How to Get the Best Out of the Last Ten Days of Ramadan | Dr. Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera

finally the day is coming upon us that everybody waits for or we're supposed to wait for which is the lay little qatar layla tulkar generally come in the last 10 days of the month the virtues of the last 10 days the ramadan itself has many virtues and you've been probably listening to that for the last you know few weeks and from before ramadan to get us into the mood of ramadan but it all starts culminating towards the last 10 days that's when everything starts getting more intensified and that's we learned that from the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi in those last 10 days he would do three things these are just three gen three main activities though there's a lot of other things that he would do that are within these things the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam when the last 10 days would enter he would tie his he would tie his lower garment well that could be taken literally it could be taken also metaphorically symbolically in the sense that you tie your garment properly so that you can win the race so that you don't have any kind of failings in between so it's just intensifying the struggle and being prepared for it so there could be several meanings for that and he used to enliven his knights ah yeah later he used to enliven his nights interesting he didn't say that he spent his entire night doesn't necessarily say that this is used to enliven his night so generally people sleep at night in those days that these people used to sleep at night nowadays people do other things at night as well there's too many activities that can be done at night but in those days people just slept so if somebody is staying awake then there's a reason they're staying awake for a good reason and number three he would actually wake his family up in this time as well which seems like a unique thing that this is what he would do especially during these last 10 days he would wake them up as well the other thing i'm just going to mention i mean where we're going to learn this from let's just look at the prophet s if there's something specific to us number two the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would enter into atikaf in these last 10 days a retreat in the masjid where you can't go out except for emergencies then the etiga would break but it's a you can say a perpetual sunnah for the prophet salallahu to have done ethical pretty much every single year and it's not related that the prophet salallahu except when being out on an expedition somewhere for jihad or for other reasons he was out on an expedition he was not at home that's the only time otherwise he always did ethic off and in the last 10 day last year of his life he did etika for 20 days that's really interesting and there are people you know you'd say that i've never seen anybody doing etika for 20 days there are actually quite a few people that do etika for 20 days or even sometimes a whole month one of my teachers in india he used to do i mean i'm not sure because of the quran that this year i don't think it's going to happen i would doubt it but he would be there for 20 days or even more days doing a tick off and there would be some people that would stay with them for the whole month but then obviously the bulk would come for the last 10 days and one of the things the prophet saw allah used to do during this time is those were the special nights with jibril islam used to have meetings with him jivida islam used to come every night and they would review the quran that had been revealed until then so in the last year since the whole most of the quran the majority of the quran had been revealed by now that's why he it seems like maybe that's the reason why he did ethical for 20 days and they would have this meeting with jibril islam every night right number three the second uh the third thing is well this is in general that what happens in the last 10 days is that we've been fasting for quite a while now and we've become used to the fasting it's become a routine now the different times that we eat has become a routine if you've fasted all this time you've gotten used to it there are various different physical functions that take place and changes that take place in the body and sometimes people do have a bit of a low period but then that's i i think that the last 10 days being special really helps to get rid of those lows and gives you a re invigorated energy it reinvigorates us to make sure that okay there's only 10 days left and if you see this year the what is today 20th or something 1920 right um how fast did that go it's crazy i mean i remember we were starting and it was going to be 30 days and it seems like a lot but suddenly they just start whizzing past after the first second day i mean i don't know has it gone slow for any of you i mean for for me it's gone very fast it's 20 is a surprise 1920 is a surprise seems like 10 you know that's what idea that's what it realistically feels like for me anyway right so it's going very fast the next 10 days will go out as well and so fasting in itself with ev just fasting at any time there's a benefit in that right it's ketosis and all of these other physical benefits but there's a spiritual benefit even for non-muslims there's a benefit they find benefit now when you've got muslims doing it all these virtues that are added ramadan the immense amount of virtues you're getting 70 times the reward for a fad action any other time that's a huge you can tell what allah wants to give us just by that equation you know when you see there's a shop is giving buy one get one free okay or buy two and get one free then you know that they're they're not that generous buy one get one three they're a bit more generous closing down sell buy one get get three three but buy one get seventy free you know that i mean and then you know that in arabic 70 is just a abundance number it's not necessarily literally taken it just means abundant 70 like 100 you know that's the way we do it so allah wants to just he just wants to give an abundance and that comes to a head i mean gives that one and all of that is put into perspective when you hear about laylatul allah didn't want to i mean he could have said how many days how many days is that that's 93 years i think or something right and i don't know how many number of days they are but you could have had to you had to put that into the surah but al-fushar just sounds cool a thousand months that does the equation that's 93 years of worship for that one night now so you can tell what allah is offering that on this one night or on this one day uh like the people are going to come you can come in and take your cart and you can fill up whatever you want this is more than that this is not just fill up your cart for one day for a thousand months you can keep feeding up your cart that's how much we're going to give you in one night it's just abundant it's mind boggling it's it is just no equation here right that's what allah wants to give us during this time that gives you the idea of what's available but it doesn't mean we're all going to get it those who make an effort they will get it it's there for the taking but if somebody doesn't even go to the store on that day and then he goes afterwards and says where's all the deals gone they're finished now right so that's why it's important to consider this in that way and fasting so when you know all of this the fa the fast will improve the ramadan will improve because you know that that's what allah wants to give you and it's all unavailable so let me try to get as much as possible this is generally human greed isn't it when you know there's a lot available then you'll go and take as much as you can especially when they don't even feel bad about you taking stuff sometimes they've got stuff outside the masjid kajools dates or whatever and you know that you should just be taking one or two and it's a bit embarrassing to take a whole handful but when the one who is giving you says take as much as you are there's enough for everyone literally you're still going to feel a bit no no no no no literally take i'm trying to get rid of this i've got lots that's allah subhanahu wa is giving us so then why how can we be deprived of that so that's ramadan is the time then that allah perfects a person and lots of people have observed this that their ramadan is what changed their life ramadan and hajj generally act as two really major factors ramadan anybody can use it hajj is maybe a bit for the elite that allah calls especially but ramadan it comes to you whereas hajj you have to go to it but ramadan comes to everybody it's an opportunity for everybody and lots of people have changed their lives during the month of ramadan now this layla so the idea is that the qatar is going to be in one of the last odd nights of the month it could be i mean there are views that it could be in any of the ten nights of the month last him right it could be in any of them there are also other views that it could be in the first 20 days but as we get more intense the stronger views are that it's in the last 10 days stronger still is that it's within the odd nights of the last 10 days and then the strongest view it seems the most probable view opinion is that it's only little qatar which is the 27th or laylatuc is on the 27th but he's been observed in that on the 25th it's been observed on the 21st as well so we don't want to put all of our eggs in one basket the idea is to increase in the last 10 days in general more than we've done in the last 20 in the first 20 and at least in the uk the nights are getting a bit shorter which means that you could probably start staying awake fully at least on some days so then you try to do that and then what you do is you in the odd nights you do more than the regular uh more than the even nights so you're increasing your chances and then at 27 you just go all out what night is going to be the 27 this year the two possibilities does anybody check that out um is it going to be a friday or something or is it going to be a weekend i i take it a day at a time so i never know these things i don't even know it huh what day is that oh it's a tuesday wednesday so it's going to be a work day for people so maybe if you can if you've got the luxury of taking a day off work then you can spend the night and then at least the day you can sleep allah make it easy so now what is let's get an answer every year this night comes and people translate it in different ways the night of qatar what does qadhar mean so there are approximately at least three views in regards to what laylatul qatar refers to and that really informs us of the significance of this night the first opinion is that this is the night of destiny because the word qatar means destiny qatar means to predestine to decree something and to plan so that's allah subhana wa what he plans and has written i mean allah already knows but this is what may be written uh for the angels to know however whatever the case is so this is the night of destiny right the night of destiny and this is the night in which all people's predestinations and decrees are written and what's going to happen maybe for the next year that's what's written the second opinion is that qatar also the word qatar is also used for status honor so this is the night of honor the night of dignity the night of greatness that's another idea and it is it's the night in which was chosen for for the quran to be revealed number three is it's called qatar again a night of value so in this case it would be night of value the meaning because of the huge rewards that are attained in it as you can tell the second and third opinions are very similar because there's huge rewards attained in it so that's why it gives you huge value and that's why it's a night of honor right that it includes huge rewards in it so it's what a muslim is able to attain during this night what he's able to pick up in terms of the offers that are on and the rewards and everything no other night that's why it's a special night called qatar that's why there's a hadith which is related by imam bukhari and muslim from abu hurairah the prophet sallallahu as general as whoever stands the night of ramadan but in this particular case it's whoever stands the night of qadhar with iman and then all of his past sins will be forgiven iman with faith with anticipation with a certain desire with a certain reckoning a certain calculation in your mind that this is what i want from allah from this night that's kind of what i ascertain that's kind of what i reckon that i'm going to get and what is really interesting is that our job is to make an effort and have iman and hisab the benefit of those people in ittikaf is that they get this night in the masjid right so they've spent that night in namaste what better place for that right that's one of the benefits of the ethical as well right is that you get laid it recover regardless even if you're sleeping through it because you're still doing a good deal of ethical you can't say that for home can you that i'm gonna sleep all these nights and i'll still get it it's gonna pass by because there's no action that we're doing i mean unless we you can justify by saying i've prayed my fajr and isha in in the masjid so that way i'm going to be seen as i'm going to be treated as somebody who's stayed stood the whole night that's a secondary kind of way though right that's why it's a good idea to do something right and i think in england it's actually much easier to do it i'm not sure in pakistan what the time is these days but in india in england it's quite easy to do this insha allah that's why the ulama really stressed that you don't have to know which night it is right it is something that really gives a lot of comfort that the reward for standing in that night will be established will be given to you as long as you've stood in those nights and you've done some tahajjud prayer and done some other worship that will be realized just by hoping that you're going to get it as long as your intention is there that i want to get laid little kadar you don't even have to know that that was the night of kadar so don't get i i i never asked around like what night do you think it was because at the end of the day i mean nobody's going to know for sure right we don't i mean i don't have that kind of unveiling and special in divine intuition that hey this is the night of kadar just make an effort on all of those nights and go with probability and make an extra on 27 right and there you go now you see the benefit of the people in ethical is that they're retreated to the masjid they don't have any other obligation so they can actually make their night the way they want it every single night and remember in anything anybody will tell you that if you want to get the best out of something you have to have a timetable a schedule and that works best if you think okay when it comes i'll do a bit extra here and there no write down today because you know we're not into it yet it's starting right soon so write down exactly what you want to do that i must do at least this much during this night or these nights rather every day and then when it comes to 27 i'm going to maybe do this much extra that's that would be the best that's what works for me and i'm sure inshallah it should work for everybody else and it's probably worked for you guys as well we reveal this quran the knights of qatar people know the quran the importance and we chose the night of qatar for this then he says have you ever pondered over that part like do you know what this veda turka is do you know what this night of destiny is you guys are missing something like do you know what's going on you know that there is a sale at this store you're like okay it's a sale like any other sale no no this is a proper sale like this you never heard of it and then allah continues proceeds to explain that it's better than a thousand months [Music] this is one of the styles of the quran to ask a question to engage and to make you think and ponder that's why allah literally asked the question do you know what laylatul qatar is now because this is also the night in which according to that first opinion our sustenance provisions and decrees are being written then it's also a night in which allah is going to send blessings there's blessings in baraka during this night allah says that in the quran right there is the descent of jibrilla islam the other angels come and i don't know i wish we could if we could get a glimpse of this but just imagine the world is the night is there right and suddenly it's all quiet and you just suddenly start seeing these angels just streaming down that's what happens and there's just peace i would i would give anything to be able to see these angels these angelic beings just streaming around in the world just descending from the heavens what an awesome sight that would be right that's exactly what's happening in that night we take this all of this on faith obviously this is based on our faith so if so many angels are descending and angels are pure you can imagine the blessings that are available on that night so when you ask allah it's there you will receive it that's what we get from this allah says another verse we revealed it we caused it to descend in a blessed night so this is the night where you get tranquility if you've had depression if you've had anxieties this is the night to ask for a relief from these things this salaam and peace there is nina which is it none and tranquility that is at this time this is all the time if that's the case then it means that it is the time to repel punishments from a person it's the night to make doba it's the night to make tawba for and and repent from our misdeeds and truly it's the night when most people feel like they they need to do this as long as they know about this see this is what the prophet saw allah said he said ramadan the blessed month ramadan ramadan has come to you which is a blessed month and allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has followed allah azzawajal obligated in it for you its fasting and then the other the other part of the hadith you must have heard at the beginning of ramadan the doors of the heaven in this case says the doors of the heavens are opened up the doors of hellfire closed the the the shayatina lock shackled in this case then allah says this is relevant to these last nights allah has a night in there which is superior to a thousand months anybody who is going to be deprived of the goodness and virtues of this night then he has been deprived so it shows that it's actually a deprivation because it's so easy to attain just by some worship during that night and some duas etc that means all of this goodness is available for that the the other hadith mentions here that when the prophet the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam upon the entry of these last 10 days he would himself stay awake he would stay awake and enliven the night and he would wake his family up that means what we need to be doing is we need to doing this collectively insha allah and the men of the house or whoever is the boss of the house whoever wears the trousers whoever claims to wear them at least so we'll give them that responsibility right they need to wake their family up because i think if you do it as a group effort why wouldn't you want to wake your family up don't you do it there's an offer somewhere and it's five per person so you take three of your family members you get 15. it's beneficial you say no i don't do that well you better do this for this forget the world but for this this is what you want to do that's why make a schedule with your family with your children everybody involved that this is what we need to do that it will make it easier and don't we want our family to also gain the rewards don't we want them to be protected from hellfire what i would also suggest i found this to be very useful is that if you have children or just different family members in us but especially if you've got children at one time of the day whether that be a iftar time just before iftar whether that be at the end of suhoor time whether that be some other time after tarawih if you're playing tarabi at home let different people prepare the dua and do it and you'll be interested because the assumption is that in ramadan people are making a lot of duas so what we found very useful is that rather than me make the dua every day which is fine the next day my wife will do it then my sons will do it my daughter will do it and even the 10 year old will do it and it's really interesting what they come up with you they will make duas that you know you would not have thought of it teaches them how to make those this is our tarbia for our children as well works very very well and of course don't expect him to do it by heart right at the beginning unless they want to do that tell them use a piece of paper write down your duas so i you know i'll tell them write down your duas so they would write it down on a piece of paper and then tell them you can actually read it out from there i mean allah is going to accept that even if you read it out from a paper even for adults right so that that works very well gets them how else are we going to teach our children to do dua you can tell them do it but let's let them do it and of course they could make mistakes they could hesitate and things that but let them off you know don't don't make fun of them just encourage them it's very good masha'allah so that will be very very useful as well the next thing that we also want to do during these last 10 days because their days of goodness is that we want to expand our giving our giving and charity to our family right and to neighbors and to the muslim umma in general and especially those who are in trouble are subjugated oppressed are needy it's a time of it's that if ramadan the entire ramadan is a time of generosity you can tell how generous allah is by maximizing the benefits of a fart prayer and so on closing the doors of helpful and so on and so forth and then you see that people give a lot of donation so you can see that allah has caused this generosity to a light in the hearts of people that they feel more generous so why should we be left behind so if you've been giving in ramadan anyway the last 10 days should be even more and especially if you can somehow give in the online again that gets complicated but the idea this what some people do is actually us they set up a direct debit on the last 10 days of the month some people do it for the whole month but some do it for the last 10 days and if you want you can really be patient you can do it for the odd nights and you can give your largest chunk on the 27th but i wouldn't waste my time on the 27th like trying to figure it all out i would prepare it beforehand so maybe today have um with your family maybe make a decision that we are going to donate this much you know because you want to encourage your family to do so i think ramadan needs to be done as a family individual because we're teaching i'm saying that's what we're teaching if you're if you're the head of the household if you're a responsible person of the household then that's what we should be doing and then try to have that all organized the other things that we can do during that night remember it's not just about standing in tahajud you might say i don't know so much quran what am i gonna do it's not that's not necessary you can do any worship during that night and it all has a huge benefit but the quran even reflection on the quran during that it doesn't have to be just reading the quran you can actually sit and reflect on the quran read a few verses a few surahs or whatever and just reflect over it all of that will be considered to be part of your worship on that day because that should increase and that should help you in your worship then of course you can do salawat and the prophet sallallahu alaihi you can do us you have to have a big chunk to us do a salat right do a salat with tasbih do some other thicker again just how many hours are you going to spend and according to that have a list of things when you get bored of one thing you are weary of one thing you start the next thing you start the next thing you start now and that is what as a human being really really helps to keep afresh and and stay awake and do the different things and not get too bored about it one thing that we try to do on the night of ramadan which is a bit of an undertaking but it's not difficult is to read the entire hezbollah and one of the the reason for that is it's got while hezbollah it's i think it's one of the best collections that i know of in terms of comprehensiveness there's lots of collections of drawers but this one it's all the duas in there that we should be asking allah it has all the duas in there that we should be asking allah whether we realize it that we should ask him or not it's all in there and all that that we should be uh containing those things that we should be seeking refuge from it's in there as well that are evil harmful for us in this one hereafter it's got it all in there that's why i try to do a khatam of but yeah that i would suggest that if somebody can do that they should read aside from all the other worship because you'll get every dua in it you can do it every night if you want to but i'm saying at least for the 27th for those in i think of they can probably do it every day once a whole day they use finish of the whole hezbollah right but if you can you're at home or whatever then try to do it at least on the 27th at least one night or the night that you think it's your little qatar now the other thing is that there's a special dua that we should be doing in all of these nights because allah thank allah reward her she asked the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam she said ya rasulallah what do you advise if i catch laylatul qatar meaning if i find leila tolkata what do you what do you advise what should i what do i should i make so the prophet salallahu for allah you are the forgiver you're the one who forgives you love to forgive so forgive me simple simple dua we'll try to paste this somewhere in the comments or whatever if you don't have it otherwise you'll find i mean everybody knows this it's quite a popular dua now these are all things we should be doing right the one thing that we should not be doing is what is wasting time so to be honest sleep would be far superior to wasting time what do we mean by wasting time today to basically be browsing that's one of the biggest waste of time that people do just casually can't help it so just try to if you have to go somewhere and check something understandable i'll check the time of fajr or check the time of whatever understandable but otherwise don't browse on that night don't waste time just checking extra emails or whatever the case is only what's necessary that's the minimum we can do and then do some worship and then at least go to sleep don't sit around and waste time that's really what it is right because that would be a big loss that okay you're awake and you don't you're wasting time if you at least your sleep and you've read your duas et cetera inshallah even your sleep you'll get some reward insha allah you know hopefully but if you're if your sleep is to protect you from doing something wrong then it'll be rewarding inshallah masha'allah the sisters they can do etikaf in their homes they have to just designate a certain area in one of the rooms and they can go out to get food and to obviously any other call of nature etc they can't go for other reasons so obviously if if they are able to organize it in that way then they can actually do it at home men have to do it in the masjid the most generous person to spend in goodness he was very generous just in general he was any all the time he would give huge amounts even normal days the most generous that he would be would be in ramadan when he would meet with jibreel i mean there was just especially you know when you meet certain people you just feel so elated about it that you get really excited and then you're willing to because the generosity and mightiness it's all a state of the heart so sometimes you're feeling a bit tight and you don't want to give so much another thing you feel like on top of the world like no problem you know i can see the baraka and the blessing and i just want to give you can see so that's why you do that and jibril islam that is one of the benefits that the prophet saw would get from there when he would meet him in these nights of ramadan so the hadith then says that for either lucky was more generous with good acts and good good spending and whatever it was than even the wind so you know how the wind can just scatter everything so that's why the prophet saws would do that now this is the night when the angels are descending now while we can't see them and he could see them so it's obviously he has that advantage but since they are descending that should insha allah cause us to spend more as well may allah make it easy now let's just look at a few of the aslav our predecessor and what they used to do now these are not things from the hadith but this is them trying to interpret the hadith and doing something in their life and in their practice that we can learn from as how they interpreted this and what they would do during this night just give us ideas you don't have to do exactly that you can do whatever you want some of them used to actually take a bath and gain special purification on these nights and wear perfume they're not going out but they would do do this because maybe the angels or whatever the case is so imam and nakai right who was in one of the great tabirin he would take a bath every single night of the last 10 days right now that's not the only thing you're going to do this is not from the hadith this is just his interpretation of wanting to be pure likewise another great person of the past he used to also take a bath and then use perfume and then he used to for some reason on the 23rd night and the 24th night of ramadan for maybe something he's seen right that may be his night he used to wear new clothes how to welcome for that now that's not a sunnah to that this is just his interpretation so don't you start doing that saying that's the only i'm going to wear some new clothes on that day right and it's just his way of doing that if you've got the right sentiment that this is a special night the angels are going to be there i want to just be at my best and be because when you wear good clothes not show off clothes but good clothes new clothes you feel clean you feel you know there's a kind of a reawakening uh almost anna malik it's also really now this is a sahabi now it's related from him that he used to also take a bath he used to also put a perfume on and for some reason they were doing this on the 24th night not sure why on the 24th night not being able to work that out it's also something similar has been related from tabitha bunnani and homaida tawil they would choose on that day the best of the clothing they had and they would wear it for those nights now that doesn't mean you have to be you know in a formal clothing you could be in some brand new pajamas i don't think so no because pyjamas are not seen to be respectful so if you're doing this out of respect for something then you would wear something that is dignified and respectful right dignified and respectful so it's related from thabit that tami madari radhiallahuanhu had purchased a garment for a thousand dinar that's a lot of money that's a huge amount of money right for a thousand dinar he used to wear it only on laylatul he had a special little cutter garment now this is private this is not like you were to go outside with this is private just between you and allah right he would not wear it at any other time he would only wear in laylatul likewise you know we said that they used to wake their families up it's an encouragement the hadith says so it's related from sufyanath that he used to wake up his family to do the qiyam of the last 10 nights and he said when the last 10 nights enter he should do the hajjud himself and make an extra effort and then he should try to wake up his family and his children for salat as well if they're able to do so so don't wake the babies up but if they're able to do so whoever can do so this is used to do as well he used to do his own tahajud first when he used to reach halfway point of the night then he's to wake his family up someone in many of our cases the wives may be doing more than the husbands you know already they're the ones waking up the husbands come on man there's 10 minutes left get a few rakats in have a have a date and um verse that he used to use for this is you should command your family to pray sadat as well and you should remain steadfast upon it as well we're not going to ask you for any sustenance right we're the ones who are sustaining you allah says and the good ending is for those with taqwa is for god consciousness the other thing is that this was also a night when others they they would spend night with the quran they would do extra quran during this night and also during the days of the last 10 days during the last 10 days themselves for example it's radiated from qatad that he would do a khatam of the quran every three days three days he would do khatam normally normally in ramadan but when the last 10 days would come he would do one khatm every night now somebody asked this question the other day that that's they've heard of prohibitions for doing in less than three days or less than seven days yeah that's on a normal basis it's there and that's normally if it's going to cause you to read without fulfilling the rights of the quran the rights of tajweed and so on but for those who are able to read more in a dignified respectful way and there's a lot of people who used to be who you can do that even today and so it is allowed that is not an absolute prohibition that you just cannot do it that is haram it's not like that some people take it as haram that you can't do and they prohibit everybody from doing so if somebody wants to do it let them do it if they can do it let them do it yes if they're not doing it correctly then encourage them to do it correctly so it's not an absolute prohibition it's a it's a general kind of prohibition for those who cannot do it properly and there's other reasons given as well as he used to do a hatam khata means a completion in ramadan every two nights right that was his he would do it 15 15 jews a day imam shafi it's related from him i don't know how he did this how many hours in his day he had seriously right nowadays if you want to get more days in your if you want more days i don't think you'll do you can get one you can get one day to go beyond 24 hours but the next day no you can take a flight from here to canada sorry to to california and your day will increase i don't know 27 28 hours how imam shafi that's his quran he would complete two qurans in a day he would complete two qurans in a day that means 60 times in ramadan there's others like that as well how i have no idea but once you understand the meaning of the quran see because we're reading so fast it's very difficult to concentrate on the meaning but if you know the meaning you know the tafsir very well then it's easy because it's just like you're breathing past and you're it's a fast journey through the quran right so they could do this the other thing at least this is easy inshallah as many salats as you can in the masjid with me with the first takveer so it's related from atmashima amish that he would not abandon the first takbir i mean there's many many people who would never abandon there's so many people have done that even of recent times who have never missed their first takbir hardly ever but you know this is something special at least in the month of ramadan we should try to do this insha allah for as many salaats as we can in the masjid if you're working obviously then try to do a jamaa in the masjid try to do if you can try to do at least every salat you have in wherever you are in a congregation whether that be in the masjid or when you're not in the masjid when you're at work or whatever the case then do it at least with your family but try to do everything with the jamaa rather than pray alone the father prayers so i think that's gives us some scope of what we're supposed to enter into may allah give us a tawfiq for this and i said these are not necessarily things that you've never heard of before you know some of these things may be new i mean i've learned a few things when i did this research for this today right about some of these things you don't have to wear new clothes on there this is just their way of honoring the night you can have some other way of honoring the night but the main thing is the worship these people didn't just sit around with nice clothes on that night right and not do any worship i have done my part because it's not a sunnah this was just a complimentary aspect that just showed what else they were doing that if they were willing to buy a special garment for this you can imagine their honor that they would pray and do all of these things and keep us in your duas as well if there's any questions let's just take them today before we do our dua if you're not able to do ethical and you're not able to to stay in the masjid what can you do well you see staying in the masjid that's the only the only thing that you can only do in the masjid is staying the masjid so if you can't do that you can still do everything else that you would do in the masjid you can do at home which means your tilawa your thicker your salat everything otherwise can be done at home anyway so it would just be a collection of all of those things that you would do just that you wouldn't get see the benefit of being in the masjid is that you're safe from meeting with people that you don't need to meet right you're with just other believers in the message that's one of the benefits of ethical is that you're just with believers you're not going to just see anything else at all right and you're going to see the committed believers because they're the ones who are going to come for prayer you're not going to get distracted hopefully but your phone is a distraction that's the problem that's the benefit of ethic off that you're in a safe zone whereas at home it's not that safe sometimes that's the only difference otherwise do everything else according to the schedule that you make what's the best debate to on the night i i um is read that dua so i think dua would be one big about it but you wouldn't do dua it depends on how much time you want to spend first determine how much time you want to spend if you can do the whole night that's fine but then what are you going to do for that whole night then you know you you i don't think i i don't know if anybody can do dua for five six hours because eventually you run out of doors and you run out of emotion and there's no point sitting there just like that i mean it may be but i'm saying do something else read quran whatever and then go and go back in i mean allah has given you several hours so just like on the arafah you do dua you do some other worship then go back and do some murduas you recall some modawas and you do modulas so as i say one of the ways i get around that is i do my personal duas and then i do a hezbollah where i get all the other prophetic dwaras and the quranic dwaras so i find that to be very useful so i get a whole collection of duas that's why i'm recommending that and then reading the quran during that night as well as another right if somebody doesn't understand arabic would it be better to read a translation of the hizbal album if you've got both of it it's a difficult one i i'm not i i can't put myself in that mode because you know when you're reading we understand it i would i don't know what is better because i on the one hand if it's a prophetic dua then those words are amazing but then you don't know what you're reading so what i would suggest is the compromise is that you read and you check the meaning or read the meaning then read the arabic torah i think that would be really good read the reading and then read the arabic dua so you'll have all the sentiment in there using the words of the prophet salallahu so let's do that that's up to you how you want to spend your time between maghrib and isha you know i can't dictate you know nobody can because for everybody whatever is convenient is for them to do so it depends on when you want to do your worship do you want to do the bulk of your worship when do you want to do it you want to do it from maghrib to asia and then do tarawih and then just go to sleep because you have to sleep or whatever then then you spend that night so it just depends if you have it all scheduled that okay between maghrib to isha this is what i'm gonna do with our family whatever right then after tarawih this is what i'm gonna do and then if i do have to sleep then i'm gonna see for this one then i'm gonna wake up at this time again if you know that you're you just find it difficult to wake up then do bulk before you go to sleep and then just sleep at the last bit if you need to and if you don't need to sleep then organize that way i've given you the different suggestions but i can't tell you exactly what to do during that night the amulet is always better at home this is where the prophet salallahu used to do it there's a hadith from abdullah ibn abbas his auntie was married to the prophet sallallahu so one day he said can i spend the night you know with uh in the in that same room so the prophet stood up in the night that's where he don't i don't know if the prophet saws have ever did tahjid in the masjid even though he was next door he was adjoining him tahajjud is a private prayer remember that i don't know if there's any hadith to show that it's ever done in jamaa tahajud is a private prayer people have made this into a congregation in the masjid right you've got tarawih for that right so do tarawih in the masjid and then the tahajud do yourself now understandable that if you've got a friend who's a half is of the quran you just too want to do it understandable but to have these congregations at least in the hanafi school this is makru right and the reasoning behind is that there's not much evidence for it to have happened and number two it's a private worship the hajjud is masha'allah you know done by yourselves i would say do it at home is it better to do qatar prayer or i would say qatar prayer at that time and you'll get the reward of tahajud so i would definitely suggest to qadha prayer at that time with an intention for qatar prayer but because it's been done at tahajjud time inshaallah you'll be rewarded yes you can do tafseers during this night some pondering over that right so you can read tafsir you can ponder it will be a very reflective moment as well so you can do that but you know what i want to mention is that i would probably think that it would depend on the person for some people maybe tafsir would be even more illuminating and reflective over for example just reading tafsir generally is anyway is it superior to dua i would say that there's nothing exclusive so when you are doing your reflective reading the reflective reading is actually supposed to create in you a zeal and a desire though do it the way the prophet saw used to do it in tahajud now if you're not half is of the quran you don't know tafsir so it's difficult when he used to do those long tahajjuds at home he used to stop at any place where there was a discussion about hellfire seeking refuge whatever and then seek refuge if there's a place about good and forgiveness and paradise and so on he would stop and do that so do if you're doing reflective interactive reading like that with that engagement then that would be superior right about the women's etiquette about the women's at takeoff the way to do it is to designate a room a place in a room that generally is going to be the place that you generally do prayer but if that's going to be in the busiest room and you're going to get distracted what you do is then you just say okay i designate this place for my prayer you can do that in a bedroom so then you have to just stay there you can have your essentials there as well you are if there's nobody to bring you food conveniently nobody reasonably to bring you food and other necessities then you can go to get food you can go to get food you can go to relieve yourself right and other than that i mean it's all the other requirements for a man it's the same kind of thing if you do go out of this place you would have broken your ethic off if you if you go out without any reason or you went out for some other reason somebody came to the door and there was nobody to open the door you would break your ethic off your sunna etika then you could just do a knuffle option ethical but you wouldn't get the 10 day ethic off otherwise it's all the same rulings that i think often you can check that in other books because otherwise i'll have to mention that all the rulings of it take off but then otherwise you just again have the same schedule and you spend your time [Music] mercy upon us this ramadan month is passing by ya allah it is two-thirds have been have nearly been completed yeah allah we are entering these last ten days allah do not deprive us of the good do not deprive us of the goodness of this month oh allah whatever little that we have done allah accept it allow us to do even more allow us to become closer to you than we've been before in any other month of ramadan allah make the last 10 days better than the previous 20 days allow us to stay above all allow us to stay close to you even after the month of ramadan allah allow this ramadan to be the change of our life to be the time when we become better people when we make it a source of abandonment of bad habits that we may have of our shortcomings of our excesses of allah of our sins that have crept into our life our allah forgive us our sins oh allah we are mostly worried about our sins that we have forgotten about that we no longer even remember that we may never make tawba from them allah forgive us even those you know every sin of ours you know every transgression of ours everything is written in the books and allah this will come to light on the day of judgment ya allah we ask you forgiveness for it so that we don't find any surprises in the hereafter oh allah we ask that you especially weed out for us all of those sins that have now become part of our life we don't even consider them sins allah many of us have justified sins have justified that we we are allowed to do them or that they no longer sins or that they are not sins oh allah allow us discernment and correct understanding we don't want to come up on the day of judgment and expect that we've been doing good when we'd actually been doing wrong that is the description of the disbelievers oh allah do not allow that description to apply to us or allah allow us to be knowledgeable about our faith allow us to be close to you allah grant us your love and the love of those whose love will benefit us in your court our allah we have tried for so many years we've been trying and yeah allah we keep failing we get these inspirations to become better people to change our lives to abandon the wrongs that we may be we may be indulging in but oh allah it doesn't stay for long we get these fleeting thoughts these fleeting inspirations oh allah make this permanent for us how long will we continue doing these things for when will the time come that we will change when will be the when will the time come that we will become close to you and your servants oh allah make us your servants allah make us the way you want us to be oh allah we cannot do this without your assistance nobody can worship without your assistance oh allah it's only those that you allow to worship you enable to worship or allah we thank you that you have given us the ability to raise these hands today we see this even as a good sign oh allah we see this even as a good sign that we're able to raise our hands and to ask you and we hope that this means that you're going to now give us because we are raising our hands to you and you've allowed us to raise our hands to you oh allah everything is from your enablement oh allah allow us to remain on the right side allow us to be of the people of the right side on the day of judgment infuse us with your quran make us students of the quran make us learners of the quran make us teachers of the quran make us inspired by the quran make us live by the quran yeah allah make us live by the quran make us alive through the quran allah make us knowledgeable about the quran or allah allow the quran then to protect us from hell fire and to defend us allah then allow the quran to intercede for us and allow us to enter paradise allah then allow the quran to raise our status and cause us to ascend in paradise our allah the quran is are your words this is your words our allah allow us to have a life full full of connection with the quran living by the quran and do not allow us to ever neglect the quran and forgive us for our past neglect of it allow us to improve in our tajweed in our reading in uh in how much we read in how much we understand allah open up the quran for us i know allah benefit us from the quran especially during this month if we don't benefit from the quran during this month when are we going to benefit from it forgive our shortcomings in this regard and our discrepancies and allah do not deprive us any longer assist us grab us by the forelocks and enter us into jannatul those write us in this in these nights to be freed from the hell fire of allah accepts our allah except from all of those who organized these programs who make an effort for others of allah bless them and their families and allah bless all of those who are here who are listening and those who will listen or allah accept all of us for the service of your deen or allah accept us all for the service of yadeen make this ramadan better than any ramadan before it make every subsequent day of ramadan better than the previous day and buy that change our lives buy that change our life so that we become close to you allah above all allow us to remain close to you even after the month of ramadan do not let this just be a moment of exhilaration and then after that we go back to normal and we continue to do the wrongs that we may have been doing before allah except from us and help and assist the muslims around the world wherever they are whether they're suffering from kovid allah assist humanity and allow us to be worthy of your mercy to remove this pandemic allah allows to be allowed the ummah to be worthy of your mercy again allow us to learn the lessons from this that you intend by this do not allow us to remain blind do not let us remain blind of this oh allah we are in a relatively safe position right now in some countries while in other countries they're suffering allah remove their suffering and protect that you send your abundant blessings on our messenger muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam and grant us his company in the hereafter subhanallah and if you're finding this useful you know as they say do that like button and subscribe button and forward it on to others allah

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