Hey, this is Michelle Getzinger here with our Frustrated Foodie, and I have my very first guest on my show, this is my daughter Kylie, and we're going to make two of her favorite dishes for Christmas. One is French onion soup, and the other one is candy cranberries. So French onion soup is super simple. We're going to use some onions, and I went into my pantry today, and I've used up all of my vedalia, so I have four white onions and two red onions, yes four, I did the math right. I also have some green onions and regular vegetable stock, and what is in this lovely decanter here is some Merlot wine, and I'm going to show you what we're going to do with that as well. So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to chop up all of the onions in nice little thin ringlets. So we're going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to give Kylie, and hopefully nobody gets injured today, and we're both going to start chopping up the onions. Now this is a super simple soup. We have it every year at Christmas Eve, and absolutely love it. This year we're going to make the vegan version of it. I'm going to show you how you can actually put on the crust of the French onion soup like they do in the restaurants, but I personally don't eat it like that, and neither does my family with the toast on the top and the melted mozzarella, but I'm going to show you how to do it properly. So we're going to go ahead and peel all of these onions. It doesn't matter how you do them, just as long as they're in like thin ringlets. Right? Like, wait, I'll take that. I'm trying to get the skin on point. Oh, you're really crying. I am. It's burning my eyes. You don't want to get my tears. We don't want to salt the soup with your tears. That's not hygienic. When you make this soup, you will leave the stinkiest stinkers. Okay? We're talking, yeah, I can. I've got to forewarn people. Like we're talking, like you remember those cartoons that you would watch, like Bugs Bunny and one of the characters would leave the stinker and like the flowers would wilt that's around the cartoon character? This is no joke, man. You give four people this soup. Like the next day after Christmas day, it's an extravaganza at the house. So this is the disclaimer for this soup is it'll make you have stinky farts. Okay? Okay. So not a plug for Cutco, but it is a plug for you to have a good knife. You don't have at least one good knife in your house, then you should just give up cooking altogether. You don't have to have a super expensive one, but a sharp one. All right. So we are going to take these beautiful crying machine onions and we're going to put them in the pot. Go ahead and turn on the stove. The remaining tears from my face. And get your olive oil. You want to coat the bottom of the pot. I know it seems like it's going to be a lot of olive oil, but again, we're just talking about onions, broth, and olive oil, and there's not a lot in the soup. So you're going to have to make sure you add some fat to it. Okay. Look at that. Look at that pot of onions. That's a nice deep pot. Okay. We are going to, before we, okay, I want to chop up. Okay. So before we continue any further on the soup, I'm going to save half for the garnishes on top because I like garnishes.   And then you're going to go ahead and cut that in half. So you've got them lined up like that.  Cut them up nice and small. Because these won't cook down like the regular onions because the green, this green tender part here is fleshy like my finger. You want all the greens? Yeah. But dice them up. You want to have them nice and small. Be like, these little guys, you're not going to be able to eat them if they're not cut up right. Yeah. See how Kylie's got hers? That's how you want them. This is not one that you want to have a big rustic chop to. You want to almost have these so small that they kind of disappear into the soup. So I don't know if you can hear that, but that's a really nice little sizzle. You do not want them to burn. You just want them to kind of sweat and cook down. So my heat's a little bit too high. I want to have it on like a medium heat. Like I said, you want them to sweat. So the one way you get onions to sweat or vegetables to sweat, you've got to add some salt. So there's my pinch. That's how big my pinch is. Just kind of put it all over there and then I'll also put in some pepper. Now I was told that this black pepper is very spicy and I've been using a lot of it on my cooking at home. So just be careful when you're buying your black pepper, taste it out first. Some of them are more strong than others. And again, you just want to kind of give that a really nice toss. Look how pretty that looks. So basically this needs to sit like that probably for 10, 15 minutes until it reduces down. We'll come back and check on it. The next thing we're going to do is work on the cranberries. So I love to eat what is in season and seasonal foods right now are cranberries and pomegranates. So I'm trying to get them in any chance I get, but cranberries are kind of tough. They're very tart. They're hard. You're probably used to eating cranberries and Thanksgiving that comes out of this jelly-fied can that looks like a log. But there's so many other things that you can do with cranberries. So I looked up on Pinterest and I was trying to find a good recipe and I stumbled across this one a couple of years ago and my family absolutely loves it.  So when I made it this time, I didn't use regular simple syrup. So the first time I made it a couple of years ago I took white sugar and I reduced it down into simple syrup and then you take your bag of cranberries and you soak overnight the cranberries in just sugar water. It's like super simple. And the next day you take them out and that's what I did here.  It's like the easiest recipe ever. But what I did so we can have the vegan version and I still have to watch that it's not too much sugar is I made one batch with honey and I made one batch with agave. And then to really spice things up I added honey and vanilla and then a little bit of lemon oil in the other. And then I don't have regular white powdered sugar so it's not going to be as pretty. But I'm going to try and show you one that looks like that and then I take the coconut sugar and we're going to just toss it in there. So I have essentially marinated these two bags of cranberries in the refrigerator last night. So I am ready to show you this magical dish. The easiest way to do it is kind of like shake and bake. You're going to take a Tupperware container. You just want to drain all the excess juice out of here. And this is the one with the lemon. I can smell it already. So we've had the cranberries have marinated. Go ahead and put them in here. This is the agave and lemon oil. When you're using essential oils, two things. Always spend the extra money to get the good oil. No joke. We're talking about this is something that you're ingesting. You want to make sure that it's high quality all around. I like the doTERRA ones and then I also have the vanilla. I'm going to go ahead and put that in there. Was that my two things? Did I tell you two things? Make sure you have. Oh, and don't use a lot. Oh, I got confused. So use good stuff and use a little bit. A little bit goes a long way. So here's our coconut sugar. I'm going to go ahead and pour that on there. You want to do the shaky, shaky. I'm going to get this out of the way. I'm just going to stir it around a little bit because it got stuck to the bottom a little. It's not as pretty as the white sugar, but it's a lot better for you. Actually, it don't look too bad. They don't look bad at all. It's just different than in the picture. And then are we ready to put them in here? Go ahead and we'll just put that half on there and then we're going to try and make some with the white sugar so you can see. We'll spread them out so they can dry out so they don't all stick together. Okay. Yeah. See, I'm not crazy about how this coconut sugar is clumping together. So we're going to go ahead. This is my first time using coconut sugar and I'm going to make the next one with just regular granulated sugar because I'm all about improvising here. I normally don't have a lot of white granulated sugar, but I love horses and I got sugar cubes. So we are going to go ahead and improvise here. I'm going to wind up my sugar cubes to show you so we can show you guys what the real version looks like. So we're all about using what you have in your pantry. There we go. Look how beautiful that is. Now that actually looks like snow. Go ahead and pour those babies in there. Oh, look how pretty. What a beautiful color red. I'm going to shake this over top of it and then Kylie can be shaky, shaky eggs and baking. I think that's good. I don't know if it's stuck to it or not. Let's see what they look like. I think they were a little bit too wet to really get that white dusting, but these need to dry though before you get yourself all excited about them and then when they do dry they're going to dry like beautiful shiny little nuggets of joy. Okay, so this one has the vanilla in it, going to make sure it's not poison. I like the refined sugar one better than the coconut one, of course, because that's the one I'm not supposed to eat, but if you want to really dress them up, get some of those sprinkles out that you're going to use to make your sugar cookies, put some shiny sprinkly stuff on top, and then poof, there you go. You got a wonderful, beautiful, healthy-ish little side to put out as candy, but it's really not candy. So we'll come back and take a look at that once they dry, and now we're going to move back over to the French onion soup and see how those onions are sweating. I wish you could smell that, it smells so good. See how nice and wilted they are, you got a little bit of caramelization over here. We need to wait probably another couple minutes, and then we're going to add the merlot to it. Now the merlot, when you're done using this, and it's all cooked out, there won't be any alcohol in it, but it's that base flavor of the merlot, or any red wine that's probably a pretty strong dry one, that's really good. You can even use a Marcello wine if you were in the cooking section, and you picked it up. But remember, when you're cooking with wine, if you don't want to drink it, don't cook with it. If it's crappy wine, don't cook with it. It makes a huge difference. So we're going to go ahead, and that will be our next one. We're going to use a little bit of wine to deglaze the pan and flavor those beautiful onions, and we're going to add the broth to it. So I was just talking to my camera guy, Justin, who makes the most amazing burgers, and we were talking about what makes a burger good, or food in general good. And I think that it is something I want to touch upon, and it has nothing really to do with what his recipe is for the burger, but it has to do with the actual recipe being dynamic. So anytime that you're cooking something, the more dynamic the recipe is, means the more layers of fat and flavor and spices really add to the meal and the flavor. That's kind of the reason why with the cranberries I added the lemon and the vanilla, because it adds a more dynamic flavor to it. We're going to do the same thing with our soup here. We're going to add the bread and the cheese on the top, which I can't have, but I want to kind of show you guys how you could have it. If I had my gluten-free bread here, I technically could pull it off with a vegan mozzarella cheese, but I don't necessarily need to do that. So how are we going to make the soup a little bit more dynamic, because we're limited on the fat that we can use, is we're going to take some olive oil and we're going to spread it over top of the bread. And then we're going to get a little bit of salt and pepper, Kiley's going to salt and pepper it.  And when the soup is done, I'm going to cut this in half, and I'm going to put it on top of the bowl. And then I'm going to add mozzarella cheese on top, and then we're going to bake the soup bowl with the bread and the mozzarella cheese in the oven. That's how you get that beautiful crusty look to it. So one of the things that makes Justin's burger so good, because that's kind of how I started off this conversation, is he uses multiple different cheeses. He uses multiple different spices in the meat. So the meat, by the time he's actually making the burger, is already very dynamic flavor-wise. So then he makes his hamburger, and then on top of that, you have the bread and then all the toppings that make it even more dynamic on top of it. So that's what you really want to look for when you're cooking, is just not throwing the vegetable stock in a pot or just throwing the meat together and frying it up for a hamburger. If you want a good hamburger, you're going to have to work it. You have to put some Worcestershire sauce in it, some spices, some different types of cheeses. It's all about building off of those small building blocks. And that's what I'm trying to teach you guys here in this cooking show, is we're taking very simple items and we're just going to build off of them. And you've got to make things up as you go, because a lot of times you don't have sugar in your pantry. Now I know you're thinking, when she's making a cooking show, she should have everything up front. But that's just not how life goes. And that's kind of how I want this cooking show to be, so you guys can see how you can wing it and make nice recipes and nice meals. So you can kind of see here how translucent the onions have become, and they're nice and soft. And we're getting a little bit of some burning at the bottom here, which is good, because that's what we're going to use the olive oil to do, is de-clase that. Those are all, that's not a mistake when that happens. When people think, oh, I burnt that. No, you're making little nice, yummy, crusty flavor bites when you do that. Now I'm not talking full out black, burn the bottom of the pot, but this kind of little bit is good. So I'm going to go ahead and grab the wine. We have it in this beautiful decanter this week. But again, I'm going to wing it, smell it, make sure it hasn't turned, which it hasn't. And we're going to go ahead and just kind of coat the bottom of it. You don't want to use, probably about eight ounce glass would be perfect. Drink a little bit, dump a little bit in, you know, you could do that too. Look at that, look how beautiful that is.  You can kind of see all the deglazing that's happening here. That's all that dynamic flavor that we've been talking about that's so important when you're cooking. By adding these small ingredients in here is what really is going to make the difference between a pot full of onions and water into a delicious gourmet soup. OK, let's roll in. So we're going to go ahead and the next step is, Kylie's going to finish cutting up the onions here. So we're going to grab another cutting board.  It's just like those fancy glasses that I have. You know, I'm drinking kabocha out of a champagne flute. It makes me feel more fancy. When I take a piece of bread and I call it a crostini, that just kicks it up a notch, doesn't it? That's only a crostini if you put stuff on it and then toast it in the oven. But I'll go ahead and get out of your way. I always say, put a link to a video of how to cut the onions properly below and I'll do it. I think this knife is very straight and the cutting board's kind of warped, so it makes it really hard to chop. No, these ones can be a little bit larger because they are going to be a garnish on the top. OK, so we're improvising once again. I do not have good mozzarella, but I do have string cheese. So we're going to go ahead and I'm going to peel all the string cheese like this. It's going to make it work just fine, so don't worry about it. Grab your kid's string cheese and make some soup with it. All good. But it does work better when you do peel it. It's going to melt and it's going to bubble and be so delicious. I'm so excited that you get to eat this cheese. OK, so next step is we're basically ready to go to add the stock. I'm just using regular vegetable broth. You don't want to use the chicken kind or the protein kind or anything for this. You're going to want to use the most basic, blandest soup broth that you can get. I want you to take a look at the final. This is what it should look like before you put the broth in. They're almost dissolving. So I'm going to go ahead and slowly pour this in. Look at that. It even looks like a beef stock. This one's brown. Again, we're about six or seven onions. You can use any species of onions. It doesn't matter. I like to mix this species of onions up as best I can, because I like all the different flavors. If I'm really doing this for Christmas, I'll try and get every different type of onion that they have. And this is about, I'm going to add a little bit more stock to it, just because I want a little extra soup, because I love this soup. So about one and a half of these will be enough. This will be serving for four. Look at, and you can see the difference between this one. I don't know if you saw that, but look how clear this one is. What do we do next? We get our spoons and we taste. Okay, so go ahead and give yourself a taste there. You can really taste them. They're low in that. I'm going to try it too. That's good, but it needs a lot more flavor. Okay, so for this one, we're going to do a little sprinkle of salt and pepper. And then I'm going to grab my trusty rosemary, because I think rosemary really complements this. We're just going to do a little bit of it. And I'm going to put my sage leaf in there, my bay leaf in there. And we're going to bring it to a boil and then we're going to retest it again. Okay, so go ahead. You can start seasoning it. So she just added a little bit of garlic to it. Can't go wrong putting garlic on anything. I think we just need to have a little bit more of a dynamic flavor to it. Go ahead and put two bay leaves in there. Now bay leaves, again, they don't really have a whole lot of taste, but they help the soup get broken down. And then parsley flakes on top. Again, this is more for aesthetics. And I think aesthetics goes a long way. Did you put salt and pepper in it? Okay, so go ahead and give that a stir. We're going to go ahead and turn this on. We're about medium high right now. Don't forget about your stuff in the oven. Is that how it, that's how it burns. Look how pretty this crusty-ni is. It's nice and crusty. So when you, when you're doing the French onion soup, you want to make sure that you have containers that are going to be oven safe. This happens to be one of the oven safe ones. So we're going to fill it up and we're going to put the soup in it. And then we're going to put half of the crusty-ni on top and then the mozzarella cheese. And then we're going to go ahead and stick it in the oven. It's going to get all beautiful, bubbly and crusty. One of the things I like to do is I want to heat it up with some hot water and let it sit there. So there's not a huge shock when we put it into the oven. So my mom started this tradition. My mom's kind of, she's funny. She's the one who taught me how to cook and she would make this 12 course meal. It's probably really seven courses, but it felt like 12 courses and we would eat all day on Christmas. It was like such a spectacular event. I've never really been able to duplicate what my mom's done. And I've always kind of stopped trying, but she would start off with having like a munchie tray, like with little vegetables.  And then we would have French onion soup and then she'd make everybody a Cornish hen.  I mean, like she put on this huge spectacle. And each time we had to sit down, there was new dishes to sit at at the table. And I mean, it was just a lot of fun. It was a lot of work. I don't know how she did it every year, but this is what I've taken along with me. I can hear it boiling if you wanna come take a look at it. Some assembly required. Try not to get the bay leaf when you're filling her up. Now she's filling it up. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna change the setting in the oven while she is plating this to a broil setting, because we want it kind of all the heat to be down on the top of the mug. Kind of want it, wanna really fill it up, maybe even like a whole mozzarella stick or two on each one. You kind of want it to ooze over the side and bubble and be so crusty and delicious. Yeah. Oh, I see that the bread's sinking down in. Now it's important to make sure that you toast the bread first, like a crouton in the restaurants. Because if not, then it's just gonna fall apart and it's gonna be a big soggy hot mess. A little bit more mozzarella on the top. You can use all of that up if you want. No, that's fine. That's what we want. We want it to look beautiful. That's okay, don't even worry. It's hot liquid, hot, gooey, sticky mozzarella. I'm really hot. I don't know, is it good? Hey, thanks for watching. We just got finished with our French onion soup and our cranberries for our little special Christmas sides and I really appreciate you watching. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to put them below. Have a merry Christmas and we'll see you next time.


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فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل وأشهد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد أحبت أحبت أحبت أخي إن شاء الله تعالى today we are going to start the explanation of this book is called مختصر أحديث الصيام أداب أو أحكام وأداب it's a hadith pertaining to fasting rulings in it and etiquettes and manners so what I will do is I will explain and extract benefit from the hadith these two brothers insha'Allah one will read Arabic, one will read English and then I'll explain the hadith insha'Allah but before I go in there is something I have to say insha'Allah and that is my beloved brothers and sisters when he sent the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم Allah tells us he sent him with two things he says who was the one who sent the messenger بالهدى ودين الحق he is the one who sent the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم with two things who was the one who sent the messenger بالهدى guidance ودين الحق and the religion of truth the scholars they say that guidance here means beneficial knowledge العلم النافع ودين الحق means righteous actions العمل الصالح righteous actions so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was sent with these two beneficial knowledge and righteous actions every one of us who pray the Salah in Surah Al-Fatiha we ask Allah to guide us on the path of those who he is pleased with we say which path صراطة الذين أن عمت عليهم or Allah guide us guide us on what the straight path the path of those who which you are pleased with the path of those who you are you've blessed now who are the ones who Allah blessed when you pray Salah and you read Surah Al-Fatiha you're asking Allah specifically to guide you on the straight path on the path of those which Allah has bestowed upon them what he has bestowed upon them his mercy he has bestowed upon him his virtue سبحانه وتعالى who are they it's the people who combine between two things they combine between righteous actions and beneficial knowledge because the same ayah after that what does Allah say غير المغضوب عليهم والضالين مغضوب عليهم is the Jews as the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم has said والضالين is the Christians where did the Jews go wrong and where did the Christians go wrong the Jews went wrong by having knowledge but not implementing it and the Christians went wrong by implementing that which they had no knowledge of so they came with actions no knowledge the Jews came with knowledge but no actions so the ones who Allah is saying that he has bestowed his blessing upon are those who combine between what beneficial knowledge and righteous actions الله أس worship還是 سيز لقد من we rejected Allah على المؤمنين إذ باعث فيهم رسولا منهم يتلو عليهم آoyat ecos baikهم ويعلمهم الكتاب والحكمة وإم كانوا من قبلوا لفي الظلال مبين واظוה إن Means wanna watch Allah س acord Dana صور اجمع هو الذي باعث في الأميين رسولا منهم يتلو عليه آoyat وجزكهم ويعلمما الكتاب والحكمة وإن كانوا من قبلوا لفي الظلال مبين so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وإنها عاليسلما قد تأتي إلى ماذا ؟  و من فرقانات التي يجب علينا أن تعرفها هو معرفة مباني الأربع، المساعدة السلامية. بعد الشهادة. بعد أشهد أن الله إلا إلهي لله وأشهد أننا محمد الرسول الله تعرف صلاة و كيف يقوم بعملها. صيام، زكات و حج. because these are things that are obligatory on you and since it's obligatory on you and you have to come with it what you will also need to do is to come with the understanding of that which is obligatory because the قاعدة المقررة عند العلماء the principle that the scholars agree unanimously upon is what ما لا يتم الواجب إلا به فهو واجب أي شيء that which is obligatory cannot be fulfilled without it becomes obligatory if you don't know how to pray you won't be able to pray and so if you don't pray you're in a severe serious dangerous situation right so the knowledge now becomes obligatory the knowledge now becomes obligatory and that's why we've chosen to not take the science I'm sorry this the ruleings of fasting from no other place except the state the tongue of the messenger and that which he said the book that we have with us is written by الشيخ عبد الله بن صالح الفوزان who is still في قايد الحياة he's still alive هاي ونرزق he's still alive and Allah is providing for him سبحانه وتعالى and he resides in a place with قصيم specifically Boreida he has many books many books and he's a man which you could say he's متفنن he has knowledge of so many different fields different fields he has an explanation of an الفيئة من الماليك which he called it في شرحة الفيئة من الماليك he has a sharah on في شرحة بلوغ المرام he has a sharah on قطل الندى وبلصدى he has a sharah on ورقات بابو معاني الجويني رحمه الله he's a scholar who went into so many different fields but to be honest he reminds me of شيخ بن عثيمير رحمه الله تعالى he's knowledge of the science of hadith is amazing especially the person who looks at his work on بلوغ المرام and how he explained it and he's an individual who gives a lot of importance to the hadiths of the prophet عليه الصلاة و السلام this book that we have with us it's a book that focuses on as we said fasting two things of it احكام رولنج اداب مانز pertaining to it the hadiths that are here are 30 احديثs in which the author brought and the way he brought it was he wanted for it was that 30 حديث and how many days are in Ramadan 29 or 30 he wanted every day for one hadith to be read through the month of رمضان every day one hadith after Salatul A'asir especially when he's from Saudi Arabia when they pray A'asir they like to go through riyadh صالحين and a common practice which in reality it's not from the sunn of the prophet عليه الصلاة و السلام but that being the case he authored it so the students can be taught it every day one hadith so when 30 days finishes you know the rulings he made the first 20 days for the first 20 days of Ramadan and the last 10 days he made احكام for it pertaining to the last 10 days the way insha'Allah و تعالى we plan to go through it today and tomorrow we'll start today insha'Allah و تعالى and we'll finish it with إذن الله الكريم today we'll do the first portion and tomorrow insha'Allah و تعالى we'll do the second portion of this book بإذن الله الكريم رب الشرحلي صدري رب الشرحلي صدري و يسر لي أمر وحل العقدة من لسان يفقه و قولي سب أسعد by Ubnu Umar رب يلله عنهمه اللّه's messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم said Islam is based on five number one to testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and Muhammad is Allah's messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم number two to offer the prayers number three to pay zakat number four to perform Hajj and number five to observe fasting during the month of Ramadan عن عبد الله إبني عمر رادي الله عنهما أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال بني الإسلام على خمس شهادة أن لا إله إلا الله وأن محمد رسول الله ويقام الصلاة ويتاء الزكاة وحج البيت وسلم رمضان متفق عليه إن القرآن قوله وتعالى the statement of Allah in which الله تبارغ وتعالى he says or those of you who believe fasting has been made obligatory on you as it's been made obligatory on what the nations that came before you so that's the ayah that's the evidence for it but this hadith is an evidence also for it because the prophet said Islam is built upon five five pillars and what are the five pillars the first one is that there is none worthy of worship except Allah is his messenger and his slave so you see how we combine between the two messenger and his slave the reason why we say he's a slave is because he's not worshipped and the reason why we say he's a messenger is because he's not an ordinary slave so we say he's what عبدٌ he's a slave صلى الله عليه وسلم فلا يُعبَد he's not worshipped ورسولٌ and he's a messenger فلا يُكَدب he's not disbelieved so what is it بل راذا يُطاعه he's obeyed ويُتبع and he's followed عليه الصلاة والسلام the second is what وإقام الصلاة is established in the prayer the third one is وإتاعي الزكاتي giving zakat among coming with zakat وحج البيتي and the pilgrimage to the ka'ba وصومي رمضان and fasting in the month of Ramadan so this hadith shows us that fasting is a pillar that this religion stands on and if a building loses one of its pillars the building will either collapse fully or it will what it will fully collapse or it will partially collapse so fasting is obligatory from that angle but even though it is obligatory there's still wisdoms pertaining to it there's khikam in other words الله's actions have wisdom الله does not just make things obligatory without no wisdom behind it sometimes the wisdom is known to us it's a illa mansoosa the reasoning and the wisdom behind it we know it and sometimes the wisdom we may not know it and we may not know what the wisdom is we're going to now take some of the wisdoms that are in it the first wisdom that is in it and also you can say the benefits that are in it as well is it's a عبادة that you get closer to الله because you're leaving off what you desire and why are you doing that طاعة اللي ربيه in obedience to his Lord that's why the slave is doing that and you're doing it لم تثالي أمره you're following his command in other words you're coming with what the true essence of a slave is you are adhering and you're submitting and you're giving yourself into your master your Lord by leaving off what you want by following that which he commanded you and staying away from that which he prohibited you from سبحانه وتعالى so you're coming with what can make your عبودية your servitude complete number 2 it is from the things that can give you a station high and that is the station of a to be conscious of Allah الله سبحانه وتعالى he says يا أيها الذين آمنوا those of you who believe كتبا اي فورضا it has been made obligatory on to you الصيام فاستن كما كتبا as it was made obligatory on who على الذين من قبلكم those who came before you لعلكم تتقونة so you can gain through your fasting تقوى and تقوى my beloved brothers and sisters is what it is جماع خيرايد دنيا والآخرة it is the conclusion and the summary of the benefits of this world and hereafter do you want to find the true essence the true essence of good in this world and hereafter do you want to know what it is is التقوى التقوى والذلك الله when he says about جنة و تلك الجنة التي نورثوا من عبادنا من كانة تقيا الله يقول و إمينكم إلا واريدها كان على ربك حتما مقضية ثم نجل الذين تقوى و نظروا ظالمين فيها جيثية الله يقول everybody is gonna go over the bridge of the hellfire everyone is gonna go over that bridge and people are gonna drop we're gonna fall they're not gonna make it through الله tells us only one group of people are gonna make it through و إمينكم إلا واريدها every single one of you is gonna go through that bridge and that bridge is on top of jehannam الله says I'm only gonna save a group of people and they have one characteristics in common and all of them are what ثم نجل الذين تقوى the people we save Ahu the people of Taqwa also Allah tells us that the people are gonna inherit جنة Ahu تقوى خير اي دنيا this world and hereafter the summary and the khulas what a person wants to gain is a Taqwa by fasting you gain it by fasting you gain it so it's from the wisdoms number 3 is you prison حبس نفسي عن الشهوات you start to prison your own nefs from desires and as it's known is once you do do that and you prison yourself from your desires which is what food eating intimacy you prevent yourself from it what does it do what did the prophet tell us عليه الصلاة والسلام he said إن الشيطان يجري من ابنو آدم يمجر الدم that shaitan flows in the human the blood where it flows which is the veins صحيح when you fast and you don't eat your veins become tighter and so through Ramadan شيطان that's why he is what he has no place to stay he is what as we're going to see later إن شاء الله تعالى so what fasting brings you is it cuts off your desires and that's one of the biggest enemies that we have الله says وما أبرئ نفسي إن نفس لأمارة بسوء إلا ما رحم ربي that the nefs is the one that calls you to fulfill to do Haram right in Ramadan in this blessed month the individual has gained what trucking shaitan by fasting ولي ذلك what did the prophet say to the youth the young boy or the young girl who is looking to get married who are full of desires what did the prophet say to them يا معشر الشباب من استطاع منكم الباقة فلا يتزول ومن لم يستطع فعليه بسوء مي a fasting is a problem why what does it mean is to castrate if you take the animals and they do that in some countries and in some places they destroy the nuts the bulls of the animals so the animal can't have any children and they destroy it or sometimes they take the vein out of him he doesn't have any sexual drive anymore fasting will do that to you it says though you won't have no sexual drive anymore so that's why fasting has wisdoms that it has in it also number 4 from the فوائد and the حكم the wisdoms is أن القلب يصفو the heart becomes pure and the heart becomes cleaned and once the heart becomes clean your mind is now fresh to think and to ponder and to analyze ولي ذلك الإمام القحطاني ولي زنوني he says ولا تخشأ بطنك بالطعام تسمونا فجسوم أهل العلم غير سماني لا تخشأ سماني يمكنك أن تحدي with too much food لأنه جميل جميل من السكولي والسكولي من المعرفة ليس كبير السكولي are generally not fat and they're not meant to be big because they are the ones who are preoccupied and busy with studying and learning لماذا؟ لأن من أكل anyone who eats نامة الفكرة وكفة الجوارحة عن العبادة anyone who eats and he drinks a lot the mind switches off the limbs stop working the person becomes tired he can't ponder nor can he think but he does it for some people in Ramadan they gain more weight than they gain weight in any other month in the year صحيح if you look at many of us in Ramadan we do shopping we cook food in Ramadan that we don't even cook through the whole of the year at least he does it and that's not the real meaning of Ramadan the shopping that we do for Ramadan the samoses we see in Ramadan it comes around in Ramadan time it has that even when if tar comes many people eat so much so when the tarawih comes when the tarawih comes he's partially I mean he's absent minded so fasting from the wisdom that it has it makes sure that the heart is pure and it also keeps the mind clear also from the fifth which is the wisdom that are in fasting is what معرفة نعمة الله come to realize Allah's blessings on you and how he's bestowed so much blessings on you you actually value the water and you realize if you're a true believer whose heart is awake and not dead hearted you start to realize something which is I at least have the choice to drink and I have the choice to sip the water when iftar comes there are some people who this imprisonment from drinking and eating is not just one month one month in the year but it's actually a life cycle a cycle of the whole year for them and they live like this like our brothers and our sisters who live in Syria who are suffering who don't have what we have today water clean water means a lot to them and when you break your iftar the table has what so many different flavors you can have strawberry marinda you know orange marinda pepsi is there as well if you want coca cola is there if you want you have different flavors of choosing this reminds you of the blessings of Allah and it reminds you not to be from those who Allah says ألمترا إلى الذين بدلوا نعمة الله كفرا وأحلوا قومهم دار البوار جهنما يسلونها وبئس المهاد وموا بئس القرار they changed Allah's blessing which they had Allah bestowed blessings on them instead of showing gratitude and remembrance of this blessing they exchanged it with disbelief of it and Allah tells us in many places in the Quran ضرب الله مثلا قرية كانت آمنة مطمئنة يأتيها رزقها رغدا من كل مكان فكفرت بأنعم الله فأداقها الله لباس الجوع والخوفي بما كان يصرعون الله بلستهم الله gave them a lot instead of showing gratitude and realizing that they have a blessing what did they do they showed disbelief but many people when I say blessings they always think of food and that's what comes to my mind first as much as it comes to many of you mind as well but one of the great if not the greatest blessing that you have is the fact Allah has allowed from all of the creation he has he chose you to be a Muslim to know the true religion and to be able to fast in this great noble month هادي واحدة that alone itself is a blessing and Allah referred to that as a blessing what did he say اليوم اكملت لكم دينكم واتممت عليكم نعمتي ورضيت لكم الإسلام دينا اليوم اتنا I have completed a religion for you and today I have completed my blessing on to you and I have become please Islam as a religion for you that's a blessing اللي ما محمد رحمه الله is sorry man making dua and he said الحمد لله على نعمة الإسلام praise is to Allah praise is to Allah تروق إي تاعالة in the blessing of Islam which he has given me ولماء محمد رحمه الله he said to him and the fact that Allah guided you to the sunnah because that is also a blessing which is more specific than the general blessing�بو عاليةWho is the student of AbdullahMus'ud and Abdullah Amir Abbas he said which blessing is greater to me نعمة الإسلام حديداين الله التي فردتني إلى الإسلام أو ، أو أنها فردتني إلى السناة اللها فردتني إلى السناة ، لأنه في الإسلام There are so many groups التي فردت تفردتها لتقنية مقيمة اللها إنه أقل إنها عشرية So what I mean from this brother is what It's a blessing It's recognition Absence of something makes you realize what you have لكي ترى شيء منك ، حتى لو أنه صغير ، حتى لو أنه صغير و لذلك يقولون شكرا للمفقود و قيد للموجود و قيد للموجود و حتى هو ما؟ ربما يتفكه ماذا لا يوجد و يجب عليك تهلين ممتذة جانبنا أنه قاموا بك سيأتي و سرعنا بك لأنه يفقون شكرا للموجود و كيف كان الله وربما؟ لإن شكرتهم لأزيد أنكم إذا أعطيني براتيوت I will increase it for you increase means that what you already have is going to stay and extra is going to come من دلالة المفهوم so when you show gratitude that's what happens for you that's what you gain a lot of us don't realize what we have you're either going to be smart and benefit from it today and say I've got this والله I have a blessing and today I'm going to show gratitude to Allah or it's going to leave your hands and you're going to cry over spilled milk it's gone there's nothing you can do about it so that's one of the wisdoms in fasting the sixth which is the last one is الفوائد أصحية health benefits that it has it also has health benefits that a person fasts and through that fasting of theirs what did they gain when I say health benefits their health benefit doesn't necessarily mean that if you had diabetes you get better what it means also is that from the health benefits that it has addiction and things that you addicted to you have a period of time to disconnect yourself from it if you're a heavy smoker and you used to smoke a lot that period of time in which you are fasting you're prohibited from it aren't you so if you smoke five times a day مثلا and now Ramadan has come صحيح it's an opportunity for you to stop that smoking وذلك ابن القيب رحم الله he mentions that addiction to something even psychologists when they speak about it to get rid of an addiction it takes 30 days every year once الله gives you that opportunity to get rid of any addiction in which you have as I was speaking something came to my mind I was going to say if you smoke five times a day and within this time you are prevented from smoking you're probably going to smoke once or twice but I remember some people they smoke all the five at night so I didn't finish off my sentence he knows he can't fast he can't smoke between what Fajal and what Am I going to write so what does he do at night time he goes all of it he does all the five that he used to do he does جمع of it صحيح he combines it yeah he combines all of it so we say to Allah اللهم وفقنا وجنبنا أسباب الهلاكي والشقاء and divert us from the path of deviation and corruption يهمنا الفقها في الدين الله Provide for us and give us understanding of your religion و الوفات على سنه and Allah will take our soul upon the sunnah of the Prophet عليه الصلاة و السلام و الغفل لنا و الله forgive us و لي والدينة and our parents و لي جميع المسلمين and other Muslims نعم