 وأقول في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزاله وأقول قال الله جل جلاله والمصطاف الهدي ولا أتأواله الحمد لله الذي بنعمته تتم الصالحات جعل شهر رمضان موسم للطاعت وأفاضع على الصائمين فيه من الخيرات وشرف أوقاته على سائل الأوقات والصلاة والسلام على نبينا محمد خير البريات وعلى آله وصحبه أول الفضلي والمكرومات والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم المعاد وبعده أحب الهدف والسيسة شاء الله تعالى سنبدأ بشكل جديد في which we will be studying together and learning practical steps educational points that we could benefit from our fasting at Ramadan this series in sha Allah تعالى the plan is to cover 30 points بإذن الله الكريم these 30 points each point in sha Allah تعالى will be released at one particular night in sha Allah تعالى for the entirety of the month of Ramadan if the month becomes 29 then in sha Allah تعالى two episodes will be released بإذن الله الكريم the first in sha Allah تعالى segment or the first episode today is going to be about I was going to be titled أهلاً وسهلاً Welcome Ramadan Our Prophet ﷺ as his authentically been transmitted from him that he used to greet his companions and he used to say to them قد جاءكم شهر رمضان شهر المبارك Verily the month of Ramadan has come to you a blessed month أبن رجب رحمه الله he took from this رحمه الله and he said that great scholars before him have already said regarding this hadith that this hadith indicates and shows the permissibility of greeting one another when it comes to Ramadan and he said أصل في تهنيئة الناس في بعضهم بعضا بشهر رمضان that this hadith is an evidence to show and indicate that the people can greet one another regarding the month of Ramadan and why would that not be the case when Ramadan is a month of forgiveness a month of expiation a month where the doors of Jannah are open and the doors of the Hellfire are closed a month of righteous deeds recitation of the Qur'an a month of virtue why would it not be a month that people not greet one another people greet each other for less than that this month my beloved brothers and sisters is making out its way to us recently we were greeting Ramadan and Subhan Allah here we are we are now greeting the next Ramadan and this really shows us how fast our life is going if you look at the early generation the pious predecessors pious predecessors رحمهم الله they used to look forward to Ramadan and they understood its virtue and its value ولذلك المعلّة ابن فضل he said كان السلف يدعون الله ستة أشهر أن يبلغهم رمضان he said that the pious predecessors the Sahabas and the Tabaein and the Tabaein they used to supplicate to Allah used to beg Allah أن يبلغهم رمضان that Allah سبحانه وتعالى allows them to reach the month of Ramadan and whenever they reached Ramadan and they fulfilled the days of Ramadan they would cry to Allah أن يتقبل منهم they would cry to him and they would beg him and supplicate and invoke onto him سبحانه وتعالى أن يتقبل منهم that he accepts it from them so six months the Sahabas and the Tabaein and the Tabaein سلف الصالح the pious predecessors for six months they would be begging Allah تبارك وتعالى allow them to reach Ramadan and once they fast it they would be begging Allah تبارك وتعالى until Ramadan comes again أن يتقبل منهم that he accepts it from them this shows you that the preparation of Ramadan and the thought of Ramadan was always on their mind أبو بكر الشبلي رحمه الله it was said إذا دخل شهر رمضان if the month of Ramadan entered جد فوق جدي من عصره ويقول شهر عظمه ربي فأنا أول من يعظمه أبو بكر الشبلي رحمه الله it was said about him if the month of Ramadan entered he would exert effort and hard work more than the people of East Ham and he would say شهر عظمه الله it's a month عظمه ربي my lord has glorified it and venerated it فأنا أول من يعظمه I'm going to be from the first people who honor it and venerated it يحمل أبي كفير another great Imam it was said that he used to supplicate and he used to make dua and he would say اللهم يسلمني إلى رمضان وسلم رمضان وما وسلم لي رمضان وتسلمه مني متقبلا he would say أولا bring Ramadan my way allow Ramadan to come to me and أولا allow me to come to Ramadan or to go to Ramadan and أولا allow me to benefit from that month and in order to get from it اكسفت so they had this in their mind رمضان and how they want to benefit from it it was said that a slave girl great scholars have mentioned the story that there was a slave girl and her master he passed her on and he sold her off to another master she moved to the other household and when she moved to the other household she saw them one day preparing for Ramadan getting food ready and everything she said what are you guys doing this is the new household that she's in she said what is it that you guys are doing and they said to her we are preparing for Ramadan and then she said this is all for Ramadan he said to her yes she said والله I don't want to remain a moment with you guys I want to leave and I want to go back to the household of my previous master for very late رمضان was every day of the year for them and if they were fasting the whole entire year it was like Ramadan for them the way they were and the way they were fasting was and the way their righteous deeds were until they returned her back to her master a previous master she didn't didn't let them keep her again this shows you how the Salaf is the righteous the pious predecessors where when it came to رمضان ابن ماجه ولي محمد also narrated in his Musnad that طلحة ابن عبيد الله he had a dream and in this dream he saw something but prior before I mentioned the dream there were two companions who came to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم بوث of them they took Islam at the same time but one of the two men worked very hard يعني he worked hard in the religion until a battle came and he participated in that battle and he marted in that battle يعني became a Shahid in that battle one of them and then the other one he died a year later and he died in his bed he didn't die as a martyr and he wasn't as hard working as the other one طلحة had a dream رضي الله تعالى عنه and in the dream what he saw was that the one who died late يعني he died one year later and he died in his bed had actually entered Jannah before the one who was a martyr he entered Jannah before him the Shahid who was working hard the one who died a year later who died in his bed went into Jannah before him so this طلحة was shocking so he told the companions about what he saw and the news reached the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when the news reached the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the Prophet عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم said to طلحة what is it that's fascinating from this story or from the dream that you saw what is it that's fascinating from it he said يا رسول الله what's fascinating is that this man he wasn't as hard working as this man and the one that was he exerted less effort and didn't even die as a martyr entered Jannah before the one who martyred the Prophet then said to طلحة did he not live a year longer than the other يعني did the one who entered Jannah first did he not live a year longer than the other one he said yes he said within that year did he not fast did he not get extra prayers and extra fasting he said yes and then the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said between the two of them is greater than the سماة and the أرض يعني the distance between these two men is more than the سماة and the أرض حندا here and think over this point the Prophet stated two deeds that this man surpassed the other one with صلى and fasting يعني he got a Ramadan that the other one didn't get the people who died last year and didn't get the Ramadan for this year are losing out and are wishing that they could get this Ramadan الله has favoured you my beloved brother and sister الله has given you that opportunity إن شاء الله تعالى تلتحي reach this Ramadan you need to see it as a benefit and you need to understand the value of what's coming your way the question here is how can I benefit from Ramadan first of all what you have to do is you need to repent you need to repent from every mistake that you did you need to come with a Torah repentance إذا الله سبحانه وتعالى هيسانين دا قرآن وتوبوا إلى الله جميعا أيها المؤمنون لعلكم تفلحون ربنتوا الله تباركوا التعالى all of you لعلكم تفلحون very you're going to receive success and prosperity by repenting you will receive prosperity and success let me read on you a statement by two great imams شيخ الإسلام رحمه الله he said ابن تيميا he said إذا تابع if the heart repents يعني turns back to Allah سبحانه وتعالى من الذنوبي from the sins تخلصت قوة القلبي وإرادته للعمال الصالحة the heart becomes strong and it becomes prepared and ready and it becomes willing to do righteous actions يعني if you repent from something you've done you repent from your sins and you ask Allah for forgiveness your heart will become strong it will be ready it will be willing to do righteous deeds واسترح القلب من تلك الحوالي تلفاسدة التي كانت and even your heart will find tranquility from the hardship and the calamities of sins and the corruption the heart will find tranquility because you repented the heart is in a state of distress when sins are done on it the minute you repent the heart finds ease and starts to breathe your heart will start to thank you your heart will be ready for what it will be ready to do righteous actions because his eyesight comes back the drive and the motive comes back ابن القيب who is the student of Ibn Utania he also said something similar to Ibn Utania he said فإذا عزمت التوبة if you've made the conviction the unwavering conviction of repentance وصحة ونشأ and it becomes a correct repentance ونشأت ميم صميم القلبين and it gushes from the core of your heart يعني that repentance comes from the core of your heart احرقت ما مرت عليه من السيئات it will burn all of the sins that he goes by كأنها حتى كأنها لم تكن like it was never ever there before فإن التائب من الدم بكما لا دم بله because the one who repents from a sin is like he's never done in his life ابن القيب is saying to you if you make the decision that conviction to repentance and it becomes a repentance which is صحيح you do it correctly you come with these conditions and that repentance really comes from the core of your heart يعني you do it for Allah's sake and you do it with the conditions guess what my beloved brother and sisters it will burn all of the sins that you've ever done so much so that it will become like you've never done a sin in your life and this is something to really understand I want each and every one of us بإذن الله الكريم to start this month of Ramadan and to welcome it and to greet it with repentance so that we insha'Allah تعالى when it comes our hearts and our mind and our body is ready for what's to come insha'Allah تعالى that's for today's episode بإذن الله الكريم anything I might have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me a Shaytan and Allah and His Messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك أشهد وإله إله إلا الله أستغفرك واتوبلي السلام عليكم if you're enjoying these 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