In the blessed month of Ramadan, each letter of the Quran bears not ten merits, but a thousand; and verses such as Ayat al-Kursi thousands for each letter; and on Fridays in Ramadan, it is even more..
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If you heed the Quran, you will rise to the highest of the high and become the most excellent pattern of the universe.
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Since the Night of Barat is like a sacred kernel for the entire year and as the program of human predestination, it shares the sanctity of the Night of Power.
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Since the Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) was created with the most moderate character in the most perfect form, his actions and rest all proceeded on moderation and equanimity.
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A general disaster results from the error of the majority. Disaster is the result of crime and the introduction to reward.
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The rich can truly understand the pains and hunger which the poor suffer through the hunger experienced in fasting.
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Fasting in the month of Ramadan awakens even the most heedless and obstinate to their weakness, impotence, and want.
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The heart predominates over the reason in the month of Ramadan and the spirit becomes animated.
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The most holy of such Books is the Quran of Miraculous Exposition; every letter of it affords thirty thousand rewards, and fruits of Paradise and lights in the Intermediate Realm through the mystery of the Night of Power.
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"Whoever stands in prayer during the nights of the two eids, seeking reward from Allah, his heart will not die on the Day when hearts will die." (Ibn Majah, Siyam, 67)
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The life of high ethics is truthfulness. The axis of progress is truthfulness. The order of the Islamic world is truthfulness. What conveys man down the road of progress to the kaaba of perfections is truthfulness.
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The All-Compassionate Creator desires thanks in return for the bounties He bestows on mankind, while wastefulness is contrary to thanks, and slights the bounty and causes loss.
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The Practices of the Prophet (pbuh) are courtesy. There is no matter among them beneath which a light, and courtesy, is not found.
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But if, through Islamic training, you spend the bounty of your youth as thanks honorably, in uprightness and obedience, it will in effect remain perpetually and will be the cause of gaining eternal youth.
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The time for enmity and hostility has finished. Two world wars have shown how evil, destructive, and what an awesome wrong is enmity. It has become clear that there is no benefit in it at all.
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Through a sound intention, you will receive a share of the praises and glorifications offered by all the plants and trees, whether flowering or fruit-bearing, that you grow in the garden. Whatever is eaten of the garden’s produce, whether by animals or man, cattle or flies, buyers or thieves, it will become like almsgiving from you.
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“With the sweet call of the Muḥammadan adhān (ʿalayhi al-ṣalātu wa’l-salām), which summons the people scattered across the plain of the world to the congregation, a yearning and enthusiasm for worship and communal prayer arise.”
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Man cannot do a better deed that sacrificing an animal for the sake of Allah on the days of sacrifice
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Genuine sincerity, even for the sake of evil, cannot fail to yield results, and whatever man seeks with sincerity, Allah will grant him it.
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The world is not a commodity worth arguing over.
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You have been created for worship. The result and purpose of your creation is worship. Striving for sustenance, when done from the standpoint of the Divine command, is also a kind of worship.
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If you abandon the fard prayer, all the fruits of your effort will be confined solely to worldly, insignificant, and unblessed sustenance.
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Contentment and frugality ensure your life and sustenance more than does a salary.
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Just as the morning of this night and the spring of this winter are certain, necessary, and reasonable, so too are the dawn of the Resurrection and the spring of the Intermediate Realm (barzakh) certain with the same definiteness.
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Supplication has a powerful effect. It almost always yields results, indeed, its results are continuous, especially if it gains universality and is constant.
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In its movements and earthquakes the earth shakes at a command, on receiving revelation and inspiration. And sometimes it trembles.
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The person who observes the universe for the Sake of Allah, whatever he sees is knowledge. If he observes it heedlessly for causes, what he takes as knowledge is ignorance.
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A spiritual consolation for a despondent and hopeless patient is sometimes more beneficial than a thousand medicines.
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If it had not been for him, there would have been no eternal happiness, and mankind and the jinn, who have the ability to benefit from all the creatures of Paradise, would not have dwelt there; in that sense it would have remained empty, a wasteland.
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The exact time for Islamic unity is therefore beginning. It necessitates not paying attention to one another’s personal faults.
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Against these dreadful destroyers, only the unity of Islam around the Quranic truth can withstand.
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If respect and compassion quit the human heart, those with such hearts become exceedingly cruel beasts and can no longer be governed through politics.
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It is worship that makes the creedal and faith-related rulings firm and established, and transforms them into a settled disposition.
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The pleasures and enjoyment man receives through licit striving within the sphere of what is lawful are sufficient for him. No need remains to enter the unlawful.
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Quranic justice stands at the door of the world and says to usury and interest:
“No entry! It is forbidden! You don’t have the right to enter here!”
Mankind did not heed the command, and received a severe blow. So it must heed it before it receives one even more severe.
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Paradise is the means both to all spiritual and non-physical pleasures, and to all physical pleasures.
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This passage of life is a sleep, passing like a dream. Even this fleeting existence flies away like the wind.
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“Allahumma barik lana fi Rajaba wa Sha'ban wa ballighna Ramadan”
“O Allah! Bless us in Rajab and Sha‘ban, and let us reach Ramadan.”
(Ahmad b. Hanbal, Musnad, 1/259)
May Your Three Holy Months Be Blessed.
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The phrase “Bismillah” is like the sun. As it illuminates other things, it also reveals itself. In every breath and every moment, the soul needs it as it needs air and water; thus every spirit perceives its reality.
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In these blessed months, rewards are multiplied a hundredfold.
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These nights may count as fifty years of worship. Therefore, engaging with the Quran as much as possible, seeking forgiveness, and sending blessings upon the Prophet is a great gain.
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The wisdom behind the Ascension is so exalted that human intellect cannot comprehend it. It is so. It is so profound that human thought cannot reach it, and so subtle and fine that the intellect cannot see it by itself.
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Everything concerning the Quran and belief is valuable; however insignificant a point appears to be, it has great value. Nothing that helps to win eternal happiness is insignificant.
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While each good deed is rewarded thirty thousand times on the Night of Power, every good deed and every letter of the Quran is rewarded twenty thousand times on the Night of Barat.
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You will suffer the penalty for betrayal of trust. For you will have wronged your own self by using the most precious tools on the most worthless objects.
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The fast of Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam; it is also one of the greatest of the marks and observances of Islam.
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