 I wanted to discuss some of the esoteric dimensions of the term Ramadhan. The core literal meaning of the term Ramadhan means transformation, a modification. So in order to understand this better, the word Ramadha actually means when a stone turns color by being in the sun, they use this term Ramadha, its shown color. Being under the sun will change color in a way that it never goes back to its original color. And that is an effect that Ramadhan has on a human soul when it goes through this ritual of fasting. And in the hadith of the prophet, Nabi Salaam says that the month of Ramadhan burns away our sins. So we want to modify ourselves and transform into this best person. How can we do this by doing the rituals that we want? So something has to be burnt, something has to be modified, and something has to change in order for us to receive the complete benefit of this beautiful month. So now the question of course comes, well how do I, you know, sometimes we feel the Ramadhan comes, the Ramadhan goes by and we enter Ramadhan with complete excitement and wishing everybody and being so excited. And then by the end of Ramadhan we see ourselves giving in our most happy moments. And then we feel like we've gone back to our old lives and our old patterns and our old transformations. So this series of talks are here to maybe perhaps with the will of Allah and with His guidance, be able to experience the transformation. And I don't want to say learn because sometimes learned knowledge can only be concepts which are just in our mind. But we want to experience that change. So these set of talks will be there for us in order to experience that transformation inshallah. So continuing with the word Ramadhan, Ramadhan here means a modification and transformation. The way the stone changes its color and is shown a different color. Another meaning, for the word Ramadhan, meaning entailing washing. When the rain washes the dirt, in the same way rain washes away dirt, we want to wash away our soul, cleanse it from the contaminations. In order to understand this well, this concept, we repeat this concept in the daily Dua of Ramadhan that we recite after every Salah. And the Dua is called Dua. If you look at this Dua, in the entire Dua, we're constantly asking for change. Change for people, transformations for people, changing their state to a better state. For example, o Allah please do satisfy all hungry ones, o Allah please do relieve all the grieved ones, o Allah please do release all prisoners. So you see they're all changes, we're asking for transformation, modification and changes. And the best of all is, o Allah, change our ill manners through your excellent manners. So here the Dua is also in unity with what we're just saying, that Allah, change our Hal. We want to be a manifestation of your divine attributes. We are Khalifatullah, we are the representatives of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So we have that potential, those attributes that Allah, we share those beautiful, we are a manifestation of God's attributes, because we are representative of Him, we are Khalifatullah. So may this month be a month in which we truly change bad attributes to good ones. Ramzan is all about transformation, it's all about being able to bring that show, that new color, bring out that new transformation within our souls. When we actually commemorate Eid, we actually commemorate it with that sense saying that I don't remember who I was, I'm the first of Ramazan, here is a person who is completely transformed, insha'Allah. So with the help of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's guidance and the beautiful Duas and invocations of the Prophet, I invite each one of us to raise our hands and to sincerely pray to Allah, because invocations in Duas are the best gift given to us by Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, tells us in Surah Baqarah, When my servant asks me, tell them I am close, that I am close to the color who calls upon me, so the conditions of Duas is sincere calling. With this sincere calling, we pray to Allah in this beautiful blessed night of Ramadan, Allahumma ghayra suha halina bi hosne halik, O Allah, change our ill manners through your excellent manners, make us be the manifestations of your divine attributes and make this Ramzan be all about transformation. In the next audio, I will be sharing with you few more esoteric dimensions of Ramazan and Sayyam and discussing with you practical applications on how we can pray to Allah and how we can focus on this true transformation through our fast.