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Raw notes from Sh. Riad’s Webinar

Introduction:

• Narrated by Ubad ibn Samit: When Ramadan use to approach the Prophet use to say, Ramadan the month of blessing has come, Allah blesses you in this month, he sends down the rahma, and the sins are forgiven, he answers your dua, and he looks at those who compete with good deeds, and he praises you to his angels. – Tabarani
• Ramadan is like a very beloved guest and we have to get ready for it.
• Ramadan comes and right when we start to get used to it, it’s gone,
• We have to make this the best Ramadan ever
• Ramadan is only a few days, it comes in and goes very quickly
• The successful ones are those who take advantage of those fixed number of days
• At the end of Ramadan, the people are in two groups the successful ones and the losers

24 hours in Ramadan

• Early birds
  • We start the day during Ramadan from fajr to maghrib
  • Fajr has to find you in the masjid (for brothers)
• Benefits of being early:
  • You get to pray in the first row and
  • Tabarani: Allah and his angels praise those who pray on the right hand side of the rows
  • You catch the Takbeet Al-iHraam
  • You will be able to pray the nafilah between the adhaan and iqaamah
  • You will be able to repeat after the Adhaan
• Dua is granted between adhaan and iqaamah (mustajaab)
• Make dhikr after Salah & your morning adhkaar
• Salat Ad-Duha = salah of those who are obedient
• Recitation of Quran
• Iftar
  • Break your fast with water and dates
  • Pray Maghrib
  • Don’t eat too much – keep it light
• Taraweeh
  • Pray taraweeh and come home
• Suhur
  • Try to delay the Suhur because it is sunnah to delay it

70 Advices for Ramadan

• Sincere Intention
• Repent
  • Allah tells us to Repent to him
  • Repentance is not meant for only the sinners
  • The Prophet would make istighfaar 70 times or more every day
• Be happy
• Send your greetings
  • Say Ramadan Mubarak
  • Customize your greetings
• Etiquette of sighting the moon
  • The sunnah of sighting the moon is neglected
  • Dua you say when you see the moon: :allahumma ahhilhu alayna bil yumni wal amaan was _Salam wal Islam rabbi warabbuka allah
• Niyah (intention) of fasting
  • One niyyah is enough for the entire month
  • When you wake up for suhuur, the niyah is right there. Why did you get up? To fast.
• Delaying Suhur
  • When you hear the adhaan, if you have something in your mouth, swallow it, but don’t take another bite
• Expediting Iftaar
  • Say the dua of breaking the fast:
  • Break your fast quickly
• Prayers in the masjid
  • Try to pray as much as you can in the masjid
• Invite someone for iftar
  • Always have dates in your pockets, and when you see a Muslim give them the date to break their fast with it, to get ajer inshallah
• Amongst the righteous
  • If you fast and make qiyam, you will be among the sideqeen and shuhadaa’
• Have patience
  • Persevere!
  • Have patience with everyone
  • Ramadan is the month of training
• Ponder on Allah’s Blessings
  • Allah has given you so many blessings
• Increase your obedience
  • Do as much Ibadah as you can
• Watch yourself
  • Watch your eyes, manners, everything
• Dhikr
  • Remember to make dhikr all the time
  • You’re fasting and your heart needs sustenance = dhikr
  • Busy yourself with the remembrance of Allah
• Give charity
• Visit the sick
• Meticulously choose your friends
  • Don’t waste your time with people who want to waste your time
  • Be friends with people who will remind you, and tell you to read quran, pray….
• Let your physical faculties fast
  • Don’t backbite
  • Don’t do Haram things
  • Don’t be fasting and at the same time do things that will break your fast.
  • Your ears, eyes, and all body parts should fast
• Ask Allah to be amongst those who are saved from Hellfire
  • Every night!
  • Not only on the last ten nights!
• Stick to the sunnah
  • Stay away from bidah
• Enjoin good and forbid evil
  • With wisdom
• Watch your tongue
  • Your tongue is a lion! If you unleash it, it will devour you!
• Honor your parents
  • Ask them for dua

• Tie your kinship
  • At least call them and say Ramadan kareem
• Make someone happy
• Be productive
  • Manage your time efficiently
• Talk to your neighbors about Ramadan
  • Break the ice and tell them about Ramadan
  • Bring them sweets or something
• Reduce too much laughter
  • This is time of khayraat, you have better things to do
• Don’t argue
  • Allahuma ini saa’im
• Give people their rights
  • If you owe them something, give it to them
• Dedicate time for Quran recitation
  • At least one juz per day
  • Have a plan, and sincerity
• Have a dhikr plan
  • Morning
  • Evening
• Try to perform prayers in the Masjid
• Don’t miss taraweeh in the masjid
• Plan for the night prayers
  • Qiyam Al-Layl
  • Any prayer after Isha prayer is considered to be qiyam al-layl
• Pray with concentration
• Do more voluntary prayers
• Seek the best times when dua is granted
  • When you break your fast
  • Jumuah between asr and maghrib
• Istighfar before Fajr
  • Ask for forgiveness
  • Before or after you do your suhoor
• Umrah in Ramadan
  • If you can
  • Umrah in Ramadan = Hajj with the Prophet
• Diversify
  • Don’t get bored, do different Ibadaat
• Don’t curse!
  • This is training
• Manage your anger
  • Train yourself to not lose your temper
• Say Allahumma inni Saa’im
  • Oh Allah I am fasting
  • If someone tries to bother you, argue with you…
• Don’t intermingle
  • Stay away from Haram
• Increase your worship in the last 10 days
  • Do I3tikaaf
  • Sisters can do I3tikaaf, the Sahaabiyaat use to do it
• Ask Allah to make you witness Laylatul Qadr
• Sleep Less
• Don’t waste food
• Try to have a nap in the afternoon
• Encourage your children to fast
• Be generous in Ramadan
  • The Prophet was so generous in Ramadan
• Beware of the Human Devils!
  • There are two kinds of devils: the Jinns and the Inns
  • The Jinns are locked up but the Inns are not
• Beware of disobedience
• Beware of smoking
  • Smoking is not makrooh, smoking is Haraam
  • Allah made the Khabeeth haram, smoking is Khabeeth (evil)
• Beware of backbiting
• Don’t spend too much time in the kitchen
  • Don’t waste the food either
  • Ramdan is not about eating, it’s about fasting
• Ask Allah to make you enter Jannah from Ar-Rayyan gate
  • Only those who fast will be able to enter from it
• If you exercise, try to do it a couple of hours before iftar
  • So you won’t get too tired and dehydrated
• Go to sleep after Taraweeh
  • Don’t spend too much time online or on TV
  • Don’t drink tea, coffee, and caffine stuff
  • Drink a cup of hot milk to help you fall asleep
• Don’t stay up late
• Recite ayatul kursi before going to sleep
  • Allah will appoint an angel to guard you the entire night
• Make wudu before going to sleep
• Sleep with the intention of waking up for qiyamul layl
• Make this Ramadan as the last Ramadan of your life
  • You never know if you’re going to make it until next ramdan, or this one even.

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The Righteous will die,
and the wicked will die …
The warriors who fight jihaad will die,
and those who sit at home will die …
Those who busy themselves with correct belief will die,
and those who treat the people as their slaves will die …
The brave who reject injustice will die,
and the cowards who seek to cling onto this life at any price will die …
The people of great concern and lofty goals will die,
and the wretched people who live only for cheap enjoyment will die …

Every soul shall taste of death …

Source: ‘Death’ by Shaykh ‘Ali Hasan al-Halabi

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Whoever reads Soorat al-Kahf on the day of Jumu’ah, will have a light that will shine from him from one Friday to the next.”

(Narrated by al-Haakim, 2/399; al-Bayhaqi, 3/249. Ibn Hajar said in Takhreej al-Adhkaar that this is a hasan hadeeth, and he said, this is the strongest report that has been narrated concerning reading Soorat al-Kahf. See: Fayd al-Qadeer, 6/198. It was classed as saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, 6470)

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The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty,and its clearity is obtained by az-Zikr. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked,and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry and thirsty,and its food and drink are knowledge, love, dependance, repentance and servitude. -Ibn al- Qayyim.

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Challenges Facing Young People

Quotes From Lecture by Sh. Khalid Yasin

May 28, 2010 – Masjid Assaber

Allah gave us the legacy of Islam as an Amanah.

You cannot earn someone’s trust. Trust is given and it remains until it is violated.

Every time I look at a young Muslim I see a potential leader. The problem is that he is surrounded by people who are already in the lead. and they start to think that the only way they can become leaders is by immitating those who are already in the lead. So we’re not producing leaders, we’re producing immataters.

As long as you immitate, the best you can do is come in second because the one who comes in first is the one you’re immitating.

I wan to tell the young people: find another name to put on your shirt like Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali.

You can use Usamah bin Zaid but make sure you put the bin Zaid there.

Those $150 sneakers you wearin, if you think they make you jump higher then you’re just a fool.

Your kids spend 6 or 8 hours in schools…and they spend another 3 to 4 hours with fools…or tools.

How many fathers can say that you have encouraged your son or daughter when they were 12 to write a 5 year plan and to stick with it?

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Make all the excuses you want. Like one man kept on saying, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” So after a while they say what’s his name, and they’re like oh he’s Sorry.

(The Shaykh was on an airplane and the guy sitting next to him was an orthodox Jew, so he started talking to him) “Hi my name’s Khalid, I’m a Muslim, but I’m not going to hijack the plane. Secondly, I know you’re Jewish but I don’t have a problem with that.”

(The Jewish man said to Khalid Yasin) “We can never beat you guys in talking cause Muslims are the best talkers in the world. We pray three times a day and you  Muslims pray five or more. So in talking and praying we can never beat you. But we can beat you in paying.

You listen to this rap music…I call it Monkey Music…

One of the idols is 50 cents. He’s so stupid he could’ve called himself a dollar.

Coca Cola gave him (50 cents) 400 million for some urban water and the fool! … He bought a gold chain with diamonds on it that was 150,00 dollars. He couldn’t even lift his neck!

And this is what our young ones want to imitate: 50 cents, Master D, Puff daddy, and some dead donkeys, Tupac, Big E…

The triple A: Arabs, Asians, Africans make up the majority of the Muslims.

Yo! Ya know what I’m saying yo? Yo!

No one leaves their kids alone in the Catholic church. Come on now! That’s like leaving the fox in the chickadee house. Not the chicken house, the chickadee one, before they get to be chickens!

It’s called freedom, F-R-E-E-D-U-M-B. So let freedumb ring!

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I saw a Muslim sister smoking yesterday and I remembered reading this a while back. I’m not sure who wrote it, or where the source was from..

Dear mother,

I can’t forget the day my little sister came to me, crying and asking me will mommy die from cancer, I looked confused not knowing what she was saying. However, when I looked at you mom holding your cigar I then knew what she meant. Mother, look in the eye of my little sister, look at the fear that is eating her, the fear of losing you due to the consequences of smoking.

Many people around you who suffer from cancer wish to be as healthy as you, wish to be breathing normally, and wish to stop taking chemotherapy. Yet here you are holding the cigarette selling your life at a cheap price in order to satisfy the urge of feeling calm and cool. Mother, haven’t you thought of how much pain you will go through once you get cancer? Haven’t you thought of the pain that we’ll go through when we lose you? Haven’t you thought of how much you are affecting our health? Mother, sister and I don’t want to be raised by our father only; we need you by our side. We want your love, care and tender. Mom, a mother’s love is irreplaceable and it is very valuable so please don’t take it away from us, don’t let your urge for something that will do you no good be the reason for us to lose a loving mother. So mother please, stop smoking. Please stop.

With love,

Your eight year old princess

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Here are Some Fatwa’s about Smoking:

Ruling On Smoking

The Reason Why Smoking is Haram