Benefits of Ramadhaan - we need Ramadhaan
by Abu Uwais Abdullah Alee
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Transcribed by: Umm Hasna Firdous Bint Jabir
Source : calgaryislam.com
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Ramadhaan is a month of Forgiveness.
Ramadhaan is a month of Rahmah.
Ramadhaan is the month of generosity.
Ramadhaan, the month that Allaah subhaanahu wa ta'ala accepts the Tawbah of the servants,
and the month that Allaah blesses His servants.
We are in need of Ramadhaan to correct ourselves,
for we have forgotten Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala for the majority of the year.
To correct ourselves for we have been neglectful.
To correct ourselves for we are not upon the remembrance of Allaah.
To correct ourselves because our hearts have gotten hard,
some hearts are dead,
some hearts are sick,
some hearts are stone-cold,
some hearts are black,
getting no benefit whatsoever.
Some hearts are so bad,
and so ill that they see a good as a Munkar, (as an evil),
and they see an evil as a good.
These are not as they should be.
We need a Ramadhaan.
We need a Ramadhaan
because our connection with Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala is not correct.
We need a Ramadhaan
because we do not have any Khushoo or devotion in our Salaah.
We need a Ramadhaan
because our Qura'an has dust and is sitting on a she lf.
We need a Ramadhaan
because we never read the books of Sunnah.
We need a Ramadhaan
because we don't fast, and if we fast physically without food or drink,
we don't fast with our eyes by lowering them and our tongue by not slandering and our tongue by not lying and back-biting.
We need a Ramadhaan
to get ourselves back in order,
to work for the Hereafter,
to connect ourselves to Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala.
We need a Ramadhaan
because relationships brother to brother and sister to sister is in a miserable condition.
We need a Ramadhaan
because we have bad thoughts about one another.
We need a Ramadhaan
because of dhulm, injustice to one another.
We need a Ramadhaan
because there is backbiting, there is envy, there is jealousy, and there is slander.
We need a Ramadhaan
because we are despicable, because we are sick, because we are ill. (All these are diseases of the heart)
We need a Ramadhaan
because we don't believe in the promise of Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala, or if we do, we do not implement it.
We need a Ramadhaan
because it is time for us to change and become something better then we are now.
We need a Ramadhaan
because that is the only thing that is going to get us together…
We need a Ramadhaan
because we don't have unity, there's no brotherhood
We need a Ramadhaan
because there's no respect for elders
We need a Ramadhaan
because there's no real love between us
We need a Ramadhaan,
full of love and the Mercy of Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala.
A Ramadhaan like we come in,
like in a clinic or a hospital,
trying to solve our illnesses,
trying to come out of there without the disease we came with,
trying to be better than we went in with.
We need a Ramadhaan.
Look around you,
look to your right,
look to your left,
look in front of you
and look behind you
and you'll say,
"We need a Ramadhaan".
The sisters aren't covering properly, we need a Ramadhaan.
Brothers and sisters are mixing. We need a Ramadhaan.
Talking on phones and on the internet, we need a Ramadhaan.
This is a mess, we are in a fix, we are in a bind, and this is a problem… We need a Ramadhaan.
We need a Ramadhaan
to get ourselves together.
We need a Ramadhaan,
that we come in the Masjid and we face the Qiblah and we say "Allaahu Akbar"
and we stand in qiyaamah a long time until those diseases, that filth, that sickness, that hardness the heart goes away.
We need a Ramadhaan
that reminds us of the Hell-fire.
We need a Ramadhaan
that tells us that we haven't been given a certificate that we are people of Jannah.
We need a Ramadhaan
that lets us known that we are servants of Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala.
And if we were to spend our whole life,
from the time we were born until Yawm al Qiyaamah in Sajdaah,
it would not be enough to thank Allaah for His Mercy, His Grace and His Blessings.
We need a Ramadhaan and it is clear.
If there is any fear of Allaah left in the hearts of ours
and if there is any hope of Jannaah left in us,
and if there is any desire to change
and to be better
and to be righteous
and to come to the level of Ihsaan,
to come to the level of a Mumim,
to have taqwa,
to fear Allaah
… we need a Ramadhaan.
We need a Ramadhaan, a month of Tawbaah.
We need a Ramadhaan, a month of Maghfira.
We need a Ramadhaan
to correct our behaviour,
to correct the differences & the difficulties
and the envy / jealousies in our relationship between one another.
We need a Ramadhaan
to understand that we have been committing injustice to one another.
And as the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said :
'Az-Zulm (injustice) – "Zulumaat yawmal Qiyaamah" –
we'll be changed physically into darkness on the Day of Judgement.'
We need a Ramadhaan
to understand the Hadith :
to fear the duaa of the one to whom we have done injustice.
For there is not between Allaah and the person making the invocation,
the person making that supplication of the person to whom injustice has been done,
there is no veil between that person and Allaah.
That duaa is immediately accepted.
The oppressor is the one for whom things are not going right;
He is tripping into this and falling into that;
He is Slipping there and sliding here.
Why I can't get ahead?
Why I can't progress in my Deen?
Why I can't memorize this ayah?
Why I can't understand this hadeeth?
We may be living under the invocation,
the answer for invocation for someone whom we abused or stepped over.
You know you need a Ramadhaan.
I know I need a Ramadhaan.
We know we need a Ramadhaan.
We need to get ourselves together.
We've been running around in filth,
we have been having our hearts around the low matters;
We need our hearts to be around the thrones of Allaah;
We need to think about the high matters, high goals;
We need to think about Jannah;
We need a hope for al-Jannah.
You're planning for marriage,
you're planning for education,
you're planning for a job,
but we need to plan for the Jannah.
We need to prepare for the Jannah during the month of Ramadhaan.
"'Nahnu be haajathin Ma'aasa fir Ramadhaan."
We are in severe need for Ramadhaan,
so that we come into Ramdhaan with repentance,
we come into it with regret,
we come into it realizing that we are weak,
that we need Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala to correct us,
realizing that we are wrong
and that we need Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala to place upon us that which is right,
realizing that we are weak
and that we need Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala to grant us strength.
We need a Ramadhaan.
Oh Yes !!
We need a Ramadhaan.
We needs nights of Qiyaam,
we need dua and sujood,
we need nights of Ramadhaan to do thilawaah of Qura'an.
We need to listen to Husri, or Sudays or Shurain, or Hudhaifi.
We need a Ramadhaan to listen to the Qura'an.
When was the last time that we listened to the Qura'an****
When was the last time we recited Qura'an?
We need a Ramadhaan to study Qura'an,
to implement the Qura'an,
and this Ramadhaan may be our final Ramadhaan.
As one brother spoke, I believe it is Abu Thasleem Hafidahullaah,
where is the guarantee that this is not our final Ramadhaan?
What is the guarantee that it is not our final Ramadhaan?
We have to come into it seriously.
And we want to come out of it much better than we came into it.
We want to come out of Ramadhaan with Taqwa,
because that was the main reason that it was legislated.
"O you who believe fasting has been written upon you as it was written for those before you,
so that you may gain Taqwa."
Taqwa is fear of Allaah.
If we had taqwa,
our condition will be better than it is now.
If we had taqwa
our relationships would be smoother,
if we had taqwa
…father to son who is a Muslim, sister to brother who is Muslim, uncle, aunt, niece and nephew who is Muslim, husband and wife who are Muslims..
the relationships would be better if they are based upon Taqwa.
And we can achieve Taqwa during the month of Ramadhaan.
I don't believe that our hearts are that hard,
I don't believe that we can't change,
I don't believe that some of us who hold hatred for the last 10 years cannot learn to love,
and because we have been taught deceit and deception now we can't learn to trust.
I don't believe that those brothers who have left circumstances physically
but have the teachings and the behaviours
that they had while they were up there, that they can't change.
The sisters who remove their bodies from the fitnah and physically remove their bodies from a mistake,
physically remove their bodies from foolishness but their hearts have to follow.
Be iznillaahi tha'aalah !
Their hearts have to follow.