Issues pertaining to Ramadan, innovations revolving around the fast and misconceptions and misunderstandings many Muslims have concerning the fast and Ramadan. Lecture will be followed by Q&A session."Allah intends for you ease, and He does not want to make things difficult for you." [Qur'an 2:185]"Whoever does not give up false speech and acting upon it, Allaah has no need of his giving up his food and drink." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (1804)"It may be that all a fasting person gets from his fast is hunger and thirst, and it may be that all a person who prays at night gets from his prayer is sleeplessness." Narrated by Ahmad (8693); classed as saheeh by Ibn Hibbaan (8/257) and by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Targheeb (1/262)Some of the issues discussed:Intentions - are they mandatory&should they be uttered?Innovations in the calendar! Fast begins at Fajar not 10 minutes prior.Backbiting - *eating* the flesh of your brothers/sisters.Avoid: TV, Internet, Social Networks, Time killersCondition of those who only abstain from food/drinkCondition of those who fast&don't establish prayersBrush teeth while fasting? Can we swallow spit?.Smelling perfume&tasting food?Continue to fast upon waking up as a junoob - in state of janabah?*********************************************************************************************************Abu Usamah was born in New Jersey in 1964. He embraced Islam in 1986 and went onto studying in the Islamic University of Madina for eight years where he graduated from the College of Da'wah and Usool-ad-Din.Abu Usamah has been very active in da'wah since the day he embraced Islam. He has been the Imam of various mosques in the United States and in the United Kingdom. He is currently the imam at Green Lane masjid in Birmingham.His zeal and eagerness in conveying the true message of Islam has lead him to many parts of the world, delivering lectures and seminars, as well as translating for many scholars and du'aat from the Arab world.Abu Usamah has been blessed in studying with some of the greatest scholars of our time, to name a few, Shaikh Umar Fulaatah at the Rawdah of the Prophets Mosque, Shaikh Muhammad 'Atiyyah Saalim (author of Tafsir 'Adwaa ul-Bayaan'), Shaikh Abdullah Muhammad al-Ghunaymaan, Shaikh Muhammad al-Jaami, Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan and many more. He was also very fortunate to have spent two summers in intensive study under Shaikh Ibn Baaz and Shaikh Ibn Uthaymin.
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