Name: Episode 3: Fasting While Others Eat
Uploaded: 2020-04-26T08:30:00.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: Have you ever felt extra challenged while fasting around people who are eating? You’re also extra blessed!

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Spiritual beings created from light who carry out God's commandments without hesitation. They play various roles in the cosmos, including recording deeds and delivering revelations.

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Throughout your existence, there are angels in your presence. But it’s your actions that cause those angels to either praise you or disgrace you. Through this series, we will explore the actions that invite these blessed unseen beings to pray upon you, and carry your name and mention to the One who created us all. Join Sh. Omar Suleiman this Ramadan.

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This section covers the core articles of faith (Īmān), namely faith in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and the divine decree (qadr). Other related topics, often found in classical theological works, are also found in this section.

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 Almost every Muslim that lives as a minority has experienced the moment where you're fasting  and people are eating around you. So whether that was in your school cafeteria, went to  public school as I did my whole life, and at lunch time everybody was eating except  for me, or whether that's at work, your colleagues are eating and sometimes you even have to  attend an important meeting or you've got to go to some sort of function, everybody's  eating but you. Those moments are some of the most blessed moments in your life and  you probably had no idea.  So when we're talking about the angels sending salawat, the angels praying on a person, there  are a few different times that happens for the fasting person. The Prophet sallallahu  alaihi wasallam talked about as-suhur, when you wake up in the morning and you have your  meal before fajr, suhur, and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that look, don't abandon  that suhur, don't abandon that moment, even if you're just going to drink a sip of water  because the angels pray upon the one who eats suhur or takes that suhur whether it's through  water or dates or whatever it may be. So you've got the angels praying upon you in the morning  before you even started your fast, just as you were nourishing yourself for the fast.  And then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that a person who is fasting around people  that are eating, the angels will pray upon that person until those people have had their  fill. SubhanAllah, again a person that is fasting and other people are eating around  that person, the angels will pray upon that person and seek forgiveness for that person  until those people have had their fill. Now subhanAllah, this is referring to by the way  not people that are not Muslims around you that are eating or drinking because they don't  observe the siyam. This is actually in the situation, especially in one of the narrations  with Umar Mara, she was observing radiAllahu anha a voluntary fast and so the Prophet sallallahu  alaihi wasallam was not and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam gave her that reward. So this  could be that a person is just not required to fast for that day and you happen to be  in their presence and the added reward of you observing your fast in the presence of  that person who is not fasting even if it is not sinful for them not to fast. Imagine  then the reward when you are around someone who is not fasting because they don't consider  it to be obligatory. So you add the element of ghurba, of being a stranger, being a person  who is singled out for their observance of the fast because they are singled out for  their observance of this beautiful deen of al-Islam. And so the reward could only be  greater in that sense. So when you are in those moments and people are taking their sweet  time getting through their hamburgers, getting through their french fries or whatever it  is that they are eating, revel in the prayer of the mala'ika, revel in the prayer of the  angels as they are seeking forgiveness for you throughout that entire period. And then  of course at night the beautiful dua, the supplication that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi  wasallam taught us that when someone serves food to you, serves iftar to you and you actually  break your fast and you respond and you say, may the fasting ones break their fast with  you, may the pious eat their food with you or take part in your food and may the angels  send their prayers upon you. So the angels pray upon you throughout the day as you are  observing your fast. They pray upon you when you take your pre-morning meal, your suhoor.  They pray upon you when other people around you are eating as you are fasting and then  they pray upon those who serve you food at the time of iftar and you acknowledge that  through your supplication and through your dua.

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