Bidding Farewell To Ramadhan -- Keep The Momentum Going

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate

It feels like yesterday we were celebrating the first day of Ramadhan and now it is almost over. Whether you love Ramadhan so much and want it to stay; whether you fell short in Ramadhan and want it to stay so you can do more, Ramadhan got to go. You can't stop Ramadhan from leaving. It is only here for a limited number of days -- 30 days. And you have to wait till next year to see Ramadhan again, that if Allah has decreed that you live till next Ramadhan.

People who have lost out in Ramadhan were those who had busied themselves with this world, with those things that didn't concern them and those things that won't benefit them in the hereafter. Our concern in this life should be Allah alone, our standing with Him, and our next life to come. And this is the concern that we trained ourselves in Ramadhan and we should have until we breathe our last.

Ramadhan was our training ground. Don't let that training go to waste.

You stood many hours for extra prayers -- Taraweeh and qiyamulail -- in Ramadhan, and that was a good month long practice indeed. So you should not have much problem doing extra prayers and waking up for tahajjud every night from now on.

You recited and listened to a lot of Quran in Ramadhan. Continue doing this. Recite the Quran regularly and listen attentively to Quran everyday. You should strive to complete reciting the entire Quran at least every month.

ٱتْلُ مَآ أُوحِىَ إِلَيْكَ مِنَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ وَأَقِمِ ٱلصَّلَو‌ٰةَ ۖ إِنَّ ٱلصَّلَو‌ٰةَ تَنْهَىٰ عَنِ ٱلْفَحْشَآءِ وَٱلْمُنكَرِ ۗ وَلَذِكْرُ ٱللَّهِ أَكْبَرُ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ مَا تَصْنَعُونَ ﴿٤٥﴾

Recite, [O Muhammad], what has been revealed to you of the Book and establish prayer. Indeed, prayer prohibits immorality and wrongdoing, and the remembrance of Allah is greater. And Allah knows that which you do. [Quran, Al-Ankabut 29:45]

We are commanded to recite the Quran and establish prayer. To recite the Quran regularly is an indication of the love of the Quran and the love of the Quran is the love of Allah. The prayers prevent us from doing evil and indecency and the one who prays regularly his life will begin to change automatically.

May Allah give us all Iman (Faith), sincerity (ikhlas), piety and God-conciousness (taqwa), and cause us to die on kalimah la ilaha illallah (There is no god except Allah). Aameen

Allahumma salli 'ala Muhammad wa 'ala aalihi wa sahbihi wasallam.

And Allah knows best and is Most Wise, and He alone grants success, and to Him is the final return of all.

Wassalaam