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Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen was Salat was Salam Alaa Sharifil Ambiya Wal Mursaleen
Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Alaihi wa Sahibus Sallam Tasleemun Kaseerun Kaseera
Fahmul Baduk
My brothers and sisters I remind myself when you that fasting comes to reinforce this primordial and fundamental foundational message
that all virtue and blessing and success starts with obeying Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala
and making his will the guiding light in our lives. I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to illuminate our hearts with his light
and to drive out the darkness of fear and depression and despair. As we face a hostile world it must be clear
that the only source of support and protection that we can rely on is Allah. So let us repair our bridge to him.
Here is what I suggest for all of us. Number one, visit the goals we set. If you did not set goals do it now.
Check how you are doing with respect to achieving those goals. Number two, identify the blocks and retardants to your success and remove them.
They will be for example time wasters, pointless conversation about things not in our control, low achiever friends who will drag you down to their level,
distractions in your day combined with the inability to say no. Learn assertiveness and practice it.
Number three, apply the start stop continue standard. What do I need to start which I’m not doing?
What do I need to stop which I am doing? What do I need to continue consciously which I am doing which is good?
And see on each if we are on track what are the measurable changes in our lives.
Remember that metrics are evidence of existence. If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.
Good intentions that are not followed by action are useless. And four, finally having identified these turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala especially in tahajjud.
Make tahajjud further on yourself for the rest of your life inshallah and ask for Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala’s help to get closer to him because that is the purpose of Ramadan.
Allah said, was judh waqtarib. Allah said, make sajdah and come close to me.
Sajdah is the ultimate quintessential icon of obedience.
You want to come close to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala? There’s only one path and that is the path of obedience.
And that’s why in the middle of the ayat relating to fasting Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala revealed,
wa idha saadaka li baadiyanni fa inni qareeb
wujeebu daawat ad da’ee dha da’aan
fal yastajeebu li wal yu’minoo bi la’allaghum yarshudoon
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, when my slaves ask you O Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam about me, I am truly near to them.
I respond to their da’aan when they call upon me, so let them obey me and believe in me and they will be guided to the right way.
La’allah, which is translated as perhaps in the Quran, is at the level of yaqeen.
So whenever you hear la’allahu yarshudoon, la’allahu turhamoon and so on and so forth,
there’s no element of doubt in that. Even though Allah said la’allah, there’s no element of doubt in that.
Now see this, the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, the slave only asked,
wa idha saadaka li baadiyanni, the person is only asking about Allah and Allah says I’m close to him.
I’m close to him.
And when the slave is close to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, he is in need, so he asks Allah.
And Allah says, Allah assures him.
wujeebu daawat ad da’ee dha daan
Allah said I will give you.
But two conditions, fal yasta ji boolee wa joomeen ubee. Obey me and believe in me.
Obedience is the key and obedience with knowledge of who Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala is
engenders and strengthens belief. Obedience is proof of Iban.
When the heart of the slave is illuminated by the noor of the glory and magnificence of
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, it is filled with gratitude to him for all his blessings.
The first and most critical of them is tawheed and then his immediate response is to make istighfar
and seek forgiveness. The surest sign of khashyatullah is the frequency of istighfar that a slave makes.
I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to make us among the people who are who seek forgiveness often.
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, the Nabi said,
He said all the children of Adam alayhi salam make mistakes.
The best of those who make mistakes are the ones who repent.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to make us among the tawaboon,
among the qanithoon, among the uwinian people, among the sajidoon,
wa rakhiyoon, wa sa’imoon, and among the people who make ruku and sujood and musalleen,
among the people who make salah, among the people who make wudu, among the people who make
salah, among the people who fast. And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to purify our ikhlas
and our niya and to make our actions purely and only for the blessing and for the pleasure of
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to open our hearts to his nur, to his
qashiyah and fill our hearts with his qashiyah and with the hubba and muhammad of Allah subhanahu
wa ta’ala and his rasool alayhi salatu wassalam. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to make our feet
firm on the path of muhammad salallahu alayhi wassalam, the path of righteousness, the path of
guidance. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to help all those in need. We ask Allah to help all those
who are suffering in different parts of the world who cannot even fast in Ramadan because of
difficulties of all kinds of problems that they have and those who are fasting despite that and
they prove the the truth of this religion and the truth of this deen that the ones who love Allah
subhanahu wa ta’ala. Nothing can stop them from the obedience of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala.
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