Tahir Anwar – Ramadan Reflection Salman Al Farsi RAs Hadith on Excellence of Ramadan

We continue

our journey through the month of Ramadan. We

pray to Allah

to continue to bless us.

While there's other things I want to share,

since we are still at the beginning of

Ramadan, there's this very lengthy hadith narrated by

Salman al Farsi radiAllahu an from the prophet

Sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And I want to share

some portions of that. It's a very lengthy

Hadith. While some have mentioned that it is

a week or daith

Hadith, in reality, we are reminded that in

terms of merits,

fada'il, it is okay to accept,

the week a Hadith as well.

There's Salman al Farasih radiAllahu anhu says that

when it was the final night of Sharban,

the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam gave a sermon

and in the sermon he said, and then

he continues,

and I'm gonna share about 3 to 4

things from that sermon. The Nabi, alayhis salatu

wasalam said, oh, people,

the month of Ramadan has come with its

mercies,

blessings, and forgiveness.

Allah has decreed

this month to be the best

of all months.

Its days are the best amongst the days,

its nights are the best amongst the nights,

and the hours are best amongst the hours.

This is a month in which you have

been invited by Allah to fast and pray.

Allah has honored you in it. In every

breath you take, there is a reward.

And why? Because we're in a state of

and worship.

Your sleep is worship. Your good deeds are

accepted, and your duas, your invocations are answered.

Therefore,

invoke your Lord

in earnestness

with hearts free from sin and evil.

Right? And isn't this what we do? Right?

As the month of Ramadan begins, even, you

know, those amongst the ummah who may be

doing certain things wrong, stop.

That's a sign of their love for Allah,

their love for the deen. Right? That's their

taqwa.

And the Nabi

continues and says, and pray that Allah may

help you keep fast

and recite the holy Quran.

Indeed, miserable is the one who is deprived

of Allah's forgiveness in this month. Reminds us

of the other hadith of the Nabi, alayhis

salatu wassalam, where he was climbing the pulpit

and Jibrael came, alayhis salatu wassalam, to him

and, you know, the prophet, alayhis salatu wassalam,

was made to say ameen to a dua

that Jibrael made, you know, against those individuals

who he said that, you know, find the

month of Ramadan and they have not been

forgiven. Right? So forgiveness is a big thing

during this month. Now I'm going to skip

a few portions, and he continues. He says,

O people, you have made your conscience the

slave of your desires. Make it free by

invoking Allah for forgiveness.

Your back may break from the heavy loads

of your sins.

So prostrate yourself before Allah for long intervals

and make this load lighter.

So even when we pray the Farduk prayer,

Fajr Duhur Asar Maghrib Aisha, make the sajdah

a little longer.

Right? Be in there. Make instead of saying

that this be 3 times, maybe say it

5 times. I'm not asking you to do

7 or 9.

Just do it 3 times, but do it

with love. Do it with compassion.

Right? Do it nice and slow.

Right? Lighten the load, and then Rabbi alayhi

salatu says.

Understand fully that Allah has promised in his

honor and majesty that people who perform salat

and sajdah will be guarded from the hellfire

on the day of judgment. May Allah protect

us all. And then there's Allah. He continues

and then towards the end he says,

whoever whoever offers recommended prayers during this month,

you know,

before fajr there's 2 sunnah, before duhr there's

4 sunnah, after duhr there's 2 sunnah,

There's a 4 sunnah according to some ahadith

before Asl as well. 2 sunnah after Maghrib.

Right? 2 sunnah after Isha. In fact, those

12 rakas,

2 before Fajr, 4 before Duhr, 2 after

Duhr, 2 after Maghrib, and 2 after Isha.

That's 12. The Nabi alayhi salatu wa salam

says, Whoever prays 12 rakats in a day,

Allah will build for them a house in

paradise.

Right? Not like 1 house every day.

Those are all in a sense not obligatory

prayers, voluntary prayers, of course, a higher higher

degree of it being voluntary. They're referred to

as a sunnah mu'akada, but the Nabi alayhi

salatu wa sallam says, whoever offers the recommended

prayers during this month, Allah will save him

from *, And whoever offers and according to

one narration will get the reward of an

obligatory prayer. And then he continues and says,

whoever

observes his obligations

during this month, in other words, fulfills the

obligatory prayers, their reward will be 70 times

the reward during other months. Right? So for

fajr, times 70. Fuhr, times 70. Asr, times

70. Maghrib, times 70. Risha, times 70. And

then if you do it in congregation, congregational

reward is already times 27 to begin with.

So do the math. 27

times 70. Right? Our reward is massive

with Allah

And then he continues and says,

whoever repeatedly invokes Allah's blessings on me, salawat.

Salawat and then rabbi alayhis salaam

Allah will keep his scale of good deeds

heavy while the scales of others will be

tending to lightness.

Right? Whoever

recites during this month a single verse of

the Quran will get the reward of reciting

the Quran in other months. Right? The whole

Quran in other months.

So increase in our tilawa to Allah

as well. We pray to Allah for goodness,

and blessings, and reward, and acceptance, insha'Allah. BarakAllahu

fikum. Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi.