Shaykh Kamaluddin DB - Main Prog
10/07/2015
'Zaharul fasadi fil behri wa barri'
Quran: Fasad/calamity has manifested itself all over the sea and land - humanity due to their own hands.
Dont look for political explanations, its all because of our sins. Its not necessary that the sins of some people will strike calamity in their own city, it can be that our sin is being manifested in some other part of the world.
'bima kasabat' -what you do will
have consequences. What we do in our hearts and amaal.
Good - good
Bad - bad
Its our choice. Every person will make a choice every day either to obey or disobey Allah swt.
There are punishments for sins in a person's life also. Life itself will pay you back for the sins that you commit.
Lighter verse
1. If only they did what was adviced it would have been better for them
2. Indeed We will surely take vengeance on those who wrong Him.
When we commit a sin:
a. Zulm on ourself
b. Jurm against Allah swt
Allah swt has no need, no want to punish.
We have only our own selves to blame.
One simple way to save ourself: Ittiba e Sunnah
Quran: If all of you obeyed him (sws) you would have been on Hidaya.
Meaning you would have been those who are on hidaya, who follow hidaya.
Allah swt has given every single thing to us to stay away from sin but still we chose to sin.
Stubborn sinners, persistent sinners, die-heart sinners
The ahwaal of a person will be according to the amaal of the person on the DoJ.
Quran: mayn ya'mal soo'an yujza bihi
Whoever does any bad deed will be given recompense for it.
Somehow deep in our psyche we keep thinking that we will get away with it. No one can run away from this.
Deep down those who sin have no sukoon. Its never possible that a person who does sin will be in sukoon. Their whole life will be tossing and turning.
Muttaqi will fall asleep peacefully even on a mountain/boulder.
Shaykh Ashraf Ali Thanvi ra -
Jaza ul Amaal
Consequences of sin in this world:
1. Loose ilm of deen
Ilm ke buht naaz nakre hain. Yeh waise kisi ke dil mein nahi rehta.
a. Forgets it
b. Converts from ilm to malumaat/information
Azalla - Allah swt is Al-Hadi. He doesn't misguide people however when people become stubborn on sins Allah swt takes away hidaya.
Even though we know that we should not smoke. Its an absolutely shameful act. Still we do it.
Ask yourself whether Nabi sws could ever do this.
Leave everything you know that he sws would never do.
2. Rizq is reduced. Rizq e halal is reduced and inc in rizq e haram
3. Heart becomes bitter and sour. They start blaming Allah swt. They dont want to pray. Sometimes they stubbornly dont pray in rebellion.
4. They get bitter with people. These people die a lonely death.
5. Doors of success are closed.
When they were not sinning, Allah swt was taking care of everything. When he sins, Allah swt turns away from them.
They think its magic. Dont be deluded. Its our sins!
Shaytan used to flee from Sayyidina Umar ra. Similarly shaytan has wehshat from sahib e nisbat wali of Allah swt.
Quran: We distribute the wealth among you.
How can some amil do something that can disrupt the distribution of Allah swt?
- Sweetness of ibadah is snatched away
6. Face sours - chehra sarh jata hai
Muttaqi people - you want to gaze at them
7. They find ibadat difficult. Praying the salah is a weighty burden except for those who are Khashieen.
8. Physically weak. No longer dynamic. Lazy. Oversleeping. Unable to perform. Low productivity.
9. No longer able to listen and obey. They listen but they are not able to follow or obey
10. A sin leads to other sins. All other sins come closer to us.
11. Tawfeeq of tauba is snatched away.
The person doesnt make taubah because they deliberately delay taubah because they want to do the sin again.
12. Stops feeling the embarassment and filth of the sin
13. Deprive of imaan
Hadith: whosoever adopts the likeness of a disbeliever becomes one of them. (mafhoom)
15. Allah swt no longer values that person
16. A person's judgement becomes flawed. Wrong
decisions. They lack hikmah, wisdom.
16. No modesty, no self-respect, dignity. They dont even value themselves.
When you loose your haya in pvt you're on your way to loose it in public.
17. Tragedies, calamities will befall you
18. Shaytan glues himself to the sinner
19. Allah swt puts hatred in the hearts of creation for the sinner
20. Nabi sws sent curse on certain types of sinners e.g. Person who deals with interest, creates corruption on land, those who break family ties, those who support unbelievers as opposed to believers
Accursed - they dont get the duas of the Angels.
21. They will be deprived of sukoon
22. Deprived of Allah's Mercy
23. Deprived of kalima at time of death. Less than 10% died with kalima (a doc in emergency)
When does our sinning hit us?
1. Difficulty as a wake up call
2. Takheer - no difficulty comes. Allah Ta'ala catching up with them later.
3. Difficult death
Lessons:
1. You can't hurt Allah swt by sinning against him. You will only
hurt yourself.
2. You try to hurt/plot/envy someone it will come back to you. Dont deprive anyone of deen.
3. Make taubah
Monday, 27 July 2015
Shaykh Kamaluddin DB 7 July 2015
Bismillahir-Rahmaanir-Raheem
Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed db
7/7/15 Night Bayaan
- Taubah (intention for itikaaf)
- Nights to seek laylatul Qadr: if a person seeks LQ on the 5 odd nights they are guranteed LQ. Imagine if the first night of itikaaf is LQ. We should show our thirst to Allah swt by praying and supplicating.
- Very few people left on earth who can say they follow the entire sunnah and shariah. Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم left an entire community who were on sunnah and shariah entirely (sahabah). We are in a time of fitnah, for Allah swt bless us in itikaaf is a tremendous bounty of Allah swt, He bestows it upon whosoever He wills. It is a great Mercy of Allah swt.
- Very few people are entirely Allah's. One shaykh said to His students tell me what Tawheed means. They said many things but finally said you tell us, Shaykh. 'It is to live your life entirely for the sake of that One, that is true Tawheed' many of us live for other things, pleasure, careers etc. Tawheed means those people live for Allah swt.
- We want to spend every second and moment in true taweheed, I want my eating to be for Him, my sleeping for Him, all my time for Him. This is another intention for itikaaf.
- Free oneself for the zthikr of Allah swt 'only in the zthikr of Allah swt will hearts find peace' beg Allah swt, ya Allah give me so much sulook in these next ten days and nights that it's enough to bring me into itminaan in jannah. Ya Allah you allowed me to come in itikaaf for 10days/nights ya Allah enter me into your jannah. If a person can enter into jahannam after going into a club or pub, can't a person, after entering the masjid enter into jannah?
- Imaan = heartfelt feeling for Allah swt. Even our imaan is something we need to work on during itikaaf. To work on our manners, attributes etc. Make duaa ya Allah swt make me a person with tawakkul, sabr, shukr, make me a better ummati, make me a better slave, make me a better mother, daughter etc. Every niyyah should be made, not just itikaaf. Think of anything and everything you have heard in Deen and seerah and make duaa for that in these nights! He wants to give everything, so why not ask for everything?
- 'The most honoured of you in the sight of Allah swt are those who have the most/best taqwa' ya Allah I want the most & best hayaa, the most concentration in salaah, the best zthikr, zero ghaflah. Why have this hope? Because Allah swt is the best! The most, best treasures, He wants to bestow all of it on His believers. We must yearn.
- In these days and nights you may also tire yourself out. Nothing wrong in exerting yourself such that you become TIRED! How many students spent nights studying for exams? How much have you tired yourself for dunya? When will we tire ourselves for Allah swt? Push yourself. You don't know how much you can do if you haven't tried!
- Ya Allah grant me the strength and power because I want to use it for you!
- Some of us will want and try, we may live our lives like that but inshaaAllah Allah swt will forgive us for that yearning and wanting.
- Allah swt has given us 10 pages of gold, write what you want on it.
- People are like ice, you either make use of it or let it melt away.
- BY's shaykhs Shaykh Shaykh was a farmer, would plough and harvest the land. Someone asked how much zthikr do you do? He said 70,000 times ALLAH, whilst doing harvesting. However, even salikeen can't do ONE tasbeeh! Strange. These are salikeen! Make tasbeehs regularly, make durood regularly, make istighfaar regularly, make sunnah masnoon duaas regularly, let them become ingrained in your heart, don't slack! Maybe some of you already slacked, how many of you said the azthaan duaa? If you forget, replay your day and say them all at night.
- Salikeen should be doing one juz Quran a day and one hour muraqabah. Zthikr qalbi + Quran go hand in hand. Get the hidayah of the muttaqeen. You have to make this ibadah of Allah swt.
- Time is passing away, the clock has started ticking.
- Dont talk too much. Owais Qarni - in madinah, he couldn't wait too long, came to see Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم but he wasn't there. So owais went back to attend to his ill mother. Umar r.a. went to see owais, Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم told him to take a shirt and make duaa for the ummah. So sahabah went to search owais. Owais travelled from qarn to madinah seeking Allah, deen. We also sunnah mutakifeen travelled seeking Deen. Owais waited as long as he could then had to go back. Some of you are in that situation, you came here but have to go back. you came with thirst, Allah swt honours these things. When sahabah met him all he said was jazakAllah Khair, we both have an aakhirah to work for.
- Work on salaah these next few days, FEEL it! Someone said to a shaykh I want to pray like sahabah prayed. At tahajjud time, my shaykh said go make wudhu for Allah. This had an effect on him, he did wudhu with such khushoo. Then he came and shaykh said pray for Allah. This also had an effect on him, he prayed many rakaats, then shaykh said this is the salaah of sahabah. So work on your wudhu and salaah!
- If a person tries their whole life to befriend Allah swt, Allah swt will never raise that person as His enemy on the day of judegemnt! So we've come here to try! Our sins warranted that we should have been punished and deprived of the Mercy of the month but still Allah swt allowed us to fast and pray and sit in itikaaf. Allah swt doesn't want us to go away empty handed, so wish for ourselves we want to fill our hearts with no or of zthikr.
May Allah swt make this a means of being steadfast on Deen. Aameen ya rabbal aa'lameen
Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed db
7/7/15 Night Bayaan
- Taubah (intention for itikaaf)
- Nights to seek laylatul Qadr: if a person seeks LQ on the 5 odd nights they are guranteed LQ. Imagine if the first night of itikaaf is LQ. We should show our thirst to Allah swt by praying and supplicating.
- Very few people left on earth who can say they follow the entire sunnah and shariah. Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم left an entire community who were on sunnah and shariah entirely (sahabah). We are in a time of fitnah, for Allah swt bless us in itikaaf is a tremendous bounty of Allah swt, He bestows it upon whosoever He wills. It is a great Mercy of Allah swt.
- Very few people are entirely Allah's. One shaykh said to His students tell me what Tawheed means. They said many things but finally said you tell us, Shaykh. 'It is to live your life entirely for the sake of that One, that is true Tawheed' many of us live for other things, pleasure, careers etc. Tawheed means those people live for Allah swt.
- We want to spend every second and moment in true taweheed, I want my eating to be for Him, my sleeping for Him, all my time for Him. This is another intention for itikaaf.
- Free oneself for the zthikr of Allah swt 'only in the zthikr of Allah swt will hearts find peace' beg Allah swt, ya Allah give me so much sulook in these next ten days and nights that it's enough to bring me into itminaan in jannah. Ya Allah you allowed me to come in itikaaf for 10days/nights ya Allah enter me into your jannah. If a person can enter into jahannam after going into a club or pub, can't a person, after entering the masjid enter into jannah?
- Imaan = heartfelt feeling for Allah swt. Even our imaan is something we need to work on during itikaaf. To work on our manners, attributes etc. Make duaa ya Allah swt make me a person with tawakkul, sabr, shukr, make me a better ummati, make me a better slave, make me a better mother, daughter etc. Every niyyah should be made, not just itikaaf. Think of anything and everything you have heard in Deen and seerah and make duaa for that in these nights! He wants to give everything, so why not ask for everything?
- 'The most honoured of you in the sight of Allah swt are those who have the most/best taqwa' ya Allah I want the most & best hayaa, the most concentration in salaah, the best zthikr, zero ghaflah. Why have this hope? Because Allah swt is the best! The most, best treasures, He wants to bestow all of it on His believers. We must yearn.
- In these days and nights you may also tire yourself out. Nothing wrong in exerting yourself such that you become TIRED! How many students spent nights studying for exams? How much have you tired yourself for dunya? When will we tire ourselves for Allah swt? Push yourself. You don't know how much you can do if you haven't tried!
- Ya Allah grant me the strength and power because I want to use it for you!
- Some of us will want and try, we may live our lives like that but inshaaAllah Allah swt will forgive us for that yearning and wanting.
- Allah swt has given us 10 pages of gold, write what you want on it.
- People are like ice, you either make use of it or let it melt away.
- BY's shaykhs Shaykh Shaykh was a farmer, would plough and harvest the land. Someone asked how much zthikr do you do? He said 70,000 times ALLAH, whilst doing harvesting. However, even salikeen can't do ONE tasbeeh! Strange. These are salikeen! Make tasbeehs regularly, make durood regularly, make istighfaar regularly, make sunnah masnoon duaas regularly, let them become ingrained in your heart, don't slack! Maybe some of you already slacked, how many of you said the azthaan duaa? If you forget, replay your day and say them all at night.
- Salikeen should be doing one juz Quran a day and one hour muraqabah. Zthikr qalbi + Quran go hand in hand. Get the hidayah of the muttaqeen. You have to make this ibadah of Allah swt.
- Time is passing away, the clock has started ticking.
- Dont talk too much. Owais Qarni - in madinah, he couldn't wait too long, came to see Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم but he wasn't there. So owais went back to attend to his ill mother. Umar r.a. went to see owais, Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم told him to take a shirt and make duaa for the ummah. So sahabah went to search owais. Owais travelled from qarn to madinah seeking Allah, deen. We also sunnah mutakifeen travelled seeking Deen. Owais waited as long as he could then had to go back. Some of you are in that situation, you came here but have to go back. you came with thirst, Allah swt honours these things. When sahabah met him all he said was jazakAllah Khair, we both have an aakhirah to work for.
- Work on salaah these next few days, FEEL it! Someone said to a shaykh I want to pray like sahabah prayed. At tahajjud time, my shaykh said go make wudhu for Allah. This had an effect on him, he did wudhu with such khushoo. Then he came and shaykh said pray for Allah. This also had an effect on him, he prayed many rakaats, then shaykh said this is the salaah of sahabah. So work on your wudhu and salaah!
- If a person tries their whole life to befriend Allah swt, Allah swt will never raise that person as His enemy on the day of judegemnt! So we've come here to try! Our sins warranted that we should have been punished and deprived of the Mercy of the month but still Allah swt allowed us to fast and pray and sit in itikaaf. Allah swt doesn't want us to go away empty handed, so wish for ourselves we want to fill our hearts with no or of zthikr.
May Allah swt make this a means of being steadfast on Deen. Aameen ya rabbal aa'lameen
Shaykh Kamaluddin DB 27 July 2015
Mayfair Women [by Shaykh Mufti Kamaluddin db] 27/07/15
For women to continue spirit of Ramadan and to become from Swalihaat Mu'minat-
1. To stay away from ghafla. Things that will take her far from rememberance of Allah. Eg. Idle chats, Tv etc
2. Do istighfar.
3. Make alot of zikr of wuquf e qalbi. To keep heart parmanently paused in zikr of Allah.
4. Pray salah with khushoo
5. Recite durood abundantly with love and compassion.
6. Preserve your hayaa/chastity.
7. Recite Qur'an Shareef daily.
How a woman can become from Zaakiraat;
1. she should convert her whole house decorated with reminders of Allah's reminders not only one room. It can be subtle reminders not necessarily huge ones.
2. Make food while making zikr and in state of wudhu feeling love for Allah.
3. She make sure she reads Qur'an, sunnah duas and hadiths daily with love because these are also types of zikr. Make zikr of wuquf e qalbi and to have dedicated time for special zikr of Allah.
4. On free time make murakaba.
5. Connect to a shaikh who will help you to make zikr.
For women to continue spirit of Ramadan and to become from Swalihaat Mu'minat-
1. To stay away from ghafla. Things that will take her far from rememberance of Allah. Eg. Idle chats, Tv etc
2. Do istighfar.
3. Make alot of zikr of wuquf e qalbi. To keep heart parmanently paused in zikr of Allah.
4. Pray salah with khushoo
5. Recite durood abundantly with love and compassion.
6. Preserve your hayaa/chastity.
7. Recite Qur'an Shareef daily.
How a woman can become from Zaakiraat;
1. she should convert her whole house decorated with reminders of Allah's reminders not only one room. It can be subtle reminders not necessarily huge ones.
2. Make food while making zikr and in state of wudhu feeling love for Allah.
3. She make sure she reads Qur'an, sunnah duas and hadiths daily with love because these are also types of zikr. Make zikr of wuquf e qalbi and to have dedicated time for special zikr of Allah.
4. On free time make murakaba.
5. Connect to a shaikh who will help you to make zikr.
Sunday, 26 July 2015
Shaykh Kamaluddin DB 19 Ramadhan
Talk by shaykh kamaluddin
19 Ramadan
Use the last ten days like it is your last .
Most n best taqwa . Use these two words for your Deen , sabr, Adaab , akhlaaq. So try to be the best to design your heart in this month. Adorning your life with the most sunnah in your life.
Ramadan is month of Quran . Revealed in this month. Recite more . Feel more Quran , understand it. Not only more Quran on your tongue . Feel Quran more , most. How? Pick some sentences and try to understand it. Read it over again. So wen you read the Arabic , you feel it. How we are like that with Surah Fatiha , we need to familiarize ourselves with the Quran .
Look few verses before and after a specific vs , so wen you read it , you feel it. Then you use it in your salaah. Get new passages for your salaah. Once you read n understand it n read it in salaah, you will enjoy this new recitation.
Try to see in your recitation, how much you can read. How far you go, before you start getting enjoyment from the recitation . How long can I read Quran or salaah for ? Try in these ten nights to see .
Sahabah used to recite particular verses in sadness , joy etc . Whatt do you plan for thetuhajjud of the odd nites? How many Rakaat? Which Surah? Etc. no answer ?
What about your fav clothing ? So increase your connection with the Quran !
Take names of Allah! Asma Ul Husna . Call upon Allah , cry out to Allah using the names ! Learn the names ! Wat about Rahman n Raheem . Do you know the meanings ? About the sifaat of Allah. Gaffar and gafoor. When your happy, which name of Allah do you call upon?
Learn , feel , explore ! Esp in this month.
Allah rolls the wave of his mercy upon his believers on these last ten nites. U feel the most of the coming wave in Rajab n Shaban
In anticipation of the wave of Ramadan. U have to get into the zone . It's not just about getting hungry . It's about wanting never to disobey , it's about wanting allahs loving gaze . True lover of Allah. Always intending to obey Allah . Ask Allah to let these feeling to continue . How? Get taqwa in this month.in your heart, then Allah will grant u this loving gaze out of Ramadan.
If in front of family men , u cover your face ,
( wat will make Allah love me more? ) if u do not hide the beauty of your face , u leave the door open for non family men to cast a gaze of longing at her .if she covers up, Allah will cast his gaze at her , subhannallah.
Do your best, do your most! To attain the taqwa ! Control anger, have sabr, remove envy n jealousy so allahs gaze can fall lovingly on your heart . Wen u become mutaqqi , then u feel allahs loving gaze on you.
Fasting 12 hours a day, is like doing 12 hours of Ibadah. That's y we feel more in Ramadan . Allah is showing us how it feels to be zaakireen . (One who remembers Allah )
We don't feel as close and don't make dua soo sincerely sometimes out of Ramadan.
Regret over Deen , not dunya . It motivates u to do good . Don't waste tym on haram n futile activities .
Then u will start wanting future for aakhirah . For sun nah , for more Quran , for Tuhujjud out of Ramadan. For jannah .
Relationships with zikr.
Best n most zikr . Become a zaakirah, a waliyah , u have the potential .
Ramadan is not just month of fasting but it is a month of Wilayah. Allah wants us to become auliya of Allah. This should be your mission! For the auliya, no fear in them ever not do they feel any sorrow !(sins are forgiven , so fear, Shaytaan , theirs nafs can't sway them so they have no regret)
Zikr means to forget the dunya and remember Allah !
Dunya means ghairullah . Anything other than Allah at all . So practice this type of prayer in Ramadan . Start this in these days. Try to forget the dunya in your salaah. Understand the Deen. Y we pray 5 times a day? allah wants us to disconnect from dunya 5 times a day, so u can forget everything except Allah . ( don't let your wealth , don't let your children distract u from the remembrance of Allah ) . Anyone who lets the bounties that Allah blessed us with , to forget Allah, Allah says they will be from the losers . Concept of life is opportunity to remember Allah properly .
Salaah supposed to detactch the heart from dunya .
Fast from Ghaflah. I want to always remember Allah for 24. Hours . Allah described them as zaakirat.
Fanaah ( make zikr of the name of your rabb, n focus on that name soo much that u forget everything else) worse case heart, zero percent focus on Allah , u fasted , u stayed away from sin, so now heart starts getting more attached to Allah. So connection with dunya becomes lesser . How ? Though your fasting , Ibadah . Extra effort needs to be made . One hundred percent attached to allahs rememberance and zero to this world .
Wat was rasool saw doing in mountain in cave . He wanted to seclude himself from the dunya . Surah kahf( they tried to remember Allah in a community Secretly. So then they climbed the mountain n went into the cave .)
Limited period for us is last ten days . Rasool saw went into seclusion inside the masjid . He could feel the Incredible mercy of allah that descends in this month. Fanaah is a temp training period . Then the next process is called baqa , where u reconnect with your role in dunya , but u keep the rememberance of Allah even while u are engaged in the world . Engaged fillah , lillah !
Rasool saw was in baqaa all the tym.
Try to get fanaah in this month n then strive for baqaa out of Ramadan. Wish for these , dream for these . Goal for u, aim for this .
Who gets guidance of Allah , those who have a heart.
Wen u make zikr , your heart is ready for the recitation of the Quran . Combine both in these last days of Ramadan . Don't let these feelings leave us after Ramadan .
1. Make Taubah from our over eating , lack of compassion , etc not just from sin .
2. Tazkiya . Do tazkiya of sahaabah . Sahaabah continued these teachings , continuing for generation to generation . The feelings of Quran is always transferred from teacher to student .
Make the niyyah to join this training . Sun nah methods of purification .
Zikr through which we can erase the Ghaflah . Every day make tilawat of Quran .
100 times istigfaar
100 times durood daily.express from the heart.
In your heart always remember Allah n his names n have feeling for him, feel that Allah is close to u . Allah can see u , hear u etc.
Nothing can distract me from there feelings .
Muraaqabah : every day for few minutes , take some tym , make the intention to remember Allah . Close eyes so u can't see the world . Close your mind from yourself n connect to Allah . Forget everything except Allah . How do u remember Allah. Make zikr of 'Allah ' with heart . As if qalb is calling name of Allah .
Just make niyyah now that u want to be lover of Allah , zaakirat,
Bay ah . To express nothing more that commitment that I want to follow sun nah , to learn tazkiya . Taking someone as a guide , hoping that your heart becomes filled with complete rem of Allah.
19 Ramadan
Use the last ten days like it is your last .
Most n best taqwa . Use these two words for your Deen , sabr, Adaab , akhlaaq. So try to be the best to design your heart in this month. Adorning your life with the most sunnah in your life.
Ramadan is month of Quran . Revealed in this month. Recite more . Feel more Quran , understand it. Not only more Quran on your tongue . Feel Quran more , most. How? Pick some sentences and try to understand it. Read it over again. So wen you read the Arabic , you feel it. How we are like that with Surah Fatiha , we need to familiarize ourselves with the Quran .
Look few verses before and after a specific vs , so wen you read it , you feel it. Then you use it in your salaah. Get new passages for your salaah. Once you read n understand it n read it in salaah, you will enjoy this new recitation.
Try to see in your recitation, how much you can read. How far you go, before you start getting enjoyment from the recitation . How long can I read Quran or salaah for ? Try in these ten nights to see .
Sahabah used to recite particular verses in sadness , joy etc . Whatt do you plan for thetuhajjud of the odd nites? How many Rakaat? Which Surah? Etc. no answer ?
What about your fav clothing ? So increase your connection with the Quran !
Take names of Allah! Asma Ul Husna . Call upon Allah , cry out to Allah using the names ! Learn the names ! Wat about Rahman n Raheem . Do you know the meanings ? About the sifaat of Allah. Gaffar and gafoor. When your happy, which name of Allah do you call upon?
Learn , feel , explore ! Esp in this month.
Allah rolls the wave of his mercy upon his believers on these last ten nites. U feel the most of the coming wave in Rajab n Shaban
In anticipation of the wave of Ramadan. U have to get into the zone . It's not just about getting hungry . It's about wanting never to disobey , it's about wanting allahs loving gaze . True lover of Allah. Always intending to obey Allah . Ask Allah to let these feeling to continue . How? Get taqwa in this month.in your heart, then Allah will grant u this loving gaze out of Ramadan.
If in front of family men , u cover your face ,
( wat will make Allah love me more? ) if u do not hide the beauty of your face , u leave the door open for non family men to cast a gaze of longing at her .if she covers up, Allah will cast his gaze at her , subhannallah.
Do your best, do your most! To attain the taqwa ! Control anger, have sabr, remove envy n jealousy so allahs gaze can fall lovingly on your heart . Wen u become mutaqqi , then u feel allahs loving gaze on you.
Fasting 12 hours a day, is like doing 12 hours of Ibadah. That's y we feel more in Ramadan . Allah is showing us how it feels to be zaakireen . (One who remembers Allah )
We don't feel as close and don't make dua soo sincerely sometimes out of Ramadan.
Regret over Deen , not dunya . It motivates u to do good . Don't waste tym on haram n futile activities .
Then u will start wanting future for aakhirah . For sun nah , for more Quran , for Tuhujjud out of Ramadan. For jannah .
Relationships with zikr.
Best n most zikr . Become a zaakirah, a waliyah , u have the potential .
Ramadan is not just month of fasting but it is a month of Wilayah. Allah wants us to become auliya of Allah. This should be your mission! For the auliya, no fear in them ever not do they feel any sorrow !(sins are forgiven , so fear, Shaytaan , theirs nafs can't sway them so they have no regret)
Zikr means to forget the dunya and remember Allah !
Dunya means ghairullah . Anything other than Allah at all . So practice this type of prayer in Ramadan . Start this in these days. Try to forget the dunya in your salaah. Understand the Deen. Y we pray 5 times a day? allah wants us to disconnect from dunya 5 times a day, so u can forget everything except Allah . ( don't let your wealth , don't let your children distract u from the remembrance of Allah ) . Anyone who lets the bounties that Allah blessed us with , to forget Allah, Allah says they will be from the losers . Concept of life is opportunity to remember Allah properly .
Salaah supposed to detactch the heart from dunya .
Fast from Ghaflah. I want to always remember Allah for 24. Hours . Allah described them as zaakirat.
Fanaah ( make zikr of the name of your rabb, n focus on that name soo much that u forget everything else) worse case heart, zero percent focus on Allah , u fasted , u stayed away from sin, so now heart starts getting more attached to Allah. So connection with dunya becomes lesser . How ? Though your fasting , Ibadah . Extra effort needs to be made . One hundred percent attached to allahs rememberance and zero to this world .
Wat was rasool saw doing in mountain in cave . He wanted to seclude himself from the dunya . Surah kahf( they tried to remember Allah in a community Secretly. So then they climbed the mountain n went into the cave .)
Limited period for us is last ten days . Rasool saw went into seclusion inside the masjid . He could feel the Incredible mercy of allah that descends in this month. Fanaah is a temp training period . Then the next process is called baqa , where u reconnect with your role in dunya , but u keep the rememberance of Allah even while u are engaged in the world . Engaged fillah , lillah !
Rasool saw was in baqaa all the tym.
Try to get fanaah in this month n then strive for baqaa out of Ramadan. Wish for these , dream for these . Goal for u, aim for this .
Who gets guidance of Allah , those who have a heart.
Wen u make zikr , your heart is ready for the recitation of the Quran . Combine both in these last days of Ramadan . Don't let these feelings leave us after Ramadan .
1. Make Taubah from our over eating , lack of compassion , etc not just from sin .
2. Tazkiya . Do tazkiya of sahaabah . Sahaabah continued these teachings , continuing for generation to generation . The feelings of Quran is always transferred from teacher to student .
Make the niyyah to join this training . Sun nah methods of purification .
Zikr through which we can erase the Ghaflah . Every day make tilawat of Quran .
100 times istigfaar
100 times durood daily.express from the heart.
In your heart always remember Allah n his names n have feeling for him, feel that Allah is close to u . Allah can see u , hear u etc.
Nothing can distract me from there feelings .
Muraaqabah : every day for few minutes , take some tym , make the intention to remember Allah . Close eyes so u can't see the world . Close your mind from yourself n connect to Allah . Forget everything except Allah . How do u remember Allah. Make zikr of 'Allah ' with heart . As if qalb is calling name of Allah .
Just make niyyah now that u want to be lover of Allah , zaakirat,
Bay ah . To express nothing more that commitment that I want to follow sun nah , to learn tazkiya . Taking someone as a guide , hoping that your heart becomes filled with complete rem of Allah.
Shaykh Kamaluddin DB 6 July 2015
Bismillāhir-Rahmānir-Rahīm
6th July 2015 - Shaykh Kamaluddin db
The worst kind of ‘ujub is the ‘ujub people have in dīn - we are meant to be asking Allāh swt forgiveness in this month, not feel happy just because we fast and pray tarāwīh.
People get very sensitive. You should be highly sensitised by your own sins. If your one knee feels one second of pain whilst climbing steps, you would think oh ho, something has happened to me. When are we going to be sensitive for our spiritual health? How many times are we going to slip and lapse? People won’t be able to cry when they have ‘ujub. A few people cannot shed the physical tears, but they cry from the heart. This is what Allāh swt likes. Some people can cry, but not from the heart. It is not easy to be deceptive to one's Lord.
Inna akramakum ‘indallāhi atqākum - the most honoured to Allāh swt are the ones with the MOST and BEST taqwa. We want the best and most of everything - in Ramadān, we should apply these two words. We should want the best and most adab, the best and most akhlāq, the best and most hayā. The professionals know what I’m talking about - they have spent years upon years to get the best and most they can get from the dunyā - not just ten days. Ramadān was a reminder, a wake up call - He swt gives us a taste and a feeling to show us what it is like. He gives us better and more - we remember Allāh swt more and better! We are making dhikr whilst we are fasting - He swt makes us experience what it is likely to be dhākirīn - so we can worship longer, we wake up for suhūr, we pray tahajjud - it is a trial run. Almost everyone of you who fasts, you will definitely feel this that I am better in Ramadān. This is the karam of Allāh. This is the feeling we should have; this is the drive we should have; this is the passion we should have. This happens due to His mercy. Now in the last ten days, we are meant to try to get the BEST and MOST.
We are lucky to be alive in this month. Hadrat zulfiqar db says that there is so much nūr and faydh in Ramadān that even the non-muslims are touched - they will have some inkling that there is a Supreme Being. If they cannot go untouched, then we should never be untouched by this barakah in Ramadān. Allāh swt grants special hidāyah to those who are thirsty - wallathīna jāhadū fīnā lanahdiyannahum subulanā - whoever strives to come towards us, we will guide them to our many ways. You have to try one way, Allāh swt will guide you in many ways.
In atāni yamshī, ataytuhu harwala - if they come walking, my Mercy will come to them running. There is not better days to strive than these last ten days and last ten nights.
May Allāh swt make this a heart changing Ramadān for us. Aameen ya rabbal aa'lameen
6th July 2015 - Shaykh Kamaluddin db
The worst kind of ‘ujub is the ‘ujub people have in dīn - we are meant to be asking Allāh swt forgiveness in this month, not feel happy just because we fast and pray tarāwīh.
People get very sensitive. You should be highly sensitised by your own sins. If your one knee feels one second of pain whilst climbing steps, you would think oh ho, something has happened to me. When are we going to be sensitive for our spiritual health? How many times are we going to slip and lapse? People won’t be able to cry when they have ‘ujub. A few people cannot shed the physical tears, but they cry from the heart. This is what Allāh swt likes. Some people can cry, but not from the heart. It is not easy to be deceptive to one's Lord.
Inna akramakum ‘indallāhi atqākum - the most honoured to Allāh swt are the ones with the MOST and BEST taqwa. We want the best and most of everything - in Ramadān, we should apply these two words. We should want the best and most adab, the best and most akhlāq, the best and most hayā. The professionals know what I’m talking about - they have spent years upon years to get the best and most they can get from the dunyā - not just ten days. Ramadān was a reminder, a wake up call - He swt gives us a taste and a feeling to show us what it is like. He gives us better and more - we remember Allāh swt more and better! We are making dhikr whilst we are fasting - He swt makes us experience what it is likely to be dhākirīn - so we can worship longer, we wake up for suhūr, we pray tahajjud - it is a trial run. Almost everyone of you who fasts, you will definitely feel this that I am better in Ramadān. This is the karam of Allāh. This is the feeling we should have; this is the drive we should have; this is the passion we should have. This happens due to His mercy. Now in the last ten days, we are meant to try to get the BEST and MOST.
We are lucky to be alive in this month. Hadrat zulfiqar db says that there is so much nūr and faydh in Ramadān that even the non-muslims are touched - they will have some inkling that there is a Supreme Being. If they cannot go untouched, then we should never be untouched by this barakah in Ramadān. Allāh swt grants special hidāyah to those who are thirsty - wallathīna jāhadū fīnā lanahdiyannahum subulanā - whoever strives to come towards us, we will guide them to our many ways. You have to try one way, Allāh swt will guide you in many ways.
In atāni yamshī, ataytuhu harwala - if they come walking, my Mercy will come to them running. There is not better days to strive than these last ten days and last ten nights.
May Allāh swt make this a heart changing Ramadān for us. Aameen ya rabbal aa'lameen
Shaykh Kamaluddin DB 4 July 2015
Bismillāhir-Rahmānir-Rahīm
4th July 2015 - Shaykh Kamaluddin db (Jo’burg)
We have to fix it! We must leave aside our own temperament, our own inclination, our tabīát. Imagine how hard hearted that person is who every single aspect changes, but they don’t fulfil the huqūqul ‘ibād!
These middle ten days are for MAGHFIRAH. Nabi (saw) said that be merciful towards others - what is mercy? It means to waive your rights from someone even if you are angry with them within your right. In the same way, we ask Allāh swt to have mercy on us though we are deserving of the hellfire. Forgive people. Huqūqul íbād isn’t a court of law where you prove to someone that you were wronged - okay, they may have wronged you, but still forgive them. What if Allāh swt acted like that with us - He swt forgives us anyway because he is Arhamar-Rāhimīn!
We make a mistake that we only forgive someone if they didn’t wrong you - or else, we would have a life long grudge. Remember, we are nothing.
Sayyidinā Anas (ra) - when he was ten years old, his mother came to Nabi (saw) and presented him to Nabi (saw) and said he is your khādim. SubhānAllāh. What kind of mother is this? How amazingly and wonderfully must she have raised him? I think she must have made this intention since before he was born. Nabi (saw) accepted him! For the first ten years, he was in the suhbah and khidmah of Nabi (saw). Hadrat Anas (ra) narrates that Nabi (saw) once asked him if he can do something for him. Anas (ra) obviously said yes. Nabi (saw) said every morning and evening, I want to remove every bad feeling you have for anyone in your heart. This is tarbiyyah - Nabi (saw) knew people would turn to Anas (ra) later. This is from his sunnah ‘ma ahabba sunnatī, faqad ahhabanī, wa man ahhabani, fa qad ma’iya fil-jannah’- this is what Nabi (saw) in this hadīth that whosoever loves my sunnah, loves me. Whosoever loves me will be with me in Jannah! Have you ever tried? Have you done this every day in at suhūr and iftār - I have never met a person who makes dua every suhūr and iftār that remove these ill-feelings from me. This is an aspect of taqwa.
Start talking in a nicer tone to your wife and children - speak softly. Mashāikh train their students by looking at their mannerisms and every tone. Don’t be lax about this - don’t adopt this slang! You may disguise it as jolliness, but they are actually immature. People in their 50s behave like they are in their 20s. They are physically 50, but 20 spiritually. Hadrat Anas (ra) was physically 20, but aged 50 spiritually. Ramadān is where you mature spiritually - it is like an incubator. Fasting is the least feature - it is the enabling act to get this taqwa. Its like the bumper on the car. We need to make our heart like his heart; it’s not enough to just fast.
One Shaykh says - make your outward virtuous; make your inner virtuous, and spend the rest of your life making your inner more virtuous than your outer! SubhānAllāh.
Allāh is Zāhir and Bātin. Nabi (saw) had an outer sunnah (his outward beauty, kindness, gentleness and compassion) and one was the inner reality of his heart which also should be inherited by this ummah. The greatest part of his 'uswatan hasanah’ is his qalb, is his heart. We need to try and be like this - otherwise, Ramadān will end and we will be the exact same.
Ramadān is the month where we work on our heart!
Where to start?
1 - Mercy and forgiveness (huqūqul ‘ibād) - make up, reconcile with people. Whatever you want from Allāh swt, be like that with others. You want mercy and maghfirah - have mercy and forgive others.
2 - Wallathīna āmanū ashhadu hubbal-lillāh. Those who believe are extremely intense and intensely extreme in their love for Allāh swt.
Pray out of love, fast out of love, make du'ā out of love- let it linger. Dwell upon it! Sahabā Kirām would keep repeating the same āyah the whole night! That is called love. Ponder, reflect and enjoy. This isn’t a month of express ‘ibādah - its a month of love. A person who is rushing, eats very fast. But those who enjoy the food, they enjoy the food, they enjoy the after taste. We must enjoy the ‘ibādah. Every word of Qur’ān has a nūr! When I prayed salāh in Pakistan - it was hot, we were melting praying in a non-ac masjid - but we enjoyed it!
Sayyidinā Fātima (ra) prayed all night and then she made du’ā oh Allāh, that your night is too short for your Fātima. Imitate this love. Pray like the lover; recite like a lover; make du'ā like a lover. Adopt the outer form, Allāh swt will grant you the inner! Make slow pondering lingering dhikr. Don’t think this is beyond your reach - don’t think its a special sufī thing! Wallathīna āmanū ashhadu hubbal-lillāh - BASIC bare minimum imān - basic entry believer - they are extremely intense in their love for Allāh swt. Taste this. How sad would it be that we fast and pray tarāwīh and you don’t get this love. Feel thirsty for it! May Allāh swt make us steadfast muminīn! Aameen ya rabbal aa'lameen
4th July 2015 - Shaykh Kamaluddin db (Jo’burg)
We have to fix it! We must leave aside our own temperament, our own inclination, our tabīát. Imagine how hard hearted that person is who every single aspect changes, but they don’t fulfil the huqūqul ‘ibād!
These middle ten days are for MAGHFIRAH. Nabi (saw) said that be merciful towards others - what is mercy? It means to waive your rights from someone even if you are angry with them within your right. In the same way, we ask Allāh swt to have mercy on us though we are deserving of the hellfire. Forgive people. Huqūqul íbād isn’t a court of law where you prove to someone that you were wronged - okay, they may have wronged you, but still forgive them. What if Allāh swt acted like that with us - He swt forgives us anyway because he is Arhamar-Rāhimīn!
We make a mistake that we only forgive someone if they didn’t wrong you - or else, we would have a life long grudge. Remember, we are nothing.
Sayyidinā Anas (ra) - when he was ten years old, his mother came to Nabi (saw) and presented him to Nabi (saw) and said he is your khādim. SubhānAllāh. What kind of mother is this? How amazingly and wonderfully must she have raised him? I think she must have made this intention since before he was born. Nabi (saw) accepted him! For the first ten years, he was in the suhbah and khidmah of Nabi (saw). Hadrat Anas (ra) narrates that Nabi (saw) once asked him if he can do something for him. Anas (ra) obviously said yes. Nabi (saw) said every morning and evening, I want to remove every bad feeling you have for anyone in your heart. This is tarbiyyah - Nabi (saw) knew people would turn to Anas (ra) later. This is from his sunnah ‘ma ahabba sunnatī, faqad ahhabanī, wa man ahhabani, fa qad ma’iya fil-jannah’- this is what Nabi (saw) in this hadīth that whosoever loves my sunnah, loves me. Whosoever loves me will be with me in Jannah! Have you ever tried? Have you done this every day in at suhūr and iftār - I have never met a person who makes dua every suhūr and iftār that remove these ill-feelings from me. This is an aspect of taqwa.
Start talking in a nicer tone to your wife and children - speak softly. Mashāikh train their students by looking at their mannerisms and every tone. Don’t be lax about this - don’t adopt this slang! You may disguise it as jolliness, but they are actually immature. People in their 50s behave like they are in their 20s. They are physically 50, but 20 spiritually. Hadrat Anas (ra) was physically 20, but aged 50 spiritually. Ramadān is where you mature spiritually - it is like an incubator. Fasting is the least feature - it is the enabling act to get this taqwa. Its like the bumper on the car. We need to make our heart like his heart; it’s not enough to just fast.
One Shaykh says - make your outward virtuous; make your inner virtuous, and spend the rest of your life making your inner more virtuous than your outer! SubhānAllāh.
Allāh is Zāhir and Bātin. Nabi (saw) had an outer sunnah (his outward beauty, kindness, gentleness and compassion) and one was the inner reality of his heart which also should be inherited by this ummah. The greatest part of his 'uswatan hasanah’ is his qalb, is his heart. We need to try and be like this - otherwise, Ramadān will end and we will be the exact same.
Ramadān is the month where we work on our heart!
Where to start?
1 - Mercy and forgiveness (huqūqul ‘ibād) - make up, reconcile with people. Whatever you want from Allāh swt, be like that with others. You want mercy and maghfirah - have mercy and forgive others.
2 - Wallathīna āmanū ashhadu hubbal-lillāh. Those who believe are extremely intense and intensely extreme in their love for Allāh swt.
Pray out of love, fast out of love, make du'ā out of love- let it linger. Dwell upon it! Sahabā Kirām would keep repeating the same āyah the whole night! That is called love. Ponder, reflect and enjoy. This isn’t a month of express ‘ibādah - its a month of love. A person who is rushing, eats very fast. But those who enjoy the food, they enjoy the food, they enjoy the after taste. We must enjoy the ‘ibādah. Every word of Qur’ān has a nūr! When I prayed salāh in Pakistan - it was hot, we were melting praying in a non-ac masjid - but we enjoyed it!
Sayyidinā Fātima (ra) prayed all night and then she made du’ā oh Allāh, that your night is too short for your Fātima. Imitate this love. Pray like the lover; recite like a lover; make du'ā like a lover. Adopt the outer form, Allāh swt will grant you the inner! Make slow pondering lingering dhikr. Don’t think this is beyond your reach - don’t think its a special sufī thing! Wallathīna āmanū ashhadu hubbal-lillāh - BASIC bare minimum imān - basic entry believer - they are extremely intense in their love for Allāh swt. Taste this. How sad would it be that we fast and pray tarāwīh and you don’t get this love. Feel thirsty for it! May Allāh swt make us steadfast muminīn! Aameen ya rabbal aa'lameen
Shaykh Kamaluddin DB lenesia
Bismillahir- Rahmanir- Rahim
South Africa - Rainbow Masjid Lenasia - Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed DB
Some people committed major sins – some committed minor sins. Some were destined to go to Jahannam but they too had heard about this month and also decided to pray and fast. You see this all over the world. He prayed and fasted for 20 days – even though he sinned for maybe 40 years.. Allah takes his name out of the list of people going into Jahannam and puts him into Jannat. Allauakbar! Tell me if Allah takes him out is there any power on this earth that can take him out?
You ask people about anything in deen they say its not 100 percent. You ask about salaah its not 100% you ask about zakaat its not 100% you ask them about ramadhan and they have fasted every single day! You wont find any thing else in deen that is followed so well than Ramadhan.
It may be the only single thing left in deen that’s fully alive - the love and great care with which people fast is amazing!
Middle ten days are the maghfirah of Allah. One type of fast is to fast from food and drink and marital relations. Another fast can be called the fast of saalikeen. Ie fasting from ghafla. Should want that no second of my day or night is empty of the zikr of allah. A lot of people slip in the middle ten days. When ramadhan came people left over eating sleeping and reading newspapers and surfing. in the middle ten days people can slip back into it. We need to fast this fast of ghaflat for Allah.
‘don’t you dare let yourself be of those people who forget Allah’
This is our problem. We have taken this lightly. We forget Allah all the time! this is the barakat Allah gives us all the time in ramadhan. When you’re fasting for example 12 hours that’s 12 hours of zikr you’re doing. Even If you’re in Madinah munawwarah in masjid e nabi you wont pray 1 and a half rakaats of nafil. Very few people pray hours of nafil salaah in masjid e nabi. But you do this in ramadhan. The dhaakireen recite more quran ; you also recite more quran, the dhaakireen find it difficult to sin, you also find it harder to sin. The same boy who says I cant stop I find it too difficult to leave the sin – he is able to leave it in ramadhan.
In ramadhan Allah lets us feel like muttaqeen. What is taqwa? You obey Allah completely you’re not even tempted to sin. People don’t want to cheat the command of Allah even one drop – people are so careful about the fast and safeguard it so well that they call a mufti if they forget they are fasting and swallow a gulp.
You put water into your mouth for wudhu you don’t even have the temptation to drink it – that’s taqwa.
We actually get a taste of what it’s like to be muttaqeen dhaakireen in this month. All the feelings we get in this ramadhan is because Allah made us like muttaqeen dhaakireen.
When ramadhan ends fasting and taraweeh and suhoor iftar will end. We should want the feelings to stay. In previous years we weren’t able to do this we went back to who we were. This year make ramadhan different. How do we make it different? - Fast from ghaflah.
We are experts of fasting from hunger and thirst and praying taraweeh. We need to fast from ghaflat.
How can you fast from ghaflat? Make sure your heart always has feelings for Allah swt. Zikr isn’t always what you recite from your tongue. Make sure you feel feelings for Allah in your heart. Find feelings for Allah that will continue after Ramadhan
In addition to reciting Quran and praying taraweeh you need to get extra feelings for Allah in your heart.
1. Take a small surah or a small paragraph of Quran. If you have more hifz and memory then choose 3 or 4 paragraphs. Keep reading and memorising and know the meaning of those verses. Keep working on that passage of Quran until you are so connected to the passage - so much so that any time you read it melts your heart and makes you connected to Quran.
Even 3 ayahs - even one slightly long ayah. Pick one verse even and work on it. Use it in your prayer and you will see more feelings. You need to recite new ayahs to get new feelings. Whenever you recite this passage in salaah then you will get more feelings for Allah in salaah.
For huffaz pick 10 15 passages like this. ‘those who have imaan are intense for your love for Allah’
Look in the Quran and pick some verse you may like or has moved you and make a small paragraph and make it something you can recite yourself in salaah.
2. Increase in sunnah feelings. Add at least one sunnah feeling. Eg maybe sunnah kindness. Nabi saw was the most kind human being. Increase humility. Make our heart more like the sunnah heart of nabi saw.
3. Masnoon duas –learn its meaning really well and feel it. Every time you pray adhan dua feel that ya allah you have called us to this beautiful prayer and grant nabi sws maqame mahmood which you have promised him. Try and get one passionate feeling for a masnoon dua.
4. Take some name of Allah - if you’re novice start with one and if you want more then choose more names. Try and feel the feelings you should have for Allah eg Ar razaq- every second feel allah is feeding me. When you sleep feel that Allah gave me a roof over my head. Allah is clothing me. Keep doing this until you have more love for Allah and feel that Allah is MY razzaq. Keep practising until you become abdul razzq. Al –sattar – Allah is hiding my sins .. should think if my husband could see my sins he wouldn’t want to be my husband any more if people could see my sins they wouldn’t want to sit next to me. Keep doing this until you feel Abdul Sattar.
Keep concentrating on the feelings.. The month will go away but you want the feelings to stay.
May Allah make this ramadhan the best ramadhan of our life.
For last 10 days try and sit in sunnah iikaaf. Free yourself up from the dunya for 10 days. Nabi SWS could see how much mercy allah was sending in ramadhan – byt the time it came to last ten days even nabi became so thirsty for the noor and rahmah that he wanted to leave everything else and sit in masjid and do ibaadah of Allah and also invited his sahabah to sit with him. If you want to complete the mission and maximise ramadhan you should sit in itikaaf. In dunya we talk about getting the full package and the full experience – so the completion of ramadhan lies in sitting sunnah itikaaf. Postpone and reschedule worldly affairs and try and sit in sunnah itikaaf. You can immerse yourself deeply.
If you cant sit the full 10 days – try and spend as much time as you can and make the intention of nafil itikaaf. Allah will see he is doing as much as he can – then Allah SWT will do as much as he can. Don’t let yourself fall and slack. Be strong and steadfast and spend the last 10 days with full energy and effort.
May Allah make this a heart changing ramadhan of our life. May he make It the best Ramadhan of our life. Aameen
South Africa - Rainbow Masjid Lenasia - Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed DB
Some people committed major sins – some committed minor sins. Some were destined to go to Jahannam but they too had heard about this month and also decided to pray and fast. You see this all over the world. He prayed and fasted for 20 days – even though he sinned for maybe 40 years.. Allah takes his name out of the list of people going into Jahannam and puts him into Jannat. Allauakbar! Tell me if Allah takes him out is there any power on this earth that can take him out?
You ask people about anything in deen they say its not 100 percent. You ask about salaah its not 100% you ask about zakaat its not 100% you ask them about ramadhan and they have fasted every single day! You wont find any thing else in deen that is followed so well than Ramadhan.
It may be the only single thing left in deen that’s fully alive - the love and great care with which people fast is amazing!
Middle ten days are the maghfirah of Allah. One type of fast is to fast from food and drink and marital relations. Another fast can be called the fast of saalikeen. Ie fasting from ghafla. Should want that no second of my day or night is empty of the zikr of allah. A lot of people slip in the middle ten days. When ramadhan came people left over eating sleeping and reading newspapers and surfing. in the middle ten days people can slip back into it. We need to fast this fast of ghaflat for Allah.
‘don’t you dare let yourself be of those people who forget Allah’
This is our problem. We have taken this lightly. We forget Allah all the time! this is the barakat Allah gives us all the time in ramadhan. When you’re fasting for example 12 hours that’s 12 hours of zikr you’re doing. Even If you’re in Madinah munawwarah in masjid e nabi you wont pray 1 and a half rakaats of nafil. Very few people pray hours of nafil salaah in masjid e nabi. But you do this in ramadhan. The dhaakireen recite more quran ; you also recite more quran, the dhaakireen find it difficult to sin, you also find it harder to sin. The same boy who says I cant stop I find it too difficult to leave the sin – he is able to leave it in ramadhan.
In ramadhan Allah lets us feel like muttaqeen. What is taqwa? You obey Allah completely you’re not even tempted to sin. People don’t want to cheat the command of Allah even one drop – people are so careful about the fast and safeguard it so well that they call a mufti if they forget they are fasting and swallow a gulp.
You put water into your mouth for wudhu you don’t even have the temptation to drink it – that’s taqwa.
We actually get a taste of what it’s like to be muttaqeen dhaakireen in this month. All the feelings we get in this ramadhan is because Allah made us like muttaqeen dhaakireen.
When ramadhan ends fasting and taraweeh and suhoor iftar will end. We should want the feelings to stay. In previous years we weren’t able to do this we went back to who we were. This year make ramadhan different. How do we make it different? - Fast from ghaflah.
We are experts of fasting from hunger and thirst and praying taraweeh. We need to fast from ghaflat.
How can you fast from ghaflat? Make sure your heart always has feelings for Allah swt. Zikr isn’t always what you recite from your tongue. Make sure you feel feelings for Allah in your heart. Find feelings for Allah that will continue after Ramadhan
In addition to reciting Quran and praying taraweeh you need to get extra feelings for Allah in your heart.
1. Take a small surah or a small paragraph of Quran. If you have more hifz and memory then choose 3 or 4 paragraphs. Keep reading and memorising and know the meaning of those verses. Keep working on that passage of Quran until you are so connected to the passage - so much so that any time you read it melts your heart and makes you connected to Quran.
Even 3 ayahs - even one slightly long ayah. Pick one verse even and work on it. Use it in your prayer and you will see more feelings. You need to recite new ayahs to get new feelings. Whenever you recite this passage in salaah then you will get more feelings for Allah in salaah.
For huffaz pick 10 15 passages like this. ‘those who have imaan are intense for your love for Allah’
Look in the Quran and pick some verse you may like or has moved you and make a small paragraph and make it something you can recite yourself in salaah.
2. Increase in sunnah feelings. Add at least one sunnah feeling. Eg maybe sunnah kindness. Nabi saw was the most kind human being. Increase humility. Make our heart more like the sunnah heart of nabi saw.
3. Masnoon duas –learn its meaning really well and feel it. Every time you pray adhan dua feel that ya allah you have called us to this beautiful prayer and grant nabi sws maqame mahmood which you have promised him. Try and get one passionate feeling for a masnoon dua.
4. Take some name of Allah - if you’re novice start with one and if you want more then choose more names. Try and feel the feelings you should have for Allah eg Ar razaq- every second feel allah is feeding me. When you sleep feel that Allah gave me a roof over my head. Allah is clothing me. Keep doing this until you have more love for Allah and feel that Allah is MY razzaq. Keep practising until you become abdul razzq. Al –sattar – Allah is hiding my sins .. should think if my husband could see my sins he wouldn’t want to be my husband any more if people could see my sins they wouldn’t want to sit next to me. Keep doing this until you feel Abdul Sattar.
Keep concentrating on the feelings.. The month will go away but you want the feelings to stay.
May Allah make this ramadhan the best ramadhan of our life.
For last 10 days try and sit in sunnah iikaaf. Free yourself up from the dunya for 10 days. Nabi SWS could see how much mercy allah was sending in ramadhan – byt the time it came to last ten days even nabi became so thirsty for the noor and rahmah that he wanted to leave everything else and sit in masjid and do ibaadah of Allah and also invited his sahabah to sit with him. If you want to complete the mission and maximise ramadhan you should sit in itikaaf. In dunya we talk about getting the full package and the full experience – so the completion of ramadhan lies in sitting sunnah itikaaf. Postpone and reschedule worldly affairs and try and sit in sunnah itikaaf. You can immerse yourself deeply.
If you cant sit the full 10 days – try and spend as much time as you can and make the intention of nafil itikaaf. Allah will see he is doing as much as he can – then Allah SWT will do as much as he can. Don’t let yourself fall and slack. Be strong and steadfast and spend the last 10 days with full energy and effort.
May Allah make this a heart changing ramadhan of our life. May he make It the best Ramadhan of our life. Aameen
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