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Give your Zakat now and be light in the darkest hour together with the help of Allah,

we have the power to bring hope and happiness to families in need.

My brothers and sisters, each night we are listening to Salatuk Tarawih and we listen

to the words of the Quran attentively and beautifully and we enjoy this night prayer.

The question I was asked is why isn't this during the day?

Similarly, someone said why isn't the fast at night?

And so many other questions that today's inquisitive mind may ask, you do you know that

Allah Almighty is the one who created us.

Now we know reasoning of some of the rulings that he said but we wouldn't know all of

it and we will never know all of it.

The fact that we know it comes from Allah, we know that it is beneficial and we know that

if this is what Allah has said there has to be tremendous benefit in what Allah Almighty

has chosen.

So, if Allah has told us that the fast needs to be from dawn to dusk then that's what

it will be and he knows that the benefit will be tremendous in every way, not just for

our spiritual selves or our connection with Allah but even health wise and every other

way.

Similarly, the five daily prayers which one is at what time and how many units all of

that is chosen by Allah perfectly in order for it to serve a holistic purpose.

Some of the reasoning we will know and some of it we will not know.

All of that is okay, Allah has revealed it that way to ask us to dress in a specific way.

There has to be reasoning behind it for whatever Allah has decreed, whatever He has asked

us to do.

There is always divine wisdom whether we understand it or not, they will be benefit.

Similarly, the timings of the prayer, you know people say during the day time why do

we have to read softly like for the Lord and Salatu l-Assar except for those like Jumu'a

and Eid where it is a massive congregational prayer where we read aloud the rest of them

during the day are soft and at night we read aloud what's the purpose Allah knows the

purpose.

We may know some reasoning but whether we know the reasoning or not we should understand

if Allah has said it it means that we will definitely benefit from it.

Look at the Monday and Thursday sunnah fast.

Look at the fasts of the three days during the month.

Look at halal and haram what Allah has forbidden for us to consume in terms of intoxicants,

in terms of meat that is harmful for us in terms of so many other things if Allah has

said that this is haram, you need to know there must be a powerful reason for that.

We might understand some of it but the broader benefit is amazing.

If Allah has instructed us that you have to do this then that is exactly how it will

be.

Look at the month of Ramadan.

It is one month, not more, not less.

Loon a month which means sometimes 29, sometimes 30, amazing.

It's exactly the right amount and Allah calls it Shahru Ramadan, the month of Ramadan,

not the two months of Ramadan, not the week of Ramadan or the days of Ramadan etc.

Shahru Ramadan, the month it's one month of Ramadan.

And then Allah Almighty speaks about when it took me little iddata so that you can complete

or so that you complete the prescribed time.

Allah has decided this is the timing and this is when it will be it's the ninth month

of the lunar calendar that we follow, not the eighth, not the sixth, why Allah knows best.

And if Allah has done that it is exactly correct for us and it is the best that we could

ever have had.

Similarly, the duration of the fast, the exact length of the whole month, it's not more,

it's not less, the positioning of the month.

All of that is part of the planning of Allah.

You know Ibrahim Ali, his salam when he left his wife Hajar in the desert of Makkah, she

asked one question.

Allahu, Amaraka Bihada did Allah instruct you to do this when he said yes, that was sufficient.

She knew something major is going to happen in terms of goodness.

Look, today we are in Makkah every one of us comes to this place that had nothing in it

at the time of Hajar and Ismail, may peace and blessings be upon them.

So how throughout the generations Allah caused it to grow and Allah caused multitude of men

and women to live here, to be here, the hearts of the people, to yearn, to come to Makkah

and Medina, Subhanallah, all this is Subhanallah.

Allahu, Amaraka Bihada did Allah instruct you, well if he did, there goes.

May Allah Almighty help us.

In life there are certain things we need to realise when Allah has instructed us in a certain

way, just follow those instructions, just follow them.

The fact that you know the source and you know it's authentic and you know it's coming

from Allah, whether you understand it or not becomes irrelevant, you may know some of

it, you may understand some of it, but you need to realise the broader benefit.

For example the Qur'an, why was it revealed in Arabic, why not Portuguese, why was it revealed

for example in Makkah, why not in wherever else?

That's all part of the plan of Allah, Allah chose, Allahu Yastafi, in Al-Malaih, Iqat

Yusul, and Wa min Allah, Allah chooses his prophets from the angels, from the people, and

Allah chooses everyone and everything, Allah decides, Allah's decision is final, so there's

nothing you're going to be able to do to change that, but you need to realise benefit from

it, understand your one, from among the billions and trillions of creatures of Allah,

Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.

So my brothers and sisters, enjoy this month of Ramadan, let's use it to help us discipline

ourselves, and in inshaAllah we earn the pleasure of Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, whatever he

has told us not to do, we don't want to do it because we know by doing it it's going

to harm us, whatever he has told us we have to do, we're going to try our best to fulfill

it to the best of our abilities, and whatever he has permitted, we will realise and understand

it's because of the goodness in it, what he has made prohibited or told us not to engage

in, we know that that's because of the harm in it, may Allah bless all of us and strengthen

us, a Qul o Qawliha wa salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa r-Rahmatullahi wa r-Rahmatullahi