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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim alhamdulillahirrahduhu wa sallallahu wa sallam wa ala malanabia

Badiahu wa ala ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.

My brothers and sisters, what is there in a date?

Who can tell me what is there in a date?

The brother asked what type of a date?

I was expecting that from the brothers because their minds go to a different date.

To be honest with you, Inram Madhan, great importance is given

to be the person who made the effort to let someone open their fast at the end of the day.

And it's called iftar. Iftar is the breakfast, the same term used for breakfast, we would say

breaking the fast in Ramadhan. The iftar, the reward that you get to put a date in someone's

mouth, not physically take it and put it in but, well unless it's your spouse or a family member

and you're putting it in, you get a double reward, right? Which is true by the way, not laughter, right?

But at the same time to put something in someone's mouth in the sense that you made an effort to

bring them something with which they will open their fast, did you know that you get a reward

of the entire fast of theirs? That's the reason why people jostle in order to make people

break the fast with them. They send you food, they send you dates, they send you so many things

because they want you to break the fast with an effort that they made. I'm just coming from Makkah

and Madina Munawara. I was there a few nights ago and I promised you as you enter especially in

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