Setting Character Goals In Ramadan

What you want to inculcate into your daily life after Ramadan, as far as your goals of Ivana are concerned, your goals of worship are concerned. But I want to talk about the other side of that today, which is your character goals, your goals in regards to your luck and what that even looks like when it comes to Ramadan and setting that from now and why it requires a deep study of yourself from now so that you can prepare for where you want to get to inshallah Tada, by the end of this month, and so I want you to imagine, if there are two bars, you've got faith and you have pullup you have character, Dean and Holyoake as the prophets lie, some would put them next to each other faith

and character, what are the measures of the increase of your faith and you could indeed look towards the Quran as a means by which your faith increases and so you want to set goals for yourself as you should see, I'm fasting naturally increases you Antiqua which is as the right amount mentioned, the foundation of faith God consciousness, so your fasting increases your faith and perhaps you want to start thinking about Inshallah, to Allah, how you want to start fasting after Ramadan on certain days of the month or certain days of the week. When you think about your charity, and what charity does, it is the boron it is the proof of faith. So how much charity will I start to give now and

maybe I'll cause myself to be a little bit more inconvenient so that after Ramadan, I'm giving more charity in sha Allah to Allah so those are measures of your faith how much they could you're going to do? Every test be is so precious every Subhanallah is so precious in this month of Ramadan, so much more precious. But maybe you come out of this month and you say from now on, I'm going to say Subhan Allah Alhamdulillah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allahu Akbar. stuffin Hola. Hola. Hola. Hola, Coachella. Billa Allahumma salli wa salam ala Nabina Muhammad, these words of wicked, maybe you'll see them 100 times a day from now on, or maybe even 1000 times a day after Ramadan. So you have

these measures here? How do you start to measure the other side of that, which is your clock and how deeply intertwined are they and so some of the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam in this regard. And maybe you can pay attention to the last few words of every one of these Hadith. The first hadith is from Aisha Radi Allahu taala, where she says that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in them and acknowledge me Nina Imana, Sana whom Holika will perform Biale

she narrates that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Verily the most complete of believers in faith are those who are most complete in their character. And those who are most gentle with their families a lot is that you don't have an overbearing presence when you bring joy with your presence to your family, gentleness leniency. And so you'll notice first and foremost by the way, the narrator is our mother a shuttle the Allahu Tada Anna and the prophets lie Salem is talking about something that's consequential to his character as it relates to his family. And what a beautiful Hadith to be narrated from it shall the Allahu anha about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam who was only sent to perfect character. And so the first part of that hadith is usually quoted. And it is in multiple narrations, the best of you and character or the best of you and faith. But there is an addition. That's also authentic. A clear manifestation of that faith is the length is the presence that your family senses from you. And so the husband from the wife, the wife, from the husband, the children, from the parents, even of course, the parents, to the children in some ways, what is the presence that you bring to your family? And how does that represent your faith and your love your faith in your character? In another Hadith that's narrated from Anna

supramolecular, the Allahu Taala animal and we know who anisimov America will be Allahu Tada and who is the one who the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam took in and could have been easily exploited.

And he narrates from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Lai ista Timo Iman where I've been hotter yesterday, my collarbone, that the faith of a servant is not upright, until his heart is upright.

So it's beautiful because the prophets lie some always starts from Iman because he knows that faith is what resonates with money first, that you want to get to a place of complete faith. Start with this. And so your faith is not upright, until your heart is upright. And he said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, when is the chemo called Wu who had Tyus the team and his son who and his heart will not be upright until his tongue is upright. You can't claim to have good faith without a good heart and you can't claim to have a good heart without a good tongue. And he said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one yet

Kuru Rajan on the Janita LayoutManager, Rahu, bhava, ikaho. And a person who will not enter into paradise if their neighbor does not feel safe from their harm. Notice, by the way, subhanAllah the immediacy of this, who experiences your o'clock the most those that are in proximity of you. And so you want to measure your character, look at those who are in your immediate proximity. And if you are causing them harm, then that could harm your prospect of getting into Jannah. And if they can bear witness to your presence being one of good, then you can anticipate bid than 92 Out of the presence of the Most Merciful subhanho wa taala. So there's a connection that's constantly being

made in these Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam.

Now what does this have to do with our fasting in the month of Ramadan? Allah Subhana Allah Allah has given us this month, to really strive for excellence, to not just fulfill an obligation, but to strive for excellence to strive for another version of ourselves in regards to our faith in regards to our character, and Allah azza wa jal took out the things that we usually put in our mouths, the food and the drink, and Allah subhanaw taala removed from us intimacy, even the halal intimacy, so that we could focus entirely on him subhanho wa taala. And I want you to think about that day after Ramadan. When you eat breakfast on eat, and how weird your stomach feels. You need to feel

discomfort your body needs to feel discomfort with saying certain things after Ramadan. If you're not removing it now then lacet Allah Hajj Allah has no need of your fasting if you're not even avoiding those things with your tongue. Now, Allah saying you're avoiding food and drink is pointless. But even the day after, when you're thinking about how uncomfortable you would feel when you first eat food after having fasted for a long time, the discomfort you should feel when your tongue utters some of those things that you are more careful with when you're fasting after the day of your eat. After you go back to your habits, and connect it to the following to a Hadith of the

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the very famous Hadith of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam call it his Salatu was Salam and Yattaman Lima vain Allah He won vain originally he up mana hula Jana, he said, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, whoever can guarantee for me, what is between their lips and what is between their legs, meaning the chastity of the tongue and the chastity of the private part that they do not violate with those things. I guarantee that person Jana, I guarantee that person Jamna think about that. I guarantee you, Jana. For what? For guarding yourself, in the same two places that Allah subhanahu Atana has restricted you in Ramadan, to open your consciousness

not open your eyes, open your consciousness, to how you use those things that Allah subhanaw taala has given to you to please him rather than to displease him. And another narration kala sallallahu alayhi wa sallam or rather Ebola the Allahu Anhu says Sakina rasool Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and a Karima youth hero nasil Jana. The prophets my son was asked what causes people to enter paradise most? What do most people get to Jannah with he didn't say total we he didn't say you know any of the Ibadat that were so familiar with Cara sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Taqwa Allah was no Hello.

Being conscious of Allah, and having good character was so ill and actory Maya to the nurse and now and he was asked about the main things that cause people to enter into hellfire called sallallahu alayhi wa sallam alpha mu alpha Raj once again, that which is between the lips that which is between the legs that which is a cause for either chastity or a cause for all sorts of lewd things. How you govern those things is literally the judge between Jana and Nara paradise and hellfire according to the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And so I want to give you an assignment for this Ramadan. So how do we measure it? First and foremost, once again pay attention that the Prophet sallallahu

alayhi wa sallam mentioned that the people that will be able to judge your character best are those that are in your proximity.

And so if I want to set character goals for myself, the first thing I need to do is be humble enough to identify my character flaws. And so I have a challenge for every single person that's here. Whether you're a husband or a wife, or a son or a daughter.

I challenge you to ask those that deal with you most to give you an assignment.

What is a character flaw that they recognize within you invite it and don't say it you know after gym or ultimate like, you know the shifts that I have to do this and kind of laugh it off note say, hey, I want to know what have you noticed and maybe this year is character flaw is different from last year's because it might be that through a circumstance you developed a new character flaw, or a character flaw was amplified due to circumstance and you weren't paying attention. Every single person knows someone they can ask and say I want you to give me one. Give me one or give me three. But give me one for sure. Give me a character flaw that you've noticed in me, and that you think I

need to work on everyone. Ask your spouse, ask your parents, ask your children even give me one and then take it to the next level. Your brothers and sisters as you're setting a plan for yourself of how much Quran you want to finish of how much

prayer you want to put forth of how much charity you want to give in the emaan candidate category and the faith category. Here's how I'm going to tackle this character flaw,

especially in Ramadan and erase it from me after Ramadan. But that takes a level of humility, taqwa and hustle and hook. Those are the keys to Jannah outside of Ramadan and inside of Ramadan. It takes you being willing to humble yourself for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala and have those things shown to you so that you can work on them. And so don't just set your Quran goal don't just set your prayer goal set your character goals as well for Ramadan Dear brothers and sisters if you could make a list of three things from now, we just got started we're just in the first week three character goals from now that you want to work on what are they put them down, work towards them and make sure

inshallah Tada those flaws don't show up again after Ramadan May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to be upright in our faith upright in our character upright with our hearts upright with our tongues May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to use what he blessed us with to please Him and forgive us for the times that we use what he blessed us with to disobey Him. May Allah Subhana Allah Allah allow us to become more aware of him in this Ramadan and to become more aware of ourselves and more willing to worship him and more willing to rectify ourselves Allah him I mean a hula Cody ha That was tough Allah he will not come when he started with Steven festa Pharaoh Mahalo for Rahim.

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