 Friends, it's due to Allah. We start with the name of Allah, Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim. We say Bismillahir Rahman Ar-Rahim is the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most kind. This one, this merciful Lord that has given us the mercy of Himal. He has given us the mercy of faith and we haven't asked for faith that He has blessed us with faith, without us asking. This merciful Lord has allowed us to achieve the acts of worship without us asking to do that. This merciful Lord has allowed us to have an opinion of Him that He is merciful and that He will continue to grant His mercy on us. We know that the famous, the famous Hadith Hussein, where Allah says, and it's by the wording of the Prophet's number, Allah says, that I am according to the opinion of my servant. And so we have the opinion of Allah that He is merciful towards us. And then if we have that opinion of Allah, Allah will be merciful towards us. If we have the opinion of Allah that He will allow us to continue to have it to be the grace to continue on this e-man, on this faith that He has given us and for it not to be taken from us, Allah, inshaAllah, allows us to continue that faith without us asking. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't ask. It doesn't mean we shouldn't ask for an increase in faith, an increase in our actions. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't ask for an increase in our spiritual states. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't ask of Raza. Because Allah likes to hear us ask. We have Ramadan coming in 11 or 12 days, less than two weeks. Ramadan is almost here. We ask that Allah allows us to reach Ramadan and to bless the remainder of our Shaaban. We ask Allah that He allows us to find the spiritual benefit of Ramadan. And a lot of times we find ourselves questioning how come I find a higher spiritual state in Ramadan? Or sometimes we know people who don't pray except in Ramadan. We don't do acts of worship except in Ramadan. We don't mean we're outside of Ramadan. And sometimes we look down upon those people. We look down upon those people. And we question their faith. And we question their sincerity. But before we do that, let's think about the Hadid al-Handala al-Musaidi al-Aliyullah al-Mu'ta'ala. He was one of the slides from the Prophet ﷺ. It's a famous Hadid. It's in, it's in, it's reported in many, many books. And one morning, Handa al-Aliyullah al-Mu'ta'ala said, Nafa al-Handala. Handa al-Handala is a hypocrite. He says that about himself, the Sahabi is great, one of the, the greatest of creation after the Prophet ﷺ. And he says that, that I've committed, I've committed hypocrisy. So he goes and he runs to the Mubakr al-Mu'ta'ala. He's a long Hadid. But he runs to the Mubakr al-Mu'ta'ala when he says, Ya, Ya aba bakr. Nafa al-Handala. Handa al-Handala has, Handa al-Handala has committed hypocrisy. He says, why is that? He said, when we're, when I'm in the company of the Prophet ﷺ, I find myself in a higher spiritual state. I find myself, you know, he describes, he describes the acts that, that the, the cognizance he has of Allah with him. And so, the Mubakr al-Mu'ta'ala says, I have the same problem. When I'm at the Prophet ﷺ, I'm at a certain state. I'm like, when I'm away from him, I'm not at that state. So they go, both of them, to the Prophet ﷺ, they narrate this to him. And he says that he, and basically the summary of the, this is the long Hadid, the summary of the Hadid is the Prophet ﷺ says, that when you're with me, of course, your, your state of Imad and your actions are going to be greater and have, and have a greater impact on you. And it had to remain on what you were doing in my company. The angels themselves came down and shook their hands with you. But they sa'at and fa sa'at, and you know, bit by bit, things we, we, we aren't going to achieve a high spiritual state merely by affirming it in ourselves, or merely by asking, or merely by getting up to the pageant one or two times, or praying our five prayers on time, or whatever it may be, reading some extra Qur'an in the day. So there are moments in our lives where we have more Imad. We have, we have a higher sense of Imad, more cognizance of Allah and his command, commandant and prohibition, more cognizance of our love for Allah and His Messenger ﷺ and His love and His Messenger ﷺ and His love for us. So when we have, when we reach Him a lot, we, we, we see these people, we might consider, we, we, there's a term that they call them Ramadan Muslims. We don't, we don't recognize that we ourselves are Ramadan Muslims. Ramadan are our own. We, we also find an increase and perhaps that state which they're in, or that state that which we find ourselves in, in that, in that Ramadan, or whatever, whatever time of Ramadan it may be, whether it be Ramadan or it be the time of Hajr, whether they be doing at times of prayer or when you read Qur'an, those are times when we're supposed to find an increase. Those are times when we're supposed to find an increase. So when we find someone who perhaps hasn't prayed on you, who hasn't opened up Qur'an in a long time, who hasn't stopped to make some dhikr or some dhikr, some, some contemplation about Allah and His creation, we should encourage those people, help those people. And so long as, and we know the Hadith that Prophets have said that Allah is in the, is in the assistance of His servant, so long as His servant is in the assistance of His brother. So if we assist those people who find difficulty outside of Ramadan, who find difficulty outside of the Qur'an, spiritual times of the year or times of the day, Allah might continue to allow us to have an increase in iman. And allow us to have an increase in our faith and in our actions. We know the Prophets, Allah SAW, None of you truly believe, you haven't reached complete faith. Until you love for yourself, what you love for your brother. Do we not love iman for ourselves? Do we not love that Allah has mercy on us? Do we not love that Allah continue to be on your side to be the one who provides for us? We should also love that for our brothers and sisters in our faith and for our families and help those people who might be struggling in whatever way of wisdom that I may do without overwhelming them. You know, we help them first reach their bare minimums and after that we increase them by bid. And if we do that and we love that for ourselves and we love that for them, perhaps we'll reach a higher state than iman. Perhaps Allah will continue to assist us in our iman and our actions through our help for another person. That Allah might increase our love for Allah might be increased because we help someone else increase their love for Allah. Because we help someone else increase their love for Allah, it's a message that Allah has sent us. So we're all from Allah's message. We're all people who find a bit of a spiritual boost during Ramadan and during the other times of the day or the year or the week or whatever it may be. We find ourselves, you know, we're more about dress. We're excited to go to the Jum'ah. You know, we perhaps, the rest of the week, it might be a little difficult to go to the Masjid. We find it easier on ourselves to go to the Masjid on Fridays. These are all indications of this idea that there are times when our faith is going to be a bit stronger. And we should continue on that and ride that wave and allow it to continue to build our good habits. So this month coming, first of all, this month ending, we should continue before Ramadan because we should prepare for Ramadan. This is a religion in which we put forth, we put forth preliminaries before we meet something else. If you want, if you want, if you want presence in your prayer, you have to have presence in your wudu. If you want presence in your wudu, you should have presence in your intention before wudu. And so on and so forth. So we put forth preliminaries. So if you want presence in Ramadan a lot, and a higher spiritual state, a higher benefit from wudu a lot, we should start now. We should start helping people now. We should start helping our brothers and our sisters and our families and our children and our parents if they may be. Whoever it may be that you might find that means some sort of boost. We should start now. I'm going to call you back. No matter how much time you spend on the Quran every single day, if you don't spend time to pray every single day. We haven't done enough. And we should never assume the verb when you do enough. And that shouldn't discourage us. It should actually encourage us that even though we don't do enough, Allah is still going to reward us for the very little that we do. The righteous predecessors, and even people today, when Ramadan comes, they double what they do. We're not doing anything. They double their good actions, especially with the Quran. Double how much Quran there is. We're not doing anything now. We should start now. And we double it if we can when Ramadan comes, whether it be a few minutes today, or if you're doing however much it may be that you can reasonably finish without straining yourself. We should start that now. So we build the habit. So whenever Allah comes, we build a closer connection to the words of Allah. Because sometimes we don't recognize the blessing that these are the words of Allah. Allah is expressing his pre-eternal speech in this Quran. And he has a message to tell us. And Allah is our beloved. Do we not want to know what our beloved is telling us? If we don't understand the Quran, and that the spiritual reading, that's fine. There's reward in reading the Quran, even if you don't understand. So we should start now. And perhaps I might say, well, I don't find like, I don't find the spiritual, I don't find the spiritual, I don't find the prayer, maybe I don't find like, enjoy the reading of the Quran. Allah is expressing his reward in this Quran, that sometimes the eye might not see the sunlight, because there's something that's covering it in the mouth, and I like to taste what it drinks, or the water it drinks, because there's something that's wrong at the top. Suddenly, we don't like our time in the Quran. We should remind us that this is a reminder for us. We should continue to work on ourselves. In Ramadan, we spend extra time getting up before Fajr to make sure that our bodies are nourished. We can also add a few minutes to make sure our souls are nourished. Very few of us in Al-Qadr learn when we're still asleep. This is weak, this is weak to give the effort into our bodies to be the same for our souls, and souls are more important than our bodies. We ask Allah that there are lots of people who have nourished souls. We ask Allah that there are lots of people who live in a relation with His words. We ask Allah that He makes people love them for life, and love Allah, and love His messengers in the law and the center. We ask Allah that He gives us an interest in faith in this coming month. We ask Allah that He allows us to reach this month. We ask Allah that He allows us to have grace after we continue on this faith that He's given us. We ask Allah that this faith never leaves us, and never decreases from us. We ask Allah that we have an increase in the quality and the quantity of our actions. We ask Allah that we keep people who see no happiness except that what Allah has given us. We ask that we find no peace except through Him. So He said, especially in the first years of our current. We ask Allah that He allows us to recognize that Allah is angels. He said there are many evictions and salutation about us all the time. And they were asking the same thing. We ask Allah that He allows us to recognize that there are many evictions and salutation about us all the time. We ask Allah that He allows us to recognize that there are many evictions and salutation about us all the time. We ask Allah that He allows us to recognize that there are many evictions and salutation about us all the time.