Shadee Elmasry – 1 Ramadan It’s All About Motivation!
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Bismillah R Rahman and Rahim Salam aleikum, everyone. In this
keynote, we're going to look at Ramadan prep. And we'll cover
pretty much all the bases that you really need to cover. Not
everything will be in the text, but I'm going to say certain
things as well. So that you'll really 95% of what you need. Will
insha Allah be covered. So let's get going. The first thing that we
want to talk about Ramadan, we're not just mechanically like moving
here, like just doing practices, we have, you know, motivation. And
motivation is the most important thing of Ramadan does not
transform a person unless that person wants to be transformed, is
willing to be transformed, right? So that's what I say, I'm about
well transform you unless you are already in the mindset of
transformation. You get in the mindset of transformation by
focusing on not just what to do, but what motivates you. What is
moving you in life and that's where there's, you know, the
difference between people want.
One person is striving in the deen and doing very well in the deen.
Other people are just sort of just lazy. Why is that? Because they
have no motive and they don't view Allah to Allah relative to their
motives that Allah Tada says, love me for the good things that I
bestowed upon you. So what is he done? He's tied our perception of
him with our motivations in life. It's not just afterlife, it's life
and afterlife. And I never separate between goals of life
versus goals of afterlife because if you go to Allah, for your goals
of this life, you will end up transforming, and you will get
your goals of this life and you will be transformed into somebody
who will get something spiritual as well. Allah will not leave you
to just you know, you came to him with defects we all come to him
with defects, but we want something if we come to Him, He
will transform us and we will get what we were motivated for. Now
what is the motivation? Allah says in the Quran they call upon their
Lord out of fear and desire. That's what it is. All right, our
motivations are fear for our own well being desire for something
that makes us happy. I mean, what else do people desire other than
to feel good and be happy? And of course there is in Hadith, the
prophesy centum said, eventually a person loves Allah Tada, you see,
you focus on the giver, more than the gifts but sometimes out of a
motivation. You need to stoke your motivation a little bit by
thinking about the gifts.
But no normal human being goes to Allah for a gift receives it,
and then doesn't change regarding the giver, you start to love the
giver, more than ever before. And that's why when we look at
motivation, we're really looking into ourselves, what is it that we
fear or desire? And by constantly bringing that up, you know, it's
okay, it's Unbeliev are the two words that you know, the thought
is to bring up the image of this thing and to Emeril is to
contemplate it? How great is it how much I want it how my life is
going to transform. But then the next step is, well, who has it?
Allah has? It's an Allah's hands confer Cool. All right, so now
I've moved now how do I interact with Allah interact with Allah by
fulfilling the acts of worship that he wants us to fulfill by
asking him what Ramadan is the feast of All this because there
are 60 times throughout this month where dua is guaranteed
the 30 times of the soul given assuming they're 30 days of the
month, it could be 39 or 29, sorry, 30 or 29.
That every soul and right before every fast, our dua is accepted.
So if we want that then we need to do the nights worship well and we
need to fast well, so that the the two doors will be answered