Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal
❖
مدرسة إشاعة الحق
Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal · 2026
After Esha Programme | Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
After Esha Programme Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Hijri date 19 Sha'baan 1439
Date 5 May 2018
Duration 59:31
Venue Cape Town Summary Main Topic
Preparing spiritually for the blessed month of Ramadan by maximizing good deeds, abstaining from sin, and aligning one's life with the pleasure of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
Key Lessons
Preparation for Ramadan: Just as people mentally prepare for exams, marriage, or business, believers must prepare themselves mentally and spiritually for Ramadan.Multiplication of Rewards: Every Fard deed in Ramadan is multiplied by seventy times, and Nafl deeds earn the reward of a Fard deed outside Ramadan.The Value of Life: An additional year or additional Ramadan in a believer's life is an immense blessing that elevates their status in Jannah.Nature of Sin vs. Piety: Sin never brings true contentment; it gives temporary thrills that require increasingly worse behavior to sustain. Piety brings lasting peace and tranquility.Avoiding Distractions: Wasting precious Ramadan nights in trivial social get-togethers, braais, or scrolling through short videos on phones undermines the true purpose of fasting.Responsibilities of Huffaz: Those leading Taraweeh must learn the essential masail of purity and prayer, ensuring proper recitation without rushing or compromising correctness.
Quranic/Hadith References
Surah At-Tawbah (9:119): Recited in the opening, commanding believers to fear Allah and be with the truthful ("Ya ayyuhalladhina amanu-ttaqullaha wa kunu ma'as-sadiqeen" ).Hadith on Reward Multiplication: Performing a Fard obligation in Ramadan earns the reward of seventy Farai'd outside Ramadan.Hadith of the Two Sahaba: Two companions accepted Islam together; one was martyred while the other died a year later naturally. The second companion attained a higher rank in Jannah due to praying and fasting for an extra year.Hadith on Fasting without Reward: Nabi Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam stated that many a fasting person receives nothing from their fast except hunger, and many who stand in prayer gain nothing except sleeplessness.Story of the Bedouin Sahabi: A companion who desired no worldly booty, asking only for martyrdom via an arrow to his neck, and Allah fulfilled his truthful intention.
Practical Advice
Pledge for Congregational Prayer: Make a firm intention to never miss a single Salah with Jama'at during Ramadan. Transcript Machine-generated, so it will contain mistakes — the audio is the reference. Tap any line to play from that moment.
— Allahi wa barakatuh. 0:05 Alhamdulillah. 0:07 Alhamdulillah wa kafaa. 0:09 Wassalatu wassalamu ala Sayyidinil Mustafa. 0:13 Sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa ashabihi wa baraka wa salamu tasliman kathiran kathira. 0:21 Amma ba'd. 0:23 Faqadha qala Allahu tabaraka wa ta'ala fil Quranil Majeed. 0:27 A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim. 0:30 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 0:33 Ya ayyuha alladeena amanu taqullah wa kunu ma'a as-sadiqeen. 0:38 Sadaqallahu alladeem. 0:41 Alhamdulillah. 0:46 With the grace and mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 0:50 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has allowed for us to sit for a short while. 0:59 To sit for a short while. 1:04 There was one alim. 1:08 There was announcement after the salah. 1:10 He said there will be a short talk. 1:13 So he pulled a talk for two hours. 1:18 So some people went to complain to the date. 1:24 This person now. 1:25 He said short talk and he pulled two hours. 1:29 So Maulana asked him, he said, how many hours in the day? 1:33 He said, twenty-four. 1:34 So he said, when you only spoke for two hours, it was a short time. 1:38 A short talk. 1:39 Two hours. 1:40 So InshaAllah we won't keep you here for two hours. 1:48 So it is, as we were saying, the grace, the mercy of Allah Ta'ala that He allows for us to sit and remind ourselves 2:00 With regards to some aspect of the beautiful deen that Allah Ta'ala has blessed us with. 2:08 I was speaking to my good friend, Brother Imran, before Maghrib Salah. 2:18 And we were discussing how to have the program. 2:21 Should we have the supper after Maghrib and the talk after Isha or have the talk after Maghrib and the supper after Isha? 2:29 Should we have it here or go there or come here? 2:32 So I told him, look man, let's just have supper normal time after Maghrib and we go to the masjid and read Isha Sana. 2:41 And after Isha Sana we'll come back here to the madrasa. 2:46 The fear was that, you know what, if we're going to break away after supper, go to the masjid and come back, then... 2:53 You know, it just breaks the whole momentum and maybe on the way to the masjid and on the way back many people may get lost, you know. 3:03 So, I tell you, no man, let's just stick to the routine and we'll read Isha in the masjid and we'll come back here and whoever is here is here and whoever is not here is not here. 3:13 The other thing to take into consideration is you made the program in prime time, you know. 3:20 The last one, two weekends before Ramadan, 3:23 Everybody wants to, I mean, take it a little bit easy before Ramadan itself starts. 3:29 You know, in Ramadan, we can't do certain things that we can do out of Ramadan. 3:35 So, it's prime time. 3:37 Alhamdulillah. 3:39 Looking at all the faces and looking at all our brothers, I think there are more people here now than there were after Maghrib for supper. 3:49 So, in Natal, it's the other way around. 3:51 Generally, 3:52 Supper time we have more people. 3:53 Program time less people. 3:55 Here Alhamdulillah I see Cape Town many of the weaknesses we spoke about this afternoon with regards to the ladies. 4:04 It was a ladies program. 4:06 So I am told I was told later on that these weaknesses ladies of Cape Town don't have. 4:12 It's a problem maybe in Natal and Khauteng but not in Cape Town. 4:17 So Alhamdulillah Cape Town is doing good. 4:20 So look 4:22 We are at the doorstep of the Mubarak month of Ramadan. 4:28 And just as for everything else, whether it's an examination, whether it's marriage, whether it's business, anything, there is always a preparation. 4:41 We always mentally prepare ourselves, psych ourselves up for something that's coming our way. 4:50 And we got to do the same. 4:53 For this blessed month. 4:56 Life will carry on whatever you are doing, whether you are studying in university, whether you are school going, whether you are in business, whatever, all those commitments will carry on. 5:08 But we as believers, as Muslims, we have to understand that this particular month is a month wherein we have to make money. 5:22 Some years back, I 5:49 I was giving a talk in one of the masajid in Peter Maritzburg. 5:53 And at that time, this new trend of having brais on Friday nights and Saturday nights of Ramadan. 6:05 Hopefully that weakness is also not here in Cape Town. 6:09 But that side is quite prevalent in Natal and Gauteng. 6:13 Friday night, Saturday night has become like a brai night. 6:16 They have brais there. 6:18 Friends all get together and whatever. 6:21 Spending the night. 6:22 The ulama probably told them from the mimbar that you got to stay awake in the nights of Ramadan. 6:28 But they didn't elaborate stay awake doing what. 6:32 So some people thought you will just stay awake. 6:34 So how you gonna stay awake? 6:35 Just have a prolonged iftar and early sehri. 6:39 So you just join the both up. 6:41 So the barai sometimes carries on the entire night. 6:45 So 6:47 When this thing was starting to gain momentum, so we spoke out against it. 6:53 We said, look man, this is not appropriate. 6:57 So some people took offense and the surprising part was not the youngsters, the adults. 7:06 Adults took offense. 7:08 We are trying to keep the kids away from the movie houses and the night clubs and all those type of things. 7:16 And, you know, we're getting them together to play a game of ball and to have a bride. 7:22 So, we're keeping them away from sin. 7:24 So, what's the problem with you? 7:29 So, my response to them was that, look, what we will do is, now these were businessmen, these men were businessmen. 7:36 So, I said, okay, what we'll do is, on the 24th of December, they were retail businessmen, 7:46 Look on the 24th of December, we're going to have a soccer tournament and you must close your shop. 7:54 Close your shop and we'll have a soccer tournament because we want to keep the kids off the streets and keep them away from all the sinful things. 8:03 So we're going to gather all the youth and we'll have a soccer tournament on the 24th of December and you must close your shop and come and assist us at the soccer tournament. 8:14 You won't do that. 8:17 Because that's your busy time. 8:20 So I'm not telling you not to have a braai. 8:23 Have a braai and invite me also. 8:26 Right? 8:26 But let's do it before or after Ramadan. 8:30 Now is not the time to have these type of get-togethers and these type of braais, etc. 8:36 Because we've got more important things to do. 8:38 Right? 8:39 We've got much more 8:40 Important things to do. 8:43 There's Allah's pleasure that needs to be gained. 8:46 And there's Jannah that needs to be earned. 8:49 Right? 8:50 So we can't be wasting our time buying meat. 8:52 You know, while it's, you know, important moments are ticking away wherein we can earn the currency of the hereafter. 9:02 Right? 9:04 So this month is about that. 9:06 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala maximizes reward. 9:10 For example, you take the hadith of Nabi salallahu alayhi wasallam. 9:14 When Nabi salallahu alayhi wasallam mentioned that look, every faraz salah that a person performs, he gets the reward of having performed 70 faraz. 9:26 So for example, we went now, we did Isha salah and we came. 9:31 Now, no matter how pious a person may be, 9:37 If a person wanted to stay in the masjid and say that look today I am feeling very very pious and instead of reading one Isha Salah I am going to read ten Isha Salahs tonight. 9:49 It's not going to be accepted from him. 9:51 He can read Nafl Salah but he cannot read ten by four Akats Fard of the Isha Salah. 9:59 It's not going to be accepted from him. 10:01 Right? 10:02 So he can only read one Isha Salah per day. 10:05 And this is why life is so important. 10:10 There were two Sahaba. 10:12 Radiallahu ta'alan huma. 10:15 Both close friends. 10:17 The one Sahabi passed away in Jihad. 10:21 They both accepted Islam around the same time. 10:24 And shortly thereafter there was a war that had taken place. 10:27 And the one Sahabi was martyred. 10:31 His friend survived a year. 10:35 And a year later he passed away of natural causes. 10:40 A third friend had a dream of these two friends of his. 10:45 And he sees that the one who passed away later is basically has a higher stage in Jannah than the one who was martyred the year earlier. 10:58 So he was a bit surprised that look that Sahabi was a martyr and this Sahabi passed away a natural death and how come he is now you know overtaking the other one. 11:08 So he went to find out from Nabi Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam and Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam asked him so where is this person's Salah? 11:18 In other words didn't he read Salah for another whole year? 11:22 Where is his Saum? 11:24 That he fasted another Ramadan. 11:27 Whatever good deeds he did for another whole year. 11:29 So shouldn't he be rewarded for that? 11:32 So this is why a believer wants life. 11:35 We want life. 11:36 We want a long life. 11:37 With Afia. 11:38 So that we can accumulate maximum amount of good deeds. 11:44 Because for as long as there is life, there is opportunity. 11:47 When there is no life, there is no opportunity. 11:51 So, 11:54 When we are in this Mubarak month of Ramadan, it is a boon, it is a favor from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 12:01 We have life. 12:02 We are in a condition of Iman. 12:05 And it is time now to reap the rewards of the Akhirat, to reap the rewards of the Hereafter. 12:12 So if a person lives a day out of Ramadan, in that day he can only read one Fajr Salah, one Zuhr Salah, one Asr, one Maghrib, one Isha. 12:22 But look at the month of Ramadan. 12:24 The person will read the one Fajr Salah. 12:27 But he will now reap the thawab of 70 Fajr Salah. 12:34 Each day in Ramadan. 12:36 So the first thing, the first niyyah that we should make is that look, I am never going to miss a Salah with Jamaat in the month of Ramadan. 12:48 One is we are not supposed to be missing even out of the month of Ramadan. 12:53 But let us make a start. 12:56 If we are falling short along the way, let us make a start in Ramadan that look, I'm not going to miss a single salah with Jamaat. 13:05 And even if those of you that may be studying or whatever and you got lectures and maybe you know your 13:12 The lectures are at the Salah time or whatever. 13:15 But I mean in your class you may be having other Muslim friends. 13:19 Get together with them and say look. 13:22 Let's get together after the lecture and let's make Jamaat. 13:25 Instead of us reading our Salah individually. 13:27 Let's make a second Jamaat, a third Jamaat. 13:30 So that we get all our Salah with Jamaat. 13:33 As far as possible. 13:35 So, in Ramadan we can earn maximum thawab. 13:39 This is just one example that, you know, a person reads one faraz salah and he gets a thawab of 70 farais. 13:46 A person reads a nafal namaz and he's getting the thawab of a faraz namaz. 13:51 A person just gives a sip of water to a fasting person and he's getting the same reward as that person who fasted. 13:59 So don't skip your fast and give water to a fasting person. 14:04 One. 14:05 One person had many Qaza Salah. 14:07 So he was going for Umrah. 14:10 So he said, Maulana, the Tawab is multiplied a hundred thousand in Makkah Mukarramah. 14:18 So, I got about ten years Qaza Salah. 14:23 So if I make one Qaza of Fajr in the Haram of Makkah Mukarramah, so it's multiplied by a hundred thousand. 14:30 So by the time I come back home, my Qaza's are over. 14:32 So, 14:38 So this month of Ramadan, as we are saying, it's a boon, a great boon, a great favor, a great bounty. 14:45 And we don't want to let it just pass us by. 14:49 The thing is, what happens to us is we have a nafs. 14:53 We have our carnal desires. 14:57 And we have shaitan to contend with. 15:01 Now shaitan is locked up in Ramadan. 15:04 So we can't blame him. 15:06 But some people say that if he is locked up, then how come we're still sinning even in Ramadan? 15:15 So Mawlana Yunus Patel, Rahmatullah Ali, used to say that if you give a ball a good kick before Ramadan, if you give a ball a good kick, you got a downhill, you know, and you give a ball a good kick, so the impact of your foot to that ball is a split second. 15:35 But the ball carries on rolling for quite a while. 15:38 So this is what Shaitan does before he gets locked up. 15:43 He gives us a nice boot. 15:46 And we just keep rolling in sin till the momentum is dying off and he gets released. 15:53 Eat day and then he comes and carries on kicking. 15:57 This is what happens to many people. 15:59 Allah Ta'ala safeguard us. 16:03 The other thing that happens before Ramadan, I get many young men coming to me before Ramadan. 16:12 University students especially. 16:15 They come to me, Mauna, you know what? 16:19 I want to change my life. 16:22 So he wants to change his life, but he's not talking about Fajr Salah, Zuhr Salah, all those things. 16:28 How he wants to change his life? 16:30 See, Mauna, I'm involved with this girl. 16:33 I don't want to make guna no more. 16:35 I want to change my life. 16:36 I don't want to engage in sin anymore. 16:39 So I want to make nikah to her. 16:42 But now our parents won't allow us to get married now. 16:46 So we just want to make a nikah. 16:48 Just quietly. 16:50 Just so that we're not in sin. 16:52 We know we want to marry one another. 16:55 But now our parents won't allow it. 16:57 But just to avoid the sin. 16:59 We want to make nikah. 17:01 And... 17:02 After that and after we qualify then we make an official Nikah. 17:06 But for now we just want to sort something out quietly. 17:11 Just so that we abstain from the sin. 17:14 So the way to abstain from the sin is to abstain from the girl. 17:20 That's how we abstain from the sin. 17:23 Unless you can really twist your parents' arm and they agree and then you make the nikah, then it's fine. 17:29 But the secret nikah is a problem. 17:32 Secret nikah is a major problem. 17:35 It can have disastrous consequences going forward. 17:40 Right? 17:40 So you don't want to get into the secret type of nikah. 17:44 Rather you break off 17:46 Make tawbah. 17:47 Make istighfar. 17:48 And turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 17:52 And you know sometimes shaitan is so devious. 17:57 What he tells you? 17:59 He says, look. 18:01 You know this girl. 18:03 She was not wearing scarf. 18:07 After you started dating her, she's wearing scarf. 18:14 I have girls writing to me and 18:17 They say to me, say, this boy was very instrumental in my Islah. 18:28 He was very instrumental in my Islah. 18:31 Because although you're dating and you're involved in this haram relationship, but somewhere along the line, the piety in you comes out. 18:39 So now, I mean, you have to show her you're pious also. 18:42 Otherwise, how she's going to marry you? 18:44 So now, you know, one, two things about namaz comes along and one, two things about something. 18:49 Jummah day you may send one hadith or something. 18:51 So you are instrumental. 18:55 Shaitan is so cunning, so conniving, so cunning that he... 19:02 I tell the girls in the girls' madrasah, I say, when you make up your mind that you want to break off with this boy, you want to now give it up, this haram relationship. 19:14 So what shaitan tells you, you see this fellow here, if I break up with him, he's going to go back to his drugs, he's going to go back to his womanizing and going back to all his evil which he gave up after he came to know me. 19:30 So you are the only sheikha who can assist this boy. 19:37 Shaitan uses different different tricks to keep us in sin. 19:40 So look, I experienced this with many young men that even when they change their lives, they will give up everything. 19:52 They give up everything. 19:54 Movies, clubbing, all these things they give it up. 19:58 But the one thing that's very hard is that apple of his eye. 20:05 He just, that's the one thing he can't let go of. 20:08 Everything else he throw it away. 20:11 That girlfriend, that one he can't throw away for some reason. 20:16 And for as long as he is with her, communicating with her or whatever, he is involved in a level of zina. 20:25 And this level of zina is going to cloud him. 20:29 It's going to create locks on his heart. 20:32 And he is not going to be able to progress spiritually despite him believing that no, she is good for my deen. 20:41 It's good for my deen. 20:42 This is the ultimate trick of the devil is to get us involved in a sin and make us think that the sin is good for us. 20:52 You get some people with the mentality that look, you see when you're young, you must do everything. 21:01 So when you get married, then you'll be satisfied. 21:04 You don't want to cheat on your wife after that and do things after that. 21:09 So when you're young, 21:10 You must explore. 21:11 You must do whatever you need to do. 21:14 This is a trap. 21:17 It's a trap. 21:18 It's quicksand. 21:20 It's a lie from the devil. 21:21 Because there is no person that has become content with sin. 21:27 The quality of sin is like the quality of the fire of Jahannam. 21:33 The fire of Jahannam never gets full. 21:36 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will put the inmates of Jahannam into Jahannam. 21:41 And Jahannam will go on asking, Hal min mazeed? 21:44 Hal min mazeed? 21:44 Have you got more? 21:45 Have you got more? 21:46 Send more to me. 21:48 And this is the quality of sin. 21:50 My inspector sahib rahmatullah. 21:51 He used to always say that you can show a person all the beautiful women in the world. 21:58 All the mis... 22:00 India's and South Africa's and Brazil's and America's and whatever, all the mis... 22:09 The favor you'll be doing to yourself is if you miss all of them. 22:12 You don't see all of them. 22:14 But if you show somebody all of them and you tell him, right, look, you've seen all now. 22:19 There's just one left. 22:23 So you won't find a person saying, alright, we've seen all, never mind, leave that one, they leave it out. 22:30 We've seen everyone now. 22:32 We have to see the last one also. 22:34 Might as well leave the last one out. 22:38 And sin is such a thing, brothers, look. 22:43 You know, you don't ever find a person remaining on the same level of sin. 22:51 Because sin is a thing that never gives contentment. 22:55 Sin never gives contentment. 22:57 Sin is a thing that gives a thrill. 23:01 It gives a thrill, a temporary thrill, for a short while. 23:04 It's very, very short-lived. 23:07 And then, if you want to experience the thrill again, then you have to raise the bar a little bit. 23:16 That's how a person becomes a drug addict. 23:19 That's how a relationship with a girl ends up in zina. 23:24 That's how people from zina end up as gays. 23:28 Because there's no contentment in guna. 23:31 There's no contentment in sin. 23:34 The person just wants to fulfill their desire. 23:37 So they'll keep on looking for something worse and something worse and something worse. 23:42 Something to give a bigger thrill. 23:45 Until we start behaving even worse than animals. 23:47 Because there's nothing left normal that normal people do that can give the person the thrill. 23:57 You look at sometimes professional people, right? 24:01 People who are normally very cultured and whatever. 24:04 Put them on Harry Davidson motorbike. 24:08 And he's part of a riding club. 24:10 And now he becomes a barbarian. 24:14 Obstructing traffic and making noise and doing all foolish things. 24:18 Why? 24:19 He's also looking for his thrill. 24:20 He's looking for his kicks. 24:23 So guna will never ever give us contentment. 24:26 But you look at a person who is treading the path of piety. 24:31 That person will be doing the same thing every day. 24:36 And never ever gets bored of it. 24:39 Person continues doing the very same thing because there is contentment. 24:43 There is contentment. 24:45 There is peace. 24:46 There is tranquility in piety. 24:49 Anything that connects us with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give us peace and contentment. 24:55 So this month of Ramadan, use it. 24:58 Use it to get connected with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 25:01 Make Quran Sharif a very very important feature in your day. 25:07 The month of Ramadan is especially the month of the Quran. 25:13 So recite Quran. 25:14 Recite the Quran. 25:16 Recitation of Quran. 25:18 One is the thawab. 25:20 The second thing is you communicating with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 25:24 And thirdly, it is a source of shifa. 25:27 It's a cure. 25:28 It's a cure not only of your physical ailments. 25:36 It's a cure of incorrect beliefs. 25:40 It's a cure of sins. 25:43 It's a cure of any evil that may be plaguing a person. 25:48 By reading Quran Sharif with the proper etiquette, 25:51 There is a nur that is generated in the body and this cleanses the person. 25:57 So recite Quran Sharif. 26:00 And then I am sure amongst us we have our Huffaz who will inshaAllah ta'ala lead us in the Taraweeh Salah. 26:08 Right? 26:10 And this is a wonderful thing you know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blesses us with the Quran Sharif and then honors us 26:18 He makes us a imma. 26:20 He makes us imams. 26:21 Which is a very very high position. 26:24 Now imagine. 26:25 You got your father maybe reading salah behind you. 26:29 Your grandfather maybe reading salah behind you. 26:32 Maybe even your ustad is reading salah behind you. 26:35 Some elder people of the community. 26:37 When you say. 26:38 Allahu Akbar. 26:40 They must all stand up. 26:42 When you decide it's time to go in ruku. 26:44 They must all go in ruku. 26:46 That's one place your father won't tell you, hey, what you doing? 26:49 You listen to what I got to say. 26:52 That's the honor that Allah Ta'ala gives to the Hafiz. 26:55 That's the honor that Allah Ta'ala gives to the Imam. 26:57 That when he says Allahu Akbar, everybody must follow. 27:02 So it's a very, very great honor that Allah Ta'ala affords the Hafizul Quran. 27:08 So we must make shukr to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for this boon. 27:12 But as a Hafiz, 27:13 Then we have a responsibility because we are leading the entire congregation and if our salah is incorrect, then the salah of the entire congregation is incorrect and the sin is on our shoulders. 27:29 So before Ramadan, brush up on our masail. 27:35 Masail, very very importantly, masail pertaining to taharah. 27:41 Masail pertaining to wudu. 27:43 Masail pertaining to ghusl. 27:46 Be very very cautious when we are making istinja. 27:53 We must ensure that we are park. 27:56 Right? 27:57 And the masail of salah. 28:01 Masail of salah also. 28:04 For which mistake do I have to make such that to sah? 28:09 If a certain thing happens 28:11 You know, how do I patch up? 28:14 How do I make up? 28:17 And which things break the Sana? 28:20 Right? 28:21 So this is the Masail point of view. 28:24 The other thing is look, our Tilawat. 28:28 How we recite the Quran. 28:31 Many a times you get Hufazna. 28:34 I know in Cape Town people, they love Quran. 28:37 And they take pride in how they read Quran. 28:39 So maybe you don't even have this problem here, right? 28:42 But in many places where you get young hufaz getting together and they're reading the Taraweeh, then it's like, you know what? 28:52 You know what? 28:52 Deen says we must hide one another's faults. 28:57 So let's just keep reading. 29:00 My mistakes, you keep quiet about it. 29:02 Your mistakes, I keep quiet about it. 29:05 You know they say, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king. 29:10 So all these people behind us, they are non-Hufaas. 29:13 They don't know what's going on. 29:15 So we just carry on, do our own thing. 29:18 Look, sometimes we are making such mistakes that actually render the Salah invalid. 29:29 We have changed the meaning of the Quran. 29:31 We're not rectifying the situation. 29:33 These are all major, major sins. 29:36 So the Taraweeh is not a game. 29:38 It's not just to let our parents know that, hey, you know what, I'm performing Taraweeh. 29:43 It's a responsibility. 29:45 It's a serious thing. 29:46 So we must make sure that we read our Quran Sharif also correctly. 29:51 So the Masair is one part of it and then the Tilawat of Quran Sharif. 29:55 Because certain mistakes we make changes the entire meaning 30:02 Salah. 30:02 Salah. 30:02 Salah. 30:02 Salah. 30:23 Especially if we're doing it knowingly. 30:24 When a mistake can happen, Allah Ta'ala will forgive us. 30:28 But where, you know, you scratch my back, I scratch your back and we carry on. 30:33 Ya'lamun ta'lamun type of taraweeh. 30:36 This is a dangerous situation. 30:38 Right? 30:40 The other problem, you know, we are facing and inshaAllah it's not here also in the Cape Town. 30:45 But many people want to read many juz on one night. 30:51 You know, like you want to finish your khatam, you say, you know, I've got lectures or I'm on duty or whatever it is and I want to finish my khatam quickly so I'm going to read two paras a night or three paras a night or whatever. 31:04 So, the three paras is getting recited but the quality of that tilawat is very poor because we just want to finish up. 31:13 You know, we're reading three Jews now so we're just racing and we want to finish up. 31:19 And then after we finish up, then it's like, you know what, we qualified now and we got no responsibility for Taraweeh anymore. 31:26 So it's like Ramadan ended for us. 31:29 Right? 31:30 So this is incorrect. 31:31 We must remember that fasting is fard on every day and 20 rakats of Taraweeh is Sunnat-e-Mu'akkadah every night. 31:41 Right? 31:42 So we must perform our Taraweeh every night. 31:45 The other thing we want to touch on 31:48 Is that look, in many homes, our own Muslim homes, many people unfortunately have televisions and they are using the television not just for the CCTV camera. 32:05 They are using the television not to watch movies or programs or whatever. 32:12 So come Ramadan, 32:14 In those homes where there is a bit of consciousness, a bit of dini consciousness, so come Ramadan, the TV goes off. 32:24 They switch the TV off. 32:25 Doesn't come on for the duration of Ramadan. 32:28 So Mawlana Isfateh Rahmatullah Ali used to say that in some homes, they put a kafan, you know, for the TV. 32:35 Because they take a cloth and they cover the TV. 32:38 So they put a kafan on the TV, but they forget to bury the TV. 32:43 So after Ramadan, this thing comes back to life. 32:47 It's like Dajjal. 32:48 You see Dajjal, he will kill people and bring them back to life. 32:52 And then he will claim to be, that he is the Lord Almighty. 32:56 So the TV has got a Dajjali qualities. 32:59 It dies in Ramadan, after Ramadan comes back to life. 33:04 So anyway, this TV is, you know what I mean, it's closed off, it's covered up. 33:09 And that's a good thing. 33:11 At least for Ramadan they are not watching television and we make dua that Allah Ta'ala give the strength that we then give it up for the rest of our lives and we stop watching these movies and filth on the TV. 33:23 But what has happened is now we got these miniature TVs in our pockets. 33:32 So we stop watching the big box. 33:36 But we still circulating little cartoons or, you know, like some joke type of thing and, you know, videos, small, small, short, short videos. 33:48 We still circulating these things even though it's Ramadan because we got so many non-Muslim contacts, right? 33:54 To them, I mean, it's nothing. 33:56 So they still sending out these videos like how they would send it any other month of the year. 34:02 And we receive it and say, let's put this thing on the group. 34:06 Put this thing there. 34:07 Put this thing here. 34:07 And now we're sitting and we're watching this thing. 34:09 And we're having a good laugh. 34:11 And it's not registering that look. 34:14 I'm watching television. 34:17 Because that is what it is. 34:21 No less. 34:22 I mean although the screen is small. 34:24 But it's the same sun. 34:27 So we've got to be conscious of this. 34:30 We've got to be conscious. 34:32 And look. 34:33 Nabi Akarim sallallahu alayhi wasallam has mentioned. 34:37 Rubba sa'imin laisa lahu min siyamihi illal ju'a. 34:42 Wa rubba qa'imin laisa lahu min qiyamihi illal sahr. 34:47 That there are many a fasting person who gets nothing out of his fast but hunger. 34:56 Now, some of us actually think that we fast so that we will stay hungry. 35:06 You see like the fasting is there to stay hungry. 35:09 So you feel what the poor people are going through. 35:12 Right? 35:12 So then you become passionate. 35:14 You know you have some compassion towards the what you call the cause of the underprivileged. 35:23 Some people actually think that that is the maksat of fasting. 35:29 Right? 35:30 But here Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is saying that many people they get nothing out of the fast except hunger. 35:37 So what it shows is that just staying hungry, just staying hungry is not the objective of fasting. 35:48 The hunger is a means to an end. 35:53 This hunger that we experience, staying away from food, we can't even call it hunger because we have a top sehri, right? 36:02 And then we have a top iftar supper. 36:05 But now those people that are students, you are coming from other provinces and you're staying here in Cape Town. 36:13 So I don't know how it is with you high and dry or your mummy is sending things by flight, you know, air freight and then you have to warm the thing or whatever. 36:22 I don't know how it operates. 36:24 But recently I went to Grahamstown. 36:28 Lucky you chaps are studying in Cape Town, not Grahamstown. 36:31 I didn't know that Grahamstown, it just got an eerie feeling about it. 36:36 So, but the students, they really impressed me. 36:41 Quite a few of them. 36:44 So, the morning we were leaving, we were now going to drive to Port Elizabeth from Grahamstown. 36:51 We had a program day in the University of Grahamstown. 36:54 Next morning we were leaving now for Port Elizabeth. 36:57 So the one student, I even forget his name. 37:02 He came in the morning with a little cup away. 37:07 And he said, some road food. 37:11 And I'm thinking now, the student now, he's in the university. 37:15 I mean, must be battling away now for food and all of that. 37:19 And that too in Gramstown. 37:23 And 37:24 Hot pies, man. 37:25 He baked the pies that part of the morning. 37:28 And he brought the things. 37:29 He said, no, it's road food. 37:31 Carry it. 37:31 So sometime maybe the students also carry, getting their pies and all that. 37:35 They're not too bad. 37:37 But here, whatever it is, but we eat well. 37:40 We eat a sehri. 37:41 We eat iftar. 37:42 Sometime after that we have something. 37:44 So we eat well. 37:44 So we're not really hungry. 37:47 What we're actually experiencing is just a change of times. 37:52 A change of times of eating. 37:54 Right? 37:55 And this change of times of eating, it trains us to say no to our nafs. 38:03 At 10 o'clock, you feel like eating something, you say, you know, I'm fasting. 38:08 I can't eat anything. 38:10 Right? 38:10 Lunchtime, I can't eat anything. 38:13 I have to wait for Iftar. 38:15 My spirit is to give this example that look, a person can be sitting before Maghrib Salah, before Azan goes, he's sitting at the Dastur Khan and there's a whole lot of food there in front of him. 38:29 The biggest Mufti can come to him and tell him, look, you fasted the whole day, there's only two minutes left for sunset, never mind, eat something. 38:40 Right? 38:41 His Iman is so strong at that time. 38:45 He will never partake of anything. 38:47 He can sit there. 38:48 He can look at all the food. 38:50 His stomach can be protesting. 38:52 And it can be speaking some other languages that the world didn't come to know about as yet. 38:57 But he will not touch that food. 39:01 Even there is only two minutes left. 39:02 He won't touch the food. 39:04 When the sun sets. 39:06 Now he says, now Allah has allowed me to eat, now I will partake of this food. 39:12 That is how strong his Iman becomes, how his Taqwa level increases. 39:17 Now that is the object of Ramadan. 39:21 For that Iman to grow and that Taqwa to grow. 39:25 So Ramadan is the training ground. 39:27 Then after Ramadan, now if in Ramadan we could say no to 39:33 To halal things. 39:34 Things that are permissible. 39:35 Things that are, you know, it's normally fine to partake of. 39:40 Then, how difficult would it be after Ramadan to say no to haram? 39:47 Because now you can indulge in the permissible things. 39:49 Any time of the day, you can eat something, right? 39:52 But only you must stay away from haram. 39:55 Right? 39:55 A person who's married... 39:58 So in Ramadan, during the day, he even stays away from his halal, lawful wife. 40:06 Stays away from her also. 40:08 Because Allah Ta'ala has prohibited it. 40:10 His wife is there, beautiful wife, everything he's got. 40:13 But Allah Ta'ala has prohibited, he won't go, he won't engage in conjugal relations with her. 40:21 Right? 40:23 But at night, if he has a need, he will engage in relations because Allah Ta'ala has allowed it. 40:30 So, his Iman builds up. 40:32 Now, if he could do that in Ramadan, then even his lawful wife, he was able to stay away from her because it is Allah's command. 40:41 So now, at least after Ramadan, he will be able to stay away from any illicit beloved. 40:48 Right? 40:49 So, 40:50 If in the month of Ramadan we are going to allow ourselves to get involved in sins, whether it is sins of the eyes, whether it is as I said to you now on the cell phone, or any other type of sin, if we are going to allow ourselves to get involved in sins in the month of Ramadan, then the most is we are just going to fulfill the obligation of fasting, but we are not going to reap the benefits of 41:19 That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving us in this Mubarak month. 41:24 We won't really reap the benefits. 41:26 We won't get the true effect of that month of Ramadan in our lives. 41:33 Then your last ten days of Ramadan will come. 41:37 Treasure those odd nights. 41:39 Look for the night of Qadr. 41:42 If you can, sit for nafal itikaaf in the masjid. 41:46 It's a wonderful itikaaf in the masjid. 41:48 Engage in duha. 41:50 Look, brothers. 41:53 The ummah is in a crisis. 41:56 The ummah is in a crisis. 42:00 You look at Syria. 42:03 You look at Palestine. 42:05 You look at Sudan. 42:06 You look at Somalia. 42:08 You look at Kashmir. 42:09 How many years going? 42:10 The ummah is in a crisis. 42:15 And 42:16 The only way this ummah can come out of this crisis is if we turn to Allah Ta'ala. 42:23 And look brothers, as we're going to go closer to Qiyamah, it's only going to get worse. 42:28 It's not going to get any better. 42:30 It's going to get worse. 42:33 And you are the people, you are the people who can hold things together for the next generation. 42:42 Pass things on to the next generation. 42:44 Right? 42:45 And prepare that next generation to hold things for the future generation. 42:52 Now if we are going to get so caught up in the lifestyle of the very people who are our enemies, the very people who are destroying us, then what chance do we stand as an ummah? 43:08 We won't be able to destroy Islam. 43:10 Right? 43:14 A brother, friend of mine, he tells me that when he was in Cape Town many years ago, so he had a friend who was at that time not a Muslim. 43:29 Right? 43:30 But that friend accepted Islam. 43:33 So he's telling me, just last night we were speaking about it, that so many people who were living in that area, who were non-Muslims, 43:43 They all became Muslims. 43:46 And they are reading Salah and they are going for Deeni programs and they are taking an interest in Islam. 43:52 And those people who were Muslims, born Muslims, they are not practicing Muslims today. 44:00 Right? 44:01 So, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Islam will not suffer. 44:10 But when we will show an independent attitude towards our deen, then it's very easy for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to take it away from us and give it to somebody else who will treasure it. 44:27 But nobody will be able to extinguish Islam. 44:31 Yes. 44:32 The people who are the flag bearers, the people who are the beacons, they can be changed. 44:38 For as long as we value it and we treasure it, Allah Ta'ala will leave it with us. 44:45 And when we lose the value and we stop treasuring it, Allah Ta'ala will take it away and give it to a nation who will treasure it. 44:53 Now we want to conclude and I just want to give you two examples. 45:03 Very quickly and we will finish off. 45:07 Told you not two hours. 45:09 So I'll keep to my word, right? 45:11 So, there was a Bedouin, right? 45:16 Very poor person. 45:17 Bedouin. 45:18 Sahabi. 45:20 He made hijrat from Makkah Mukarrama. 45:23 He migrated from Makkah Mukarrama. 45:25 And he came to Madinah Munawarah. 45:28 When he came to Madinah Munawarah, he came to Nabi Akarim sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 45:34 And he didn't have anything, you know. 45:35 He didn't own much. 45:37 He came to Madinah Munawarah. 45:39 And he comes to Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 45:41 And he says, Ya Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 45:44 Say, I want to be with you. 45:48 I want to be with you. 45:49 I want to live with you. 45:52 And Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam tells him, Okay, no problem. 45:56 And he speaks to some sahaba, some of the ansar, radiallahu ta'ala. 46:00 He says to them, Look, take care of this brother. 46:03 Give him some job, some work, whatever. 46:06 So he can earn a little bit. 46:08 For his personal needs. 46:10 And you know he can stick around. 46:11 He wants to be here with us. 46:12 He wants to be with me. 46:14 So see what can be done for him. 46:18 So like this he is spending his days now in Medina Munawwara. 46:23 Some time later a Jihad takes place. 46:28 So he joins in the Jihad. 46:32 And the Muslims are victorious. 46:36 So war booty comes in. 46:39 Mali ghanimatna. 46:40 War booty comes in. 46:42 And Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam is distributing this war booty. 46:47 And he allocates a share for this Bedouin Sahabi as well. 46:51 But at that particular time, this Sahabi was tending to the animals of the Ansar. 47:00 Right? 47:01 Because now they were giving him some job, something to do, so he can earn his keep also. 47:07 So he was tending to the animals. 47:08 The war is over. 47:09 Now the animals need a rest. 47:11 They need a brush down, whatever it is. 47:13 So he was tending to the animals. 47:15 And he wasn't present at the distribution. 47:17 So Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked to him, where's the Sahabi? 47:20 He said, no, he's busy with the animals. 47:22 So Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam allocated his share and told one Sahabi to give him his share. 47:30 So this Sahabi went now with this wealth. 47:34 Right? 47:34 And he goes to this Bedouin. 47:36 And he says to him that look this is for you. 47:38 So he says what's this for? 47:41 So he says no this is your share from the war booty. 47:43 Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has allocated this for you. 47:48 So he accepts it. 47:50 And he goes to Nabi Al-Karim Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. 47:54 And he says that Ya Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. 47:57 What's this? 48:00 So Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, well this is your share from the war booty. 48:03 You are part of the army. 48:05 So this is your share from the war booty. 48:08 So he says to Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that Ya Rasulullah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I didn't come here for this. 48:17 So I didn't come here to Madinah Munawarah to live with you to enrich myself. 48:24 I didn't come for this booty. 48:26 He said, I came here 48:29 So that I can strive for Islam. 48:33 And strive for Allah's Deen. 48:36 And then an arrow must strike me here. 48:42 He points at his neck. 48:44 An arrow must strike me here. 48:47 And I must give my life for Allah's Deen. 48:50 That's what I came here for. 48:52 Not for gold and silver. 48:55 So Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam told him that look 48:59 If you are true in what you're saying, you are true, then Allah will be true to you. 49:09 A short while passed and there was another jihad that had taken place. 49:16 And again, he joined the jihad. 49:20 When the war was over, the Sahaba radiallahu anhum, they carried his body. 49:28 He became shaheed in the battle. 49:30 So they carried his body. 49:33 Just like how they're carrying all the other shuhadas. 49:35 They carried his body also. 49:37 And they brought his body to Nabiya Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 49:40 And they're saying to Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam that Ya Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 49:44 This is that Bedouin sahabi. 49:46 The one who came and he said he wants to live with you. 49:48 He wants to stay with you. 49:49 This is his body. 49:52 Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam looks at his body. 49:55 And there is an arrow in his neck. 50:00 Exactly where he had pointed. 50:04 And I want an arrow to strike me here. 50:07 Exactly where he had put his hand. 50:09 There was an arrow there. 50:12 And that caused his martyrdom. 50:14 And Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam said. 50:17 That he was true to Allah Ta'ala. 50:19 Allah Ta'ala has been true to him. 50:24 Nabi al-Karim sallallahu alayhi wasallam thereafter. 50:29 Used his own jubbah as a kafan for the sahabi. 50:36 Performed his janazah salah and lowered him in his qabar himself. 50:43 Nabi salallahu alayhi wasallam personally lowered him in his qabar. 50:48 And after his burial, Nabi salallahu alayhi wasallam made dua for him. 50:54 And Nabi salallahu alayhi wasallam said, Ya Allah, this servant of yours 51:00 He made hijrat for your pleasure. 51:03 He fought for your pleasure. 51:05 And he was martyred for your pleasure. 51:07 And I am a witness to that. 51:10 I am standing witness for him. 51:13 Right. 51:14 Now. 51:16 A short while. 51:17 Would Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam. 51:21 From a worldly point of view. 51:22 I mean the man came there. 51:24 And he lost his life. 51:28 But I ask you. 51:30 Does anyone in this room think that he made a foolish choice? 51:37 Aren't we envious of him? 51:42 If only that was me. 51:44 If I could have done something like that. 51:50 On the other hand, in the era of Umar r.a, there was a very wealthy person. 51:59 This person was so wealthy 52:02 That he enjoyed luxuries more than the kings of the time. 52:09 Even the kings of the time. 52:11 Maybe it's like a Gupta story. 52:13 I don't know. 52:14 But anyway, the kings of the time also didn't have what he owned. 52:19 The amount of luxuries and whatever that he had. 52:23 He put the kings away. 52:25 Now he came and he accepted Islam. 52:29 So when he accepted Islam, it was like a big thing, you know like. 52:32 This chap accepted Islam. 52:34 Very very influential, powerful, wealthy person accepted Islam. 52:41 However, short while thereafter, he went to Baytullah. 52:48 He went to Makkah Mukarrama. 52:50 And he is making Tawaf of Baytullah. 52:54 And there was a simple Muslim, villager type of Muslim, 53:00 Who was also making tawaaf and by mistake he stepped on this brother's ihram. 53:07 And his ihram came loose. 53:10 His ihram nearly fell down. 53:15 So he got enraged. 53:17 Furious. 53:19 So he gave this Muslim one shot. 53:25 Can't you see where you are walking in? 53:27 Gave him one 53:29 Sound learning. 53:32 So this villager, he went to Amirul Muminin, Umar radiyallahu ta'ala. 53:38 And he explained the situation. 53:40 And he said, well, you know what? 53:41 I want my revenge. 53:44 This man hit me for no reason. 53:47 He is unjustified. 53:49 Right? 53:50 So I want my revenge. 53:51 Now this person is a 53:54 You know, a villager now, right? 53:55 He's got nothing. 53:56 He's worth nothing. 53:57 He's like, the people of dunya will look at him like, you know, like a, I don't want to use the term, but they say now he's like a lowlife. 54:05 You know, he's like a lowly person, right? 54:09 And this man here now, he's a big shot. 54:12 He's wealthier than the kings. 54:15 So Umar radiyallahu ta'ala in the case is brought. 54:18 This person is summoned. 54:19 Umar radiyallahu ta'ala does the necessary investigations. 54:22 And it is proven that this person did hit this sahabi. 54:26 Right. 54:26 And you know it was zulm. 54:30 So he tells this wealthy person now. 54:32 He says look. 54:34 You got to allow this villager to hit you. 54:41 Now this fellow. 54:42 He can't take that. 54:44 How this ordinary villager gonna hit me? 54:47 You know who I am. 54:49 How can this ordinary villager now lay his hand on me? 54:55 So, he wasn't prepared to accept this. 55:00 So he told Umar radiallahu anhu. 55:02 He said, okay, you know what? 55:03 This is a very difficult thing for me. 55:05 It's a bitter pill to swallow. 55:07 But just give me some time. 55:09 Give me a day or two. 55:10 I'll just psych my mind. 55:11 And then I'll come back. 55:12 And then this vanija can eat me. 55:14 But in that time, he ran away. 55:18 He ran away. 55:19 Not only that, he became murtad. 55:23 This is the ruling. 55:25 And I'm not prepared to accept this ruling. 55:27 So he became murtad. 55:29 Non-Muslim. 55:31 Right? 55:33 Now, when we listen to this incident, 55:36 What comes to your mind regarding this person? 55:42 What do you regard him? 55:43 To be an intelligent person, a foolish person, how do you regard him? 55:51 The choice that he made. 55:58 It's not a trick question. 55:59 Give me an answer. 56:01 Mohan gave the right answer. 56:05 He said, 56:06 He said he is an idiot. 56:10 Which is true. 56:11 The person made a foolish choice. 56:15 All he needed to do was endure the one shot. 56:20 Judgment would have been served. 56:21 Justice served. 56:23 And the story is over. 56:24 Life carries on as normal. 56:26 But he didn't want to take that little pain on his ego. 56:32 And see now what he caused for himself. 56:37 Eternal destruction. 56:39 Eternal doom. 56:42 Right? 56:43 So this is exactly our lives. 56:47 There are many things. 56:49 It's just our egos involved. 56:52 Right? 56:53 Our ego is not allowing us to follow the law of Allah or accept the rule of Allah. 56:59 We think something else is more enjoyable. 57:01 Something else is smarter. 57:03 Something else is a better choice. 57:04 Hmm? 57:07 All we need to do is realize that we are servants of Allah. 57:14 And we must serve the one who is our creator. 57:17 That will lead to our success in the world also, in the Qabar also, in the Akhirat also. 57:26 But if we are going to act like that fellow, then we are going to make a foolish choice. 57:31 Rather be like the Bedouin. 57:33 Rather be like the Bedouin 57:35 Okay, we don't have arrows flying here, but we can sacrifice our life for the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 57:45 Rather than make a choice like this person who is not prepared to take a little bit of pain and then look at his doom, look at his destruction, eternal destruction. 57:57 So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us tawfiq. 58:01 I don't know if 58:03 The program was beneficial for you. 58:06 Right? 58:09 But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept your sitting. 58:12 And you will be rewarded for the sacrifice that you have made. 58:16 Whether the advices were good or not, that's by the way. 58:19 But the fact that you came and you said to listen to something about the deen of Allah. 58:24 Allah is watching you. 58:26 Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is seeing this servant of mine. 58:29 Saturday night, prime time. 58:31 You know, he gave it to me. 58:33 Allah Ta'ala is definitely going to reward you. 58:35 Allah Ta'ala. 58:36 And it will have some some spin-off somewhere along the line. 58:41 So this Mubarak month of Ramadan keep me also in your duas. 58:46 And we will remember you also in duas. 58:49 And let us try and make the best of it. 58:52 And we make dua that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make it the best Ramadan of our lives thus far. 58:58 And give us the tawfiq to find the night of Qadr. 59:05 SubhanAllahi wa bihamdihi. 59:07 Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdik. 59:11 Nashhadu an la ilaha illa anta nastawfiruka wa natubu ilayk. 59:16 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Recite the Quran Daily: Establish a daily routine with the Holy Quran for spiritual healing, purification, and connection with Allah.
Abstain from Haram Relationships: Cease unlawful relationships completely rather than seeking invalid secret Nikahs or deceiving oneself about spiritual progress.
Put Away Digital Distractions: Treat smartphones and video clips with the same caution as televisions to preserve the sanctity of the month.
Remember the Suffering Ummah: Utilize the blessed nights and Iftars to make fervent Dua for oppressed Muslims across the globe.21:41
Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb