Practical Way To Benefit from Ramadan
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- By brother Mustafa George (hafidhahullah)
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficient, the Most Merciful.
May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, his Companions and his family members and all those who follow them until the Last Day.
The following post is based on the notes from the lecture of Br. Mustafa George that he gave Saturday Aug. 16th at Masjid Rahmah, Newark NJ.
(Side Note: The exact year of the lecture is not clear here however the post dates back to 2009 and Allah knows best).
The topic of the lecture was “How to Benefit from Ramadhaan Practically”
Practically benefitting from Ramadhaan should be divided into 2 Categories:
Goals and Preparations
Each person should make goals that he wants to achieve in the month of Ramadhaan. The following are just examples and they should be modified according to the person’s abilities and circumstances.
Here are some examples:
1) I want to finish the Qur’aan from cover to cover 1 time, or 2 times, or 5 times, etc.
2) I want to start Riyaad us-Saaliheen with my family, or I want to start teaching my family from Kitaab at-Tawheed or other beneficial books.
3) For the sister – I want to fix that which is between me and my sister.
4) I want to start praying Tahajjud regularly in Ramadhaan and continue after Ramadhaan
5) I want to memorize some dua’s from the Sunnah which I can continue saying even after Ramadhaan.
Each person should make a daily planner for Ramadhaan.
- If the person prays fajr at home, then he should pray in congregation in the month of Ramadhaan.
- Then after coming home, let him sit down with his family, either his wife and kids or with his parents and siblings and read the Qur’aan together. So each person reads one page or two pages.
- Then when the brother has to go to work, instead of listening to 1010 news station or some other radio channel that he usually listens to, he buys some beneficial lectures and listens to those while going to work and coming back. Its best if he listens to a series of lectures for example on ‘Aqeedah or the Correct Manhaj.
- At work, during his lunch time, he reads the Qur’aan or memorizes some du’as from the Sunnah which he is not familiar with.
The person can also tell his co-workers that – “This is the month of Ramadhaan, so please do not curse around me. Do not make too many jokes around me. Do not listen to music at your desks when I am around, etc.”
Then when he is coming back home, similarly, he listens to the Qur’aan or listens to some beneficial lectures to use that time wisely in Ramadhaan. (Note: Even though, this should be done outside of Ramadhaan as well because free time is a blessing from Allah. It should be used for the worship of Allah or in doing actions which will increase us in knowledge of the religion and help us to do righteous actions.)
- When he gets home, he can take a short nap and ask his wife or family members to wake him up in half an hour or 45 mins. Its important that we don’t sleep the whole time from ‘asr till maghrib so as to make use of this time with our families inshaAllah.
- After getting up, he again reads the Qur’aan with his family or if he wants to read Qur’aan in the morning and a beneficial book like Riyaad us-Saaliheen in the evening, then he does that. So if he reads Riyaad us-Saaliheen for example, each person can read a few ahaadeeths and then you ask everyone, “What did you benefit from that hadith?”
