Day 30: Farewell, Ramadan | Ramadan Strong
Transformative gratitude is to live by Islam daily, to reflect on one's blessings frequently, and to live Ramadan year-round with consistency.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. As we have made it to the end of the month of Ramadan, we say alhamdulillah, all praise is due to Allah that He gave us life to make it to Ramadan and He gave us life to make it to the end of Ramadan. Alhamdulillah were the first words of Adam alayhi salam, the first human being, our forefather. These are the first words of the people of Jannah. When they enter Jannah, may Allah make us from amongst them. Wa qalu alhamdulillah alladhi sadaqana wa'da. Praise be to the one who fulfilled his promise to us. Alhamdulillah is what we want to end Ramadan with, but we want to transition it to the rest of the year as well. The only way to do that, number one, is to live a daily life of gratitude. So we are grateful to Allah for the blessings that He bestowed upon us. We are grateful for the health and the wealth and the time and the efforts that we have in our lives to dedicate towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So we exemplify gratitude day and night with the creator and with the creation. The second and last piece of advice and a reflection is that often times people think they are not capable of change. Ramadan is a proof that everyone is able to change. If you are starting from scratch or you feel demoralized or you feel demotivated, know that you and everyone around you, we are capable of change. Ramadan is a proof that internally if you are motivated, suddenly someone who is not praying or reading Quran throughout the year or fasting at all, they are able to pray and fast and recite and repent. So these are a proof for us but also against us that we have to take advantage of our lives, we have to take advantage of the motivation of people around us and we have to realize that internally we are capable of change.
If you are starting from scratch, the Prophet's advice is to start off with something light. So when he would pray qiyam or advise others to pray qiyamul layl, the night prayer, the Prophet began with something light as was reported by Aisha radiallahu anha. So when we pray during the night, when we start new consistent habits, in order to remain consistently motivated, start off with a small quick win, something that you can take long term for the rest of the year and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept from us and to make us people of gratitude until the day that we return to him. Wa sallilahumma ala Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in. Wa salamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakatohu.
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