 We continue our journey through the month of Ramadan. We pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to continue to bless us. While there's other things I want to share, since we are still at the beginning of Ramadan, there's this very lengthy hadith narrated by Salman Al Farsi, from the Prophet ﷺ and I want to share some portions of that. It's a very lengthy hadith. While some have mentioned that it is a weak or a weak hadith in reality, we are reminded that in terms of merits, fadail, it is okay to accept the weak hadith as well. There's Salman Al Farsi, who says that when it was the final night of Shaaban, the Prophet ﷺ gave a sermon and in the sermon he said and then he continues and I'm going to share about three to four things from that sermon. The Prophet ﷺ said, O people, the month of Ramadan has come with its mercies, blessings and forgiveness. Allah has decreed this month to be the best of all months. Its days are the best amongst the days, its nights are the best amongst the nights and the hours are best amongst the hours. This is a month in which you have been invited by Allah to fast and pray. Allah has honored you in it. In every breath you take, there is a reward. And why? Because we're in a state of ibadah and worship. Your sleep is worship, your good deeds are accepted and your du'as, your invocations are answered. Therefore invoke your Lord in earnestness with hearts free from sin and evil. And isn't this what we do? As the month of Ramadan begins, even those amongst the ummah who may be doing certain things wrong, stop. That's a sign of their love for Allah, their love for the deen. That's their taqwa. And the Prophet ﷺ continues and says, And pray that Allah may help you keep fast and recite the Holy Qur'an. Indeed, miserable is the one who is deprived of Allah's forgiveness in this month. Reminds us of the other hadith of the Prophet ﷺ where he was climbing the pulpit. And Jibrail came ﷺ to him and the Prophet ﷺ was made to say, Ameen to a du'a that Jibrail made against those individuals who he said that find the month of Ramadan and they have not been forgiven. So forgiveness is a big thing during this month. Now I'm going to skip a few portions and he continues. He says, O people, you have made your conscience the slave of your desires. Make it free by invoking Allah for forgiveness. Your back may break from the heavy loads of your sins. So prostrate yourself before Allah for long intervals and make this load lighter. So even when we pray the Fardh prayer, Fajr, Dhuhar, Asr, Maghrib, Aisha, make the Sajdah a little longer. Right. Be in there. Make, instead of saying that this be three times, maybe say it five times. I'm not asking you to do seven or nine. Just do it three times, but do it with love. Do it with compassion. Do it nice and slow. Lighten the load and the Prophet ﷺ says, Understand fully that Allah has promised in his honor and majesty that people who perform Salat in Sajdah will be guarded from the hellfire on the day of judgment. May Allah protect us all. And then there's a lot he continues. And then towards the end he says, Whoever offers recommended prayers during this month, you know, Before Fajr, there's two Sunnah. Before Dhuhar, there's four Sunnah. After Dhuhar, there's two Sunnah. There's a four Sunnah according to some hadith before Asr as well. Two Sunnah after Maghrib. Right. Two Sunnah after Aisha. In fact, those twelve rak'as. Two before Fajr. Four before Dhuhar. Two after Dhuhar. Two after Maghrib. And two after Aisha. That's twelve. The Nabi ﷺ says whoever prays twelve rak'as in a day, Allah will build for them a house in paradise. Right. Not like one house every day. And those are all, in a sense, not obligatory prayers. Voluntary prayers. Of course, a higher degree of it being voluntary. They're referred to as a Sunnah Muakkadah. But the Nabi ﷺ says whoever offers the recommended prayers during this month, Allah will save him from hell. And whoever offers, and according to one narration, will get the reward of an obligatory prayer. And then he continues and says whoever observes his obligations during this month. In other words, fulfills the obligatory prayers. Their reward will be seventy times their reward during other months. Right. So for Fajr, time seventy. Dhuhar, time seventy. Asr, time seventy. Maghrib, time seventy. Aisha, time seventy. And then if you do it in congregation, congregational reward is already times twenty-seven to begin with. So do the math. Twenty-seven times seventy. Right. Our reward is massive with Allah ﷻ. And then he continues and says whoever repeatedly invokes Allah's blessings on me. Salawat. Salawat and Nabi ﷺ. Allah will keep his scale of good deeds heavy while the scales of others will be tending to lightness. Right. Whoever recites during this month a single verse of the Quran will get the reward of reciting the Quran in other months. Right. The whole Quran in other months. So increase in our tilawah to Allah ﷻ as well. We pray to Allah ﷻ for goodness and blessings and reward and acceptance. In shā'a Llāh. Peace be upon you.