Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Maintaining Iman After Ramadan
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
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Alhamdulillah, Allah subhanaw taala has given us the Tofik to
complete this Ramadan that we've just gone past. And we ask Allah
subhanaw taala that he make this Ramadan a source of blessing, not
just for the next few weeks the next few months but in sha Allah
for the rest of our lives. The way I see Ramadan with all of the
extra that Allah subhanaw taala provides during the month of
Ramadan, that if we are at level two,
if we are at a level two, when it came to before Ramadan, or we were
just say we were at level one before Ramadan, then what Ramadan
helps us to do with the shaytaan being away the doors are gender
being opened the immense amount of mercy and blessing that's coming
down. And also the doors of hellfire being closed, it becomes
more difficult to do sin easier to get to Allah subhana wa Tada. And
you know, everybody else is doing the same thing. So if we've been
at level one in our iman because you're not human fluctuates up and
down. If we've been in Iman level one, then what Ramadan helps us to
do is Ramadan helps us to get boosted up to level 234 Or five
depending on how much effort we've placed in it. The very practical
way of looking at understanding this. Now what happens is that if
after Ramadan if we're just going to make a change just for Ramadan,
and then after Ramadan, we're going to go back to normal
literally. And some people actually just feel that, you know,
Ramadan, we've had to change our schedule and everything. I
couldn't do this, that and the other, however, went now that
Ramadan is finished, I can go back to doing everything, you know, I
can have the same time that I had before Ramadan to go back to my
pursuits, and take all the worship, leave all the worship
away. That's where we become. That's where we get a
misunderstanding here. And the reason is that Ramadan is to boost
us up. So we've we had level one, we went to level 234 Or five or
even beyond. after Ramadan, we mustn't come back to level one.
Because if we do, then we haven't had the perceived benefits.
Because what you have to remember in Islam is that worships are not
there just purely for the sake of a few days of entertainment, a few
days of worship a few days of effort. The idea is that it helps
us to in to increase and enhance ourselves for afterwards. These
are excuses for enhancement, they're not just for the moment.
So even when it's hudge the what's mentioned by the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is that hajj is the accepted Hodges
the Mirage and the sign of that basically, as the Anima have
explained is that you come back and you're different, you're
changed. So if a person goes for Hajj and does a lot of worship
down there, yes, it's beneficial but comes back and then goes back
to doing the same thing then there's not as much benefit that's
perceived. Same thing with Ramadan, we don't want to go back
to one.
The idea is that if we can't stay let's just say in Ramadan, we
reached level four in our iman after Ramadan, if we can't
maintain level four, that's understandable because now the
shade vine is back out and the same kind of environment is not
there. However, we don't want to fall back to number one either. So
okay, let's go down to number three, maybe number two, number
two and half one and a half, but at least more than one that is
important. And the only way we can do this is to continue some of the
worships that we've been doing during the month of Ramadan
because you need that to help us because it's only internally that
we need to bolster and boost ourselves so that we can act our
faith and the way to do that is to read continue to read some Quran
okay, if you can't read three just a day or two pages a day you can't
finish two Quran in a month as you did in Ramadan well maybe you can
you can you can finish one in a month after Ramadan maybe maybe
one in two months, but at least you're doing something you know
even if it's a few pages that you're reading of the Quran so
that is the first point do not go back if you are level one don't go
back to level one at least stay one and a half to two so that when
next Ramadan comes then we are at level two insha Allah and then
Ramadan we get boosted up to three four or five or six and then after
the next Ramadan, then we come down to level three if we do come
down, but not back to level two, so that way every year we're
becoming better inshallah we're becoming better. So the whole idea
is not that we just go up and then come back down. This is generally
what happens after Ramadan.
Immediate days sometimes the worst part is the day of Eid because
some people just think they've got so much freedom and shaitan comes
back out. He wants to help us to delete everything that we've done
during the month of Ramadan. And numerous people have said that
that's what has happened. They lost everything they've done in
the month of Ramadan, right on the day of Eid. However, if we're
careful in sha Allah and we put a few actions in place, you can't
expect to maintain your level of Eman inside without doing
anything. You know whatever's happened.
normally is not going to benefit you until you unless you continue
to to keep something of that which is the profit or loss and tells us
to fast six days of Shawwal they can be kept anytime during the six
anytime during Chawan they can be kept together they can be kept
separate right but they have to be kept separately from Kava Kava and
these six are different
have to be separate otherwise you won't get the reward for the six.
So, that is what we want to maintain for after the month of
Ramadan. The benefit of that is that it Ramadan has then been
beneficial for us