Welcoming Ramadan
This blessed month is a great opportunity for goodness, blessing, worship, and obedience of Allah (SWT). It
is a great month, a noble season, a month in which rewards for good
deeds are multiplied and in which committing bad deeds is more serious
than at other times. The gates of Paradise are opened and the gates of
Hell are shut, and the sinners’ repentance to Allah is accepted. It is a
month whose beginning is mercy, whose middle is forgiveness, and whose
end is redemption from the Fire.
So give thanks to Him for the season of
goodness and blessing that He has bestowed upon you, and for the means
of bounty and various kinds of great blessings for which He has singled
you out. Make the most of this blessed time by filling it with acts of
worship and leaving haram (unlawful) things so that you may attain a
good life in this world and happiness after death.
For the sincere believer, every
month is an occasion for worship, and his whole life is spent in
obeying Allah. But in the month of Ramadan he has even more motives to
do good, his heart is even more focused on worship, and he turns even
more to his Lord. By His grace, our generous Lord bestows His bounty
upon the fasting believers and multiplies the reward for them on this
blessed occasion, so He gives abundantly and rewards generously for
righteous deeds.
We should note that the month of Ramadan is the best of months. This month is superior to others in four things:
1. In it there is
the best night of the year, which is Lailatul Al-Qadr. Worship on this
night is better than worshiping for a thousand months.
2. In this month was revealed the best of Books to the best of the Prophets (peace and blessings be upon them all).
3. In this month the gates of Paradise are opened and the gates of Hell are shut, and the devils are chained up.
4. There are many kinds of worship in
Ramadan, such as fasting, praying Qiyam Al-Layl (Night Vigil Prayer),
feeding the poor, performing i`tikaf (religious retreat), giving
charity, and reading the Qur’an.
I ask Allah, the Exalted, and the Almighty, to
help us all to do that and to help us to fast and pray Qiyam Al-layl,
and to do acts of worship and to avoid doing evil. Praise be to Allah.
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