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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillah Rabbil A’lamin. Wa Salatu wa Salamu ala ashrifil anbiya’i wa barbursaleen Muhammadun Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasleemun kaseerun kaseerun aba’um. Fama ba’dun abidun sisters. People say that habit change takes three weeks, 21 days. So if you want to change your habit, you do something continuously without fail for 21 days and you must not, you know, you must not give gaps and so on. So you do whatever you do and you want to change that. Now you do that continuously for three weeks, that becomes a habit. And as they say, habits become your destination. So very important for us to understand this. Now the point here is that Ramadan gives us the opportunity of not 21 days but 29 to 30 days. So it’s a reinforcing thing which Ramadan gives us, which we don’t get anywhere else, to change our habits. So let us make full use of that. So in these habits, as I have been saying for the last two days, one is make goals for yourself, which is eat less, sleep less, and read more Quran and more Ibadah, more connecting with Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. Make qiyamul layl, tarawi is a form of qiyamul layl. So make, not tarawi, tarawi we pray only Ramadan, but qiyamul layl meaning the salah which comes after Isha. So sleep for a while, get up and pray tahajjud. Make tahajjud further on yourself. So that’s a new habit that you’re going to build into your habit, into your day, to say I’m going to pray tahajjud every single day until the last day and may Allah take my soul in tahajjud, in sujood, ameen, ya’rup. So make that into a habit. Reading extra Quran, now that extra becomes a normal habit for me because I’ve been reading it and I’ve been reading one Juz of Quran throughout the month, so therefore now I will read one Juz of Quran every day for the rest of my life inshallah. Right, so again another beautiful new habit. Beautiful new habit, I used to pray Salatul Isha and Salatul Fajr in the masjid all through Ramadan and Nabi Salaam said the one who prays Salatul Fajr by Salatul Isha by Jama Allah gives him the reward of half of having prayed half the night and he prays Salatul Fajr by Jama in the masjid, Allah gives him reward for worshipping him the other half of the night. So somebody who prays Salatul Isha and Salatul Fajr in the masjid, prays by Jama, he gets or she gets the reward of having prayed the full night. So let us make that into a habit. Women can pray at home but the men should go to the masjid. If you live in a place which is far away from the masjid, you can’t go there easily, then make a Jama with your wife and with your children and whoever else is in the house, in your house but pray by Jama, don’t pray by yourself. This is a habit. Then make another habit of giving charity every day. As I mentioned earlier, make giving charity in Ramadan, make this habit and say every day I will give something in charity. I don’t care how much it is, make this habit every day, give something in charity. Do not leave your house empty handed. Take some money with you as you leave your house, don’t return unless you have given something in charity. Make this into a habit. Throughout Ramadan you did that, now make this into a lifelong habit because please understand, you know we have this habit of feeding people in Ramadan but people are not anacondas, they don’t eat once in a year. So make sure that you give them, make this into a habit of feeding people throughout the year. So all kinds of, in Ramadan we make it a habit, we are going to be polite, we are going to be kind, we are not going to use curse words, we are not going to raven rant, we are not going to, you know anybody argues with us, we say I am fasting, I will not argue with you. Make these into lifelong habits. Right, so InshaAllah at the end of Ramadan you are a beautiful transformed human being into a much better version of yourself. And this now becomes a lifelong habit throughout. We ask Allah SWT to help us to make these transformations and to enable us to live according to how Allah SWT wants us to live.
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