Does Intention Need to Be Spoken Aloud?

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Yesterday morning we discussed the how the companions dealt with that. Two important points before we move on from that. Number one, the kafar becomes obligatory once the sun rises on the day or once the break of dawn on the day that a person is supposed to fast. So the night before it is not obligatory. It becomes obligatory once the person experiences the break of dawn of the day of Ramadan. Then the person will u do the kaf not before. Second of all a good question that was asked was do we do the kafar each day as we miss that day or can we do it all together at the end of the month and the answer is either is correct. Here we have the narration of anis that he did it at the end at the end of Ramadan he gathered 30 poor people and he fed them all a meal of right how do you know that the month is going to be 30 days well you wouldn't know until the month is over and so if it is 30 days or 29 days or if the person misses 10 or 15 days if the person were to hypothetically pass away during Ramadan, the kafar would only be for whatever had passed of the days that he experienced up until his death. So every act of worship has pillars. Every act of worship has conditions. Every act of worship has obligations. We've discussed these things before. Every act of worship has conditions, pillars and obligations. Every act of worship. So for instance, what is the greatest act of worship a person can do? Right? Soahill does it have conditions? Yes. How many conditions does it have? Who knows? Two. Nope. One. Nope. Seven conditions. Seven conditions. Meaning these seven things have to be all together simultaneous in order forahill to be accepted from a person. Is that not frightening? If you hear that, a little tin should go up your spine. Because if you've never heard of this, how do you know that you've fulfilled all seven conditions? What are those seven conditions? Will not be accepted from a person who fulfills six conditions. It has to be all seven at the same time. Soaha has seven conditions andahill has how many pillars? Two. Two pillars. And how many obligations? Many. All of the obligations of Islam fall into the generalities of that. But there are seven conditions and two pillars. How many conditions for salah? This one I won't give you a pass because I we mention I talked about this before. 14. Nine conditions. Nine conditions. How many pillars of salah? Go ahead. This is your This is your time to shine. 14. 14 pillars. And how many obligations of salah? One more. Eight. Eight obligations for salah, etc., etc., right? Fasting has conditions. It has pillars. It has obligations. What is a condition? What is a pillar? We've mentioned this so many times, but it warrants repeating. Conditions and pillars are the same thing. They're the same thing. However, conditions are outside of the act of worship itself. pillars are actually part of the act of worship itself. So for instance, a condition would be the time for salah. The time for salah has to be in. That's one of the conditions, but it's not actually part of the prayer. A pillar rur is a pillar. It's actually part of the of the act of worship. Right? So conditions and pillars they are the same thing in the sense that if any of them are missing the act of worship is it is invalid whether a person forgets it or doesn't it's invalid. Obligation is the same as pillars and conditions only there is some wiggle room for a person who forgets. If you forget an obligation, it doesn't invalidate the act of worship. So an obligation, if you leave it off on purpose, the act of worship is invalid. But if you forget it, the act of worship is still valid, right? Like for instance saying if a person were to forget it or to say in its place and then stand for or for instance the first stand up and forget the first. This is an obligation which means that once you complete the salah you can make sujud and it will make up for it. But if a person says well I'm kind of strapped for time and let me not make the first the salah is invalid. We understand. Okay. So conditions for instance to simplify it we could say woo is a condition. Woo is actually not a condition. It's broader than woo. Okay. But to simplify let's say woo is a condition of salah. If I forgot to make wudoo and I prayed would my prayer be valid? No. and I remembered later. Do I have to make it up? Yes. Even if I remember after 10 years, I have to make that prayer up again because it is a condition. And if you forget a condition, it still invalidates the act of worship. Okay? Rur is a pillar. If I forget to make rur is my salah valid? If I forget to make, is my salah valid? No. No, it's not. How could it be? It's a pillar, right? It's a pillar. My salah is not valid or at least that is not valid. The entire is is invalid. I have to make that one up. Now, saying subur that's an obligation. If I were to forget it, is my salah still valid? The first of a salah that has twohood. If I forget the first one, is my salah still valid? Yes. If I leave it off on purpose, is my salah still valid? No. Do we understand now? Conditions, pillars, obligations. Conditions, pillars, obligations. So now with and I kind of I kind of feel a little bit bad because the conditions ofahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahillah we said are how many seven and we said the pillars ofahill are how many two and we said the obligations ofahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahillah are many and I feel a little bad because I'm supposed to be teaching that And I have not taught you that yet. So we haven't discussed that yet. You might get a little tiny pass for that. However, we will inshallah discuss this after Ramadan. Big plans for after Ramadan. Right, President? So for fasting, it has conditions, it has pillars, it has obligations. Fasting has two conditions. Two conditions. The first condition is or fasting, excuse me, fasting has conditions. We mentioned those conditions in the previous chapters, right? Muslim alim, right? Five conditions, right? that a person for to make fasting obligatory upon a person and we mentioned for the female is an additional that she is right too that she is free of ministration or postpartum bleeding those are the conditions we discussed all that pillars of fasting are two two pillars to fasting two number one intention number two refraining from anything that breaks your fast. That's it. So, you'll you'll come to realize that a lot of times we already do that. We just haven't categorize them in our minds yet, right? But we all already do that. We have the intention. We have But when we are when we put a name and a categorization to each of these rulings, now we are worshiping Allah upon knowledge. Right? Now I can be sure that I have met the criteria. Now when I have something happen, I can pretty much understand what needs to be done. Whether I need to make the day up or whether I need to continue fasting or whether I This is why we learn these things, conditions, obligations, pillars, right? Fasting has two pillars. Fasting has two pillars. Number one, intention. Number two, refraining from anything that breaks a person's fast. Pretty simple intention. For an obligatory fast, Ramadan or any other fast that's obligatory, you have to have the intention before the break of dawn. You have to have the intention before the break of dawn. Even if it is a conditional intention. What is a conditional intention? Let's say I got to wake up and go to work at whatever, right? And so I go to sleep before it's confirmed that tomorrow is Ramadan. But tomorrow might be Ramadan. So I go to sleep with the intention that if tomorrow is Ramadan, I'm fasting. Right? This is valid. This is correct. But a person must have the intention to fast before the break of dawn. That and see the the question now is does a person have to make that intention consciously every day? That's better. But if a person just has a general intention that I'm going to fast Ramadan this year and then proceeds to do so, that's enough. That's what's needed. So having a general intention for the entirety of the month is enough. But if a person were to have the individual intention every single morning before the break of dawn, that's better and that's more complete. Right now, intention is not something that you have to speak. Intentions are beyond words. You don't have to stand and make a declaration of your intention to fast. I hereby intend to fast today from the break of dawn until the sun sets. And I'm going to fast for the sake of Allah. And I'm going to this is unnecessary. The prophet never did this. Sallallahu alaihi wasallam. His companions never did this. If I came on anybody while they were eating and I said, "What are you planning to do?" Say, "Well, obviously I'm eating sahur because you know I'm going to fast." Most people don't wake up before the break of dawn to eat breakfast, right? That's not a normal thing that that comes with intentionality. So the person has the intention to fast already. The intention is already there. A person sets his alarm to wake up for they've already had the intention to fast. That's exactly what the intention is. And that goes for all acts of worship. Salah included. When I was a child, the way they, you know, the elders taught us to pray was that when you stand to make salah, you have to stand and face the you say blah blah blah. I I intend to pray behind this im facing the fork for the Lord with the intention of it being up. The only thing left is to add the address and zip code and phone number, email address. This is unnecessary. As soon as a person puts his shoes on to go to the masjid, he already has the intention to pray. Another good question is what if I stand and as I'm making my declaration of prayer of intention to pray instead of saying I say by accident I start praying and it's time is my prayer invalid. So my tongue said something that my intention didn't intend. Therefore which one? That means what you say has nothing to do with your intentions. An intention is never declared. Even in Omra, you know in Omrah when we go for or the prophet sallall.aii wasallam teaches us we are to say right. This is not a proclamation of intention. This is a proclamation of the start of your journey of just when I stand to make I begin with this is my initiating for form it is the same thing when I make that declaration. This is not a declaration of intention. This is a declaration of starting. Right? Because the intention for Omra isn't made at that moment, is it? The intention for Haj and Omrah is usually made months in advance, maybe even years in advance. As soon as you start shopping for Hajj packages, you've already made the intention to make Hajj. As soon as you begin buying things for your journey, you've already had the intention to make Hajj, right? Months before you even begin your journey to Hajj. So there's no instance where we make a declaration of our intention. And I'll give you an additional nugget here. All four ims of the four all four of them Abu Hanifh Maliki Ahmed along with Abu Hanifh's four other companions that make up his med. Remember we mentioned the is founded by Abu Hanifh but it is it was solidified and built by him and four other of his students. Right? So all four of these imams along with their prominent students, none of them have ever even mentioned that it is preferable for a person to ever proclaim his intention. None of them. Now the later students and scholars of these med they mention these things in their books. So after the 4th century some of the of the of the started to posit that well it's preferred that a person you know say his intention because the tongue you know helps to quantify the intention etc etc. But this never came from the four imams themselves nor any of their known works. This came from scholars that came way later that were ascribed to their mahib. So none of the companions, none of the four imams of the Madib or the seven before them which the four are comprised of, nor even the which is a fifth m the m of hadith in the earlier centuries of Islam. Had they ever even preferred that a person say his intention? Intentions are in the heart. Right? Intentions are in the heart. And some of the scholars have said if Allah had commanded us to do anything without an intention, he would have commanded us to do something physically impossible for us. It's impossible. It's impossible to do something without an intention. Right? And as far as acts of worship go and this is what differentiates sane from insane. Remember we mention what is meant by insanity and what is meant by sanity in the terminology in the language of the fahab. It is the ability to hold a coherent intention. This is what differentiates the sane from the insane. Correct. Therefore, the first pillar of fasting is what? The first pillar of fasting intention. The second pillar of fasting, refraining from anything that breaks your fast. And tomorrow, we will discuss the six things that break a person's fast. Six things. Anything outside of this six things, it will not break your fast. Sheh, I got a I got a lidocaine injection because I went to the dentist. Does it break my fast? No. She my arm got cut off and I was bleeding. Does it break my fast? No. She I use a suppository. Does that break my fast? No. She I got cupping or blood drawn or I got I got insulin shots. Does that break my fast? No. These six things, we will discuss them tomorrow. Anything outside of these six things does not break your fast. Inshallah.

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