 وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ أَيَاتُوْهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ الْمُنْزَالُوْهِ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُوْهِ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشد الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل واشدوا أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعاله وعاله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى as you can all see we are in the last 10 days of the great blessed month of Ramadan it is from the minan and the blessings of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that we reached this time ولو الله if it wasn't for him سبحانه وتعالى we would have been from the many who passed away who died before Ramadan or within Ramadan but did not reach these last 10 days so we ask him سبحانه وتعالى as he has allowed us to reach Ramadan that he also allows us to finish this noble month and this blessed month my beloved brothers and sisters how could we benefit and maximize the benefits that we can take from these 10 days إن شاء الله وتعالى that is what my lecture is and that is what I want to talk about بإذن الله الكريم the first thing that is needed from us is number one we need to fast fasting is an action itself has a great station the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said in the hadith القدسي كل عمل ابن آدم إله every action that the slave does it's for him أما كل عمل ابن آدم all of the actions that the slave the children of Adam do الحسنة عشر أم تاريحة 10 is multiplied by 10 إلى 700 and it's multiplied up to 700 الله سبحانه وتعالى he says some of the rewayat says إلا الصيام and some of the rewayat says إلا صوم fasting فإنه لي fasting is for me وانا أجزي بي and I am the one who rewards based on fasting so fasting the reward is ambiguous we don't know it and the scholars they say إبهام والأجلي the fact that the reward is hidden it is a delil it's evidence that is vast because the one who is hiding it and not telling you about it is who الله عز وجل and we don't expect something little from him what we expect from Allah is what great and high if a leader says to you you know what I'll look after you are you going to expect something simple from him is a leader when he says I'm going to look after you he doesn't need to tell you what he's going to do are we together brothers when Allah سبحانه وتعالى says فإنه لي fasting is for me وانا أجزي بي and I will reward you it shows that the reward of fasting is greater than what we can what we can comprehend also the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said in a hadith من لم يدع قول الزور anyone who does not leave of false testimony and he doesn't leave of ignorance foul language من لم يدع قول الزور والعمل به والجهل فليس لله حاجة أن يدع طعامه وشرابه Allah doesn't have no desire Allah does not want from you to leave food and drinking if what you're falling into is foul language if you're speaking ill and if you're coming with things that will reduce your fasting brothers what affects fasting is two things number one is things that reduce your fasting it doesn't fully take it away it doesn't fully nullify your fasting but it reduces it the second thing is that which will nullify your fasting the things that will reduce your fasting in terms of reward is the things that you say and the things that you do other than eating drinking intimacy deliberately choosing to vomit and apostating those five they nullify your fasting anything other than those five other than those five which are major sins they will reduce your fasting even now that you've entered the last ten days of Ramadan make sure that you stay away from those two number two the second thing that we need to do in this month these last ten days is القيام we need to stand we need to stand فالله سبحانه وتعالى عائش رضي الله وتعالى عنها she said في الحديث الذي رواه البخاري ومسلم that بخاري ومسلم both narrated كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا دخل عشر الأواخر and another wording is كإذا دخل العشر if the last ten days entered the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم أحيى الليلة he will revive the night وأي قضاء أهله he will wake up his family وشد المئزر and he's صلى الله عليه وسلم he will tighten his waist and the scholars they say this means he will stay away from his wives and intimacy and he will work excessively hard عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم so now that these ten nights have entered what is the slave meant to do the slave is meant to awaken it up with praying the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم he said إن حديث ألمام البخاري ومسلم حديث أبي هوريرا من قام ليلة القدر إيمانا وحتسابا وفر لهم ما تقدم من ذنبي anyone who stands up stands up when he stands up ليلة القدر with two characteristics إيمانا believing in Allah وحتسابا hoping for reward his sins will be forgiven and Allah when he prays عباد الرحمن what did he say ودريسي وعباد الرحمن الذين يمشون على الأرض هونة وإذا خاطبهم الجاهلون قالوا سلامة والذين يبيتون لربهم سجدا وقيامة they spend what they spend the night standing أصول الله سبحانه و تعالى يسر إن النذ آية أما هو قانت أنا الليل ساجدا وقائما يحذر الآخرة ويرجو رحمة ربه قل هل يستوي الذين يعلمون والذين لا يعلمون إنما يتذكر أولو الألباب إذا الله يقول الذين يتذكرون كل night standing up إنه يضع so much effort هل هو like the one who's not so the slave what does he do this time he stands up and he makes sure that he prays to Allah الله سبحانه و تعالى يقول إن النذ آية وأمر أهلك بالصلاة وستبر عليها وأمر أهلك بالصلاة come on your family your offspring the prayer and Allah سبحانه و تعالى يقول be patient upon that وذلك عثمان رضي الله و تعالى عنه it was said that he would pray the qiyam from isha and to fajr just before isha he would eat his sohoor and then عثمان رضي الله عنه will pray و لذلك the nobu tabii السائب و يزيد and he said كان القارئ the reciter from amongst us he would lead us that prayer يقرأ المئتين he would read 200 verses he would choose and when he would read those verses he would pray for so long and for so extra until one of us would have to hold onto a stick or something and then look what he said at the ending and they never used to pray the qiyam except fajr time 200 verses slowly that's how they would pray so that's what we need to do how should we do that if the imam says الله أكبر we say الله أكبر with him and we finish with the imam the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said in the hadith من قام مع إمامه حتى ينصرف anyone who prays with the imam until the imam finishes the prayer كوتي باله قيام الليل what is written for you قيام الليل the scholars they said من قام مع إمامه anyone who stands up with his imam there's the imam if it changes if it becomes two imams is the imam the one that's leading that's meant here or the salah itself قول الراجع is that salah even if the imam changes it means that if the imam is leading and he starts the prayer you finish the salah from the beginning to the end regardless of who's leading it from the beginning of the end then you have the reward what brothers it's as though you stood up the whole night the third thing that we need to do brothers is a sadaqa the prophet SAW said in the hadith افضل sadaqa the greatest type of charity to give is sadaqa in ramadan is the charity that's done in this month how could a person do sadaqa in ramadan two ways in sha Allah number one إطعام الطعام give food Allah says in the Qur'an يوفون من نذر ويخافون يوما كان شره مستطيرة ويطعمون الطعام على حبي مسكينة ويتيمة واسيرة لوجه الله لا نريد منكم جزاء ولا شكورة that they give those who are in need what did they give them ويطعمون الطعام they give food عبدالله السلام رضي الله تعالى عنه when I came to the city of medina I saw the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم when I looked at his face I realized this man is not a liar he's a prophet of Allah and he said the first thing I heard him say was افشو السلام واتعم الطعام وصلو بالليل والناس ونيام تدخل الجنة بسلام the first thing I heard him say was these statements and from the things was what اطعم الطعام give food the second way that you could do صدقة is by helping a person تفطير الصائمين a person who's fasting giving something to break his fast the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said من افطر الصائم anybody who breaks the fasting of a person who's fasting at iftar time you're giving something كان الله مثل اجله you get the reward of that person which you broke their fast but على انه لا ينقص من اجورهم شيئا the people among the صائم in which you gave the food to his reward will not be reduced الله will give you that reward if that person is fasting though so this is how we should go number four is الاجتهاد في قراءة القرآن that we exert every effort in reciting the Quran and these are in two ways in two ways we exert every effort in reciting the Quran the first one is كثرة قراءة القرآن they would read the Quran as much as we can some of the salaf you all know they would read the Quran so much if a man would finish the Quran once a day and محمد وديلسة الشافعي would finish the Quran how many times a day one in the morning one in the day time and one at the night time so in شافعي and he finished the Quran 60 times in Ramadan and others it was narrated other things from them امام مالك رحمه الله he used to have the biggest gathering in Medina they said 40,000 people some of the gathering in Medina to hear the hadith from him امام مالك رحمه الله but when Ramadan would enter he would close the gathering of teaching and he would sit down to read Quran وكانت له ختمات he would have finishing the Quran in Ramadan every three days he would finish the Quran امام مالك رحمه الله so there's many you can find in the كتاب لطائف المعارف and the مصنف ابن أبي شيبة رحمه الله the second thing is البكاء عند تلاوة القرآن when you read the Quran that you ponder and you cry over it and you contemplate over it وذلك الله says in the Quran وقرآن فرقناه لتقرأه على الناس على مكث ونزلناه تنزيلة قل آمنه به أو لا تؤمنه إن الذين إن الذين أوتوا العلم من قبل إذا يتلع عليهم يخرون للأذقان السجدة ويقولون سبحان ربنا إنه ويقولون سبحان ربنا إن كان وعد ربنا لمفعولة ويخرون للأذقان يبكون ويزيدهم خشوعة إذا الله يقوم بعملهم سبحانه وتعالى the fact that they would cry over the Quran ويقوم بعمل ويقولون وقد كنت عندما يحدث عبد الله يبين مسعود وقد تقوم بعمل وبدأ كيف وصوم بعمل وصوم بعمل ويقولوا سورة وصوم بعمل ويقولوا سورة وصوم بعمل وقلت فيه قبل أن يأتي إلى الآية فكيف يأتي من كل أمة المشاهدين وقلت بك على أولى شهيدا وقلت في هذا الآية وقلت فيه حس بوك ستوقف وقلت فيه فنظرت فإذا عينه تضريفان عندما أرى الممتعين وموترين هذا هو ما يحتاج مننا نمبر 5 هو الجلوس في المسجد حتى تطلع على شمس عندما تقلت فيه فجر لا تتطلع من جميعك تبقوا لك حتى الارض even if you don't do any traffic in the masjid تبقوا لك في هذه الآية تبقوا لك حتى الارض النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من صلى الفجر في جمعه من who prays the salat to al-Fajr in a jama'a وماذا تفعله؟ ثم قاعد يدكر الله he sits in his position he remembers Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he doesn't move حتى تطلع على الشمس until the sun rises ثم صلى ركعتين and then he prays two rak'a كانت له it is for him كأجر حجة like a reward of hajj another iwayah says a hajj like me the scholars they differed on its authenticity for now we will take the authentication of sheikh محمد ناصر ردينة الباني number six is i'itikaf which many of you are already planning to do to do i'itikaf in the masjid the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he used to do i'itikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan and that itself it's a virtue the fact that the Prophet used to do it and the fact that Allah سبحانه وتعالى he says in the ayah وَلَا تُبَاشِيرُوهُنَّ وَأَنْتُمْ عَاكِفُونَ فِي الْمَسَاجِدِ لكن ألمام أحمد رحمه الله في مسائل الخلال he was asked about the reward of anyone who does i'itikaf what's the reward for the mu'atekif and he mentioned there is no reward i know for the mu'atekif which is the correct one there is no authentic reward for the mu'atekif but insha'Allah that doesn't mean that there is no reward the eighth the seventh point insha'Allah is التحري في ليلة القدر it is your hardest to find ليلة القدر the prophet SAW he said فلتمسوها في العشر الأواخر try to look for ليلة القدر in what في العشر الأواخر in the last ten in the last ten nights of Ramadan we don't know what night it is but we only know that it's going to be in one of those ten nights and the qul which is راجح that the Imamunna we mentioned in this كتاب المجمع which is the shara'a of al-muhaddab which is the shirazi that the qul of Imam Malik سوفيانة ثوري سوفيانة برسعيد ثوري أبو ثور أحمد ابن حمر رواية عنه وإسحاكم الراهوية is that ليلة القدر is not a specific night in the last ten nights it moves from one night to another so last year it could be in the 27th and this year it could be the 21st it will move around what does that make us do brothers it makes us put extra work in making sure that we work hard to catch that night the virtues of it is that it is better than a thousand months خير من ألف شهر and a thousand months brothers is what 83 years and 4 months it's like you prayed and you watched Allah for 83 years and 4 months if you catch that night and you get hold of that night another thing is سلامهية حتى مطلع الفجر ابن القيّم in his kitab بداع الفوائد he says that سلامهية it means سلامة من العقاب في الدنيا والآخرة that you are safe from the punishment of this dunya الله will protect you from any harm any problems from this dunya and also what the punishment of the hereafter سلامون that's what it means but until when is ليلة القدر سلامهية حتى مطلع الفجر it's up to Fajr after Fajr there's no Laila Tulkadr you've missed it that's why it's called Laila it starts from من غروب الشمسي إلى الفجر الثاني this is the time that the person has to work hard number 8 is الإكسار من الذكري والدعاء والاستغفار at this particular time we should make دعاء we should make استغفار الله says in the Quran و بالأسحارة هم يستغفرون عباد الرحمن the righteous people are known to what this is what they are known to do and Imam would tell me he narrated in his Sunan that our mother عائشة asked the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم if I catch Laila Tulkadr what shall I do what shall I do the prophet when he said to her say اللهم اللهم إنك عافون كريم تحبوا العفو فعفو عني he told her to make this دعاء so if Laila Tulkadr happens this is the دعاء that our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم told who our mother عائشة to make the Ramadan the دعاء the times that is accepted in Ramadan is two times and you should you should look for these two times the most the first one is اندل إفطاري لصائم the time when you're breaking your fast and the second one is ثلوث الليلي الأخير the last day of the night when Allah descends سبحانه وتعالى and he says is there anyone who's going to ask me I can give them what they want هل من سائل is there a questioner فأرطيه so I can give him what he asks for if we do that brothers they will truly maximize and benefit from these last 10 days if we don't then as Allah said in the Quran ومن أعرض عن ذكري فإن له معيشة ونحشره يوم القيامة أعمى قال رب لما حشرتني أعمى وقد كنت بصيرة قال كذلك أتتك آياتنا فنسيتها وكذلك اليوم تنسى you'll be from those who abandoned the reward and the greatness that could have come your way and Allah will bring you the day of judgment dumb, deaf and blind and if you've lost that day ليلة القدر and you miss out are you worth living for if an opportunity like that was given to you and it passed by you and you did not seize it nor did you benefit from it then what is it that you live for anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشدو الله إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إلي