 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir rahmanir raheem in the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Most gracious, most merciful, alhamdulillah, all praise is indeed due to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillah wa ala alihi wa ashabihi ajma'in Blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam His household, his companions We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bless every one of them And to grant every one of us goodness in this world and the next My brothers and sisters, you and I know that at the moment people are More into football than they are into the Deen And it's unfortunate that in a way it distracts us sometimes from the Deen But we do have some players whom we acknowledge are probably More religious than those who are cheering them on subhanallah So it's about time we learn to lesson I've seen sports persons who are so keen on fasting On fulfilling their salah, on fulfilling their obligations Unto Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that it leaves us quite embarrassed When we see those who have not even arrived at such levels of fame Or of professionalism in anything on the earth Yet we are far away from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us a deep lesson Ameen, the reason why I start this way Even though I'm talking about the ending of the month of Ramadan When I came to speak to you earlier I was speaking about the beginning of Ramadan The excitement I want to tell you that what happens in a lot of cases is When the football match starts Everyone is excited They are cheering They are so happy When people don't score goals What happens? The excitement starts dwindling You know, 20 minutes, 30 minutes into the match 45 minutes, half time, no goal What happens? A little while later, still no goal And everyone is quiet You might hear the odd war cry You might hear, you know, the odd few people Making a little bit of noise here and there You might hear the odd slogans But the excitement is not that much And suddenly you have the opportunity to score But you didn't score You thought I was going to say a goal, right? That's the deception of the devil You have the opportunity to score But you didn't score, subhanallah I'm referring all of this to the month of Ramadan It started, we were excited for the first few days This is what happens to almost all of us, myself included The first day we're excited The second day, the third day Perhaps the first weekend thereafter Oh, there's a whole month to go, subhanallah Especially when you're in England like this, subhanallah Where the fast is so long People say, hahaha You know, can I travel to Africa? I think I'll be luckier there, masha'Allah By the way, we have very short fast, masha'Allah Alhamdulillah But the reward is the same Bonus, masha'Allah So, my brothers and sisters The reality is, yes, indeed We should protect ourselves from becoming From among those who lose the momentum As this beautiful month is proceeding And progressing because the days are passing The minutes, the seconds are ticking away And every second that we lose is a great loss We're trying to achieve taqwa As the Qur'an says We want to achieve God consciousness, piety We want to achieve the closeness to Allah We're trying, we were excited When we started, why did we allow it to dwindle? Here comes an opportunity to score a goal There is excitement in the stadium, masha'Allah But nobody scored that goal And then comes another opportunity Allah tells us, do you know what? The last ten nights are here A little bit more of momentum Because now we want to put pressure on all the players Right? The difference is in Ramadan We are all the players We are all the players Will you score the goal? Will you keep up the pressure? You can make the difference, subhanAllah What is the goal we are trying to score? We want to achieve forgiveness Who has witnessed the month of Ramadan? But has not achieved forgiveness I don't want to be from them I want to witness the month by the will of Allah And I want to achieve forgiveness by the will of Allah So I'm going to keep the momentum going When I have the opportunity to score I'm going to kick that ball straight into the nets By the will of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala And the excitement will continue And you know what? I should not allow shaitan to score against me How? Many people sleep over salat al fajr in Ramadan It's a reality Many people sleep over the other salas The prayers They sleep And it's the month of Ramadan You've allowed shaitan to score a goal Get up And do something about it Save that ball from going into the nets On the wrong side We should become so happy when the obedience of Allah Is right in front of us And there is no obstacle to fulfill that obedience May Allah make it easy for us Amin My brothers and sisters, thereafter The most blessed moments begin In the last third of Ramadan From the 20th right up to the end Many of those nights can actually be Laylatul qadr, the night of decree The night of taqdeer, Laylatul qadr The night of decree can be any one of those nights And it's described in the Quran Laylatul qadr khairum min alfi shahr That one night of decree is better than one thousand months Subhanallah Allah is giving you one night better than one thousand months We need to make an effort to look for, to search for that night Imagine if we were told when that night was That's not a blessing of Allah Because all of us, maybe myself included I don't know just as well, we're not told But if we were told, we would have probably given More importance to one night And the rest of them, by the way, I was there Laylatul qadr, like what we do sometimes Jumu'ah, we're there, the rest of the week What is Salah? What is Salah? I thought Salah is a football player No? Yeah, people don't know what Salah is Subhanallah By the way, that is Salah If you know how to read the Arabic language You know it's, you know Because he's quite hot when it comes to football Mashallah So it's amazing It's Allah telling you subhanahu wa ta'ala That I'm going to give you an opportunity And I'm going to hide it from you as a blessing So that you can search for it So that your worship is not just going to be one night But stretched over a whole season Subhanallah So there is a season in the season You have Ramadan, inside Ramadan You have the last ten nights Inside those last ten nights You have the Fridays as well Subhanallah And if you're lucky, sometimes two What are you going to do? Brothers and sisters, I want you to promise yourself Something very big Here and now We want to achieve the pleasure of Allah We want to be happy We want to be content We are good people I'd like to believe we're all good people I don't think from amongst us There is someone who is evil May Allah protect us Shaytan is evil But we're all good, subhanallah We won't allow Shaytan to take over We won't allow Shaytan to distract We're all good We want to achieve the pleasure of Allah Promise that this month of Ramadan You will at least strive to get up To worship Allah for an entire night At least one of those ten nights Is that a promise? Subhanallah Is that a promise? Okay, we heard the yes But more than me, those angels right here Heard that yes We better fulfill that promise Now, I was saying moments ago I come from Africa So I'm fortunate Our fasts are short Guess what? You come from this part of the world You are fortunate You can stay awake all night in Ibada And it's just like three hours Four hours Subhanallah So there is a bonus On either side, you see It's Allah and His mercy If I want to stay awake all night It's like subhanallah Almost ten whole hours perhaps For you, it's much shorter Although the fast is longer But that's Allah's gift Promise Allah that you're going to do Extra Ibada during the last ten nights Don't dwindle Don't let things become stagnant Not at all Promise Allah This is a month of Ramadan that's coming It's going to be a month with a difference Already from the beginning We've sorted ourselves out We've eradicated bad habits We've developed some good habits We've become better people The way we speak to our family members The amount of patience we have The way we communicate with others The words that we use When we talk to people And I want to suggest something strong Very strong Do you know what people do nowadays? They don't even smile They don't smile Subhanallah No smiling Come on guys My name is smile by the way Smile It's how you pronounce Mo Salah Well you can also say smile Subhanallah Come on it's a charity It's an act of worship I want to complain to all of you About something I notice We are here All of us want to earn The pleasure of Allah All of us want to gain closeness To Allah We want to feel good We want to become better people But we have not greeted each other Here, now, today Did you greet the person next to you? The answer is no I didn't Maybe a few of them Spend a moment I'm going to stop for 20 seconds Perhaps or less Please greet the person next to you And at least greet them Masha Allah Smile Brother Sister Masha Allah Masha Allah Masha Allah I see we're having a big discussion Okay Now you can continue this A little bit later And you get acquainted with one another Not because, brother I need your business card I've seen you driving a Rolls Royce out there No But Subhanallah I want to enter Jannah Rajulani tahabba fillah Those who love each other For the sake of Allah I don't want money Materialistic items, nothing But you could be from anywhere in the world Your ethnicity becomes irrelevant Your background becomes irrelevant Your race becomes irrelevant Everything becomes irrelevant You are a key To the door of Jannah for me Because you are my brother or my sister If I really love you for the sake of Allah Not for my own personal gain Of this world But rather For a heavenly gain Something way beyond Then in that case I will definitely be able to earn The closeness to Allah By getting closer to you For the right reasons But we get closer to people For the wrong reasons You see someone Masha Allah They look wealthy They're smelling good Etc They perhaps might Look quite good And then we like Want to associate with them The minute you see someone Who might just look average Mediocre We haven't even greeted I'm sitting next to you And I move away Subhanallah Why? Because I don't really want to associate Why? May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Grant us ease Learn to smile at one another Learn to greet one another Learn to respect one another When we go to the masjids In the houses of Allah Those are the houses Where the angels are watching us Allah is watching us It's his own house How do you communicate With those who are with you In the same house For the same purpose Heading to the same direction I always say I witnessed some Of the World Cup In 2010 in South Africa Not to say I attended the matches But I saw what happened They made lift clubs Because the people Were so many Heading in the same direction They used to Give lifts to strangers Who were going to the football match But we as muslimin Who are part of the ummah Will not give a lift For the muslims Or to the muslims Going to the house of Allah To earn the pleasure Of the same Allah To do the same thing And we are connected In a far bigger way Our jannah is sometimes Dependent upon How we treat one another Subhanallah We can improve on that Starting at home Starting at home Because then you get Some wise people Who are so beautiful Outside the home And when they come Into the home There is someone else All together And we've said this So many times But the Quran says Wa dhakkir fa inna dhikratan Fa ul mu'mineen Remind for indeed The reminding benefits Those who believe So we are reminding you Mashallah And I'm reminding myself May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Make it easy With all the Bruises that I have In my mouth With what I have inside On my teeth I'm still smiling at you And I'm still speaking Subhanallah Only Allah knows What I must be going through Inside here But it's an act of worship My brothers and sisters Alhamdulillah We thank Allah Imagine we have such a religion That teaches us to smile At one another To be kind to one another To be able to get closer To Allah You need to also respect The creatures that That same Allah has made Starting with humankind Your family members And the others May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Make it easy for us So we have this beautiful season Of the last ten days In it A hidden night Like I said We've all promised That we are going to make an effort We are going to make an effort By the will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To do some extra acts Of worship At least during these last ten nights Even if it means An extra two units of prayer An extra page or two Of recitation of the Quran Something known as a The remembrance of Allah Subhanallah Alhamdulillah Allahu Akbar La ilaha illallah And so many other Adkar Ways of remembering Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala There are mentioned in the Hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Come on We can do so, so much better And you start feeling good When you've made resolutions When you see your life changing When you have hope Do not be a person Who doesn't have hope No matter what has happened in your life The future is better Than what happened in the past The future is better Than the present as well Subhanallah It will always be better We all suffer loss Because that is the plan of Allah He wants to see how You're going to manage the loss If you want to take The guidance of Allah He will help you manage it But if you don't want to Take the guidance of Allah You end up depressed And you get into a worse situation But the help of Allah You will come out of it Stronger than you ever were before That's the promise of Allah You just need taqwa You need God consciousness You need closeness to Allah That's what the fast is meant to Bring to you So my brothers and sisters Mashallah Tabarak Allah We're in the houses of Allah We're engaging in ibadah We're reading the Quran We're expanding and increasing our knowledge We're trying to put it into practice We're conveying it to others We've become softened We're better people And we have the night of decree One of the last ten nights of Ramadan A narration says Or the bulk of the narration Say one of the last Odd nights from the last ten One of the odd nights from the last ten But there is a narration That says it could be any one of those ten Did you know that? Subhanallah Still call out to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala I always see the brothers Fill the masjid for Salat al Jum'ah And the asr of the same day Is empty Why? May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Help us to be strong We don't want to be worshippers of Allah Only in the month of Ramadan But rather do you know When you put something in your mouth In Ramadan As you're opening your fast It tastes so beautiful Because there is a blessing in it from Allah You stayed away from food for the entire day Now when you put something in your mouth The same thing that tasted different Before Ramadan and shall taste The same as it did before Ramadan After Ramadan During Ramadan It tastes much better You enjoy it Subhanallah It's the blessing It's Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala This is why Earlier in my session I spoke about Farhatani The one who fast has two points of happiness One is When he opens his fast at the end of the day The other is When he meets Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala And the first one actually includes When he's completed the month of Ramadan Subhanallah There is a day of Eid A day of happiness Given by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala But before I get to that day of Eid Let me tell you If the last ten nights of Ramadan come And we do not become serious about What is remaining of Ramadan Then we've not understood We haven't understood Ramadan And we haven't understood What Allah has just blessed us with It reminds me of a person Who gives you a stone And tells you You know what? Keep this It's valuable You look at it It looks dirty You look at it It's valuable You look at it It looks dirty You decide to throw it away Subhanallah Another man picks it up And says Wow This looks like a diamond It's a bit dirty Rubs it Cleans it Subhanallah Goes to the jeweler And gets three million pounds For that stone And then you come And say Hey That was my stone You threw it away I'm sorry Allah has given us The month of Ramadan That many of us Do not know The value of We throw it away One day We might regret When we look back And say Wow The month of Ramadan Passed And I didn't know It was so valuable So take it seriously Take it very seriously My brothers and sisters Polish it up Make sure That you earn And achieve And Allah will bless you We need to make the effort And Allah will do The rest for us We need to make the effort And Allah will do The rest for us So We are coming Towards the completion Of the Quran By the will of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala We're coming towards The completion Of the Quran And remember You don't have to Just do one Khatam in Ramadan Khatam meaning The completion of the Quran But You need to try To look into its meaning Complete that as well You need to try To complete And start again It doesn't mean That if I started At the beginning of the month I'm just happy To do One juice a day No Do more than that Don't set yourself A limit of the juice But rather Set yourself a time That I'm going to spend X amount of time And try and maximize The benefit within that time For yourself With the Quran With the word of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Isn't it a month of the Quran Isn't it a month of happiness Isn't it a month of forgiveness Isn't it a month Of the mercy of Allah Isn't it a month Of resolving our disputes Amongst ourselves If you look at the hadith That speaks about the night of decree The powerful night Known as leila tul qadr That we spoke about It mentions how There were people disputing And for that reason The knowledge of the precise date Was taken away That to me Is a lesson That when we dispute The barakah is gone From a lot of things And you don't argue And you fail And you go to court And be patient That Allah is with the patient Do not quarrel Dispute amongst one another Fight with one another Because you will be unsuccessful And you lose your might Your energy, your power Allah says be patient For indeed Allah is with those Who bear patience Let's go back to the football match Okay So we've scored It's 1-1 And guess what We're 89 minutes Can you imagine the feeling? 89 minutes And the score is 1-1 There is excitement What's happening in the stadium Everyone is screaming This side That side People are up One minute remaining And they know Wow Someone needs to score here Allah blesses us With extra time How? When the moon is not sighted Subhanallah When the moon is not sighted You've got one more day Why? Somebody needs to score here We're still on par We're still equal So the moon is not sighted Subhanallah One more fast Don't be upset Don't be angry I know they long Masha'Allah Tabarak Allah But It's your opportunity Given by Allah Imagine If between myself And the fire of hell Was just one more fast Allahu Akbar And Allah gave it to me And it was the last Ramadan And my last opportunity To engage in a farad fast For the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala And I'm going to die Somewhere through that year Isn't that a blessing of Allah Look at it that way Look at it that way When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Speaks about Salah He says Salli salat muwadda'in Fulfill your daily prayers Each one of them As though it's your last opportunity To fulfill prayer For the sake of Allah When I say Allahu Akbar I must think to myself Maybe this might be my last chance It's my final farewell prayer I want to take it further And say that should be the case With all our Ibadah That should be the case With my fasting as well I must think to myself This is the last fast You know last year I had someone message me And say You know I'm not feeling too well Can I break my fast Now you and I know That we do have We do have the rulings In Islam that are filled with mercy If you're really not well You can fast later on If you're traveling for example You have a bonus You may choose to fast later on There is that leeway That we have It's the mercy of Allah But you know what If you're not really that unwell Go for it Bismillah Try and go for it The reason is It might just be your last opportunity That's what I'm saying Subhanallah Imagine any opportunity To score that goal Go for it Don't leave it You know don't say Okay we might lose this match We'll gain it later on No You may not have that chance So therefore my brothers and sisters Make the most of the month of Ramadan Ensure that hopelessness Is never a word in your dictionary Not in the dictionary of a true believer Iman is there to eradicate hopelessness Because I have hope in the mercy of Allah That's what my Iman is My conviction, my faith I will never be hopeless I will be happy I will smile When you smile Already you have eradicated Some of your problems And you have a positive outlook There was a brother of mine Recently a brother in Islam Who suffered a loss With his business burning down I spoke to him I said brother Don't give up Keep on going Keep on trying There are people whose businesses were burnt Who lost their jobs People who suffered and struggled In so many ways When they did not give up Allah opened the doors Way beyond their imagination When you give up That's when your doors close For as long as you have not given up Your doors will never close So no matter What you're going through in life Never give up as a mu'min Never Have hope in the mercy of Allah People might ask Well for how long I promise you Ten years, twenty years Is nothing in the eyes of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala He knows why he has delayed you He knows what he is doing for you He knows what he wants I give you a real example A brother lost his job Two years unemployed crying I see him in the masjid My brother make dua Allah will open your doors He comes to me You know I'm losing hope I kept on telling him Don't lose hope Make dua Keep on asking Allah And keep on trying That's an important point Because you can't just say Oh Allah I'm making dua for you And then you sit and say Oh Allah I need a job And you expect some big CEO of a company To come into the masjid And say you are employed That's not going to happen That's a joke Subhanallah You need to go out Search, look Send your CV Apply here Apply there You might not get Go for this interview That interview Keep trying Two years later The brother got a job With a salary Far beyond what he had thought He would ever get in his life I told him Wasn't that worth it He says wallahi It was worth it It was worth it Subhanallah This is a real example Be patient We know the struggles We all have to go through struggles That's the plan of Allah That's why we have the month of Ramadan To reconnect with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala You must reconnect with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala So Allah says I will give you a season It's the month of Ramadan One thing that impresses me About Ramadan My brothers and sisters You will agree with this Do you know that month That month of Ramadan It's the ideal Ideal prescription When Allah says كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُ مُسْصِيَامُ We have prescribed upon you fasting We have written for you fasting A prescription you know Is set with time From moon to moon One lunar month If it was less than that It would not give us the kick That we get out of it If it was more than that Perhaps we may have become A little bit despondent and lazy I cannot imagine Ramadan being less than a month Or more than a month So it's a gift of Allah Have you thought of that? It's exactly right In the 12 months One is taken out That's for you to reconnect with Allah Fasting What if Ramadan was like Spread over Say a week in January A week in Muharram Say a week in Rabi' Al Awwal A week in Ramadan And one week in say Dhul Qaeda It would really have The impact it has It's so beautiful We have 30 Jews of the Quran We are covering them in the month of Ramadan Not once but a few times Insha'Allah We have so much Just as we are gaining this momentum We get to the 15th day When we have the 15th We are now going downhill SubhanAllah As we go downhill We are climbing up again Because we want to end On a good note SubhanAllah It reminds me of What they call the penalty shootout Right Where now there's excitement Everyone is watching Waiting SubhanAllah What are you going to do And the one comes up And guess what It goes straight into the net SubhanAllah Now you're watching the other one You have to do two things You have to be good at scoring And good at saving You have to have a good goalkeeper And at the same time You have to be able to score You know from a spiritual angle What that would refer to You have to be good at doing good deeds And protecting yourself from bad deeds That's what it is I must be good at scoring My good deeds My Salah My Ibadah Etc. And I must be good at saving From saving myself From letting a goal be scored Against me By Shaytan's handy work One might say Shaytan is tied in the month of Ramadan Yeah, I think he gets to us By Wi-Fi By the way Yeah, Bluetooth sometimes From outside Just like how When he trapped Adam He was already kicked out of Jannah Do you know that Allah took him out of Jannah He whispered into Adam Again To say Eat from the tree Eat from the forbidden tree Fine How did he do that? Well, the Mufassireen And the Ulama Have spoken about So many different ways One of them is From outside He had this little These beams He was beaming in You know when we read it Many years ago I didn't understand it But now Subhanallah We connect onto the Wi-Fi And it's far off The mobile network Everything Shaytan can be far away But he can be beaming Exactly beaming in And there is another example That I've cited in the past Where we have The winding The winding The winding of what? You know those little toys We used to wind When we were young Wind the toy And then leave it And it stems its feet For a while Until the winding Is all unwound So what Shaytan does He knows He's going to be tied up When Ramadan starts So he winds us Just before Ramadan That's why you find All the moon wars Wound Until the last Click And then he leaves you And we're stamping Exactly as per His design Right up to the end of Ramadan And when we get to The day of Eid Spirituality at its lowest Shaytan gets hold of you The night of Eid My brothers and sisters Part of understanding The ending of Ramadan Is to understand What is the day of Eid Subhanallah Many of us Don't know What's the day of Eid Allah says Allah has blessed you So you complete that whole Period That is prescribed by Allah And you declare the greatness Of Allah Because of the guidance That he bestowed upon you So that you can be Thankful to Allah Thankful for what? He just forgave you Allah forgave you The Hadith says Whoever stands up In worship On the night of decree One night All their sins Are wiped out completely Another narration Speaks of the whole month Of Ramadan But we're talking about This one Fasts correctly For the whole month Of Ramadan Their sins are wiped out When you leave The month of Ramadan You are leaving Totally pure and clean My brothers and sisters I'm serious We forget about this So that's why When we start designing Our clothing For the day of Eid It's all In the obedience Of the devil Nothing to do with Allah Because you know what We're now clean But we've forgotten That Shaytan's going To be released As the moon is sighted And he's got Clutches on us Completely He's held us Your meetings On the day of Eid We've already Planned Haram meetings Who are you meeting? I stayed away For my boyfriend For one whole month I can't believe it It's a reality What I just said Is a fact Yes So what are you planning? You can imagine A'udubillah Allah SWT You see We're acknowledging What I've just said Because it's a plot of the devil And I've just pressed a red button This time It's not going to happen No I'm not going to choose The day That Allah has given me To celebrate my forgiveness To go and jump straight Into the devil's hands Into sin What an insult unto Allah You've wiped out the whole month of Ramadhan In one day And it's the day Allah gave you to be happy You're making everybody happy Besides Allah It's not going to happen No way Not this time And not from now on If you want to sin Not on the day of Eid I'm not condoning sin But I'm saying You need to understand It's like going to Makkah And saying When I go to Makkah I'm going to sin That is Even more sinful Because Double triple quadruple sin Allah has bestowed you a favor I can't go to the masjid The house of Allah And then say When I get to the masjid I'm going to sin No Imagine a man Taking a bottle Into the masjid And saying Guys I know But it's okay No No one would do that A drunkard would not Even dream Of going to the house Of Allah with a bottle Why do we do it On a special day The eve of Eid Is known as Laylatul Jaisa It's known as The prize-giving night Once the moon is sighted The prizes are dished out You have achieved forgiveness from Allah You have achieved Jannah You achieved forgiveness This one achieved forgiveness You have a prize You have a prize You did well You did very well You came this And you did that Subhanallah We're getting our prizes We cannot become oblivious Of Ibadah on that night No, not at all All the haram starts On the day of Eid sometimes Is that not a reality? Change it For the sake of Allah Change it It's not good enough We can do better We do not choose A day that Allah blessed us with This is why I also say And I'm just going to Divert slightly Even when we're Getting married It's a sacred union A celebration According to some Of half of your faith And that celebration is marked By the pleasure Of the devil In a lot of cases Because we forget Like I said We are good people But we need a reminder now And again Tress nicely on this day It's a celebration of your iman It's a celebration of something great It's the decree of Allah It's the seed that you're sowing For your future And your progeny And your offspring And you'd love offspring Who are obedient So you today Be obedient When I obey Allah Allah gives me children Who will obey me Subhanallah Simple as that May Allah forgive us Now some of us must be thinking Well you know my kids Don't obey me at all And yeah you're right We did do things wrong In the past And we didn't obey Allah What do I do now My brothers and sisters I want to end my talk By telling you All my worshippers who have Transgressed against themselves Let them know Allah will forgive all your sins No matter what you've done For indeed Allah Is most forgiving, most merciful Allah is most forgiving, most merciful Don't lose hope in the mercy of Allah If you turn back to Allah Allah, He will make right what has happened wrong in the past. He will wipe it out completely. You don't need to confess to me, to anyone else, to a family member, to a spouse, to your children, to your parents. No confessions in Islam. You confess to Allah. You confess to He who made you. You cry to Him. You tell Him, I'm not going to do this again. And He will wipe your sin out totally. So my brothers and sisters, I hope and I pray that we've actually taken a little bit. I hope and I pray that we've taken a little bit as a reminder for ourselves. This Ramadan, we will start it, insha'Allah, on a good note, just to recap what I said in my first, the opening speech that I delivered here, that insha'Allah before we enter the month of Ramadan, we clean our act. We don't wait to enter Ramadan and then clean the act. You clean it now by the will of Allah. The Prophet ﷺ used to fast more in this month. He used to engage more in ibadah in this month, in preparation for the beautiful month of Ramadan. The same applies with us. We will prepare for this month. We will start quitting our bad ways. And like I said, brothers and sisters, one bad habit. At least one. Quit one. Minimum one. That one that you know you've had to give up from a long, long time. You haven't been strong enough to throw the habit. Throw it out now. Allah will open your doors. Be powerful for the sake of Allah. That one good thing that you know you have to do. You know there is something you've wanted to do for a long, long time. It's in your heart. You know it's the right thing. You know you have to get it done. But for some reason, you're just being weak. Do it now for the sake of Allah. Make that intention. Get it done. Be strong. You need the push. And Allah will guide you the rest of the way. He will make it easy. He will open your doors, your path. And thereafter, you will see a beautiful month of Ibadah. Even if you don't manage to complete the entire Quran. The fact that you read. The fact that you enjoyed. The fact that you were blessed. You spoke well. You addressed people in the correct way. Your family members. You did not get angry and upset when the food delayed a little bit. You know the whole month of Ramadan. We're not going to be eating during the day. Some people get angry when after Maghrib, the food is delayed. Hey, don't you know we've got so little time? Brother, you were patient for 14 hours, 18 hours. And now you're getting angry for 18 minutes. Come on. You're spoiling the show here. May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala not do that to us. I also want to say something else. Let's learn to help one another. Don't think to yourself that, oh, that's a duty. That's my wife's duty. Learn to help. Don't think to yourself, that's my husband's duty. Learn to help wherever you can. This is what builds the family. This is what brings us together. When we come together, when we help each other, fulfill our chores, our roles, and when we make sure we respect each other, give and take here and there. Subhanallah, leniency. We will lead a very, very blessed life. The more lenient you are, the more it is a sign of that Allah has had mercy on you. It is only because of the mercy of Allah upon you, O Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, that you are merciful and lenient towards them around you. When I read that, my mind goes to different places. I start thinking to myself, imagine, Allah is saying, oh, Muhammad, peace be upon him. Because of our mercy, you were lenient upon the kuffar of Quraish and those around you. What about me? When I'm not lenient with my own family members, my own children, my spouse, my parents, and so on, I need to know that when I'm lenient with them, it's a sign that Allah is having mercy on me because Allah says to me that, you know what? Charity begins at home. It definitely does. And that's, inshaAllah, going to change me as a person. Brothers and sisters, I've really enjoyed speaking to myself and yourselves here. We've had a few lighter moments, but all of them were to draw beautiful lessons from. And I hope that we can definitely have a month of Ramadan with a great difference because, you know, we've gathered here today. I feel the connection. I feel the love. There's so many faces I recognize. MashaAllah, so many I don't. But you are my brothers and sisters in the Deen. And to be very fair and honest, I've enjoyed every moment of mine here today. I pray that it was not a waste of time on my part or yours. I pray that I can benefit from what I've said in the others and you can benefit too. Take home a message or two. Let's change our lives. We all are good people. I promise you we are. We all have goodness. But let's develop that goodness, by the will of Allah. Let the people around us feel it. Let us feel it when it comes to our connection with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So with those words, I want to close saying I'll say these words. Salam wa baraka ala nabina Muhammad. Subhan Allah. Subhanaka Allah. And thank you. We bear witness that there is no god but Allah.