- Almost every Muslim that lives as a minority
has experienced the moment where you're fasting
and people are eating around you.
So whether that was in your school cafeteria,
went to public school as I did my whole life
and at lunchtime everybody was eating except for me,
or whether that's at work, your colleagues are eating,
and sometimes you even have to attend an important meeting
or you've gotta go to some sort of function,
everybody's eating but you.
Those moments are some of the most blessed moments
in your life and you probably had no idea.
So when we're talking about the angels sending salawat,
the angels praying on a person,
there are a few different times
that happens for the fasting person.
The Prophet (PBUH) talked about
Al Suhoor, when you wake up in the morning
and you have your meal before Fajr, Suhoor,
and the Prophet (PBUH) said that
look don't abandon that Suhoor.
Don't abandon that moment
even if you're just going to drink a sip of water
because the angels pray upon the one who eats Suhoor
or takes that Suhoor whether it's through water or dates
or whatever it may be.
So you've got the angels praying upon you in the morning
before you even started your fast,
just as you were nourishing yourself for the fast.
And then the Prophet (PBUH) said
that a person who is fasting around people that are eating
the angels will pray upon that person until those people
have had their fill, SunhanAllah.
Again, a person that is fasting
and other people are eating around that person,
the angels will pray upon that person
and seek forgiveness for that person
until those people have had their fill.
Now, SubhanAllah, this is referring to, by the way,
not people that are not Muslims around you
that are not eating, that are eating or drinking
because they don't observe the Siam,
this is actually in the situation,
especially in one of the narrations with Umm 'Umara,
she was observing (R.A.), a voluntary fast
and so the Prophet (PBUH)
was not and the Prophet (PBUH) 49 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:03,940 gave her that reward,
so this could be, you know that a person is just not
required to fast for that day
and you happen to be in their presence
and the added reward of you observing your fast
in the presence of that person who's not fasting
even if it's not sinful for them not to fast.
Imagine then the reward when you're around someone
who is not fasting
because they don't consider it to be obligatory,
so you add the element of Ghurba, of being a stranger,
being a person who is singled out
for the observance of the fast because they're singled out
for their observance of this beautiful Deen of Al Islam,
and so the reward could only be greater in that sense.
So when you're in those moments
and people are taking their sweet time
getting through their hamburgers,
getting through their french fries
or whatever it is that they're eating,
revel in the prayer of the Mala'ikah,
revel in the prayer of the angels
as they are seeking forgiveness for you
throughout that entire period.
And then of course at night, the beautiful Dua,
the supplication that
the Prophet (PBUH) taught us,
that when someone serves food to,
serves Iftar to you and you actually break your fast
and you respond and you say, "Aftara 'indakum assa'imoon,
wa akala ta'amukum alabrar, wa sallat alaykum almala'ika".
May the fasting ones break their fast with you,
may the pious, akala ta'amukum alabrar, may the pious
eat their food with you or take part in your food,
wa sallat alaykum almala'ika, and may the angels send
their prayers upon you.
So the angels pray upon you throughout the day
as you are observing your fast.
They pray upon you when you take your
pre-morning meal, your Suhoor.
They pray upon you when other people around you
are eating as you're fasting
and then they pray upon those who serve you food
at the time of Iftar and you acknowledge that
through your supplication and through your dua.