How To Make This Your Best Ramadan

We begin by praising Allah subhanaw taala and bearing witness that nun has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for him. And we bear witness that Muhammad Sallallahu it was southern his his final messenger. We asked Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him, the prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside him and those that follow in his Western path until the day of judgment. And we ask Allah to make us amongst them alone. I mean, the brothers and sisters, I want you to imagine for a moment if you were sitting in a hotel in Madina Munawwara and I'm gonna reveal how Tabata the Allahu Tada Anholt was

giving the football and in the middle of the hutzpah of Satan almost all the Allahu Tada and he shouts, the only Juma Friday prayer in the middle of the football. Yeah, Surya to juggle yah Surya to juggle yah Surya to juggle, oh sorry, Sarria to the mountain, oh, Saudia to the mountain, oh Sarria to the mountain.

And then he goes back to giving his hotbar as it is, and you will be sitting there and you will be perplexed, as is natural at wondering why the interruption? What did you suddenly see that caused such a break in your hotbar and indeed, after the hotbar Satan added all the Allahu Taala and who goes to save nonmotile The low on one asks him what was that? Why did you suddenly say yes, Saudia to Jabin and he tells him that I saw I suddenly saw Saudia and the Muslims that were in Iraq, Han Allah from Madina Munawwara and I saw that there was a group of people about to attack them from behind the mountain. And I shouted yesterday, a tangible, as if to say Hurry up and take to the

mountain because there are people that are behind you that are coming to get you. And indeed Subhanallah a month later when Saudia I won't be allowed to add on who returns back to Medina, with his people. He tells our model the Allah Tada, and how about this situation in which they were stranded. And they didn't perceive an army that was behind them. And they heard the voice of America the law on when took to the mountain and then saw what was happening behind them, and were able to establish themselves until last Hunter Montana gave them victory. Now, this is a moment in Islamic history that we could elaborate on for an entire month. But I want to break from that moment and

shout lots out for the moment that we are in right now. Ramadan is around the corner we ask Allah Subhana Allah to allow us to live to see Ramadan because no day is guaranteed. And we ask Allah subhanaw taala to grant us acceptance in the month of Ramadan because acceptance should not be taken for granted. And I know that there are many people that feel the sadness, and the Wait, was what is happening with our brothers and sisters and Philistine and because May Allah Subhana Allah give them victory Allahumma Amin and it's hard to perceive the joy of Ramadan with everything that's happening in the background. But I don't want to talk about the joy and the sadness. I want to start off from

this place. First and foremost, we should show gratitude to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah for allowing us to be present in Ramadan for giving us the gift of Ramadan, because it is a gift that many people wish that they had. And it is a gift that many people will no longer have because they have passed away before this Ramadan. And so the very first thing that you meet this month with is gratitude to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah Shaka to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah saying and Hamdulillah He gave you another opportunity to live to see this blessed month to be a part of it, to make your arts where other people cannot make your art anymore, to partake in acts of worship that

others are no longer able to partake in. Well, in Chicago, Tom nosey done Nico and if you are grateful, I will increase you. And so the very first thing is Al Hamdulillah, for the blessing of Ramadan, because it is a blessing whether we feel joy or not, it is an incredible blessing that not everyone gets to have and that we should not take for granted another opportunity to please Allah subhanaw taala but then how do I connect it to the moment that I have right now and many people are saying this Ramadan doesn't feel the same.

And what I don't want to happen is that you waste your Ramadan because of your sadness. And you take it for granted and say you know this Ramadan is different, maybe the next Ramadan, things will be different and I'll feel better and I can apply myself in worship rather, everything that is happening should be a reason for you to have the best Ramadan of your life. It should actually be the reason for the Ramadan in which you are closest to Allah subhanaw taala than any Ramadan prior. Why, when you read about the secrets of fasting, and what Ramadan is meant to unveil in our hearts beyond simply

causing us to want to fast from our food and our drink beyond simply disconnecting us from our desires, it is also meant to connect us to Allah subhanaw taala and to the hereafter and to the reward of the Hereafter that he promises the righteous believer in a way that nothing else can. And for many Ramadan's prior, you spend the beginning of Ramadan, peeling the layers, deeper perception, trying to perceive Allah subhanaw taala trying to perceive the hereafter trying to perceive the reward of the Hereafter trying to perceive the pain and the suffering of your brothers and sisters. And you know what? Allah subhanaw taala gave us all a headstart.

You have a headstart. Bismillahi to Allah, you need no one to tell you about the appetite that you have for this world being out of control. When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saw is through our feet at his salon, with his lips pucker to the horn, he said, Kay for a new room, cave and room. What appetite do I have for this world after I saw that blow of death. And so if you've lost your appetite for this world, after seeing what is happening in Gaza, you've gotten a head start on Ramadan. Because Ramadan is meant to diminish your appetite for this world, not just your appetite for food and drink, you've gotten a head start in Ramadan. And if you watch those videos

that are coming out of Gaza, and you feel the pain as if someone is striking you to where you physically can't sleep. All of those are Hadith about the fever of the body. When any part of it is struck, if it physically makes you sick, if you don't enjoy your food after seeing people that are shredded, like the meat that we eat,

then you've gotten a head start on your Ramadan. There's something that Allah Subhana Allah was breaking you off from and even beyond that, if Allah subhanaw taala has pushed you to worship him at a greater level pushed you to pm, maybe you didn't use to make your app so sincerely, maybe you started to pray for them some nights and make your eye out for your brothers and sisters, Allah gave you a head start on Ramadan. And there are three things that they're really not mentioned in terms of the depth of perception that should happen in Ramadan, and they all relate to this particular moment that we are in right now. And why this Ramadan has to be different, but not in the way that

other people are talking about it being different. It has to be different in a good way.

Number one,

that you perceive Allah Subhana Allah to Allah and your personal worship of Him to the point that it is as if you can see him. It is as if you can see him and terrible Allah kaneka Tara, that you worship Allah as if you can see him. You see kuti Van Aken, will see amo come Ikuti Valentina and publikum, la isla Contacta con, fasting is prescribed on you so you can become God conscious. But eventually, that God consciousness starts to transcend all of the worldly things that are in front of you. And all of the barriers that are between you and Allah subhanaw taala, to where you are at such harmony. I'm not praying with God, in the Divine Sense, not a divine presence, but oneness in

the sense that it is as if you can see him through everything, that this entire reality around you feels like an illusion. And he is the only reality when you enter into your Salah and you enter into your acts of worship. It's the depth of your perception that you perceive Allah subhanaw taala through everything.

And the reading of the Quran, and the removal of the food and the drink. And the removal of the sins that come with that heightened elevation of consciousness are meant to bring you to that place where you perceive Allah subhanaw taala through all of the barriers of what he has created. The second thing is that as it relates to your brothers and sisters, that you perceive them.

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until you love for your brother, what you love for yourself, what does it mean you have money, he made you humbled enough, see that you love for your brother, what you love for yourself, that you see yourself in your brother, that you remove all of the barriers between you and your brother and sister to the point that you don't just see a shared humanity, but you actually see an inevitable existence. You are me. That person in has is me. That's my child. That's my mother. That's my brother. That's my sister, that is me and so Subhan Allah when it comes to transcendence with the relationship with the divine with Allah subhanaw taala that you worship Allah as if you can see him

because you can't be him. But when it comes to transcendence with your brothers and sisters, to the point that you become them

because they are living, breathing creatures who say La ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasool Allah, just like

You. And so it is to the point that my priorities dissolve into their priorities, that their existence becomes my existence, that what they are seeing becomes what I am seeing, that the pain that they are feeling becomes the pain that I have. And therefore, my output in regards to them

is like the output that I would hope in regards to me if I was in that exact same situation.

And so transcending the dunya with your perception of Allah subhanaw taala, as if you can see him transcending the dunya with your brothers and sisters, as if you are them and transcending the material worth of this world in pursuit of the greater reward of the Hereafter. And that was the realization that the Companions came to in the hunt duck when they were in that trench,

as they are facing a genocide in Medina, Allah Houma, la Asia in the ancient era, furfural Ansara will muhajir Oh Allah there is no life except for the life of the hereafter. What are they trying to do? They're trying to protect themselves in this life. But in trying to salvage what they have of this life, they actually came to the realization of what the worth of that life actually is. These young men are digging away in a ditch and everyone is on their toes about what is to come. But in that is a realization. You know what, this really isn't anything. Allahu Allah, Asa elation, Earth era, there is no life except for the life of the hereafter. There is nothing that is truly worth it,

in the sense that it would cause me to compromise what is in the Hereafter. And so I bring you back to my real Pablo, the Allahu taala. And when that moment, the scholars say of that gift, obviously chromatic earlier and the Companions used to have these things happen to them, miracles that would happen to them, not the miracles of the prophets, but miracles that would happen for them. That this is a miracle that Allah subhanaw taala opened for him in that moment and gave him a portal into something that he physically was not in proximity to.

But they also mentioned that there's a connection. This is the same man who used to fear that Allah subhanaw taala would prosecute him on the day of judgment because a donkey in Iraq would complain about the road not being straightened for it on the day of judgment about him.

And so if he carries that him if he carries that passion, that type of compassion for a donkey in Iraq and fears the reprisal fears the consequence of neglecting it, how much more do you think his heart was actually in an awkward Saudia and his companions? In those moments?

It's more than just a miracle. It's a miracle that's produced out of equality. They are me and I am them. I start to see the world through their eyes as if their world is actually my world.

And so when someone says what is Ramadan like this year,

a lot of our religion is putting ourselves in different situations than the one that is obvious to us around us.

Your brothers and sisters, this Ramadan, I have a talent for yourself and for me, I want you to wake up every single morning and Ramadan. And not just make your app for your brothers and sisters in Gaza and try to appreciate the blessings that you have. I want you to wake up every single day of Ramadan 29 or 30 days and after you praise Allah Subhana Allah to Allah Allah the piano that Martina the one who gave us life after death. I want you to say what if I just woke up in Rafa

what's on my mind right now?

What's in my heart right now? What is the person waking up in Rafah right now seeing

and how can I be there for them?

As your day goes on, what am I reading? What am I thinking about? What are my priorities? Every moment of the day and Ramadan? Don't just try to perceive Allah Subhana Allah to Allah as you should, through the worldly existence around you. Try to perceive life through the eyes of your brothers and sisters and it should not be that hard because you are seeing them constantly in their suffering.

You've probably been more exposed to their suffering now than you were ever before to anybody else.

What is it right now? In Love?

If I'm breaking my fast if I even have bread, and Rafa How am I breaking my fast? What am I doing in Gaza? With the airstrikes falling upon me? What type of devotion Am I having when I'm reading Quran because I can tell you by the way

that despite everything that is happening to them, mark my words they will be praying total we even with the airstrikes.

Mark my words they will be asking questions about how to fast even if they have nothing to break their fast with. Mark my words.

They are thinking about how to find Lena to gather, even though they don't know if they're going to live to see another night. And none of us truly know. But with death so imminent, they're still thinking about catching later to cuddle. You are going to see the images of arriba of worship coming out of Gaza. This will be a different Ramadan for them and it has to be a different Ramadan for us to

when COVID hit a few years ago, everyone talked about the COVID Ramadan, and how do you find Ramadan in your house without the community spirit? This time I'm telling you to find the Ramadan with an ummah that is so overwhelmingly overwhelmingly in pain that it is in the emergency room. How are you finding Ramadan in the ER right now as an ummah, you've got to think about it differently. And when you force yourself to worship Allah subhana wa Tada despite that pain,

knowing that your pain is not as great as their pain.

Then I want you to imagine the Hadith of the Prophet sly Simon Sahih Muslim that map to the Bnei Asad or the Allahu Taala and binaries that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said riba to fill Houska Hades rotten Illya

to worship Allah subhana wa Tada in hard times is like making Hijra to me is like migrating to me. And the scholar has mentioned so many best blessings from the first one being Lee cathro to Philip, because the good deeds are more when you worship Allah subhanaw taala through pain and if you are voluntarily enduring emotional pain and suffering because of your brothers and sisters, and you're worshipping Allah subhanaw taala with that pain and asking Allah subhanaw taala to relieve them of that pain than that is far greater than you're comfortable worship. I want you to think about the things you were asking Allah Subhana Allah for last Ramadan and what will you be asking Allah

subhanaw taala for this Ramadan if your heart and your mind are in the camps and Rafa

what are your priorities and you're doing this Ramadan and should it you're doing this provoke more tears this year than you're doing? did last year? Your brothers and sisters it's a different Ramadan for us. And it has to be a different Ramadan for us. And on an individual level. It has the potential to actually be the most spiritual Ramadan of your life.

Don't waste don't waste it away.

Take the emotions that you have this year and turn them into Ramadan that you've never had before. by imagining everyday that you are having Ramadan and Rafa. May Allah subhanaw taala alleviate the suffering of our brothers and sisters in the USA and our brothers and sisters all over the ummah. May Allah subhanaw taala allow this special month to bring special victory. May Allah subhanaw taala allow the US to fall out of the seeking forgiveness of our sins all around the world as a means of alleviating the pain from our brothers and sisters in Gaza. May Allah Subhana Allah allow our worship and our dear us to be accepted and to be a means of benefit for them. And it means a benefit

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