 إن الحمد لله نحمد الله سعين ونصفق ونعوذ الله من شروب ينبوسنا ومن سيات عمالنا من يهل الله فرام بردنا ومن ينبل فلها بيره وشب أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وشب أن محملا عبده ورسوله يا إيما الذين آموا اتقوا الله حقا تقاتح ولا تمتمنا إلا وانتم مسلمون يا إيم الناس اتقوا رباكم الذي خلقكم من نفس واحدة وخلق منها زوجها وبثت منكم بجالا كثيرا ونساءة واتقوا الله الذي تساءلون به والعرحان إن الله كان عليكم ركيبة يا إيم الذين آموا اتقوا الله وقولوا قوناا سديدا يسيح لكم عنا لكم ويوفل لكم ذنوبكم وما يطع الله رسوله فقد فاز فوزا عظيمة أننا دعك الكريم سوف يرسلوا بي mộtديك فاديو وكذب كذبك وكذبك وذلك كذبك فالخطف بايد الله من مواردنا أن نعرح الخطب من جزء الأخضر هم لا يتزوجون بهجونا دون دعك دائما أشبه وإن فاديو يشبه أيضا وما يشبه دائما يشبه لما يدخلهم أسألتهم بأن هناك موافق لأحد الله سيكون مولاً وعد الأسطنة وأسألتهم بأن محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أو you believe here Allah is I should be feared and die not except in the state of Islam O mankind be beautiful to your Lord who created you from a single person and from him he created his mates and from both of them he created many men and women and fear Allah through whom you demand your mutual rights if you not cut off the relations of the moon surely Allah is ever and I'll watch over you أو you believe keep your duty to Allah and fear him and speak the truth he will rectify your affairs and forgive your sins and whosoever obeys Allah his messenger has indeed achieved a great achievement dear brothers and sisters a couple of weeks before Ramadan came myself and some of my students we were reviewing some of the D1 at Imam Shafri Imam Shafri has a lot of poetry which we know has a lot of benefit so we were studying this poetry and we came across a particular poem that had a lot of benefit and so I thought I would share some of that benefit with you that we discussed in our class so the poem in it he advises us on how intelligent servants of Allah can conduct themselves in this world it reads the meaning of which is that indeed for Allah are some intelligent slaves who divorce this world in its wicked ways when they look deeply into this world they came to understand that barely this world was not their native land so they made this world like the oceans blue and they took righteous deeds and ships to sail through dear brothers and sisters Shafri in the month of Ramadan is one of those righteous deeds it's one of those ships which the intelligent servant of Allah uses as a means to convey them from the shores of this world to the shores of the next world in anticipation for his most generous reward سحلي المصعد رضي الله عنه narrates from the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم he mentions that in paradise the Harif they talked about this particular gate or door in paradise it's called a Rayyan and he says that in Jannah there's a gate called a Rayyan a gate which the sawing moon the fasting people will enter from no one else except them will enter this gate it will be announced where are the sawing moon where are the fasting people and the fasting people will stand no one will enter that gate except them the gate called a Rayyan dear brothers and sisters we have to ask ourselves a question a very important question how did we prepare for this month that we're in right now in this society we have something called the weekend warrior I was talking to my daughter about the weekend warrior on my way to the football but she didn't know what to think so the weekend warrior for those who don't know what it means the weekend warriors are those people who they go to work during the week and they work in the cubicles they sit in front of the computers and you might find you know in front of the coffee stations with the donuts and then the pastry right and then when Saturday comes they hit the gym right they hit the gym or they hit the trail or they go hang out they do something but when they hit it they go all out right so you see them in the gym you know they're not keeping it on now because they took off the suit and they're lifting it weighs really hard right they go to the court they play golf about 2-3 hours right what happens to them on Monday they're at the hospital right they pulled every muscle right they destroyed their knees they destroyed their ankles right because all throughout the week they didn't do anything to prepare for that vigorous exercise that they were about to undertake so and Ramadan we have Ramadan warriors these are those brothers and sisters unfortunately they didn't fast the whole year long they didn't fast they didn't get up at night to pray so what happened when the month came their bodies went into shock and if you were to ask we have some Muslim doctors who they gave us some very interesting statistic they said that on an average day a Muslim doctor might save about 5-7 patients but on the first day of Ramadan that number tripped this is the Ramadan word now the Ramadan word actually in the history of the song is a very rare occurrence it's kind of a new fallama if we were to be alive about a thousand years ago sitting with one of the companions or the students of the companions about 3-4 months before Ramadan came we would have found them in the masjid with their hands raised in dua asking Allah SWT to bless them to reach this month so the preparation for the month was beginning before the month came there are different ways that you can warm up for the month of Ramadan and if you didn't do it before it's okay there are some things you can do when you see it so one of the ways is by increasing the frequency of our dua Allah SWT mentioned in the Quran with the verse before talking about Ramadan and the verse after also speaking about Ramadan He mentions Arabic Asian Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic Arabic أن يجب أن يكونوا مجموعة. فالممانت of Ramadan is a time for us to get closer to Allah by increasing the frequency and the amount of dua'a that we make along with the acts of obedience. Every witness that we receive on this earth is from Allah and from amongst the most unique, the most exclusive blessings that we receive this month of Ramadan. The brothers and sisters that we had not too long ago and the topic was on Hajj. There was a brother in the khutba who made dua'a that Allah سبحانه وتعالى would bless him to make the Hajj that year. And at that particular time, he didn't have the means or the money to make this pilgrimage but he had a sincere dua'a. And so he made that dua'a. That particular night, more than one brother came to his brother with an offer of help because they had heard that he wanted to make Hajj.حمد الله, he made Hajj that year. And we believe that that was the result of his sincere dua'a. So this is to emphasize the importance of dua'a even especially during this month. So the early generations from this Ummah they would make dua'a six months after Ramadan asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى to accept the deeds that they did during Ramadan. So from the Ramadan where they were six months out, they're asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى to accept the deeds that they did during that month. And then the next six months out they were asking or making dua'a that Allah blessed them to reach the next Ramadan. So this is the example that we have and if we're looking to get closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's one that we should follow. So prepare me. How should we prepare you? How did we prepare you? So we would have guests coming to your home and we all have guests, we know what we do. So we start cleaning the house. Start vacuuming the carpets. Start dressing the shelves. Scrub in the sink, scrub in the toilet. Do everything in our power to make sure that that house is looking good. This is Ramadan when it comes. We should do the same thing. However, the emphasis should be more on just the physical surroundings. It's a time that we should now start practicing a way to scrub away the sins scrub away those things which prohibited us from doing things that we knew we were supposed to do. Those things that we had we should be trying to clean those things up and get rid of those things. Those things which we know were displeased into Allah سبحانه وتعالى it was a time for us really to be working on that. Listen to the words of Rasulullah peace be upon him peace be upon him so I'm speaking about those people that don't want to clean up for Ramadan. He says that whoever doesn't desist from speaking falsehood and happening upon it that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has no need that they desist from their food or their drink. So the biggest downfall we find from the weekend warrior is that they did the homework properly and because of their ill preparation or their lack of preparation then it led to all sorts of injuries and harm. Similarly with fasting some people only do it once a year when Ramadan comes and this makes their bodies very foreign to going without food and drink and this makes it very difficult for them. They also haven't practiced much cleaning or spiritual cleansing so throughout the whole year when they come to Ramadan even though we know that the doors of paradise are open and the doors of the gates are held closed and the sheykhs are hanging on a feather or chain but because they didn't do that training before then their next is the one that comes and starts begging them to do things or to heal them they're not supposed to do. So we're asking Allah sometimes with Adam to increase us or let us increase in the frequency of God to us during this month and we're asking him to bless us to increase in our acts of obedience during this month and we're asking him to give us strength over our deaths. One of the soldiers said in a poem that he wrote he mentioned that he said oh you who aren't satisfied with singing in the month of Raja so much so that you continue singing in Sha'man the month of fasting is now come upon you so do not convert it also to a month of singing الحمد لله الحمد لله الحمد لله بوثانات بوثانات وطوحة وطوحة وطوحة والسدي ورشاء وقصة وقصة وقصة وقصة وقصة وقصة وقصة وقصة عالية وقصة وقصة ذو كذلك دخول وغس photos وردت تلك الأشياء المتحدة إلى الأشياء المتحدة أو الأشياء المتحدة ويقول ، أو يردت بيقضل الكد تختسب المعالي ومن طالب المردن السهر العيالي ومن رون المردن المتحدة أضاع الأمر في طالب المحالي كرم العزة ثم تنام وليلة يهوسم بحر من طالب البعض ويقول ، أما إضافك من أجل شرطك أنتظر قرار نفسك ومن يرد المساعد في تدرس الأمر إذا كانت ترد المساعدة في بارد المنطقة من يرد بوضع الأمر من تقيمها لا يمكنش هم حياتنا إذار the moon in Ramadan This month provides an opportunity for us to see the pearls of this blessed month By revitalizing it' s nights and spending them in prayer and contemplation and recitation of the إذر Try your best brothers and sisters to get your families up at night For the virtues of Ramadan are made They're made And I'm in, but just in mentioning a few of them ان كاملية يتكلم بشكل جيد و one of the things reported in the authentic hadith is that the house of Hanukkah has chosen fasting for himself and he will reward it and multiply the reward without measure. He mentioned that fasting has no equal and the du'a of the fasting person will not be refused. So this is another reason why we increase our du'a in this month. Also the fasting person has two moments of joy. One we raise his fast and one we release his Lord. Fasting will intercede for a person on the Day of Judgment and will say, Oh Lord I prevented him from his food and physical desires during the day. So let me intercede on his behalf. Also fasting is a protection and a strong fortress that keeps a person safe from the fire. Whoever fasts one day for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى will remove his face 70 years distance from the fire. Some hadith collected by Imam Musa. Also whoever fasts one day seeking the pleasure of Allah if that is his last day on this earth will enter paradise. He said in our tradition collected by Imam Mahmoud. Also we mentioned Agra Yan. A gate through which those who fast will enter. No one will enter and accept them. When they have entered it they will be locked and no one else will be able to go through. Ramadan of course is the month of the Qur'an. A month wherein there is a night that is better than a thousand months. When Ramadan begins the gates of paradise are open and the gates of hell are closed and the devils are chained. Whoever fasts on the line in that and out of faith and with hope of reward all of their previous sins will be forgiven. And the final virtue I'm going to mention is that at the breaking of every fast Allah سبحانه وتعالى chooses people to free and liberate from the Hellfire. So brothers and sisters let's be like those intelligent servants of Allah سبحانه وتعالى And take fast in my prayer that ships themselves through this Junior for indeed there are intelligence servants or slaves of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Let us be amongst them. Very for Allah there are some intelligent slaves who divorce this world in its wicked ways. They looked deeply into this world and came to understand that this world was not their native land. So they made this world like the oceans blue and took righteous deeds and ships themselves through. عباد الله إن الله يمر بالعادل ويحسان ويطاري بالقرباء ويضح علي عشان وانقري وانباذر. يعيدكم نعيدكم العلاكم تذكرون. اتفر الله نعودين يالفركم واشكروا ويزدكم واساوفروا ويافر لكم واتقوموا يجعل لكم من أملكم نخراجا واحد.