00:04Assalamu alaikum in this episode of the final stretch we'd like to look at how to maximize
00:10ibadah and worship in these last 10 nights firstly we need to be motivated we need to
00:17be motivated you need to have good company you need to have people around you who think similar
00:30and if you're on your own you need to make sure that you have listened to something or keep yourself
00:36occupied in something that is definitely going to motivate you and it's going to give you that push
00:41that you need because we are human beings if we are not pushed we won't be able to be productive
00:48the way we are supposed to be many of us need a push once you start rolling alhamdulillah so there
00:55are so many things we could do number one this is the month of revelation of the quran and allah
01:01almighty speaks about it he says inna anzal nahu fee laylatil qadr we have revealed the quran in laylatul
01:08qadr there is an explanation to that which we will get to in a different episode but allah almighty
01:13also says shahru ramadan al ladhi unzila feehi al quran the month of ramadan is the month in which
01:20the quran was revealed so there is a great importance given to the quran in the month of
01:26ramadan if you're not going to push yourself and build the habit of reading quran then you're not
01:32going to achieve anything if you take a look at the prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam the
01:38quran was revealed over a period of 23 years but every year in ramadan jibreel alayhi salam used to
01:46come to the prophet sallallahu alayhi salam to revise whatever was revealed and so they would
01:52revise it together and the last year when the quran was revealed almost in totality they revised it
01:58twice it made him a generous person all the great qualities that were already there of the prophet
02:05sallallahu alayhi salam shone even more in the month of ramadan are your good qualities going to shine
02:11are you going to control yourself because ramadan is all about sabr ramadan is a month of sabr it is
02:19a
02:20month of patience patience when it comes to staying away from food and drink we all know staying away
02:26from bad habits completely staying away from bad character conduct from values and morals that are
02:33unacceptable we stay away from them ramadan is the month of sabr to train us for the rest of the
02:40year
02:40in order to achieve the pleasure of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you must do it if you're staying away
02:46from
02:46the haram that you've been doing throughout the year i promise you in this final stretch you need to
02:52promise yourself and promise allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that you will abstain from it even outside the month
03:00of ramadan if you can do this then you've achieved so much you will maximize a lot of the productivity
03:09that you can achieve from this particular month let's take a look at the quran we spoke about
03:14building a habit we have an app known as the quranly app it's one of the apps that help you
03:20building that habit of the of reading the quran because verse by verse you click on it it multiplies
03:27the rewards for you it shows you how much you're going to get on an ordinary day in ramadan it's
03:33multiplied even more and it keeps pushing you to read another verse and another verse and another
03:38verse and it gives you options to compare with your loved ones and and others in your circle perhaps
03:44that's one way of building a habit of reading the quran similarly build a habit of being charitable
03:51so we have so many options when you give then truly you are wealthy some people amass millions they
03:58are not charitable the only wealth that will benefit you ever is that which you have spent either you
04:05spent it on a good cause on yourself and your family or better than that you've given it in charity
04:10no
04:11other wealth will actually benefit you if you've given the wealth and you've spent it it will help you
04:17if you haven't it won't so to maximize the use of these last 10 nights be charitable give a charity
04:24every night read a portion of the quran every night do some dhikr and remembrance of allah
04:28every night go to the masjid early do your iftar read salatul maghrib perhaps spend some time between
04:35maghrib and isha if you can for the last 10 nights only you might want to have your supper after
04:40the
04:40taraweeh it's only an option you are allowed to have it before for those of us who get hungry
04:45and those of us who love our food mashallah it's permissible to eat don't forget to say bismillah
04:49many people you know they they open their fast without even saying bismillah without even making
04:56a dua you've got to say oh allah forgive me oh allah grant me oh allah bless me oh allah
05:00not just me
05:01but my family not just my family but the umma not just the umma but humanity at large so many
05:06of these
05:07duas just prior to opening your fast be conscious of it in the last 10 nights make dua a lot
05:13of it
05:13meaning supplicate to allah a lot and also what you must do is make sure you make peace with those
05:20whom you are at war with especially family members i say war but what i mean is misunderstandings
05:27people whom we've had arguments with don't argue control yourself make sure you build your habit come
05:34up go out of your way to ensure that you've actually maximized the use of these last 10 nights they
05:40are
05:40nights where the hearts are softened people are looking forward to ibadah and worship this is how
05:46you do it becoming conscious of allah understanding the value of every single night and if you were to
05:53extend your worship for all of these nights not just the odd ones you will definitely catch the night of
06:00decree and that final stretch will become so much more meaningful than it would have been had you only
06:08chosen some of the nights it's a habit because we are human beings some people select the 27th night
06:14they say we are going to go and worship on that night what if laylatul qadr was on the 21st
06:1923rd
06:19what if it was the 29th so yes as much as the hadith says it is most likely to be
06:28one of the odd nights
06:29from the last 10 nights of ramadan and more likely from the second half which means 27 29 perhaps 25
06:38but it does not say that it will not be even an even night are you aware of that so
06:45it could be any of
06:46those nights even or odd more likely odd more likely does not mean that it's not going to be one
06:53of the
06:53even night it could be many people don't know this and many people actually don't even think about it
06:59subhanallah so if you were to use the last 10 nights all of them you definitely have caught laylatul qadr
07:06allah grants you worship as though you've worshipped for 83.3 years can you imagine how powerful that is
07:15in this episode we discussed how to maximize the use of this season the final stretch and i hope we've
07:24benefited from what has been said because indeed it is something that i would love to achieve you would
07:30love to achieve i want to exit the month of ramadan in a way that my life is transformed i
07:36want to be
07:37there for my brothers my sisters i want to try to be charitable i want to try to read the
07:42quran i want
07:43to try to fast correctly even outside of ramadan i want to fast a little bit more the voluntary fasts
07:50it's amazing and if you build this habit ramadan is a habit building month without a doubt because if you
07:59are to push yourself for one month allah will help you through the rest of the 11 months if you
08:06are serious
08:07about transformation in the month of ramadan you will be transformed but if you just look at it as a
08:13month
08:13where i'm going to put away all haram as soon as the moon is cited i'm going to get everything
08:17back
08:17and we're going to be back to where we were you've wasted your time may allah almighty forgive all of
08:22us
08:22and grant us goodness
08:23i'm just saying this and uhh sallallahu acah wa sallam on nabi Muhammad
08:27say to those that are all over their minds
08:32if it is those who have fallen on their minds
08:33do not attribute by the merciful be the mercy of Allah
08:37do not attribute by the merciful be the mercy of AllahInna
08:41allah he struggles all over their minds Inna
08:42allah he struggles all over his arms Inna
08:45allah he is the Most Gracious Inna
08:52allah is the Most Gracious
08:52You
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