Towards An Outstanding Ramadan

Towards An Outstanding Ramadan

Khutbah by Muhammad Alshareef

Opening

السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ، وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ وَمَنْ وَالَاهُ، أَمَّا بَعْدُ

Introduction: The Call to Believers

Allah tells us in the Quran about Ramadan, and Allah begins the verses that we hear and we recite every Ramadan-verses everybody is familiar with—where Allah says:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا

"O you who believe" (Quran 2:183)

One of the companions said: when Allah says يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا it means that you should pay attention. Hey believers, pay attention! فَإِنَّهُ يَأْمُرُ بِخَيْرٍ أَوْ يَنْهَى عَنْ شَرِّ because what's going to happen next, what Allah is going to say next, is either going to be some khair, some goodness that you are going to be encouraged and commanded to do, or it's going to be something bad that Allah is going to forbid you from going towards. But pay attention.

"Fasting has been prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may become righteous."

كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمْ it's already written, it's already fard, it's been decreed and determined. كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ – just like Allah made it compulsory and obligatory and fard upon the people that came before you. لَعَلَّكُمْ so that you will achieve taqwa.

تَتَّقُونَ

The Noble Act of Fasting

One of these brothers converted to Islam, and he was at a gathering where there were many different principals from schools. They gathered together, and it was in Ramadan time, so they were offering hors d'oeuvres. The brother declined eating from the food, and then someone from one of the schools—the religious schools, I won't

mention which religion—came up to him and said, "I know why you didn't eat that food. It's because it's Ramadan and you're fasting, aren't you?"

The brother said, "Yes, I am." In fact, this brother converted from this man's religion before. And then this man -he's a religious man said, in his words, subhanallah, he said: "Fasting is such a noble thing to do. It's too bad our religion has changed it over the years."

Because if you look in these different religions, they have something similar to fasting—something similar. They'll drink juice but won't drink Pepsi or something like that while they're fasting, or they'll eat this and not eat that. They have some remnants of it, but it changes over the years.

And subhanallah, when you see people criticizing Islam today, it's a criticism, but I said, what a beautiful criticism! They say that the Islam that is practiced today is the same Islam as it was practiced 1,400 years ago. And they actually think this is a bad thing! And I said, subhanallah, in their own words—those who are criticizing—this is exactly what we want: that we practice the Islam that the Prophet ﷺ showed us and guided us to 1,400 years ago.

The Verse About Dua in Ramadan

In these verses of Ramadan, speaking about Shahrul Ramadan-the month in which the Quran was revealed—there's a verse that comes in between. After the verse that many of you are familiar with about Shahrul Ramadan, and afterwards, about two verses later, there's another verse that speaks again about having to fast up to the certain time and so on and so forth. Right in the middle of these verses, Allah says:

"And when My servants ask you about Me, indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me."

Allah says: I am near. I will answer the dua of the person if he makes dua. If he or she makes dua, Allah will answer it.

And Allah, when the people are asking the Prophet ﷺ about Allah, Allah says: I am near. أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ when a person makes dua, Allah answers that dua. إِذَا دَعَانِ if he makes dua, if he or she makes dua, then Allah will answer the dua.

The Power of Dua

Now, you've made dua. People make dua for the goodness of this life and the hereafter-not only for the dunya, but for the dunya and the akhira. In this dua, Allah is going to answer it no matter what.

Either you make dua for something—you say, "Oh Allah, bless me this Ramadan, bless me with a Cadillac Escalade. I love it so much, it's my heart's joy. Give me from the goodness in this life and the hereafter, and

protect me from Hellfire." You know, you made dua for it. "Bless me with this car."

You're either going to, after you make the dua, get the car. This is number one. So your next Ramadan, when people see you, "Hey, where did you get this car from?" You're like, "Ramadan! Dua! I made dua in Ramadan. Here it is, nice car sitting outside."

Or, Allah is going to give you something better than it. So instead of a Cadillac Escalade, you get what? A BMW X5 or something like that, right? So it's like, "No, I didn't get the Escalade, I got the BMW instead."

Or, Allah protects you from some harm. Maybe Allah knows it's not good for you to get this type of car. Maybe there's some-Allah protects you from something. So maybe some big calamity was about to happen, some great harm was about to take place, and Allah didn't give you this, but He gave you that instead. So maybe Allah blessed you with something else.

Now, let's imagine that someone—let's say a woman—she made dua: "Oh Allah, bless me with children." And her whole life, she never lost hope in that dua. She never gave up. She always made dua to Allah: "Oh Allah, bless me with children."

She's either going to get the child, or Allah will bless her with something else, or protect her from some calamity. But let's just say she had a very difficult life, and then she went to the hereafter. She was never blessed in this dunya with a child. What is waiting for her in the hereafter? A mu'minah who was patient all this time. What's waiting for her in the hereafter?

The Prophet said that the person will come on the Day of Resurrection, and they'll see all this reward, and they can't imagine: "Ya Rabbi, I didn't do these actions! How can I have this much reward?" And the response to that person: "This reward that you see—these are the duas that weren't answered in the dunya that Allah saved them for you for the akhira. And here they are."

When the person—when the abd—sees this, they'll wish that none of their duas were answered in the dunya. None of their duas were answered in the dunya, so that they would have the reward in the hereafter.

The Cost of Dua and Good Intentions

What does it cost you to make dua? What does it cost you? How much does it cost you? Nothing. Okay, it costs nothing, right? Zero.

Here's another question: How much does it cost you to make a good intention? How difficult and how costly is it to make a good intention? "I have the good intention to, you know, do such and such, to give sadaqah. I have the good intention to build a masjid. I have the good intention to..." And you make intentions. Does it cost anything? Nothing. No.

What is the reward of making a good intention? What's the reward? Do you know? You know the answer? No, just put your hand. What's the reward of making a good intention?

This is Islam 101. If you make a good intention, what reward do you get? Yes, someone would like to answer the question? Yes? Sorry? You get one hasanat? One hasanat? What did they do to you?

Okay, kind of. Someone else? Yes? Okay, great! That's exactly the right answer, brother. If someone was beside you to give you a high five, mashallah, that was awesome.

Okay, pay attention. Pay attention. Islam 101: If you make an intention to do good, you get the reward as if you did it. That is the reward. Allah writes it in your list of good deeds that if you make the good intention, Allah writes that you did it.

And what happens if you actually do it? You get ten times the reward.

So when you pray a salah, you get ten times the reward because you've actually made the intention and then you do the salah—ten times the reward. Everything that you do, every good deed—you made the intention, you do it, you make the good deed and do it—you're getting ten times the reward.

Now I'm asking you this: What's stopping you from accumulating all these good deeds? What's stopping you? Only that the person hasn't made this their intention to get ajr like this. They usually don't sit back and make good intentions too much.

And so all this reward is as simple as you connecting with your heart and making the intentions.

The Power of Big Intentions

And I remember I gave this lecture last year, just as Ramadan was starting, in California, Los Angeles. And I said the masjid was full, it was the first day of Ramadan—and I said: "Imagine that everybody in the masjid right now made the biggest intention. You'd say, 'Oh Allah, I want to establish 1,000 masajid in North America.' Someone else says, 'I want to donate one billion dollars to Islam.' Someone else says, 'I want to, you know, guide all these people back to Allah.'''

If everybody made good intentions at that high level, and only 10% of the people in the masjid actually did what they intended to do, what would happen to the community? I would say, what if 1%? If everybody's making those type of intentions, and they consistently are always focused on...

The problem is that as soon as you start making good intentions, someone comes to you and says, "That'll never work. Don't even bother. Your intentions have to be sincere, so only make small, unrealistic intentions—realistic intentions—that could never possibly happen," something like that. And everything gets deflated, and there's not this attitude of moving forward.

The Example of the Sahaba

Now, if you look at the sahaba, interestingly, I could tell you the story of the Battle of Badr and what happened in Badr—the great victory that Allah gave to the believers. And all the chiefs of Mecca that were killed in Badr

—Allah gave victory to His Prophet. And then they come back to Medina. And what is it? It's Eid!

Because the Battle of Badr took place in Ramadan. And a lot of people forget that this was the case. These are the targets. This is what the believers were doing. Their Shahru Siyam was coming, and they're standing in the front lines, protecting the deen, as the Prophet said in that battle: "Oh Allah, if this army is destroyed today, You won't be worshipped on earth."

That's it. These are the Muslims. And Allah granted victory to them. This is how they spent their Ramadan. This is what they were doing with it.

The Title: Towards an Unforgettable Ramadan

The title of tonight is "Towards an Unforgettable Ramadan." And it's a very interesting title. I was just like, "Let's do a lecture on how to prepare for Ramadan." It's kind of like a little shallow, right?

So Shahab Rahman said, "No, how to have an unforgettable Ramadan." So I said, "Yeah, sounds nice." And interestingly, because he told me and the lecture topic was changed, I actually changed the material based on the higher standard that was placed for the lecture. The material was actually changed.

So here's what I want to tell you right from the beginning: What is your goal for Ramadan? What do you want to achieve? How do you get an unforgettable Ramadan?

A lot of people, the answer is: "I don't know. I never thought about it." This is the typical answer. "What's your goal for Ramadan?" "Inshallah, you know, I'm planning to sit down and write it out one day, maybe like the 27th night of Ramadan I'll start doing it," right?

If you don't have it in mind, just imagine this is so illogical—to get into a vehicle and not have a destination. To go to the airport and they say, "Where are you traveling today, sir?" And you're like, "You know, I really... I haven't thought about it. I'm waiting for the 27th night of Ramadan to start thinking about where I actually want to journey to." And by that time, Ramadan is over.

The Two Packed Times in Ramadan

And interestingly, there are two times in Ramadan when the masjid is packed: the beginning of Ramadan and the end of Ramadan. These are the two times in which the masjid is full. Maybe not the exact day when the moon sighting—everybody's like calling, "Was it Ramadan tomorrow?" That's, you know, that's packed, yes. But the masjid is full on the first day of Tarawih.

People—they're testing, you know, they're like, "Hey, it's Ramadan." They made some goal. They're coming for Tarawih. And then, bye-bye. They're busy. Things are a little tired. Iftar was a little bit too big last night and things, so on and so forth.

The Marathon Analogy

If you imagine that Ramadan was a marathon, who is it? Is it possible? You know, in a marathon, there are many people at the beginning of the marathon, and there are many people at the end of the marathon. Who are those people? Who are they?

They are the spectators. They are the spectators. Say it with me: spectators. They're just watching the action. They are the people who gather at the front to see everybody begin, and they gather at the end to see what other people have done.

The people in the middle are very few. And those are the participants. Those are the people that all throughout the month, they were early to the masjid. They were reading Quran when everybody else was eating, you know, dessert and drinking tea and all of these things. They were saying, "You know what? It's Ramadan time."

Ramadan: The Month of Feeding vs. The Month of Food

Ramadan is (شَهْرُ الْإِطْعَامِ - the month of feeding). Feeding the needy, feeding the homeless, feeding people, giving sadaqah. We just misunderstood it. Someone like flipped the letters a little bit, and they said Ramadan is (شَهْرُ الطَّعَامِ) Ramadan is the month of food.

(إِطْعَامِ) and (طَعَامِ), (إِطْعَامِ) means to feed people. (طعام) means to eat. So people, you know, this little Arabic mix-up, and it became a festival. They say it's Ramadan, so we must eat better!

And if you just speak to the sisters, there's this heightened pressure to increase the quality of food in Ramadan time. Do you agree? You're probably the ones who are asking for this. "Hey, we were fasting! The quality standard of our meals has to go up a notch! What is this? Where's the samosas? Where's this? Where's that?"

And then the person actually starts eating more in Ramadan than outside of Ramadan. Is that the essence of Ramadan? Going to dinner parties and this and that, so on and so forth?

Realize that the Prophet, from his Sunnah was (اعْتِكَاف) in Ramadan. What breaks the itikaf? Going to dinner parties. I'm not saying that you can't go to dinner parties, but just so you understand that Ramadan is a month of ibadah. It's a month of ibadah.

And in fact, in the month of the Prophet, the last Ramadan that he was alive in, he did itikaf for how many days? Twenty. He did itikaf for 20 days. And so the Prophet, you look at the whole month of Ramadan, he started 10 days into it. And so the month is focused on this type of ibadah.

Breaking Through Excuses

A lot of people, they come before Ramadan with excuses. And if you've ever heard me talking, you know I'm all about that excuses are just big lies. Any excuse that you have to not do good deeds is just a lie. The person is tricking themselves. They actually can do the good deed, but there's just something, some story that they're telling themselves.

So let's say I have a list of these things. You tell a person: "It's encouraged to pray in the masjid every day." They'll say, "I can't do that. I can't go to the masjid every day."

But then Ramadan time comes. How many times do they come to the masjid? They come to the masjid every day.

A person might say, all throughout the year: "Let's get up. Let's pray qiyam al-layl. Let's pray, you know, the night prayer." The person says, "I can't get up. I'm so tired. I have school tomorrow. I have work. I can't do that."

Then Ramadan time comes. What do they do? They pray every single night. They pray qiyam. And then the last 10 nights of Ramadan, not only are they praying Tarawih, they go home for iftar, they come back, and there's qiyam al-layl. They go home, there's Fajr. There's like all this time. They just keep going and coming, going and coming, going and coming—even though outside Ramadan, maybe the whole year will go past and they weren't able to get up a single night.

A person might say: "If I wake up for qiyam al-layl, I'll get tired. I won't be able to do it during the regular..." But Ramadan time comes, and they dedicate and reallocate their time so that worshipping Allah is a priority, and they're able to pull it off.

A person might say during the year: "Let's fast Mondays. Let's fast Thursdays." "Oh no, I have exam. I can't do this." Ramadan time comes—they fast the whole month.

Especially here in Canada—I'm sure around the world—"I can't live without my coffee. I have to have Tim Hortons. I have to have Starbucks. I have to have this. I have to have that. I can't start the morning without it." Ramadan time comes—no coffee, no addiction, none of this stuff.

And for people who are addicted with or tested with cigarettes: "Ramadan time goes, I can't stop smoking." Ramadan time comes—and you know that smoking in Ramadan while you're fasting breaks your fast. Smoking is—when it goes into the body, if you didn't know this—you think it's just air, but it's not just air. You're inhaling liquid like, I don't know what kind of liquid-tar or whatever it is. The liquid enters into your throat. You inhale it, it goes down as liquid. It breaks your fast. And it's haram, and it's a major sin to break your fast like that. And smoking would do that.

In Ramadan, the person says, "I can't control my anger." Ramadan time comes—"I'm fasting."

Person says, "I don't have too much time to read Quran." Maybe the whole year they read very little. Ramadan time comes—they finish the entire Quran.

"I can't wake up for Fajr." Ramadan time comes—they wake up in the third portion of the night so they can eat suhoor, and there's a great meal waiting for them, inshallah ta'ala.

All of these things—Allah says that siyam was made fard upon you (لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ) so that you will increase in your taqwa.

Training the Body Through Fasting

It's amazing. Siyam—and you see in Hajj time—Allah takes things that are normally halal for you and makes them forbidden. So if you look in fasting, eating is halal. But Allah says: "For this portion of the day, just so you understand Allah's ni'mah upon you and His blessing, don't touch the food that I made halal. But in this period of time, it's haram."

And so the body is being trained to avoid the halal because Allah commanded it. So what about after Ramadan? Then they understand that they avoid the haram.

If you look in Hajj time, in Hajj time, a person is not supposed to, you know, like pull their hair, cut their hair. A woman in Hajj will be very concerned to make sure no hairs fall out. And she's doing this in obedience to Allah. Does it make sense that outside of Hajj, she uncovers her hair and doesn't wear hijab?

And so all of these things, the body is being trained. Whether you understand it or not, your soul is being trained to worship Allah. (لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ) so that you would increase in your taqwa.

What Makes Ramadan Unforgettable?

So this question: How can you make it an unforgettable Ramadan?

So I ask myself this question. Out of the different Ramadans—and alhamdulillah, many of us, we fasted many, many Ramadans of our lives—and many of those Ramadans we have forgotten. They have come, they passed. They're written with Allah, and Allah will never forget. And it's written there. Even if we've forgotten, it's still written.

But what makes it unforgettable to us? What makes it unforgettable to us? What is the answer?

Try to remember a Ramadan—a Ramadan that was unforgettable. What was it about that Ramadan?

Who would like to share something about a Ramadan that you just can't forget? It was an amazing Ramadan. What happened in that Ramadan?

[Audience interaction]

Because you're very young, you only remember the last one. Everything is blank before that. Okay.

Someone else, what is it about the unforgettable Ramadan? This is a chance to understand what you did in a time that made it unforgettable, so that you can redo it this Ramadan, inshallah ta'ala. And I'm sure I have something, but I'm sure you might have something else.

Who would like to tell me? Unforgettable Ramadan. Yes, what about—okay, Tarawih. This is what I'm saying. What about the Tarawih made that Ramadan unforgettable? Is that multiple Ramadans or just one Ramadan? Or is there one specifically that you're thinking of?

Okay, so the one specific one that you're thinking of—that's the unforgettable one. Because the many, you just remember that it was like this. But the unforgettable one—what happened in the unforgettable one?

Okay. Okay, so the brother said—and like I said, it'll be different for different people—a lot of, if there is an unforgettable Ramadan, chances are, I don't know if it's you, but chances are it had something to do with Tarawih. It had something to do with your focus in Tarawih and how much you dedicated to Tarawih. That's my guess, right?

And it might be different for some people, you know. Maybe they did different things. But my guess is, if you focus strongly on your Tarawih and you really worked out, I would assume that some of you might say that, you know, there's an unforgettable Ramadan in which such and such an Imam came from such and such a country, and he led the Tarawih, and it was so beautiful, and we, you know...

But what if you come another Ramadan and that Imam is not there? Does that mean you're going to forget that Ramadan? You're not going to work hard? No. You have to work around it.

My guess is this: that the Ramadan that was unforgettable was a Ramadan in which you focused on extracting the maximum benefit from the Tarawih. That's my guess. You agree with this? That you focused maximum benefit on Tarawih.

Behind the Scenes: Life of an Imam in Ramadan

So let me tell you this. In conclusion, inshallah ta'ala, I will tell you—I will take you backstage, behind where the Imam is standing. What is life, and what is Ramadan like for the Imam who has to lead the Tarawih and has to complete the Quran in Ramadan time?

Okay, I've noticed this, because a lot of people who don't lead the prayer in Ramadan time, they are like goofing off in Ramadan. They're just playing games and just using excuses, and then such valuable time passes.

So let's start from Fajr. The Imam who is leading the Tarawih has to do what after Fajr? Okay, he has to do a khatirah. That's if he's leading—I'm talking about, like, later on, he's going to be leading Tarawih late at night. Okay, he has to prepare a lecture, maybe after Fajr, a five-minute, like, reminder. So that means that he has to go and read it. I don't do that, but I don't know. The Imam has to read Quran after Fajr. That's number one.

Step number one: he's reviewing Quran for later on at night. What happens in the masjid is that Fajr time goes, "Assalamualaikum," and people are like, "Oh, it's time to go to sleep." Sleeping time. The day has begun, time to sleep.

The Imam doesn't sleep. The Imam has a, you know, he has one juz or more he has to review Quran. So the Imam is sitting there reviewing Quran. Most of the people, if not everyone, has left the masjid. And the Imam is still sitting there reviewing Quran.

So then we go through the day. The Imam is doing what? What's the intention of his nap or gathering the strength? What's the intention? To have strength to lead the Tarawih later on at night.

Other people might be running around doing things, and come Tarawih time, they're knocked out, they're tired.

The Imam knows that at Tarawih time, there is no room to be tired. Can't you just can't fall asleep in the middle of your salah, right? Yeah, like leading the prayer and then like—it doesn't happen. You have to be in prime condition.

So the Imam has to, all throughout the day, keep in mind that later on at night, he has to be in full concentration and full strength to lead the prayer. And if you're not leading the prayer, you start getting a glimpse of how the day is spent there.

Then in the afternoon, the Imam is doing what again? He's doing what? He's reviewing Quran again.

Reviewing. Can you listen to me? I'm reviewing. Make sure my Quran is, you know, up to par. Make sure that, you know, I've taken out the mistakes and so on and corrected them.

And so the afternoon—again, other people might be in the shopping center, the mall, and wasting their day. The Imam, again, is back and spending time with the Quran. And then there's different ways. Some Imams might do more reading, and some might do less, based on, you know, their experience and so on.

Then if Tarawih time comes, where is the Imam? Is he at dinner parties, running around town and so on? Is he? You guys are like, "Yeah, I know an Imam..."

For the majority, the majority, the Imam can't go to dinner parties that are in distant places, because if he goes to those places, there's no time to get into the front line, to get back to the masjid in time for Tarawih.

Everybody else says, "Oh, you can't make it? We feel bad. We have to go because we are invited. It's 45 minutes out of town, but that's okay because we are invited." Even though there's no more Tarawih for us. And you know it. You're going 45 minutes out of town for a dinner party, and you know you're not going to make it back for Tarawih.

But the Imam can't make it there. He already has that in mind that the Tarawih has priority. So the Imam, if there is a dinner party, it's kept to a minimum. And like I said, Ramadan, the focus is on feeding people, not eating. The focus is on feeding, learning, sadaqah, you know, having in the masjid, inviting people, needy people and so on and so forth, and feeding them.

So the Imam is there in the masjid, usually like 10 minutes before the salah or so. So no one is getting nervous.

The Imam is there early. There's a few people who are in the masjid at that time, and they're usually the seniors of the community, just a couple of them.

This is what I've noticed: there's a group of senior people in every community that act like the Imam throughout Ramadan, even though they haven't memorized the Quran. They are always in the front line. They never miss Tarawih. And they're always there. They have that same attitude. But there's such few people like that.

The Imam starts leading the prayer. What happened in iftar? The Imam can't eat a large meal. Why? What will happen if he eats a large meal in Tarawih? What will happen? He will die. Yes, he will die. All the oil and so on will come up into his neck, and he'll vomit. You can't pray and read verses and breathe in and out, in and out, after eating a heavy meal. It's not possible. I'm telling you, the Imam will die if he does that.

And that's why the Imam—they're not doing it out of willpower. They're like, "I will die if I eat more than this."

What does everybody else do at the iftar? "Oh, too bad. Oh, we're just going to do a Jummah here in the house. We can't make it because the tea is still coming, and, you know, inshallah, we'll catch up, you know, in the fourth rakah Tarawih or something like that." And they don't make it. They pray at the back and so on and so forth.

And so the Imam, like I said, will die. So the Imam has to eat very little in order to survive the Tarawih. Same thing with you. You want to survive the Tarawih? You've got to eat very little.

Then after Tarawih, what has to happen? Either the person is reviewing for the next day, or they take a little break, right? You know, spend time with family, so on and so forth, and then go to sleep. And then the next day begins.

There's a cycle that goes in Ramadan time. It's like the person gets in the mode with the Quran.

A Challenge: Memorize 10 Juz in Ramadan

Whether you've memorized the Quran or not, I wish the same for you. I wish that Ramadan time can come—a month of discipline, a month of ibadah to Allah—so that you can come out of Ramadan time and have 10 juz memorized. Why not? Why can't you do it? Ten juz memorized in Ramadan time.

There's stories of people they memorize the whole Quran in Ramadan—every day memorizing one juz, every day doing that. And if you look at the Imams and how they review, they have to re-memorize so many things. And, you know, how much barakah Allah places in it.

You have to make the intention from now to benefit from Ramadan time. Otherwise, you're the example of the person who comes to the airport, and when they say, "What's your goal for this Ramadan? Where are you flying to?" And you say, "I never really thought about it. I never really determined that." And so you'll go nowhere.

And Ramadan time will come, and you'll probably forget it.

Unless you make intention from now to take full advantage of the Ramadan, I gave you a glimpse of what life is like in Ramadan time for the Imam. And I hope, inshallah ta'ala, you'll extract from that lessons, inshallah ta'ala, so that you too can make your Ramadan schedule that is prime, that has priority over anything else, inshallah ta'ala, throughout Ramadan.

Closing

May Allah reward you with good.

Glory is to You, O Allah, and praise; I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except You; I seek Your forgiveness and repent to You.

Peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you.