 وأقول في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزاله وأقول قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي ولا أتأوله الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على المبعوث رحمة للعالمين نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته كما always we begin with the praise of Allah عز و جل and we begin by asking Allah عز و جل to exotic dimension and grant peace to our messenger محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم the one who was sent as a mercy for all of mankind and upon his family and his companions and all those who follow them until the last day ورحمة الله وبركاته ورحمة الله وبركاته where we share an important point relating to the month of Ramadan every single night so our benefit for this evening is entitled taking responsibility and ultimately when we talk about taking responsibility there are really two things that we want to highlight and share with you this evening the first is that we are responsible we as Muslims are responsible and we have responsibilities that have been given to us by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and they are wide ranging in nature there are responsibilities that you have for yourself there are responsibilities that you have towards other people and the second thing we really want to highlight for you in this episode is taking responsibility you are responsible and you have to take responsibility and we're going to share with you examples of taking responsibility from the book of Allah and from the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم both related to Ramadan and also generally speaking so what we're talking about this evening is taking responsibility we are responsible and we have to take responsibility for the things that Allah has entrusted us with our very first ayah is in Surah Al-Ahzab and it's the statement of Allah عز وجل إنا عرضنا الأمانة على السماوات والأرض والجبال فأبين أن يحملناها وأشفقنا منها وحملها الإنسان إنه كان ظلوما جهولا indeed we offered responsibility to the heavens and the earth and the mountains and they declined to take it on they were fearful of it and mankind took it on indeed he was incredibly oppressive and incredibly ignorant I started with this ayah because I just feel that this ayah sets the scene for the fact that we as human beings have taken on a huge responsibility a huge أمانة a trust in the sight of Allah عز وجل and while the scholars of Tafsir their different statements around this أمانة they differ but broadly speaking the أمانة is the أمانة of Islam the أمانة of following what Allah has obliged you to do and keeping away from what Allah has prohibited you from doing that is a huge responsibility in the sight of Allah and that's something that we as human beings and as Muslims have taken on for ourselves and so the first very step is to recognize that we have responsibilities and those responsibilities that we have taken on as Muslims those responsibilities they have to be fulfilled another ayah which emphasizes this point in Surat Al-Isra ayah number 36 that Allah عز وجل said and do not follow that which you have no knowledge of indeed your hearing and your sight and your heart all of those things you will be asked about and indeed the word asked about can also be understood as you will be responsible for so Allah عز وجل has made us responsible for what we hear and what we see and responsible for our heart and its actions so Allah عز وجل has given us a responsibility towards ourselves before we have even a responsibility towards other people and that responsibility towards ourselves is highlighted in sort of shams between ayah number 8 and ayah number 10 when Allah عز وجل said Allah عز وجل said and the one who proportioned it and the one who inspired it as to what is what is wickedness and what is righteousness what is wickedness what's bad what's wrong what's evil and what is good الله سبحانه وتعالى has given you everything that you need to know and has taught you everything both intrinsically in the sense of your fitrah and in terms of openly in the sense of the rules and the laws of the sharia so Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given you everything that you need to take responsibility for yourself and that's why in the next ayah Allah عز وجل has said successful is the one who purifies that soul i.e. the one who takes the responsibility that they've been given for themselves and fulfills that responsibility by purifying that nafs and failed is the one who corrupts that soul and doesn't take the responsibility for it so our nafs is a responsibility that we have been given and we have to take responsibility for ourselves and that is why in Surah Yusuf Allah عز وجل tells us the soul is constantly inclined towards evil and this has a particular benefit in relation to Ramadan because we're told in Ramadan the doors of paradise are open the doors of their fire are closed and the shalteen are chained but even though the shalteen are chained that doesn't absolve us from responsibility for our nafs that doesn't absolve us or remove from us the responsibility of our nafs of our own soul which is inclined towards evil and which has its own if you like crookedness or its own deviancy within it and no doubt the reduction in the effect of the shaitan makes it easier in Ramadan to take that responsibility but it's still a responsibility you have and it's not for a person to say that well the shalteen are chained so I don't have to worry about the fujur about the wickedness of that Allah سبحانه وتعالى spoke about for ألهمها فجورها وتقواها but rather we still have to take that responsibility in the month of Ramadan for ourselves and your own self is an amana and a responsibility a trust and a مسؤولية in the sight of Allah سبحانه وتعالى as for our responsibility towards others then I would like to start by mentioning a hadith narrated by Al-Bukhari a Muslim from the hadith of عبد الله بن عمر رضي الله عنهما عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال ألا كلكم راعن وكلكم مسؤول عن رعيته فالأمير الذي على الناس راعن وهو مسؤول عن رعيته والرجل راعن على أهل بيته وهو مسؤول عنهم والمرأة راعية على بيت بعلها وولده وهي مسؤولة عنهم والعبد راعن على مال سيده وهو مسؤول عن ألا فكلكم راعن وكلكم مسؤول عن رعيته عبد الله بن عمر رعيته من صلى الله عليه وسلم أنه قال ألا كلكم راعن وكلكم مسؤول عن رعيته ومسؤول عنهما يعني أنك ستسأل عنه وأنك ستسأل عنهما فنحن ستسأل عنهما يوم القيامة ستسأل عن نفسنا ستسأل عن the good that we do أو ستسأل عن the bad that we do ستسأل عن ألا المسأولين ستسأل عن السلسئة كبائسر أفضل أفضل أفضل شحكي يسوي ها العرب بالضبط على ładار عن Zum자는 يومné سوف يسأل فلوك ، سوف يسأل about the people that he governed and the man is responsible he will be asked about his family and his household and that's his responsibility his area of responsibility so especially in Ramadan every one of us has to look at the fact that we have responsibility over our families responsibility for them to take the benefit from this month to follow the laws and the commandments of this month to keep away from the things that Allah has been made forbidden relating to to this month of Ramadan and indeed relating to all of the other aspects of Islam so that man he has a responsibility he has to take that responsibility in the site of Allah Azawajal but not only the man the Prophet ﷺ told us that the woman is responsible for the house of her husband and his children and she is responsible and will be asked about them she's a shepherd and she will be asked about them and even the slave is responsible for the wealth of his owner and he will be asked and held responsible for it he's a shepherd he will be held responsible for it indeed all of you are shepherds and all of you will be responsible for your flock will be asked about and held responsible for it so this hadith tells us that our responsibility is not just a responsibility towards ourselves but it's also a responsibility towards other people and as we said in Ramadan that responsibility towards yourself and we're going to hear a specific example relating to Ramadan at the end of this episode in شاء الله تعالى from the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ but even as that as it relates to Ramadan you have that responsibility for yourself and you also have responsibility towards other people and there are many examples in the Qur'an of taking responsibility so in the Qur'an we find examples of those who took on board responsibility they took their responsibility seriously or they took a responsibility for something and الله سبحانه وتعالى praised the fact that they took that responsibility they saw that there was a need and they took responsibility for it and one of the examples we have of this is in سورة عالى امران the example of the wife of امران in ayah number 35 الله عز وجل told us وإذ قالت امراءة وعمران ربي اني نذرت لك ما في بطني محررة فتقبل مني انك انت السميع العليم when the wife of امران she swore an oath indeed my lord i have given an oath that i have sworn into service what is in my womb to be in service to you so except from me and indeed you are the all hearing and the all knowing and why this is an example of taking responsibility is that she saw the need of someone to take responsibility for for the place of worship that was in Jerusalem and the need of someone to be in service of that place of worship and to be in service of of that place in Jerusalem and so she swore an oath she took that responsibility she saw the need for someone to take that responsibility is to stand up and be responsible and she swore an oath that her child that she would give birth to would be in service to bait المقدس would be serving that place and would be serving that need so she took responsibility for it and الله سبحانه وتعالى blessed her child mariam even though she expected the child to be a boy but الله سبحانه وتعالى blessed mariam and we know how much bless mariam because and one of the reasons behind that is that her mother took responsibility she saw there was a need she saw that there was a gap and she took responsibility for it but not only people even الله سبحانه وتعالى tells us in sultan namal in ayen number 18 about an aunt that even took its responsibility and if an aunt even takes its responsibility then are we not بني آدم ولقد كرمنا بني آدم we have certainly honored bani adam more deserving and more important for us to take responsibility where we see that though that there is a need for something or where we know that Allah has placed that responsibility upon us الله عز وجل told us in sultan namal حتى إذا أتوا على واد نمني قالت نملة يا ايها نمل دخلوا مساكنكم لا يحتمنكم سليمان وجنوده وهم لا يشعرون until when the army of suleyman came to the valley of the aunts a little aunt said oh aunts enter your home so that suleyman and his army do not tread upon you while they do not perceive that you are there look at how that small aunt took that huge responsibility to warn all of the other aunts about the army that was coming and to give them the warning to all of them to enter into their home to enter into their uh until the place where they were protected from the army from from the army of suleyman crushing them so even the aunt took responsibility saw there was a need saw there was something that Allah had placed that responsibility upon them and then took responsibility for it and so really as banny adam as human beings who Allah has on it and as muslims who الله عز وجل has on it even more than that we are even more deserving to take that responsibility and to fulfill the responsibilities Allah عز وجل has given us and i said we can come to a specific example for ramadan and that's what we're going to do right now and we have a حديث about ماذا آيشة رضي الله عنها عن آيشة رضي الله عنها كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا دخل العشر أحيا الليل و أي قضى أهله وجد و شد المئزر أو ماذا آيشة she said the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم when the last 10 days came he would make his night come alive meaning would spend all the night in the worship of Allah عز وجل because normally the night is not a it's not the time of being alive the night is the time of it's like الله سبحانه وتعالى compared it to to someone who is who is who is dead و هو الذي يتوفاكم بالليل و يعلم ما جرحتهم he is the one that causes you to die in the night i to sleep so normally the night time is a type of rest and tranquility and people are lying still but the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in the last 10 days of ramadan أحيا الليل he would make the night come alive و أي قضى أهله and he would wake up his family و جده and he would work hard و شد المئزر and he would tighten his belt meaning he would really not like we say in english knuckle down and and get the most out of those last 10 days so what we take from this it's actually both aspects that i had spoken about taken responsibility for yourself the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم saw that this night this last 10 nights of ramadan has the most virtue of all of the 10 nights and he saw that that night contains ليلة القدر and so the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم took that responsibility to work even harder and to set that example of working even harder in the last 10 nights and striving to find ليلة القدر but this is also the second type of responsibility for others and that can be found in the statement و أي قضى أهله and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم woke up his family so he didn't just take responsibility for himself and set an example for himself but he took responsibility for his family as well by waking them up to get the most out of those nights of ramadan in the last 10 nights of ramadan and in the month of ramadan in general there are so many opportunities so many obligations that الله صلى الله عليه وسلم has put upon you it's your responsibility first of all to take care of yourself and to take the most from that month possible to purify yourself in the way that Allah commanded you to do so so that you can be rewarded and you can gain the rewards that exist within this month and it's also your responsibility to look around you at those who are in need or those who have been placed in responsibility over it could be your family members and it could be that you see a need that is there you see that there's nobody else taking responsibility for this particular thing and you take responsibility for it in the month of ramadan so that not only you benefit yourself but you also benefit others as well that's what الله عز وجل made easy for me to mention about taking responsibility in ramadan and الله عز وجل knows best السلام عليكم if you're enjoying these videos and you'd like to keep up to date with all of the courses we're going to be running make sure you head over to amauathome.com