Abu Abdissalam – Makkah 27th night of Ramadan
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The importance of worship for everyone is discussed, including individuals and their families. It is emphasized that individuals can take small acts of worship, such as reciting Quran or reciting a charity, to help others. forgiveness is also emphasized, including the importance of building a community and making tober for deeds. forgiveness is not just about money, it's also about heart and mind. embracing Islam's actions of worship is emphasized, and individuals are encouraged to be humble and give their best behavior to others.
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I'm your brother Abu Adi Salam speaking to
you live from the blessed city of Mecca.
And
tonight is,
it's the night of 27th
of Ramadan
in Mecca.
And as we know,
Allah
tells us
that the night of Qadr
is better than 1,000
months.
Now the ulema of Islam,
they talk about when is Laylatul Qadr.
And what a number of scholars they say
is that Laylatul Qadr
is most likely to be on the 27th
night of Ramadan.
It can also, of course, be on
any of the other odd nights of,
the last 10
the the odd nights of the last 10
of Ramadan,
and it can also be in any of
the even the even nights. But it's most
likely to be
on the 27th,
and then it's most likely to be on
one of the odd nights of the last
10. And then after that, it's likely to
be one of the,
any of the nights of the last 10.
So this is what the ulama of Islam
have said. Now Allah
tells us, as you all know, that
that,
is better than 1,000
months. This means that the Ibadah that you
do, inshallah, one interpretation of this is that
the Ibadah, the acts of worship that you
do in these,
in the in these nights of Ramadan,
or and if it happens
to fall on Laylatul Qadr, it's like doing
an act of Ibadah
for over 1,000 months. And if you calculate
that, that's more than 80 years. 83 or
something,
yeah, more more than an entire lifetime. And
imagine,
why is this so important, brothers and sisters?
The reason that this is so important is
because we get one
life. Nuh
he was giving dawah for
a 1000 years minus 50, so about
950 years.
So the people of old, they used to
have long life, some of the other ummas.
But this ummer, no. We don't have you
know, we might have 50, 60, 70, 80,
90, a 100 years, maybe a 120 years
on this planet, on this earth. And then
we go back to,
and then we go back to our creator.
Now when it comes to,
when it comes to however, when it when
when it comes to our deen,
of you know, how how was Allah
given us only this short time, but then
the people of the past like the time
of Nuh, they had, you know, he had
950
odd years
of worship. So surely this would be much
greater. However, Allah
has given us certain barakas,
and one of those barakas is the night
of Qadr,
laylatul Qadr. And on this night, on just
one night,
one night
between Maghrib and Fajr, that the Ibadah that
you do is worth more than 80 years
of
Just think about that for a second. Imagine
that you went to work. Right? Imagine you
went to work
and your boss said to you that next
week
that for every
minute that you work,
you will get 1 year salary.
For every minute that you work, you will
get 1 year salary.
Right? Don't you think you would rush to
go to work on time
to make use of every single minute of
that day and make sure that you're working
so that you get every single minutes worth
of each minute.
For each minute, you get 1 year's worth
of reward. Right? Don't you think you would
be rushing
to do that?
And now, Allah
has told us and, you know, that
that
is better than
a 1000 months. So that means
what are the different things that we can
do?
What should we be doing? Well, the ulama
have given lots of different pieces of advice.
Some of them have said, okay. You know,
what you can do is you can do
lots of little acts of worship. Of course
you'll do your taraweeh,
your tahajjud prayers, you'll recite some Quran,
you can give some charity on that night.
It's like the charity that you give it's
like giving it every single day for a
1000 months.
SubhanAllah.
SubhanAllah.
You can give charity. You can do different
types of charity. Maybe give for an orphan
fund. Give for the funds for, you know,
people who are suffering like in Gaza. May
Allah help the Muslims of Gaza,
to defeat
the,
the enemies Israel
and the occupiers. May
help the Muslims on this blessed night, and
don't forget them in dua.
Likewise,
you can, you know, help an orphan. Maybe
you can help to build a masjid. Even
if it's like $5,
£5, 5 riyals, whatever you can give, you
know, try and help to build a masjid
or to, you know, what else can you
do? You can maybe help. Look for different
charities and split out your charities on different
olema, many olema have said the 27th night
is the most likely
night for Laylatul Qadr.
But we should still seek it out for
every single night of the last 10.
And the stronger opinion among the ulama is
that Laylatul Qadr changes.
So 1 year it might be the 27th.
1 year it might be the 25th. 1
year it might be the 29th. 1 year
it might even be the 22nd or 24th.
Right? We don't know. And that's the beauty
of it that we try and seek out
this night. So for all these remaining nights,
you might have missed the last few nights,
but for the remaining nights, if you have
missed them or even if you haven't, just
make sure that you're giving charity, you're smiling
at someone, you recite in Quran, you're
and you know, do lots of dua. It's
like doing dua
in your on your, you know, on
even your dua is like doing it every
day for over a 1000 months, over 83
years. SubhanAllah.
So this is something that we really shouldn't
miss out
on. It's like imagine I remember 1 chef,
he gave a really beautiful example. He said
imagine there was an ATM. You know the
bank,
the ATM where you take out money from
the bank?
Imagine that
they said that during these few hours,
every time you put your card in,
you can take out a $100 for free,
and it's not coming it's not gonna be
deducted from your balance, it's for free. And
you put it in, you take it out.
You put it in, you take it out.
You put you're gonna be there the entire
night for those hours
trying to get out these this money. Right?
Yes or no? Of course. You're gonna be
trying to get out the money, if if
like you're just gonna stay there that entire
period. So
brothers
and sisters
also take use of this opportunity, you know,
recite Quran,
give charity,
do a good deed, could do as many
good deeds as possible,
give dawah to people.
Even I've come online after how long life.
Alright? So it's too good an opportunity.
Give dawah to people,
encourage other people. You know, maybe phone someone
who's sick. Whatever you can do, do. Okay?
Whatever you can do, do. Give charity, etcetera,
etcetera, etcetera.
So let me know in the chat also
about what kind of good deeds that you
you guys can encourage others to do, Insha'Allah.
You know, teach someone some Quran if they
don't know Quran. Even if you teach your
children one ayah of the Quran. Imagine this.
You teach them one ayah. Ayah. Let's say
ayatulqursi
or Suratul Fatiha or something like this, you're
teaching them just 1 ayah or a few
eyes of the Quran or one small surah,
then it's like you're teaching them for 84
plus years every single day. Right? That you
can think out of the box.
Excuse me. Think out of the box. Think
of the ways the different ways that you
can worship Allah on this night. Don't waste
this opportunity.
Okay?
And also,
we don't know. SubhanAllah, one of our colleagues
at work,
she was working with us, and she was
very jolly, Allahuhamabarik,
and she was helping us with some of
the scripts that we were writing, the Islamic
content and dawah stuff, and she was heading
one of the the content
groups. And,
like, just a few weeks before Ramadan,
just a few weeks before Ramadan,
she,
her and her 3 children and her husband
all passed away
just a few weeks before Ramapa in a
car accident.
And the entire family was wiped out.
And,
you know, we can put myself, the entire
staff, we were very upset, very shocked. It's
something that the entire family is wiped out.
The the night before, the day before, a
couple of days before she was saying salaam,
she was jolly in the group, you know,
and she was working etcetera.
And Alhamdulillah,
amazing woman, amazing woman. But subhanAllah her entire
family passed away
just like this, just a few days before
Ramadan. So it really makes you think
that this woman was writing scripts. She was
helping me with my scripts actually. And, there's
a whole team that do this work. And
she was heading that team. And she was
writing some of the scripts of some of
the videos that you might have seen that
we recorded that we put out on,
on the various social media platforms on YouTube
and all that. She was writing those scripts
and some of those scripts are about Ramadan
and yet Allah
had decreed that she's not gonna be here
in Ramadan herself, but she's still getting the
the reward.
You know, so
it just goes to show that you could
get so close to Ramadan. We don't know
if we are gonna make next Ramadan. We
just don't know. How many people do you
know from last year that were unable to
make it this year? Right?
How many people
do you know
that were around last Ramadan and they are
not here this Ramadan. I can say at
least this woman Aya, may Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, give her Jannah al Firdaus without any
reckoning, without any punishment and her entire family
and give sabr to her father and her
brother.
May Allah
give them the highest levels of Jannah. Ameen
You Rabbala A'lamine.
But this woman, subhanAllah, like,
she was this close
coming to Ramadan.
Right? It's a lesson, but Allah decreed that
InshaAllah, she'll still get that reward Insha'Allah Insha'Allah
You Rabb. Because she she was doing so
much work for Ramadan.
Right? For that or for Ramadan.
So we don't know
brothers and sisters. My cousin passed away,
in December.
So many people we lost in this 1
year since last Ramadan.
May Allah
grant them all the highest levels of Jannah
without any reckoning, without any punishment. Ameen You
Rabbil 'Aalami. So you don't know if you're
gonna be around next Ramadan
even maybe one of us
we don't know we don't know are we
gonna be around next Ramadan. So let us
use this time
let us use this time to make sure
that we are,
trying to get as close as possible to
Allah The
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he used
to recite the Quran, the entire Quran in
Ramadan
Ramadan with Jibril every single year.
And yet,
in the final Ramadan of his life, he
recited it twice.
He recited it twice to Jibril and he
reviewed it with Jibril alaihis salam.
And,
this goes to show and the prophet was
the most generous
in Ramadan. He was already the most generous
person ever. But in Ramadan, he was
and he was
like he was the most generous during the
month of Ramadan.
So let us try and be extra generous.
And generosity is not just with money. Generosity
is also with the heart. It's also with,
you know, the ability to give,
to forgive others. SubhanAllah. One of the amazing
acts of deeds, acts of worship that you
can do right now is to forgive every
Muslim. Forgive everyone that has ever harmed you.
Right? You all know the hadith of the
person
where Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As radiAllahu anhu
Ajma'in.
They he went to, he he he was
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was chilling
with his companions,
And the prophet
he said to them
he said the man who's gonna come in
the masjid next, he is from the people
of paradise.
And then this particular man, he walks in.
The 2nd day, the same thing happened. The
man who comes next, he is from among
the people of paradise. The 3rd day, the
same thing happened. The same man comes in
on the 1st day, 2nd day, 3rd day.
So Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al Asr radiAllahu
anhu, he went to this man's house
and he made some excuse, you know, oh,
I had a fight with my family and
whatever. Can I stay with you? And so
he allowed him to stay with
him, and he stayed with him for 3
nights.
Why did he do this? He wanted to
see
what is this man doing that's different to
everyone else? What is this man doing that
is different to everybody days and
3
nights,
he
said
he
left.
He
said,
look, so and
days and 3 nights, he said he left.
He said, look, so and so, actually, I
didn't really have a fight with my family.
The truth is that I heard the prophet
say that you're from among the people of
paradise, and I wanted to see what do
you do that's different.
So he said,
I I saw your prayers, it's the same,
your charity is the same, your night prayer,
you know, your fasting, all the you don't
do anything special. What is it that you
do?
So
this man says, I I don't know. I
don't know what I did. So he starts
walking away. Abdullah starts walking away. Then he
the man calls him back. He said, there
is one thing that I do. He said,
what's that? He said,
I don't hold grudges. When before I go
to sleep I make sure I forgive everyone
there's no grudges. Roughly paraphrasing what he said
I don't have any grudges. I don't hold
anything in my heart.
SubhanAllah.
Abdullah,
he said
that is the thing that is different. That
is the difference between you and us. SubhanAllah,
yeah brothers and sisters, we might be weak
in night prayer. We might be stingy and
we don't give enough charity as much as
we'd like to. We might not be able
to fast every other day or Mondays Thursdays
and voluntary fast and, you know, we might
we might not have the ability or we
might not be strong enough to do all
these good deeds that we could do.
But can't we forgive everyone?
That's just something from the heart and from
the tongue that we just raise our hands
and we say, oh Allah, forgive everyone that's
ever harmed us. Have you not
have you not been somebody that has harmed
someone
without knowing sometimes? Maybe you've back bitten someone,
maybe you've spoken about someone in a way
that is not befitting
or you have, you know, harmed someone,
hurt someone's feelings, whatever it may be.
And even more than that, have we not
sinned against
Of course, we we sin against
Allah day and night, and we want forgiveness.
Right? We want forgiveness.
There was a man who slandered Abu Bakr
whose
daughter Aisha radiallahu anhu,
and he was of the hypocrites, Abdul Lai
bin Hubay bin Saloon.
But some of the Sahaba carried this slander.
And
when Abu Bakr
found out, one of them, his name was
mister.
He was from the Muhajireen actually. And
he
he also carried this slander. He didn't actually
make it up, but he carried this
slander. So Abu Bakr
used to give charity to this person.
Right? Allah Abu Bakr
used to give charity because he was,
he was related to him and he was
poor.
After this, he promised that I will never
give charity again
to this person for as long as I
live because of what he did to his
daughter. And yet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from
above the 7 heavens,
he corrected Abu Bakr.
And he tells Abu
Bakr the people of Fadl, the people of
virtue, the people of goodness among you should
never vow to not give charity
to,
to these people, these Muhajaleen and these poor
people.
Allah
do you Allah then goes on to say,
do you not love that Allah forgives you?
Forgive them.
Forgive
and forgive them and pardon them. Do you
do you not want Allah to forgive you?
Subhanallah.
And then Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu. He says,
yes indeed I want Allah to forgive me.
So what does he do?
He forgives this person and then he says,
I will never stop giving charity to this
person for as long as I live. And
this is a person who slandered his daughter.
So if you want Jannah, this is a
very simple way before you go to sleep.
In fact, every day, every night just cleans
your cleanse your heart, remove any grudges from
anyone and say, oh, Allah,
forgive
everyone that has harmed harmed me. Every Muslim
that has hardened me, every person that's harmed
me and forgive them and guide them
and that's it.
Of course, sometimes you might feel the pain.
You might some people they say, you know
what? I'll be able to forgive everyone but
I can't forgive that person.
What he did, what she did was so
great that I can't forgive them. Guess what?
That's the person that you're supposed to forgive.
That's the person if you forgive that you'll
get the high levels of Jannah.
So why not take tonight and every single
night, not just these nights of Ramadan, but
every single night to forgive every single
you're able to do this because it's heavy.
When you're holding grudges, it's really heavy. So
this is another great deed that you can
do and maybe you get a massive reward
if you happen to do it on Daylatul
Qadr. Another good deed that a person can
do and this is so important is toba,
is to make istafar and you know to
ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgiveness. This is
a deed. This is a very important act
of worship that we should be doing for
all the deeds, the bad deeds that we
do. So let us also make tober for
our deeds.
So my brothers and sisters in Islam,
let's not waste these final moments of Ramadan.
Ramadan,
this lahda, this exact moment, it's never going
to come back ever. It's never ever ever
going to come back.
And whether we make the next Ramadan or
not, we don't know. So let's utilize these
last few nights. I ask Allah
to give us Iqlas,
to give us sincerity, to accept our acts
of worship, to give us a tawfeeef, to
do lots of acts of worship,
to give us the, you know, to give
us the ability to forgive others,
to give the to make us of those
who are charitable, to make us of those
who pray the night prayer, and all of
our prayers on time, the fard prayers and
the sunnah.
We ask Allah
to make us of those who are righteous
to our parents and kind and that we're
able to give lots of charity, that we
build lots of masajid, and that we build
hospitals and contribute and look after the orphans,
and we're able to fast,
as much as voluntary as possible. We're able
to do Hajj every year. We're able to
do Umrah every year, and we do it.
May Allah
give us the blessings,
you know, blessings to be able to do
that. Because my brothers and sisters, sisters even
when you do an act of worship, wallahi,
we're not worthy of doing acts of worship.
Like we're not even worthy of that. But
it's Allah Jallahu Alaihi out of his blessing,
out of his mercy that's given us the
ability to do these acts of worship. There
are people that might not be able to
do these acts of worship,
but Allah has given us this this ability.
So let's not even have this or this,
you know, self,
self what do you call it?
Self,
astonishment of our own good deeds.
Right? Let us be humble. Let us know
that this is only from Allah that we're
able to do acts of worship. Ask Allah
to forgive us of all of our sins
and to forgive us
remove us from the hellfire, to free us
from the hellfire. Ask Allah
to give every single Muslim the ability to
come here to Makkah and perform Hajj, to
perform Umrah many times in their life, and
to fast here as well.
Do Ramadan here, Tarawee here. And also, may
Allah
not take our souls without forgiving us. And
and, oh, Allah, forgive us. Make us companions
with the messenger of Allah. Oh, Allah, you
didn't make us companions
with him in this world, so make us
his companions
Aqir.
Siraj Fani says,
Ahmed Zubair says, assalamu
alaykum. And to all of you, my brothers
and sisters,
very much love for from your brother, Abu
Ad Salam, speaking to you from the blessed
city of Mecca.