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How is Lupe Fiasco finding Ramadan during Covid?

wudhu wudoo wuzu ablution al-wudu wudhoo salah salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat ramadhan ramzan ramazan ramadaan tarawih prayer taraweeh prayer masjid masjed masaajid masajid koran quraan al-quran hifz hafidh haafiz hifdh huffaz hafiza memorisation rahmah rahma rahmat

How is Ramadan going? Covid, the mosque and tarawih

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The guest says Ramadan has been easy, though he misses the mosque and tarawih after staying away during Covid to protect older worshippers.

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A viewer asks how Ramadan is going. The guest says it has been easy, but that he misses the mosque, having stayed away during Covid out of concern for the older worshippers in crowded spaces where everyone makes wudu in the same place, and he urges people to get vaccinated and socially distance. He says this means missing tarawih, where as a non-hafiz he goes to hear the Quran, so his own prayers at home are quick, and that his struggle in Ramadan is mental rather than physical.

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How has Ramadan been going?

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the gods will serve you right that wasn't the point right that was like what's super that's why they called the christian superstitious right because it's like god that's your whim you can do this and pray and god will forgive you it's like how dare you say that like god could do whatever you want right um and the definitions kind of change so when you think of supernatural you know it puts it it puts it in a space that we can't comprehend and i don't think life is meant to be like that you know maybe for monks or maybe for super spiritual ascetics who practice that level but for the common person i don't i don't think interfacing with the supernatural matters i think nature and there's enough beauty and

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immensity and grandeur in just what what what was created here now yeah you don't need to get lost in dreams or fantasies wow somebody's asked that how how how has ramadan been going how are you finding ramadan i mean man this is easy you know what i'm saying i got abu nah man it's been cool because i do miss going to the mosque you know once kobe came in i'm i'm super serious on covet like if you can get vaccinated get

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vaccinated social distance do all that um you know where it's like the mosque was done you know because i didn't want to be that person um you know understanding the way the mosque is built with at least the ones i go to it's very close like you know you're making wudu in the same spot like this is it's gonna be impossible you know to do this safely and at the mercy of like looking at the older folks you know who are in the mosque um and subjecting them to potentially having something that could kill them you know not just make themselves kill them all those dudes sitting in the front praying in chairs and stuff like that like you know give them these moments

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to enjoy so i kind of backed away from the mosque but that took away taraweeh you know and in the way that i know taraweeh i'm not a hafiz right so it's like i go to taraweeh to hear the quran and do the prayer and go to that part so that part is missing fortunately when i do it it's super quick you know what i'm saying i got a couple verses that i got and i'm just repeating those we done oh yeah but it's been good humdillah man i say that with e i say it's been easy you know last month made it easy hopefully it makes it easy for everyone but it's been um it hasn't been hasn't been tough

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-04-26-S26, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/26/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, April 26). How is Lupe Fiasco finding Ramadan during Covid? [Video, segment 2021-04-26-S26, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/26/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "How is Lupe Fiasco finding Ramadan during Covid?" Video, segment 2021-04-26-S26, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded April 26, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/26/

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@misc{abulayth-2021-04-26-S26,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{How is Lupe Fiasco finding Ramadan during Covid?}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {4},
  date = {2021-04-26},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/26/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/26/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-04-26-S26, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}

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