How We Conclude the Noble Month of Ramadan
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Question:
May I have your permission, Shaykh Salih, to take these questions that have come to us regarding the blessed month of Ramadan? This questioner says: Only a few days remain before the noble month ends. How do we conclude this noble month? May Allah bless you.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, all praise is due to Allah, and may the prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah. First, we must praise and thank Allah for what He has bestowed upon us.
In this noble month, some people have been granted by Allah the opportunity to attain the virtues of this month, and they are few. Some have attained some of them, and some have not attained anything. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best the affairs of His servants, and He gives each person according to the measure of his intention. But there is still a remainder of the month, and the doors of good are still open. So let us account for ourselves: what have we presented for ourselves in this noble month? Whoever has done well, let him praise Allah and complete his good deeds with good. And whoever has been negligent, let him make up for it with repentance, for Allah accepts repentance from His servants and forgives sins.[Yusuf 12:87] So whoever has done well or has fallen short, let him make a good ending, for deeds are judged by their endings. Then be in awe and fear that your deeds will not be accepted from you, for Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says: [Al-Ma'idah 5:27] So think about yourselves, your intentions, and your purposes. Let no one among you be pleased with his deed or think that he has done what is obligatory upon him and that he has fulfilled the right of Allah upon him.
Rather, he should consider himself to have fallen short. So we must be afraid that our deeds will be returned to us, and we should not be pleased with them or consider them many, for they are few in the right of Allah, for the right of Allah upon us is great. But He, Glorified and Exalted is He, forgives, is generous, and bestows out of His grace. So hold a good opinion of your Lord, hope for good, and do good deeds. Yes.
May I have your permission, Shaykh Salih, to take these questions that have come to us regarding the blessed month of Ramadan? This questioner says: Only a few days remain before the noble month ends. How do we conclude this noble month? May Allah bless you.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, all praise is due to Allah, and may the prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of Allah. First, we must praise and thank Allah for what He has bestowed upon us.
In this noble month, some people have been granted by Allah the opportunity to attain the virtues of this month, and they are few. Some have attained some of them, and some have not attained anything. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best the affairs of His servants, and He gives each person according to the measure of his intention. But there is still a remainder of the month, and the doors of good are still open. So let us account for ourselves: what have we presented for ourselves in this noble month? Whoever has done well, let him praise Allah and complete his good deeds with good. And whoever has been negligent, let him make up for it with repentance, for Allah accepts repentance from His servants and forgives sins.
and despair not of relief from Allah. Indeed, no one despairs of relief from Allah except the disbelieving people."
وَلَا تَيْأَسُوا مِن رَّوْحِ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَا يَيْأَسُ مِن رَّوْحِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا الْقَوْمُ الْكَافِرُونَIndeed, Allah only accepts from the righteous [who fear Him].
إِنَّمَا يَتَقَبَّلُ اللَّهُ مِنَ الْمُتَّقِينَRather, he should consider himself to have fallen short. So we must be afraid that our deeds will be returned to us, and we should not be pleased with them or consider them many, for they are few in the right of Allah, for the right of Allah upon us is great. But He, Glorified and Exalted is He, forgives, is generous, and bestows out of His grace. So hold a good opinion of your Lord, hope for good, and do good deeds. Yes.
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7554 — youtube.com (1:06)
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