اللهم رمضان، وبُيوتك، والتراويح، والتهجّد، والقبول وحسن الختام والجنة يا رحمن!

نصيحة من قلب مشفق .
A piece of advice from a compassionate heart:

لا تنتظر أن يبدأ رمضان لتجاهد في العبادة، لا بد أن تتدرج من الآن القلب يحتاج وقت ليتفرغ ويلين، والعقل يحتاج وقت ليصفى .
Don’t wait for Ramadan to start striving in worship. You need to gradually prepare from now. The heart needs time to focus and soften, and the mind needs time to clear.

ستخسر رمضان لو بدأت ۱ رمضان !
You will lose Ramadan if you wait until the 1st of Ramadan!

لذلك عود نفسك من الآن، ضم اثنين وخميس، قم الليل ولو بركعة اقرأ صفحات من القرآن، تصدق على مسكين، أكثر من ذكر الله ....
Therefore, train yourself from now—fast on Mondays and Thursdays, pray at night even if it's just one unit of prayer, read pages from the Quran, give charity to the needy, and increase your remembrance of Allah...

وقبل كل شي تخفف من دنياك
ليدخل رمضان وأنت مستعد بإذن الله .
And before everything, lighten the burdens of this world, so that when Ramadan arrives, you are prepared, with Allah’s permission.

An Urgent Call to Every Muslim: Repent Before Ramadan – Enter with a Clean Heart, Free from the Shackles of Sin!

Shaykh Sulayman Ar-Ruhayli حفظه الله

وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا لُقْمَانَ الْحِكْمَةَ أَنِ اشْكُرْ لِلَّهِ ۚ وَمَن يَشْكُرْ فَإِنَّمَا يَشْكُرُ لِنَفْسِهِ ۖ وَمَن كَفَرَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَنِيٌّ حَمِيدٌ

سورة لقمان، ١٢

And indeed, We gave Luqman wisdom, saying: “Be grateful to Allah.” Whoever is grateful, he is grateful for his own benefit. And whoever is ungrateful, then surely Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.

A man once asked Hazrat Luqman Hakeem

“What is the reason that people sit in your gatherings, come to your door, and listen to your words with interest?”
Hazrat Luqman Hakeem replied:

“Brother, if you act upon the things I tell you, you will also become like me:

– Keep your eyes away from what is forbidden
– Stop your tongue from useless and indecent speech
– Always earn and eat halal
– Protect your modesty
– Always speak the truth
– Fulfil your promises
– Honor your guests
– Care for your neighbors
– Leave useless and pointless actions

Because of these habits, I was given respect and honor.

[Tafsir ibn e kaseer]

Duaa For Someone You Have Insulted, Cursed or Harmed

اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّمَا أَنَا بَشَرٌ فَأَيُّ الْمُسْلِمِينَ لَعَنْتُهُ أَوْ سَبَبْتُهُ فَاجْعَلْهُ لَهُ زَكَاةً وَأَجْرًا

O Allah, I am only human, so any Muslim whom I curse or revile, make it purification and reward for him.

صحيح مسلم ٢٦٠٠ (٦٦١٤)

An advice before Ramadan…

Whoever finds that his heart does not open, and that he does not attain the sweetness of faith or the light of guidance, then let him increase in repentance and seeking forgiveness, and let him persist in striving to the best of his ability.

For Allah says:

﴿والَّذينَ جاهدُوا فينا لنَهدِينَّهم سُبُلنا﴾
“And those who strive for Us—We will surely guide them to Our ways.”

And he must uphold the obligatory duties—seeking help from Allah, and fosaking all power and strength except through Him.

Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā, by Ibn Taymiyyah (11/390)

وكان يقولُ: تَفَقَّدِ الحَلاوة في ثلاثة: في الصلاة، والقراءة، والذِّكْرِ، فَإِنْ وجَدْتَ ذلكَ، فَامْضِ وأبشر، وإلا، فاعلم أن بابَكَ مَعْلَقٌ، فَعَالِجٌ فَتْحَهُ.

Hasan al Basri رحمه الله said:

Look for sweetness in three things:
in prayer, in reciting the Qur’an,
and in remembering Allah.
If you find this sweetness, then continue and be grateful. But if you do not find it, then know that the door is closed, so make efforts to open it.

[Adab al Hasan al Basri, Dar an Nawadir, p. 54]

Imam Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

These 5 things are amongst the greatest corrupters of the heart

1. Too much socialising.

2. Wishing for things.

3. Attachment to others besides Allah.

4. Filling one's stomach.

5. Sleeping too much.

[Uddat as Sabirin, pg. 197]

Ibn Rajab (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

The Salaf used to advise perfecting one’s deeds and doing them well, rather than doing a great deal of them.

For a small amount of work done with excellence and precision is better than a large amount done with heedlessness and lack of care.

Majmūʿ al-Rasāʾil (1/352)

“And know that Allah, the Exalted, is watching you and fully aware of you.

So say to yourself:
If a righteous man from my own people were to see me, I would feel ashamed before him—so how could I not feel ashamed before my Lord, Blessed and Exalted?

Then I cannot feel safe from the hastening of His punishment or from His removing the veil (that conceals my faults).”

Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī, al-Waṣiyyah al-Mubārakah, pp. 94–95

“إِذَا مَاتَ الْعَبْدُ اِنْقَطَعَ عَنْهُ عَمَلِهُ إِلا مِنْ ثَلاثٍ: صَدَقَةِ جَارِيَةٍ، أَوْ عِلَمٍ يُنْتَفَعُ بِهِ، أَوْ وَلَدٍ صالِحِ يَدعَوْ لهَ.”

The prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said:

“When a person dies, all action is cut off for him with the exception of three things:

sadaqa which continues,
knowledge which benefits,
or a righteous child who makes supplication for him.”

Shaitan makes every possible effort to lead us away from the straight path and make us ungrateful. And if he cannot do that, then he tries to make sure that at least we don't collect reward and good deeds for Aakhirah or even if we do, it is very little.

لماذا لا نتأثر بالقرآن في رمضان؟

🎙️ الشيخ محمد برهجي

Why does one of us complain about not being affected by the Qur’an in the month of Ramadan?
Why does Ramadan come to him and leave — and, Allah forbid, he remains the same?

By Allah, he remains the same. He does not benefit from it. He recites but does not humble himself. He completes many recitations of the Qur’an, yet there is no change in his heart, nor in his limbs, nor in his soul.

This is because, O servants of Allah, the heart was not prepared before Ramadan.
The Qur’an does not settle in a heart that is preoccupied, nor does it enter a heart over which sin has cast a covering, veiled by disobedience.

Allah, the Exalted, says:
“No! Rather, a covering has been placed over their hearts because of what they used to earn.”

When a person sins, O servants of Allah, it forms a covering over the heart. So Sha‘ban is an opportunity to regret what has passed, to make sincere repentance, to resolve truthfully to worship Allah, to have firm intention to do good and abandon wrongdoing, to give preference to acts of nearness to Allah, and to strengthen the connection between the servant and his Lord, Glorified and Exalted.

So in these days, O beloved ones, there is a tremendous opportunity for seeking forgiveness, repentance, and reforming the hearts so that they may be prepared for the Month of the Qur’an and the gates of goodness within it.

Allah says:
“Indeed, in that is a reminder for whoever has a heart or listens attentively while being present.”

The limbs — the ears and the eyes — convey to the heart, so a Muslim should use these faculties in what pleases Allah, Glorified and Exalted.

You will be held accountable for these limbs:
“The Day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will testify against them about what they used to do.”