How to Overcome our Spiritual Regress after Ramadhaan

Zakir Naik

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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

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which

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make us

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seemingly

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worse after Ramadan sometimes rather than better. How

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can we overcome the shortcomings

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which lead us into this situation?

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1st, we Muslims should realize

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that Ramadan is not a sort of tradition

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or a custom that we have to pray

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and fast to know and only do these

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acts because it's a particular time period. It

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should rather be to serve Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala for the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala because it's a fard.

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And if you do it the right way,

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it will remain

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throughout the inshallah.

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And Allah says in the Quran in Surihijal,

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chapter 15 verse number 99, and serve thy

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lord until the art is certain, that means

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until your death. That doesn't mean you only

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serve and worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in

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the month of Ramadan. So him throughout your

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life till the last day of your life

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till you die.

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And

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we should

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strive in the way of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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And

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we should

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be with people who are righteous after the

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month of Ramadan is over. We should be

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with people who are righteous, who are on

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the straight path. So that

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as the Quran says that help each other

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and we run taqwa.

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Have to guide each other and help each

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other

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to turn in each other's faith, so that

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we are on the right path.

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And we should

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not find it difficult

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to perform acts of worship. We should not

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find it as

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boring or as burdensome

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because people don't know the real reason. That

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is the reason they feel it is boring,

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etcetera.

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And we have to strive for the right

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thing. Allah says in the Quran in Suri

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An Kabut, chapter number 29, verse number 69.

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If you strive in our path, we'll open

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up our pathways for you.

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If you do have the way of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

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strive in the way of Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala, he will make the task easy for

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you. And the hadith of the prophet Musa

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Sallam, which mentioned is a Muslim, volume number

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4, hadith number 6778,

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where the beloved prophet Musa Sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam said, that paradise is surrounded by hardships,

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and hell

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is surrounded

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by temptations.

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You know, so people think it's very hard

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to do all these acts of worship, and

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the good deeds, and attempted by the Satan

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towards the hell.

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So we should

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avoid the hutwatuh shaitaan.

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That's the footsteps

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of the devil,

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and

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stay on the straight path that's very important.

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And

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we should

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see to it

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that we should strive in Allah

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way. And these hardship will benefit us in

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this world as well as in the.

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And

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the best dua for this is

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that we'll lay our life for Allah

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which mentioned in the Quran in Suri Anam

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chapter number 6 was number

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162, which says that

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that verily

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my prayers

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and my service for sacrifice

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and my life and my death are all

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for Allah

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who is the cherisher of all the worlds.

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So

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we tell Allah and we pray to him

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that my prayer is only to you

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and my service and my sacrifice for you

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alone. My life and my death is for

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you alone, the lord of all the worlds.

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And then inshallah, Allah will keep on the

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be steadfast in the next Ramadan.

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be steadfast in the next Ramadan.