Truth of Islam

Ramadan

Asalam-O-Alaikum this chapter is all about Ramadan and I hope it helps. It inspired me to become a better Muslim, so I hope I can inspire you.
The video is very inspirational, and it's about Ramadan. I would recommend you to listen to it.
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In the name of Allah the most merciful the most gracious. Ramadan Kareem!! Ramadan is comming or already here for some, and everybody is cleaning around the house for Ramadan, right? We clean the house but do we clean ourselves?? We have to clean our intentions, meaning we need to purify them. Make intentions to become a better Muslim and that this Ramadan will be different. Last Ramadan you made mistakes in this Ramadan try to fix them. Always recite astagfirulla because we are so sinful and the month of Ramadan is a month of forgiveness. When the moon shows and it tells that Ramadan started, the doors of forgiveness are open and the devils get locked up into hell. Some people say while Ramadan, that if the devils are locked up then why do we keep doing sins? The answer is that 11 months you've been doing these sins so it becomes a habit so you still do it in Ramadan. The other reason is that the BIG and stronger devils are locked up, the smaller ones are still there. When Ramadan comes, tell your bad habits, that 11 months I've been listening to you and doing stuff that you wanted me to do, but now you listen to me just for one month. Every time say "just for one month" because your bad habits are like children, because if you tell them nicely they will understand but if you yell at them they will just argue more. It is the same with your bad habit, if you tell it that your going to start zikr, thahajud, and lots of others, it will just argue more, but if you explain nicely like, "I've been listening to you for 11 months so please just listen to me just for a month." Every time just say a month because when you say just a month it's easy, because you only expect to do it for a month but after a month it becomes a habit so you do all the good deeds even after Ramadan. We should firstly start off with reading all five Salah and on time. Also read Quran and do zikr because in Ramadan the reward for each good deed is increased 70 times. Try to not waste anytime in Ramadan always say astagfirullah. Allah gave us a whole month to ask forgiveness for our sins use the time wisely. If you say that I don't have time because I have children, I have to cook, and so on, my answer is work and children will be their all the time until u die. House chores never get done theirs more and more so in Ramadan just do the necessary chores and instead read the Quran in the other time. Don't put too much pressure on your self just do how much you can, but just remember that if you read the same nawafil, that you read in Ramadan, when Ramadan is over you won't get the same reward.

FORGIVENESS
Always ask for forgiveness from Allah for yourself and all your Muslim brothers and sisters. Always forgive people, because you wouldn't want to be the one that isn't forgiven in Ramadan and because their not forgiven they won't get any reward for their good deeds, and it will be all because you didn't forgive the person. Don't go into Ramadan until asking forgiveness from anyone you hurt or made upset.

THRAWEEH
Ramadan is all about worshipping Allah, asking forgiveness, being kind to others, fasting but not only with your stomach , meaning when we fast, we shouldn't just stay hungry and watch movies and listen to music. Fasting is including the ears, eyes, and mouth. Ears is for not listening to music or anything bad, eyes is to not watch movies or see anything haram or bad, and mouth is to not say anything mean, bad, wrong, or haram. We have to make sure that we are fasting the right way without music movies and so on. Thraweeh comes in and as a form of worshipping Allah, lots of people read either 20 rakahs or 8 rakahs. It is better to read 20 rakahs, because when we read 20 rakahs we are doing 40 sajdas. Can you imagine it? Allah gave us an opportunity in Ramadan to put our heads down and show our selves as slaves infront of Allah. When we put our heads down to the floor we are showing that we are no better than anyone rich or poor. So just think how lucky we are to have a chance to ask for forgiveness in every sajda, but If we decide to read only 8 rakahs which is 16 sajdas we are saying that we don't have to put our head down 40 times. Are we seriecly saying this when we are so sinful? Just think of it this way so we can All start to read 20 rakahs if we don't already do so.  But if you do not read 20 it is not a sin, just do be clear, reading 20 is much better and we should try to read the whole 20, and the motivation is what I said above about the sajda's.  But if you do not read 20 it is not a sin, 8 rakahs can be performed as well.

ZIKR
Don't waste a second in Ramadan. Always do zikr when you don't have time to sit down and recite Quran or read nawafil. If their is a sale at a store with half percent off of everything we would be the first to go, then do the same in Ramadan theirs a big sale on forgiveness, duas, good actions, good deeds, prayers everything then be the first to be ready and start this Ramadan with a clean and purified heart. Don't waste a second because the sale will come to an end.

REMEMBERING ALLAH
Always remember Allah. Talk to him by reading zikr or making duas. just like a mother wants her son to talk to her, a wife wants her husband to talk to her, a man that goes to work wants his family to talk to him, Allah wants the same, he want his people to come back to him, to talk to him. He's always waiting for you to go back to him, make today the day you go back to him and talk to him. Talk to him, and tell him everything, ask for forgiveness and he'll give it to you just repent with a true heart. The best part is that he already knows what you are going to say, yet he still listens to you.
MAKE TODAY BE THE DAY WE ALL CHANGE(into better Muslims)!!!

TIME FOR ALLAH
We all know this month is for Allah, so let's try to get off our phones and try to worship Allah more and make this month his. If anyone ask you to why you aren't talking much, simple, just say "This month is for Allah, and I want to spend it with him".

ISLAMIC PEACE✌️
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Asalam-O-Alaikum
Ramadan Kareem!!! Hope you all like this chapter and I hope we can all learn from it. If I made any mistakes please don't hesitate to tell me. Leave your comments, questions, request below. If any of you sisters have questions on Ramadan you can ask on my book "Ask about Islam" because the topic is Ramadan and inshallah I will answer all your questions in the book while Ramadan.  RAMADAN KAREEM!!!