Sajid Ahmed Umar – Bidding Ramadaan a worthy farewell

			smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa sallahu wa salam ala carte Amanda v mm in
our Pooja Tina Muhammad Abdullah, who Allah Allah he was, he was seldom at the Sleeman kathira,
Elijah Medina My bad.
		

			All praise belongs to Allah subhanho wa Taala we praise Him we seek his assistance, and we seek His
forgiveness and we seek refuge in Allah subhanho wa Taala from the evil of our souls and the adverse
consequences of our deeds. When we serve Allah subhanho wa Taala decrease guidance upon the man can
misguide him and serve Allah subhanho wa Taala decrease misguidance upon then men can guide and
peace and salutations be upon the final messenger, Muhammad Abdullah Salalah alayhi wa sallam, I
bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship besides one Allah, and that Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam is His Messenger. My dear brothers and sisters in Islam. I greet you with the
		

			greetings of peace on a day of peace, in a month of peace, and in a week of peace salaam alaikum wa
rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh.
		

			Indeed all praises belongs to Allah subhanho wa Taala for the countless blessings that Allah has
showered Omar Abdullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with
		

			from these blessings is this month of Ramadan. a month about which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, say to Chabot Sharma that the best of all month is the month of Ramadan. And from these
blessings is this day.
		

			Juma? The day of tomorrow, about which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in a famous
narration narrated by Abu huraira Ravi Allah one and found in Sahih Muslim, a book of Hadith called
Sahih Muslim and other books of Hadith of the lumen para la he Shams Yom jamara Fie hola Adam. Was
he with Hillel Jana? Was he?
		

			Well at Abu Musa in less Yomi jamara. He says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that the best day upon
which the sun rises, is that you have Juma. On this day, Allah subhanho wa Taala created Adam and
his Salah. And on this day he entered him into gender. And on this day he removed him from Japan.
And the coming of the hour will not happen, except on Friday. On this day of Gomorrah. We have law
makers from the people of Ghana. When they come in off the hour arrives. I mean, my dear brothers
and sisters in Islam, as we witness the final moments of this blessed day, and this blessed month,
one thing that surely comes to mind, especially since we spend time counting remains to Ramadan. We
		

			had the six month countdown, and then the three month countdown, and then the one month countdown
and then we broke down that month into periods of 10. And we waited for the month, second after
second, minute after minute, day after day, week after week. And then from Yvonne dawned upon us, it
dawned upon us. And now we sit just before this guest that arrived. so amazingly, just before it is
set, this guest is set to depart. We sit and analyze our our time. During this month we analyze our
moments, because indeed we had high aspirations insha Allah with regards to this man, and we sit
back and analyze and think how did we fare? at what rate was our efficiency? Did we achieve our
		

			goals? Did we meet our targets? Will we receive another Ramadan? Indeed Allah subhanho wa Taala
knows best and it is at these moments that we must share some parting advice advice that we consider
parting given that Ramadan is about to depart. I will share these few points in a few points
starting with point number one. And point number one My dear brothers and sisters is all about
auditing and accountability. That in this month, we had some excellent days. We achieved our targets
the Quran, we wanted to recite we recite the Salah, what we wanted to revive, we revived the targets
we set for ourselves were achieved. And then we had days that didn't go so well. We didn't meet
		

			those targets. Our concentration was not where it was supposed to be.
		

			Our pondering and deliberation over our acts of worship wasn't where it was supposed to be, we might
have remembered a lot during some days with the president heart during other other days with a
moving tongue. This is a time for us to contemplate for us to audit them. And for us to put in front
of us
		

			the formulas of success that we found in this month, during the good days, we must understand what
made those days good. And during the days that were not so good, we must understand what prevented
those days from being good. Because yes, with high aspirations and our love for the month, we set
ourselves excellent goals. But I don't want this period, this closing period to become a depressing
period. Because whilst we should understand and view Ramadan, as a month of excellence, in my humble
view, we should also review and understand Ravana to be a training period towards achieving
excellence. And when we see it as a training period towards achieving excellence, and not just as a
		

			month of excellence, then we assist ourselves, especially in this period where we need to take
account of our month, because it's a training period we can understand Okay, moving forward, this is
what we need to do. Moving forward. This is how we better achieve our targets. Moving forward. This
is how we better apply ourselves. Because before I move on, in our discussions, we said that Ramadan
is that month that teaches us about ourselves. It tells us who we are, and it tells us who we are
not. This is the reality of the matter. There's no excuses. When the month starts, the doors of
Ghana, Masha tight, the doors have opened wide, and the hairpin are chained. So there's no room for
		

			a person to be a victim of sadness, to be a victim of depression, to be a victim of the ills of the
past. Why? Because there's no chance for you to fall into jahannam The doors are tightly shut. If
you are going to fall anywhere, it has to be paradise because the only gates open and not just open
but widely open is Jenna, there's every opportunity for you to become revived for you to renew your
spirits. And for you to chase and seek taqwa and seek Allah subhanho wa Taala in a way like never
before, you don't have to carry the baggage of the past, Allah has made that easy for us for the
light. So it is a month of understanding who we are and who we are not. In this month, we see our
		

			ability to stay away from that which is normally * and and with that we renew our desire and our
we understand our abilities to actually now stay away from that, which is how long this is what
Ramadan has taught us as well, because it's much harder to stay away from that which is Halloween,
because Halloween needs to genda and rewards and the happiness of Allah. Right, it's much harder to
stay away from that which has no obstacles. But that which has obstacles like harem, where you know,
you have the questions of the grave, you have your standing in front of Allah, then you have Jen,
which has been vividly described in the Quran. And the Sunnah, if I do this act, these are the
		

			obstacles in front of me is much more difficult for you to fall into her arm with the obstacles
Ramadan, you find yourself staying away from that, which is harder for you to leave, which is
harder, or at least it should be like that. And if you can, for 30 days, stay away from that, which
is halen,
		

			then indeed, you can stay for the remainder of the year from that, which is how, right so we learn a
lot about ourselves. Now, once we discussing this whole concept of learning about ourselves, a
common question that comes across is how do we bring about good habits in our lives? How do we stay
away from that which we should be staying away from? How do we read our lives of that which Allah
has told us to stay away from? And this is a good question. And I've pondered over this question.
And to simplify it. I personally think, and let me be just and say, yes, it's it's a personal
decision. But this matter has been discussed by those of development long before. I think that for
		

			good habits to come about in our lives. And for us to rid ourselves of that, which is bad three
elements have to exist. And part three has two parts to it. So we can say for number one, we need to
have knowledge. Number two, we need to have ability. And number three, we need to have desire, these
three elements have to exist before you bring anything great into your life, or read your life from
anything which is evil. You need to have knowledge of that which is good and which is bad. You need
to have ability and the skill set to bring it about in your life or rid your life of it. But number
three is desire. And this is where most of us lack this issue of desire. Do we really want to bring
		

			this in our life? Or do we really want to read our life of this? Now, I said Part Three is into two
parts
		

			and the reason why I want to break it
		

			into two parts is because desire normally shorts fall with regards to time.
		

			You know when you go to the books of management and leadership or good governance, right, and I've
been privileged enough to speak to many corporate organizations, NGOs, nonprofit organizations in
terms of structure and development and leadership and growth of, of, of team morale. One of the
things that is discussed time and time again, is the 40 day rule, the 40 day rule that for you to
implement great change in your organization, as a leader, you will have to fight opposition from
your team members from your staff for at least 40 days, it will take 40 days for the process to
synthesize it will take 40 days for the for the team to rip themselves off the baggage that has come
		

			with the change you're trying to implement. This is what they say. And once I read this in a book,
or two, or three or four, I've tried to ponder over this and say, do we have a shittier precedents
for this and going through the sooner of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, I came across the
famous hadith of Ibn Massoud
		

			in which he speaks about Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam teaching us about
		

			the formation of us in the wombs of our mothers. And he says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that Allah
gathers us in the womb of our mothers as a liquid for 40 days, and then as a hanging cloth for 40
days, and then as something that resembles a chewed piece of flesh for 40 days. So what's
highlighted in this hateth is 40 4040. And this seems to be an incubation period, that establishment
takes place as a clot when you exist as it or as it for 14 days. And then the establishment takes
place as a chewed piece of flesh or before that a hanging a hanging clot, when you remain like that
for 40 days and so on and so forth.
		

			Right, this is influencing obviously, but this Ramadan,
		

			as we always do in Ramadan, revise, especially the idea of fasting, right, something dawned upon me
and that was inserted to Bukhara in the eye after fasting when a loss of Hannah who is a young
America that Allah commands us to fast for the purpose of seeking taco, not telling us that taqwa is
the net result of fasting now, because if that was the case with all the people of taco, right, and
if you heard my speech before my van, it was titled fasting is easy. Taco is difficult compared to
devices, it's online, right? But Allah tells us to seek to coin Ramadan, to seek it. After this
command, Allah says, am I to do that? It's a fixed number of days. This is what Allah says, at the
		

			end of the art of fasting. Allah subhanho wa Taala. Allah says, when he took me to Allah visits this
concept of the fixed number of days again, that you must complete the day, you must complete the
period, the 29 days or the 30 days and Subhanallah I thought about this and said, You know what, I
need to revise the study. Yes, while certain matters may have wisdom in terms of the 40 day rule, we
understand from this area, in terms of you bringing halaal and that which is beloved to Allah in
your life. And you ridding yourself of that which Allah dislikes 29 or 30 days is enough. 29 or 30
days is enough, because Allah could have told us too fast for 40 days, Allah could have told us too
		

			fast for two months, but Allah cited Ramadan to be the period of one month so that you may attain
taqwa, which means a person who applies themselves properly in the month of Ramadan for 29 or 30
days, this is enough to put yourself on a podium and gain for yourself the necessary momentum to
seek Allah subhanho wa Taala in obedience for the rest of the year. And Allah subhanho wa Taala
Allah knows best. So time is important. And this we should take into consideration when we try to
develop desire, then my dear brothers and sisters, you must understand that by default before that's
allowed to do have becomes part and parcel of your life. Before you can become automatic. If I can
		

			say in memorizing the Quran and reviving it and revising it, before you can become normal and
natural in terms of removing haram for you, from your lives, you will have to pursue that which you
want to change for at least 29 or 30 days. Yes, the first week is going to be hard, don't give up.
That's normal. This is what we learn. The second week is going to be hard. Don't give up. That's
normal. The third week is going to be hard. Don't give up. That's normal. And the fourth week is
going to be hard or maybe easier. Don't give up. That's normal. This is the message each and every
one of us mistake from Ramadan. As I said, it's a training period to achieve excellence. Don't be
		

			bottled in that I didn't apply myself as I should have. There were many ills. rather take from the
strengths and use what you have gathered in terms of the strengths to pursue a muscle painter who
attended during the course of the year. With this perspective, the perspective that change requires
time and a lot is all white
		

			He put us in the system for 29 or 30 days. My dear brothers and sisters,
		

			the last parting advice is is the farm. And it's the karma refers to this process and concept of
remaining steadfast. And this is what a believer is all about. A believer is not one who worships
Allah in Ramadan, on a particular night or in a particular week or on a particular day, or during a
particular set of days. A believer is one who worships Allah, throughout the awake waking day and
throughout the sleeping night, until your pain reaches them that your pain is the certainty and that
certainty is the death of bacteria to kalliopi. This is what Allah commands is messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam to worship Allah until death arrives. This is the way of a belief. And when we
		

			understand this relevance comes to karma and being steadfast. My dear brothers and sisters, you and
I are motivated by reward. This is a universal law of Allah subhanho wa Taala. He created us and he
knows us better than we know ourselves. And that is why in the Quran time and time again, and in the
sooner time and time again Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and Allah subhanho wa Taala
mentions Azure, Azure, Azure, the reward of which will be the reward for the one who do who does
this will be this, Allah mentions it as reward mentions it as reward, even though the act is not
worth it. And the reward is far greater than the act actually done because we are weakened allies
		

			perfect. Right? And allies kutiman amazing and generous in is rewarding. Allah refers to it as a
reward. Because this motivates us. And before we close, we must understand the rewards of karma to
motivate us to worship Allah, as we did in Ramadan throughout the course of the year. With regards
to this department, my dear brothers and sisters, Allah says in his book in a levena, Pandora buena
ma from Mr. Farmer for the whole finale, he
		

			was heavily jannetty Holly Dena, he had just a and b McCann we imagine. Allah says, indeed those who
say Our Lord is Allah, and then they become upright by looking after the dues and staying away from
the don'ts throughout the course of the year for them laughing at him. There's nothing for them to
fear in terms of where they're going, whatever. And they shouldn't be afraid in terms of the deeds
that they used to do. Why? Because they end the agenda. And in terms of their deeds, Allah has
accepted it. Allah says Allah ecos hearable Jana, these are the people of Paradise, Holly Dena see
her. In it, they will reside forever. Why just a reward for who because of what Allah just a and b
		

			mecanoo yamalube reward because of that which they used to do. That's the reward. They used to fight
a bond and fight their desires and be patient seeking Allah subhanho wa Taala. Be patient seeking
Allah, so that they remain worshippers of Allah throughout the course of the year. This is the
reward for that which they used to do. We are motivated by reward by Allah ask you what greater
reward Can you have than gender in another ayah is rather that we love to hear, we love to recite,
we love for the man to recite, Allah says in Malawi, Nepal or a boon Allah. Indeed for those who say
Our Lord is Allah who Mr. Farmer, and then they become a bride that is generally human Malaika at
		

			the time of death, during the most scariest moment in their life, when they are transitioning to the
Hereafter, when they start seeing matches of the unseen you know, we know how it is when we get our
results in the dunya. Your levels, your a levels, very nerve racking, your future depends on it.
Right now your results are coming forward to you, when the Angel of Death is sliding your soul from
your body, the soul starts to see things that it couldn't see when it was housed by the body because
the body blocks the potential of the soul. It keeps it specific to the physical, which is the realm
of this world. And now it's entering entering a metaphysical state. At this scary moment. Allah
		

			rewards the people of this department how with angels that descend from heaven,
		

			angels that descend from heaven. Imagine the relief on the dying person when he sees angels from
Ghana. And then Allah commands these angels to tell this dying person, I let the half Don't worry
where you're going.
		

			And don't worry about your exam sheet. It's all good. You've passed imagine you about to get your
result you nervous, there's people in front of you and someone walks out of the office and says
Mashallah, brother. Don't worry, okay. You okay? I've seen your slip. It's all good. What happens?
you achieve a sense of elation and come at this scary moment. These angels come with these glad
tidings. Don't worry. Don't be afraid. You are okay. Your results depend in order to build Jenna and
we give you black titans of Jenna, which Jenna somebody might say Did I get a plus to get a star
		

			They gotta be how well did I pass up hero Bill jannetty let you continue to I do glad tidings of a
paradise, the paradise that was promised to the people of Israel karma. You got the most deserving
results La ilaha illa Allah. Now what happens when we go on a journey by ourselves? We normally
nervous, it's scary. You get butterflies in your stomach, right? You're always more comfortable
traveling in a group. Right now you are traveling to the hereafter. It's nerve racking. The angels
give us some more prizes. National Olia affiliated dunia We are your friends. We are your helpers
and friends while she lived in the Tonia Warfield era, and we are traveling with you today. We are
		

			your companions. We were together here and we'll be together the universe Hello.
		

			I mean, who wouldn't want to die after this? Who's gonna ask Allah to send them back to the dunya
after you receive these gifts from Allah, right? And then these angels say, Well, I can see her
majesty and forsaken. And in this Jenna, you don't have to ask in this dunya used to ask for things
you never used to get it in this genda You don't have to ask all you have to do is desire and Allah
will give you when a comfy hammer down. And when you can no longer desire, then don't worry, just
ask and allow will give you again.
		

			The gifts and rewards for the people of st karma. And you know what's best to my dear brothers and
sisters. Alice is New Zealand Minerva, for him, you know unusual in the Arabic language refers to
the welcoming the welcoming when a guest visits us, we don't take them straight and put them on the
dinner table. They come from a journey. You give them some tea, some dates, some coffee, depending
on your culture, right you welcome them, you allow them to freshen up, the main meal is still to
come. Allah says noozle This is a welcoming all these gifts for the people of is the karma is
nothing but a welcoming the main meal is yet to come.
		

			Now in case you thinking we have to end that you know what? I can die this death. This death is
probably for the MBR the Hema salatu salam, this death is for somebody else. I'm much older. I've
seen so much in case you thinking like this, then my dear brothers and sisters understand that this
death described is a death that you and I can die because Allah didn't say Mazel mean Allah. Allah
didn't say noozle minara. Allah didn't say noozle
		

			Minister Mia, Aileen albizia. Allah didn't say this is a welcoming from your Lord. He This is a
welcoming from Allah. This is a welcoming from the old seeing the old hearing. Allah said this is a
welcoming from the most forgiving the most mess.
		

			If you ponder over this, Allah is telling us that these people who died this death, they were people
like yourself and myself. But there were people that never lost hope in the mercy of Allah. They
sought Allah subhanho wa Taala with the waking of every day and the sleeping of every night and when
they slipped, they turned back to Allah and sincerely asked for forgiveness and asked Allah for
assistance and they woke up the next day and they pursued seeking Allah subhanho wa Taala This is
the message My dear brothers and sisters, I love you all for the sake of Allah. May Allah accept our
month, bless our month except our deeds. Bless our mama Bless you all invest these words. I mean,
		

			Yoruba and Amina sallallahu wasallam Americana Vina Mohammed Rhonda