Q. (Yusuf Chambers): What is your
particular advice for Ramadan
approaching us?
A. (Dr Zakir): My advice would be that every
Muslim he or she should make it a point that
they should make a resolution that they
should fast each and every day of this blessed
month of Ramadan. And we should try and
acquire all the benefits of this month and we
should not waste a single benefit of this
month on things that are trivial and try to
concentrate as much as possible in
remembering Allah subhanwatala. We should
try and look for his mercy, we should try to
ask for his forgiveness, we have to try to seek
for his love and we have to try to increase out
piety and our righteousness and our patience
and our beloved prophet Muhammad (peace
be upon him) said “Anyone who does not
leave the false actions and false speech Allah
subhanwatala does not care if he leaves his
eating and drinking”. That means if a person
does not abstain from false actions and false
speech Allah swt does not care if he abstains
from food and drink, that means fasting will
not be accepted unless you stay away from
false actions and false speech and our beloved
prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
said, “O people the blessed month of Ramadan
is approaching and Allah has ordained for you
that you fast on this month and the gates of
heaven will be opened in this month and gates
of hell will be closed and the devils will be
chained, and in this month is a night that is
better than a thousand months and if a person
is deprived of the blessing in this month, he is
truly a deprived person” . So we have to make
it a point we gain the benefits of this blessed
month, our beloved prophet Muhammad
(peace be upon him) said that “Anyone who
fasts in this month with faith seeking the
reward of Allah subhanwatala, all his past sins
will be forgiven” that means if we truly with
sincerity fast in this month all out past sins
will be forgiven. Imagine it is such an easy
way to have our sins forgiven of the past. Also
our beloved prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) said… it is a long hadith, basically
consisting of four points…he said, “All children
of Adam, all the deeds they do are for
themselves except for fasting, fasting is for
me and I will reward him”. And he further said
that “Fasting is a shield, it prevents you from
sin and the person who observe the fast must
abstain from obscenity and yelling and from
ignorance and if someone yells at him or
abuses him he should say – I am fasting, I am
fasting”. Third point our beloved prophet
Muhammad (peace be upon him) said “that I
swear by Allah who’s hand is the soul of
Muhammad (peace be upon him) that the
breath of a fasting person is sweeter to Allah
than the smell of the musk”. And he finally
said in the hadith that “There are two things
when a fasting person is happy and looks
forward to it, first when he breaks the fast and
second is when he meets Allah subhanwatala ”.
It is written in Quran in Surah Noor Ch-24
V-31, it says “O you who believe, truly have
faith in Allah and seek the bliss” i.e. try to
enter jannah. It is mentioned in Surah Ahqaaf
Ch-46 V-13,14 that “Those are the people
who worship none but Allah and they are
steadfast in faith” . The word is
‘istaqaam’ …”and there is only one Allah and
no one else and they shall not have any fear
nor shall they grieve, these are the people who
are the people of paradise and they shall be
rewarded for all the good they have done”. So
this is the advice for the people that they
should take the best of this month and they
should not spend their time in trivial things
and spend their time in worshipping Allah and
remembering Allah subhanwatala and ask for
forgiveness.
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