Suhaib Webb – Preparing For Ramadan
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One of the great qualities of the prophet,
peace be upon him, is to be generous
to guests. In fact, he said, who believes
in Allah in the last day must be
generous to their guests. And this was also
the way of the Sahaba. Listen to such
a beautiful story that when Abu Ayub Al
Ansari visited Abdul ibn Abbas, They were older.
And Abdul ibn Abbas was so generous to
him that Abu Ayyub was moved in. He
said, why are you being so generous to
me? And he said, you welcome the messenger
of Allah to Medina, so I'm reciprocating your
generosity to your guests.
Why do I say that? Because the month
of Ramadan is coming, and when any guest
comes to us, we prepare our homes, we
prepare nice dishes, we wear nice clothes. How
are we preparing? Don't wait for the month
of Ramadan to start. Prepare now. What can
we do? Number 1 is to repent.
Walk into Ramadan with a clean slate. Number
2, to leave leave the evil that we're
we're doing now as a habit. So leave
it now. And sometimes people they make this
mistake, oh, I'll wait till the month of
Ramadan comes to stop my evil. Why would
we wait to take anything out of our
lives that's distancing us from the nearness to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
And the third is to seek the forgiveness
of others and to forgive others. So these
are three 3 things we can do to
welcome this blessed guest, Barakalaufikou.