Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Ramadan Get Drenched in the Storm of its Blessings
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you hear this verse, every every year during the month of Ramadan,
especially with just before the month of Ramadan.
And this is obviously referring to those people who submit to Allah
subhanaw taala or people who believe
Allah subhanaw taala is telling the people who believe that
this is the way
you will gain Taqwa.
First and foremost, the fact that Allah subhanaw taala is addressing
us as people who believe is an absolute honor. The reason is that
the hood were addressed a few times, and
they were very proud of that. In fact, they said Linda Mustonen,
narrow Illa Yama Mary Duda.
The Hellfire will not touch us, except maybe for a few days.
For believers, we are being addressed about 88 times in the
Quran. Yeah, you have ladina Amma know that
that term has been used approximately 88 times to address
us
or people who believe even though we are sinners, but Allah subhanaw
taala is still addressing us directly.
When is that when you don't like somebody,
they when people aren't liked, even by governments or whatever
they put them on blacklist, we don't want to have any direct
negotiation with them. That's what they say. Don't even share a
platform with them. We don't want anything to do with them. That's
generally the idea that we're used to when you get put on a blacklist
or when you've done something that is
not very praiseworthy in the sight of the others. However, despite
the fact that we are sinners, Allah subhanho wa Taala addresses
us directly.
And he calls us old people who believe it still gives us that
satisfaction saying that we are still us, we still believe us.
What an honor. That is. Then Allah subhanaw taala. It tells us that
fasting is prescribed for you people, because I want your
benefit in this look on the taco this is beneficial for you.
Now, as you know, fasting is not a act of worship. It's an inaction.
It's refraining from things, it's withholding oneself from something
and it says, old as humanity itself. No people throughout
history have been
made to fast whether voluntarily or involuntarily. And even so
today, some people fast voluntarily, while other people
people have to fast involuntarily because they don't have the means
to fill their stomach anyway.
Ramadan is a very special time and the reason is that it's like the
month of the rain. You know, when it comes to people who grow things
on lands, who are very
nature oriented, their entire livelihood comes from the land and
from nature as such for them when it comes to the monsoon season.
It's extremely important. That's why they will rush out to do
salatu is discard when there is no rain. They don't necessarily do it
throughout the year. They understand that throughout the
year there's not going to be rain, but when the monsoon comes they
must be rain. Otherwise, people become restless. People become
desperate they start doing salah they make dua they try to find
means of replacing this water. So Ramadan is this month of an
absolute rainstorm of baraka and blessing. That's what Allah
subhanaw taala provides you this is the monsoon This is the
believers monsoon
just an The wonderful thing about Ramadan, which I'm sure we've all
experienced is that just as when it's monsoon season, I mean in
England we don't really get the same because we have mashallah
very sealed places that we live in fortified fortresses in that sense
and our rain pretty much trickles down and throughout the year
anyway. But when you go to a place where it's monitoring, you only
get the rain for a certain number of days. And when it comes Believe
me it gets everywhere. It gets everywhere. This is the monsoon
season you know everybody knows about it, because usually the
houses aren't made for that to to withstand that as much. So then
the damp comes in if the rain doesn't come in and you get damp.
This is this is the thing about the this is the thing about rains
and storms they will eventually have the effect will get
everywhere and the same
Meet with Ramadan. Whether you want to worship or you don't want
to worship, whether you want to experience some alone or you don't
want to experience Ramadan, it's all around you. It's all around
you. In fact, you see it on the London buses, Islamic Relief
advertisement SubhanAllah. You know, you see it everywhere. You
see people just wanting to do differently. You see people a lot
more pious, you see them coming to the masjid when they would not you
see people fasting, you see the baraka in the food, the baraka of
Ramadan, if we
call it a storm,
it just gets everywhere like just from this is exactly what Ramadan
is a pervades, and it comes into everything. Now, if you look at
the fact that there are 30 days of Ramadan, three Ashura, generally
mentioned some Hadith even talk about the specific characteristics
of each of the 10 days. Generally, the idea is that for those who are
mashallah very careful and righteous and have some level of
Taqwa from before already, when it comes to the first 10 days,
they get Rama
and forgiveness within the first 10 days, they start taking the
benefit of it because they don't have a resistance, their
resistance has already been dealt with for a while. So they are very
prime. They're very ready. They're primed and ready to receive the
Bearcat and the blessings right from the beginning month.
Right? There are then those who have sins, and they then manage
within the first days to clear out a lot of their sins. And thus they
start receiving the greater baraka and blessings in the in the next
10 days.
The last 10 days are those people who fall for those people who are
very serious, especially people who want to go and sit in a
takeoff. Because that is that this is the last eyeshadow now this is
the last 10 days now we're coming to an end, these Baraka turn,
these extra blessings are eventually going to diminish. So
now let's go to the machine and try to get as much as possible for
this. So they like
that's for people who haven't been able to gain a good amount for the
first 20 days.
I mean, obviously, you can't, you can't get everything you could get
in 30 days in 20 days. That's just an impossibility. Because even if
you did get everything that you could get in 30 days and 20 days,
you still get more than 30 days. So at the end of the day in that
30 of the that's an additional bonus for some, while for other
people, it is their last chance.
So that's the idea. The best idea is to prepare yourself before
Ramadan so that you can start benefiting from it straightaway
that as soon as the first day hit, you start feeling the Bearcat and
blessing. You start receiving that Bearcat and blessing.
Regardless of that, Ramadan is a time and inshallah this wonderful
storm of blessing will just get everywhere. Whether we like it or
not, you will you will, it will touch you. So may Allah subhanho
wa Taala bless us from that.
If people
go
to a person to ask for even a pound
you know they need some economists can ask this guy for a pound.
Now, you think 10 people, five people even go to someone's
please, I need a pound. You think anybody's gonna resist there if
one person goes there, you get these beggars always on the street
and you get this doubt as to whether they're going to use it on
drink or intoxication or something else. Generally, you have die.
That's why you may not give them sorry, I don't have any change,
right? However, when five people go, five people go and they are
asking a single person most likely is going to give because it okay
one person may be a drug dealer, but I mean five people, they're
not going to ask unless they really need. So now that's the
benefit of sitting in the car and sitting together in a masjid after
taraweeh you know, these communal, these these collective doors that
you do? Basically, let's put it this way you are asking Allah and
for Allah to give us our doors is easier for him than for a rich man
or for any man to give us one pound to a group of people.
That group of people who is asking somebody for just one pound, Allah
subhanaw taala finds it much easier to accept our dollars even
more than that.
IBLEES doesn't do such the
he refuses his argument is hollow the human clean. You've created
him from clay, you've created him from fire. The idea is that I
raise his lowly, why should I do that? Allah subhanho wa Taala says
for which Minna fire in ecology
you leave from here you are now the rejected one.
So then he says, Oh Allah give me respite.
Illa Yomi UberX iPhone give me respite.
And then he even says he promises to Allah. Allah turgid Axolotl
home shakin in you're not going to find
The majority of them to be grateful to you, this is what I'm
going to do, I'm going to cause them to be ungrateful.
Other Melissa asked Allah subhanaw taala for some defense.
So Allah subhanho wa Taala says, you know, when shaytaan is doing
all of this other Muslim is asking for some defense. So Allah
subhanho wa Taala says that fine, they can sin, I understand that
they will sin,
you may cause them to sin, whatever the case may be, but if
they come and ask me for forgiveness, I'm going to forgive
them.
That's the whole point. If they come and ask me for forgiveness, I
will forgive them. That's the most beautiful part for us. So shaytaan
scream that that she thought because he will say then all my
work is going down the drain.
All the effort that I've made night and day that I didn't sleep
and I was constantly behind them,
never tiring for an instance, and Allah forgives them.
So while outside the month of Ramadan, we should be concerned
about our sins as we should always be concerned about our sins. But
we generally focus on the
on the types of our sins and on the fact that we have sins and all
of these things and it makes us depressed. Ramadan is not a time
to be depressed at all. It's a time to actually think about all
of these things that bring about the Mercy of Allah. The fact that
Allah has promised that he will forgive them.
In the EBA, the coming home and mock law seem to become that the
servant of Allah subhanaw taala, who Allah has promised
forgiveness for
and allow shaytans endeavors to go down, especially when he's away
anyway.
See, shaytaan has many advantages over us. He can see us
we can't see him. He doesn't eat, we have to eat we have to take
breaks for eating.
There are many, many shaytaan In fact, in some narrations, you find
that there are up to 70, sometimes shaytaan with an individual for
different functions. One for will do one for one for solid and a
number of others.
Despite this, Allah subhanaw taala has given us a bounty an antidote
to this.
That even if they overcomes us, okay, what's the big deal? But the
main thing is that Allah subhanaw taala has given us a bounty and an
antidote to this, which is the Prophet sallallahu sallam said
another mu tau button, another Muto button Madonna's, which means
remorse. Regret is doba. That's your first step of Toba without
How are you going to do Toba without remorse, the person
doesn't feel guilty of what they're doing, and they continue
to do it. And that's how sins become eventually, you feel guilty
a few times, eventually, they make you become so used to it. Right?
So continuously that it doesn't bother you anymore. This is the
way that humaneness when you do something so. So so many times you
kind of get bored of it. When you say body, you don't get the same
exhilaration out of it. So just the same that we continue to do
sins and we don't get the same pleasure that we got from that sin
maybe initially. Right? That's why you need to get heavier sins in
all of these things.
In these two different needs to change and different likewise you
start feeling feeling guilty with these things as well. That's why
the first step is another motto but another which is remorse over
these things. So Allah will forgive them. Allah the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said EBO Mina, them be commend love them, Bella.
The one who repent from sins is like the one who has no since the
one who repents from sins is like the one who has no sins, because
Allah subhanaw taala loves Toba because that is when you see
if it's, you've got a friend, and you've had issue with them.
So the hearts have become a bit distance distant with each other.
And you feel that the person is ignoring you're ignoring them. But
inside you really want to reconnect. You know, sometimes
husband and wives have these conflicts, friends have these
conflicts,
parents and children, children, parents, you know, and so on.
However inside you really want Now imagine you see something positive
coming from the other side now that they they've stopped ignoring
you, they give you a smile. Can you imagine the satisfaction that
comes with that? After a strangeness after being
restrained, you know, and far suddenly you get this slight
satisfaction? Can you imagine the happiness that's why you gotta be
nomadic or the Allahu Anhu says that for those 4050 days when no
sort of loss or loss I'm stopped talking to him and the other two
because they had
not managed to go to the book
And he said I would go into the masjid, I would say salaam to the
voice of the Lord is Salam and just quickly kind of steal a look
to see. I know he won't say what it comes down. But is he even
moving his lips? Like is he giving me any kind of look?
Because that is that's how humans interact and get satisfied. But
anyway, the point is that when a person is sinful, he is far from
Allah. subhanaw taala. Allah loves His servants. Allah loves His
servants. When he sees that they've gone far because they
engrossed in sin, they becoming prey to the Shavon.
He's unhappy.
So when a servant makes the Toba, Allah gets very happy.
When the servant becomes remorseful with people, you don't
you don't see their remorse. You don't see their you can only see
their remorse if they act it. In their mind. Lots of people are
remorseful, but they don't know how to verbalize it. They don't
know how to say sorry.
Right inside, they're remorseful. But they don't know how to break
this cycle of this argument, this cold barrier between them this
Cold War that's taking place, they don't know how to deal with it.
They want the other person to make the first and they will just melt.
Now when it comes to Allah subhanaw taala. He's ready anyway.
He's told us that but we forget that. So now when he sees that
there's a thawing from the people from his servant. And he starts to
feel the damage in his mind, he starts to feel remorse in his
mind. That is the first step.
This is important, especially for the Ramadan. That's why the one
who has no sin, and the one who REPENT from sin is like the one
who has no sin. Allah subhanho wa Taala loves that. And that's why
Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, that these are the people
you bet they will Allah who say your team has hundreds
you but they will Allah who say your team has and that Allah will
turn their bad deeds into good deeds, the number of bad deeds
that they've done, if they make Toba if they repent over that they
feel remorseful, Allah will turn all of those into good deeds for
them, as the Hadith mentions that a person will be brought to Allah
subhanaw taala, Allah will veil him and cover him for a private
discussion. Not he won't do this discussion in front of everybody,
he will put him back the kind of fee he has mentioned. And he will
say, a diary for him because our cover, you know, is this that
scene you can confess to and this one, and the person says yes, you
know, yeah, yeah. And it's just getting worse, and worse, and
worse. And the person just thinks that I am literally just digging
my grave here by acknowledging all of these things.
And he then says that, then I remember these other big things,
which he hasn't mentioned yet. And I'm getting even more worried
about those things. And then Allah subhanaw taala will finally after
this entire dreadful experience what it seems to the person who
will say I've forgiven you, and I'm not going to expose you to
everybody, I've kept you concealed until now, I'm not gonna expose
you to everybody. So then the person will start reminding Allah
of all the other sins because now he wants to capitalize on this
moment of mercy.
And thus he says, oh, there is that sin, that sin and that sin
and that sin.
So
the Hadith mentions this person.
All of his bad deeds become good deeds. How much Allah subhana wa
Taala likes remorse is amazing. See, because when it comes to the
angels, the angels are
pure beings, they don't sin.
Because they don't sin. They don't have to have remorse.
They, they that's not something we think they can experience. Because
they just straightforward doing whatever Allah wants them to do
lay out soon Allah ma moron. Well, if I do an AMA, you moron, there
is no sense of remorse for them.
When they see the humans,
this is what the Buddha mentioned when they see the humans
going wrong. And then after that, having a sense of remorse that is
so amazing and astonishing for them. They value that a lot,
because they see the person coming back. You know, just like somebody
who's gone far from your family, and then he comes back even though
he didn't have a problem with you, but the fact that he's coming back
to you, to your family, you feel a sense of goodness. So they write
this remorse down, they show it to Allah subhanaw taala as like this
is really important, because that's the beginning step for
reconciliation. So Allah subhanaw taala gives a huge reward for for
another hermits. huge reward for that.
That's why one of the most intense ways of showing the Dhamma is to
shed a tear
is to shed a tear. And that's why I mentioned that a tear in the
path of Allah subhanaw taala in reverence
In fear of Allah subhanaw taala
it can extinguish the fire, meaning it can extinguish our
fire. Jahannam is Jahannam but it can extinguish our fire and thus
give us salvation. It starts from a tear. It starts from that sense
of remorse. It starts from that tear.
That's why Allah subhana wa Tada holds it in great value holds in
great values, despite the fact that shaytan is doing what he's
promised. Allah subhanaw taala says, Adam EECOM Yeah, Benny Adam.
And Omar had the Leukemia beneath them.
And terrible the shaytaan in the hula Komodo movie in Allah subhana
wa Tada says,
that have an I made a covenant with you, oh Children of Adam,
that you do not worship the shaytaan. He's your clear enemy.
So this is the reminder of this fight between the hawk and Bolton,
this constant tension between hawk and battle that will happen.
Ramadan is just given to provide an excuse for forgiveness. Because
when you look at all of the virtues in Ramadan, the fact that
things are happening that which we can't even see Allah closing the
doors of hellfire, opening up the doors of Jannah
removing the at least the major shouting, if not all of the
shouting out of the picture.
All of this is just to give an excuse to forgive. This is the
time when it's open amnesty. Doesn't matter what you've done,
just come down, lay down your weapons and you are free. You're
forgiven. There's time of reconciliation, Allah and the
thing is that in the world, you know, there's always the tension
and it forces people to do is for Allah. He doesn't force him to do
he just doing this out of his pure mercy because nobody can overcome
Allah. It doesn't matter how sinful a person, it's to their own
detriment that they're going. But for his love and his affection,
his compassion, is why he is opening up these doors he is
making and providing this entire setup as an excuse for
forgiveness. That's why every night people are being forgiven.
Every night people have been forgiven, especially especially
during the nights of Ramadan.
Somebody goes to a pickpocket, somebody goes to a fairground, you
know,
a fairground, or one of these kinds of Carnival places where you
get lots and lots of people and they have all types of people
there. And he gets pickpocketed when somebody asks him,
how did you get pickpocketed? He'll say, well, obviously, it's
it's a, it's a place where crooks operate.
And thus, it's easy for a person to get people together. So there's
going to be a sense of
there's going to be a sense that it was the right place to be
pocketed.
Right. So now, when it comes to Ramadan,
a person continues to do sins why?
It doesn't stop despite the fact that shaytan is out. The reason is
that either because, well, it can only happen for two reasons.
Number one, because of the small Sheltie if we go with the
understanding of the Hadith that is only the murderer to Shayateen,
which means that only the very tyrannical ones, only the very
aggressive ones that put away, the others are allowed loosen the
small Shayateen, the mini shaped arms, they still are trying to
cause a little bit of issue here. And then that's why, although the
sin is a lot diminished, it still happens. It could be either for
that reason, I think the stronger reason though, is that many of the
sins that we do commit during the month of Ramadan are generally
since that we are accustomed to doing already, I mean, that's what
you'll see. Because it's just habit kicking in, that's the
knifes issue. And the whole point of Ramadan is to deal with that
knifes issue
is to force us to abstain from Halal things like food drink and
sexual * during a certain number of hours. So that
during those hours, we can
get a grip on ourself, okay, I can't have that food, okay, you
can't have food.
Now, maybe the fact that we live in these strange places that has
longer periods of, you know, daylight time, maybe it's because
of the nature of the people here that, you know, we have to we need
that much more exert exertion, maybe people around the equator
with moderate timing is better off I don't know, Allahu Allah, but
there must be some wisdom in the fact that we have to do this. But
anyway. But then would you say when it comes to winter diamond is
very, very, very small. You know? What right now in the southern
hemisphere when the days are very short, right? So Allahu Alem. The
point is that this is just throughout your life, 30 years,
you're going to get these different, different periods. And
yes, if you want to live in a place like this, then this is what
one of the things that comes with it, you will get some very good
years and some very difficult years, but the rewards are
commensurate to that So alhamdulillah but the main thing
is that the second reason why people sinned during the month of
Ramadan is because it's a habit. It's just that habit kicking them
just wanting their fix and the whole
idea of Ramadan is that hopefully by the end, you should be able to
deal with those things. So day by day as they goes along, you should
be able to have stopped even those things that you felt like doing in
the beginning of Ramadan. However, there's another human is a very
complex thing, it's never so simple, they always have to watch
out, because what happens,
the whole freshness of Ramadan, right starts to diminish. That's
why some people say the worst days are the middle days where you kind
of lose it, you know, as you climb up suddenly, and then when it gets
past the 10th day, then the taller he gets a bit more difficult. And
all of these because you start a stalking and this is a general
thing, even in any kind of fitness training exercise or whatever,
initially, you got a lot of vigor, then after that, eventually, you
need to overcome that particular hurdle. Then, as you get into the
last 10 days, the martial everything picks up again.
That's why Al Hamdulillah now people have changed the salary to
29 days. Otherwise, generally in our community is very weird. You
finished on 27 days, then the machine will become half full,
because people think my Quran had them, right. Whereas what I saw in
other places, that's a cultural thing though, right? So
the knifes continues to want it hit.
However, friends help friends. When you see your friend in a
vulnerable position in difficulty, then you help them any good friend
with compassion will do that. Allah subhanaw taala loves these
believers, as I mentioned in the beginning, it giving us all of
these excuses. So when it comes to Ramadan, Allah takes the shaytaan
away.
He takes the shaytaan away, he increases the rewards. He says
I'll give you an A not just one, buy, buy one, get one free bonus,
I will give you huge amounts of bonus. I'll take every fourth pray
that you do, which you're gonna have to do anyway.
I'll give you 70 rewards for that.
That's just not even a joke. I mean, it's just one for seven days
like just trying to clear things out. That's what you think. I
mean, if you go into a shop you say okay, buy one get 70 You get
10 Free that's just ridiculous it sounds ridiculous in but here this
endless supply lesson I'm going to add the bonuses up to such a
degree that this is going to be absolutely a storm of a blessing
and I just want an excuse give me the slightest excuse if Allah is
taking one for the multiplying it by 70 Can you imagine the level of
excuses providing Can you imagine how much excuse he will accept?
Like if you take it the other way around and imagine your sin is 70
You know something to the power of 70 Right? Now how much excuse does
Allah need from you to have that same forgiven? Literally a small
extremely, you know, 170 of pots, if he can take a good reward
afford and multiply that by 70 Then can you imagine a sin you
just need an excuse to turn to Allah subhanaw taala in the month
of Ramadan he's willing to forgive.
And this Ramadan comes every year and we come back to the same
thing. So for example, let's just say that our Imani state is here.
When Ramadan comes generally our iman increases, right?
Unfortunately, when it comes to eat, we drop down back to here
within a few days we're back to here, everything extra is gone.
All the things that were abstain from suddenly come back in. So we
go back to the same level. And some people literally just only
for 30 days have to do this. This is the mindset because they've
done it for so many years beforehand. This is what I'll do
extra in Ramadan, then Quran will be put away everything will be put
away I'll be back to square one literally. That was not what
Ramadan is for. What Ramadan is for is this. You're here. Allah
pushes us up in we push out we push ourselves up in Ramadan with
the blessing of Allah, then if we we are going to fall down gently
after Ramadan because it's not Ramadan, right, there are
Shayateen around and everything. But the idea is not to fall back
to the same level to at least come halfway or something. Or maybe
70%. But at least there be an increase from last year. So now
you know, we're that much higher. So that becomes our new high that
becomes our new norm rather. And then after the next Ramadan and
we're so every year we're supposed to be better, better, better,
better. But our package of Ramadan is always the same and we just go
back to square one afterwards. It's like just 30 days, let me
just do my best and after that I can go back to doing what I want.
And as shaytan comes back on does that. So
Allah subhanho wa Taala as a friend to the believers, in all
compassion for them. He says, I multiply the deeds. I lock up the
shell team, the he met he the animals and everything, everything
they fast they pray for a fasting person, the birds, the fish
everything everyday Allah subhanaw taala it says that liquidly Yeoman
are equally Laila in that way to muster job they every day and
night today is an accept
A dua
of a person
is which one is that that's why abundantly do your doors. Then Lee
saw me for Hatton, Allah subhanaw taala makes it exciting. You get
joy, a do at your Iftar and you get joy when you will meet with
Allah subhanaw taala.
That's why
shaytaan tries his best during that time. So for example, some
people have bad habits.
Women delay in their cooking,
sleep throughout the day or do other things and then they delay
in their cooking. So they just about manage
to
finish cooking at Iftar time. So the time that you should be using
to make dua, there's no doubt that time, which is just before you
start time, that's the time when Allah gives you acceptance.
That's why
women and everybody else should at least complete everything that
they're doing 15 to 20 minutes before you start, there should be
no excuse whatsoever. 15 To 20 mins before Iftar. And then after
that, basically what the owner mentioned is that there's no need
to throughout the year, keep complaining about
your in laws, complaining about this data and the other the whole
world and whatever the case is.
Use these 15 minutes before Iftar in the month of Ramadan and lo
sauce all of these things out for you. But when you complain
throughout the year, in vain, when it comes to the time to ask you
use it to cook food and do everything else. Right? The men do
their thing the women do their thing, right? At least the men
have an excuse because generally a lot of men they sit between us or
Maghrib in the masjid or they have to go through so they go a bit
early. That That way they get a bit fever in that sense, women
poor women to have to stay at home and thus, what we're saying is for
you it's the same thing.
I've actually been mentioning this and I know a lot of men will hate
me for saying this. But as the shakes the courier Rahmatullah the
I was quite amazed, amazed, you know, to think of these Indian
Pakistani men
in India, Pakistan who are seen generally as very misogynist and
making their women work and, and all the rest of it. That is just
the cultural thing that some people do. The religious thing is
not that
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Hunter Lottie in Ramadan, his family, they would only have to
make a curry. That's it, just one basic solid, they would have to
make. The rotis would be ordered from outside. And so with this
samosa
so with this samosa, that means no elaborate foods have to be cooked
by the women so that they can also do that I do that night and pray
during the day.
Now that's coming from a major scholar.
Now I've mentioned this in a few others and I can just imagine what
the men may be saying, you know, he's spoiled corrupting our wives
for us here. We want those extra nice things that if started
for the women, I would say this works very, very, very well is
that make a list a menu for 30 days, sit before Ramadan, if you
haven't done it yet, sit, whether today or tomorrow, and make a menu
for the month of Ramadan, what you're going to cook every day,
you know, the benefit of that is that you know, for women, a lot of
the time they struggle to find out what to cook to decide what to
cook, they ask you what you do and you're like, oh, whatever you
want, right? And then if you don't doesn't cook the right thing then
you get angry but you don't give them an idea in the first place.
Right? But the main thing is that if you make a menu and she you
know the make a menu with the family sit and make the menu
together if you want then at least she knows what it is then the
other thing the benefit of making a menu is that if you know that
okay, in a few days, I'm going to cook this or whatever half the
preparation could be done in
what you call it together with something else. So it's just
better to blend these things.
Unfortunately, in our culture planning is not like you know,
it's not something that's looked very favorably upon like, what is
that? But believe me it helps
Allah subhanho wa Taala has literally in Ramadan take it this
way. He's given us 30 checks
30 checks. I know we're on two bank transfers these days, but 30
checks because that the example is just better with 30 checks, right
as much as you want on them every day.
Otherwise you're wasting them. They're only going to work for
that day. There's 30 Different checks and you can you can use
them on that day. That's why every night numerous people this is all
what Allah is doing during the month of Ramadan. Numerous people
are recorded as being freed from the Hellfire Otakar Minnaar
everyday somebody's in Ramadan. Now what happens in Ramadan as you
know you've already started getting the advertisements and you
know the
people are making Ramadan package
Is pay for this much this will feed this many people it will give
this many Ramadan packages this many people in Palestine and in in
Pakistan in India whatever right basically that's a Ramadan package
we are extremely in need of Allah so and just like these poor people
are in need of money for the basic survival we are we may have that
but we are basically in need
for forgiveness so oh Allah grant us our Ramadan package we also
need Ramadan package from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada Allah Houma
Mathura Touka Oh sir Omen Zulu be that we must keep this in mind. Oh
Allah your forgiveness is greater than my sins. Your forgiveness is
greater than my sins warahmatu Corojo are in demon Amelie and
your mercy is more hopeful to me than even my deeds. Your Your
mercy is more hoped for me than even deeds. That's why it is very
difficult to get in Jannah with our actions because we don't have
much action but we know that Oh ALLAH your forgiveness is greater
than my sins and your mercy is greater than any deed that I can
do. So oh Allah grant me Jana and close to you. That's why on
Laylatul Qadr we
we don't know when the tenors de la rama is right then a Zulu Rama
you know, when when the Mercy supposed to descend on that man
what part of that night or whatever. But one thing we do know
is that it's had the macula al Fajr. It's until it happens until
the rising of the sun. So
every every Saturday time, and this is not just related to color,
but every night of Ramadan. The minimum is that we do a few
records two or four records and we do some do afterwards every day.
It's the month in which we can insha Allah do our tahajjud which
may be very difficult to do at other times, present our problems
to Allah subhana wa Tada
and the reward from Allah subhanaw taala will come on the night and
the day of eat. That is after the entire month of fasting is done
then Allah subhanaw taala will reward people and may Allah
subhana wa Tada
grant us the baraka of this month. These were just some points. One
final point is also very useful is to make a list of the two hours
that we really want from Allah subhanho wa Taala private list
obviously, and we use that list whenever
it is
a time of dua, it's easy because you can't always remember you may
be rushing at some time so it's nice to have a list like that.
See, Ramadan they say is like Yusuf Ali Salaam. His brothers
were forgiven eventually because of him.
So our 11 months of crime
and ingratitude and excesses against Allah subhanaw taala will
inshallah be forgiven by this extra effort during this month of
Ramadan?
So may Allah subhanaw taala really grant us the great blessing of
this month of Ramadan and allow it not to be squandered make it more
than any Ramadan that we spent before he read that one annual
Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen