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I struggle at work due to lack of sleep during Ramadan- Mufti Abu Layth
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith saheeh saheeh hadith sound hadith authentic al-bukhari imam bukhari sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari fajar salat al-fajr fajr prayer dawn prayer ramadhan ramzan ramazan ramadaan maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school muftis fard farz faraid fard ayn fard kifayah fardh hasad hasd bismillah ir-rahman ir-rahim bismillahir rahmanir rahim bismillahi bismillah al-rahman al-rahim salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingvideo · 8:18 · 4,500 views · 17 May 2017 · Open on YouTube
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machineauto-transcribed, may contain errors · source: youtube auto · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossarybismillah [Music] [Music] right right I struggle to focus that work due to lack of sleep during Ramadan this could potentially lead to dire consequences bloody dire consequences I
must how is it SS envy not be that I am a stunt man all right so this this could potentially lead to dire consequences health and safety issues what should I do [Laughter] well here's to that this is how not this out not to respond during your fast well you see the thing is once again and the hadith reads that look laney assured has
it been Adam in lullaby you do not you know if you're going to be you cannot be so strict with this theme except it will break you okay what it will not work and I've mentioned in some of the other question you know the story of Abu Sarah II who said look I'm just going to sit the I mean I'm not going to say it I'm just going to stand and I'm going to fast take a vow of silence and I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that and proselytes and said what's all of this so tell this person to you know like that'sthat's not being and I think a relevant example here is that there's a
hadith really and it's a it's a sahih hadith in Bukhari and Muslim we the process along salaam enters a room and i shows the end there's another woman there and the pro so Adam asks like as they talking the end of speaking about this this lady's day and I shall says old do you know about her you know it's well known about her that she look you know in a praising way but it what's amazing is she prays during the entire night and doesn't sleep so the thing is
and the Prophet Salla solemn he but like what it when it said it said as a praise said as a yeah I'm doing it you know like that like I like I don't even sleep during the night first of Allison I'm said like what's this he said I'll a common anomaly matter the upon take that which you can handle okay in the lodge Alania man had a family that a law will not become tired or
bored of Eva that until you become bored and what that means is you see you can't like you're not going to do something so overwhelming that's going to be look it's it's not going to benefit a line that way that you OD on ebuy that until you start to hate it that that's not really helpful in any way right so the point is that the process of auxin
saying take what is proportionate take what you can handle okay don't overdo it and the Dean is one as I've mentioned before that if you as in the hadith that if you try to overdo it it will snap you it will break you it will overcome it so what should the person do I think they should try and balance out their life shrimp reionization they need to think about what they're doing they need to come up with certain strategies I mean obviously I don't know what they what kind of stunt stunt job they drink the dire
consequences then that standard jobs if you choose you necessary in that example that then what they can do is they can come home and have a nap after working is that a sexist remark disclaimer can't cook there are a lot of people can't cook
so the thing is now now you see I think you have to strategize you have to come up with strategies whatever that means for you does that mean for you you're going to have a newly settled and there's knock out does that do it for you is does that mean you're going to come back from work and take a nap power nap and those power naps for three hours four hours five our power naps right so they awesome that's specific you now but whatever it is you have to strategize but don't think oh I'm I'm gonna suffer like as
long as you're not doing it in the center I'm I suffer for the sake of Islam I don't none of that kind of thinking the rest is it's down to strategy I'm sure there are certain ways like if you put your mind to it I'm sure there'll be a way that you can come up with I'm sure you're right you just want to go to sleep it's not like anybody's going to
notice not like the angels will know anything the thing is if I I mean if if that's what you got to do and that's what you got to do I would say four person fields that look I this is my way of coping with the situation that I'm going to you know after I've eaten I'm just going to go to sleep and then I'm going to wake up as a whole time which is still before Fajr and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to pray a shard that point quickly have my food and then pray Fletcher and go back to sleep
let's just say that if that's what you got to do that's what you got to do it is your personal journey and only you can you know you have to undertake it if if somebody says look I can't do that i we know that I we ain't an obligation to other people you know I'm not trying to discourage them from doing karate or anything I profess not trying to but the point is that it it shouldn't be something that you know somebody says oh my god I'm going to have dire consequences because I'm too busy praying Nestle and that you've got your
priorities misplaced I mean the fast here incredibly long and if it meant that you couldn't do something you couldn't do it now I start like you don't need to like what I'm trying to say is take things like take things like let the prophesied in the hadith I'll a communal Emily Matt okay won't take what you can handle okay don't bite off more than you can chew these quotes I tread softly for they are my dreams that you tread upon random quote just sort of throw
accordingly but the point is that so as long as you can you know state you got to do whatever you got to do to make it happen
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