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SHAABAN IN YOUR TIME · قناة الدعوة الإسلامية Islamic Teachings Gh

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Dear brothers and sisters, rather than talking about the
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month of Shaban and its virtues as we have entered into it, I
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wanted to address an attitude that a loss of Hanoh Ta'ala sees
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in some of his servants that particularly comes out in the
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month of Shaban and other times that people neglect.
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And so this isn't a Hutba just about Shaban, but about a
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particular mindset of being at the right place at the right
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time and what that means in terms of your relationship with
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the loss of Hanoi Atallah. Being at the right place at the
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right time. Here you are, Masha'allah and
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Salat al Juma Ahmed Allah sub Hanoi Atallah accepted from each
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and every single person that is here.
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It is the right place and the right time.
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But I want to begin with this idea of a business deal.
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If a person is able to capitalize on a great
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opportunity from a worldly perspective and indeed a loss of
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Hana Hoot Saada himself compares something as routine as Salah to
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Jumura to a deal that is available to you that many
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people will not avail themselves of when Allah Azza compares
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those that pursue Tejada, those that pursue a great business
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deal versus those that pursue a great spiritual deal.
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By coming to Salah to Jumura, you see someone that entered
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into a particular market at a particular time and they struck
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gold. They got in right at the
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beginning of a new trend. Everyone is trying to jump on to
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this trend now and buy into the stock.
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Everyone's trying to buy this particular type of business.
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Everyone's trying to invest now and you have those that got
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there 1st and they dominate the market share.
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And I want you to think about this because a lot of times
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people will say they just happened to be at the right
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place at the right time. They struck at the right time.
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But the reality is, is that success is never an accident, or
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at least it rarely is. Sometimes there are people,
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Subhanallah, they make every bad decision and then something
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happens for them and they get in.
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But for most people, success is not an accident because at the
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bare minimum, those people were paying attention to things that
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other people were not. Maybe they were just watching
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trends, maybe they were reading articles obsessively.
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Maybe they were asking a lot of questions that people were not
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asking. But they had an added alertness
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to them, an added level of attentiveness that allowed them
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to be at the right place at the right time to gain something
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from a worldly perspective that they continue to reap the
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benefits of. Now, here's the thing about the
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right place in the right time with the loss of Hanoi Ta'ala.
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And even Rahimohallah says that from the mercy of a loss of
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Hanoi Ta'ala is that he has made his times and his places known
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to you. He's made his time and his place
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is known to you. You know exactly when the best
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times are. You know the window that you
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need to be present. You know the place that you need
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to be present. You know the reward of coming
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earlier. You know the reward of doing
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more. A lot in his excellence to you
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and his son to you doesn't leave you guessing.
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He gives you very limited windows and times that have
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unlimited mercy in terms of their potential, and the the
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most in terms of variance you're going to see is, for example,
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the last 10 nights of Ramadan. But I think we can all agree
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that for a lifetime of good deeds, having ten nights to
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exert ourselves in is a pretty good deal with the loss of Hanoi
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Tahana. So from the mercy of Allah is
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that He lets you know what his places are and what his times
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are leaving to you only the decision to show up to be
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present. And there is an element of
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coming early and there's an element of being present coming
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early. You know, if you think of Shaban
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like practice and Ramadan like the game, all right, If you
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don't show up to practice, eventually that lack of practice
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is going to show up in the game as well.
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The lack of coordination, something is going to go wrong.
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The talent will give out. The equivalent of the talent
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might be your natural spirituality.
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Maybe you're a person who immediately gets into the zone
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in Ramadan. You read Quran right away, you
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get into the Salah, you immediately embrace tarawih, but
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eventually the faultiness of you not having used the month of
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practice will show up. A lack of coordination at the
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bare minimum. So there is getting early and
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there's being present. Now.
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I wanted to give this a Teskia checklist, if you will.
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What does Ehsan look like? What is excellence look like?
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When it comes to showing up at the right time at the right
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place, there are four things. Number one, it's doing while
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others are not doing, doing while others are not doing #2
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it's doing what isn't expected of you in your circumstances #3
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it's doing more of what everybody else is doing #4 it's
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doing quicker and with more enthusiasm what everybody else
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is doing. So I'm going to break these down
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inshallah, Tada. But I wanted to give you the
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list of four things from the very beginning.
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What does it mean to have your time to shine in the sight of a
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loss of Hanoi Ta'ala? And where does Shaban fall into
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this in terms of an attitude? The first one is doing while
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others are not doing. And I'm going to use the Reba
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dot, the acts of worship that are very familiar to us, prayer,
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prayer. The prophet Solalaric Sanam
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specifically said Sol Lubileli, when a Suniya pray at night
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while other people sleep, it's expected that people are going
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to pray five times a day. But when everybody else is
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sleeping, you have an opportunity to wake up and to
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pray and to distinguish yourself.
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And Subhanallah, you can imagine that at one point on the face of
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this earth, there were three people that were praying
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Piyamullah the prophet Sallam, his wife Khadija, Allahu Anhan
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and then his son-in-law Alib ABI thought of all the Allahu.
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This is a famous narration at one point on earth.
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Imagine the angels going around that night looking for the
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people praying Piyam. There is only one household in
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the entire world that was reading the Quran at night.
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But now that it's all available to us, who are the people that
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wake up and pray while other people sleep?
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Who are the people that give when other people withhold,
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Right. So there are moments of charity
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avenues where people will give of their time, give of their
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wealth while other people withhold.
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And so they shine in the sight of a loss of Hanoi Ta'a because
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they literally, I mean, if you, if you think about good deeds
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lighting up a room, there are people there that shine, right?
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As those that stand out from the rest and what they're willing to
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give of their volunteerism, of what they're willing to do in
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terms of their time and their wealth, right?
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Because when Adam Adihis Salaam, as the scholars mentioned,
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looked at his children, there were lights that were shining.
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One of them being the Prophet David Dawood, Adi Islam.
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He was a shining light shimmering in the darkness.
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So your time to shine is giving when other people withhold.
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Your time to shine is fasting when other people don't
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traditionally fast. It's a Pamela.
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You'll find a connection with all three of these things.
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The prophets, I some mentioning the angels celebrating the
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household where someone is awake at night while other people are
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sleeping. The angels even calling from the
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gates of heaven to the one that is giving, saying Allah mahati
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munfiqan Khalifa, O Allah, give to the one who gave.
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And he said Sallallahu honey, who wasallam?
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In another narration of Timothy that when someone fasts while
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other people are eating around them, this is not talking about
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Ramadan per SE, right? Usually this is talking about a
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voluntary fast. When someone fasts while other
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people around them are eating, the angels keep on praying on
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that person until they finish their food.
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So they're getting their share of nutrition.
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You're getting your share of prayers from the angels upon
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you. Why?
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Because you're shining in that place.
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You're the one person that's fasting there, and the angels
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recognize that, and a loss of Hanoi Ta'ala sends the angels to
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give that a special recognition. So that's doing while other
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people are not doing. The second one is doing what
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isn't expected of you in your circumstances.
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So giving what's actual fuck. You give even when you fear
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poverty. The prophets lie, some so so
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beloved to a loss of Hanoi Ta'ala.
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You forgive even when you're not expected to forgive.
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You pull back from an argument even when you have every right
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to get into an argument. It's all right, let it go.
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You do what's not expected of you in your circumstances.
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Allah Azza looks at that in the last Pano Ta'ala mentions Allah,
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your hibbul mercini. Allah loves those people, right?
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They do even what's not expected of them, so they shine there.
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No one expected you to give at that point.
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No one expected you to forgive. No one expected you to exert
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yourself. But Allah, Subhanahu Tata saw
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what you did there. The third thing is doing more of
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what others are doing. So this is a quantitative
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elements of shining. Everybody's doing the same
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thing, but some people are doing more of it.
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OK, So when it comes to prayer, there are now often there are
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voluntary prayers, the gate of Salah to Paradise.
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The gate of prayer to Paradise is not meant for those who pray
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five times a day. You know, particularly it's for
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those who add to that, right? They do more of it.
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Those who will enter through Babur Rayan are not just the
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people that fast in Ramadan, the gate of Rayan of Paradise, it's
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the gate of fasting. It's for those people that
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especially fast. So everybody fast, but they fast
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more, right? So they have a specific gate
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that's not just for people of Ramadan or those that give extra
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charity. Babel Sadaqa, the gate of
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charity to Al Jannah is not the gate of Zakah.
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It's not just the gate of paying your mandatory charity.
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It's those people that give extra charity and they exert
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themselves so doing more of what everybody else is doing.
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And the fourth one is doing quicker and with more enthusiasm
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what others are doing. So it has a qualitative element
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to it, a qualitative element to it.
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Part of that is the hastening to what others are lazy towards.
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So I give people the spectrum right or not me giving it.
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We find it from the prophets like Sallam's prayer to the
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prayer of the hypocrites. The prophets like some was
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described that when the time of prayer came, what about he
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jumped up like a lion, Sallallahu ayasam, I mean he
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jumped out of his bed IE shalladi Allahu and his saying
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that he was so present at home. But once the call for prayer
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happens as if he didn't even know us anymore.
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Sallallahu anihi wasallam enthusiastic, so ready for the
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prayer at all times, like the adhan immediately triggered that
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response. A very predictable response from
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the prophets like Salam. That's worth about now in the
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same prayer. There are the hypocrites.
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But Kamu Kusala, when they got up for prayer, got up so lazy.
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We'll do it was improper. God pulled themselves to it.
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They dragged their feet to it. All of us are somewhere between
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Wetaba and Kamal Kusala. Somewhere in that spectrum.
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We fall between jumping up like the prophets like Salem and
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dragging our feet like a hypocrite.
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May Allah protect us from hypocrisy and allow us to strive
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to be more like our prophets. Sallallahu aidi musallam.
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So it's a qualitative element too.
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And Allah sees that. Allah sees the prepared heart.
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Allah sees that excitement from a person.
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The prophets like that I'm mentioning within the Gemara, he
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said sallallahu and he wasallam low.
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Yeah, la muna Mathis safil O well, if they knew the blessing
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of the 1st row, they would have cast lots for it.
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If they knew what it meant to be from OS haba safil, O well, may
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Allah allow us to strive to be from OS haba safil O well, the
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people of the 1st row, Allah, I mean.
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And that doesn't mean jumping over people and getting to the
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first row. That means getting early to the
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Salah, something we can strive for.
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There's a qualitative element to that and being there quickly
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looking for a loss of Hanoi Ta'ala.
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And there are so many examples, Salat al Jumarat being one of
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them, the prophet slice. And I'm saying the one who came
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in the first hour, then the one who came in the second hour,
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then the one who came in the third hour.
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And he's paralleling to that a specific reward.
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So those that came first got the greater reward, those that came
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second got the lesser reward and so on and so forth.
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Now, what does this have to do with Shaban?
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The month of Shaban, and I said at the outset for a reason, just
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like Ramadan, by the way, appeals to a particular heart,
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Shaban appeals to a particular mindset.
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Osamab Nussaid Allahallah Anhom narrates as well as Aisha Allah
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that there was no month that we would see the profit size and
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fasting outside of Ramadan as much as Shaban.
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It was as if he was connecting them Sallallahu Adiwasalam.
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You know they say that a a perfect practice is the closest
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you'll get to a perfect performance, right?
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Like to see him Sallallahu. I said I'm fasting all of Shaban
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to a point that you could count on one hand.
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Perhaps what the prophets like some might not have fasted in
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the month of Shaban is inspiring.
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But here's the thing, there's not a single hotba where the
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prophets like Sallam is pushing the community to it the way that
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he was fasting at Sallallahu Adiwasalam.
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Here's where the narration continues and it gets very
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interesting. They asked the prophet
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Sallallahu Adiwasalam and he said the Alika Shahrun yell
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fulunasu anhu bena Raja binwa Ramadan.
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That's a month that people become heedless in regards to.
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They neglect it because it's between the sacred month of Raja
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and the greatest month of Ramadan.
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So people toss it to the side. And he said Sallallahu aihi
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wasallam, turfa al Amin, Hebu and your family.
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And also the deeds are presented to Allah in this month.
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And I like that my deeds are presented to Allah when I'm in a
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state of fasting. But the first reason he gives
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Sallallahu aihi wasallam is the interesting one, the particular
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1 of this khutba. It's a time of hafla.
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It's actually a time of heedlessness.
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It's a time where most people are not taking their particular
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journey to Allah Subhanahu. To add that seriously, it's a
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time that you rarely find people exerting themselves in these
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good deeds. And the prophets like seldom is
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saying that's the best time to shine.
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That's the best time to stand out when other people aren't
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paying attention. That's when you pay extra
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attention because you stand out amongst the crowd at that point.
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And Abu Baker al Razi Rahim Allah commented Kalima Akbah
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rafla Antarati manna yafulu, anbi anbirik woman Akbar and
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Akbar rafla and vikri manna yafulu And vikrika.
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He said Allahu anhu ma akbah rafla, how repulsive is
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heedlessness. And parati manla yafulu and
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birik, a person who becomes heedless in regards to the
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worship of the one who never stops showing you kindness.
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And he said woman Akbar al rafla and how repulsive is
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heedlessness? And vikri men la yafulu and
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Vikrich, how repulsive is heedlessness in regards to
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remembering the one who never forgets you?
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Grafla can be sinful, heedlessness can be sinful.
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And sometimes it can just be complacency.
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But what we should be doing in this month is competing for a
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lost pleasure when most people are not even paying attention to
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it. And that's something you have to
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ask yourself, how can I push myself to do something that
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other people are waiting for Ramadan to do?
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How do I exert myself now as practice for Ramadan, but also
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in honoring a particular time that other people are not
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honoring? As if Josie Rahim Allah said
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Ramadan is a time where everyone does ibadah, but you're Ibadah
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and Shaban is a time where you really show that you want the
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rillah of Allah, you want the pleasure of your Lord.
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And this was a mindset of the companions.
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So for example, one of the narrations, some of the
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companions, Kano Yaste, Hebbun, Ehiya Mabein and Risha aim the
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Salah they used to love to worship between the two Rishas,
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the two night prayers. What are the two night prayers,
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Makhrab and Risha in hadith literature?
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So they would stay in the Masjid between Makhrab and Risha.
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This group of companions, because they said most people go
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home and come back for a shot. Let's see if we can take
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advantage of this time. And the prophets like some
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coming out, so proud of those young men that came to the
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Masjid and they stayed between Maghrib and Isha worshipping
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Allah Subhanaw Taala until the next Salah because they said
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that's the time where people become heedless.
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That's my time to shine. When you go to the marketplace,
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the best dura that you can find or one of the best Duras is dura
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asukh, the dura of the marketplace.
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Why? Because most people are not
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thinking about supplication when they walk into the marketplace.
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Try it next time you go on Amazon.com, right?
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Your mind is in a different place when you start looking at
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things in your shopping and for you to remember a lot that
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points here's a million good deeds for you instead of
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whatever it is that you're going to get from this particular
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shopping. Now, the Quran, in particular,
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Ramadan is Shahrul Quran. Ramadan is the month of Quran.
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But do you know what the tabbarine, what the righteous
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generation used to call Shahdan? They used to call Shahrul Quran
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the month of the reciters. So they called Shahrul Ramadan,
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Shahrul Quran, the month of Ramadan, the month of Quran.
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And they called the month of Shahran Shahrul Quran the month
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of the reciters. Because only the reciters recite
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in Shahran. And if you could practically say
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to yourself, I expect to recite this much in Ramadan, I'm going
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to do half of that in Shaban or even a fourth.
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But I'm going to start carving out this time every day, and I'm
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going to read this many pages. And in Ramadan, I expect to make
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this times 2 or times, whatever. This is your opportunity to
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shine and your opportunity to put yourself forward.
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And finally, as 1/2 of the Nuraja Rahimullah said, that
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part of this is also the qualitative element, trying to
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hide your good deeds. Hassan excellence in Ramadan,
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everyone is fasting, everyone's praying.
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There's a there's a public virtue here in Shaaban.
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He says that the sahaba and the the the salaf, the righteous
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predecessors, what they would do is they would try to hide their
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fasting in Shaaban. And that's one of the wisdoms
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perhaps that the narrations about the prophets like some
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fasting, all of Shaaban only come from his family.
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They only come from Aisha, Osama, Abou Musaid and the
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people that were in his household, Sallallallahu alaihi
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wasalla. And so been Mr. Uddhaldi Allah
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and who said either us back to Musli, Amen for us behoo
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Udahanin. He said if you wake up and
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you're fasting in chardon, go out looking fresh, you know,
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have your your Cologne on, have your perfume on.
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Whatever it is, don't let people in on it because that's the
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qualitative element. As well as that, I'm trying to
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shine with some of the secret deeds that only a loss of
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Hanoiata will know about because these are not times that the
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public expects certain good deeds of you.
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We ask a loss of Hanoata to allow us to shine.
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When we do what others are doing and when we do when no one else
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is doing. And we ask Allah Subhanaw Tajada
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to drive our hearts, our thoughts, our limbs, to please
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Him in Shahaban and to please him in Ramadan and to attain His
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special reward in his special times and places and to never be
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deprived of his always special mercy.
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Allahu, Amin. Shahaban is a special month that
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serves as a bridge between Rajab and Ramadan.
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It is a time for Muslims to prepare their hearts, minds, and
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actions for the blessed month of fasting.
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The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to increase
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his worship in Shaban as it is a month when deeds are presented
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to Allah. This is the perfect time to
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start improving your habits, increasing your ibadah, and
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seeking forgiveness before Ramadan arrives.
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One of the best ways to prepare for Ramadan is by fasting in
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Shaban. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam would fast frequently in this month, showing us the
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importance of voluntary fasting. Fasting helps to cleanse the
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body, strengthen self-control and get used to the routine of
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Ramadan. If you have any missed fasts
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from the previous Ramadan, this is also the best time to make
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them up. Besides fasting, increasing acts
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of worship such as reading the Quran, making remembrance of
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Allah and giving charity will help you prepare spiritually.
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Start praying on time, adding extra Sunnah prayers and making
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dua regularly. By improving these habits now,
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you will find it easier to continue them in Ramadan.
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Shaban is also a time to seek forgiveness and purify the
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heart. So make a stick far seeking
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forgiveness and repent sincerely to Allah.
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As Ramadan approaches, use Shaban to set spiritual goals
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and prepare your body and soul for the blessed month.
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Reduce distractions, Plan your schedule and make a strong
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intention to make the most of Ramadan.
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