Allah, Almighty Addresses Humankind At Large, Instructing Them
To Eat.
Imagine In The Quran,
There Is A Verse Where Allah Says Eat But Together With That
He'S Telling Us What Type Of Food We Should Eat In Order
For Us To Save Ourselves From Harm?
So Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says,
Oh People Eat From That Which Is On Earth For As Long As
It Is Halal And Tayyib Which Means Pure And Clean.
So We Must Make Sure That The Food We Eat Is Pure And Clean
Because If It Is Not Pure And Clean According To The Quran
The Energy That Is Derived From That Food, Which Is Impure
And Unclean Would Only Be Used In That Which Is Impure
And Immoral. So Many Times We Get So Encouraged To Do Something
Good Because What We'Ve Eaten Is Pure And Good. So They Say
When You Eat Healthy You Think Healthy, When You Think Healthy
You Do That, Which Is Healthy And Good And Beneficial.
So The Same Would Apply Where If A Person Is Only Encouraged
And Empowered Towards That Which Is Immoral And Very Bad
Perhaps There May Be Something Wrong With Exactly What They'Re
Eating. So To Make Sure That It Is Pure And Good Would Actually
Go A Long Way In Ensuring Your Comfort During Times Of Crisis.
It'S Amazing Many Of Us Think That Halal Has Only To Do With
The Manner In Which An Animal Is Slaughtered But That'S Wrong.
It Has A Lot To Do With Your Earnings As Well.
Have You Earned It That
Which Is Free From Deception, Free From That Which Is Harmful,
And Free From That Which Is Illegal Such As Stealing And
So On. So To Do With The Income, Where Are You Working?
What Exactly Are You Doing?
May Allah Make It Such That We Become More Conscious Of This
And We Actually Earn That Which Is Pure To Begin With. There
After The Way You Treated
The Animals Is Extremely Important. Today In The Commercial
World Many People Abuse The Animals Or Maltreat Them. Allah
Says Don'T Do That.
Your Food Must Be Tayyib
Not Only Halal But Make Sure That Even The Animals That You
Are Consuming Have Been Treated In The Most Befitting Way.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Us Benefit.
So This Verse From Surat Al-Baqara, Allah Says
Immediately After Telling Us
To Eat That Which Is Pure And Clean.
He Says And Don'T Follow The Footsteps Of The Devil.
If You Are To Follow The Footsteps Of Shaitan, You Will Definitely
Be At A Loss Similarly.
If You Were To Eat That Which Is Impure And Unclean You Would
Be Following The Footsteps Of The Devil.
Allah Says He Is An Outright Enemy Of Yours
The Devil What Does He Do?
He Instructs You To Engage In Evil And That Which Is Immoral.
That'S What The Devil Does.
So People Who Engage In Immorality, People Who Are Not Bothered
About Their Values Many Times.
It'S Got To Do With Them Following The Footsteps Of The Devil
Because What They'Re Consuming Is That Which Is Unclean Or
Impure. So From This What We Learn Is If We Were To Derive
Comfort In Times Of Crisis, It Would Be Also Through Ensuring
That What We'Re Consuming Is Healthy. Eat Healthy, Eat Pure
Eat Clean And See How The Blessings Of The Almighty Descend
Upon You. My Brothers And Sisters,
We Are Taught That Whenever You'Re About To Put Something
In Your Mouth Take The Name Of The Almighty, Start Off Bismillah
In The Name Of Of Allah, When You Do That, Whatever You'Ve
Put In Your Mouth Will Be Blessed The Plate Of Food In Front
Of You Try To Finish Your Food.
Don'T Be Wasteful. If You Are Wasteful How Do You Expect Comfort
In Times Of Crisis. That Food Which We Had Taken Into Our
Plates And Wasted It Could Have Been A Meal For Those Who
Don'T Have Food At All.
So Let'S Consider This And Think About It.
Then I Move On To The Verses Where Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
Speaks About This Beautiful Month Of
Ramadan And Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Speaks About How
Some People Find It Very Difficult.
For Some Reason.
Remember My Brothers And Sisters Fasting Is A Pillar Of Islam.
We Have Five Pillars Praying Is Also A Pillar Of Islam.
We Must Pray Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Tells Us If You Are
Unable To Pray Because Of Sickness Or If You Are Traveling
Then We Can Change For You A Few Things To Make It Easy For
You. Because You And I Know That Traveling Is Very Very Difficult
At Times.
So Allah Says Well If It'S More Than A Certain Amount Of
You Know,Meterage More Than A Certain Distance Or If It
Is Difficult When Your Prayer, You May Do It In A Slightly
Different Way.
You May Shorten It Etc.
So Allah Is Making It Easy For Us.
Similarly.
If You Are Unwell And You Cannot Stand In Prayer He Says
To Us Through The Blessed Lips Of Muhammad Peace Be Upon
Him That You Can Sit In And Pray.
No Problem.
My Aim Is Not To Make Things Difficult For You.
But You Fulfill Your Duty. If You Cannot Sit And Pray You
May Lie Down And Pray, Amazing.
But You Always Do That Which You'Re Able To Do In The Best
Possible Way That You Can Do. These Verses Of Fasting Show
Us That If You Are Unwell Or You'Re On A Journey, You Have
An Option Of Not Fasting And Making It Up Later On When You'Re
Okay Or When You'Re No Longer On A Journey.
Imagine The Blessing Of The Almighty He Is Giving Us Comfort
In Times Of Crisis.
What Is The Crisis? The Crisis Is I Can'T Fast If I'M Not
Well And I'M Sickly, Or Perhaps I Am Diagnosed With This
Virus And I'M Concerned About My Immune System Because I
Have An Underlying Condition Allah Says The Aim Was Never
To Make It Difficult On You.
Listen To What Allah Says After He Say You Must Fast, He Says
Allah Says Whoever Is Unwell
Sickly, Incapable Or On A Journey Can Make The Fast Up Later
On After The Month Of Ramadan, Because Allah Says He Wants
Ease For You.
He Does Not Want To Make Things Difficult For You.
He Knows Your Condition, Don'T Stress.
So This Is Why People Who Have Some Excuse And They Know
They Cannot Manage Allah Says No Problem,
You Can Make It Up Later On At Another Time.
What About Those Who Really Cannot Because Their Age Or Because
They Have A Terminal Illness And May Never Be Able To Make It Up.
Well In That Case He Tells Us That You Can Actually Give
A Charity, A Certain Type Of A Charity Known As A Fidya On
For Every Fast That You Have Missed And The Almighty Will
Accept It From You.
Then Another Way Of Benefiting Yourself In Times Of Crisis
Immediately After Speaking About The Fast And How People
Do Have Excuses And They May Be Able To Fast Later On. Allah
Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Tells Us
When My Worshippers Ask You About Me
I Am Very Near Very Close, Allah Is Closer To Us Than Our
Own Jugular Veins.
That'S What The Quran Says And You Know What? He Says
I Respond To
Everyone Who Calls Out To Me, Every Time They Call Out To
Me. So Keep Calling Out To Allah And Believe In Him In Order
For You To Be Rightly Guided, Allah Says Ask Me Keep Asking
Me He Loves It When You Repeat It.
So If I Were To Ask Anyone A Favor And I Were To Repeat It
Again And Again, They Would Probably We Get Irritated Because
They'Re Human Beings. But In The Case Of Allah, When You Are
To Ask For It Again, And Again, You'Re Actually Engaged In
An Act Of Worship For As Long As You Asking Him Alone.
Subhan Allah.
He Is The One We Worship, The Maker, The Nourisher, The Cherisher,
The Sustainer, The One In Control Of What I Want.
So When You'Re Asking Him, You'Re Acknowledging That I Know
You Have This, You Are The One, You Are The Owner.
So I'M Asking You And I Keep Ask You, I Keep Asking You, Subhanallah.
That Is A Favor Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
He Says If You Would Like To Achieve Goodness, And If You
Would Like To Be From Among Those Who Are Rightly Guided
You Ask Me And I Will Give You. My Brothers And Sisters Don'T
We See How By Calling Out To The Almighty Already
There Is So Much Of Comfort In The Hearts.
Like I Always Say When We Call Out To The Almighty He Hears.
Us Definitely He Has Already Heard Us Sometimes Because He
Knows That It'S Not Good For Us.
He Doesn'T Give It To Us.
He Gives Us Something In Place Of That Or He Averts Some
Calamity That Was Supposed To Come In Our Direction Simply
Because We Called Out To Him And Him Alone.
When You Ask Allah For Goodness All The Time.
He Knows Sometimes Exactly What You Want Might Not Be Good
For You.
So He Gives You Some Other Goodness Or He Takes Away Some
Harms From Your Path.
This Is Part Of The Benefit Of Calling Out To Allah Constantly
The Crisis That You May Never Know Was Supposed To Be In
Your Path Was Diverted By Virtue Of You Calling Out To The
Almighty Worshipping Him Alone And Asking Him Constantly.
So These Are The Favors Of The Almighty Upon Us Sometimes
What The Almighty Does Is As A Result Of The Fact That We
Kept Calling Out To Him.
He Keeps For Us The Goodness In The Hereafter.
Sometimes He Delays It To A Time That He Knows Is A Better
Time Or Is The Right Time. You'Re Asking For Something Right
Now And The Almighty Says No, I Know I Love You More Than
You Love Yourself.
I Know That It'S Not Good For You Right Now For Whatever
Reason. I'M Going To Give It To You When The Time Is Right.
That'S The Almighty. That'S His Favor Upon Us. My Brothers
And Sisters Trust Your Lord, Trust Him
He Knows What He Is Doing.
He Will Give You. He Will Grant You The Comfort You
Need And He Will Bless You In Every Single Way In This World
As Well As The Next.