]Because we are the center of the universe.

[3:12]So the will tell you that the issue here is much greater

[3:21]than Eid what day you will have breakfast with your with your

[3:25]family on Eid.

[3:27]It stems from a much greater discussion and issue.

[3:31]It's greater than even the month of Ramadan because we see the

[3:37]issue on the different double dates.

[3:40]It also reflects on the beginning of Ramadan.

[3:43]Some of you here began Ramadan Monday.

[3:46]Some of you began Tuesday.

[3:50]It reflects on when is we know there's three 19 21 23

[3:56]Ramadan but now we have six why because there's two 19s two

[4:05]21s and two 23s depending on depending on the that you follow.

[4:11]So it affects the month of Ramadan, the beginning, the end and

[4:17]in between.

[4:18]But not only that, many of us we think that it's only

[4:25]about the month of Ramadan.

[4:25]Every single month of the Islamic calendar, we have these double dates

[4:32]occurring again and again.

[4:33]For example, right in the month of it is highly recommended to

[4:41]perform certain read duas rituals on the day of the day of

[4:48]is the ninth day of the month of usually when we want

[4:59]to have a program to do those rituals together.

[5:02]We have been dealing with two different dates.

[5:06]Some in the community will have on Monday, some on Tuesday.

[5:11]So we have to create the program twice two days and so

[5:18]on and so forth.

[5:21]So the scholars will tell you that this issue of having multiple

[5:25]Eids stems from a much bigger issue and that issue is that

[5:28]we within this community and within the Islamic world don't have one

[5:34]calendar brothers and sisters.

[5:35]We have two simultaneous calendars that we're relying on.

[5:41]Even within the people that are sitting here and listening to me,

[5:47]we don't all follow the same Islamic calendar.

[5:49]And the greatest testimony to that is, let me ask you this

[5:54]question.

[5:55]What day of Ramadan was today?

[6:00]Friday.

[5:56]What day is it?

[6:00]Was it?

[6:01]Fourth or fifth?

[6:02]Anyone agree that it's fourth?

[6:06]Raise your hand.

[6:07]Anyone agree that it's fifth?

[6:10]Raise your hand.

[6:09]We have two calendars right now.

[6:12]What day from the civil Gregorian calendar was it today?

[6:18]March 15.

[6:19]If you believe today was March 16, raise your hand.

[6:24]Everyone believes it was March 15th, right?

[6:27]There's one calendar.

[6:31]Everyone 15th.

[6:30]Today was the 15th.

[6:33]Yes, that's what I said.

[6:34]Some of us probably haven't had proper, but anyway, there are there's

[6:43]only one civil Gregorian calendar.

[6:46]But when it comes to the Islamic calendar, there isn't just one,

[6:52]there's two.

[6:51]Ask the person sitting next to you, they will tell you, "Today

[6:55]was four Ramadan." You will tell them, "NO, IT WAS FIVE." And

[6:58]you're both right because we are simultaneously following two calendars in one

[7:03]community.

[7:05]You know, they have those advent calendars that they sell on Amazon.

[7:13]nice Ramadan calendars for decoration and so that you can keep track

[7:16]of what day of Ramadan it is.

[7:17]You've seen them.

[7:19]So every day you flip a page, one Ramadan, two Ramadan.

[7:21]So I thought this year, let's buy a big one and place

[7:26]it in the entrance of the IIA.

[7:28]But then I realized that if we do that, we will have

[7:38]to do what they call as double dating.

[7:43]Has anyone heard of double dating?

[7:44]There's three forms of double dating.

[7:45]The first form is what probably all of you or most of

[7:51]you are thinking about.

[7:51]It's when two couples date together, right?

[7:54]So that definitely is not what I'm talking about.

[7:59]or at least I hope the second meaning of double dating is

[8:03]something that some very hungry Muslims invented.

[8:06]When you break your fast, one date is not enough.

[8:11]Two dates.

[8:13]So, you double date and you break your fast.

[8:17]I'm not talking about that either.

[8:19]I'm talking about the third form of double dating.

[8:21]And this is, by the way, a terminology that historians use.

[8:29]Double dating is when one day has two dates in the same

[8:32]community and they're both following the same type of calendar.

[8:37]Meaning, it's not like one group is following the Chinese calendar, the

[8:40]other one the Gregorian.

[8:42]No, they're both following the same exact calendar, but you have two

[8:46]different dates.

[8:48]So anything you want to record, you'll have to have two dates.

[8:52]So I thought if we want to bring these calendars, we'll have

[8:56]to bring two.

[8:59]One to the right side, one to the left.

[9:02]One will say for Ramadan, well, we'll say five.

[9:03]How will you know which one's which?

[9:06]Either someone has to stand by the door and ask you a

[9:12]question, brother, which do you follow?

[9:13]and he would say uh mu for example mu on the right

[9:20]side that's your date another person would say I follow for example

[9:27]not mentioning from the past so they tell you oh no your

[9:34]date is on the left so there are two dates in the

[9:39]month of Ramadan that we're following or we would have to put

[9:42]what we'd have to put a disclaimer over one of the calendars.

[9:49]If you follow A B C D, today's Ramadan 4.

[9:50]If you follow D to Z, then your Ramadan would be five.

[9:59]That's complicated, right?

[10:02]It sounds even silly that we can't even get the date, something

[10:06]as simple as the date without involving Maraja.

[10:10]And by the way, it does not stop there.

[10:13]Because the only gives you the formula.

[10:17]You see, how do we know what day of Ramadan it is?

[10:20]It all depends on the moon.

[10:22]These days aren't arbitrary.

[10:23]They're not just imaginary.

[10:26]They are all scientific astronomical dates that are tied directly to the

[10:31]moon.

[10:32]The phases of the moon.

[10:34]How you derive the date it's four, five, six Ramadan depends on

[10:42]a complicated equation, astronomical equation and the scholars differ on those equations.

[10:51]So not only would I have to ask you which do you

[10:57]follow, I would have to also then go back to his theory

[10:59]on how to calculate the lunar month.

[11:03]I would have to actually calculate it and then give you the

[11:06]answer.

[11:07]So if you ask me brothers and sisters, what day of Ramadan

[11:13]is it?

[11:11]Do not expect a very easy quick answer.

[11:15]I have to give you a lecture just to answer you on

[11:20]what day of Ramadan it is.

[11:21]So anyway, the scholars will tell you that because we have these

[11:30]two simultaneous double dates, double calendars, that's why we're having two of

[11:37]everything.

[11:36]It all goes back to the calendars that we're using, the calendars

[11:42]that we are relying on.

[11:44]Now, like I said, to some that may seem as very silly.

[11:49]We as Muslims, as a community, two dates on what day of

[11:57]Ramadan this is.

[11:57]That's ridiculous.

[11:58]And like I said, it drags, it drags Eid and so many

[12:05]other things.

[12:04]And trust me, it will keep on dragging and dragging till probably

[12:09]the day of judgment.

[12:11]Maybe the day of judgment will also depend on which merger you

[12:18]follow.

[12:16]Tomorrow is my day of judgment.

[12:19]The day after tomorrow is your day of judgment.

[12:20]And they say obviously as a joke that someone woke up because

[12:25]he heard the trumpet of is and that is when we are

[12:28]resurrected by Allah signals the day of judgment.

[12:32]So he woke up from his grave.

[12:34]He saw it's a day of judgment.

[12:38]He saw his friend still sleeping in his grave dead.

[12:40]He woke him up.

[12:42]Get up.

[12:43]Look what's going on.

[12:44]It's the day of judgment.

[12:44]He woke up.

[12:47]He looked.

[12:49]He's like my says it's tomorrow and he went back to sleep.

[12:52]So it will have so many ramifications.

[12:55]Maybe the day that the Im reappears, we have for example that

[13:01]the Im will declare, right?

[13:04]Sharif will declare his mission and his uprising, his movement on the

[13:12]day of which your this is or that is.

[13:18]Now, alhamdulillah, when the Imam reappears, we will not need these different

[13:24]opinions anymore because we will be unified on under one leader.

[13:31]But the point is it's a problem that will drag until we

[13:33]can go to the core issue and that is how do we

[13:38]get one calendar instead of two different calendars simultaneously in the community.

[13:44]And someone might say that look at the normal calendar, the civil

[13:49]Gregorian calendar.

[13:51]It's so much more organized.

[13:52]Can you imagine if we couldn't agree what day of March it

[13:58]is?

[13:57]Some people would say 15, some 16.

[14:02]Some would say 17, some 16.

[14:04]That sounds ridiculous, right?

[14:06]If that sounds ridiculous to you, brothers and sisters, then you have

[14:12]not been reading history.

[14:13]the western world that we love and are affected by so much

[14:20]and they're so organized, right?

[14:22]For two centuries, they had the exact same problem.

[14:29]They used to use a system of double dating exactly from 1582.

[14:38]Google it to 1752.

[14:39]Europe and the US.

[14:42]The US was still colonies right before the independence.

[14:45]People in one community had two different dates.

[14:52]So, let me give you an example.

[14:55]If you think it's silly that some of us have Ramadan 4,

[14:57]others Ramadan 5, listen to this.

[15:00]from 1582 to 1752.

[15:03]If you lived in New York, if you lived in the eastern

[15:09]part of the US before the independence between January 1 and March

[15:18]24th, so like today, the people of every society had two dates.

[15:25]Just like you guys right now, Ramadan have two dates.

[15:29]And the day of their calendar depended on what?

[15:37]Depended on which faith they followed, which sect of Christianity they followed.

[15:46]So for example, if you were a Catholic living in Europe or

[15:52]in the US in the 17th 18th century, when was your new

[16:01]year?

[15:58]When was New Year's Day?

[16:04]Who knows?

[16:02]It's very easy.

[16:04]It's the same as now.

[16:07]What is it?

[16:11]January 1st.

[16:11]So for Catholics, the new year was January 1.

[16:15]Like now?

[16:17]Why?

[16:17]Do you know why?

[16:17]And for those of you that have parties on January 1 and

[16:22]you're celebrating, I want you to think what you're really celebrating.

[16:25]Do some research.

[16:28]You'll find out.

[16:28]In 1582, a pope by the name of Pope Gregory, that's where

[16:38]we derive the Gregorian calendar of today.

[16:41]Goes back to Pope Gregory.

[16:42]He was the one that came up with this calendar and we

[16:47]all follow him blindly, right?

[16:48]It's just we have problems with our when they tell us what

[16:50]day it is.

[16:52]Pope Gregory, he decided that the new year will be January 1.

[17:01]It wasn't January 1.

[17:03]From now on, the new year will begin January.

[17:08]Why?

[17:08]He said because January one is a holy day in Christianity.

[17:14]What happened January 1?

[17:15]Anybody knows?

[17:17]I'm being fully serious here.

[17:18]No disrespect to any faith.

[17:20]Because the bo the pope believed according to the Bible that January

[17:28]1 was the day in which baby Jesus was circumcised.

[17:36]This is what the Bible says that on the eighth day after

[17:40]he was born which according to the pope was January 1, God

[17:47]or God's son was circumcised and thus we have to celebrate and

[17:53]the new year should begin.

[17:54]The rest of the Christian world, non-atholics, Protestants, they're like, "No, this

[18:00]is nonsense.

[18:02]The new year should begin with the annunciation of Jesus.

[18:06]What does that mean?

[18:10]What's the annunciation?

[18:11]The annunciation is when told Miam that you're pregnant.

[18:18]And we have this in the Quran too.

[18:20]He came to her and he told her that you will be

[18:21]pregnant and she told him how but I am not married.

[18:25]He told her this is the miracle of Allah.

[18:28]So they believed that the annunciation of the birth of Jesus was

[18:33]March 25th.

[18:34]So if you were a non-atholic, your new year would begin March

[18:42]25th.

[18:40]So let's go to January, let's say 10, the year 1,724.

[18:51]If you're a Catholic, it's 1,724.

[18:57]But if you're a Protestant, what year is it?

[19:01]23.

[19:02]Two different years.

[19:05]And you think having Ramadan 3 and four is silly?

[19:08]They were off one year living in the same sometimes family.

[19:12]You're a Catholic.

[19:13]Your wife is Protestant.

[19:14]I don't know if that happens, but theoretically it should happen, right?

[19:17]You're one year ahead of your wife or she's one year ahead

[19:22]of you.

[19:23]And that's just the year the day was also off you know

[19:28]about how many days right now some of us are off by

[19:30]one day meaning some are four some are five you know how

[19:35]the how wide the split was 11 days 11 days so today

[19:41]is what March 15 2024 if we were still living in that

[19:48]day the same system if I'm a Catholic athic.

[19:52]Today is March 15, 2024.

[19:53]But what if I'm not a Catholic?

[19:55]You know what the real date would be?

[19:58]It would be March 4th, 2023.

[20:03]So if we would have the date, you know, on the TV,

[20:08]we'd have two dates.

[20:11]For Catholics, it's March 14, 2024.

[20:14]For Protestants, it's March 3, 2023.

[20:15]Does that sound silly to you?

[20:19]for two centuries.

[20:19]That's how the people lived, brothers and sisters, based on their faith,

[20:23]school of thought.

[20:26]They could not agree on the year.

[20:28]They could not agree on the day.

[20:30]11 days apart.

[20:32]That's why I want you to do this some of you.

[20:36]George Washington was lucky enough to be born in those two centuries.

[20:40]What is the birthday of George Washington?

[20:44]He has two birthdays.

[20:46]Does anyone of you have two birthdays?

[20:48]Yes, some of us have an Islamic birthday like I was born

[20:54]in Rajab and we'll have a Gregorian civil birthday December.

[20:57]But does anyone have two birthdays of the same calendar?

[21:02]Like I have I was born in December and February.

[21:04]Does that make sense?

[21:06]Look up the birthday of George Washington.

[21:09]You will see that he has to hope said he was born

[21:17]on February 11th 9 17 two but based the courts started to

[21:25]practice double dating meaning when they give you a birth certificate your

[21:35]birth certificate would have two dates on it date and the difference

[21:41]was one year and 11 days.

[21:42]Right now we might have two different days of Ramadan.

[21:48]It's four Ramadan according to say fan X and it's Ramadan 5

[21:52]according to say and we make such a big deal out of

[21:57]it.

[21:55]We see ourselves as being so backwards and silly.

[22:04]You'd have two birthdays.

[22:06]And that continued for two centuries almost until 19 in 1752 finally

[22:13]they decided or they decided to unite and they're like let's just

[22:18]use one calendar.

[22:19]Now the reason I mention this brothers and sisters is that we

[22:27]need to understand how the Islamic calendar works in order for us

[22:34]to understand why there's two Why?

[22:37]Ramadan begins on two days.

[22:42]It's not as simple as you think.

[22:43]And tonight, inshallah, in the remaining minutes I have and tomorrow and

[22:50]the next night, I'd like to continue the Islamic calendar because I

[22:56]feel this is an area of our faith that there's a lot

[22:58]of unknowns and we have a lot to learn and discover when

[23:04]it comes to Islamic calendar.

[23:05]When we hear what the traditions of tell us about Ramadan, we

[23:11]know about the significance of Ramadan but its place in the calendar

[23:17]and the origins of the month of Ramadan.

[23:20]This may come as a surprise.

[23:22]So this is what I want to speak about inshallahhammed.

[23:32]Where did the Islamic calendar come from?

[23:35]The Islamic calendar, brothers and sisters, the Islamic lunar calendar that's based

[23:41]on the moon, it preceded Islam.

[23:44]Some scholars or some historians will put it in this way that

[23:49]the Arabs of the Jah they had adopted this calendar, a 12

[23:54]month calendar starting from what?

[23:56]What's the first month?

[23:59]Muharam.

[24:00]And then you have and then you have Ramadan.

[24:07]No, after Ramadan, it's just like going from January all the way

[24:15]to December.

[24:16]It basically accepted this system.

[24:20]It adopted this system.

[24:22]This is how it's presented by some historians or maybe even us

[24:31]that the system of Islam was decided millions of years ago has

[24:37]nothing to do with the Arab where does Allahh say that allahel

[24:43]says in the holy Quran there's 12 months and then the Quran

[24:51]says then the Quran says four of these months are sacred in

[25:07]the eyes of Allah.

[25:08]It's not allowed in these four months.

[25:09]If you do a good deed, the of your good deed is

[25:16]intensified.

[25:14]And if you do a bad deed, the sin is also multiplied.

[25:21]Imm says are the hajjs.

[25:23]They're called the hajjs.

[25:26]So they were given special sanctity by Allah to honor the is

[25:33]one two months ago.

[25:34]So also has to do with these Arabs had gotten the system

[25:42]from Ibraim stayed in the Arabian Peninsula for a long time but

[25:49]it slowly started to get distorted.

[25:51]So the Arabs would go to Hajj but their Hajj was completely

[25:57]messed up.

[25:56]The way they performed Hajj, the days they performed it, but the

[26:04]general ideas were all there.

[26:06]Now the Allah created the system of 12 months and four of

[26:17]them are the holy months and the timings listen carefully and the

[26:21]number of these months are important.

[26:25]Allah cares about how many days of a month are shaan and

[26:31]how many days are Ramadan.

[26:35]It's not some imaginary terms.

[26:36]Who cares, right?

[26:36]Just like right now, daylight savings time.

[26:39]It's imaginary.

[26:40]Right now, you can see this blessed clock in front of you.

[26:43]It says 9:47, right?

[26:45]Why?

[26:46]Because it doesn't believe in daylight savings time.

[26:49]It's part of the other camp.

[26:50]While your clock in mine is 11:47.

[26:53]This is imaginary.

[26:55]Whether it's 11:47, sorry, 10:47 or 94 doesn't really matter, right?

[27:00]That's just something we make up.

[27:02]The point is the sun when the when the sun sets and

[27:07]when it rises.

[27:09]But the Quran here says that with the months Allahel is strict.

[27:13]Ramadan one means it's Ramadan one.

[27:16]You fast Ramadan one till the end of Ramadan.

[27:19]You cannot fast any other days and make it up for Ramadan

[27:21]without an excuse.

[27:24]Is to be done in don't do it in another month.

[27:27]Why is Allah saying this?

[27:31]The reason is because the Arabs, they started to get clever.

[27:38]They started to play around with the system because you see the

[27:45]Islamic lunar month, lunar month, it keeps on changing with respect to

[27:49]the season.

[27:51]Last year, Ramadan began what day?

[27:54]Almost March 20.

[27:54]That's right.

[27:55]Correct.

[27:56]This year, almost March 10.

[27:58]remember a couple of years ago it was in July and if

[28:03]some of you are old enough to remember it was in January

[28:08]like 20 years ago or more.

[28:09]So it keeps on changing and every year it goes back 10

[28:14]days meaning Ramadan next year will be March 1 about the year

[28:18]after that February 1918, February 9th, end of January and so on

[28:22]and so forth because the lunar year is 10 days or 11

[28:27]days shorter than the solar year anyway.

[28:30]So it goes through all the seasons.

[28:32]Sometimes you'll have Ramadan in the spring, sometimes in the summer, sometimes

[28:36]in the winter.

[28:38]You can experience all the different seasons, not just Ramadan and all

[28:45]the different months.

[28:48]Now, if you remember when Ramadan, the month of Ramadan was in

[28:53]December.

[28:52]We used to have the programs.

[28:56]I remember at the A on Joy Road.

[28:57]Many of you probably were too young to remember.

[28:59]Some of you who are above 80 years old, maybe you'll remember

[29:04]those days.

[29:08]Ramadan, the was at 5:30 p.m.

[29:14]So 5:30 p.m.

[29:15]we'd have ourar.

[29:16]The program would begin at like 8:30, 3 hours after.

[29:21]You would have your meal, you would pray, you would have your

[29:27]shai, your coffee, your argil, you could take a nap, watch two

[29:31]or three musels, right?

[29:32]those those Arabic uh what do they call them?

[29:39]Arabic sitcoms and then you would come and you're still early to

[29:44]the majus.

[29:45]Now you can't even finish your cup of tea.

[29:46]Well, now it's getting better.

[29:50]So those years were a blessing because the night was like 14

[29:53]hours long.

[29:54]You could have seven meals and you'd never go hungry during the

[29:58]day.

[29:59]By the way, I remember a couple of years ago, I was

[30:04]invited in the month of Ramadan to speak in New Zealand.

[30:08]There's a country in the world called New Zealand.

[30:09]Some of you have heard of it.

[30:12]Most Americans have not probably.

[30:13]I visited.

[30:13]It's real.

[30:13]It exists.

[30:14]There is a conspiracy theory, by the way, that it doesn't exist.

[30:16]You can see it on Facebook.

[30:19]So, because it's in the s southern hemisphere, right, they have opposite

[30:23]seasons here.

[30:26]The people of Dearbornne, your was at 9:35.

[30:31]This was like six years ago.

[30:33]Then what time my was there?

[30:41]5:28.

[30:37]Your was 4:00 a.m.

[30:41]My was 6:15 a.m.

[30:43]So you were fasting twice as much as I was fasting.

[30:47]I remember we used to have ourar if we used to rest

[30:52]go to the majas give the lecture Q&A we'd finish I'd be

[30:55]back home in my bed I'd look at the clock it's 9:30

[31:00]I'd say the people of Dearbornne are just about to have their

[31:03]har my day is over I'm going to bed I had four

[31:09]hours ago why it's because it keeps on changing now if I

[31:16]I had it my ways, I would love Ramadan to always be

[31:20]in January or December to kind of force it to get stuck

[31:28]in January or December because imagine Ramadan every night 5:30 p.m.

[31:32]But just like life has its ups, has its downs, there's going

[31:39]to be the easy days and the difficult days.

[31:42]The Arabs of the Jahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah they noticed that the changing of the

[31:47]seasons was inconvenient right mostly it was because of hajj they don't

[31:54]want it to be in the summer it's scorching hot let's keep

[31:58]it in the winter let's keep it in the spring so what

[32:00]did they do they invented what we call now as leap years

[32:05]no leap years or you kept on adding an extra month or

[32:07]whatnot or a date so every three or four years they would

[32:13]add from their own selves a 13th month.

[32:16]The year has 12 months.

[32:17]They would add a 13th month.

[32:19]What would that do?

[32:21]It would reset it.

[32:21]Remember, it's running away.

[32:24]March 20, March 10, March 1.

[32:26]So, every 3 years at a 13th month, Ramadan would once again

[32:29]fall.

[32:30]March 20.

[32:31]That's how you get it to be stable.

[32:34]Allahel in the next verse after he says there's only 12 months

[32:43]ordained by Allah.

[32:41]Listen to what he says.

[32:44]He says Allah condemns that practice of adding a leap year.

[32:53]Allah says I intentionally made the system so that the seasons change.

[32:58]So it's not stagnant.

[33:01]You come and you invent a 13th month.

[33:03]Allah calls that as kufur.

[33:05]It's kufur upon their kufur.

[33:10]They had enough disbelief.

[33:11]The people of the jahal, right?

[33:13]Enough corruption, enough transgression.

[33:15]It's not like that wasn't enough.

[33:18]Now you come and you start switching around the months and you

[33:22]play with it.

[33:27]They one year it's here, one year it's there.

[33:29]It's completely up to their desire.

[33:36]They would say the point is we go to or it's in

[33:44]another month is after or it's after who cares.

[33:48]The point is we're going to the point is we fast 30

[33:53]days and we call it Ramadan.

[33:55]Whether those 30 days are before Shawad and after Shaan, it doesn't

[33:58]matter.

[33:59]Allah says no, it does matter.

[34:01]This is my system.

[34:03]Do not play with it.

[34:07]When we hear this, brothers and sisters, what do you think the

[34:14]message of this verse of the Quran is for us Muslims in

[34:23]2024 when Allah condemns this notion of which is basically it doesn't

[34:28]really matter.

[34:30]The point is just do it.

[34:33]I think brothers and sisters this verse would apply in such a

[34:43]truthful way when it comes to Eid because most people no longer

[34:53]care what the true criteria for Eid is.

[34:56]They just want to have their aid.

[34:58]Let's just unite.

[34:59]Let's just choose one because it's more convenient.

[35:03]Exactly what the people of Jahyah did.

[35:06]They united and chose one thing.

[35:10]They didn't care about what the truth.

[35:12]They didn't care about the evidence.

[35:14]They didn't care about astronomy, right?

[35:16]Because this is all tied to astronomy.

[35:18]The point is we do Hajj.

[35:22]For some of us, the point is we have Eid.

[35:25]Whether it's the right Eid, the wrong Eid, it doesn't matter.

[35:27]And for some of us, no, it has to be the earlier

[35:33]Eid.

[35:31]Allahel says when you're a true Muslim, you submit to everything to

[35:39]Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

[35:39]That means even in the days in which you fast, you leave

[35:44]it up to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[35:46]If because I believe this is the most eligible that this is

[35:51]what Allah wants.

[35:51]It doesn't make sense to say well let's leave what Allah wants

[35:55]and let's just unite on another date or else this is another

[35:58]form of nit meaning what altering that are tied directly to the

[36:05]date and this is how Allah subhana wa ta made the system

[36:11]so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he makes it very clear that there

[36:17]are 12 months and if the Arabs followed the system it's because

[36:21]they had taken probably from Ibraim is and the earlier prophets.

[36:26]Now, one thing and I'll end with this brother and sisters.

[36:30]I just have three minutes.

[36:32]There's a point that I want to address when it comes to

[36:38]fasting and the struggle and suffering of fasting.

[36:40]Many of us would prefer to have at 5:30 like the winter

[36:47]days like New Zealand.

[36:47]Many of us would prefer to have less to fast and more

[36:54]to eat.

[36:55]But remember the hadith of Im Ali brothers and sisters where he

[37:00]says the and reward that Allah gives you is directly tied to

[37:10]how much you struggle and suffer.

[37:13]The more difficult your fasting is, the more Allahel will reward you.

[37:18]There are some people who fasting is very easy for them.

[37:26]And there are others who struggle greatly.

[37:27]They starve.

[37:28]The thirst really bothers them.

[37:31]The fatigue, they don't complain about it.

[37:37]Allahel knows that allahel will not compensate everyone equally.

[37:40]The more you struggle and suffer because of your fasting, the more

[37:44]Allah will reward you.

[37:47]Some of us have TO WAKE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND

[37:48]go to work and the whole day we're fasting.

[37:51]That's not easy.

[37:54]Allah appreciates this because you're doing it for him.

[37:56]Don't think that this is a terrible month.

[37:59]Some people don't like Ramadan because they have to work during the

[38:04]day.

[38:05]see this as a blessing because you are doing much more than

[38:09]others and I don't think we realize how much Allah subhanahu wa

[38:16]ta'ala appreciates this when we struggle for him when we say I

[38:21]will not drink this water I will not eat my breakfast or

[38:23]lunch only to please Allahel Allah is so generous he gives you

[38:31]even when you don't ask for anything when we sleep in Ramadan

[38:34]he counts that as worship.

[38:35]Imagine you're actually doing something for him and it's not easy.

[38:38]You're starving sometimes.

[38:42]You're so thirsty you can't even talk.

[38:46]Your throat becomes so it becomes so dry you can't even breathe.

[38:49]You don't think Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala appreciates that every second of

[38:56]that Allah will count us as allahel is so generous.

[39:02]brothers and sisters and that's why I'll end with this hadith.

[39:07]It's reported that prophet Isaam he saw his mother one day whether

[39:14]in a dream or he summoned her because remember he could revive

[39:18]the dead and he asked her a question he asked his mother

[39:20]Mariam do you miss the would you like to come back to

[39:27]the or no such a great lady she's in paradise now obviously

[39:32]she wouldn't want to tells Isa yes you know what I would

[39:39]like to come to the dunya.

[39:40]He says why?

[39:43]She says so I can do two things.

[39:44]That's it.

[39:43]Number one, watch Netflix.

[39:46]No, I'm sorry.

[39:46]That wasn't tomorrow's lecture.

[39:48]Number one is to pray on a very cold day because remember

[39:57]when you do woo they had some form of woo.

[40:01]You didn't have heaters, you didn't have water boilers.

[40:03]So doing woo in the winter was agonizing cold water on your

[40:09]hands.

[40:10]I want to come back to the duny so I can pray

[40:15]in the winter when it's cold because it's hard and I can

[40:18]fast in the long hot [snorts] hours of the summer.

[40:22]What does that tell you?

[40:23]that when she went to the next world, when she entered her

[40:28]grave, she realized the reward Allah had prepared for her for the

[40:32]struggles that she went through in the dunya.

[40:35]She noticed that the she got for those days where the fasting

[40:39]was long and difficult was way more than the days that she

[40:45]had to stay home and she can sleep till noon and the

[40:47]day wasn't that long.

[40:49]So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brothers and sisters he rewards every single

[40:56]one of you every single one of us based on how much

[41:01]we struggle in the month of Ramadan to please him.

[41:04]Allahel is so generous.

[41:06]Inshallah I'll finish this series in the next few nights.

[41:11]We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bless you all except your

[41:14]and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to hasten the reappearance of

[41:21]our to make us amongst his loyal companions and supporters.

[41:24]I remind you that we will be listening right now to our

[41:29]dear brother Haj Abu reciting uh it'll only take about 10 minutes

[41:38]only 10 minutes and it's only 10:00 I'm going by this clock

[41:41]by the way it's only 10:02 p.m.

[41:42]10 minutes and inshallah you can go home.

[41:46]Thank you so much brothers and sisters.

[41:48]Let us end by reciting surah fat for all the believers that

[41:54]have passed away and for the people of after a loud salawat.

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