Omar Suleiman – #Shaban- A Month of Preparation for #Ramadan

			You know, if you think of Shaaban like
		

			practice and Ramadan like the game, alright, if
		

			you don't show up to practice, eventually that
		

			lack of practice is going to show up
		

			in the game as well.
		

			The lack of coordination, something is going to
		

			go wrong.
		

			The talent will give out.
		

			The equivalent of the talent might be your
		

			natural spirituality.
		

			Maybe you're a person who immediately gets into
		

			the zone in Ramadan, you read Quran right
		

			away, you get into the salah, you immediately
		

			embrace tarawih.
		

			But eventually the faultiness of you not having
		

			used the month of practice will show up,
		

			a lack of coordination at the bare minimum.
		

			So there is getting early and there is
		

			being present.
		

			Now I wanted to give this a tazkiyah
		

			checklist, if you will.
		

			What does ihsan look like, what does excellence
		

			look like when it comes to showing up
		

			at the right time, at the right place?
		

			There are four things.
		

			Number one, it's doing while others are not
		

			doing.
		

			Doing while others are not doing.
		

			Number two, it's doing what isn't expected of
		

			you in your circumstances.
		

			Number three, it's doing more of what everybody
		

			else is doing.
		

			Number four, it's doing quicker and with more
		

			enthusiasm what everybody else is doing.