Ahmed Suleman Khatani – Lesson Of Ramadaan
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Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,
wanna Shalom Allah,
Quran
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Oh, if um in a shape on it, Abu asmaadi o call an Abu
SallAllahu,
alaihi wasallam,
Man Samara, Mahana Imana was disavow Makala SallAllahu,
alaihi wasallam. Sallam,
respected ulama iqram,
elders and
beloved brothers in Islam.
Each and every one of us is aware
that very soon,
the guest of Allah, subhanho wa taala,
this great opportunity
of mercy and forgiveness from Allah
in the form of the blessed month of Ramadan,
will be departing us
that month,
rasulallahu, alayhi wa sallam, Anna saladi, Allahu taala, who
says
that he said that Ramadan atakumu, Ramadan, Ramadan has come to you.
Tuftala, Kofi Abu NAB wa Tubal, lufi Shapin, Liman adraka, Ramadan
falam, than you. Allahu ID alaykum, atah o Kuma,
Kala, Salama, alaihi, salam,
the month wherein he said, Allah throws open the doors of Jannat
and Allah locks up the doors of Jahannam,
and the shayateen also locked up.
And so conducive is this month towards acquiring the mercy and
forgiveness of Allah.
That despite being Rahmatullah Alameen, a mercy for humanity,
Janab rasulallah said, May that person be distanced from the Mercy
of Allah who finds the month of Ramadan and still fails to gain
the forgiveness of Allah
in these dying moments of this month,
what is essential, my respected brothers,
is that we cannot allow a sense of complacency to overtake us.
In mashallah, we exerted ourselves greatly.
Little bit more ibad Will do, and then the Hilal of Eid will be
cited, and then we can go back to the type of life that we're
leaving before.
But the real concern now should be my respected brothers
that we don't know whether Allah has accepted our Amal or not.
Ali radi, Allahu Taala used to say, kunu ni Kobol IL, Amal Ashad
the ihtimam. Minkumbal, Amal Alam tasma, abulahi taala in namahita,
Kabal allahumen al muttaqin, he
used to say,
have more ihtimam, more concern and more worry for the acceptance
of your Amal even more than the Amal itself.
Did you not hear that Allah says in his Quran, in namayata, Kabul,
allahumen al muttaqin,
that Allah will only accept from those with taqwa,
Allah will only accept from those with piety. Allah will only accept
from those who have tall look and link in connection with Allah.
Malat Obey Rahim Allah
used to say, muttaqin.
He says, if it were told to me
that just one of your Amal has been accepted,
even though it may be smaller than the grain of mustard seed, it's
just that much assurance I got. This is more of.
Lover to me than the whole world and whatever it contains,
because Allah Dalai said that the precondition and prerequisite for
the acceptance of Amal in namaya, takaabin, Allah accepts from those
with taqwa,
Salafi, salaheen, it is mentioned Kanu yada Oh. Allah has sit at the
Ashur Anya Valley. Ram Shahar, Ramadan, summa, Yadav, Allah has
sit at the Ashur Anya. Tata Bala, hum in hum,
they would make dua to Allah dala for six months of the year. Six
months before Ramadan, they would make dua to Allah dala that Allah
must keep them alive to experience the beauty of Ramadan, and then
for the next six months, they would make dua to Allah that Allah
must accept from them, the ivankat in Ramadan.
So this is not a time or a period where respected brothers, where we
can afford to become complacent.
We have to be taking stock of ourselves. Allah. Allah says, kuti
Bali, Kumu, Siyam, Kaala, lahina, Min kabli, Kum laala, kutakun,
this fasting and this month of Ramadan was given to you for what
lalakum, tat tapun, so that you develop tapwa,
so that you develop a link in a connection with Allah.
So each one of us has to be taking stock.
Ulama explained beautifully. They say Ramadan is a training for us.
They say, if you look symbolically, a person fast in
Ramadan,
and then on the day after Ramadan is the day of Eid, it's a day of
happiness, a day of rejoicing. They say this same scenario
represents the life of a moment in this world. A dunya, kuloha,
shaharu, Siya mill, muttaqin, wai du fi him yo Malita, Rabbi, him.
They say that the life of a person in this world represents the month
of Ramadan. Like in Ramadan, you stayed away from haram and you
stayed away from the disobedience of Allah. In the same way,
acquired training in Ramadan, so that your whole year, your whole
life in this world, is spent with the consciousness of Ramadan. And
when can you relax? When is your enjoyment? When is the Iftar of
your fast when is your eID? Eid is the day when you will meet Allah
Abu Asmaa. Allah was asked,
how will the meeting with Allah be for those who had pleased Allah?
He says,
the meeting with Allah for those who are pleased Allah will be like
a person who has been separated from his family for a very long
time, and after a long period of separation, the manner, the love,
the affection with which that reunion takes place, is how the
meeting with Allah will be for that person who had pleased Allah
in this world, like the poet says, For yo makal ADINA, fasum Yo makal
Adina La La Kafi had in Tahu, zubione, now Susumu
wakadu, alati Dahari Ko to Allah kuliha wakadumadha vayomzami,
he says, I fasted
my entire life. What fast I fasted away from my lazaat, from my
desires, away from the disobedience of Allah and the day
when I need my Allah,
the day when I meet my Allah, is the day when I will make it start
from my Rosa, the Rosa of abstention from the disobedience
of Allah, subhanho wa taala. He says Fast, fast for this short
day,
referring to the life of this world, because this world, when
compared to akhirat, is totally insignificant. He said, fast was a
short day.
And tomorrow, on the Day of Judgment, when others will be in
fear, when others will be swimming in their perspiration, that is the
day you will be making many that is day. That is the day of your
Istar, that is the day of your eID, the day when you will meet
Allah on one occasion, Sahaba,
halam, Batum,
Mau, walumaya, pool, Allahu. Lil mumini, wah, wah, meaning Allahu.
He said, Oh my Sahaba,
should I not tell you
what is the first thing Allah will say to the mumini on the Day of
Judgment?
What is the first thing that Allah will say to those who had pleased
him,
and what will be their response?
YALI, mumini, na Yom Ki.
Allah will adjust the
believers in the day of judgment, and Allah will say to them, did
you love to meet me? Did you aspire to come back to your law?
Were you waiting for this meeting with your Allah?
Raj Islam, said, Man Aha balaka, Allah, Asmaa, Allah, Abu Asmaa,
that person who loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him
also.
And that person who dislikes meeting Allah, Allah dislikes
meeting him also.
When will we like to meet Allah?
When will that day be a day of Eid?
When will the day be a day of star?
When the light in this world is brought on the SIFAT of Ramadan,
bishar Rahim, Allah, it was told to him in the common yet abunafi
Ramadan,
a group of people who are mentioned to him, who exert
themselves,
engage themselves in Ibadan, in the month of Ramadan, only
his response to this was based Allah hakani, Lafi Ramadan in the
way he said,
How ungrateful
and how terrible are the people?
How disgraceful are a people
who take advantage of the Mercy of Allah,
who take advantage of the clemency of Allah
by worshiping Allah only in Ramadan,
and by exerting themselves only in Ramadan,
and by putting that cover or that cloth over the shaitan box
and those instruments of Vice only in Ramadan, and by coming to the
masjid for Salah with Jamaat
and getting up in the dead of night and crying before Allah
subhanho wa Taala only in Ramadan,
and once the ilalabi decided,
then They returned back to what they were doing before
he said, how terrible such a people are.
The true one of piety is that person who will strive and exert
himself in Ibadan throughout the entire year.
For him, the day of meeting Allah subhanho wa taala, will be a day
of happiness and joy. When NaVi salaam mentioned this to Sahaba
that the one who loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him,
Sahaba said Alisa rasulallah on the
way of Allah,
everyone of us naturally dislikes death.
Everyone of us naturally is afraid of death.
So does this mean that we do not want to meet our Allah, that
we do not love to meet our Allah?
Amir 1000 said, no.
What I mean is a person who had pleased Allah in this world, when
the time comes for him to leave this world,
the Malaika of Allah will come down.
You wonder why this comes. 500 Malaika will come with bouquets of
flowers to make a step ball of this person. And then they will
start giving him Basharat and gayatris. Allah has kept this for
you, and Allah
has kept that for you. Hamidah cannot feel just say,
oh, praiseworthy enough you are in a
praiseworthy body. Come out now. Come out now, and be happy
in front of you the gardens of Jannat light. In front of you the
streams and the rivers of Jannat light. And more than this, you're
Rav Allah, who is happy with you, and he's not angry with you. He's
waiting to meet you.
When this moment, hears this glad tidings, then he will aspire to
meet Allah. The vistas says, Allah will aspire to meet him also.
On the other hand, Allah save us
that person who had displeased Allah at the time when he has to
leave this world, the Malay of Allah will come down
on one occasion, Ibrahim, Khalil, alaihi
salam,
he met Morocco moths, the angel of death.
He told him
that show me in what form you come to take the nafs to take the soul
of.
That person who had displeased Allah
malakumo told him
that O Ibrahim
alaihi salam, you will not be able to bear this.
Ibrahim alaihi salam, insisted.
So. He told him, turn around.
When he turned around.
Then he said, Now look, if I will look back for Surah to insan in
Aswad, rigilavara, Sufi sama ka Abu bahima, Antara, iminas, Suat
tak dakun Li sharimin, just adihi lahi bunaa,
if Rahi walai Salam fell down unconscious because in front of
him
was a person in completely black,
his feet on the ground, his head in the sky, the most terrible and
fearsome sight you could possibly see underneath each strand of hair
of his body. Fire was fire was burning, and smoke was being
emitted from this entire structure, or this entire being in
front of him. When I Salam recovered, he said, if Allah had
prepared no other azab for the for the disbelievers, and if Allah had
prepared no other azab for those who were disobedient to him.
Besides the sight of you coming towards them, this would have been
sufficient.
They would say to this person, cannot feel just a little Khabib,
Okuru Ji wa abshiri, the hamim you. Wagasa, wakaran in shatihi,
Aswad
o faulty ROH you in a faulty body, come out now and know that in
front of you lies the boiling water of Jahannam, lies the blood
and pus of Jahannam, and lies various other types of azab. This
person, when he hears this, will dislike meeting Allah. Allah will
dislike meeting him also. To complete the divide we were
mentioning earlier,
Allah Allah will say to the believers, did you look forward to
meeting me? They will say, Yes, oh, Allah. Then Allah, Allah will
say to them, Lima, why is it you are looking forward to meeting me?
They will say, Allah, rajona Asmaa, we hope for your
forgiveness and we hope for your mercy, Allah will say, my and my
forgiveness and My Mercy has become waji. For you,
let us live a life in this world so that our meeting with Allah can
take place in this manner where Allah is happy to meet us and we
are happy to meet Allah subhanho wa taala,
the concern my respected brothers should be whether our Ibadah and
whatever what level we have done has been accepted by Allah
subhanho wa taala. The point we want to make my respected Brothers
is, what are the signs of acceptance? How can we gage
whether our Ramadan has been accepted. Ramadan.
Manslava. Ramadan, why were you had this nap, Sahu and Nahu,
either after Ramadan, Lamya Sillah,
woman Sava. Ramadan, what were you had this NAFTA, who fasted in the
mandar Ramadan,
and he changed his life.
He turned back to Allah. He developed a loving Allah, and who
SallAllahu,
sallam, on one occasion of Islam as Sahaba.
Oh, my
Sahaba. Do you know who is one who has made over?
Unfortunately, we have
a completely misguided concept of what is Tovah. To many of us,
Allah, protect us. Tovah is some big night,
oh man of Ramadan, or some occasion when we come into the
masjid, ask Allah for forgiveness. But in the heart is the
determination that once I leave, or once the IRA decided, or once
the spirit has passed, then my life will be exactly as it was
before this type of Toba, Hassan vahim, Allah used to say that we
have to make a step far to Allah over our stepfa, we have to ask
Allah to forgive us for the manner in which we ask Him to forgive us,
our merciful Allah, our kind Allah, through open the doors of
mercy in the suburb of months, let not our analogy. Let not our
example be in the kitazana I have written
the.
That certain type of worm
I forget the name, it spends its entire life in feces and in filth.
One day, this worm, for some inexplicable reason,
ventured out of the feces and the stools,
and for the first time in his life It felt the sweetness of fresh
air.
For the first time in his life, it saw the blue yonder. For the first
time in its life, it felt the coolness of the fresh breeze.
And after we experienced this sweetness
for some inexplicable reason, because it was inherent in the
nature of this worm.
It turns around and it goes back into the feces.
Let that not be our example,
that in Ramadan we felt the sweetness of crying the dead of
night. In Ramadan we felt the sweetness of learning our gaze. We
felt the sweetness of staying away from music in Haram. We felt that
special connection in Taluka, Allah subhanho wa Taala that comes
in the obedience of Allah subhanho wa taala. And then once the IRA
decided,
then we forget all this, and we go back towards masiya, and we go
back towards the disobedience of Allah, Tala, kavradi, Allahu
taala, who said, that person who fast in Ramadan and has made his
mind up that my life is changed.
He has made his mind up. He says this person will enter Jannat
without any isaba reckoning. And that person who fast in the month
of Ramadan, why you had this NAFSA who
and he tells himself,
never mind, stay away from my bad habits. Each one of us knows what
those bad habits are. There's no reason to mention them and no need
to mention them. We know what our weaknesses are.
If we are telling ourselves in our hearts that for this month, I will
stay away from them. And one thing hilabi decided going to go back. I
am going to carry one as was before. He says, this is a sign
that Allah has not accepted your fasting of the month of Ramadan.
May Allah
protect us. Abu, Nadra, Rahim, Allah used to say, Arban,
he said four things, four opportunities. Allah gives a
believer
if he experiences them, if he is blessed by Allah. Allah with them,
and a change does not come in his life, then this is a sign. This is
a sign that Allah has not accepted it from him. The first thing he
mentioned Mansa Ramadan. Mansa Ramadan, walam, yel Praza min,
that person who fasted in the month of Ramadan and his life did
not change. Good does not increase in his life. Ramadan came and went
and didn't bring some sort of a change in his life. He said, This
is a sign that Allah has not accepted his fasting of Ramadan.
We have to make Tova. This is the month of Tovah. But Allah doesn't
just want any Tovah. Tova to the Abu Bakr Al wahis to say, and
today, Ali Kal Alvi mAh, Abu Asmaa, satil, what is Tova? Sun na
Suha, that inside your heart cries out. I broke the command of my
Allah. I displease my Allah. If my Allah is angry with me and I die
in this condition, what is going to happen to me? He says, The
earth should become straightened for you, despite its vastness, and
your heart should be full with grief, like those three Sahaba who
did not take part in kabuk, the manner when they were boycotted
for 50 days. There's no time to go into the details, what kth and
what concern passed over them? He said that should be your KPIs to
complete the divide of Abdullah bin Masood Adi Allahu, talah sama
Sabah. Do you know who is a
person? Allah is a no vest. Then Nabi Abu Asmaa said, that person,
the curse of the hadith is that he
made Tova, but his dressing didn't change his akhlaq didn't change
his character. Didn't change his company, did not change. His way
of life, did not change. Then Muhammad Sallallahu, Islam says
this person has not made Toba.
Toba is a regret over the past and Ahad and promised with Allah that
we will not return back to that.
Us to open the books of history and see the lives of those people
who truly made Sova. Time is very limited just one incident from the
time of Umar, the Allahu Talan, we will mention and on that we will
terminate at the time of Umar, the Allahu taala. And who there was,
one youngster who used to worship Allah excessively. He
was always in Ibadan, always in obedience of Allah. Because of
this, Omar developed a liking for this youngster. He was a very
handsome youngster. He would leave the masjid late at night to go
home to make kidmat of his elderly father on the way. There was one
woman, very, very beautiful. She became attracted to this
youngster, so she made her mind up. She made her mind up to entice
him towards haram. Each day, she would beautify herself, and she
would try and create all sorts of excuses to draw the attention of
this youngster. One day, it was such that he fell into her trap
and he ventured into her house. And as he ventured into our house,
the verse of the Quran came in front of him in the ladina taco is
the people of taqwa, those moments of weakness we will have the touch
of shaitan will be called us, but Allah. Allah says, What is the
sign of when the moment of weakness has occurred and you
realize, immediately you retract, immediately you change,
immediately you move away from the Quran.
And this verse of the Quran came in front of him. This young step
fell down unconscious.
This woman with her servant carried him, left him at the door
of his elderly father and
went to doctor the door and went away. The father opened the door
and saw his son lying unconscious. It took a few hours to revive that
youngster. When he woke up, his father said, what happened? So? He
said, Oh, my father, good happened to me? He said, Oh, my son, tell
me what happened. He was embarrassed. His father insisted.
The son related the incident, and then, the father asked him what
verse of the Quran calls you to retract. He said, in La Nina
shaitan is
saying this. The youngster breathed at his last and passed
away. The
coffin was prepared and the youngster was buried that night.
The next morning, the message came to Omar the Allahu Taala and who
he hastily went to the home of the youngster, and he said to the
Father, why didn't you tell me last night?
Why didn't you tell me about his Janaza also?
So the father said. Aminul mumini, it was late at night. They would
not delay in burning the deceased,
nevertheless, Oman says, take me to his grave. Omar of the Allahu
Taala goes and stands in front of the grave of this youngster. And
he addresses him, Yashar waliman, far from a farmer of the heat and
Natan. That person, that person who in the invitation of the
disobedience of Allah comes in front of him. Remembers that day
when he will have to stand in front of Allah and give account
for his life. That person who fears standing in front of Allah,
Allah will give him two jannats. He recites this verse of the Quran
from the grave. The youngster replies, omir al muminin. Allah
has given me both jannats. Allah has given me both jannats, this
month of mercy, this month of forgiveness, Allah has given us my
respected brothers, let it not be a platform for us to return back
to what we were doing before, but make this firm abud. That is the
reason my respected brothers, until our company does not change,
until those we spend our time with does not change, until our
dressing does not change, until our lives do not change, until we
don't make a conscious effort to introduce in our lives those
things which are going to be conducive towards the mercy and
the forgiveness of Allah and those Amal which are going to take us
closer to Allah Tala, then very respected brothers to have ista
Kamat is going to be very difficult. That is why, let us
try, Inshallah, to the Barkat of Ramadan to introduce the Hanka of
Kalim daily in our homes, so that everyday kala Kalam, uda sulasa
comes in our homes. Let us try to the Barkat of Ramadan to make this
firm determination, at least three days every month we will spend in
the path of Allah Tala, so that three through the three days, the
other 27 days, whatever disobedience has occurred, it can
be a means of cleansing us. Let us try to the workers of Ramadan to
make this near that we will make the work of Rasulullah, sallAllahu
some object of our lives and inshaAllah link ourselves to the
effort of the masjid by linking ourselves to the masjid and the
environment of the masjid, the beauty and ecstasy that we felt in
Ramadan inshallah will permeate throughout the rest of the year.
Allah give us SoFi go after the Alhamdulillah.