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Getting ready for Ramadan

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Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Haddad

25 March 2022

The blessed month of Ramadan will come upon us after days. We welcome it, and bless those who realize this holy month with a good intention to make it the season of eternity to make use of its days and nights in obedience to the Most Gracious, and to work with what brings it closer to calling Bab al-Rayyan, and entering the house of Radwan, which has been prepared for the people of charity, so welcome this holy month, and yes Coming came!

It is coming to us this year, and the Corona pandemic - heavy and hateful - is about to take over, not regretting it;

So that this month will be filled with wreaths of joy and rejoicing, souls will come to it with love and a valid intention for its fasting and prayers in faith and anticipation, with the intention of sealing the Qur’an in it one final after one, the intention to pay zakat and alms, the intention of kinship ties, and forgiveness among people, and the councils are prepared for their visitors, and mosques are prepared for Iftar meals. And private places, seeking the face of God Almighty.

All this and more is what people prepare for the blessed month of Ramadan, which is a good and beautiful preparation, and the most beautiful of it is to remember that this month is part of a person’s life, rather it is the most generous part of it and its best days and nights, because it is a month in which a person is provided for his next life, in which the excessive says: {Oh, that I had come to my life}, for the real life is the abode of the afterlife, about which our Lord, the Exalted, says: {And the last abode belongs to the living creatures}, meaning it is the eternal life, unlike that of God Almighty who said about it: and play}, and everyone knows the meaning of amusement and play, that it is rapidly ephemeral and changeable, so no matter how long a person lives in this life, it is only as if he stayed in it overnight or in the evening, or as if he entered one door and left at another, so he crosses the distances of his travel from it from the first hour he entered it. He prepares the hours to meet death, just as it does not clear or settle for a person, but rather is tinged with sorrows, troubles, and ailments.

It does not last in a state when it is in it *** as the ghouls color in its clothes.

As Kaab bin Zuhair said in his famous burdath.

What can benefit from this life is the provision for that house in which the decision is made, and that is what God Almighty commanded to be provided with, which is His piety, the Exalted, the Majestic in every situation, and his observance of Him in secret and in public, as He, Glory be to Him, said: }, the noble verse says explicitly: You, Abdullah, are a traveler, and the traveler needs provisions to live on during his journey, otherwise he stumbles and scattered, and perhaps he would have wished to be with those who were provided, but he did not act on their work, so they were just wishes, and therefore he was reprimanded by some of them saying:

Are you satisfied that you are the companion of a people *** who have provision and you are without provision?!

This holy month that will be presented to us is the month of provision for the return and meeting the Lord of the servants, who has blessed us with extensions of life and health, so that we may make this month in particular and all our times in general an arena for racing for good, and hastening to do what pleases the Lord of creatures, from the arts of obedience and the kinds of acts of worship, so let us be prepared for that. With a good intention, if we believe God Almighty in this intention, we will never be disappointed, for our Lord, glory be to Him, is at the good thought of His servant of Him, and He gives him according to the extent of his intention, even if he is not able to work due to incapacity or fulfillment of time;

The reward for the work that he intended will be given to him. A person’s intention is better than his work, as it was narrated, and it was authenticated in the hadith: “There are people in Madinah. You never traveled a path or crossed a valley but they were with you.” They said: O Messenger of God, while they are in Madinah?!

He said:

So we ask God to fix our intentions to work in what pleases our Lord always, and in this month in particular, a person’s intention is to ride what he wants from reward or something else.

• This holy month that will come before us is the month of provisioning for the return and meeting the Lord of the servants.

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