Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
For many
years, without fail, I have been giving an example in the month of Ramadaan,
that at the end of a very, very hot and long day of Summer, a person is sitting
at the Dastarkhaan, close to the time of Iftaar, waiting patiently to open his
fast. There is just 3 minutes left for the setting of the sun when he is told: “Eat!…What difference will it make if you
break your fast now? What’s another 2 or 3 minutes? ... You have already stayed
away from food and drink for almost 15 – 16 hours.”
Even if
the person happens to be the weakest Muslim, i.e. in respect to obeying Allah
Ta’ala, he will respond: “It is the
ruling of the Qur`aan and the Ahadeeth that I break my fast after the
setting of the sun and not before that time. It is the Command of Allah Ta’ala
and I cannot disobey Him.”
The
weakest person’s Imaan becomes so strong at this stage of his fast, that he
will not break his fast. He will refuse to break his fast, even if the world’s
great personalities have to say so.
So we
should question ourselves and also answer truthfully:
Is it not the Hukm, the Command of that same
Allah, to perform Salaah five times a day and for the men, in the Masjid, in
Jamaat as far as possible?
Is it not the Command of that same Allah to
correctly discharge our Zakaah, perform Hajj, treat our parents with love and
respect, be faithful to our wives and treat them with compassion (and vice
versa for the wives), be honest in our business dealings and be kind and just
to those under our authority?
Furthermore,
just as it is Allah Ta’ala’s Command to do good deeds; in the same way, to abstain from adultery, fornication,
stealing, gambling, watching Haraam, taking and giving of interest and other
sins are also the same Allah ‘s Commands.
So we
should not be selective and only show the strength of our Imaan at the time of
breaking fast. It should be in all actions of ours.
May Allah
Ta’ala grant us all the Taufeeq of Aml.
by
Hazrat Maulana Yunus Patel Saheb (Rahmatullah ‘Alayh)
