 And we ask that we are from those who are who are written from to be our Baha Isha'i Ramadhan. Those who are emancipated from the month of Ramadhan and from the Hellfire. Also, that every Muslim is granted an answered du'a every day and every night of Ramadhan. Did you know that? That every day and every night of Ramadhan we are guaranteed an answered du'a insha'Allah. So if you haven't been ramping up your du'a's yet you have five potentially six more days remaining of Ramadhan to really harness your du'a's as much as possible. So that insha'Allah it's a timely talk. Also, on the authority of Abu Sa'id bin Khazadi where the Prophet ﷺ said that any Muslim who makes du'a' that does not contain inside of it disobedience or cutting off of family ties and Allah SWT will do one of three things with that du'a. One of three things. Because people always ask, I may du'a' I don't think it's being answered. Why is it not being answered? That seems to be a question that comes up often. So we learned in this hadith one of three things happens. The first, that Allah will answer that du'a' so either it will get answered. Yes, either it will get answered or Allah will save it for him in the hereafter. So it won't get answered here. It wasn't meant to be answered here. But because you made du'a' and the reward of thinking about du'a' it's still written for you and it's saved for you in the hereafter if it's not fulfilled in the dunya. That's number two. And number three, that Allah will take something bad that was coming your way. Think about it as you raised your head to make du'a' and here you are, here the du'a' you've made is coming and there was something else that was coming that you didn't know of that was actually negative or bad and the two almost like collided and cancelled each other out. So Pa'ala we don't know what's coming for us. We have no idea what the future holds and I think about it all the time and say you know what you called the minor car accident that you had? Perhaps it was meant to be a major car accident but that du'a' that you had said that you thought nothing ever came of it was actually what thwarted off it being a major car accident and it was only a minor one. You see what I'm saying? Subhanallah is very kind and merciful and one of three things happens with that du'a' so never think that when you raise your hands to make du'a' that it's not being answered or heard it is always being heard and always being answered but in Allah's divine wisdom He knows what's best for you even though we may not know we may believe that actually we want it answered now and today but it turns out that that's not actually what was khayr for best for us. We also learn that in this great month of Ramadan one of the most important du'as to make that we learned from the prophets of Allah is that we must ask Allah for jannah and that we must seek refuge from the Hellfire and there's many beautiful adhariya or du'as to read but I'll share with you one at least that is a prophetic du'a that we have learned Allah says Allahumma inna nas alukam jannah wana'u wubika min ad-na'a O Allah we ask you to grant us paradise and we seek refuge from you from the Hellfire Allahumma inna nas alukam jannah wana'u wubika min ad-na'a O Allah we ask you to grant us jannah and grant us the words and the actions that bring us closer to jannah wana'u wubika min ad-na'a wana'u wubika min ad-na'a O Allah we seek refuge from you from the Hellfire and seek refuge from the words and the actions that bring us closer to it so it's possible to make sure that you're adding that to your list of du'as and at the very least to remember that part of your du'as needs to include asking Allah to seek refuge from the Hellfire and asking Allah for jannah and Allahumma inna nas alukam wana'u wubika min ad-na'a that's some of the most amazing gifts that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives mankind is that when your du'a meets acceptance that when the servant of Allah and right in that moment asks for du'a and it's answering and many of you I'm sure have had a similar experience where you've raised your hands to make du'a and it's almost like you're surprised when the answer comes when you experience this going around the room subhanallah just recently I had somebody who was sharing a story she said just at the beginning of Ramadan she had traveled internationally and she was at a place for work and had just gone off the plane and wasn't quite oriented to where she was and it's a new place in foreign country and she had this work meeting and she enters into where the work meeting is supposed to be in this tiny, tiny little restaurant and she's fasting, it's Ramadan and she knows it's going to break her fast and she says I'm in this foreign country I don't know, head from toe I just landed I know Ramadan is coming I have no idea where I'm going to pray this Ramadan prayer so she said I just raised my hand and said Allah, find me a way and enter to be partake in the meeting but at that went off and it was time for Ramadan and time for her to break her fast and so she looks around at this tiny little place she's in and she says I don't and she asks the waiter of the restaurant in this foreign country that she's in and she says is there maybe a room or something that I can pray in and the first there's two there's two little rooms in the back one has full of storage and the other one had a janitor cleaning it and so the man that she asked the waiter she says to him I'm Muslim, I need to pray and she's trying to explain she's in this foreign country so he says to her okay just hold on and goes to the janitor and says can you come out of the room and give this woman the space to enter and so suddenly she has this beautifully cleaned room to pray in and then before the man leaves he says and the Qiblah is that way and she said excuse me and he said I'm Muslim too and this is the Qiblah and so SubhanAllah she said Qiblah, here I was having no idea I'm in a foreign country, no idea what I'm doing I just landed, I haven't gotten my bearings yet and I asked you and you opened up the doors not only show me a nice clean safe place to pray but also a person who opened up the ability for me to do so and SubhanAllah was Muslim too and showed me the direction of the Qiblah and just felt in that moment like her du'a was immediately heard and answered and SubhanAllah our du'a's are always heard in terms of answering it's like the hadith we said before depending on what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala determines of his divine wisdom is it time to answer that du'a for you or not SubhanAllah but that beautiful thing where you feel like Allah is listening and has heard you is a beautiful idea beautiful thing to hold on to and so speaking of that we're going to go into the etiquettes of du'a because we really want to make sure that we have proper form in making du'a as much as possible and remember these are not fard these are etiquettes good manners with Allah subhanAllah so first number one on our list we have sincerity in du'a being sincere in du'a and this we learned is one of the most important conditions that you really have to believe firmly that Allah subhanAllah can has the capability to answer your du'a maybe he be glorified and exalted he's able to meet your need and this is really important because you hear people say oh that's too much to ask it's not there is nothing too big to ask Allah subhanAllah he who created you and me out of nothing and created this world out of nothing there's nothing too big to ask the opposite is also true people say it's just a little bit there's nothing too small to ask Allah subhanAllah either and doing so is somewhat of a belittling of his power and his ability so we want to be sincere in our du'a know firmly that he has full capability to answer whatever it is you may ask for number two on the list of etiquettes is repentance and turning back to Allah subhanAllah and we learn that sin is one of the very main reasons why du'a isn't answered and so you know this is not just you know us you may say we're very imperfect beings so of course maybe my du'a's will never be answered but look in the Quran where Allah subhanAllah can answer his prophet Nur a prophet of God and says in surat Nur ask forgiveness from your Lord apparently he is off forgiving he will send rain to you in abundance and give you increasing wealth and children and bestow on you gardens and bestow on your rivers so before all the good things that may come Allah subhanAllah we are going to start a lot of tazbi now Allah subhanAllah reminds that you need to ask for forgiveness right and that's the same for all of us as well that this idea of thawba or repenting back to Allah subhanAllah is incredibly important because we see that that could be a real reason why our du'a's aren't answered and when we get to the list later of the reasons why du'a's may be rejected we'll talk about this in a little more detail number three on the list of etiquettes is the idea of beseeching or humbling yourself hoping for Allah's reward and here the ayah and surah says invoke your Lord with humility and in secret he likes not the aggressors so this idea of making sure that you say in your du'a you have the sense of the humility and you say Ya Allah when I'm so sinful and I'm so little here and you're so great Ya Allah please answer this du'a this idea where you're not just saying you're not just sort of offhandily saying answer my cause you're kind of really humbling yourself to be able to really gain that real etiquette that's the real etiquette in asking for du'a four we learn this idea sometimes we find people who might they keep on saying the du'a over and over and over again there's this discussion amongst the scholars of what is appropriate and what is not right? what is appropriate and what is not and so here we learn that in one du'a right? in one du'a to preferably according to the Son of the Prophets and the Law of Sin I'm not to repeat something more than three times in one du'a now next time you do a du'a you may repeat it again but in one sitting in one du'a that it shouldn't be repeated more than three times so it's not like a nagging do you see what I'm saying so here we learn that this is preferable and of course the Son of the Prophets we send him where he says that's narrated that he'd like to say the du'a three times and ask for forgiveness three times number five in our list is to make du'a in times of ease because we learn from the Prophets where he says remember Allah during times of ease and he will remember you during times of hardship and this is really important because Allah s.w.t. teaches us this idea and you see the ayah that says that if you were to thank give shukr for what you have Allah will give you more and in abundance the idea of giving shukr means that you have to give we don't typically give shukr when we lose something right you have to remember to give shukr even in a time where you have even in a time when you're happy even in a time where things are going well there is an ayah that refers to how people make du'a when they're really in time of need and the description of the person who makes du'a is that they're on their side making this du'a and then Allah removes the tribulation from them and says though they forgot that we had removed this from them almost like a bit of the hypocrisy of Allah when you really, really need him but when it's fulfilled when you pass that exam or you get that job or the child of yours get married or whatever it is you're asking for then there's no more du'a and there is no more remembrance of Allah really beseeching and asking of him and so here we're learning to make sure that we're making du'a in times of ease because times of hardship are likely to come most times if we remember him in times of plenty and times of ease does that make sense it's a beautiful thing to remember and we should be constantly people who make du'a also number 6 to draw closer to Allah by calling upon him in his most beautiful names and attributes and to put this at the beginning of your du'a and at the end of your du'a as soon as it says and all of the most beautiful names belong to Allah so call him by them and so you'll see that in the sida the wording of the du'a you'll see that we start usually by giving blessings on the Prophet you might start with Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim and then you would be beginning with the names of Allah oh merciful ya kareen ya rahman our names kind of sit well with you and are really kind of there for you that day even if you're asking for forgiveness you're calling upon the name of Allah and maybe that day you're needing mercy and so you ask you start off with ya rahman do you see what I'm saying so calling upon his names and changing it up a lot of times our du'as are ya Allah it is perfectly fine if you change up according to the names that you know the 99 plus names that are Allah's attributes and that is one of the etiquettes of the du'a as well number 7 is choosing the clearest and most concise words in your du'a we know that one of the most beautiful and noble characteristics of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is he was known to have the du'a mar al-kani he was able to have very concise words he conveyed the most meanings in the least number of words this is a very beautiful trait and so he was a very eloquent speaker this is what you find that they can give you lots of meaning in very concise words and so to try to emulate that prophetic sunnah as much as possible and then in our du'a we are concise and we see this over and over again with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam like the story when his daughter Fatima Zahra came to him and put her sons to sleep crying that night because they were hungry and so she went to tell her father not to complain not to complain but rather to inform him and to ask for advice what should I do my kids are going to sleep hungry and so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught her the words of patience and asked her to hold on to patience and when she left the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in his narrator that he went outside of his home and raised his hands and merely said it all he said was Ya Allah you are witness that the household of Muhammad went hungry tonight and that's all and he went back in he didn't ask anything else he didn't say anything else he knows that Allah knows that this is the case and whatever comes will be the best and belabor the ask so to say subhanAllah and so this is beautiful refined etiquette and sometimes we have very difficult difficult things that happen to us and you must know that Allah is with you and close to you and closer to you than your jugular and that is there and listening and very much connected Allah subhanAllah the Qur'an mentions that he is to us a servant as a servant believes he is and so it's really important that you really understand and have a sense that Allah is close to you and is hearing and is all knowledgeable and all forgiving and is absolutely able to fulfill whatever it is you're hoping for and having that sense really gives a relief to a lot of the anxiety so many people feel they have this sense of I feel very lonely I feel like it's all happening and this sense really kind of calms down that anxiety because you know Allah is there and you know that he only wants khayr and good for the believers you are a believer and he only wants khayr and good for you maybe not exactly in the form that you had imagined it to be but you have to know that in his divine wisdom and mercy he knows what is the best form for us subhanAllah so other aspects of etiquettes of du'a is to face the qidna when you make du'a again these are not the farads or necessary these are extra etiquettes the qidna to have wudu before you make du'a if possible also to start the du'a with praise of Allah and praise of the prophet Muhammad in another narration we learn that when you stand it's almost like a sandwich you begin with the praise of the most beloved person to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which is the prophet Muhammad and you end your du'a with the praise of the beloved if he said that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will accept what's in between them because he loves what they were sandwiched by insha'Allah so it's this beautiful method in which you conduct your du'a also we learn to raise your hands the symbol of a Muslim making du'a is the raised hand of course you may make du'a even without raised hands these are extras but this is a symbolic gesture and one of the etiquettes also to make du'a in the best times and in the best places so in terms of best times we learn that at the fajr time and right before the fajr is one of the most important times for du'a and in terms of the night time that's right before the last third of the night right before the fajr time is also a time when we understand in our creed that Allah is the closest to us and able to insha'Allah we'll accept the du'a also in the Jumu'ah the Friday we learn that when rain is falling we learn that the time between Adhan and Iqaba is the time of accepted du'a and there's many other narrations that talk about when we're accepted in terms of places they talk about Masjid al-Kharam and the Masjid al-Aqsa and of course the Medina all of these are beautiful places and this is why people make the pilgrimages to these places because they hope to make du'a in them also we learn that when du'a the du'a is accepted from those who are mistreated and those who are oppressed and we're often we feel for our sisters and our brothers throughout the ummah we feel like what can we do for them what can we do for them we must make du'a for them and help in every other way we can whether it's with our time or our energy or our money or in any way we may help them but always be reassured that if they are mistreated and oppressed because they are that their du'a is very powerful perhaps even more than our own and so insha'Allah they're going to get the best of their du'a insha'Allah ta'ana also when someone is traveling and this is because travel is considered hardship and whenever you're in a place of hardship du'a is more likely to be answered also when someone is in desperate need same and also when someone is fasting so any of them any of them have increased du'a and again why? because fasting is a hardship any time there's a hardship of whatever sort fasting is more likely to be accepted and also when you make du'a for your fellow sister or brother in their absence when they don't know you've made du'a for them so really to think about all the people in your life all the friends and all the siblings and all the cousins and all the teachers and all the people that you know are one of those people because when you make it without them knowing it is more likely to be answered subha'Allah also we want to say that du'a is also accepted from the person who has bittered towards his parents who shows obedience filial piety towards their parents and from the upright imam because the idea here is this imam is also in the service of the people and so upright imam and lastly the possessor of man halal the one who has halal wealth and we'll talk about this list very soon of things that have du'a be prevented and one of the first ones we learn is about man haram right so that who has clean and halal wealth has more likely of a chance of their du'a be answered we'll talk about that a bit too some of the things that cause du'a to be prevented one of the first is that the du'a is weak in and of itself right that you either ask for something that's inappropriate or you ask for something that shows bad matters to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or asking something that's it's not permitted like asking for example to live forever in this world this is not possible right subhanAllah also you know we want to be very careful because the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that our du'as will continue to be accepted as long as they don't have contain anything sinful in them like the breaking of ties of family or just anything that's sinful in general number two that the person who is making du'a that's the first the du'a can be weak number two is that the person asking for the du'a is weak in himself because as in to say doesn't believe fully that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can really answer this du'a right and this is considered to be bad matters with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because you really want to you need to understand the greatness and exalted nature of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that anything can be answered even if it seems beyond your limited imagination also the person who spends too much time crafting the wording of the du'a very elaborate and eloquent now there's nothing wrong in making your du'a eloquent but I say when you put too much effort you find people are trying to like make every word rhyme you know in every word and if you're gifted in this but if you're spending too much energy in this and not really focusing on what you're actually asking this is a reason why du'a doesn't get accepted as well also next on the list is du'a is likely to be rejected from someone and something Allah has forbidden so we ask you know one of the very first things for the teachers of spirituality when people go to them and say my du'a isn't being answered one of the first things they'll turn the question around and say what are you doing that's wrong and that's really important because you have to think about remember we said in the earlier list we said repentance right for things that we need to repent for only human we have a purposefully engaging in the haram whether it be man haram wealth haram food, haram drink, haram clothing haram accommodations haram transportation, haram job haram relationships whatever it is any of the things that are considered to be haram that you're engaged in and bad habits that aren't broken whereas if you're actively working and breaking the bad habits then that is a jihad in itself and that is going to be answered because you're actively working against it but when you're taking no measures at all to break the bad habits and you're actively engaged in sin then how can the du'a be answered and this is where the prophet said oh people Allah is good and only accepts that which is good Allah commands the pious to follow the same commandments he gave to the messengers in the ayah he says eat of the fajibat eat of the halal and lawful foods and do righteous deeds verily I am well acquainted with all that you do so the hadith is saying look you were given that you we as humans are given the same requirements the prophets were given eat from the halal and do righteous deeds so there's no difference between us and the prophets also in surat al-Bukhannat says oh you who believe eat the lawful things we have provided you with and you may wonder why are we spending too much time talking about food but the reality is food is a human necessity it is something we all have to partake in and this deen because it's a comprehensive all inclusive deen it has to include our food and our drink and our sleep and our wake and everything yes so in terms of food we learn that my teachers put it all the time they would say the reason there's such an emphasis on man halal halal wealth that's not touched by haram is that that man halal will then have to purchase with it food that is halal yes fajib and halal and then that food that's purchased is going to enter into the system of you and your family your children and when it enters into your system it builds up the very cells of your body very building blocks of your body I'm not going to go into biology lesson right now very building blocks of your body that gives you the energy that gives you the ability and if it's haram wealth and haram food then what do you expect of us entering into you and like the saying says you are what you eat yes and so this idea of haram building the very building blocks and people say my children they're not interested in the sun they're the clothes they don't want to and it's like well what are you literally literally what are you feeding them as in physically and also spiritually what are you feeding them because we learn that those very cells if they are filled with haram halal wealth and haram food even without you realizing that the very cells in your body are going to be inclined towards worshiping Allah subhan Allah and when they're filled with haram they are inclined towards the disobedience of Allah subhan Allah isn't that amazing our deen is all inclusive it is all encompassing and we care about even the halal wealth and I know people say why do we have to get into this whole discussion of the meat and the chips and that masha Allah a different topic for a different day here I'm talking broad topics the ayahs are clear halal ayyid if it's something you haven't spent a lot of time thinking about or maybe you've taken the path of least resistance of like some scholar there says it's fine maybe it's time to think about these things a little bit more and to think about how they're affecting you and your family members particularly the issue of mad halal because all that there's another narration that talks about especially at the end of time all of our wealth every single one of us in this room our wealth as much as you try to make sure that its halal is going to be touched by the haram and we know that the fund of zakat is there the zakat is there to do what purify our wealth because inevitably gets touched by that which is impurity does that make sense so to really make this effort insha Allah to Adam there is another hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam where he says that a man had traveled on a long journey and was disheveled and covered with dust and he stretched his hands forward to the heavens and said oh lord oh lord Ya Allah Ya Allah but his food was haram and his drink was haram and his nourishment was haram so how can his dua be accepted right so it's just a reminder of what we're talking about here and the reason the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam explained this hadith the reason we have the previous description was travel and we just said travel is a reason why du'aqah is answered and he was disheveled he was in a hurry so another reason why du'aqah is answered and he raised his hands in need so it should be another reason why du'aqah is answered but then the du'aqah didn't get answered because the food was haram and the drink was haram and the nourishment was haram so really to think about this as an important matter may Allah keep us all safe and sound insha Allah trying to hasten the response and you see this often where people as I mentioned earlier people will say the du'aq of any one of you will be answered so long and patient and he said I may du'aqah but it's not answered and this is a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so to be patient and remind yourself of the previous hadith that said there's one or three things and you say to yourself look maybe this wasn't the right time maybe it wasn't the right place maybe it wasn't the right person or maybe it was the right person but the timing wasn't right or maybe it was the right job but the location wasn't right insha Allah we think sometimes that we haven't all figured out but we plan on Allah's the best of planners and you have to really remember that insha Allah and say and know deep in your heart that Allah will never will never want for you except what is the best and except what is good and khayr and always remind yourself of that insha Allah because you're a believer what else here we learn as well and I think we do this unfortunately not meaning but I hear a lot of people in our du'aat they do this where at the end of the du'aat they'll say may Allah grant me jannah insha Allah because we say the word insha Allah commonly and we learn that in the etiquette of the du'aat you shouldn't say the word insha Allah because it translates as God willing and when you say it in a way that you're asking Allah for something or God willing it's almost like saying that Allah it's a conditional phrase it's almost like saying what you have to do is be resolute Allah grants you a jannah because you know that He can and there's nobody that has ability to command or change Allah's will only He can make that decision so you see why insha Allah here isn't the best of etiquettes in du'aat so try to remove that from your du'aat say your du'aat with a resolute nature without adding that extra piece so it says here so don't say for example Allah forgive me if you will insha Allah you just say ya Allah forgive me Allah have mercy upon me insha Allah Allah have mercy upon me this is one of the etiquettes we learn and in order for du'aat to be answered you know you should know that you don't have to have all of these things that we just talked about in place du'aat will still be answered as imperfect as we are as imperfect as we are as long as you're trying hard to strive towards this and also to know that you really want to make sure that you make different types of du'aat sometimes and that you can get stuck in really just making the same du'aat over and over and over again or we I've met a lot of people who have their du'aat book and they really attached to the du'aat book cause the du'aat book is great usually they're prophetic du'as that the prophet Salaam said or they're from the Quran which is also beautiful but they get really stuck in reading just this and that's the only du'aat they ever ever say du'aat we should really just talk to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and I call this freestyle du'aat just freestyle just free form just talk the way I'm talking to you talk to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala where you literally raise your hands and in your own words and in your own language and however you wish to express yourself to say Allah and ask whatever it is that you want to ask for and that du'aat is from directly the way in your words it is more likely to be answered because you have the sincerity and the full consciousness of what it is you're doing here does that make sense insha'Allah so here a reminder I believe I mentioned this at the very beginning but in case I didn't that at this time of Ramadan this had a hadith that we learned about the prophet Salaam that there are two things that we must absolutely make sure that we remember it in our du'aat which is seeking refuge from the hellfire and asking for jannah and that really has to be part of our most intense du'aat during this time because ultimately ultimately that's the goal everything else we ask for in this dunya for ourselves and for our children and for material things and for jobs and for schools and for our wealth and for this and for that it's all going to go none of it's going to last and the only thing that actually is retained at the end of all of this is jannah or jannah and we ask Allah SWT to seek refuge and seek refuge from jannah and we ask for us and our loved ones and our family members for jannah and that's the goal insha'Allah really making that the core aspect of what it is you're asking for insha'Allah to add on these blessed days and nights and a reminder that we are we're sitting today the master here is the 25th the night of Ramadan we still have two more odd nights the 27th and 29th and please there's enough there's enough scholarly opinion that says in the reminder that any of the ten nights any of them could be related to qadr so to really make an effort until the very last moment that we will see before A'id again a reminder that one of the most forgotten sunnahs is doing qiyam just like this on the night of A'id see what happens is they announce that they saw the moon and you say oh tomorrow is A'id get your A'id close out let's go there's early morning prayers we have to get ready to get up and everybody goes straight to sleep masha'Allah but we learn that the sunnah the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he would do qiyam qiyam the two nights before the two a'ids the small a'id and the big a'id and it says that whoever does qiyam at least a portion of the night I mean you look you're up in the middle of the night you can do this there's no difference between this night Saturday night and between next Thursday night I promise you there's no difference you are awake anyway you know how to do this so this idea of being up even for a small portion and the hadith says whoever is up Allah will keep his heart alive when other hearts die SubhanAllah and so this is a beautiful sunnah that's very much forgotten and I hope insha'Allah we can revive it keep it going so do a little bit more qiyam even on the night of a'id insha'Allah ta'ala and then you get a'id tired and exhausted and disheveled so tired and that is the purpose of a'id all of the hard work you've done for the last thirty nights and for the fasting and for the prayer and for the exhaustion the lack of the little food and the little sleep that you did which exactly was the point of Ramadan and we have a'id for festivities and playing and jumping and singing and running and inviting people and giving of salams that's what a'id is for so insha'Allah ta'ala if those sisters who are saying they're tired and be more tired more tired than the next few dates be more tired like serious insha'Allah because the hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was in a'adisha narrated about him that in the last ten nights he was more serious than any other time of the night and there were ways that was explained like he would tighten his belt or he would move his mattress away as in to say there is no time for play there is no time for sleep in these last ten you really want to reap it as much because you know Allah will forgive more people in this time of the year than any other and will free more people from jahendah than any other time of the year and will answer more to us than any other time and that if it's written for you to witness laylat al qadir you have 83 years more or so of continuous worship written for you and even if we did it won't be continuous worship and so why let that night go to just news which is why you're all here of course but just a recommendation to keep on going even if you find yourself exhausted wake each other up exchange numbers and call each other your fellow sister and say look I'm trying to do qiyam but my eyes they feel like lead and so she keeps calling you and then when you are awake and she's falling asleep you call her that kind of thing of sisterhood inshallah I want to end this small portion by saying that our goal here inshallah today I know we're heading into the end of Ramadan and into our summer camps but I see many of our women here who have been attending the halakkah some of you are new visitors the halakkahs for the women happen here in this room on Friday nights every Friday night during the academic year so we're starting in September and go through Ramadan actually until May and so if you don't know that please join us if you didn't know that that it's a weekly halakkah that you're welcome to attend inshallah on behalf of the Rahmah Foundation there are groups for the women and then there's the groups for the girls inshallah so please do join us and I hope inshallah is a reminder I said last time as well that one of the other exceptional things to do in this month is to make sure as women that if you have zakat to be paid to make sure you do so we meet many women who unfortunately put this off on their husbands but ladies and sisters if you have your own independent wealth that's separate, that's your own or in some opinions your jewelry you need to make sure that if you've reached the nissab of zakat you pay that too not something you rely on the menfolk to do if you have your own wealth and a reminder too for charity to diversify your charity as much as possible and in these last 10 days please think about all the different ways that you can the orphans, the refugees we have many actually in our community to think about the sisters and brothers in the local area that are in need there are many great organizations last time we were here, I don't know if there are materials still here but families starting families some really phenomenal job making rounds to all the Muslim families or many of the Muslim families in our local area to make sure they had they were doing okay financially and especially as we enter in Sa'id and then also think about the types of categories that are mentioned in the Quran that you may not have fulfilled before Yatiman, orphans Asiiran is the incarcerated all the sisters and brothers that are in the Muslim sisters and brothers that are in prison people you don't even think about but they are in need as well so find organizations that can that benefit the incarcerated fulfill that category of the Quran that you've never thought about fulfilling before and they'll make the pitch for the Flaba foundation that is specifically working with the incarcerated Muslim sisters and brothers and educating them in the prison systems right also think about the category of teaching and education and of course I'll make first the pitch of the Rahmah foundation that's working with the Muslim girls and women of our community and the HIFS programs that they're running and so on and groups like this and other educational nonprofits and organizations as well think about categories that you may have never tried before like clean water in different places think about categories like working with youth and their empowerment and so on and so forth think about what you've given charity to before and diversify it as much as possible because you don't know even those few dollars that you might have said somewhere they may have been the most blessed and have the most barakah than any other dollars and oh and yes of course I have to one more is the mental health category and actually sorry I just saw you right now so I remember that the the table outside for the Haril center which is the Muslim integrated spiritual counseling for Muslims a professional mental health counseling that's integrated with spirituality for Muslims and their table is outside here tonight as well so if you've never if you in the wake of all the suicides that we heard of this week both in the non-muslim of our you know general human community but also in our Muslim community there are people who are in emotional need and spiritual need and really help them to get that kind of care and support so you're a charity if you've ever donated to one of these categories I mentioned tonight donate to those as well because apparently you don't know where that charity can really benefit you after you're long gone and when you really need it that day so I ask Allah to do that for us insha'Allah to Allah I'm going to go ahead right now and do kind of a wrap up du'a insha'Allah to Allah and if we're given permission we'll continue our prayers insha'Allah the sisters are being here maybe she's stepped up ok insha'Allah she was going to give us a word if we can continue insha'Allah can we insha'Allah close the the live stream insha'Allah I'd like to do the closing du'a in the meantime we ask for this blessed night of Ramadan in his last he's lost 10 days Ya Rabbi but if today is Ayatul Qadir we ask you Ya Kareem that it's accepted from us Ya Rabbi make us from those who have witnessed Layatul Qadir Ya Rabbi let us make sure that we don't leave this month of Ramadan without fully witnessing all of its blessings Ya Rabbi it's mercy Ya Rabbi it's forgiveness Ya Rabbi it's freedom from the Hellfire Ya Kareem Ya Allah Ya Rabbi ask you on this blessed night that Ya Kareem we make us from insha'Allah Ya Rabbi those who are emancipated from the Hellfire Ya Kareem Ya Allah Ya Rabbi ask you and we raise our hands in earnest du'a's asking for your forgiveness Ya Rabbi you have said that you will have people leave this month as like leave this month clean and free of sin like the day their mothers wore them Ya Rabbi make us from the Ya Allah Ya Rabbi you have the ability to guide and we ask you to guide our sisters and brothers who have strayed from this deen back to Ya Kareem Ya Rabbi guide our youth Ya Rabbi protect their hearts protect their minds Ya Rabbi guide and we protect our family members Ya Rabbi in this time of fits and tribulations we ask the Ya Kareem to protect us and to guide us Ya Rabbi keep our feet steadfast on the straight track until the last day Ya Rabbi don't let us fall on that straight track every Ya Kareem and if we fall to them we ask you to bring this back