Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Ramadan Preparation Quick Practical Tips
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
wa salatu salam ala un Mursaleen. Early, he was so happy he or
Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman cathedral, you know, Yomi Dean,
and my bad.
Dear brothers, dear sisters, dear friends, Ramadan is right around
the corner. And this quick talk is about the preparations for
Ramadan.
The best preparations we should have done earlier, but it's never
too late. So what we're going to do is we're going to be speaking,
two or three points, discussing two or three points with regards
to what we can do to prepare for Ramadan. Inshallah, I want to make
this very to the point and very practical. So there's two main
points I want to speak about, firstly, the need for preparation,
the need for preparation, with anything, as anybody will tell
you, and you would know from your own life is that if you're
prepared for something, it just goes more smoothly, and you can
get more out of it. Just think about it. If you're about to
travel on a long on a long journey somewhere. Generally, the idea is
that you pack a suitcase, you pack some clothing, you you pack, any
other essentials, medicines, whatever else that you need, and
take the relevant numbers and things like that. Now, there's
some people who like to do this at the last minute when they try to
do at the last minute, there's several things that come together,
there's huge amount of pressure. There's a lot of problems in that
regard. And people feel really, really pressured. At the last
minute they end up forgetting things than they then when they
get to the journey, they think, oh, I should have brought this
along. And I should have done this. And I should have made
contact with this person. Maybe there was a person that you wanted
to speak to, and or you wanted to meet but now you you didn't. You
did not organize a meeting with them. So that's why it's always
understood that if you do this from beforehand, it makes a big
difference. Right? You're much more productive, you get much more
out of it. So this the same thing. I mean that there's a famous dua
that we see before Ramadan, from the month of Rajab and Shabbat and
Allahumma berkland, theological Shabbat burn rubber living
Ramadan, Ya Allah, Oh Allah, our Lord grant us blessing, blessed
this month of Rajab and this month of chadburn for us, and allow us
to reach Ramadan, why ask for blessings during these months, and
then say, allow us to reach Ramadan, what's the connection
between the two, the connection that I personally see between the
two is that if these months are productive, and if somebody is
doing it in the right way, because you have to remember, the way of
our predecessors was to prepare for the month of Ramadan. In fact,
some very, very intense forms of this was that a person would
prepare would have a longing for Ramadan for six months proximately
for six months, they'd be longing for Ramadan, because of the amount
of blessings and the amount of mercy, the forgiveness, the
immense amount of concentrated rewards that are available in
Ramadan, you're looking forward. Like some people look forward to,
I don't know this some sales, right where they know that they're
gonna get a deal and they need something so they're gonna get the
deal. They're waiting for that time. So this is so big that
actually people were waiting for up to six months not to say
everybody was but some very, you know, close people to Allah
subhanho wa taala, the only Allah they will actually wait for six
months. Then after that he says that after Ramadan finished, they
will actually be praying to Allah subhanho wa Taala for up to six
months, that Allah subhanho wa Taala accept their worships in
Ramadan and allow the blessings of Ramadan to endure with them. That
is how powerful Ramadan Ramadan is. So that's why it's definitely
something well worth preparing for. That's why if we're given
Baraka I mean, it's never too late. We've still got a few days
left. If we're blessed in these days and we manage it well, we can
still get the most out of this Ramadan. So Allah subhanho wa
Taala makes some huge changes for the month of Ramadan. Right some
massive cosmic changes some of the stuff we can see some of it we
cannot see. So for example, it mentions in Hadith of sahih al
Bukhari from Abu Huraira the Allahu Anhu that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that when Ramadan comes in Allah
subhana wa Tada Allah subhanho wa Taala opens up the doors of
paradise wide open open house, and closes the doors of hellfire. That
means that if anybody really wants to get in hellfire they're gonna
have to probably break in. Right? That's how that's how Allah
subhanaw taala makes it such a virtuous time. And then the
shayateen are locked up, the shayateen are locked up. These are
the massive changes and we actually feel these changes.
Because I mean, you know that you will feel much better in Ramadan,
you will feel much more inclined to do good things in Ramadan, the
people around you will feel probably more inclined, less
inclined to do bad deeds. Feeling more guilty about them feeling
more encouraged to do good. Feeling more encouraged to read a
better Quran feeling more encouraged to visit the masjid to
do taraweeh to fast apps
stemming from haram you know this concept, this feeling in mind that
I'm fasting How can I do this? How can I do that? Reading, reading
more doing more liquor, just the general remembrance of Allah you
can feel it. In fact, I would probably say that for the most
people, they could probably feel the absence of shaytaan right
because they just feel better. And then of course there's a group
aspect of it the group reinforcement of it, there's other
people doing the same thing. So, aside from that, we see it in the
practical levels as well we feel we see that mashallah our women
folk of the house, we generally do the cooking, Ramadan needs certain
foods, there are certain foods that have to be done, and new
foods come up every day in Ramadan, right for every 30 or
whatever, and mashallah the women, even though they're fasting, they
get that, you know, they have this special energy to cook special
foods. So you see the baraka and the blessing in many, many
different ways. Right? Now, if you don't want to treat that as
blessing, that's up to you. But generally, you see blessings in
all sorts of ways. People are so much more ready to give the amount
of sadaqat the amount of zakat, the amount of just charity and
welfare work that takes place in Ramadan is obviously one of the
profound effects of Ramadan because in Ramadan, you're hungry
yourself. So you start feeling the vulnerability, the weakness, the
need, the helplessness of other people. And in Ramadan, the amount
of charity that's been given is probably unparalleled, unless
there's a very special incident or a catastrophe or any other time
otherwise, mashallah Ramadan. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam is reported to be the most generous during the month of
Ramadan, because he would get a special meeting of recitation of
the Quran with liberalism during this this month, especially during
this month. And it says that his generosity which was all already
huge, I mean, he called himself the cost him that I'm just the
distributor of Allah subhanaw taala as blessings, Allah as the
provider, will Allah Who yoti In Nama and Qasim I am basically the
distributor, he called his first son cost him as well he called his
son cost him and that was his name.
So what we have to understand from this is that Ramadan is a major
change for lots of people and if we're not going to take part and
benefit in that, then we're the losers, because Allah is there for
the giving Allah gives he increases
forward obligations which we have to do anyway to 70 times its
reward and any optional Axi gives you the reward of a forbidden
obligation act obligatory act, so you can understand that it's a
huge amount of changes what Allah has on offer at that time, one
person is going to have to be extremely deprived and not getting
anything out of this. That's why the way to do it is to prepare so
on a practical level how would you prepare for Ramadan we still have
a few days left I mean, practical Salah What do you need for Ramadan
to make sure you can concentrate to so that you can get the most
out of it? Simple as that think about those things and see what
you can get done beforehand. One of the major things would be
shopping you know the foods for Ramadan, you sometimes people have
special diets are scheduled for for Saturday time for Iftar time
or whatever, get that done. I mean, mashallah, there are already
the women, which we hear that they are already getting, they've
already done their preparation for Ramadan, or they're doing their
preparation for Ramadan, which basically generally means getting
the food stuff sorted. There are certain things that have to be
produced in Ramadan, even in I guess locked down Coronavirus
times, I guess you still have to have those things that you study,
even if they're maybe not seen as very healthy or whatever the case
is, but there's certain traditional things in every
community that they have to have. Those things are generally
prepared before Ramadan put away in the free fridges and
refrigerators, freezers, that's fine. If you need those things.
We're not saying they're haram or anything like that, right? If
that's what makes your Ramadan better and a healthy Alhamdulillah
just get it done beforehand. Likewise, if there's major chores
to do, other things to do in the house that you're going to need,
get it done right now. Likewise, if at work, you've got major
projects or whatever, try your best in the next few days with
collaboration with your colleagues, etc. To get those
things done. If you've got holidays remaining, the best time
to take it in Ramadan so that you can actually do more worship you
can spend more time in the masjid, right for vacations from your work
and so on. These are just things that you can just think for
yourself that how is it that I can make this Ramadan better, and
spend the most time so that the first day I enter Ramadan, I can
do it running? Basically, it's not like I enter Ramadan, then I
realize and then so many days pass and then it's all it's all gone.
So that's very, very important. What you can do, I give you a
suggestion what we do at home is that one of the big challenges of
preparing for a lot of the sisters who do the cooking in the house is
to decide what to cook. Sometimes they say that it's actually more
difficult to decide what to cook on a day to day basis. Right then
to do the cooking itself. The cooking is quite automated
sometimes for them, but to decide takes a long time. And sometimes
they come to the husband's and like what should I cook anything
the
They'll say anything. And then if it goes wrong, then it's like, why
did you cook this for? So the husbands don't help sometimes. So
one simple suggestion is what we've done is make a menu, right
for all 30 days of the month, right on this day will be this
food and this food. I mean, why are we obsessing with food, I
mean, a food is very important for life, right? It's very important
for life and why we shouldn't be obsessing so much. And Ramadan
should be a time when we actually decrease our intake, we still need
food, we still need at least a small amount of good healthy food.
So make a list, right, make a menu for every day. And believe me,
when we that has been suggested to many sisters, and they've used it,
it's made life very easy for them, because they know they can wake up
in the morning, or they can actually prepare from beforehand.
That's why for those of you who need certain spices, certain
mixtures of certain base for certain foods, make them before
Ramadan, but do the hard work before Ramadan, make it easy on
yourself. And the husbands can help in that regard as well. I
don't want to spoil it for anybody right now. But some of our show
you some of our righteous ones from the past. And recent times,
they would make it easy on those cooking in the house so that they
could also maximize their time in worship. So for example, Sheikh
Zakaria, Conde Rahim Allah in in India, what they would do is they
would tell the women for just to make one dish, a simple dish, then
all the additional supplementary stuff like the bread, the non the
roti, whatever, and the samosa and all that kind of stuff they would
actually get, they would buy those things. Now I'm not trying to
spoil it for you guys, right if you if it's your wife that is
going to make those things well, that's your, your issue at home. I
leave that to you. But these are just suggestions to maximize
Ramadan is not a time for Dalits it's not a time for invitations,
right you want to visit people you want to see how people are doing.
Also try to get all of that done. Now you got the next few days,
give them a call, see how they are and say that in Ramadan is going
to be like a proper lockdown for me, I'm going to focus on my
worship. So you don't have to have long conversations with people
just just it's not necessary. Right? You can maybe shoot him a
message here and there just to make sure everybody's fine. But
otherwise, your long conversations and long meetings and whatever,
try to get those done. So in sha Allah, as soon as Ramadan comes
in, we're not going to be like that person who's like, oh, it's
Ramadan, everybody's let me get my act in order. Right? Because
remember, Ramadan is based on three things Ramadan, according to
the OMA, they say that there's three things that happen in
Ramadan, number one, you're supposed to decrease your food is
typically to Tom, because we're supposed to only twice a day. Now
I know in some places is impossible to eat rice, because of
the short time between sun set, and and then Fajr that is getting
a bit longer now. So what what happens ends up happening is that
people miss their lunches, right? They Mr. T times, so then they
basically try to fulfill that obligation that study time. And
that's wrong. The whole concept of Ramadan, one of the things is to
reduce the food intake.
That means to reach in a measured sense, eat good food, eat good,
healthy food. If thought time, right, you get there's a lot of
replacements you can make from the indulgence, in in oily food every
day, especially now that you're probably not going to be going out
much not much exercise anyway. So you might want to consider just
using fruits at that time instead, right? Aside from dates, you know,
using fruit instead of that, and mashallah, if you can get used to
that actually works very, very well. So thinking thinking of
those kinds of things, then there's circle time, Saturday
time, you don't have to make up for the meals you missed in
between, it's very important to understand you don't have to make
up for the meals. Number two, is less sleep, typically a little
Manam. Because generally, you're going to be waking up the whole
time. Fajr time tahajjud time. And there's taraweeh so that you don't
sleep as much in the in the night. So there is also that why do these
things happen? These things happen to to basically destabilize us
slightly. So when a person on a journey as well, when they're not
getting access to their normal everyday bed, their pillow, for
example, their favorite favorite blanket, their foods, they can go
in and they know exactly where their snacks are, and so on and so
forth. on a journey, you can only take so much with you. That's why
a journey while there's some excitement in it from another
perspective, it's it is obviously a challenge. Likewise, in Ramadan,
what happens is that Allah subhanaw taala wants to
destabilize us some way like make us think, because when you have
your food arrangement totally changed and your sleeping
arrangement disturbed in that sense, then there's a bit of a
stress on us, right? There's a bit of stress on us. And when a person
is in a stress situation like that they think differently. When
you're very comfortable in one state in one sense, then it's the
status quo. You don't know there could be so many more things that
could come from you
that you could do more positivity that you could change and alter in
your life. Ramadan is that time, especially for the knifes, because
the food is what we're told to abstain from the food drink and
sexual * for certain times of the day where we're used
to maybe indulging in those things. So basically, the idea is
that, if we were if we feel like a coffee at 10 o'clock in the
morning at work, because we're feeling now a bit tired, right,
and the energy from breakfast has worn off, right? Then you're gonna
say, No, I'm fasting, I can't do it, you're knifes is going to
protest yourself is going to protest. But what you're going to
do is you're going to say no, and within a few days, yourself, you
will no longer have to have the coffee, for the first few days is
going to be tough for a lot of people. But eventually you will
not need that coffee. Now if you want to restart the habit after
Ramadan, that's up to you. But you can probably get away with it. If
you that's why a lot of people kick the habit of smoking, and a
lot of other stuff during the month of Ramadan, it is the time
to make resolutions. So the second thing that I want to speak about
after the whole preparation aspect of it, what this Ramadan should be
in comparison to previous Romans. The thing is this that if you
look, in our life, there's a lot of things that we did differently
many years ago when we first started doing them, and then we
improved and enhanced ourself. If it's a product that we were using,
the first time we had to we needed that product, it would be the
first time you needed a camera, it'd be any camera. But then as
you go along, you get better cameras. Likewise with clothing.
The first time, if I give an example of somebody who has to go
for an interview, and they want to dress up formally, the first time
you want to go you're gonna get a blazer, it could be any blazer, it
could be from basically, it could be from as the George Walmart,
would you call it
any low store that's very cheap, because all you need is a is a
blazer, you just need to look formal in a particular way that
seems to fit the bill. That's it. But as you go along, as you start
moving the ranks and getting older,
you will no longer get those same things, you will want higher
levels of those things, higher stages of those things, you will
want a better product. So then you will want to get some designer
suits you know you will get to you will be wanting some Armani suits,
or Gucci suits or or, or canali, or whatever it is, and eventually
is going to be designer Savile Row, hand stitched, you know
whether that be dresses, even with juba's, right? This is the way
people go with everything they enhanced when it comes to Ramadan.
Just think about it, the Ramadan that you've been spending for the
last 10 years of your life 1520 3040 50 years of your life,
how has it changed? Is it the same way that it used to be before,
right 20 years ago, you're still doing the same Ramadan? Meaning
that you're still reading the same amount of Quran one just yet, you
know, you're struggling to finish one Quran a month, you're you're
not doing tahajjud yet, right? For example, you are still not
abstaining from certain things that you should abstain from.
Basically, yes, you're fasting, you may be doing tarawih looking
for the fastest therapy in your area. Right? You've been doing the
same things. I mean, this is what a lot of people do. There's
certain people that we've observed from when I was a young person
when I was, you know, when I was almost a child, certain people
living close to the masjid, they've come, they only come for
Joomla onto the Masjid. From that time, even though literally, it's
just a one minute walk from the house, a two minute walk from the
house. Even after 40 years, 30 years, they're still only coming
for Joomla they're still only coming for Joomla they haven't
increased at all. There's certain people who you know, not covering
maybe they're still doing the same thing.
So the idea is that, where's that improvement going to come from? I
mean, these times that we're going through right now are major times
of reflection of
challenges, which should make us think that our life is as
vulnerable as the other person who just died. We haven't died, maybe
we don't have any sickness or COVID in our own families. But
that doesn't mean it can't come. Does Allah have to put it in us
and afflict us with it? For us to then take heat?
So that we're given Ramadan every year to up our game and to push
and enhance ourself and move from that? I mean, if I want to call it
a beta version of Ramadan, I mean Subhanallah even your phones are
no longer beta versions, right there on
the note 10 or whatever it is right now, right? The iPhone 11 or
whatever it is right now. Right? Who's gonna use a iPhone, you
know, the first. The first versions, the first initial
versions, you laugh at people doing that, but yet the fasting
and the way we've spent Rama
Gone, we're doing it in that same way that beta version we probably
have don't even have a full version that we're doing. Whereas
we should actually be on, you know, if you're 30 years old, then
you should be on version 20 or something like every year should
have been an update. So upgrade your ramadaan if we're still using
storebrand no fear, no frills, right, a store brand, no feels off
the shelf, you know, simple package of Ramadan as such. I
mean, I don't want to demote it that way. But you understand what
I'm saying in modern parlance, let this Ramadan be better than any
Ramadan before it. And that's why I think one of the best ways that
we're going to get the best out of Ramadan is to make that dua from
now if you already haven't started Oh Allah make this Ramadan of mine
better than any Ramadan before it
gave me an upgrade. During this Ramadan enhanced me during this
Ramadan. Let me do more Quran more reading more abstaining from
wrongs and make a change after Ramadan, let the blessings of the
month linger beyond Ramadan. Whereas generally I go into
Ramadan, I change for a bit. I come out of Ramadan and on Eid day
it's like it's back back to normal. That's not the purpose of
Ramadan the purpose of Ramadan is to actually train the soul and to
add additional worships and a change of style a change of focus
to our lives. That's what we give in Ramadan every year for to give
us that upgrade that boost every year, we're gonna be at Iman level
between one to 10 At number four before Ramadan and outside after
we've in Ramadan, we'll probably grow up to enhance ourselves to
seven or eight. If we're lucky inshallah even six, at least two
more than where we were before. Now, as soon as Ramadan finishes,
and the day of Eid comes and it's all back to normal. So we want to
drop back down to three or two that we were at before then that's
just not what Ramadan is. Therefore Ramadan is there that if
we're at two or three and we're feeling very low, Ramadan gives us
that boost. So we jump up to seven or eight hopefully in Ramadan. And
after that, because it's not Ramadan anymore che plans back
out. So okay may not remain at seven or eight. But at least let's
not go back down to two or three and remain at four or five at
least. So if we have this as a plan, then it makes things easy.
That's why if you look at productivity coaches and
productivity training, and guidance for productivity, right,
whether from Muslim sources, non Muslim sources, you know, the you
online, you can see lots of productivity tips and ideas. And
then from our very productive Olimar, like Imam Buhari, Imam
Ghazali. And many, many other Omar, those who are productive,
they share one thing in common, right. And that's probably the
final point I'm going to make, they share one thing in common,
what they share essentially is for productivity, any productive
person is going to need a timetable, right, a very strict
timetable as much as possible, which basically means that you
have a time set for everything, this is my time of work. In my
lunch break, I'm going to have my lunch, I'm going to do this. But
in Ramadan, this is going to be different, right? Every time when
I come back home, this is where it's going to be if I am at home,
drop the children off, then I'm going to do this, I want to get
this, they sometimes even have a list that helps a lot to help the
dopamine because we've reduced this down now to chemicals of the
brain, the hormones. So there's a dopamine rush, every time that you
have a list, and you take everything off your list, like
right now if you make a list for yourself that these are the things
I'm going to do for Ramadan to get them done, and you've got a list,
as you start ticking them off, you're gonna feel this sense of
satisfaction, that's a dopamine rush. That's why productive people
have a schedule for each day, and for our Ramadan Inshallah, if we
can have that schedule, it will help a lot because you will be
much more productive, you'll get much more out of it. So the
schedule we want to make, every individual person will have, we
can't tell you that read Quran for this many hours, we can just say,
Read as much as you can. And number two, read more than you did
last last year, or the previous Ramadan. So now you think what you
do with your with yourself each year in Ramadan, and then you set
a timetable because you know what your timetable is going to be this
year is going to be probably different from last year if you're
working from home, right, which gives you all of the time, the
commute times, and so on, right to still play with so you've got more
time this inshallah and you will write what your general broad
goals are going to be. So if I used to finish this one Quran this
time, I'm going to finish 1.2 Or maybe even two columns. If you
used to finish to Quran and maybe this I'm going to try to do three,
whatever you can do. If you've never done tahajjud in your
Ramadan, then the Hajj is the Ramadan is the time for tahajjud
it's so easy. Like let's just give an example of a sister who's a
woman, a mother who's waking up, right? She probably has to wake up
maybe 45 minutes before so what if you're waking up for it? Right and
All you need to do is probably wake up about 510 minutes earlier
than you would have woken up. Or maybe you don't even have to wake
up any extra, you just have to say that I'm going to make sure that
if not for God. So as regards of the hygiene, I'm going to at least
do two records.
So that you could do first you're gonna do will do and you just pray
to foreign gods. And then after that you do the preparation, or
you do the preparation, right wake everybody up or they're waking up.
And the whole family just stops eating maybe seven to 10 minutes
before precautionary. And then in that seven, seven minutes, they
type they spend time doing tahajjud.
And do ah, and then as soon as Fajr time comes in, you pray your
Frasier and then you go back to sleep. So you can literally I mean
to do to two rockets of prayer only takes about three, four
minutes. I mean, you can make them longer if you want but minimally,
and then a 234 minute dua literally only going to take about
five or seven minutes. Believe me just if you make it a goal that
this Ramadan,
I'm not going to let any day pass without doing tahajud.
Right, I may be struggling with the other prayers. I want to make
sure I do those prayers in Ramadan, because there's those are
known non negotiable. And I'm also going to do the hygiene. In fact,
in tahajjud time, you could actually do other prayers at that
time. And in sha Allah, Quinta Minear anima, you'll actually get
the reward for the Hajj at a time as well, though it's best to do
them separately, but you could also do that as well. So have
these goals in mind that I'm going to read this much more Quran, I'm
going to abstain from all of these things in such a way that
inshallah we'll never have to do them after Ramadan, again, those
bad things or unfavorable things. And I'm going to increase my
rate my charity, last year, I gave this much in charity this year,
I'm going to give this much more. If there's some way I can help and
assist others, especially during these times, I'm going to do this
much this year.
Another thing is
called our prayers. So I've got this many Miss prayer since I've
become mature. So I'm going to do those up. That's a very important
one, because that probably shouldn't be even a preference to
a certain degree, that I've got this many color prayers to make
up. I've missed maybe a hundreds, maybe
a full year of prayers. I know somebody who's missed seven years
of prayers. And they've already made up four years of that sounds
tough, but it's not difficult. And again, you can use different
strategies to do this. what somebody told me the most
effective strategy is to do in prayer by prayer. What that means
is that, first count your features, and get those out of the
way, if you've got 500 features to do, you can do 10 a day, you can
do five a day, whatever, there's lots of flexibility. You can even
do this. After you've performed your day's Fajr. Before Sunrise,
you can even do color press then right at home, for example.
So even you can even pray until about 20 minutes before Maghrib
you could pray even after you've done your answer, you can actually
do called up prayers at that time. You just can't do it 20 minutes
before Maghrib while the until the sun finishes setting, right.
That's the time when the Prayer is not valid. But other than that,
you can do it at that time, anytime throughout the day. And
when you finish your five 600 soldiers, you're going to feel a
sense of huge relief. But the main thing is that even if we, you
know, even if you've got some people I think and I've got 10
years of pleasures to make up or all prayers to make up, that's
fine. It's not a problem.
At least if you start doing them diligently. And then even if you
were to die in the midst of all of that, let's just say somebody had
five years of made up makeup press to make and then they died after
two years after. After completing two years of makeup praise
collaborators. At least they'll have some argue in front of Allah
subhanaw taala that, look, I started, I did my best, please
forgive me. But if you haven't done that you've not made any
preparation. Then what is your intention? The beautiful thing
about a Muslim is their intention is very valuable. And sometimes
your intention will give you the reward of the act even without
doing the act as long as there's sincerity and the best effort.
That's why we're seeing in this Ramadan when you can't go to the
masjid or you can't join in tarawih prayers or Juma prayers
even right. In sha Allah you will be given the reward for doing the
therapy at home for doing the hair at home instead of Juma. That's
the power of the believers intention. But the condition is
that you've done your best. So you've done your best to make up
the prayers after making a mistake that we hope Allah subhanaw taala
will forgive us We have numerous Hadith to give us that
understanding that even criminals who are on a path to recovery of
Toba of repentance
and they died in between it. Allah subhanaw taala forgave them
despite all the odds, right?
Despite all the odds, despite the angels of hellfire wanting to take
them, so this is a time for all of that for reflection. So we want to
up the the addition of Ramadan that we're going to do is going to
be higher than last year in sha Allah and we're going to pray to
Allah that Allah make this Ramadan better better than superior to any
Ramadan before it. So may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us the
Tofik please keep us in your doors as well. May Allah bless you all.
And may Allah subhanho wa Taala bless
all of bless us to bless us with his special mercies and drench us
in that absolute storm of forgiveness and mercy and
compassion that he has in the month of Ramadan. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala benefit as just one last Hadith, the concentrated
blessings of the month of Ramadan can be understood from just one
Hadith. That Hadith says that if anybody
misses a fast of Ramadan, without any excuse, they're not extremely
sick or anything, they just decide, you know, I've got a
football match on today, or I've got a few projects on our work. I
mean, let me just, you know, let me just not do the fast.
I got a person asking that he's got a meeting. And if he fast then
his mouth smells, so can he not fast when you know this many times
a week,
you'd have to find another way to sort your breath out. Right, you
can use a miswak a dry brush, or there's some other way just keep a
distance. I mean, nowadays you could use keep a mask on anyway.
And most of the meetings are done on on the phone nowadays, I guess
in the COVID times. So
if somebody misses a fast without any excuse, right without a valid
excuse, and then after that they felt bad. So they tried to fast
for the rest of the year, or the rest of their life outside of
Ramadan. All of those hundreds of fasts 10s Hundreds of us would not
be able to achieve the same reward is that one day of Miss VAs that
is huge. The amount of reward that Allah has concentrated in Ramadan
for every worship we do every moment that we spend and every
facet that we keep. So this is a real special time. This is a real
special time. And that we understand from every other little
bit of worship during this one that's why you want to maximize
this insha Allah while he read that one and Al hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen