You Can Be From This Group of Special People – Who Are They

My brothers and sisters,

doing a good deed in the month of

Ramadan in the condition of fasting is definitely

rewarded differently by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

as compared to the same deed done outside

the month of Ramadan,

not in the condition of fasting.

Similarly, when it comes to the supplications

in the evenings in the month of Ramadan,

the nights being the most powerful nights of

the entire year

as per our belief as Muslims,

we need to realize Allah chooses

us for Ibadah and acts of worship

during those nights. May Allah Almighty bless us.

We know and I'm sure we would know

that Laylatul Qadr is not necessarily

one of the odd nights, but more likely

to be one of the odd nights according

to narrations,

but not necessarily.

So we need to work hard all of

those nights. I want to address you as

mostly as volunteers who will be volunteering

or who are volunteering for the event that

is happening today.

My beloved brothers and sisters, the first thing

you need is purification of intention.

There is no doubt. We are doing this

for the sake of Allah.

Just this morning, someone asked me a question

about myself

that why do you do this and why

not. I said, why do you think I

do it? Why do you think we do

it? Do you really think that we are

serving any other cause

besides that of Allah?

If we

are and the intention is contaminated,

this is the moment to rectify it and

purify it. May Allah Almighty

never make us

just want to do things for people or

for show. Nowadays with social media, it becomes

very tricky

with a person's intention because people love to

show.

Remember, if you are going to show something,

do it in order to encourage others not

to show off. There's a difference. And fine

tune between the 2 in order not to

lose the reward of such a great act

of worship.

What is the act of worship?

Well, this act of worship is encouraging people

to become better Muslims, to repent to Allah,

to turn to Allah, to take

the relationship with Allah more seriously, and we

want to facilitate and help people coming in

and going out. We want to help them

be seated, we want to help them

open their fast, we want to help them

when it comes to the prayer that is

going to happen and Insha'Allah they leave from

here

empowered

and we were a tooth in the cog

that

was part of the entire machine. Had it

been missing, perhaps the machine

would have

been affected.

If anyone of us does not do our

job correctly,

definitely the machine will be affected because one

tooth missing in a cog, you know what's

going to happen. May Allah help us to

do the work correctly and properly for His

sake. Amen.

I want to mention that if Allah has

guided a single person through you

or if you were part of the entire

mechanism through which one person was guided, you

get a reward better than Humrin Naaam which

means the red camel.

The at the time, the most

expensive,

the most valuable of the conveyance

and the mode of transport. Today, it's probably

in its millions. May Allah Almighty

grant us a reward bigger than that. Amin.

Allah's used you to guide one person. Somewhere

in the equation, you were there, the beauty

of Islam, you get a full reward. Not

just a reward

which is a a portion of it. You

are a 20% shareholder, 2%. No. 100%

we all get. May Allah use us and

continue to use us.

Similarly,

when you are

helping someone in Ramadan, it will be different

from helping someone outside of Ramadan. Indeed,

Aren't you fasting? Aren't you in the month

of Ramadan in the last 10? Are you

not at a time where you could've been

anywhere else but here you are, Allah brought

you here. And like I said, we purify

intentions.

And at the same time if you are

used in the month of Ramadan,

you will be rewarded 10 times, 70 times,

700 times and beyond 700

as per

the discretion of your maker

based on your intention and the situation and

condition you are in. So it's amazing.

Greet people with respect. As you know, they

will be coming in. People from different backgrounds.

People who perhaps you don't even know the

issues they are going through. Offer them a

smile, offer them a good greeting. Some might

have just gone through difficulty.

They might be difficult in the sense that

they are stubborn on something. No problem. You

continue to keep your cool and continue to

offer them the respect right up to the

end come what may. And Allah will bless

you. Allah will bless you, your future, your

spouse,

your children, your families, and Allah will grant

you goodness in your entire system by his

will.

This is the father of Allah. Bear in

mind that in this particular night,

there is a great possibility it would be

Laylatul Qadr. So as you are working,

constantly ask Allah, Allahumma innaqahafuwun

tuhibbullafuwafafuwani.

Afuwani.

Oh Allah forgive me. As you're working,

and as you're working make your du'a. Whatever

other supplication you want, there is a greater

likelihood. Whatever you want, Allah will open your

doors. Repeat the du'a. Allah loves repetition. Man

does not like repeating. When you repeat the

same thing to a person more than a

few times, he will get agitated with Allah.

It's the opposite. He gets happier when you

repeat things.

So this is a very, very blessed occasion.

Many of you might be returning in 2

days time to assist again.

Congratulations. It's Allah.

And remember when everyone is done and they're

about to leave,

volunteers

leave right at the end usually. That's the

reason why they have such a great reward.

The most difficult

part of everything

is when everyone leaves, you gotta pack up.

That's more difficult than laying things out because

when you're laying things out, you're still energetic

and excited.

And once the excitement and everything has come

to an end, then you know

it's not so easy. May Allah Almighty bless

us. I want to remind you, manqama Ramadana

imananwahtisabanwufi

ralahu matakaddamaminthambe.

The hadith says,

whoever stands in the month of Ramadan in

prayer in the evenings,

and another narration speaks about the fasting in

the month of Ramadan.

Whoever fasts with conviction, hoping for a reward

from Allah, Allah

literally

wipes out all the previous sins. But there

is another narration, exactly the same reward

for having stood only Laylatul Qadr,

manqama Laylatul Qadr,

iman and wahti saban Whoever stands in worship

on Laylatul Qadr, the night of decree with

iman, conviction, faith, yaqeen, hoping for a reward,

expecting goodness from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

All their previous sins will be wiped out.

SubhanAllah.

What I want to say

on a night like this,

understand its value and greatness. The first thing,

we don't sin.

We don't sin. Even if we have not

engaged in many acts of worship, sin is

heading in the right direction in the wrong

direction. Reverse.

And if you want to head in the

right direction, you start off at a certain

point. If you haven't done anything, at least

you did not go in reverse.

And then inshallah, you take it in your

stride. Do as much as you can. A

little bit of Quran and so on as

you have a few moments and even later.

May Allah make it easy.

Then I want to speak about one last

thing. My brothers, my sisters,

this is an opportunity to change our lives.

I know from amongst you, just like I

said, there are so many people who are

going to come this evening, each one has

a different issue and different circumstances

perhaps

that you may never know, so go easy

on them. Just like I said that about

those who are going to come from amongst

us, everyone has the same. The same in

the sense that we have issues

and our own unique

circumstances.

I ask Allah to make it easy for

every one of you. Whatever it is that

is bothering you, the difficulties you are going

through, the hardship, whatever it may be, may

Allah make it easy for you. And may

Allah bless you

abundantly.

Remember,

this is the time we want to get

closer to Allah. May Allah make us closer

to him. May Allah help us change our

lives. Certain things we need to get done,

certain habits we need to quit, certain things

we need to adopt. This is the moment

and this is the time. We don't wait

for another time because that other time may

grant us all goodness.

grant us all goodness.