My brothers and sisters Ramadan is is here literally and a lot of
people don't understand why we have this Ramadan coming coming every
year. And we have it coming again another year and another year. And
people literally think that we're supposed to just just show that
we're not eating, not drinking. In fact, some people say that we fast
in Ramadan, because we're supposed to show we're supposed to feel how
the poor people are feeling. That is a very lame thing very lame,
because if that was the case, then why the poor people fasting. Okay,
the reason why we fasting Ramadan, is because we're trying to bring in
self control. There are many, many reasons why we're doing it. But I'm
gonna tell you one big reason I remember, I was traveling with one
of my friends and there's a non Muslim with us. And the non Muslim
asked, he said, Why do you Muslims fast. And most people don't know
this, even my friend was surprised with the reason why we actually
fast and most Muslims don't even notice. The reasons why we fast is
because we have two places in our bodies that are the drive behind a
person's attachment to this world. Two main drives. So you have your
drive with one drive, which is your stomach, most of the things we're
doing in this world is because of the stomach, we want to feed the
stomach, we want to keep ourselves healthy, and so on, so forth. And
the second drive is that between the thighs [sexual desire]. So the
urge that a man has the urge that a woman has for the opposite gender,
that's another reason why we have a lot of attachment to this world, or
to the people of this world. Okay, these two drives the drive of the
stomach and the drive of that between the thighs. They are the
major two parts that makes a person want to attach themselves to this
dunya so what allows them to has done for 30 days is his said to us
to control these two drives, and said don't eat don't drink. That's
the that's going straight down to the first drive of the stomach. And
then allows Google says don't have any sort of mutual relationship
with your you know, with your with your wife or your husband during
the whole Ramadan. Why do you think that is? That is because we've now
cut off the two paths that really give us a big drive towards this
world. And then after that Allah says Now you're going to attach
yourself to aakhirah to the aakhirah , attach yourself to Allah
azzawajal through a lot of through contemplation through recitation
through doing dhikr by doing dua by reading the Quran extra, all of
these things are going to make us come closer to Allah azza wa jal by
extra Salah in the night by standing in front of Allah. So what
we're doing here is we're doing two parts. One is you shut down the
drive that puts you towards the dunya and that's the stomach and
that and between the thighs, the egg between the thighs, so you shut
those down. But the second part is that you're supposed to then ignite
and start the the process inside that that puts us towards the
drivers towards the aakhirah so there's a two process those of us
every Ramadan that have only just stopped eating and only stopped
sort of drinking you're only working on the first part of the
whole point of Ramadan out of the Muslims about 70% of Muslims fast
during Ramadan out of those 70% of Muslims that fast less than 5% get
the real essence of what Ramadan is about because Ramadan is not just
about Okay, we know that you know people think okay, I'm not gonna
eat I'm not gonna drink I'm not gonna sleep with my you know with
my spouse and that's it for 30 days and you get from beginning of
Ramadan till the end of Ramadan and you pretty much the same and most
Muslims like 95% or 90 something percent of Muslims will fast they
literally go from beginning of Ramadan to the end of Ramadan and
and they and they come to the to the end what are the achieved
nothing the back to normal again when Eid comes. And the reason why
that is is because they're not doing the second part which is to
put the drive in towards the aakhirah doing those extra, you
know, putting their minds towards a lot doing you're doing a tilawah
with the part that you've done in terms of you know, closing the
other drive(s)