Qur'anic Reflections

Dua #7 : Oh Allah, Use me.

Assalamu alaikum!

So we're already on Ramadan Day 28, and I hope you've all had amazing odd nights till now.

I feel like once the 27th night is done, we get a little lazy. It's only natural. Human beings tire out. They get lazy once the routine stretches for too long.

So we end up thinking, oh my Qur'an is done and I've been up all night the past few nights and so we think it's okay to cut ourselves some slack in the last 2 days.

But if you look at it the other way. Ramadan is ending! And with it, the opportunity to get your reward multipled is ending too!

Here's something I found as some major inspiration :

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Maryam narrated from his shaykhs that they used to say: When the month of Ramadan comes, then spend generously during it, because spending during it brings a multiple reward, like spending in Allah’s cause, and saying tasbeeh in it is better than saying a thousand tasbeehs at other times. 

An-Nakha‘i (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

Fasting one day in Ramadan is better than fasting a thousand days, and saying tasbeeh in it is better than saying a thousand tasbeehs, and one rak‘ah in it is better than a thousand rak‘ahs.

End quote from Lataa’if al-Ma‘aarif by Ibn Rajab (p. 151) 

Ibn Abi ad-Dunya narrated in Fadaa’il Ramadan (p. 51) that az-Zuhri said: One tasbeeh in Ramadan is better than saying a thousand tasbeehs at other times. End quote. 

So what I want you to do is go through your list of goals and do a Mop up round! Assign the left out goals to the left over days and plan out. If you can't do that, then atleast do more Tasbeeh and pray more Nafl in sha Allah! There's no limit to how far you can go!

It's what I'm doing with these reflections too! So don't be surprised if you see two chapters up today In sha Allah! (YAY?)

The reflection for today echoes with the same premise.

Do Good till you last.

Let's look at Surah An- Naml verse no. 89.

مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْهَا وَهُمْ مِنْ فَزَعٍ يَوْمَئِذٍ آمِنُونَ

(Sahih International)
Whoever comes [at Judgement] with a good deed will have better than it, and they, from the terror of that Day, will be safe.

(Abul A'ala Maududi)
جو شخص بھلائی لے کر آئیگا اسے اُس سے زیادہ بہتر صلہ ملے گا اور ایسے لوگ اُس دن کے ہَول سے محفوظ ہوں گے

                            -Sura An-Naml, Ayah 89

And in another place,

مَنْ جَاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ عَشْرُ أَمْثَالِهَا ۖ وَمَنْ جَاءَ بِالسَّيِّئَةِ فَلَا يُجْزَىٰ إِلَّا مِثْلَهَا وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ

(Sahih International)
Whoever comes [on the Day of Judgement] with a good deed will have ten times the like thereof [to his credit], and whoever comes with an evil deed will not be recompensed except the like thereof; and they will not be wronged.

(Abul A'ala Maududi)
جو اللہ کے حضور نیکی لے کر آئے گا اس کے لیے دس گنا اجر ہے، اور جو بدی لے کر آئے گا اس کو اتنا ہی بدلہ دیا جائے گا جتنا اس نے قصور کیا ہے، اور کسی پر ظلم نہ کیا جائے گا