In the Shade of Ramadan (5) Episode 9: Love for the Sake of Allah

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“In the Shade of Ramadan” is an annual online video series that is produced by MAS Youth during the month of Ramadan every year. It is a series of educational and motivational reflections on the month of Ramadan featuring various speakers across the country. This year’s season will feature 15 episodes (an episode every other day) with the theme: “Racing to Allah.”

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Ramadan Reflections (8): Ibn Al-Jazari

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This year’s reflections will be on the lives of scholars. Living up to the objectives of fasting requires that we be in the Company of the Righteous. This is where the title of the series comes from. Sheikh Ahmed Saad has chosen ten great scholars each of whom is known as an icon of a specific science. In this episode, Sheikh Ahmed Saad looks into the life of Ibn Al-Jazari.

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Ramadan Reflections (7): Ibn Khaldun

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This year’s reflections will be on the lives of scholars. Living up to the objectives of fasting requires that we be in the Company of the Righteous. This is where the title of the series comes from. Sheikh Ahmed Saad has chosen ten great scholars each of whom is known as an icon of a specific science. In this episode, Sheikh Ahmed Saad looks into the life of Ibn Khaldun.

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Ramadan Reflections (9): Sibawayh

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This year’s reflections will be on the lives of scholars. Living up to the objectives of fasting requires that we be in the Company of the Righteous. This is where the title of the series comes from. Sheikh Ahmed Saad has chosen ten great scholars each of whom is known as an icon of a specific science. In this episode, Sheikh Ahmed Saad looks into the life of Sibawayh.

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Why I Spent a Day Fasting This Ramadan and What I Learnt

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Over 3000 Muslim athletes competed in the Olympics earlier this summer and at the same time it was Ramadan. Like thousands of my constituents in Leicester, many of those athletes will have observed the fast. With this in mind this year I wanted to make an effort to appreciate Ramadan on a much deeper and indeed personal level.

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Worship in Islam: True Purpose and Motives

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What does make a Muslim say their prayers at places where there is no one to ask them to offer them or even to see them? What is it that makes them voluntarily undergo rigors of fasting?

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