How Ramadan Helps Us Attain Taqwa

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twinkling of an eye this month two would have passed Subhanallah brothers and sisters I remember vividly standing right here one year ago saying to you that we thank Allah for Ramadan, we do not know whose Ramadan will be our last Ramadan. And I said on this very podium, there will be people that are sitting here now that will not be sitting here next year. I remember saying this one year ago and I can mention from the top of my head half a dozen of our own mousseline our own people, some of them would pray regularly the budget here our own brothers and sisters who are no longer amongst us. This is the sunnah to Allah Heaphy healthy life is not something that is guaranteed no

one can predict life but one thing we can predict for sure is the certainty of death. Every one of us has an end we just don't know when it is So brothers and sisters as this half of the month has passed in the twinkling of an eye we know the next half month will also pass I say to you frankly if you have fallen short in these first 15 days, so be it but it is the end race that is the most important if you have fallen short in these first 15 days do not give up hope there is still chance and opportunity. I say to you some of you perhaps have not yet even opened the Quran. Okay, so be it that was in the past. Do not let your deficiencies of yesterday. dictate your future for tomorrow.

Do not let your shortcomings of yesterday have an influence on what you are potentially capable of doing tomorrow. Dear Muslims This is the month of Siyam the month of the Quran the month of fasting, the month of Taqwa Allah subhanho wa Taala legislated selenium so that we can attain Taqwa God consciousness katiba de como selenium la isla calm Dr. Koon. So the purpose of Siyam the purpose of Ramadan is to attain consciousness of Allah subhanho wa taala. And look at how many ways this month has facilitated for us to attain Allah's consciousness. This entire month is structured for us to attain Taqwa with ease. First and foremost of the ways Siyam attains Taqwa of the ways that fasting

allows us to become conscious of Allah is that fasting trains, our sincerity and Taqwa and sincerity are linked together. And fasting is based upon sincerity. Fasting is the only action of worship that you cannot show off. You can't because everybody knows you can break your fast and privacy. Everybody knows that the only one monitoring you is Allah subhanho wa Taala you can break your fast and your spouse doesn't even know about it. So, fasting is the one act that there is no showing off and everybody knows this. So when you fast you are automatically training your sincerity, your loss and the religion is based upon a loss in normal Emanuel Binney yet our agile is based upon our loss.

So when we fast we are training our sincerity. This is of the ways that Taqwa is inculcated in Ramadan of the ways that Taqwa is brought about in Ramadan is that Ramadan and fasting trains us in the art of suburb or patients suburb or patients because suburb is to not act suburb is to keep things in Czech, and in Ramadan, we train our suburb, we're going to the daily gem of Ramadan, and we're training this concept of suburb because Sabra means to withhold and we

You're withholding from ourselves and our bodies, the most important requirements of food and water. We're learning the art of patience. And so every single day we're showing ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and we're also showing ourselves If Allah doesn't want me to do something, I have the willpower to not do it. Brothers Sisters, if we can give up food and water in these months that are so close to the summer, if we can spend 16 hours a day abstaining from food and water, then surely we can abstain from the hot on when Ramadan is over. So we're showing ourselves that we have an hamdulillah the willpower and Iman and that's the art of several of the ways that Ramadan and cm inculcate stuck WA

is in fasting, we are told to control our anger and to have better o'clock if somebody says something nasty if somebody tries to have an argument, we're supposed to remind ourselves in the slot him in the slot him. So in the month of Ramadan, our manners are perfected, and indeed a manner of a Muslim the mannerisms of the Muslim is one of the main criterion of Taqwa you cannot have Taqwa with bad manners, the heaviest matter in the scales on the Day of Judgment will be our o'clock. Ramadan is the gym of training our o'clock we train how we interact with people we train controlling our Rebbe, our Mima, we control our eyes, we control our harsh words, our manners go better. And so

Taqwa is inculcated via some of the ways that help fasting helps us attain the reality of Taqwa is that fasting brings about a heightened sense of consciousness that Allah is watching, that Allah subhana wa Taala is watching. We are aware that Allah azza wa jal is observing us and that is the essence of the highest category of Islam. Remember, Islam is three categories, Islam, Iman and sun. And the different definition of Ehsaan is that you're constantly aware that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala is watching you. That is the height of iman that you're aware that Allah is constantly watching. There is no deed that helps us to this goal better than fasting. The only reason we're fasting we're

aware Allah is watching. The only reason we're being better in Ramadan. We're aware that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala is watching and therefore, of the ways that fasting helps us to attain Taqwa is that it inculcates in us the consciousness of Allah, the awareness that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada is watching us. And this is one of the most powerful mechanisms of attaining Taqwa of the ways that Ramadan helps us attain Taqwa as well, is that every one of us, we try our best to minimize our sins, and 100 enough and when Hamdulillah this month brings about the best in every Muslim around the globe. There are people that are so far from the deen, there are people that are doing major,

major sins. And even in this month, they cannot get fully correct. But at least in this month, they give up some of their major sins. How many are those that are addicted to alcohol, may Allah forgive them and guide them and help all of us and all of our problems? How many are addicted to drugs, and yet when this month comes Subhanallah something stirs within them. And even though they're addicts for the rest of the year, in this month, something is going to stir and they say oh, it's Ramadan. I can't do it. And social Han Allah. Yes, we thank Allah that the drug addicts give up his addiction in this month. We thank Allah the alcoholic for the rest of the year. At least he has enough Eman

that in this month. He can overcome that addiction. But then we say to this brother, this sister that is struggling, well Allah He we are grateful for the sake of Allah, you've done this. But the one who has given you the power to do this in this month is the same one who can give you the power to do it after this month. This month has demonstrated you don't need alcohol. You don't need drugs. You don't need these evil addictions. You've shown it to Allah, you've shown it to yourself. This is the essence of Taqwa and what he does not commit these types of sins, and therefore in this month we raised the bar in this month, every one of us is giving up some of the things we used to do, and

that is once again training us in the training grounds of duck one of the mechanisms and methodologies of how Ramadan helps us attain Taqwa is that Ramadan is the month of the Quran. And the Quran is the primary source of increasing our taqwa and attaining taqwa and learning about Taqwa there is no Taqwa without reciting the Quran, and every one of us increases our association with the Quran. As I said, maybe some of us maybe are not able to recite the Quran in this month, but every one of us is listening to his recitation more. Every one of us has more of a relationship during this month. And once again, this leads us to the reality of Taqwa.

One of the ways that the month of Ramadan increases our Taqwa is that this month introduces us once again to the concept of the OMA. It introduces us to this reality that I'm not alone. This religion is not just about me myself and I know there are large groups of people have Hamdulillah we share the same faith and we share the same connection and we face the same Qibla and we worship the same God. And so Masjid attendance goes up, and our association with our fellow Muslims increases. And we see mashallah Tabata Cola, a thriving Ummah, even in the far this lands across the globe, global Hamdulillah we thank Allah that the massages across the globe are packed to capacity with Allah He I

say this, we should be proud brothers and sisters, that every single Masjid on Earth falls short of the mousseline in the month of Ramadan. We thank Allah we have parking problems will lie. We thank Allah when faith communities around this country are empty. When faith communities don't know how to attract people to their faith centers, you go and you will find it absolutely empty every day of the week, maybe even most of their holy days. They're not filled to capacity. And here we have the opposite problem. Here we have the problem. Every single community on Earth from Alaska all the way to Zimbabwe across the entire globe, every Masjid every night for two hours is packed to capacity

and hamdulillah what a good problem to have the OMA is well alive and Hamdulillah. And Ramadan introduces us so those of us that might have been a little bit disconnected from the OMA those of us that are living somewhat aloof lives in this month we realize mashallah even here, masha Allah in Dallas and Plano so many 1000s of miles away from the homelands of Islam. Islam is alive. Islam is flourishing. Eman can be palpably sense. Even over here and hamdulillah people come from across the country especially to our masjid and I'm the doula and they say Masha Allah this feels so much alive. I had a brother yesterday come from a faraway city and he goes I haven't felt this way since

I used to pray as a teenager in my land back home. I haven't felt this way you know, has seen so many people 1000s Coming well Ramadan introduces us to this concept reintroduces us. And a part of being a movement apart to being a turkey is to be connected to the broader OMA and Alhamdulillah. Ramadan does this of the ways that Ramadan and cm and this entire month increases. Our Taqwa is that we become more conscious of spending in the way of Allah subhana wa Tada. Every single day we have our fundraisers and appeals, and every single day hundreds of 1000s are given. And this is the way it should be every day or every few days, we should be giving charity and we should diversify our

charity. Our Prophet sallallahu either he was selling as nsmt, Malik said, was the most generous person and his generosity in Ramadan reached unconceivable bounds, you couldn't even describe his generosity. So in this month, we all give extra and especially many of us calculate hours that got in this month. So a quick reminder and a plug brothers and sisters that please give your zakaat especially in this month, it is an easy month to remember that this is when we give our zakaat so I've given lectures as well about the Phillips ACA, you can listen to them, but give you as a cat and give it during this month and make it something that is regular and not just the Xikar give

charity give as much as you can, especially in these last 10 nights that are coming up. So this is of the ways we will not attain Taqwa until we give that for which we love. We will not attain Taqwa until we are from the moistening from those that are giving generously and this is the month to do that. And therefore once again, Ramadan plays in directly to the concept of Taqwa of the ways that Ramadan increases our Taqwa of the ways that Ramadan increases. Our Taqwa is that it allows us to appreciate the blessings of Allah that we took for granted. One of the concepts of Taqwa is Shuker is to be grateful. And Ramadan reminds us of the things that we take for granted simple things like

our food, like our drink simple things like our health, Ramadan causes us to be thankful to Allah and that too is of the essence of Taqwa. We can go on and on brothers and sisters, but I want to conclude the first football on this point, and that is one of the most blessed good results of Ramadan. One of the biggest blessings of Ramadan is the blessing of realizing how beautiful it is to worship Allah subhanho wa Taala to reintroduce us to the sweetness of iman, to the level of the Ibadah of Allah of the vicar of Allah. This is one of the main goals and primary functions of this month.

Have Subhanallah every one of us in this middle of the month now, you know our bodies are taking their toll. We feel a sense of fatigue. It's true. We feel that sense now even though we've managed to conquer it, and we know we have still the main stretch ahead of us. So the body is physically tired. And yet inside of us, the ruler of the soul, it feels a sense of accomplishment, and a sense of achieving some nobility, that all of the money in this world could not by the way that we feel when we break our fast, the Sakeena the blessings of Allah subhanho wa Taala of spiritual tranquility, the feeling of having done something worthwhile. We've done something that is genuinely

good and pure, and we're handing it over to Allah subhanho wa Taala and it's difficult our bodies are taking its toll. But inside of us we feel a heightened sense of purpose. I've done something worthwhile Alhamdulillah and not just that we feel so much peace when we do this for the sake of Allah, we feel a sense of pleasure being servants of Allah subhanho wa Taala dear Muslims, that pleasure that we feel that Leser that sweetness, our Prophet system called it Halawa and Iman he called it right that Iman has the sweetness it's in the Hadith Eman has a Halawa in Ramadan, every one of us tastes that Halawa. We become addicted to it. And that's why by the way, after Ramadan in

234 days, we feel even though yes, we're happy with eating and drinking, we feel something is missing. We feel I'm not having that enjoyment anymore. Why is that? Because the Halawa has been taken away. Well has it and that's the point here. It is true. We cannot maintain the level posts Ramadan that we had in Ramadan, but the goal and I've said this every single year, the goal dear Muslim, is that now that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala has reintroduced you to the blessing of iman, that after Ramadan, we maintain some connection that was stronger than pre Ramadan. The goal is not to maintain the same that's not possible. We cannot be as pious post Ramadan as we are in Ramadan. But

the goal is that in Ramadan, we've been raised by Allah in Ramadan, we rise 10 ranks 15 ranks 100 ranks. Once Ramadan is over, we're going to come fluttering back down okay, but don't go down to where you began. If you rose 100 ranks in Ramadan, then try your best to have a notch I'm gonna go maybe 4050 down I'm going to be 50% better I'm gonna put an extra amount and that's the whole purpose of this month dear Muslims. Every Ramadan is a training ground for Taqwa every Ramadan is a reintroduction to the spiritual gym, your Euro goes to the spiritual gym, your row has working out like it never works out for the rest of the year. Once Ramadan is over your rule is far more

powerful than it was at the beginning of the month. Okay, why would you waste that blessing Allah has given you now that you wrote is at a higher level, maintain a higher level post Ramadan, maintain some actions and routines that you did not do pre Ramadan, do them posts Ramadan have a healthier spiritual lifestyle, you know, the person that goes to the gym, and he works out for months and years. Then after that, once he's changed his old shape and form. It's rare to find one of those people goes back to nothing because he knows the efforts that are put in and he doesn't want to waste those efforts. The same goes for the spiritual gymnasium of Ramadan. Allah has blessed

us in this month to attain a level of Taqwa that we do not have for the rest of the year and and Hamdulillah we thank Allah for that the point therefore brothers and sisters, when Ramadan is over, we attain as much percentage of that Taqwa as we can, because and here's the point. Ramadan, we have a finite quantity. How many more do we have? I don't know. How many more do I have destined in Allah's decree? I do not know. But we want every Ramadan to give us a boost so that Ramadan becomes a stepping stone a ladder on our journey to Allah we want the rungs of our ladder of life's journey to build on Melbourne. Every Ramadan we come one step closer to Allah that's the point brothers and

sisters understand Ramadan is not meant to be a flatline it's not meant to be just like a blip on the screen and gold goes back to normal and I'm a bond is meant to be a stepping stone. It's meant to be a ladder that every Ramadan we rise higher and higher and higher and higher such that our best Ramadan of our whole lives should be our last Ramadan such that the closest we ever are to Allah is the last Ramadan that we are on this earth because we're the closest to meeting Allah subhanho wa taala. So from now whether you're in you're 15 or 25 or 35, you're 70 or 80 years old, make your

to your goal this Ramadan is going to be my best Ramadan and then next Ramadan you make it the same goal and then if Allah blesses you with another Ramadan you make it the same goal because that is the purpose of Ramadan. You make every Ramadan your best Ramadan because Ramadan is meant to be the training ground Oh you who believe fasting has been prescribed for you like it was prescribed for those before you so that you may attain Taqwa May Allah subhana wa Tada make us all amongst them with Japan. May Allah azza wa jal bless me and you with and through the Quran and May He make us of those who is vs. They understand and applies halal and haram throughout our lifespan ask Allah is

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do Muslims this religion is not just about our personal rituals and riba that and even though it is the holiest of holy months, and even though we are all engrossed and engaged in the worship of Allah subhanho wa taala, we should still be aware of what is happening around the world. And so many things are happening that, especially in this month become so much more painful. And I'll mention only two of them that are happening as we speak. The first is, of course, the rising tensions in India. I've already spoken about this before. But the drums of war have begun to beat. And the calls for genocide are becoming more and more blatant, and higher and higher. officials of the government

are not just tacitly approving, but actually endorsing an all out genocide in this holy month, when the Muslims have gathered in their misogyny. across so many districts and cities of that country. People are gathering outside the misogyny and chanting slogans in their faith that are meant to be derogatory to our faith. In multiple situations, houses have been attacked, messages have been desecrated, people have been hurt, maybe even killed. And in every single instance, the government has either done nothing, or the police have actually incited and sighted genocide. So brothers and sisters, as we are engrossed in our worship, the least we can do in this holy of holy months, is to

be painfully aware of what is happening over there. We are literally one step away from a catastrophe and disaster. May Allah protect them. And all of us, we are sitting here in this faraway land, do not underestimate the potential just a few days ago, our own State Department issued, what they said was a rising concern. It was soft language, but it was far better than anything else, a rising concern of human rights violation, our Secretary of State issued a warning to India that is actually going to do much more than many other political things, the PR that they might potentially face the negative PR might actually keep them in check. They don't have the fear of God to be put

into them. However, the fear of politics and the fear of a reprimanded the UN might actually do something. So I am not a political you know, candidate. As always, I'm not a politician. Don't come to me for political advice. But I will say to you, a part of our Shetty is that we do whatever we can, along with the spiritual, we cannot just ignore and sit back we do have the potential to influence in whatever manner so go to the experts of how we influence I am simply saying we must be aware we must be making dua at all, if at all times raise your hands, the least you can do and to make dua for all Muslims around the world and especially in that land. And that is the first of the

two tragedies I wanted to mention. The second of them is also painful. Because like clockwork, every single Ramadan Masjid Al Aqsa is attacked every single Ramadan, the occupying forces invade the sanctity of OXA I do not know if you're aware today morning Axolotl. Fajr today morning at Fudger. The actual Masjid itself was attacked by the forces and troops and people were arrested inside the Masjid. They were lined up and they were put on the floor. There's video footage you can see they were made to lie down on the various places they were doing such the Fajr and they were arrested and masked for whatever reason it might be this is the reality of occupation. It is painful. Every

Ramadan we see the same reality. 75 years have gone by Madonna through Allah, Allah in the nostril la Hikari Allah azza wa jal is when we complain to Allah azza wa jal, our Lord Our Mola, we asked him to see the reality of the situation and to do as he feels is the justice to do but the

point the least we can do brothers and sisters in this sacred and holy month is don't be simply absorbed in your own personal bubble. That's not the reality of the ummah. Yes, we are increasing our worship and a by that, but a part of that worship is to be aware that we are one out of many billions we are one of a large Ummah, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the OMA is like one body. If even one finger is in pain, the whole body will feel that pain until that pain goes away. This is the reality of the ummah. So the least is that we should not just be aware, we should feel a sense of pain, a sense of dread. And that sense, by the way, should make us even more

righteous and pious, we should thank Allah that Allah has given us the opportunity, we are not facing civil war in this land, we are not worried about an occupying force coming into our masjid and arresting us. So if Allah has given us these perks, and these privileges, then with that privilege also comes extra responsibilities, extra acts of worship, so being aware of the situation around the globe should actually increase our own Ibadah and our own Taqwa of Allah and our own appreciation for what we have. But again, the least we can do is of course, to raise our hands and to make dua to Allah subhanho wa taala. And that is why I'm appealing to you. And of course, the

final point is that it is the last 10 days about to come upon us. And of course, I have to remind myself and all of you that these are the days there are no better days, this is the end stretch, we see the end line, we see the finish line, and we're supposed to sprint, in that finish line, we're supposed to give our utmost there is no timeframe in the entire year that our profit system would pray the entire night, except these last 10 Never would our profit system spend the whole night awake, except these 10. In these 10 nights, he would wake up his family, he would wake up the extended household, even the women and children he would wake them up and make them pray the whole

night and everybody these days we have to go to work. Maybe we cannot do that. If you cannot spend the whole night do whatever you can do not exert any more effort in any other time than the upcoming 10 here because there is one night in these 10 that is more precious than an entirety of our lifetimes. Think about that. Seven, eight hours. If you do the math, every minute is like two months, three months of worship. Seven, eight hours is more precious and more baraka and more angels come Djibouti Allah Himself comes down God and himself comes down to this earth and he is witnessing the people praying. So dear brothers and sisters, be prepared for the final sprint. We're about to

face the last 10 Nights give it your utmost your 110% in your Ibadah in your tahajjud in your Quran, in your sada and remember, this is the one night our Prophet sallallahu I said him said, if you don't get this night, whoever denies himself the blessings of this night, the prophets have said has deprived himself from all good *head how Rommel Hira Kula, he's deprived himself from all good. There is no timeframe that is more blessing than this timeframe, no timeframe, Nothing even comes close. So when Allah has given you a fortune for free, because it's more than a lifetime, we say 80 years. In reality, nobody amongst us worships for 80 years. Even if we live for 80 years, we will be

worshiping maximum for five years out there that do the math and calculate in this one night. Alpha Shahara 1000 months, one night of worship will give us multiple lifetimes of hair and a bada. How stingy can a person be that when Allah has gifted him? Priceless, not even billions, and he's sleeping that night. That means this person does not at all appreciate the gift that Allah has given. So dear brothers and sisters give what you can in terms of time and a bother in terms of actions of worship, and realize this is one of the easiest ways to have our sins forgiven. Whoever fast Ramadan will have his sins forgiven. Whoever prays the nights of Ramadan will advocis forgiven

and whoever preys on Laila to other will have all of his sins forgiven. It's a new beginning. It's a change of the tide, this Ramadan insha Allah will be my best Ramadan and your best Ramadan and these 10 Nights will be the best 10 nights we've ever had. And we'll make the same Nia every single year until we meet Allah Subhana Allah, Allah Allah and NIDA and for a minimum Allama data and if you don't resemble in love of Alta, walla hum and Illa for Raja wala Jain and Illa Kadota What am I read on? Illa Sure, feta. Well I see you're on Illa sorta Allah ma fildena. What is one in Lilina Saba Pune bien. Eman wala, Tisha I feel grubinger hyndland in Latina m n o Robina. In Cairo. Oh four

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