Ramadan Planning

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Ramadan Planning

• If you FAIL to PLAN
• You PLAN to FAIL

• Weather Forecast
• Long Journey Car check
• Gear up
• Negative perceptions

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Why PLAN for Ramadhan

• The best of Months
• Quran revealed in this month
• A month of Blessing, Mercy Forgiveness
• Allah Himself gives rewards for one who fasts
• Doors of Heaven are opened
• Doors of Hell are closed
• Shayateen are chained
• Rewards multiplied from 10 to 700 times
• A Night better than 1000 months

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Remember

• Satan discourages one to plan
• Discourages good deeds
• Make excuses for you
• Tries to make you forget the hereafter

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Planning Areas
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Salat

• Plan for obligatory prayers in congregation
  (Jamat)
• Dont miss the special Taraweeh prayers
• Get closer to Allah by Tahajjud prayers
• Try to achieve Khushoo (concentration)

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Zikr

• Keep your tongue wet with the remembrance (zikr)
  of Allah - Tirmidhi
• When a group of people assemble for remembrance
  of Allah
• The Angels surround them (with their wings)
• (Allahs) mercy envelops them
• Sakinah (tranquility) descends upon them
• Allah makes a mention of them before those who
  are near Him
• Zikr morning/evening, after azan/salat, before
  sleeping

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Umrah and Itikaaf

• Umrah in Ramadan equal to Haj with the Prophet
  (PBUH) (Bukhari Muslim)
• The Prophet (PBUH) used to perform Itikaaf during
  the last 10 days of Ramadan (Bukhari Muslim)
  
• Opportunity for people in Saudi Arabia
• Weekend Umrah trips
• Itikaaf at Makkah or Madinah Mosques

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Financial

• Zakat purifies the wealth (2.5 )
• Sadaqah/Lillah - investment for the future
• Relatives in need of support

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Quran

• Tajweed Learn to recite correctly
• Tilawat Read the whole Quran at least once
• Tarjuma Read the complete translation once
• Tafseer Plan to go through the tafseer
• Tadabbur Take out time to ponder on verses
• Tahfeez Memorize some Surahs / Aayaats

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Dawah

• Muslim Friends
• Iftar invitation
• Remind about Islam
• Compete in worship
• Team motivation
• Non-Muslim Friends
• Iftar invitation
• Introduce Invite to Islam
• Tell them why we fast

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Fasting

• Monday / Thursday
• Ayyaam Beedh
• Shabaan fasting highly recommended
• Body metabolism
• Long days in Ramadhan
• Possibly hot weather

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Why Fast?

1. To develop patience and self-control
2. To learn sympathy for the deprived
3. To cleanse the body and mind
4. To gain appreciation for Allah's bounty
5. To demonstrate the depth of one's commitment
6. To protect against sin

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Quran Hadith

• O ye who believe, fasting has been prescribed
  upon you as it was prescribed upon those
  before you, so that ye may learn self-restraint.
  
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  (Chapter2, Verse183)
• Hadith Qudsi (Muslim)
• I swear by the One in Whose Hand is the soul
  of Muhammad, the breath of the faster is
  sweeter to Allah on the Day of Judgment than
  the scent of musk.

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The Reward of Fasting
Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) said, that Allah
Subhanahu-wa-Taala said All the deeds of man
are for himself, except for fasting, which is for
Me and I shall reward it MYSELF. (Al-Bukhaari,
Al-Fath, no. 1904)

• Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) said, Whoever fasts
  Ramadan out of faith and with the hope of reward,
  all his previous sins will be forgiven.

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Virtues and Benefits of Fasting

• Fasting will intercede for a person on the Day
  of Judgement, and will say, O Lord! I prevented
  him from his food and physical desires during the
  day, so let me intercede for him. (Reported by
  Ahmad, 2/174)

• Whoever fasts one day for the sake of Allah,
  Allah will remove him a distance of seventy
  years from the Hell-fire. (Muslim, 2/808)

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Virtues and Benefits of Fasting

• Whoever fasts one day, seeking the pleasure of
  Allah, if that is the last day of his life, he
  will enter Paradise. (Ahmad, 5/391)

• In Paradise there is a gate called al-Rayyaan,
  through which those who fast will enter, and no
  one will enter it except them when they have
  entered, it will be locked, and no-one else will
  enter through it. (Al-Bukhari, Fath, no. 1797)

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Acceptance of Dua

• The Messenger of Allahsaw has been reported as
  saying
• "There are three categories of people whose
  supplications will not be rejected
• The person who observes the fast until he
  breaks it
• A just ruler,
• A person who has been oppressed."

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Please - Stop Habits

• TV serials, cartoons, films, football
• Chatting with friends - useless talk
• Internet surfing unnecessary wasting time
• Smoking starting of ALL bad habits
• Gheebat eating dead brothers meat
• Wasting time

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But this is too much!

• University Course / Oxbridge entry
• Job Application form
• interview
• Long haul journeys / holidays
• Plan for the greatest journey to Jannah

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If not.

• Prophet Mohammedsaw said
• There are many a people who fast, but gain
  nothing from their fasting except hunger
• There are many who stay awake at night (in
  worship), but gain nothing but sleeplessness

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If not.

• Can never make up Ramadhan fasts even if you fast
  for the rest of your life
• Woe to a person who is healthy in Ramadhan, but
  is not forgiven
• Torrential Rain

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Summary

• Intention Dua
• Plan Get ready
• 30 day Shabaan plan
• Weekly Ramadhan plan
• Check list
• Gear-up get wet (rain of mercy)
• Stay motivated
• Encourage children, family friends
• Dont give up
• Eid forgiveness
• I wish ever month was Ramadhan

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Yaa Allah
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• Enable us to plan for this blessed month
• Give us the strength patience to fast during
  the whole month of Ramadhan.
• Accept all our fasts in this holy month.
• Give us the opportunity to worship in the night
  of Qadr accept our worship.
• Help us to continue all the good deeds we do in
  this holy month throughout the year.

(AMEEN)