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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And I send my greetings and peace and blessings upon the honorable prophets and messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and upon his family and companions, peace and blessings be upon him. On the subject of making targets and goals for yourself in Ramadan and measurement and metrics, the thing I want to say to you, my brothers and sisters, is here are some basic ones that I suggest for you. The first thing is in terms of how much Quran should I read. Now read at least one Juz of Quran every single day in the month of Ramadan. Now this is something that you should do throughout your life. But in Ramadan definitely say one single Juz or one Juz, if you are reading less than that. If you are reading one Juz then read three. Make it thrice. But if you are not reading, if you are not reading or reading less than one, say one Juz, one sipara of Quran every day. So what happens now is Alhamdulillah you do one khatmah by the time you finish the Ramadan and then you are also listening to Tarawih which will take you to one Juz, so you have finished two Juz. Now if you read one Juz of Quran every single day of your life, which you should do and which is very easy, Alhamdulillah, then you would have finished in the year, you would have finished, just take the 12 months, you would have finished 12 khatmah, 12 Juz in the Quran, 12 times you finish the Ramadan and then in the Ramadan then you would extra make it two Juz or make it three. So you add that up plus one Juz of Tarawih, that’s what you get. Now think about this. Rasool Allah s.a.w. in the beautiful hadith he said that when you read the Quran, Allah gives you 10 hasanat, he said Allah gives you 10 rewards for each letter of the Quran. 10 rewards for each letter of the Quran and he said I do not say Alif Lam Mim is one letter, he said Alif is one letter, Lam is one letter, Mim is one letter. So to do this, take a Quran, take a bambusaf, open it anywhere randomly. If you are using a Usmani script, there are 15 lines. Count the number of letters in the line. You don’t have to be absolute exact but count them up. So if this Alif Lam is one, that is three letters, Zalikal Kitab, Alif Lam, Ka, so this way. So count the letters in each line and once you get one full line, then you can multiply that as 15 lines. That is the number of letters. There are per page, there are 600 pages in the Quran, give or take one or two pages. So that is 600 pages multiplied by those 15 lines multiplied by those letters. That is the number of hasanat that you will get if you read one juz and Allah s.w.t multiplies that by 10 minimum when it goes to Allah s.w.t. So imagine how much of goodness you are collecting for yourself. This payaza, this payaza without even thinking. And then in Ramadan, every nafl you pray, Allah is giving you the reward of a fard. Every fard you pray, Allah is giving you the reward of 70 fard. Now add to that the Quran that you read and the Quran that you listen to carefully and not talking about some people listen to Quran like background music. No, don’t do that. That is disrespectful of the Quran. When you listen to the Quran, don’t do anything else. Don’t be chatting and talking and doing it. Carefully listen. You can listen while you are driving because you are driving and you are listening, Alhamdulillah this is possible, but don’t do other things. Don’t talk to people and stuff. This is disrespect of the Quran. So listen to the Quran and listen carefully. And then you do that, then you will find that Alhamdulillah, imagine the number of hasanat that you are collecting. In Tarawih, the Imam is doing the hard work. He is reading, he has to remember and he has to recite. You are simply standing there behind the Imam and you are listening. Imagine the number of hasanat, the free benefit that you are getting of benefit and reward from Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. Thanks to Ramadan. Maximize the benefit of being in Ramadan by making goals for yourself. Eat less, sleep less, pray more. These are the three major goals that you must make for yourself. We ask Allah to make it easy and to reward us. Wasallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem wa ala alihi wasa bi hajmein bi rahmatul kareem.
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