Summary of today’s majlis 29 April 2018 Hadhrat Maulana Adam Sahib Hafizahullah Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah ra said that the prophet ﷺ said "Whoever does not give up forged speech and evil actions, Allah is not in need of his leaving his food and drink (i.e. Allah will not accept his fasting.)" يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous (have taqwa) [2:183] In this Quran Ayah Allah ﷻ has mentioned the objective of fasting. If we don’t have taqwa and we just leave our food and drink, we haven’t fulfilled the objective. We do have to go to work in Ramadhan too. That is fine, but don’t let it overtake your fast. We are staying hungry for such a long time, the least we can do is stay away from sin. If we backbite once whilst fasting then we will not be rewarded on the fast. We should stop from now - the 15th of Shabaan - as practice. Backbiting is a habit that is hard to stop. May Allah save us. Our fast ends spiritually when we backbite. Without spirituality no act of worship will be beneficial. If we backbite once the 20 or so hours we stay hungry are not of benefit. When a person makes dua just before breaking their fast, their dua is accepted. Backbiting has become a norm in our society. Even if we are saying something good we end up backbiting. Sometimes we act upon the things we are told to do but don’t refrain from the actions we were told to refrain from. Like we recite Quran and then we backbite. As soon as we close the Quran, we end up backbiting about someone. To stop doing these acts, we need taqwa. We need the fear of Allah ﷻ. Many pious people and sahaba have had so much taqwa, but don’t pray so many extra kitabs etc, that they wouldn’t stray even a little. And if they did they would repent so much and give so much of their wealth in charity as recompense. May Allah ﷻ give us the tawfiq
