Reception of the month of Ramadan

Reception of the month of Ramadan



The days pass from year to year carrying with it

the arrival of our holy month of Ramadan,

that scatters between it's hands the types of righteousness,

compassion, forgiveness and emancipation from the fire,

Al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

"Allah made the month of Ramadan as a track of competence

of the obedience to please Allah,

where there are people will win while

the other will be not more than losers !

It is amazing from who is playing

and smiling in the day that philanthropists will win and

the falsifiers will thereupon lose !"

A person has to be the first and the contenders,

Allah said:

( and for this let those aspire, who have aspirations )

.Mutaffifin: 26.

Muslim should be keen to welcome Ramadan,

and prepare for it, and you my kind brother / virtuous sister

here some of the means and methods

that will help you to benefit from the month of Ramadan:

Praise and thanks for attaining it-

And showing joy and cheer for its arrival

Nawawi said - may Allah have mercy on him

in the supplications book:

(kindly know that it is recommended to who

an obvious blessing is renewed to him,

or an obvious Indignation is pushed away from him

to prostrate gratefully to Allah – the Almighty –,

or praise with what suitable for Allah

Imam Ibn Rajab Said

(may Allah have mercy on him)

this Hadeeth is an orgin in congratulating

the people each other for Ramadan month ):

how the believer shouldn’t boded by opening gates of paradise ?!

How the guilty shouldn’t boded by closing gates of Hellfire?!

How the rational shouldn’t boded by the time that the devils are chained up.

- be Determined to leave sins then repent :

Ramadan is a real opportunity for changing;

and one of us needs to open a new pure white page with Allah,

and this requires him to repent of all sins,

then give them up, and not to return to them,

It is a month of repentance,

if we will not repent in Ramadan so when will we repent?!

Almighty Allah said:

(And O ye Believers! turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss.)
[Nur: 31]

, and says:

(O ye who believe! Turn to Allah with sincere repentance)
[prohibition: 8].

- Plan ahead to take advantage of Ramadan:

Place the program in practice to seize the days

and nights of Ramadan in obedience to Allah,

and divide your time between family,

reading, sleeping, prayers, and visits ... Etc.,

and be organized,

and do not leave yourself at random on the circumstances.

Make sure that you make a certain time for the remembrance

and the praising of Allah after every action you do, after every prayer,

before and after sleeping

- Learn the rules of Ramadan and it's virtues:

the believer has to worship the Allah

with the knowledge of how to worship,

and no excuse for ignorance of the obligations

imposed by Allah on His slaves,

Muslims should learn the matters of fasting

and its rulings before it's coming, to fast in true way

and to be acceptable by the Allah:

( if ye realise this not, ask of those who possess the Message.)
[the Prophets: 7]

we recognize the virtues of fasting

and it's rules until we have to obey it,

so the Prophet peace be upon him was preparing

the hearts of his companions to take advantage

during this month, by saying,

on the last day of Sha'ban:

there the month of Ramadan comes ... Etc.

hadeeth was narrated by Ahmad and al-nisa'ai

- Know the keenness of the predecessor to invest Ramadan:

Sufyan Thory: if Ramadan had come

he left all the business and turned to read the Quran,

and Walid bin Abdul Malik finished reading in every three,

and he finished reading the whole quran in Ramadan

seventeen times.

rabie' Bin Sulaiman Said Shafei

completed the Qur'aan

in the month of Ramadan sixty times

VS thirteen times every month .

Muhammad bin Ismail Bukhari during Ramadan

completed quran every day,

and after the Taraweeh (it's prayer in Ramadan after isha') ,

he completed it every three nights.

O Allah, let us reach Ramadan, accept it from us,

and help us to fast ,standing [in prayer],

lowering the gaze , keeping the tongue,

and emancipate us from, fire.

Indeed you are the Hearing, the Knowing



By:


Dr. Mohammad Abdelrahama’n Ala’refe