Ramadan Reminders 2026 – Day 18

Auto-generated transcript: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and the Messengers. Muhammad ﷺ and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, peace and blessings be upon him, are very much in acceptance. My brothers and sisters, Abu Sayyid Al-Khudri, may Allah be pleased with him ﷺ, in a hadith which is narrated and which is preserved in Bukhari Muslim, he said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, anyone who fasts for one day—now he is not even talking about the fast of Ramadan, any fast—anyone who fasts for one day for the sake of Allah, Allah will keep his face away from Jahannam, meaning He will save him from Jahannam, He will move him far away from Jahannam, for a distance covered by a journey of 70 years. Now imagine what is that distance? A journey of 70 years. And remember when you are thinking about this, don't say is it 70 years on a horse, is it 70 years walking, 70 years on a camel, why not 70 years in a supersonic aircraft, right? 70 years of journey in a supersonic aircraft. And I am saying that only because that's all I know. As we go forward, maybe people invent rockets and travel devices, which are much faster. It's not a question of counting the numbers and saying what distances. The idea of all of this is that to encourage us to do something which is good, it doesn't matter 70 years or whatever number of years, what matters is that Allah will protect, that person will protect us, may Allah make us the person that He will protect from Jahannam. And how Allah does it doesn't matter, that's His khudrat and His ability. But what do we need to do? We need to fast. Now take that, this is for an ordinary fast, any fast in the whole year. Now in Ramadan, Allah increases the reward of that fast. Ramadan is a fasting and Ramadan is a Rukun of Islam. It's a pillar of Islam. And so it's not just a matter of, you know, it's not discretionary. This is firm. Somebody who can fast and who does not fast deliberately, he cannot even make up that fast. If he's doing it deliberately, he's saying, I will not fast, then this remains with him and he will stand before Allah and answer to Allah. May Allah ask to save us from that. Any fast that is missed for a reason, which is like travel or if it is sick or something, has to be made up. It cannot be, you know, just forgotten and say, okay, I'm sorry, I missed it. So we ask Allah to help us to understand the importance of fasting and to have this shock and this desire to fast. And we ask Allah to forgive our sins.