Ramadan 2024 #13 Three Cycles of Forgiveness in Ramadan

Ramadan throws at us 3 unique, specific opportunities

for forgiveness that are part and parcel of

Ramadan.

We really really need to, you know,

grab from the outstretched hands

of Ramadan because Ramadan gives the giving of

a person that doesn't fear poverty.

Poverty. How are you my brothers and sisters?

I pray you're all well and your Ramadan

is going well.

And I welcome you all to our series

for this Ramadan 14:45.

We are a bit delayed as I did

announce on our channels. It's due to my

travel and I'm in a different

part of the world where

the

day is the night where I came from

and the night is the day where I

came from and also

I've been consumed by a very very

busy schedule. And I didn't want to do

these sessions just on the fly. I really

wanted to

give you all what you deserve because I

thoroughly enjoy

my sittings with you all.

So we will be playing catch up as

I announce, so please bear with us. But

to help facilitate that, I know we all

have busy schedules,

we will be

sharing shorter reminders

and remember, 'Bildhilla'

on the 21st night, 'Bildhilla'

we will resume

the summary of the ajzah because I will

be back, bidhilla,

from my travel

on that date Insha'Allah.

For this episode, I want to share with

you this unique value proposition of Ramadan in

that it brings to us 3 rounds of

forgiveness.

Three rounds of forgiveness. So somebody might say,

hold on,

but if I'm forgiven

via 1 round, then why do I need

a second or a third round? And I'll

get to that. I'll get to that Insha'Allah.

For now let's just focus on the proposition

because this is unique to Ramadan. No doubt

the mercy of the Sharia gives us many

opportunities for forgiveness but Ramadan throws at us

3 unique specific opportunities for forgiveness that are

part and parcel of Ramadan alone. So bear

with me here. Number 1, the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wasallam said,

That's number 1. He said,

That's number 2. And he said,

that's number 3.

So he said whoever stands the nights of

Ramadan

in prayer

with iman and belief in Allah

and having good thoughts about Allah and trust

that Allah will reward him or her for

their standing,

their previous sins will be forgiven. Allahu Akbar.

Wow.

That's one round. Then he said whoever does

the same, whoever

fasts the month of Ramadan

in the same way with Iman and having

good hope in that Allah

will accept from them their fast and reward

them for their fast and seeking

those rewards.

Allah

will forgive their previous sins. That's number 2.

Number 3, whoever stands the night of power

so you search for Laylatul Qadr. So the

last 10 nights you're standing which you're already

gonna be doing because you're standing the nights

of Ramadan. Right?

And now you your standing coincides with the

last 10 of Ramadan.

The last 10 is even more special. So

it brings the 2nd round of forgiveness

in terms of just the standing of the

night.

SubhanAllah.

So 3 rounds

and in the last 10, we have 2

rounds because one round is connected to the

whole month and one round is connected to

the last ten. Whoever stands the night of

power with a man extending trust to Allah

that I will be rewarded, He will reward

me for it. There are these amazing rewards.

Allah will forgive your previous sins. SubhanAllah.

Okay. So this is from

Allah this is from the mercy of the

month of Ramadan

a God sent month with gifts from God

Almighty from Allah

and naturally

and with love we call Ramadan Kareem the

generous month.

Now understand what's really being said here because

yes, you're being forgiven a whole round and

that's amazing. That's amazing. Right?

But now also if you are forgiven and

Allah is going to give you the rewards

of forgiveness again, He's going to forgive you

over and there's nothing to be forgiven,

then there are other principles in the Sharia

that teach us that the narration about forgiveness

if it applies to a person that doesn't

have any sense to be forgiven, instead of

forgiveness Allah showers

his slave with rewards.

So if you forgive him via the first

round and Insha'Allah that's the case,

then the 2nd round really is just a

round of rewards and the third one is

a round of rewards which means your scale

of bad deeds has really become

lighter.

Right? Nil. And your scale of good deeds

obviously is gonna it's it's gonna pick up

because of this. It's gonna get heavier. Right?

It's gonna pick up in weight and become

heavier because your your scale of life of

bad deeds went to nil.

But then this is not enough. Allah's mercy

is so vast that He's gonna make it

heavier with round 2 and heavier with round

3, subhanAllah.

SubhanAllah that even now after Ramadan when you

start slipping here or there because that's the

nature of the other months, the shayateen are

not tied up and life is a bit

more tougher, Our spiritual journey becomes a bit

more tougher. You know, even those slips, they're

not really going to impact because,

I mean our scales of good deeds or

our work, in Rabavan because of the 2

extra bonus rounds that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

gave us. And that is why we really

really need to, you know,

grab from the outstretched hands of Ramadan because

Ramadan gives the giving of a person

that doesn't fear poverty.

It's up to us really how much we

wanna take from the month.

Is, you know, sleep gonna be our mandate,

which we can do throughout the year, or

are we gonna make that effort and wake

up for the sake of Allah and seek

these rewards?

I leave you with these words to ponder.

Alhamdulillah, we still have time left in our

month, and our actions are judged by our

end. Exce another mercy from the mercy of

Allah. So Allah will judge our month based

on the weakness of our beginnings, but the

strength of our ending. So do utilize

these three

opportunities

for forgiveness and rewards

before our month comes to end. And I

and until next time, Assalamu Alaikum

and until next time, Assalamu Alaikum