Zakir Naik – How to Overcome our Spiritual Regress after Ramadhaan
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The speaker discusses the importance of striving for the right thing, not just praying and fasting. They stress the need to serve Jesus and not find it difficult to do acts of worship. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of laying one's life for Allah and not finding it difficult to pursue hardship.
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How can we overcome these shortcomings
which
make us
seemingly
worse after Ramadan sometimes rather than better. How
can we overcome the shortcomings
which lead us into this situation?
1st, we Muslims should realize
that Ramadan is not a sort of tradition
or a custom that we have to pray
and fast to know and only do these
acts because it's a particular time period. It
should rather be to serve Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala for the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala because it's a fard.
And if you do it the right way,
it will remain
throughout the inshallah.
And Allah says in the Quran in Surihijal,
chapter 15 verse number 99, and serve thy
lord until the art is certain, that means
until your death. That doesn't mean you only
serve and worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
the month of Ramadan. So him throughout your
life till the last day of your life
till you die.
And
we should
strive in the way of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And
we should
be with people who are righteous after the
month of Ramadan is over. We should be
with people who are righteous, who are on
the straight path. So that
as the Quran says that help each other
and we run taqwa.
Have to guide each other and help each
other
to turn in each other's faith, so that
we are on the right path.
And we should
not find it difficult
to perform acts of worship. We should not
find it as
boring or as burdensome
because people don't know the real reason. That
is the reason they feel it is boring,
etcetera.
And we have to strive for the right
thing. Allah says in the Quran in Suri
An Kabut, chapter number 29, verse number 69.
If you strive in our path, we'll open
up our pathways for you.
If you do have the way of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
strive in the way of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, he will make the task easy for
you. And the hadith of the prophet Musa
Sallam, which mentioned is a Muslim, volume number
4, hadith number 6778,
where the beloved prophet Musa Sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, that paradise is surrounded by hardships,
and *
is surrounded
by temptations.
You know, so people think it's very hard
to do all these acts of worship, and
the good deeds, and attempted by the Satan
towards the *.
So we should
avoid the hutwatuh shaitaan.
That's the footsteps
of the devil,
and
stay on the straight path that's very important.
And
we should
see to it
that we should strive in Allah
way. And these hardship will benefit us in
this world as well as in the.
And
the best dua for this is
that we'll lay our life for Allah
which mentioned in the Quran in Suri Anam
chapter number 6 was number
162, which says that
that verily
my prayers
and my service for sacrifice
and my life and my death are all
for Allah
who is the cherisher of all the worlds.
So
we tell Allah and we pray to him
that my prayer is only to you
and my service and my sacrifice for you
alone. My life and my death is for
you alone, the lord of all the worlds.
And then inshallah, Allah will keep on the
straight path and that will help us to
be steadfast in the next Ramadan.