We are in the blessed month of Ramadan. This month is unique. From the moment it starts, we already feel rejuvenated. And Allah Almighty has given us so much that the blessed blessings are felt, the mercy is felt, the need within ourselves to change, to do something good. We thank Allah Almighty for giving us this month.
Make your relationship firm, with Who?
With the One Who owns the moment your eyes close and your life right now.
That temporary survival, How on Earth can you give up your relationship with Allah? You want the goodness of this world, fair enough. But not at the price of the eternal goodness that you and I are living for.
While you’re enjoying the moments on Earth, bear in mind that they are temporary. Wallahi. Your happy days are temporary. Your sad days are also temporary. You are going through a problem. It will not last. You are going through ease. It’s not going to last.
Someone has to die or you have to die. They have to. They’ve gone before you, after you. So it will not last forever.
The everlasting life is only one. It’s in the hereafter.
Allah (swt) created every single one of us as pure, decent, and with a sense of innocence about us. And then He ingrained within us the desire to protect that purity and innocence as we live our life journey towards Him (swt).
This religion that provides us a lifestyle that would protect and preserve that purity that is inside of us all.
That is why in the Quran and in the teachings of the prophet (pbuh), we find practical advice on what we can do to try to protect our purity and to safeguard our chastity.
When you try, Allah will open the door for you. As Allah says, whoever is mindful of Allah, He will make a way out for you.
One argument of design; – And this is mostly based upon probability.
Professor Fred Hoyle was looking at how we came across the elementary matter of carbon. And the way you get carbon is by getting three helium molecules together.
But when he brought three helium molecules together, it just wasn’t happening. And it was just really frustrating for him.
He realized that needed, you needed to have the nuclear ground state energy to be within 1% for the carbons to form for life. And in fact, Sir Fred Hoyle actually said that because of how precise this actually is, that actually shook his atheism.
the fact that we’re here as conscious beings that question our existence, that live harmoniously, that we have such adapted creatures around us, and then we look at the kind of situation that actually… that have led up to this, it surely does lead to the fact that you can’t have so many coincidences one after another leading to our existence.
There’s a very famous narration where the Prophet (pbuh) said that, Time; the hour will not come until time shrinks.
So he (pbuh) said, that time would shrink and so the deeds, the output of good deeds would be less, and greed, miserliness, stinginess would be placed in the hearts of people, and the Prophet (pbuh) said, and murder would become prevalent, murder would become prevalent.
And so there is a direct connection between the shrinking of time and the shrinking of the output of deeds.
just go over seven things were extracted from the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh) about how to have blessing in your time.
And the first thing is that the Prophet (pbuh) was a morning person. The prophet (pbuh) said that Oh Allah, bless my nation in its early hours, bless my Ummah in its early hours.
Number two; avoiding sins and drama. And they are interconnected.
The third thing; spending time with your family,
The fourth thing; acts of gratitude.
Number five, a daily recitation of the Quran specifically surah al baqarah.
Number six, incorporating remembrance into your routine
The last thing: Keep the company of productive / righteous people,
The most important things for us to note is why the fasting was prescribed in the first 1st place;
O you who believe fasting has been prescribed upon you, just like it was to those before you, in order that you achieve Taqwa- the consciousness of Allah, the fear of Allah.
One of the primary things you and I need to understand is the consciousness which means to know that He is your Lord. He made you. He is in control of everything on Earth. And you are going to helplessly go back to Him.
So Allah says, I have prescribed fasting so that your relationship with Me can be on the highest level. You need to value the Lord Who created you so that you can achieve consciousness of Allah.
I can never imagine putting my head on the ground in that position or posture for anyone or anything besides my Maker.
If you have a connection with Allah, you will realize that the same Allah I’m trying to impress made this guy here sitting next to me or this person sitting on the other side, the same Allah made that person.
So if I want to impress Allah, I got to just be good to what Allah has made people. Reach out to them, speaking with respect to a creature of Allah would probably earn you paradise.
This Deen, This religion is so beautiful. It teaches us goodness, kindness, compassion, closeness to your Maker, a very high level of morality, a beautiful level of character and conduct.
Question: Ar-Rahman (The Merciful) means that Allah is not Al-Ghaniyy (The Self-Sufficient One) as mercy by its very nature requires a subject.
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