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What If This Is My LastRamadan?

Al Hedaya Islamic Center, Level 6

December 9, 2012

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

All praises are due to Allah the Almighty and may H

and blessings be upon the Prophet Muhammad (p

upon him)


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REPETITION Repetition is the way of the Prophet sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam and whoev

the way of the Prophet sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam has clearly gone astray.

Narrated by Anas: Whenever Allah's Apostle greeted somebody, he used to times, and if he spoke a sentence, he used to repeat itthrice. -Sahih Bukhar74, Number 261

Narrated by Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "Adam and Moses argued with said to Adam. 'O Adam! You are our father who disappointed us and turned Then Adam said to him, 'O Moses! Allah favored you with His talk (talked to He wrote (the Torah) for you with His Own Hand. Do you blame me for actio

written in my fate forty years before my creation?' So Adam confuted MosesMoses," the Prophet added, repeating the Statement three times.Sahih BBook 77, Number 611

Narrated by 'Abdullah bin 'Amr: Once the Prophet remained behind us in a us while we were performing ablution for the prayer which was over-due. Wpassing wet hands over our feet (and not washing them properly) so the Pro

in a loud voice and said twice or thrice: "Save your heels from the fire. Sah1, Book 3, Number 57


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Repetition
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REPETITION When we hear something we have heard before, we shouldnt think in our m

already heard this dont need to hear it again, especially if this things is aboIslam.

Indeed this is the mentality of the world and the disbelievers. They always wnew. This is the reason why many are disbelievers. They do not believe thagiven 1433 apply to them and they are always looking for something new oreasier way to worship the Lord, but there is only one way.

Additionally, the disbelievers, even when the signs are told to them over ancontinue to reject the Truths and not implement them in their lives. May Al

us from such a condition.

We should say when we hear something we have learned before, Alhamdulsubhanahu wa ta ala has given me the opportunity to hear something agaithat the first time we heard what was being said and did not implement it ocontinue implementing it or ignored it all together. Perhaps this time we mpracticing and implementing these things. This is the attitude of the learne


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Why Do We Think We Are Promised Moments

1 in 5 of us will die of heart disease SOURCES: National Center foStatistics, CDC; American Cancer Society; National Safety CouncFederation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; World Healt

USGS; Clark Chapman, SwRI; David Morrison, NASA; Michael PaSociety Australian Volunteers

Based on the fact that 1 in 5 die of heart disease, then also, manysudden death without any notice:

Coronary Heart Disease: 50 percent of men and 63 percent of wsuddenly of CHD had no previous symptoms of this disease. (FHS

Congestive Heart Failure: In people diagnosed with CHF, suddeoccurs at 6-9 times the rate of the general population. (FHS, NHL

FHS Framingham Heart Study; NHLBI National Heart, Lung,

Institute


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Ibn Umar (Radhiallahu 'Anhum) said:

Allh's Messenger (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa

Sallam) took me by my shoulder and

said: "Be in this life as if you were astranger or a traveler on a path." and Ibn

Umar used to say, "If you reach the

evening then do not expect to reach

the morning, and if you reach the

morning then do not expect to reach

the evening. Take from your health

before your sickness, and from your life

before your death." - [Reported by al-

Bukhr]


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What If This Coming Ramadan Last Ramadan?


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We Should Read the

Quran During ThisRamadan?

Quran has even more of an important sigmonth of Ramadan, the month of fasting

Allah says (interpretation of the meaningRamadan in which was revealed the Quramankind and clear proofs for the guidanc(between right and wrong) [Quran al-Ba

Jibreel used to come to the Prophet (peaAllah be upon him) every night in RamadQuran with him. Narrated by al-Bukhaar

Hence the salaf used to read Quran a greRamadan, following the example of the Pblessings of Allah be upon him).

Qataadah (may Allah have mercy on himQuran every seven nights all the time, anRamadaan, and every two nights during Ramadaan.

Ibraaheem al-Nakhai used to complete tRamadaan every three nights, and in the

two nights.

The Prophet said: The Quran is anintercessor, something given permission tointercede, and it is rightfully believed in.Whoever puts it in front of him, it will leadhim to Paradise; whoever puts it behind him,it will steer him to the Hellfire. [Anauthentic hadith found in At-Tabaraanee, onthe authority of Abdullaah ibn Masood]

F ti i t f hi th t d l t All h


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We Should Focuson Our Worship

Being AcceptedDuring ThisRamadan

Fasting is a type of worship that draws one closer to Allahto purify the soul and to train it in good deeds. The fastinguard against any act that may cause him to lose the benis not just refraining from eating and drinking, but it is alseverything else that Allaah subhanahu wa ta ala has forb

Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet said: "Fasting is eating and drinking only, but also from vain speech and f

you is being cursed or annoyed, he should say: "I am fastiKhuzaimah, Ibn Hibban, and al-Hakim; Sahih].

Abu Hurairah also reported that the Prophet (peace be updoes not need the fast of one who does not abandon falsaccording to his false speech [Bukhari and others]

He also reported the Prophet (peace be upon him) as sayabandon falsehood in word and action, then Allah Mighty

need [i.e. will not accept] that he should leave his food an

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet said: "Perhaps a nothing from his fast save hunger, and perhaps the one wnight will get nothing from his standing except sleeplessMajah and al-Hakim / Sahih al-Jami`]. In another Narratiofasting person attains nothing but hunger and thirst fromDarimi, Ahmad and al-Baihaqee; Sahih]

On the authority of Ibn Abbas may Allah be pleased with him and his father:


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We Must BeGenerousDuring theMonth ofRamadan

On the authority of Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him and his father: peace upon him, was the most generous of people. He was especially generouAngel Gabriel would come and review the Quran with him. Gabriel would to revery night during the month of Ramadan. Verily, when Gabriel would come ahim in Ramadan, the Messenger of Allah was more generous than the free-bloMuslim] Imam Ahmad records this hadith with the additional words at its endanything except that he gave it.

[We read] in the compilation of Imam al-Tirmidhi, from the transmissions of S

the Prophet, peace upon him, said, Allah is generous, He loves generosity; Henobility. His compilation also mentions, on the authority of Abu Dharr, on thepeace upon him, narrating directly from his Lord: O my servants! If the first oliving of you, the dead of you; the intact of you, the decomposed of you; wereand every individual were to ask of me his wildest dream, and I were to grant ethat would not decrease my dominion as much as [the water taken from] an opass by and dip a needle into it and then extract it. That is because I am generdo what I please. My giving is a word and my punishment is a word. My commdesire it is but to say, Be, and it is!

In a hadith mentioned by Imam al-Tirmidhi and others, the Prophet, peace upit (Ramadan) a caller cries out, Those desiring good come forward, and those Allah has those He liberates from Hell, and that occurs every night [during Ram

It is related in the compilations of al-Bukhari and Muslim, from Anas, The Menicest, bravest, and most generous of all people.

Anas also relates, After Islam, the Messenger of Allah was never asked for anman came to him and asked him for a valley filled with livestock and he gave itpeople and said. O People! Become Muslim, for Muhammad gives like a man poverty. [Muslim]

The Prophet (sallaAllahu 'aleihi was sallam) said "T


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We ReallyShould Striveto GainKnowledgeThisRamadan

The Prophet (sallaAllahu 'aleihi was-sallam) said, "Tguidance and knowledge with which Allah has sent abundant rain falling on the earth, some of which wabsorbed rain water and brought forth vegetation aabundance. (And) another portion of it was hard andwater and Allah benefited the people with it and the

drinking, making their animals drink from it and for land for cultivation. (And) a portion of it was barren neither hold the water nor bring forth vegetation (thno benefits). The first is the example of the personcomprehends Allah's religion and gets benefit (fromwhich Allah has revealed through me (the Prophetthen teaches others. The last example is that of a pnot care for it and does not take Allah's guidance rev(He is like that barren land.)" [Bukhari, Vol. 1, Book 1

3 Categories of people of

Knowledge from Imaam

Ibnu Qayyim's Discussions

in his Classical Miftaahu

Daari-s-Sa'aadah

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CATEGORY 1: Ahlul-hifthi-wal-Faham (People of Mand Understanding)

They are those who memorize, understand the meanings, deducrulings, the wisdoms therein, and the benefits.

Their example is like the land which accepts the rain water (memknowledge) and brings forth vegetation and grass in abundance.

This vegetation and grass is thefahm (the understanding) and ab

This is the example of those who kept what they memorized and

They are the people of texts and understanding.

Ahl l hifth (P l f M i


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CATEGORY 2: Ahlul-hifth (People of Memoriza

Those are able to memorize and relate in precision, but they do nability to understand the meanings, nor to deduct or address thebenefits therein.

They are like those who recite the Qur'aan, memorize it, preciselpronounce the letters and hold to the grammar, but without com

On the other hand people vary to great extents in terms of their uof the texts spoken by Allaah subhanahu wa ta ala and (or) by Hi

Some may understand a ruling or two while others may deduce ftext one hundred or two hundred rulings.

The example of these two categories as mentioned in the hadeetland which has the water. People can benefit from it: drinking, gito drink, arrogation, and so forth.


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The first two categories, are the happy ones, andcategory is higher in rank. This is the Favour of

This is the Grace of Allah, which He bestows o

He wills. And Allah is the Owner of Mighty G[Qur'aan 62:4].

CATEGORY 3 Ahl l hifth (P l f M i


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CATEGORY 3: Ahlul-hifth (People of Memoriza

This category has no knowledge nor teaching.

They are the ones who have no share in memorization nor in und

Their similitude in the hadeeth is that of the barren land, which chold the water nor bring forth vegetation.

Hence no produce (no benefit), and these are the wicked ones.

What a calamity to be among these types of people during the mRamadan?

Too much food or drink is one of the


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We Need to BeMindful Not to EatToo Much Duringthis Ramadan

Too much food or drink is one of the that make one lazy and negligent of The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alsaid: Man fills no vessel worse thanIt is sufficient for the son of Adam t

mouthfuls to give him the strengthhas to fill his stomach, then let himthird for food, one-third for drink afor air. [Reported by at-Tirmidhee aSaheeh al-Jamee (5674)]

Abu Juhayfah (radhi allahu anhu) repProphet (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) who burped in his presence: Stop yfor the people who eat the most in the most hungry on the Day of Res[Reported by al-Hakim. Saheeh al-Ja


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We Need to TakeAdvantage ofQiyaam al-Layl

The Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: You sal-Layl, for it is the habit of the righteous people wand it will bring you closer to your Lord, expiate fosin, and expel disease from the body. [At-TirmidhAhmad]

Narrated Mu'adh Ibn Jabal (radhi allahu anhu): 'The Palaihi wa-sallam) said to him: May I show you the g(they are), (a) Fasting is screen from Hell, (b) As-Sthe sins, as water extinguishes fire, (c) Standing inslave of Allah during the last third part of a night.(sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) recited the verse:Theirforsake their beds, to invoke their Lord in fear andspend out of what We have bestowed on them.' [Tirmidhee]

Abu Hurayrah (radhi allahu anhu) reported that Allah(sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: May Allah have mwakes up at night, prays, and wakes his wife to prahe sprinkles water on her face. And may Allah havewho wakes up at night, prays, and wakes her husbrefuses, she sprinkles water on his face. [(Hasan) A


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We Must SeekLaylatul Qadr

Aisha (Ra) said: I asked the MessengeMessenger of Allah, if I know what nigof Qadr, what should I say during it?' HAllah, You are pardoning and You lovepardon me.' "Allahumma innaka 'afu'afwa fa'fu 'annee" (Ahmad, Ibn Majah

Abu Huraira narrated that the MessenWhoever stands (in prayer) in Laylat

nourishing his faith with self-evaluatioreward from Allah, will have all of his forgiven. (Bukhari and Muslim)

Action Steps Insha Allah


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Action Steps Insha-Allah Evaluate your past Ramadan. Actually write down your experien

Allaah subhanahu wa ta ala be pleased with our actions, our thothat we strove for during this month?

Think sincerely about what if this upcoming Ramadan is your last

Start to prepare now for Ramadan before it arrives so that you mout of the month, Insha-Allah.


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How perfect You are O Allaah, and I pYou. I bear witness that none has the

be worshiped except You. I seek Your

forgiveness and turn to You in repenta

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