The Three Levels of Fasting - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini | Night 2 - 2026 MYC Ramadan

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Topic: The Three Levels of Fasting Speaker: Sayed Ahmed Qazwini Program: Night 2 of the 2026 MYC Ramadan Prorgam Location: Islamic Institute of America - Dearborn Heights, MI, USA #islam #shia #muslim #sunni #ramadan #ramadankareem #ramadanmubarak #hijab #lecture #shahrramadan #eid #qazwini #prophetmuhammad #devil #sins #deeds #quarantine #myc #mycmedia #levels #shiavssunni #islamicfigure #hijab #porphetmuhammad #muhammad #fast #fasting

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[0:03]Alhamdulillah.

[0:49]Ali Muhammad respect.

[0:53]Ed scholars, brothers and sisters, I'd like to congratulate everyone on the

[1:03]commencement of the beautiful month of Ramadan, the holiest month out of

[1:11]the year.

[1:10]And I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to enlighten us during this

[1:16]blessed month so that we can seek nearness to Allah subhanahu wa

[1:23]ta'ala and we can attain the ultimate pleasure of our creator inshallah

[1:28]ta'ala.

[1:30]If your non-Muslim friend asks you one day to explain fasting in

[1:38]one sentence, what would you say?

[1:41]If your non-Muslim friend asks you to explain Ramadan, what is Ramadan?

[1:49]Can you explain it very briefly?

[1:50]I think the majority of us would reply in this way.

[1:54]We would probably say that the month of Ramadan is a time

[2:01]where we fast.

[1:59]We stay away from food, from eating and drinking during the day.

[2:06]This is what the month of Ramadan is.

[2:10]And even though this is true, but explained Ramadan in a much

[2:21]more beautiful way, a way that we can learn from.

[2:23]It's a much more interesting and intriguing way.

[2:29]When the month of Ramadan was approaching in the famous sermon that

[2:33]Allah described what this month is all about, he defined and explained

[2:41]Ramadan in a different way, in a very unique way.

[2:44]Allah explained Ramadan as a banquet.

[2:50]Has anyone ever explained to someone when they're asked what is Ramadan?

[2:56]You tell them it's a banquet.

[2:57]Well, this is exactly what Allah said.

[3:00]He says it's a large banquet.

[3:03]The person or the entity that is inviting that is hosting this

[3:12]banquet is none other than Allahel.

[3:14]And every single one of you believers are guests.

[3:19]This is how Allah explains the month of Ramadan.

[3:29]It's a month where Allahel is holding a divine banquet and every

[3:39]single one of you believers is invited to attend this banquet.

[3:45]Now, let me ask you this question.

[3:47]If there's a banquet, there's an invitation and there's tens of thousands

[3:55]of people attending, are you going to go?

[3:57]What if it's millions of people are attending?

[4:00]I probably would not go because I'll think about the parking crisis.

[4:04]Where the heck am I going to park?

[4:06]Where am I going to sit?

[4:11]It's going to be so chaotic.

[4:12]Is there even going to be a seat for me?

[4:16]Will I be able to even see whoever the speaker is or

[4:19]whatever is being offered in this banquet?

[4:21]Will I even be served on time?

[4:24]I would not go to anar if I know there's 50,000 people

[4:28]invited to thatar because I'm not sure if I will have my

[4:34]meal byar time.

[4:33]It may be delayed by an hour, two hours.

[4:37]Maybe thear will turn into.

[4:40]But what's interesting about this banquet of Allah is that the prophet

[4:47]he quickly makes this explanation because if you think it's a huge

[4:51]banquet and every Muslim, every believer is attending this banquet, it's going

[4:56]to be chaotic.

[4:58]So the prophet quickly makes this explanation and then he says now

[5:08]what if they tell you that you're invited not as a normal

[5:13]guest but as a guest of honor and there's a private special

[5:17]invitation for you and you will be seated at the VIP table.

[5:23]Now are you going to go?

[5:25]probably yes because you're going to expect to be honored.

[5:30]You're going to expect VIP treatment in this banquet in this gathering

[5:33]in this invitation.

[5:34]Allah says that the month of Ramadan is a huge banquet that

[5:40]is hosted by Allah.

[5:41]But what's beautiful about it is it's not chaotic.

[5:44]It's the most calm and serene invitation and banquet that you will

[5:52]ever attend.

[5:51]How is that possible?

[5:54]Only Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can pull that off.

[5:58]Have everyone attend and everyone is a guest of honor.

[6:05]Everyone will sit at the VIP table.

[6:07]When you arrive at the banquet, those that are supposed to greet

[6:14]you, they even memorize your name.

[6:18]Welcome, brother Ali.

[6:17]Sister Zanab Fatma.

[6:19]How does that make you feel?

[6:21]all these individuals and there's someone waiting for me specifically and then

[6:27]they will escort me to my table to my chairoolam says this

[6:35]is what the month of Ramadan is the reality of the month

[6:40]of Ramadan is that Allah is holding holding an ultimate divine feast

[6:45]banquet and he has sent a private invitation to every single one

[6:53]of It's not one of those mass invitations.

[6:54]You're not expected to come and attend as one random worshipper out

[7:02]of the millions of worshippers.

[7:04]No.

[7:05]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants you specifically to attend.

[7:09]Allah will notice you specifically out of everybody.

[7:12]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will appreciate and thank and reward you by

[7:18]your name when you attend this banquet.

[7:20]This is what Allah means when he says how honorable is this

[7:32]brothers and sisters when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes me feel that

[7:37]important.

[7:38]Now what have I done to earn this?

[7:41]Nothing.

[7:41]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is inviting everyone.

[7:43]Whoever is willing to reply, Allah says, "I want you specifically and

[7:47]I will have you sit on that VIP table." And what Allahawel

[7:54]offers during his banquet is something unbelievable, something unique.

[8:00]While you fast during the month of Ramadan, this banquet of Allah,

[8:09]Allahawel will feed you something greater than food.

[8:14]He will feed you forgiveness.

[8:15]There's a from Bakam where he speaks about this.

[8:20]The fifth im says that there are angels that Allahawel entrusts during

[8:27]the month of Ramadan.

[8:30]They only show up during this month.

[8:33]Their job is to do one thing.

[8:37]They ask Allah to forgive the people that are fasting.

[8:41]Whoever fast during the month of Ramadan, Allah considers that as an

[8:49]as a an acception of his invitation.

[8:54]That means you've accepted.

[8:57]That means you've attended.

[8:58]And then allahel entrusts angels to forgive you or to ask Allah

[9:03]to forgive you throughout the day when you're fasting.

[9:08]So when you're fasting, Allah is serving you what?

[9:15]Forgiveness.

[9:13]The prophet says that when you have your not just having food,

[9:21]brothers and sisters says those same angels when you're having yourar they

[9:28]will feed you mercy and forgiveness of Allah and they will tell

[9:32]you this.

[9:37]You went hungry for a few hours from morning until evening.

[9:42]But now you will be satisfied for a long time.

[9:47]Not because of the food that you're eating, but because of the

[9:49]mercy and the forgiveness that Allah subhana wa ta'ala is giving you

[9:55]duringar.

[9:54]And if you want the ultimate forgiveness of Allah, there's a hadith

[10:00]from Allah where he says this.

[10:02]Listen carefully.

[10:02]See how generous Allah is in the month of Ramadan.

[10:06]Brothers and sisters, Ramadan is not just about fasting.

[10:09]Ramadan is not just aboutar and it's not just about the decorations

[10:16]and you know the the culture that's come with Ramadan in the

[10:20]last couple of years where we stay up late and we have

[10:25]food and we enjoy that.

[10:27]Ramadan is an experience between you and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[10:32]Ramadan is a marathon that Allahawel has provided for every single one

[10:40]of us.

[10:38]So the Imam says or the prophet says that if you want

[10:44]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's full forgiveness, do this before you have your

[10:49]first bite ofar.

[10:50]I know you're very hungry.

[10:52]It's hard for you to to be patient, but just take 10

[10:54]seconds of your time.

[10:57]Allah says, "Whoever recites this dua before his, it's a very easy

[11:07]dua, three parts, takes you 10 seconds.

[11:07]Say this before you have yourar, not now.

[11:14]I hope you're not having yourar now.

[11:18]You should have had it three hours ago." You're doing dua to

[11:24]Allah.

[11:23]He's the great one.

[11:25]Say that twice.

[11:24]That's number one.

[11:32]You are my Lord and I have no Lord besides you.

[11:37]This is number two.

[11:40]And number three, I ask you to forgive my great sins.

[11:53]For only a great Lord can forgive great sins.

[11:54]How long does that take?

[11:58]You can read it off the paper.

[12:01]10 seconds.

[12:03]Allah says, "If you recite this dua before, Allahel will forgive all

[12:08]your sins such that you become like a newborn.

[12:14]You will come out of all your sins pure without any sins.

[12:22]And then you can enjoy yourar.

[12:25]What a beautiful opportunity brothers and sisters.

[12:28]So when you're fasting, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is feeding you forgiveness.

[12:32]When you break your fast, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is feeding you

[12:36]forgiveness.

[12:37]When you sleep, even your sleep during the month of Ramadan is

[12:42]blessing.

[12:43]The same sermon of Allah, this is something that we all know.

[12:49]He said about the month of Ramadan, when you sleep, your sleep

[12:57]is counted as worship as if you stayed up the night doing

[13:01]Quran dua of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[13:05]What did you do?

[13:08]Nothing.

[13:08]You just slept.

[13:08]But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rewards you for that sleep in the

[13:11]month of Ramadan.

[13:14]Why?

[13:15]Because it's that sleep that gives you energy to fast the next

[13:19]day and thus because it's helping you worship Allah subhanaa tala Allah

[13:23]gives you a for it.

[13:26]So when you sleep Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is is feeding you

[13:29]mercy and forgiveness and blessings and this is probably one of the

[13:36]most beautiful ones of the most beautiful aspects of the month of

[13:40]Ramadan.

[13:40]And when you have when you have Allahawel feeds you forgiveness.

[13:45]You know our scholars state that it is recommended to have is

[13:51]what?

[13:52]It's just eating something before.

[13:53]It's your second meal.

[13:56]For some of us it might be the third meal because we'll

[13:58]have like a middle meal at like 11 12 but it's your

[14:03]last meal before.

[14:05]This is called the prophet sallallah.aihi Wasam is narrated saying Allah and

[14:22]his angels they send their pray for the person who has you

[14:29]know where we read this in the Quran when does Allah send

[14:33]his salawat to Allah.

[14:35]So it's something that Allah usually reserves for Allah says in the

[14:45]Quran.

[14:51]So Allah says that me and my angels we send our salawat.

[14:57]Salawat means our prayers, our dua, our my mercy, my blessings, my

[15:02]forgiveness.

[15:03]I send it upon Allah every day and he asks the believers

[15:06]to do the same.

[15:09]But the prophet says during the month of Ramadan when you have

[15:11]Allah will do salawat for you.

[15:13]And what are you doing?

[15:15]You're just having that's it.

[15:17]That's why the prophet says so do not miss in the month

[15:22]of Ramadan if you're not hungry.

[15:25]Something as basic as a drink of water do and allahel grants

[15:28]you great.

[15:30]So when you're fasting, Allah subhana wa ta'ala is rewarding you.

[15:33]When you break your break your fast, Allah rewards you.

[15:38]When you sleep, Allah rewards you.

[15:40]When you have, Allah rewards you.

[15:42]Does it get any easier, brothers and sisters?

[15:45]What more can we ask for?

[15:48]What more?

[15:48]When I breathe, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives me a for my

[15:55]breath.

[15:56]Even that the prophet said and that's why he used to say

[16:02]he says I'm surprised how is it that some people will not

[16:07]make it to heaven on the day of judgment.

[16:09]How how is it some people say that religion is difficult?

[16:12]How many times I see young people say it.

[16:15]It's so difficult to be religious.

[16:17]It's so difficult to please Allah.

[16:19]Allah says breathe and sleep.

[16:21]I'll give you a that's difficult.

[16:25]This is the easiest.

[16:28]Havear and I'll forgive you.

[16:30]Basically, Allah is telling you, do nothing.

[16:33]Be the laziest person and I'll forgive you.

[16:36]How can someone not be forgiven during the month of Ramadan?

[16:38]I don't understand.

[16:40]This is what used to say.

[16:46]How do some people not make it on the day of judgment?

[16:56]Look at how merciful Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is.

[16:59]And we see it so beautifully in the month of Ramadan.

[17:04]So appreciate this month, brothers and sisters.

[17:05]Appreciate every single second of it because it is the greatest opportunity

[17:11]that allahel gives us to seek nearness to him.

[17:16]And all you have to do to attain all of that is

[17:22]one thing just fast.

[17:26]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says fast from until and I will give

[17:30]you all that all that good that we spoke about.

[17:33]Now fasting my dear brothers and sisters is much more than just

[17:40]not eating and not drinking.

[17:41]And this is what I'd like to speak about inshallah for the

[17:43]remaining of the time that I have.

[17:48]For many of us, fasting is a one layered act.

[17:55]It's basically stay away from food, stay away from drinking from until

[18:00]I imi in a beautiful tradition explains that there are three types

[18:09]of fasting and this is only the first layer of fasting.

[18:12]He says the first layer or type of fasting is the fasting

[18:16]that we do that we know.

[18:22]It's when your stomach fasts from food, from drinking.

[18:26]Allah in the holy Quran says Allah says that you can eat

[18:41]during the night but once you see you have to refrain and

[18:46]then you have to continue fasting until nighttime.

[18:49]So this first type of fasting, we only practice it during the

[18:54]day.

[18:55]At night, you're not fasting, correct?

[18:58]But you're only not practicing the first type of fasting, which is

[19:06]the fasting, refraining of food and drinking, the first type.

[19:09]But then I imam says this is only the tip of the

[19:14]iceberg.

[19:14]There's a second type of fasting.

[19:16]This second type of fasting, the Imam calls it, it's when your

[19:26]stom it's when your tongue fasts.

[19:28]The first type is when your stomach fasts.

[19:32]Your stomach refrains from eating.

[19:34]The second type, Imm Ali says, is when your tongue refrains from

[19:39]disobeying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[19:42]When your tongue fasts, this is the second level of fasting.

[19:47]When you prevent your tongue from backbiting, from lying, from profanity, from

[19:54]insulting others, from getting into arguments and gossip.

[19:58]This is a form of fasting.

[20:04]Imm says, now why does Im Ali only speak about the tongue?

[20:07]Because we know that the entire body can commit haram.

[20:12]So why does he only speak about your tongue fasting from haram?

[20:20]Possibly it's because the tongue brothers and sisters is the most dangerous

[20:25]of all our body parts.

[20:25]Look at how small it is.

[20:29]But it causes more damage than any other body part.

[20:32]There's a hadith from the prophet where he says most of our

[20:37]sins are because of our tongue.

[20:38]Such that if you can control your tongue, you'd be one of

[20:44]the best people on earth.

[20:44]Most of the sins and mistakes that we commit is because of

[20:47]our tongue.

[20:48]A young man came to Allah one day, the hadith says he

[20:55]told him give me short advice.

[20:56]Allah told him two words.

[20:59]He came the second day.

[21:02]He told him Allah I want advice.

[21:05]The prophet told him control your tongue.

[21:07]He came the third day because he was seeing that Allah is

[21:11]giving him something too basic.

[21:11]He wanted something that was much more you know much deeper than

[21:17]just control your tongue.

[21:18]But the prophet all three times he told him control your tongue.

[21:22]The prophet is trying to tell him that if you can control

[21:26]your tongue, then trust me, you will get yourself out of most

[21:29]of your sins, most of the problems that you fall into.

[21:34]And there's another tradition that's narrated about Adam, prophet Adam.

[21:39]The tradition says that prophet Adam towards the end of his life,

[21:46]he had many children and grandchildren.

[21:47]They were gathering one day and everyone was chatting and speaking.

[21:52]But prophet Adam was silent.

[21:54]He would not speak.

[21:55]So one of his children asked him, "My dear father, why do

[22:00]you not speak?

[22:02]Why are you so silent?" You know what he replied?

[22:06]He said, "Because Allah gave me advice." After I was taken down

[22:12]from Jenna paradise, brought to earth, Allah told me that if you

[22:18]want to regain your position that you used to have, then do

[22:22]one thing.

[22:24]Practice silence.

[22:23]For silence is what will elevate you to the old position that

[22:29]you have.

[22:31]And that's why indeed silence is a virtue.

[22:31]So when he speaks about fasting, he says when you fast, let

[22:38]all of your body parts fast.

[22:40]Not just the first level of fasting, which is the fasting of

[22:45]the stomach.

[22:44]He says, "Let your tongue fast.

[22:46]Let your eyes fast." Meaning refrain from seeing what is haram, the

[22:54]forbidden gaze, the endless scrolling.

[22:55]Let your ears fast during the month of Ramadan.

[22:58]Do not listen to music.

[23:02]Do not listen to others backbiting and gossiping.

[23:04]And every body part of yours, make sure that they are all

[23:12]fasting alongside your stomach, not just your stomach.

[23:14]This is only the first layer.

[23:16]This is only the first type of fasting.

[23:18]All of them together.

[23:21]And Im Ali Ali he says that the second type of fasting

[23:28]the fasting of the tongue or of the limbs he says this

[23:30]is much greater than the first type of fasting.

[23:33]And the reason is because the first type of fasting is only

[23:40]a means while the second type of fasting is an end.

[23:44]It's a goal.

[23:46]What do I mean?

[23:48]Many times we're asked this question.

[23:50]Why do we fast during the month of Ramadan?

[23:53]If someone asks you, why do you refrain from eating and drinking

[23:58]during the month of Ramadan?

[23:59]Well, obviously because Allah mandated this.

[24:02]But what's the philosophy behind it?

[24:03]What am I trying to achieve?

[24:05]The other day, my young son asked me, why do we refrain

[24:08]from eating and drinking for 12, 13, 14 hours?

[24:10]What's the point of that?

[24:13]Is there are we learning anything or is it just blind, you

[24:16]know, blind submission to Allah?

[24:17]It is submission to Allah.

[24:20]But are we learning anything?

[24:20]Allah answers this question in the Quran.

[24:23]We don't have to speculate.

[24:27]He tells us why he wants us to fast.

[24:30]Allah subhana wa ta'ala says, Allah says, "Oh you who believe, I

[24:38]want you to fast." Fasting has been prescribed upon you just like

[24:46]it was prescribed upon earlier nations and then Allah tells us why.

[24:52]So if I ask Allah ya Allah why do you want me

[24:53]to refrain from eating and drinking for 12 13 hours?

[24:58]What's the point?

[25:00]Allah says so that through refraining from food and water you can

[25:08]achieve tawa.

[25:08]So the question is what is tawa?

[25:13]Allah says don't eat and drink so that you can achieve tawa.

[25:15]Tawa my dear brothers and sisters is a very simple notion.

[25:22]Tawwa means discipline yourself for the sake of Allah.

[25:28]Taqua means control your body parts and your desires for Allahel.

[25:33]This is what tawa means.

[25:37]I desire something that Allah has banned.

[25:40]I tell myself no.

[25:41]This is tawa.

[25:41]My nfs doesn't want to pray.

[25:45]It's lazy.

[25:44]I tell my nfs no you have to pray.

[25:47]Discipline your naps for Allah.

[25:50]This is what tawa means.

[25:51]>> [snorts] >> So Allah in the Quran says practice the first

[25:56]type of fasting which is what?

[25:58]Stay away from food and thirst and and water.

[26:02]Why?

[26:03]So that you can achieve tawa which is the second type of

[26:09]fasting.

[26:10]So that you can control your body parts.

[26:14]So that your body parts and limbs can fast and stay away

[26:18]from haram.

[26:18]So one is a means and the other is an end.

[26:22]Allah only wants you to fast from water and food so that

[26:27]you're able to control your the desires of the nef and say

[26:31]no to haram.

[26:32]And that's why he says that the second type of fasting is

[26:38]greater than the first type.

[26:38]It's more difficult controlling your tongue.

[26:42]My brothers and sisters, fasting of the tongue is more difficult than

[26:48]fasting of the stomach.

[26:50]Let me give you an example that illustrates.

[26:53]If you have a sah with your friends tonight, can you have

[26:59]a sah with five 10 of your buddies of your friends without

[27:05]any food, but you're able to chat and speak and laugh and

[27:10]and and talk about anything?

[27:11]Can you have that sah?

[27:13]Yes.

[27:14]It might not be that that much fun because you want some

[27:16]food, you want some snacks, you want some drinks, but you can

[27:22]still have that sah, but imagine I invite you to a sah

[27:24]where there's every type of food, but you can't say a word.

[27:29]Just can look at each other and no iPhones.

[27:31]That's the most boring sah.

[27:35]No gossip, no backbiting, no making fun of other people.

[27:36]Come on.

[27:38]What a boring s.

[27:40]Trust me, after a few minutes, everyone would leave that s even

[27:43]if you have the tastiest food on the table.

[27:47]So, refraining from speech, brothers and sisters, is more difficult than refraining

[27:51]from food.

[27:53]Allahel is telling us if you want to teach your nephs to

[27:57]refrain from speaking to control your tongue to control your eyes to

[28:04]control your ears first start with the more simple fast which is

[28:08]the fast of the stomach refrain from eating and drinking and not

[28:13]the whole day only from this is a way that you can

[28:19]train your nevs to say know to be disciplined.

[28:24]Once you're able to do the first type of of fast, the

[28:29]second one becomes easier for you because you've trained it for an

[28:33]entire month.

[28:35]And that's why, if you've noticed during the month of Ramadan, how

[28:40]many of us accidentally eat or drink something because we forget we're

[28:44]fasting?

[28:46]The first day of Ramadan, it happens because you're not used to

[28:52]it, right?

[28:50]The second day it happens.

[28:53]But day 10, day 12, if someone comes and tells me, say

[28:56]it, today I completely forgot that I was fasting and I hate

[29:01]and I ate an entire burger.

[29:03]Come on.

[29:05]Completely forgot after the first bite, the second bite, the fifth bite,

[29:09]the first day of Ramadan.

[29:12]Okay.

[29:10]But the 10th day, we don't forget anymore.

[29:13]By the way, there's a hadith from the Imam where he says,

[29:18]"If you truly genuinely forget while you're fasting and you're and you

[29:22]eat and drink, there's nothing wrong with that.

[29:23]In fact, it's a gift from Allah." Meaning, your fast continues.

[29:29]It's valid and you got to eat.

[29:31]You got the best of both worlds.

[29:32]That's why if you see someone during the month of Ramadan, it's

[29:36]like 12:00 p.m.

[29:38]They're drinking, right?

[29:40]Don't tell them stop drinking.

[29:44]Why?

[29:42]because this is a gift from Allah.

[29:44]Sometimes forgetting is a blessing from Allah.

[29:47]Don't remind him because once you remind him or her, they can't

[29:52]eat or drink anymore unless you know no, they're intentionally doing it

[29:57]then obviously.

[29:57]But this is a gift from Allah.

[30:01]But the question is why is it that in the month of

[30:03]Ramadan usually we don't forget after the second third day.

[30:09]We're always alert.

[30:08]I see water.

[30:11]I remember I'm fasting.

[30:12]I see some snacks.

[30:15]I remember I'm fasting.

[30:15]I go to work.

[30:17]My co-workers are having coffee.

[30:19]I always remember that I'm fasting.

[30:21]Why is that?

[30:23]Because when we fast, brothers and sisters, during the month of Ramadan,

[30:30]we have a strong sense of selfawareness.

[30:31]We're alert.

[30:33]I'm always alert to the fact that I'm fasting.

[30:38]No one can come and and and make me forget that I'm

[30:40]fasting and then I'll eat something.

[30:42]Maybe the first day, but for the rest of the month, I'll

[30:47]always know that I'm fasting.

[30:48]I'm alert.

[30:50]And that's why you find that during the month of Ramadan, because

[30:54]of that alertness, even when you're hungry or thirsty and there's food,

[30:59]you won't eat.

[31:01]It's 4 p.m.

[31:01]I'm thirsty.

[31:02]I'm hungry.

[31:04]There's food in my kitchen.

[31:05]No one will see me.

[31:08]Why don't I take a bite?

[31:11]Why?

[31:09]No one's going to see.

[31:13]Because I know Allah is watching me.

[31:16]Allah is recording that I will eat and invalidate my fasting.

[31:19]So in the month of Ramadan, you're always aware that Allah is

[31:23]watching, right?

[31:25]You don't forget, hey, maybe Allah is not watching.

[31:30]Let me drink some water.

[31:31]No, you're always reminded of that.

[31:34]You're always alert.

[31:34]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants to train you to use that level

[31:40]of alertness.

[31:39]Allah is watching.

[31:42]Allah is watching.

[31:42]I'm fasting.

[31:43]Allah is watching.

[31:46]And apply it to the second level of fasting.

[31:47]Imagine if you had that same alertness towards every haram.

[31:51]You know why many times we commit haram?

[31:54]Because we forget Allah is watching.

[31:58]We forget that Allah is recording everything.

[32:00]We forget that there's a day of judgment.

[32:03]We forget that one day Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will hold me

[32:07]accountable for everything.

[32:11]We completely forget this is what is we get distracted heedlessness.

[32:16]In the month of Ramadan you don't get distracted in the month

[32:21]of Ramadan.

[32:20]You're very alert to the fact that Allah is watching but you're

[32:26]only alert to two things and water.

[32:28]Right?

[32:29]Allah wants you to train on food and water.

[32:33]So you become alert to music all the time.

[32:36]As soon as music hits your ear, you remember Allah is watching.

[32:39]Just like as soon as you see water during Ramadan, you remember

[32:42]Allah is watching.

[32:44]That's why you don't drink.

[32:44]As soon as you see a haram scene, you say Allah is

[32:50]watching.

[32:51]Whenever your desires they drag you towards doing something haram, you remember

[32:59]Allah is watching.

[32:58]Yes, I know it feels good, but Allah is watching.

[33:02]I know it feels good to flirt with the opposite gender, but

[33:07]Allah subhana wa ta'ala is watching.

[33:09]Just like it feels good to drink water during the month of

[33:14]Ramadan.

[33:13]You don't think you have what it takes to say no to

[33:19]your desires?

[33:19]Just look at you during the month of Ramadan.

[33:21]For 30 days, you didn't drink anything during the day and you

[33:26]didn't eat anything.

[33:27]That's why non-Muslims, they're surprised.

[33:29]How do you guys fast for 30 days from until not a

[33:33]drop of water?

[33:34]That's not easy.

[33:36]That's difficult.

[33:35]This is tawa, brothers and sisters.

[33:38]This is how you discipline your nefs because you're always alert.

[33:44]Allah is watching.

[33:44]Allah says once you do the same thing with all the other

[33:51]harams, this is when you attain tawa and this is when you

[33:53]reach the second level of fasting.

[33:55]So imbal hadith says there's two types of fasting.

[34:01]He says the first type of fasting is the fasting of the

[34:07]stomach.

[34:06]When you refrain from eating and drinking from then he says there's

[34:13]a greater higher level of fasting which is the fasting of your

[34:16]tongue your limbs when your body parts they fast they stay away

[34:24]from haram for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

[34:25]This is the second type of fasting.

[34:30]And then says there's a third type of fasting.

[34:34]This is the highest level of fasting.

[34:37][snorts] That highest level of fasting according to Imam he says as

[34:48]the fasting of your mind of your soul and heart.

[34:53]That's when you prevent your mind and your heart from thinking about

[35:00]sins.

[35:02]This is the most difficult.

[35:05]This is the highest level because this is where everything starts.

[35:09]When you commit a sin, this didn't come from a vacuum.

[35:13]Why did I commit a sin?

[35:15]It started with a thought.

[35:18]That thought, you kept on entertaining it.

[35:21]It grew.

[35:22]It grew.

[35:24]It became serious.

[35:24]Once it became serious, that thought now became into an intention.

[35:30]That intention turns into action.

[35:32]So if you rewind, what got me into this mess?

[35:37]When I commit a sin, it was that thought.

[35:40]If I was able to disrupt that thought and prevent that thought,

[35:44]the rest of the chain would completely go away.

[35:49]But this is the most difficult for you to fast from that.

[35:56]Every time a bad idea, a bad thought comes to my mind,

[36:01]I flush it out and I say, "No, no, this is more

[36:02]difficult." But this is the most effective way for us brothers and

[36:06]sisters to stay away from sin.

[36:10]And that's why Shaitan, you know, the shaitan is clever.

[36:12]He attacks you at the very first step.

[36:16]He doesn't attack your body parts.

[36:19]He attacks your mind.

[36:20]You know that's the only weapon Allah has given him.

[36:25]He whispers in your mind.

[36:26]He plants ideas in your brain.

[36:28]Do this, do that.

[36:31]He just lays that idea.

[36:32]Your brain does all the rest.

[36:33]It starts thinking again and again and again until it becomes into

[36:40]a real serious idea and then you apply it into action.

[36:42]So that's why your thoughts in your head, brothers and sisters, don't

[36:45]think it's just an innocent thought.

[36:49]No, this is probably a whisper of the shaitan.

[36:50]He threw this idea in your mind because he knew he knows

[36:57]eventually it will grow and evolve into action.

[37:00]It will evolve into haram.

[37:02]And you know even psych psych uh psychologically it's proven that when

[37:06]you are afraid of something or you don't want to do something,

[37:09]the more you think about it, the easier you feel that idea

[37:16]is.

[37:16]Right now, let me throw a very wild idea.

[37:19]Who wants to try bungee jumping?

[37:22]Something scary, right?

[37:24]Or who wants to try um when they throw themselves from the

[37:28]planes?

[37:29]What do they call it?

[37:30]>> Skydiving.

[37:31]Looks very, you know, very uh scary.

[37:34]What if I die?

[37:36]What if my parachute doesn't work?

[37:38]Right?

[37:38]Obviously, I can say Ali in the last minute, but at the

[37:40]end of the day, it's scary.

[37:45]But the more you think about it, the easier it seems.

[37:47]Psych psychologically, you'll break that barrier.

[37:50]It's not such a big deal.

[37:55]So when you think about a sin, brothers and sisters, and you

[37:58]entertain it, this is when it gets serious.

[38:00]Im Ali Ali says, "The highest level of fasting is [snorts] when

[38:05]a thought comes into your mind, disrupt it.

[38:09]Empty your mind out of those bad thoughts.

[38:12]because that's the best way that you can prevent it from evolving

[38:17]into action.

[38:18]There's a famous hadith that im narrates from prophet Isa.

[38:23]He says, "Prophet Isa told his disciples, he told them this that

[38:27]MS used to tell his people, stay away from adultery.

[38:32]But I will go a step further and I'll tell you, stay

[38:37]away from thinking about adultery." Because if you stay away from thinking

[38:42]about adultery, that's the best way that you can guarantee that the

[38:50]act itself won't happen.

[38:51]And then he gave them an example.

[38:54]He told them thinking about haram don't think that this is innocent.

[38:58]Oh, it's just a thought.

[39:01]He says it pollutes your mind in the same way that the

[39:04]smoke of the fire damages its surrounding.

[39:06]You know the fire is the sin itself.

[39:10]The smoke of the fire that can that can kill you, right?

[39:17]The smoke of the fire is the thought of haram.

[39:18]Eventually it can pollute your mind.

[39:23]It can pollute your body and it will kill you.

[39:25]So stay away from the idea of committing haram.

[39:28]So every time an idea comes, fast from that idea means flush

[39:32]it out of your brain.

[39:35]Flush it out of your mind.

[39:36]And the easiest way brothers and sisters to act upon this third

[39:43]type of fasting which is the fasting of the mind which is

[39:46]to keep my mind free of evil thoughts.

[39:49]The easiest way is to draw a red line.

[39:53]Tell yourself this haram act I will never do.

[40:01]When you tell yourself that this is something that I will never

[40:07]do, the chances of you doing it becomes much smaller.

[40:09]Let me give you a quick example.

[40:11]When it comes to breaking the laws, there are some laws that

[40:16]I may break and there are other laws that I know I

[40:19]will never break.

[40:21]For example, speeding.

[40:21]This is something that I may do.

[40:23]I may speed.

[40:25]Not wearing the seat belt, right?

[40:27]Not parking in the perfect, you know, place.

[40:31]These are violations.

[40:33]I may do but then there are crimes that I will never

[40:36]perform like what I'm never going to kill someone I'm never going

[40:43]to steal right I'm never going to for example you know some

[40:47]some some more examples that you're never going to do commit fraud

[40:50]for example I don't know so if it applies to all of

[40:54]us but I would never commit fraud right why because the idea

[40:58]of of fraud or the idea of theft or the idea of

[41:02]murder scares me but the idea of speeding doesn't scare me.

[41:06]That's why I may do this but not that.

[41:10]So psychologically I've placed a barrier.

[41:10]I'll never do this but I may do that.

[41:14]That's why you end up speeding but you don't steal unless you

[41:19]reach you know a higher level of crime.

[41:21]When it comes to sins the same thing applies.

[41:25]There are sins that I may do but there are sins that

[41:30]I know I'll never do.

[41:30]Me personally, I know I'll never drink because in my mind I've

[41:36]told myself impossible that I'll go close to alcohol.

[41:38]Impossible over my dead body.

[41:41]But backbiting I'll try, but impossible no.

[41:49]I haven't told myself this is if you tell yourself impossible, you're

[41:53]never going to get close to it.

[41:55]Eating pork.

[41:57]I'm not even tempted by eating pork because in my mind I

[42:01]have said impossible never but lying but insulting someone else this is

[42:07]something that I may do because I have not trained and told

[42:12]myself that this is impossible even though which one is worse brothers

[42:16]and sisters backbiting is worse or some of the things that we

[42:24]will never do like for example zin Adultery.

[42:27]There's a hadith from the prophet where he says is worse than

[42:31]adultery because with the other person that you backbite has to forgive

[42:38]you before Allah forgives you.

[42:39]But with adultery you only have to turn to Allah subhana wa

[42:43]ta'ala.

[42:44]So why is it that is much easier for me?

[42:48]Because I haven't placed that barrier.

[42:50]It's all psychological.

[42:51]And finally, let me give you this example and I'll end.

[42:56]And fasting and praying.

[43:02]Which one is more important?

[43:05]Which one?

[43:06]Salah.

[43:07]Right.

[43:08]The prophet says salah is the pillar of religion.

[43:14]Without salah, Allah won't even count your other deeds.

[43:16]Fasting is important, but it's not the pillar of your faith.

[43:21]But look around in society.

[43:22]Do the people that fast are they are they more or the

[43:29]people that pray?

[43:29]I personally think 90% of Muslims at least in our communities they

[43:37]fast but probably only 30% they pray.

[43:39]Why is that?

[43:40]Why it's harder to pray?

[43:46]I think it's much harder to fast.

[43:48]13 hours don't eat and drink anything is more difficult or just

[43:54]pray 17 that takes 17 minutes.

[43:57]It's all about what it's psychological brothers and sisters because in my

[44:05]mind I've told myself I have to fast.

[44:07]Fasting is a must but I haven't told myself salah is a

[44:10]must.

[44:11]When you train yourself when you discipline yourself that this is a

[44:15]must you'll always do it.

[44:18]you will never go against it.

[44:19]When you don't place those barriers, salah won't be a big deal.

[44:23]That's why salat is so difficult.

[44:25]But waking up for work is not that difficult.

[44:27]Why?

[44:28]Because in one I've disciplined myself and the other I haven't disciplined.

[44:33]Im Ali Abisam says the highest level of fasting that will make

[44:37]the second level of fasting easier and the third level even easier

[44:44]is when you discipline your nevs psychologically to accept what Allah subhanahu

[44:50]wa ta'ala has wanted from you and to stay away from what

[44:52]Allah subhanana wa ta'ala has asked you to stay away from.

[44:56]It all starts in the mind.

[44:57]So in the month of Ramadan, my dear brothers and sisters, if

[45:01]it's only changing your meal times for some of us, lunch and

[45:08]dinner becomes becomesar and you're only focused on the first type of

[45:13]fasting.

[45:13]If in the month of Ramadan your treatment towards others change, you

[45:18]start sinning less, this is where you're practicing the second type of

[45:22]fasting.

[45:22]And if it changes your heart and the way that you think

[45:29]such that you want to always say no to what Allah subhanahu

[45:32]wa'ta'ala asks you to stay away from.

[45:35]You want to always keep yourself disciplined.

[45:37]You want to always remind yourself that Allah is watching.

[45:40]If this is what you focus on during the month of Ramadan,

[45:45]then this is the highest level of fasting and this is what

[45:48]will continue after Eid.

[45:52]The first type will only continue until Eid.

[45:55]After Eid, back to square one.

[45:57]The second type may carry on a couple of days after Eid.

[45:59]But when you focus on the third type of fasting, which is

[46:03]my mind focusing on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala pleasing him all the

[46:07]time, this is something that will last for the entire year.

[46:12]I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bless us to give us

[46:14]the power that we are able to accomplish all three types of

[46:23]fasting during this beautiful month of Ramadan.

[46:25]Sallallahu alaihiar.

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