Ramadan Reminders 2025 – #25

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My brothers and sisters on the subject of Dua, please understand there are conditions of Dua and among the conditions of Dua, the most powerful condition without which Dua will never be accepted. The most powerful condition without which Dua will never be accepted. So, he is doing all of that but his food is Haram, his clothes meaning his earning is Haram. Now we see that the Mishra Sahab knew the man. So therefore he is saying this. The point I am saying here is that what do we learn from this? We learn from this that the free condition of earning, free condition of acceptance of Dua is the Dua must be made by somebody who is eating Halal and earning Halal. So please look at your incomes, look at where you are earning from. If you are based in, if you are, if you are earning from interest based businesses, your earning is Haram. If you are, if your earning is from shops which are selling Haram products, lottery tickets, alcohol, tobacco products, cigarettes, Argilas and what not, vapes, right? All of this stuff, all of this stuff is Haram. Any kind of gambling is Haram. May Allah have mercy in this country. I don’t know if it’s a monopoly or not but almost, right? All of these gas stations and convenience stores which sell all of these Haram stuff, many of them are Ommam Muslims. May Allah have mercy on us. Get out of these businesses. These are Haram businesses. And you are giving donations to these masjids and that madrasa and that room does not make your income Halal. Your income remains Haram, your donation in the sight of Allah that giving that money is not acceptable. Because Allah does not accept Allah is pure. Allah is pure and He accepts only that which is pure. From a Haram income, your Zakat is invalid, it is not accepted, your Sadatat is not accepted, your charity is not accepted. You can’t just throw money at God and walk away. This is not from Islam. Please understand this. They say, oh but I am giving a donation to the masjid. You can give your whole money to the masjid. The masjid can take it because for them it’s a gift but for you it is Haram. You will not get any reward for that charity. Change your way of earning. Earn Halal and eat Halal. It’s a terrible thing in this country. In America, I don’t know how it is in other countries but Muslims have seemed to have no conception of eating Halal. They just simply eat anything as long as it’s dead. I am saying Bismillah and eat anything. What does it matter if you say Bismillah and eat or not? Meat becomes Halal only when it has been slaughtered in a particular way which is called Zabiha which is hand slaughtered by a Muslim cutting the throat from here to here in one go like this. And saying Bismillah. This is the best way. There are differences of opinion. Forget the differences of opinion. Alhamdulillah, leave them. The best way is this. This is the most Halal way of doing it. Machine slaughter is Haram. It doesn’t matter how many Halal stamps it comes with. If it is slaughtered by a machine, it is Haram. Only and only hand slaughter is Halal. Please safeguard yourself. Safeguard yourself from the fire. Safeguard yourself from your Dua being rejected by Allah SWT. Earn Halal, eat Halal, make Dua, reap the rewards. And may Allah bless the Prophet and his family and all his companions with the mercy of Allah.