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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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