Shadee Elmasry – 1 Ramadan It’s All About Motivation!

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