Ramadaan
28 August, 2009
RAMADHAAN
1. Fast Ramadhan with belief and truly seeking the reward of
Allah the Most High so that He may forgive you your past sins.
2. Beware
of breaking your fast during the days of Ramadhan without a valid Islamic
excuse, for it is from the greatest of sins.
3. Pray Salat ut-Taraweeh
and the night prayer during the nights of Ramadhan – especially on Layatul-Qadr
– based on belief and truly seeking the reward of Allah, so that Allah may
forgive you your past sins.
4. Make sure that your food, your drink and
your clothing are from halal means, in order that your actions be accepted, and
your supplications answered. Beware of refraining from the halal while fasting
and breaking your fast with the haram.
5. Give food to some fasting
people to gain a reward similar to theirs.
6. Perform your five prayers
on time in congregation to gain the reward and Allah's protection.
7. Give
a lot of charity for the best charity is that of Ramadhan.
8. Beware of
spending your time without performing righteous deeds, for you will be
responsible and reckoned for it and will be rewarded for all you do during your
time.
9. Perform `umrah in Ramadhan for `Umrah in Ramadhan is equal to
Hajj.
10. Seek help for fasting during the day by eating the sahoor meal
in the last part of the night before the appearance of Fajr.
11. Hasten
breaking your fast after the sun has truly set in order to gain the love of
Allah.
12. Perform ghusl before fajr if you need to purify yourself from
the state of major impurity so that you are able to do acts of worship in a
state of purity and cleanliness.
13. Cease the opportunity of being in
Ramadhan and spend it with the good that has been revealed in it – by reciting
the noble Quran and pondering and reflection of its meanings so that it be a
proof for you with your Lord and an intercessor for you on the Day of
Reckoning.
14. Preserve your tongue from lying, cursing, backbiting and
slander for it decreases the reward of fasting.
15. Do not let fasting
cause you cross your boundaries by getting upset due to the slightest of
reasons. Rather, fasting should be a cause of peacefulness and tranquility of
your soul.
16. Upon completion of fasting, be in a state of taqwa of
Allah the Most High, being aware of Allah watching you in secret and in public,
in thankfulness for His favors, and steadfastness upon obedience of Allah by
doing all what He has ordered and shunning all that He has
prohibited.
17. Increase in remembrance of Allah, seeking of forgiveness,
asking for Paradise and protection against the Fire, especially when fasting,
while breaking the fast and during suhoor, for these actions are among greatest
causes of attaining Allahs forgiveness.
18. Increase in supplication for
yourself, your parents, your children and Muslims, for Allah has ordered making
of supplications and has guaranteed acceptance.
19. Repent to Allah with
a sincere repentance in all times by leaving sins, regretting those that you
have done before and firmly deciding not to return to them in the future, for
Allah accepts repentance of those who repent.
20. Fast six days of
Shawwal, for whoever fasts Ramadhan and then follows it with six days of
Shawwal, it is as if he fasts all the time.
21. Fast on the Day of
`Arafah, the 9th of Dhul Hijjah, to attain success by being forgiven your sins
of the last year and the coming year.
22. Fast on the day of `Aashuraa,
the 10th of Muharram, along with the 9th, to attain success by being forgiven
your sins of the past year.
23. Continue being in a state of iman and
taqwa and perform righteous actions after the month of Ramadhan, until you die.
And worship your Lord until there comes to you the certainty (i.e. death).
[Quran 15:99]
24. Ensure that you attain the positive effects of your
acts of worship such as prayer, fasting, zakat and hajj, sincere repentance and
leaving of customs that are in variance with the Sharee`ah.
25. Invoke a
lot of salawat and salam upon the Messenger of Allah, may Allahs blessings and
peace be upon him, his Companions and all those who follow them until the Day of
Judgment.