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Assalamu alaikum, warahmatullahi wa barakatuh, my beloved children, I have a very, very good question for you today.

So if you are fasting and

somehow

you forget that you're fasting and

then you happen to eat something and then you remember, hey, I'm fasting. What should I do?

Now, I had that happen to my daughter and she's quite young and she began to cry and say I wasted my fast and this was just before the iftar,

just before the fast had actually ended and so I told her don't cry, but she wasn't believing what I was saying and then I had to explain to her that the Prophet

Salallahu alayhi was in him explained this to us because Allah already knew that people are going to make mistakes.

So Allah says that if you made a mistake, we're not going to hold it against you and that's not only in Ramadan, but even outside

Ramadan, if it was a serious mistake, you apologize and you perhaps seek forgiveness and it won't be held against you, but if you did it

purposely, then we have a small problem

because sometimes some people eat quietly. We're not allowed to do that. Don't cheat, rather be honest, be straightforward. Don't

eat quietly. You can say I can't manage, I really have to drink and so on. If you can't make the fast, like I told you before, you're still a child.

It's not yet compulsory on you, but it's good to start getting used to it. But the question is if you've made a mistake, what should you do? Well,

the Prophet Salallahu alayhi was saying,

when the man nassiyya, whoever forgets or who has aimun and is fasting or while the person is fasting, they forget for akala or shariba and they have eaten or they have drunk something, they ate or drank

something, right? And they didn't know they forgot that they were fasting. For you, Tin Mas al Maho, the Prophet Salallahu alayhi said,

that person should finish their fast. They should complete the fast to the evening. They should ignore the fact that they ate. Do you know why?

For innama, apama, hullahu wa sakaahu because that food and that drink was from Allah who just fed them. Amazing, which means if you really made a mistake, it happens even to old people.

Sometimes at the beginning of Ramadan, they forget that they were fasting. And so

they see you, some water, they drink water, they have a sweet, they have something and then sometimes they don't even remember they're fasting until after they finished eating everything.

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