Repenting to Allah in Ramadan A Heartfelt Reminder | Shaykh Salih Al Fawzan

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📖 About This Series: This video is part of a complete English translation of the lecture series “Ramadan Gatherings – From the Rulings of Fasting” by Shaykh Dr. Salih al-Fawzan. 🌙 This series consists of legal rulings (fiqh) related to fasting and Ramadan, presented in a clear question-and-answer format. - The original lessons were broadcast on the Noble Quran Radio Station (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and are part of a well-known Ramadan program addressing practical and frequently encountered issues related to fasting. 📝 This translation aims to faithfully convey the original scholarly content as delivered, without alteration or commentary, making these rulings accessible to English-speaking audiences. All rulings presented in this series are taken directly from the Shaykh’s original lectures as aired on Quran Radio KSA. 📌 Orginal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-nT6ieKpU&list=PL3523jgHxjkYm4d-eixCJgRqDSP1YqM76&index=9 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Question Answered in This Video: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (00:00 - 00:52) - Intro (00:53 - 04:46) - Returning to Allah 📌 Repenting to Allah in Ramadan - Repentance is obligatory at all times, and Allah has opened its door day and night until the soul reaches the throat at death. Ramadan is a great season that softens the hearts, restrains desires, and trains the believer to leave sins and remain steadfast upon obedience even after the month ends. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 First Question: Please clarify the hadith: “If one of you is fasting, he should not speak in an obscene or ignorant manner, and if someone insults or fights him, let him say: I am fasting.” (04:47 - 05:00) - First Question (05:01 - 06:33) - First Answer ✅ First Answer: - The fasting person must honor his fast by controlling his tongue, anger, and behavior, and not respond to insults or arguments. Fasting helps a person overcome his soul and restrain evil habits, making it a treatment for sins and a means of purifying the heart. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Second Question: What is your view regarding exaggeration and waste in providing iftar for fasting people, especially in the masajid? (06:34 - 06:48) - Second Question (06:49 - 07:28) - Second Answer ✅ Second Answer - Providing food for those who are fasting has great reward, but it must be done without excess or waste. People should give according to what is needed and avoid collecting or spending beyond reasonable limits. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Third Question: What is the importance of training children who have not reached puberty to fast? (07:29 - 07:42) - Third Question (07:43 - 08:23) - Third Answer ✅ Third Answer - The Salaf used to train their children to fast when they were able, just as they were instructed to train them to pray. This develops discipline, worship, and strong Islamic character from a young age. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Fourth Question: What is the ruling on women who take medication to stop their monthly cycle in order to fast in Ramadan? (08:24 - 08:35) - Fourth Question (08:36 - 09:27) - Fourth Answer ✅ Fourth Question - It is better for a woman not to do this because it may harm her, and Allah has permitted her to break the fast with full reward due to a valid excuse. However, if the medication does not harm her and her fast is valid, then her fasting is correct, although leaving it is more appropriate. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Fifth Question: What is the ruling regarding the elderly or those who are unable to fast? (09:28 - 09:40) - Fifth Question (09:41 - 10:42) - Fifth Answer ✅ Fifth Question The elderly who cannot fast, as well as those with chronic illness, must feed one poor person for each day instead of fasting. They are not required to make up the fast because they are permanently unable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Sixth Question: What is the ruling concerning the one who is in a state of unconsciousness? (10:43 - 10:45) - Sixth Question (10:45 - 11:02) - Sixth Answer ✅ Sixth Question If unc