Start preparing for Ramadan by doing what you’ve achieved more than anything you can imagine.
The biggest sale ever to happen is the month of Ramadan. Allah gives you this opportunity year after year until the day you die. Prepare for it from now in a bigger way than you would for the sales of the end of the year.
You prepare for Ramadan by constantly promising Allah. You need to amass goodness so that when you get to Ramadan, you have a softened heart.
If Allah gave you something, your identity, your looks, your height, perhaps your hair texture type, whatever it may be, love it. Love yourself how you are. It will help your heart solidify.
Love yourself how you are.
I love myself the way Allah made me
As soon as you learn to love yourself the way Allah made you, you are liberated.
I don’t need to fake it to be in the presence of someone else. I don’t.
When calamity strikes in your life and it has to strike at some point, the first thing a believer should do is connect to Allah.
Allah describes the believers and Allah says, those whom when calamity strikes, when difficulty and hardship befalls them, the first thing they say and they utter is ‘we belong to Allah and unto Him we shall all return.’
If you are content at calamity that struck you, inshallah, you’re a good person. But if you are struggling and you are really battling and it’s changed you in the negative way and it’s made you even worse, you have to look at yourself.
Ask yourself the first question have you ever harmed someone?
Number one; work on your prayer. You won’t go wrong. It’s ultimate success.
The second thing; keep calling out to Allah. Keep asking Him. Don’t be tired of asking Allah. Allah loves it when you repeat and repeat and keep going.
Success and victory ultimately is all yours for as long as you have Allah by your side.
Perhaps the gap between the sins is actually made longer, which is a sign of improvement. But the day you think you’re not clean enough to pray to Allah is the day the devil, Shaitan, has convinced you that you’re not even worth it. That was his plan.
Don’t allow that day to come. Remember to turn to Allah. Don’t give up. Never give up. You navigate through your difficulties just like we all do. They may be bigger, but Allah has given you the strength to go through it.
Istikhara is seeking the guidance of Allah. So you want to open a business, you want to get married, you want to do something, .. a major and you’re confused about it. then you ask Allah, guide me, Allah, if this is good for me.
People say, how do I know the response of my Istikhara?
Go back and find out what you said. That’s the response. You said Oh Allah, if it is good for me, make it easy and facilitate it. Open the doors.
So you get up the following morning and Mashallah, The doors are opening, one after the other. That’s a sign. Allah is starting to open your doors.
You get up the following morning and your doors are closing one after the other. That’s a sign. Allah is closing the doors.
One of the methods that Allah uses to bring us closer to Him is by inflicting us with something we perceive as negative and if you came closer to Allah because of any one of those things or anything negative, It was the blessing of Allah and it’s the mercy of Allah and the gift of Allah.
But if Allah blessed you and gave you and did everything for you, and you passed with flying colors and you’ve got authority and you’ve got good looks and you’ve got lots of knowledge, and you’ve got lots of this and whatever else it may be, if that drifted you away from Allah, it cannot be the mercy of Allah.
So understand the favors of Allah and let it bring you closer to Allah.
Get acquainted with Allah during your days of ease. Get close to Allah, when nothing is wrong in your life, everything is smooth sailing, then go close to Allah. So what will happen when the days are tough for you?
Focused on something else material, that is not a necessity, but it has snatched away our happiness.
And for this reason, Allah Almighty has always asked us to look at those who have less than you in order for you to be able to appreciate the favors of Allah upon you when it comes to material items.
Allah almighty knows that as time ticks, there will always be something more advanced than what you have.
So if you’re going to run behind the worldly items, remember, they will always run faster than you.
When Allah Almighty created us, He has already predestined several things about us in a little bit of detail. Allah knows about the future because the knowledge of Allah is unique, unlike yours and mine. What will happen in the future, Allah knows exactly how it will pan out. He knows exactly the what choices people will make.
Allah almighty is great. And we’ve got to continue having hope and calling out to Allah.
That’s the Hadith, prophet, peace be upon him, says the greater the test, naturally, the greater the reward, the more difficult the examination, naturally, the greater the certificate.
Why should I even ask Allah if it’s already predestined? The Hadith says one thing that can move your predestined matters to a degree is dua and another is charity.
Alalh says, you desperately sought a certain thing from Us which we didn’t give you because we didn’t give that to you, We loved the way you asked Us and your sincerity and the way you worshipped Us By asking Us, We will give you paradise in return.