 السلام علیکم ورحمت اللہ وبرکاته بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم الحمدلہ자� والسلام وراسول اللہ وعالیٰ و آلیٰ و اصحابی حجمائین جو اللہ سبحانہ والہواتعالی کو حلوث و تصوری کنی خالق و ہر بلست ایسه کے سامنے کو حلوث و محمد صلی اللہ علیکم و سلام ہر جو اپنے کے حاملہ و بہنوں کے حاملہے سامنے کے لئے اللہ سبحانہ والہواتعالی Bobby ہیں ہمارے جوندی کو جانتا ہوں اور ہمارے جو اسی عامی اور اخرا کی حیرتوں کو برائی ہے۔ یہ جو بہت بہت سکتے ہیں کہ جب ہمارے لیکن اگر کافت ہے مجھے محضورہ ہے ہمارے ایک بہت سکتا ہے۔ یہ نہیں بہت مجھے جب آپ جو یہ کافت کیا ہے اگر کافت ہے کہ مجھے مجھے اپنے ایفنٹ کو بھائے ، اور کافت ہمارے دیتے ہیں۔ بہت سکتا ہے کہ اگر کافت ہے کہ کافت ہے۔ also when we have something religious something connected to Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ something connected to our faith that is absolutely important we need to plan and prepare for example if you have a day of ڈید the day of ڈید requires lots of planning lots of preparation you need to first plan on the level of the masjid for example the timing of the salah who will lead the salah you know how long it may for example last what will happen at the Masjid the sound system for example the facility how many people are expected to come all this is part of preparation then if we were to have the people who attend they would also need to prepare how am I going to go who's going to take me what am I going to wear when it comes to the day of當然 سمجھے بڑھوں اس لیگرہ کردی ہوں اگر میں ایسا بہتSwiss یہاں جاتا ہے کہ میں اکرین ہے اگر یہاں اس بہن ایکی حفظ میں شکریخدن بنای ہے اور اس سوال رمزان کے ساتھ پہنچ ہیں جو ہمارے نوکے رمزان ہمارے نوکے جسٹتے ہیں ب پیدای ہمارے نوکے ہمیں لیکن مرسم پر جو مرسم کے بہت بھی کاموں کے بات کے لئے مرسم جانے سے اس بڑے مناسب ہے کہ دے autumnوں کو بارے والے ہواے ہیں اور مبارے میں مجھفے بھی مزام لے تھے لیکن یہ ہم کیا مجھفا کر جائے کہ آپ گی ہے کہ میں مبارے میں criteria ڈیئی نہیں کر سکتی ہے آج فرامضان ہوں yesterday've ڈیئی انفوچنٹ لی جاتا ہے ایک نام تن بہن کیا اگر ایک سئی who commit ڈیئی ان کے ساتھ بھی مانت ہے یہ مانت رمضان بھی نہیں کیا اسے شدینی باتیوں و ایک سیکنے لگی د لیے ان کیا معاہت ہے ہے کہ ہمہارا رمضان میں رمضان کی بہت اطلاف دی ہے؟ ہمہاراڈر ب کہتے ہیں کہ اللہ سبحانہ واتائلہ ہم سب کل ہمہارا رمضان کے امام کریں جسی ب میں رمضان میں بہت ایک باراکہ رمضان کے ابواہ ہے کہ ہماراڈر نظرہگی ہے کہ ہم اللہ کو اپناء دیدی کرنا ہے۔ ہماراڈر نظرہ ہماراڈر مرناہونی zwarاکن ہے ، کیوں کہ ہمہاراڈر نظرہ جب ترستانہ ہمیشہ کے لئے بات کرتے ہیں ہمیشہ کے لئے ہمارے پراس جانچے کرنا گئائےہ اس کیا ہمیشہ کے لئے ہمارے سنا رہا ہمیشہ کے لئے اللہ کیا ہمیشہ کے لئے خوانت کی وہی مستہفہ بات کرنا ہے کہ ہمیاں دھروسکش آئے ہماری سرینہ باقی سے فرماڈانے کے لئہے ہماری رہے ہیں جو ہم ہے انہوں سے بھوڈ بارت ہے۔ بھوڈ بارت ہے۔ بھوڈ اگر اُنہوں کے بتا ہے ، دوستپیم آپ فیلم ہوتی ہے۔ رمضان کی مہ chooses کاری سعاد ہیں۔ جو جانا ہے ، انہوں کو جانا ہے، بہت میں جانا ہے جو جانا ہے۔ بہت لوگ کہتے ہیں کہ انہوں جنروسار ہیں، انہوں کو سمجھے ہیں۔ جو کیا سیرہ ہے جو اللہ سبحانہ وٹالہ کا پسید junior تو میں بہتوں میں ایک ہند لیں۔ ان کو کہا کہ اگر ہم اللہ اسے آج آپ کو ابیاد کرنا ہے۔ اگر ہم اللہ آپ کو ایسا عطا فلالن ہے تو ہم جانے آپ کو کہا ہوں۔ یہ سلہلی ہے اور کسی جب سے رمضان اگر ہمارے کالا ہمارے کالا ہوں اگر ہمارے کالا ہمارے کالا ہوں تو جو آپ کو ایک بیار سے سبہانہوں اور مرسیہ اللہ سبحانہوں و تعالی ہی رمضان سے بہت سلہلے ہے یہ کیوں ، یہ ایک ایک لئے ہمارے کاف کے بارے کو نسی لی ہے ، مرسی ایک دور ڈوائی نوم آپ کو شعبان کی کا حکم ہے کہ جانتے ہیں پھر Garage ڈوائی نوم آپ کو محرون بھی پہلے رمضان پہلے رمضان پر اوہا پہلے رمضان پر میں پریشان کہا اس کو شعبان پر م Aman رہا تھا ہے جاہر پہلے رمضان کے جو mention ہے جو پہلے پہلے رمضان پر اوہا پہلے رمضان کی حالی اவیارہ کا حکم کیا ہے۔ مجھے کے لئے ملے ہیں لیکن جب ایم جلسٹا ہے کہ ربوںELIPE سے اللہ اور اگر آپ اللہ سے خاہتی کرناتے ہیں تو نا اگر آپ اللہ سے خاہتی کرناتے ہیں سبحانہ و تعالی ہوتی ہے اس لئے مجھے ہوتی ہے جیسے even when something in inverted commerce bad happens to you why i say that is because in essence for a believer nothing bad actually happens it's just a تست from Allah it's temporary it's in this world for a little while آپ جانتے ہو گا ہے لہذا بھی بھی کی طرح از عیسی کے ب CB مجھے انتبار میں جاتا ہے ہمارے تخام انتبار کے بارے میں مجھے انتبار کے بارے میں جاتا ہے perhaps ہمارے رسی سطح کرنے کی قرآن کی کبھی اہم معلومات ان کے بارے میں امریک کی جائے کا خطا الح剃انہ کے بررہنے کا بلک میں جاتا ہے۔ جب آپ کے شوہوں کے بارے میںaced پرہنے کے بارے میںز Lopez کو اس میں گا چاہی ہے۔ قلصہ سبحانہ選 بہتہا ہوجاتا ہے۔ لیکن، آپ جانتے ہیں کہ آپ اس سواحق مع اللہ سے پر میں بکتئ ہیں۔ آپ سبت وہ شعبان پرowser تھے ، اس پیارے کو سلام علیہ composition ultimately مہارے علمین پرآن بڑھا تھا ، ساود ہوتا ہے۔ ساود ہوتا ہے۔ لا one on earth ڈیبیٹ سکتے ہیں ، یہ سناہ ہے ہے ، ان پیارے تو آپ کے ساتھ پہنچ رہا ہے ، سلام علیہ پرمنی سلوش کے لئے ، مجھے کہا ہے ، ہمیں نے جو ہمارے ایک ہاتھ گوں گا ، ہم خواہات دن ہم جو ہمیں نہیں ہی سے خواہات کرنا ہے ، میں آپ کو جائے دوستان کرنے کے بارے کے باروں میںony of you ماندے اور سلیں ہمارے سلوں سے کہexcuse ہوں ہمینے کامنا رہا ہی رکھنے ہو جائے گا آپ کیونکہ یہ سلوں پر ماندے کرتے ہیں اور پر سلیں کے بارے میں اُنینمیسلی reibtتے ہیں تو محمدoro اللہ علیہ وسلم کو ہمیں کامنا رہا ہی ہوا جائے گا۔ now the idea is not to show the hands but the idea is to think within ourselves let me start let me do it once every month i will try once at least monday thursday okay there is another bonus from mohammad صل اللہ علیہ وسلم also earning the closeness to Allah and when Allah is close to you everything becomes easy your difficulty in your hardship you find ease because you know Allah is close to you you're close to Allah when there is a hardship you get up and you pray to Allah you feel so good and calm you feel relaxed even though you've just lost a lot of money even though you've just lost your job even though something disastrous has gone on in your life but you are calm because you are close to Allah he is your owner we always say وَاِنَّ اِلَيْحِ رَاجِعُونَ we all belong to Allah who do we belong to Allah we all belong to Allah and unto him is our ultimate return people have already gone and returned to Allah we are next in line we're going to return to Allah some early some late so it is not worth our while to spend our lives against the command of Allah when we have to go back to the same Allah you see when i have to return to Allah what is the benefit for me to transgress against the same Allah i'm going to return to if you hear that on a certain road on a certain highway going to south africa for example they are policemen trapping at this point 40 kilometers outside of quero what will you do when you get to 30 kilometers outside of quero you slow down because why i heard from someone that they are policemen at the 40 kilometer peg right you pass the 40 kilometer peg you see the policeman you say yes i was told about it sometimes you won't see the policeman so then you're going to phone your friend and say listen there was no one he says well they were there this morning or they were there yesterday and they were trapping what did you do you heard from someone about a warning on the road so you decided to believe them although there was no revelation involved they could be telling the truth they could be telling a lie and and you slowed down and you nobody in their right frame of mind would knowingly go way beyond the speed limit and they know that there are policemen right here i don't think in any country in the world would they do that if they knew that there was a proper trap to try and trap the people as you know happens in this country now draw the example we are on a highway right now in this world we are getting to death death is part of the highway and there we have Allah سبحانہ واتعالہ to answer to completely everything is going to be collected and there is a messenger sent to you with revelation warning you that 40 kilometers outside of quero there is a trap this is just an example okay so you and i know that this issue this problem this difficulty this hardship that we have in this world is all part and parcel of the test of Allah سبحانہ واتعالہ we are told that we are going somewhere what is the point of us breaking the rules knowing that a few kilometers down the road we are going to be answerable to Allah سبحانہ واتعالہ now i want to give you another example ramadan is 40 kilometers away if you want to word it that way which means it is around the corner ramadan is around the corner now if we were to obey Allah from now stay away from prohibition it's like the five kilometers before you see i told you at 30 35 kilometers you already slowed down because you know at 40 there is something from now you start preparing the prophet ﷺ used to prepare one of the ways was to fast more in the month of shaaban and guess what after the month of ramadan he didn't give up he says whoever fasts the month of ramadan and thereafter follows it through with six more fasts of شوال for them all their previous sins will be forgiven منصام رمضانہ ثم اتباعه ستم من شوال كان کسیام الدہر sorry the the حدیث doesn't say all their sins will be forgiven but the حدیث says something even beyond it says the it will be equivalent to having fasted the entire year that's what the حدیث says it will be equivalent to having fasted the entire year what is the aim and objective there are many primarily the pleasure of Allah but secondary is to dedicate yourself to say oh Allah i fasted in the month of ramadan i'm not going to give up now that it has happened now that it has come i'm not going to give up wallahi a lot of us the day of it spells the day of return to the sinful behavior we had before ramadan let's be honest change that my brothers and sisters this is why we stagnate this is why we remain in one position we go backwards regarding our faith because before and after huge seasons such as ramadan we were disobeying Allah that's not fair so let's start from now and this is why the prophet ﷺ used to fast the three days of the month every single month he used to ensure the islamic calendar which a lot of us don't even follow except for ramadan and eid right if i were to ask you what's the islamic date today okay i think a lot of people might know because ramadan is around the corner mashaAllah but last month who knew had none of us look i might also be guilty here but i'm just saying that this is how the world has become we've given less importance to the islamic months we are supposed to be fasting 13 14 and 15 if we do fast we just ask the people so when are we supposed to fast they say oh it's the wednesday thursday and friday this month so then you fast without even knowing in reality is that actually the date you just fast it but we should be giving more importance to the islamic date yesterday someone asked me what is your birthday i told him why they said because i think you and i were born on the same day so i told them 18th of jumaada thani 13 95 hijri they said what what's that i said what do you mean what's that that's my birthday now if you take a careful look at that answer in actual fact as a muslim that's the correct answer but how many of us even know our birthdays and then we say you know we ask a question is it okay to celebrate birthdays and then i ask which one because you don't know which one are you referring to do you even know your birthday that you want to celebrate it the answer is no 90 percent or 95 percent of us don't know our birthdays so what i'm trying to say is let's give importance to what Allah has given importance to at least beyond knowing only the days of eid when we see the moon it is a sunnah to see the moon every lunar month and to go out and to search for it is an act of worship subhanallah it's an act of worship but what do we do we only see the moon during or when the eid is coming or when ramadan is coming in fact when ramadan is entering some might not even be interested but when the eid is coming definitely this is why when we were children and as we grew up when you listen to other children when they see the moon at any time of the year they look at it and they say hey there's the moon tomorrow is eid have you heard children say that the reason is according to them you only look at the moon because of eid now as you grow up it's not supposed to be the case you look at the moon and you know this is the beginning of the islamic month masha Allah so that i can fast on the 13th 14th and 15th going back to my original point this was the run up to ramadan and what they calling what they call it in in the gym you know what they call it in the gym they call it warm up you warm up run up to ramadan so before your main exercise you have to do your stretches you have to warm up a bit you have to make sure you're okay you know you're about to read 20 rakaat and 20 units of salah 40 units of salah 60 units of salah because you are going to be reading your sunnah and your nafil insha Allah i'm not talking of the night prayer alone i'm talking of the night prayer plus the other prayers during the day where when we read our salat of door we're not just going to give up four units and that's it we're going to make our sunnah and our nafil and we're going to increase with the hadjud and so on because that is the month of ramadan your reward is multiplied so what i'm going to do i need to warm up from now spiritually by increasing number one my fasts before ramadan increase your fasts when it was the last day of shaaban the prophet صلح اللہ علیہ وسلم did not used to fast why because it would perhaps be known as yawm u shak sometimes yawm u shak meaning if the moon has been seen hasn't been seen and some people say okay let's just fast to be on the safe side in islam for ramadan there's nothing like being on the safe side you either have seen the moon or you haven't seen the moon the moon has either been sighted or it hasn't been sighted you cannot say okay to be on the safe side let me just read it you know may Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ قرant us ease so the same would apply when it comes to the gym once you're done with all your exercise guess what you need to do nowadays they call it a warm down if i'm not mistaken i'm warming down what is warming down when i was a kid i never knew what warming down meant we just ran from a to z did all our physical physical education they used to call it p e physical training p t and we used to come and go but that's it after when the bell rings you back in the next class now they say no you finish five minutes before and you warm down you do your stretches and they are now teaching us that it's more important to do the warm down than the warm up at the beginning so warm up warm down my brothers my sisters we understand this regarding physical training sports warm up warm down what about ramadan it is far greater it is spiritual you are going to be standing in tarawih at least long units long units it's not short you don't want to be one of those who constantly looks at his watch you know i've seen people actually do it they they look at their watch and then they shake their head hey in salah shaking their head why you haven't done a warm up and you're not interested in a warm down that was you let that not happen i've seen people do that honestly and i was shocked because you know now i'm an imam myself and we cannot read fast the imam we as musallis who read behind the imam we need to encourage him to read quality quality because that's the word of allah when you are weak you say hey this imam doesn't know how to read because he finishes 10 minutes late everyone else finishes early he will be 10 minutes earlier into jannah that's what will happen you know why because he read properly not even 10 he will be in jannah way beyond those who want to rush how can you rush the word of allah ask those who speak the arabic language if they can understand what is being recited you are reading the correct speed if they cannot follow then trust me you are reading the wrong speed the quran is arabi you mubin it is in clear arabic so if there is someone behind who speaks proper arabic and he can follow the recitation it means you are reading at a good speed but if he cannot follow that means what are you doing with the word of allah it is a message for people and you are just whipping through it the idea is never ever to complete the quran did you know that the idea was never ever to complete the entire quran no never the idea is the quality if the quality is there then you may complete the entire quran if the quality is not there trust me you rather read from alam tara to the end and you will achieve a bigger reward for quality than to go in for quantity these are teachings of the month of ramadhan اللہ says اللہ has created death and life for the purpose of testing you who has better deeds he didn't say who has more deeds so i can't say i'm supposed to be in front of you because you know what in tarawih i made 60 units 60 rakaat no that's not going to be a better person a better person is he who read what was quality you know when someone gives you something say you go to the shop that you pay for something and it's a box of chocolates and they give you the one that's damaged and smashed and and you're going to say no no no hang on either give me my money back or get me a better box but he says look i'll open the box and show you the chocolates are not touched i'm not interested the chocolates can be how they are i want a box that is not tatty and it's there it's on the shelf right we do that with our deeds we have good deeds we are about to do but the quality is not there we want all those 20 chocolates right but now we don't mind anything it's damaged not damaged but for the other chocolates that we're going to eat we want a proper box make sure wallahi when you are presenting your deeds to Allah put it in a proper box pack it nicely be beautifully comfortable when you say اللہ عقبار forget about the whole dunya forget about everything that's going to happen outside you know in some of the masjids mashallah they distribute milk after every in the evening for those who come later on some people even have food it's not part and parcel of the tarawih not at all but it's just in order to perhaps feed those who've come from a distance some communities don't even understand that for example because they they say why are you giving food what's what's the issue well we're giving food because people have come from far and wide and you know what they need to have something at least and we thought let them concentrate rather on the salah than on the food now still there are people who say you better finish quickly because the milk is going to get cold or because the food is going to get swiped i'm going to only be getting from the bottom of the of the dish you know so if that's the case what is the quality of the box that your chocolates are in i tell you it's damaged it's damaged improve the box come اللہ عقبار even if you've lost out you know mashallah may Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ make it easy for all of us so the idea of today's lecture is to prepare us for ramadan and to tell us from now we need to start doing certain things i want to tell you another way of improving two more things number one is when you رید your salah now we spoke about fasting right when you read your salah take your time take your time i promise you you are packaging your deed in the best possible package best possible package you know when you order a burger from somewhere i can give you these food examples because we are not yet in ramadan right when you order a burger from somewhere what is the main thing in the burger is it not the patty in the middle is it you know they say beef burger so there's a beef patty they say chicken burger so there's a chicken patty mutton there's a mutton patty inside right sometimes it's grilled sometimes it's not grilled sometimes it's made by perhaps mincing it processed and sometimes it's not it's just sliced a beautiful slice of steak in there so that's the main thing in the burger everything else is by the way by the way but how they prepare it for you they put they get some nice fresh buns bread and then they slice it they toast a little bit on the side so to avoid the crumbs and so on they will put tomato sauce for those who like it they will add mayonnaise they put a bit of sauce they add you the barbecue sauce they put a lovely piece of lettuce nice crunchy they put a little a few cucumbers they put a nice piece of tomato some who like onions they'll give you a beautiful slice of onion in there they will add something else a little bit of coleslaw and they serve it to you while it looks so beautiful with a bit of nice deep fried chips on the side subhanallah why the aim was just the patty have they ever taken the patty and thrown it at you want burger here they've never done it they present it properly because for you to look at it you must want to eat it when you look at it you see they show you pictures of the food in the restaurants because when you look at it they they want you to be attracted to it your brain processes the food before your stomach does do you know that so they present it wallahi i'm drawing a different example when you give an ibadah to allah pack it properly allah wants the farad from you correct i start off with the sunnah i have a nafil i take my time all that is beautification all that is beautification if you are just going to rush through your salah trust me it's like throwing that patty to someone and say have your burger allah doesn't want it you need it take your time in salah take your time when you say allahu akbar beautify it honestly read something good people just read subhanallah ربیا العلا one time and they up they go to the ground before the nose is on the ground the whole head is already up don't do that take your time my brothers and sisters this is your آخرا this is your جنہ this is how you will earn it go to sujood subhanah ربیا العلا beautifully three times minimum and then increase it to five what's wrong is it wrong to increase it to five no it's better i love allah so much spend a few more minutes with him i always give an example of a haram relationship you have someone you're not supposed to be talking to of the opposite sex but you love to talk to them if they want to put the phone down no no no hang on two more minutes why it's haram shaitan is beautifying it a haram relation you you know you are prodded on to spend more time with someone haram but rubble is that he will جلال you cannot spend two more minutes with him tarawih people complain wallahi every year there is an examination there is there are records that go down every year you know what the record is the angels write down who is complaining about this صلاa written and in the masjid we are divided into groups they are people who enjoyed the صلاa it was ten minutes longer than anywhere else because the imam was reading correctly with تجوید he's worried about his آخرا you know the حدیث says you call me صاحب القرآن اقرع ورتق ورتق کما کنت تورتق في الدنیا فہن منزلك عند آخر آیت انتقرعوها a person who has the قرآن in his heart he will be told on the day of judgment read and as you are reading go up read in the same way that you used to read in the dunya that's the catch that's the catch so if the imam used to come in and he used to zoom through his صلاa in front of Allah he will not be able to read in any other way he will only be able to read how he read in the dunya so be careful you need to slow your imam down slow him down say look you know what today you read we couldn't follow your words if we can't follow your words there is something wrong please slow down a bit and go to the people like what i'm doing today i'm encouraging everyone every one of us needs to encourage the others brother don't you think this is too fast you might get someone says what it's so slow say no brother you are this is for اللہ you know it's not even in a حرام relationship we're ready to take time this is the most legitimate relationship that will help you not only in the dunya but even in the آخرہ so you need to make sure that the quality of your صلاa improves from today so that you enjoy it are we you know if you haven't done a warm-up and you enter into the rugby match you probably will suffer you know some form of muscular spasm and so on because you didn't warm up remember it's a different example for ramadan but the professor slam used to fast in شعبان a lot he used to also the the صلاa and the quality of the صلاa i don't even need to talk about because that was the nabi of اللہ صل اللہ علیہ وسلم and the last thing i want to tell you my brothers and sisters ramadan is the month of the quran from now i encourage yourselves and myself very very strongly from now pick up the quran every day preferably in the morning it's good and read at least one verse how much how much at least one verse it will change your life i swear by اللہ it will change your life every day how many minutes will that take you know on whatsapp we spend five hours no problem this will take five minutes and on the same phone that you have whatsapp you have downloaded the quran already but you've never used it you ask the muslims how many of you have downloaded the quran in your phone everyone puts up their hand i downloaded downloaded how many of you have read that downloaded quran hey there's only five people in the muslim here why it will bear witness against you on the day of qiyama القرآن حجت اللکہ او علیک the quran will bear witness for you or against you this man downloaded me never used me ever it was just and you know there were so many in the in the muslim and elsewhere and in the house we never used the quran will help you to enter into جنہ it's the word of allah it will bear witness for you it has intercession amazing amazing the quran and your good deeds they will intercede on your behalf so develop a relationship with allah through fasting through reading more salah and through your relationship with the quran may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us all the best month of ramadan and may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you all may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala really make us from those who can benefit from this beautiful month perhaps next week you may hear a little bit more about this beautiful month of ramadan and how we can prepare for it in other ways as well اقول قولی هذا واستغفر اللہ علی و لکم ولیسائر المسلمین فا استغفروه و صل اللہ وسلم و عبار