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بلسم جروحك · 10-06-2008, 02:05 PM

What’s After Ramadan?

My dear brothers & sisters! Subhan-Allah, how the days and nights pass so
quickly; just yesterday, we were receiving Ramadaan and today we are
bidding it farewell and we do not even know whether we are going to live to
witness the next Ramadaan. We ask Allaah to accept our fasting, our prayers
and whatever good we did during this month and we beseech Allaah to allow
to us have many more Ramadans to come.

All righteous deeds should be concluded with Istighfaar (seeking
forgiveness). Prayers, Hajj, night prayers and meetings, all are concluded
with it. Fasting should also be concluded with Al-Istighfaar to amend for any
acts of forgetfulness, negligence and perversion we might have committed.
Al-Istighfaar erases feeling of arrogance and pretension from the heart and
lets one feel that one is negligent. It is this very feeling that leads to doing
more righteous deeds after Ramadaan and getting more rewards.

Ibn Al Qayyim, while explaining man’s need for Istighfaar said, “Having
pleasure and ,,,,,,,edness for merely doing an act of obedience is of the
weaknesses of the mind and its stupidity, for, the resolute and knowledgeable
people do more Istighfaar immediately after each act of worship because
they recognize their negligence and their failure to give Allaah what befits
His Majesty and Greatness in that act.”

My dear brothers & sisters! Though we are now bidding farewell to
Ramadaan, this does not mean a farewell to the acts of worship. A Muslim
should rather strengthen the ties between himself and his Lord so that he
may have a perpetual blessing. As for those who break their covenant with
their Lord and abandon the Masjid as soon as Ramadaan ends, such are evil
people who know their Lord only in Ramadaan and afterwards turn their
backs towards him. Allaah says, “Say (O Muhammad): Verily, my prayer,
my sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allaah, the Lord of all the
worlds.” (Al-An‘aam: 161).
There is no value in an act of worship by which one does not increase in
piety and fear of Allaah. What excuse does one have when he can make it to
the Masjid during Ramadan but fails to do so afterwards? Where is the
impact of fasting when one abandons the recitation of the Qur’aan, no longer
observes the congregational prayers and still uses fowl language when
speaking? Where is the impact of his acts of worship in Ramadaan when he
afterwards accepts interest? Where is the impact of Ramadaan when he
abandons the path of the Messenger of Allaah (SAW) for local customs and
traditions and governs his life with man-made laws? Where is the effect of
fasting and night prayers when one engages in cheating and lying?

The bottom line is: what is the point of abandoning food & water if we
cannot abandon falsehood? My dear brothers & sisters! Allaah does not need
the movements and efforts that we make in our acts of worship. He only
requests our piety thereof. He says, “O you who believe! Fasting is
prescribed for you as it is prescribed for those who were before you that
you may have piety.” (Al-Baqarah: 183).
He also says, “It is neither their meat nor their blood that reaches Allaah,
but it is piety from you that reaches Him.” (Al-Hajj: 37).

Thus, the end of Ramadan should not mean the end of striving for the sake
of Allah (SWT). Of the good deeds that are recommended after Ramadaan is
fasting for six days in the month of Shawwaal. The Messenger of Allaah
(SAW) said, “He who observed the fast of Ramadan and then followed it with
six (fasts) of Shawwal, it would be as if he fasted perpetually.” (Muslim)
Ramadaan has taught us great lessons and admonitions. It taught us how to
resist our desires, so we should not let them take over again. It taught us how
to eliminate differences amongst ourselves, so we should not become
disunited again. The eyes have shed tears during Ramadaan, so we should
not let them become dry after it; mosques have become shaken during
Ramadaan and the tongues were engaged in remembrance of Allaah,
praising Him and invoking Him, so let this continue after Ramadaan. By
remaining steadfast in our dedication to doing good, we’ll ultimately be
rewarded with the greatest reward from Allah (SWT), that is paradise. As
Allah (SWT) said in the Quran:
“This is the Paradise which you have been made to inherit because of your
deeds which you used to do (in the life of the world).” (Az-Zukhruf:

My dear brothers & sisters, we will soon be celebrating the end of
Ramadaan with Eid Al-Fitr. While doing that, we must not forget the sunnah
of the Prophet (SAW) and follow his recommendations for the night of Eid
and its day:
It is recommended to glorify Allaah (SWT) from the sunset of the day prior
the day the Eid prayer is performed. Allaah says, “That you must magnify
Allaah [i.e. to say: Allaahu Akbar; Allaah is the Most Great] for having
guided you so that you may be grateful to Him.” (Al-Baqarah: 185).

Abdullaah Ibn Mas‘ood used to say, “Allaahu Akbar, Allaahu Akbar, Laa
Ilaaha Illa Allaah, Allaahu Akbar, Allaahu Akbar, Walillaahil Hamd”
[Allaah is the Most Great, Allaah is the Most Great. There is no deity worthy
of worship except Allaah, Allaah is the Most Great, Allaah is the Most
Great. Praise be to Allaah].

منقول

مخاوي زماني · 10-08-2008, 12:53 AM

Thangs for you mlook alhoda

and good work

بلسم جروحك · 10-09-2008, 10:54 PM

مخاوي زماني

May Allah Reward you with Goodness

thanks for your attendance in my post

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