Waseem Hendricks – #1 Preparation For Ramadaan

Asmaa, beloved and dearest, brothers and sisters, mothers and

fathers, youth in Islam,

Alhamdulillah, Rameen, we find ourselves in this time whereby we

are all currently busy in preparation towards Ramadan. But

we have some great news for everybody. Alhamdulillah, from

today on, every day we will live stream in sha Allah via YouTube

and be in Elish SubhanAllah. Everyone will be able to,

everyday, download a video from our YouTube in sha Allah at pmct,

and they will be able to receive a beautiful message in nasiha, with

regards to our preparation for the month of Ramadan, that month that

everybody is yearning to see inshallah. So here's a great and

wonderful opportunity for us. And when Ramadan start, this is even

much more greater news than that, we will be live. So whenever we

connect to YouTube. Inshallah, you will be able to see me live giving

that nasiha and that advice in sha Allah, in order for us to grow our

spirituality, spirituality a bit more and gain closeness to Allah,

Subhanahu wa and have a better understanding of what to do in

this beautiful month of Ramadan, it is ahead of us. So here's

wonderful news. What is that now we can download the video from

YouTube. The link will be sent to everybody, Alhamdulillah. And when

the month of Ramadan commence, of ALA, we will go live Amini for the

pmct, for doing this great effort, Inshallah, to get the masjid to

get the deen to your homes, Amin ya rabbal Alamin and may Allah,

Behran, barakay. Now, if it's Amin ya rabbal Alamin, today's message

is a very, very important message. We know that we have passed the

month of Rajab. We are in the month of Rasulullah, sallAllahu,

alayhi wa sallam. We understand that the messenger sallallahu

alayhi wa sallam, as narrated by his beloved wife, Aisha radiAllahu

taala, and her that she said that she has never seen the messengers

of Allah wa alai wa salam fast so much. So much so that they thought

that the messengers of Allah ala Salam would fast the entire month

of Sharad. So he fasted so much in the month of sharaban that she

thought that she's going to he's going to fight the entire month of

sharadan, although this was only in preparation of the month of

Ramadan. Subhanallah, the beloved messenger, sallAllahu sallam, used

to love to make preparation in the month of sharadan, and that is why

it's called the month of Muhammad rasulallah. He used to tie his

belt in this month work extra hard in order to receive the welcoming

guest of Allah subhanahu wa is giving to this ummah. He wants to

receive it in the best of ways and be prepared for that in the rest

of ways. Hopefully we are doing the same. Inshallah, we find

ourselves now that we are busy preparing it might not be similar

to the years that has passed the years that it passed Subhanallah,

we would have been in the supermarkets now. We would have

been in the malls now, but Allah subhanahu wa striding and testing

us, Allah subhanahu wa grant us opportunities to spend this time

with our families. So how are we going to spend this time with our

families inshaAllah? The first thing is we should try to follow

the Sunnah Rasulullah, sallAllahu, sallam. What if you do? He used to

fast in the month of sharadan. Let us try to choose the Sunnah days.

Let us make it habitual in our lives. It must become our habits.

We fast on a Monday and we fast on a Thursday inshallah. And

then the second point will be that the relationship that we have with

the Quran here's a time that we spend a whole day with our

families. Do we have constructive times? Do we have certain times

that we spend with our families? Do we have certain times that we

do certain things together? One of those things should be that

relationship that we create amongst us as a family with this

Quran, when we do the Subhanallah, remember we are now being

addressed by the Lord of the Worlds, Allah, when we read the

Quran and we try to implement it in our daily lives. So here's a

great opportunity for us. The one is fasting, the second one is to

create a relationship with us with this Quran. Why the relationship

with this Quran, especially now at this time, because the month of

the Quran is ahead of us. The month of the Ummah, sallAllahu,

sallam, is the month of the Quran. If we already start to establish

that relationship with this Quran now then inshaAllah, the Allah the

month of Ramadan, it will be much easier for us to spend time with

this Quran. We have so much time on our hands now, Alhamdulillah,

we spend so much time with our families. Now we've never realized

this bounty of Allah subhanahu wa of family, so much that we can

spend so much time together. But we must make it fruitful. We must

make it inshaAllah wa taala, whereby I am now becoming the

Sultan of my house, who is the father. I'm taking that

responsibility upon my shoulders as I should.

So I need to educate my family in which way, not only about the

dunya ways, but also about the Dini ways. So if it is it, I take

five minutes of the day after every salah I read in ayah of the

Quran, we translate it and we try to implement it in our lives as a

family. Can we imagine the abundance of rewards that Allah

subhanahu wa give us, although we know that this Quran, it is a

guidance for all of us, Masha, Allah, it is a wonderful guide for

all of us. It will take us to Jannah. It is the only, the only,

and one of the only, where, by the day of qiyama, when we come, that

miracle will come this Quran. If I have recited this Quran, If I

lived my life according to this Quran, it will be a means of shafa

for me in the cover and in the year of the day when Allah

subhanahu wa distant us for the Hellfire Allah, Allah, protect us.

But if that happens, this Quran will be that one in my grave. If

I'm destined for Jahannam and punishment, then the Quran will

stand up as a human figure, as a bodily figure. And it will be in

our defense, and say, Ya Allah, this was the one that led me at

night. He practiced upon me. He strived to understand me. How can

ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala take him to jahannam. He used to be with me in

this world. I want to be with him in this life. So take him to

Jannah, Allahu, Akbar, if it is we find ourselves when it is to enter

Jahannam, the devil, and Allah destined us for that the Quran

will be the means of shafara for us and seeking protection on

behalf of us, may Allah grant us to be amongst them. And the third

thing is our family time. Spend good time with our families.

Wallahi, you know, this is the best thing that could have

happened to us. Some of us only realize how the bounty that Allah

has given us but make effort inshaAllah to gather every day for

a particular amount of time. And inshaAllah, if we do that, and

Allah, Subhanahu, WA reward us abundantly for our efforts in sha

Allah Diana, the one who

cut family ties. Allah subhanahu wa cut family ties with such a

person. How can I not even live with my family now that I have to,

I am bound to. I can't do anything, but now that I'm there,

I'm even a worse person. Person. May Allah protect us from that

inshaAllah and I must become the most wonderful person to my

children in order to teach them and guide them on the righteous

part in sha Allah is a father as well as a mother. The mother's got

the beautiful duties of cooking and that so the father is

exploring Masha Allah. May Allah bless our mothers. May Allah

subhanahu wa this

become the best Ramadan ever. And I want to say that we make the DUA

Allahumma baqiya, sharaban, wabalivna, Ramadan Oh Allah grant

us the blessings of what is left of this month of sharadan, and for

us to reach the month of Ramadan. Barak Allahu masala, murakum

Rahmatullah, Barakatuh Abu.