Muiz Bukhary – 5 Simple Tips to Maintain the Momentum after Ramadan

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Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh my brothers and sisters, as you watch this video, the month of Ramadan is over. And you may be wondering how to maintain the spiritual momentum that we were on during the blessed month of Ramadan. Now that it is after the month of Ramadan, you have to bear in mind that if you want to keep your good habits, you have to make sure that they remain part of your routine life and not just restricted to a particular season or a particular month. So therefore let us quickly look at five simple tips that will hopefully help us to keep the momentum going on after the month of Ramadan. Tip number one. Let's start off with working towards fasting

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outside the month of Ramadan as well. don't restrict fasting to just the month of Ramadan. And a good way to start that off would be with the six fasts of show what the month that we are.

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You see the teachings of the prophets lie Selim tell us that if one were to fast of the month of Ramadan, and then go on to follow it up with six facets of show, while it is as if he has fostered the entire year. And the understanding in this regard is that our needs are multiplied as a multiplication factor alone multiplies our deeds to panela. To get the generic. Look at the generous law. Look at the magnanimous Lord. Look at how he multiplies our deeds. They're multiplied by 10. So by fasting the month of Ramadan, it is multiplied by 10. And it is equivalent to fasting 10 months and fasting the six days of Shawwal. They again multiply by 10. And that would mean that it is

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equivalent to 60 days, two months. So 10 plus 212 months, you have fasted the entire year in terms of rewards. So let's strive to fast the six fast oshawott and along with that, let's try to observe other Suna fasts, such as on Mondays and Thursdays. Now we have the hadith of our mother eyeshadow de la Juan Jose she is reported to have said the prophets of Allah Wiley where he was alum was keen to fast on Mondays and Thursdays and this had his record in the book of Deuteronomy v Mammon si. And mm hmm Agia Rahim Allah and then you also have a yam will be, which are the days on which the moon is full, namely the 13th 14th and 15th of each and every lunar month. It was narrated that Abu

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Dhabi, your loved one who is reputed to have said the Messenger of Allah sallallahu Sallam is reputed to have said, basically, the prophet tells Abu Dhabi, the logline, if you fast any part of the month, then fast the 13th 14th and 15th edition is in the book of a mama tirmidhi and mmm si rahima Mala. Now moving on to tip number two, and this is in regards to the Koran. during Ramadan, which is the month of the Quran, we spent a lot of time with the Quran. Likewise, let's strive to maintain the momentum after the month of Ramadan to by making time for the Quran. You can do so by reading some after every prayer after fellowship after one after Muslim by listening to it as you

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work and by reading it before you go to sleep to ensure that you do not abandon the Quran entirely after the month of Ramadan. This is of utmost importance to ensure that we work towards incorporating the Quran into our daily lives. Moving on tip number three, let us work towards offering our Salah offering our prayers on time. During the month of Ramadan we would wake up the support you would offer the hedges before so her will prefer on time and the time was allotted Margaret was ingrained on our minds to the millisecond. So now that is after the month of Ramadan. Let's strive to ensure that we pray Our Salah, our five prayers on time.

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Tip number four and this is in regards to seeking knowledge and furthering our knowledge during the month of Ramadan Mashallah, we were tuning into the classes lectures we are listening to scholars speak on the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and we were enhancing our knowledge we were furthering our knowledge and along with that, we were reading books we were studying the trant translation of the Quran and perhaps the receipt of the Quran. Again, let's not make that only for the month of Ramadan, it should spill on to the other months as well. So it has ensured that we continue this journey on the pursuit of knowledge outside the month of Ramadan as

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well. Let's Let's structure this into our routine where we have this this timetable the structure where we ensure that we seek adequate knowledge it can be in the form of listening to talks, listening to lectures, watching videos of this nature, like this and then reading books, you can have podcasts. There are so many tools at your disposal in today's time and era for you to be able to seek knowledge so May Allah subhanho wa Taala open doors of beneficial knowledge

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For us, and it has ensure that we seek knowledge in Sharla. Moving on to tip number five, keep giving your charity Let's work hard towards extending the habit, the culture of charity, outside of the month of Ramadan as well. Islam teaches us that charity is not only restricted to financial assistance, basically anything that benefits the people is considered charity.

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a kind word is considered charity, knowledge in part it is considered a charity. Why even a smile is considered a form of charity as the the words and the teachings of the prophets of Allah when he when he was a kind word to someone who is perhaps depressed down in the dumps perking someone up, you know, showing them the light at the end of the tunnel and helping them see the silver lining across a dark cloud is also considered an act and a form of charity. So let us ensure that we continue that we maintain this culture of beautiful charity. The prophets that Alan Wiley were visiting was always a generous individual. During the month of Ramadan, his generosity was enhanced.

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So let's strive to emulate him were we to maintain this habit where we are constantly generous during and throughout the year, and during the month of Ramadan, that generosity becomes enhanced, like the generosity of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So I hope these tips were of benefit to help us in sha Allah maintain the momentum of the beautiful and blessed month of Ramadan. Outside of the month of Ramadan. We pray that Allah subhanho wa Taala helps us to do so helps us to strive to become better individuals. And may He bless us all to see many moments of Ramadan, the future. I mean it just like malachite