How can I nourish my soul this Ramadan?

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right okay what is going on man what is going on okay let's take a look at uh so [clears throat and snorts] what else did I say right on Ramadan I I was going to speak a bit about Ramadan as well but I'll tell you what we'll we'll squeeze in one session before Ramadan begins because usually during Ramadan I don't do Monday nights but I will still do some Q&As's and stuff like this I'll do stuff like that and I'll stream some more of the Arabic stuff.

Uh, I've got all those videos to stream. [laughter] You know what it is? I need to get some uh some assistance in it. Make a little haram over here. Oh. Oh, it's Ramadan. [laughter] Right. So, I I'll stream some of those Arabic uh lectures and Arabic lessons.

Mhm. But we'll get in a less we'll get in a session before Ramadan begins and [snorts] I'll cover Ramadan then. But uh briefly I will say because people you know some people ask me to speak about for Ramadan. Look spirituality I don't like using that word because I feel the word has been hijacked. Okay. I like the way Dr.

Lumbard had mentioned Joseph Lombard on of taqua as reverence to reverence and I feel that that is really what tawa and this spirituality when people say is really meant to be and that was what is behind fasting to be reverence or he said to to reverence.

Now what create what that simply means is in simpler terms is to strengthen a bond to have a bond between you and God. Now what nourishes the soul?

Yes, of course. You know, things like reciting the Quran um is an ultimate, you know, nourishment for the that's always the I would say that look, even if you read a bit, a bit every day, a few lines even. Alhamdulillah, that is something. Okay, so because sometimes some people are overwhelmed by trying to read a Jew a day and then they just don't read anything.

And so that is amazing even if you just read if you know you don't read a juice you read a page or you read a few pages or you read a few lines or you read anything I think that is one it's very doable and two it's it it strengthens their personal bond the other thing is believe it or not just making dua on a personal level you'll be surprised that that is a key fundamental feature in strengthening your bond.

And that is something that is actually described in the in the hadith as as the the kind of it is the marrow within the bone of it is is just dua. And I would say from a social element things like charity being charitable which people are anyway during Ramadan especially and that I think Muslims are very good at.

But also other things you know I and I'm not saying this I'm saying this now I'm not saying you need to do this within Ramadan now this is just in general okay just generally things which strengthen your inner core and it it could be it could be learning it could be poetry it could be art it could be music I I'm being very serious that things that strengthen a person from within.

Like we for too long have only this is why I said I don't like the term spirituality because it's kind of got hijacked by an institutionalized uh religious spirituality as being like almost only what monks would do. This is being spiritual. So if you want to be spiritual and deepen your spiritual core, you need to read pray 100 nafal.

I mean I honestly don't see how that would strengthen me as a person, my personal core. It if anything, it would just make me dislike it further as a person. I'm saying this as a person personally. I mean maybe to some people it works wonders for them, but to me it doesn't. Whereas me as a person I may find poetry being so it enrichens like it enriches the soul and maybe music to some people you know it's interesting that they say there's a it's proverbial that the the nourishment of

the soul is music but okay and there's different you know when a person says music there's different types of you know I don't mean just partying kind of thing there's very meaningful musical notes, often instrumental, just instrumental, that that they strike chords. It's amazing, and I've spoken of this before, how certain musical notes, they immediately evoke sentiments such as emotions like sadness or reflection or, you know, sorrow or sometimes joy or and just the musical note does it that

it's so mathematical how it works and we don't even truly understand that. And I remember mentioning that when I was when I did that review of the book, the cosmic serpent, how he mentions the shamans in all traditions mention that the way to connect to consciousness is through sound. And one could say, well through sound there is also meditation and there is also part of that people do thicker.

They do these kind of um with certain Sufi tarikas do thicker on certain sounds like who are who are who like he is he he is he but it's really this this sound that they're getting into and this kind of hypnotic trance but yeah I would say God transcends all those limitations and he uses that language because of our human limitations absolutely mu does Allah love everybody I feel he does.