Boost – You’re Not A Shaytaan, Are You

In Ramadan,

tempers flare. As much as people say that

Shaipan is tied, and yes it is correct

to a degree that the big Shayateen

or the chief Shayateen

are actually tied. But the little ones are

roaming around. Remember one thing, tempers flare in

Ramadan.

You need to control

your anger

because

the reward of your fast will be nullified

or minimized.

And you might even be sinful, actually,

when you do not control your temper to

the degree that you begin to abuse others.

You oppress them. You say wrong things. And

it causes a problem that will flow beyond

the month of Ramadan.

Ramadan is a month of solving matters,

finding solutions, bringing hearts together, bringing people together.

But

unfortunately,

many people

are creating problems in the month of Ramadan,

or

become

prey to those who create problems without realizing

that, you know what? Here is the hadith

of the prophet

He says that if someone were to abuse

you or to say something

bad to you, you reply to them by

saying, I am fasting. That's the hadith. The

prophet instructs

us to say, I am fasting.

Why should you say I am fasting? Because

I'm not supposed to be getting angry.

I'm supposed to be a person who's conscious

of Allah.

This is my moment to develop taqwa and

consciousness of Allah. I want to come out

of every day of Ramadan

closer to Allah than I was the previous

day. And I want to exit the entire

month a changed person.

One of the things you and I suffer

is

the tempers. Either our own or others or

a bit of both. So what we need

to realize is if you're not going to

work on your temper, nothing's going to happen.

It's going to get worse as time passes.

You become

less and less tolerant of others

Or

you become a person who

really doesn't even think before he or she

speaks. Is that what you want?

In fact, Allah does not want that. Allah

knows you're a human being, but he wants

you to work hard on your character, your

conduct, your temper, and everything else. So this

is the month of Ramadan. Tempers flare in

the month of Ramadan. I've witnessed it, and

I'm sure

nearly every one of us has witnessed it.

Whether it's this Ramadan,

previous Ramadans,

or whenever it might have been.

But you find Muslims,

good people sometimes, decent people who pray 5

times a day, people who fast the whole

month, but they do not control their temper.

They do not control themselves. They become so

angry at little things.

Calm down.

Every time you have

squeezed yourself, every time you have actually extinguished

that temper, you get such a great reward.

Allah says, walqawhimeenal

ghayva wal aafina anin nas Allahu yuhibbulmasineen

Allah loves those who do good. And who

are they? The ones who will earn paradise,

are the ones who control their temper.

And the meaning they've extinguished their temper,

and the ones who forgive others.

Now, that topic of forgiveness is a topic

of it on its own. However,

what we need to know is, don't

hold petty things in your heart and mind.

It will make you ill. It will cause

problems for you in your mind and your

body and your relationships.

Little things, let them go.

Major things, look into them and try and

see how best you can navigate through them.

Solve the problem perhaps, and Allah will grant

you goodness in this world and the next.

May Allah bless us all and help us

to control our anger and temper. And remember,

when we say the shayateen are tied in

Ramadan,

we're only talking of

the chiefs of the shayateen. The little ones

are all roaming around and still causing disaster.

On top of that, sometimes we as human

beings

become little shayateens ourselves. That's why the Quran

speaks about, In

Surat An Nas, and Allah refers to the

shayateen of jinnkind, the shayateen of mankind. In

fact, in another place in the Quran, Allah

Almighty actually says shayateen and inswal jinn.

That there are 2 types of shayateen here.

That from humankind and that from jinnkind. May

Allah protect us such that we are never

considered shayateen.

And at the same time,

Rahmatullahi Barakat.

Rahmatullahi Barakat.