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Let us remember and think and actualize this feeling of the truth that Allah sent Ramadhan al-Kareem as a blessing for us, as a gift for us. Imagine if somebody gives you an expensive watch or somebody gives you, you know, somebody gives you, you wake up in the morning and you find it the latest S-class Mercedes fully loaded standing in your in your Porsche and there’s a key and there’s a tag saying this is for my friend so and so and this is from wherever your friend is who’s generous enough to do that for you. Imagine how grateful you would be, how wonderful you would be, how you would savor the gift, right? You would look at it again and again, you would sit in it and you would drive this car very carefully. If it says watch, you’re going to put it on and you know, imagine all the, just think about this, this extremely valuable gift that you got from somebody and then remind yourself that no matter how valuable that gift was, you are going to leave us behind in this world when you go, right? Whereas Allah subhanahu ta’ala gave us this gift of Ramadhan al-Kareem which is obviously there is no comparison between the gift of, the gift which Allah gives us, the gift with anybody else’s gifts, material and spiritual, but Allah subhanahu ta’ala’s gift comes with us in the Akhirah. There is a beautiful hadith where there were two Sahaba who came to Islam on the same day, they accepted Islam on the same day and after many years, one of them died as a martyr in one of the Ghazwat and the other one died one year later. And one of the other Sahaba, I don’t now recollect the name of the Sahabi, he saw the second one, he saw in a dream, he had a dream in which he saw the second one going into Jannah before the first one. So the first one died as a martyr, as a Shaheed and obviously his Shahadah, inshallah, is true and he will get Jannah. But this person who saw, he saw the second one going into Jannah before the first one. So he came to the Prophet, he asked him, he said, Ya Rasulullah, how is it that I find this person who died as a Shaheed, he is going into Jannah after his friend who died a year later of natural causes and they both accepted Islam on the same day. Rasulullah said, why are you surprised? Did the second one not get one more Ramadan? Did he not get a chance to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala more in the month of Ramadan? Did he not get one more Lailatul Qadar? Did he not get the chance to do good deeds for one more year? Now that does not obviously detract from the position of the Shaheed, but the point I am making is let us be very very conscious of this beautiful gift that Allah has given us. In the hadiths in Bukhari and Muslim, Rasulullah said the fasting person has two happy moments. One when he breaks his fast he is happy and then the second one is when he meets his Rabb Jallalahu, he is happy because of his fasting. In another hadith in Tirmidhi and Mimajah, Rasulullah said, Allah has those whom he frees from Jahannam and this occurs every night in Ramadan. So about it, we have got this beautiful month which Allah has given us and Allah subhanahu ta’ala has blessed us with all of these blessings. So we have the issue of also the Umrah in Rabadhan, may Allah grant us this. Rasulullah said the one who makes Umrah in Rabadhan, the reward of that is equivalent to making Hajj with Rasulullah. So it is such a beautiful month with so much goodness and so much blessing. Let us make sure that we take full advantage of it and we don’t lose that wasting time and doing useless things or doing things which Allah has prohibited.
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