Ramadan 2024 Reminders #24

My brothers and sisters,

we have the

Hadith. Hadith is the saying of,

He said that Rasoolullah

used to,

retreat

to the Masjid in the last 10 nights

of Ramadan, and this is.

Ithaka

is one of the greatest

sunnah of Rasool

nahi He would do this

invariably.

He always did that in the last year

of his life.

He actually spent the last 20 days,

not only 10 days, last 20 days in

the Masjid.

But to make

at the cap in the last 10 days

is

the established sunnah of Rasool, and it is

something that I

strongly recommend that we all take the time

or to do it.

Plan it in advance so that you have

the time, free time, take leave or whatever

you need to

take. The biggest benefit of ithikaab the purpose

of ithikaab is to seclude yourself in the

masjid

for the pleasure of Allah to connect with

Allah to cut yourself off from everything

in your worldly life and connect with Allah

alone.

The time of etakaar should be spent exclusively

in worship, nothing else.

No chit chatting, no joking, no no

hanging out with friends, none of that. Just

the law of the Quran,

zikr,

and nawafil, and when you get tired, go

to sleep. Right?

Eat less, sleep less,

and spend your time only in these things,

only in the Ibadat of Allah.

Nothing else.

This is very, very important. Sometimes we,

go into the masjid for the for at

the cap, alhamdulillah, our

intention is good, but we go and we

spoil the at the cap

because we end up with just playing around

and, you know, hanging out with friends

and talking about all kinds of worldly things.

This

destroys the equality of the ihtikaf. So please

don't do that. Make sure the ihtikaf is

for the sake

of getting close to Allah

only and

only. Nothing other than that.

Lots of ibadah,

lots of dua, tahajjud,

irateul Quran, zikr,

lots and lots

and then reflection, introspection

on our own lives.

guidance to him.

guidance to him.