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Friendship Event

August 31st 2010@ Moncton Public Library

Second Edition – Ramadan Special

Why Friendship Event?

O mankind! We have created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another. Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you

The Holy Qur'an 49-13

Building Bridges

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Praise and gratitude are due to Allah, the Master of the worlds, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds The Most Gracious, Most Merciful Master of the, Day of Judgment You alone we worship, and You alone we ask for aid Guide us to the straight path The path of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not those who earned Your wrath nor those who went astray

5 Pillars of Islam

1. Declaration of faith 2. Prayers 3. Fasting

4. Giving of alms 5. Pilgrimage

• Islam is built on 5 pillars. • And fasting during the month of Ramadan is

the 3rd pillar of Islam after declaration of faith and 5 daily prayers.

• Qur’an informs us that God has prescribed fasting to nations before us. Allah says:

Chain of Prophets

‘O you who believe! Observing the fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that

you may become the pious’ Qur’an: 2-183

What is fasting?

• Fasting is abstaining from food , drink or physical desires during the day from dawn until sunset.

When do we fast?• Ramadan is the 9th month

of the lunar calendar.• We start fasting with the

sighting of the new moon and end it with the upcoming new moon.

Who is exempted from fasting?

are exempted from fasting to make those days up in

their convenient time later on.

Allah does not charge a soul except with

that is within its capacity. It will have the

consequence of what good it has gained,

and it will bear the consequence of what evil

it has earned.


Fasting in 3 Aspects

Fasting in Personal LevelEat to live BUT NOT live to eat

Fasting in Community LevelThe unity

Financial Aspect

Alm Giving

Health care insurance

– Eat to live, not live to eat– Ramadan is a reminder of how special and

precious food is.– Fasting teaches us how we can actually live on

a little food.– Our stomach get to rest for a month– We relearn again how to say NO to food that

we are not supposed to eat for health reasons.– Having less food recharges our body for a

healthier life.

Challenging bad habits

– Smokers get chance to quit smoking

– Gossip, Backbiting, Slandering,

– Anger Management

– The fasting person should avoid all kinds of forbidden actions, otherwise his reward may all be lost.

– The Prophet (pbuh) says: whoever does not stop speaking falsehood or acting, evil, Allah has no need of him giving up his food and drink.

Anger Management

• The Prophet (PBUH) said:

“It may be that a fasting person gets nothing from

his fast except hunger.”

If someone fights him or insults him he should say ‘ I am fasting, I am fasting’

I am Fasting

I am Fasting

– Fasting trains the person to avoid

desires and to keep away from sin.

– It helps a person to overcome his own nature and to wean himself away from bad habits.

Controlling Temptation

Spiritual Journey;• Light in the darkness of the

night

– In this blessed month when the doors of mercy is wide open we take this opportunity to get away from distractions and focus on our relation with God

–The fasting person gets up in the darkness of the night while everyone else is asleep to please his Lord, the most Merciful, gives thanks for everything He Has given us, declare his weakness and call for His help.

Conclusion

• Human being is body and soul. • When a person’s stomach is empty and he is

hungry, many of his other desires are turned down; but when his stomach is satisfied, his tongue, eyes, hands and other organs start to feel hunger.

• There is much wisdom and numerous benefits in fasting which relate to being conscious of Allah.

The interpretation of this verse is that if a person refrains from permissible things hoping to gain the pleasure of Allah it will be easier for him to refrain from doing forbidden and sinful things.

“…that you may become pious.” The Holy Qur'an 2:183

Fasting in Community Level


Feel for PoorFasting is more than a religious obligation for Muslims. It is a It is a way to feel the plight way to feel the plight of poor of poor by putting oneself in their shoes. While we suffer for only a month, some of them suffer the entire year.


Ramadan is a key moment for community spirit, when people from all walks of life do what they can to support those who are in need.


• Feed the poor, Allah described the righteous:

“And they feed, for the love of

Allah, the indigent, the orphan

and the captive. (Saying) "We

feed you for the sake of Allah

alone: no reward do we desire

from you, nor thanks. "The Holy

Quran, 76:8-9


• The Unity of the Muslims – and their aiding and assisting one another – is one of the great fundamentals upon which the Religion of Islam is built “The analogy of believers in their

mutual compassion, mercy and sympathy is like one body, if one organ is sick the whole body will suffer from fatigue and fever” Prophet Muhammad

Fasting in Community Level -2-

• The Unity– Fast-a-thon: is an

event held in the month of Ramadan on university campuses all across North America to create awareness about the issue of hunger, and also about the Islamic way of life and Muslims.

Fast-a-thon in North America


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• The UnityThe Prophet (PBUH) said: “Fast when Fast when they fast, and break your fast when they fast, and break your fast when they break their fast, and sacrifice they break their fast, and sacrifice the day they sacrificethe day they sacrifice.”

Its meaning is to fast and break the fast along with

the group and the majority of people


• The UnityCommunity Iftar:

– Iftar refers to the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan.

– Iftar is often done as a community, with people gathering to break their fast together.


• The Unity

Ramadan’s Blessings: Donations

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: "Feed the hungry, visit the sick and set free the captives." - Sahih

Al-Bukhari, Volume 7, No. 552


• The Unity

Ramadan Blessings: Fundraising

In Toronto: In Toronto: People break the day’s fast in community and help raise emergency funds for the victims of the devastating floods in Pakistan.


• Reward for generosity

Allah Almighty open’s the gate of Heaven in this month. Satan is locked up so he cannot mislead those who are fasting. The reward for good deeds is multiplied 10 times in this month. Allah forgives the previous sins of those who fast


Reward for generosity

The likeness of those who spend their wealth for the sake of Allah, is as the likeness of a grain ; it grows seven ears, and each ear has a hundred grains. Allah gives manifold increase to whom He wills. And Allah is All-Sufficient for His creatures' needs, All-Knower The Holy Qur'an 2-216


• Reward for generosity

Do good deeds and forget them, do bad deeds and remember them…. Everything will be back to you [Moroccan Proverb]

Law of Attraction :

What you put to the Universe will be back to you!

Conclusion

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Istanbul has broken a Guiness

World Record

Istanbul sets world’s longest,

most crowded Iftar table (10 km long)

2900 Volunteer 50 Guiness Commissioners

10 tons of rice, eight tons of meat, 100,000 bottles of water, 45,000 bottles of fruit juice, 500 trays of baklava.

The Mohammed V Foundation will distribute food baskets to more than 467,000 Moroccan households this Ramadan.

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Kuwait Iftar Operation

“And they feed for the love of Allah, the indigent, the orphan and the captives”

Prophet PBUH said “Whoever feeds a Whoever feeds a fasting person will have a reward like that fasting person will have a reward like that of the fasting person, without any of the fasting person, without any reduction in his rewardreduction in his reward”

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Financial Aspect

Are We Responsible?

• The Son of Adam will not pass in the day of judgment until he is asked about four things:

His time on earth how it passed, his youth how it was used, his wealth how was collected and where it is spent, and his knowledge how was used.

What is our Role

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and spend of that whereof He has made you trustees; and such of you as believe and spend (aright), theirs will be a great reward.

The Holy Qur'an

• Arrogantly:

• “Who ever eat or drink with gold or silver wear in this life, will miss the chance to have this privilege in the hereafter”

Resources not be Wasted

Resources not be Wasted

• Foolishly

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• And give not unto the foolish your property which Allah has made a means of support for you but feed and clothe them therewith, and speak to them words of kindness and justice.

• And try orphans in regards to their intelligence until they reach the age of marriage; if then you find sound judgement in them, release their property to them,… The Holy Qur'an 5-176

Balance Vs Contrasts

• Not only in one group

• …. and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, that it become not a commodity between the rich among you.


Currency Circle in Islam

Financial Aspect

• No Interest or Usury– Poor People become poorer

–O ye who believe! Observe your duty to Allah, and give up what remained (due to you) from usury, if ye are (in truth) believers. (2-278)

• No Monopoly– Poor

People become poorer

Financial Aspect

Financial Aspect

• Charity Giving• Zakat yearly 2.5%

of the income left after paying for your essential needs.

• Sadaqah: Voluntary Charity beyond Zakat

What is allowed

• O you who believe! Don not take one’s another property unjustly, But rather in a trade amongst you, by mutual consent.


The Balance

• Most Gracious!. It is He Who has taught the Qur'an. (2) He has created man: (3) He has taught him speech and Intelligence (4) The sun and the moon follow courses (exactly) computed; (5) And the starts and the trees-both (alike) bow in adoration. (6) And the Haven has He raised high, and He has set up the balance (of Justice), (7) In order that ye may not transgress (due) balance. (8) So establish weight with justice and fall not short in the balance. (9)

The Holy Qur'an 55-1-9

O children of Adam! wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer: eat and drink: but waste not by excess for Allah loveth not the wasters.The Holy Qur'an 7-31

O children of Adam! wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer: eat and drink: but waste not by excess for Allah loveth not the wasters.


Balance is a Must

Summary

• Wealth is a mean and a resource. • Wealth has social and economical

functions need to be employed • Wealth is meant to be circulated as

prescribed with no “short-circuits”.• Wealth CAN NOT BE WASTED!