# Day 29: Beware of Ramadanitis | Ramadan Strong **Author:** Sh. Yasir Fahmy **Series:** Ramadan Strong **Published:** 2019-06-03 **YouTube:** https://youtu.be/5f3S0GZn-VA **URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/ramadan-strong/day-29-beware-of-ramadanitis-ramadan-strong **Topics:** Acts of Worship, Sharia ## Description Realizing the spiritual station of taqwa requires that we are in an active state until the last moment. ## Transcript **[0:00]** Bismillah walhamdulillah, wa salatu was salamu ala rasulullah, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa **[0:15]** man wana wa ba'a. Brothers and sisters, now that we are at the very end of the month of Ramadan, I wanted to share with you some thoughts around a very prophetically inspired concept. And that is the idea of al-ibratu bil-khawateen, that virtue lies in the end point. **[0:33]** This reflects a deep spiritual reality which basically says, Ya Allah, I care about you at every juncture. I'm not going to be afflicted by the type of logic of senioritis. You know there's this logic that when it's your senior year, you just kind of let go, **[0:53]** you relax, you sit back, you transition. It's not the reality. For those of us who are living in the dunya, with an ukhrawi mindset, man arada al-akhira, wa sa'a laha sa'iyaha, those who desire the akhira and they strive for the akhira, that **[1:09]** requires that until the last second, I am in a modality that reflects a deep spirit of taqwa, that I care about Allah, and I care about my performance in front of Allah, up until the last second, as my breath still exists, as my function is still sound, because **[1:30]** as Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal said, amaluna hatha minal mahdi ilal lahd, that our actions, this affair of ours, of seeking knowledge and seeking truth and being fee sabeelillah, being in the way of Allah, that this is from the cradle to the grave. **[1:48]** That's why the Prophet ﷺ, he tells us that if the hour comes and you have in your hand a fasila, a small tree, plant it. Yes, we may not come to see the fruits of that tree, but the action is what matters. And so brothers and sisters, in these last moments that we have in the month of Ramadan, **[2:06]** let us make sure that we show Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that we care deeply about this sacred month until the last second. We're not going to get into that Ramadan-itis, which is the post 27th night reality, where everyone just kind of starts to coast, gets into aid mode, shopping mode. **[2:23]** Know that until the last second of Ramadan, I want to be amongst those people who are present, visible, and on the receiving end of the divine gaze, that Allah sees me in those last moments as someone who deeply cares, because that reflects the deeper essence of **[2:42]** my taqwa, insha'Allah ta'ala. Our taqwa is reflected and manifests and that it does not discriminate whether the time is the beginning or the end. Because there are other principles I will tell you, مَن كَانَتْ بِدَاهَيَتُهُ مُحْرِقًا كَانَتْ نِهَيَتُهُ مُشْرِقًا **[2:59]** That those who in the beginning point it was burning, that at the end point it will be illuminated. So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us illuminated and beautiful in a state of loving surrender in the beginning and the middle and certainly in the end. **[3:15]** اللهم احسن خواتيمانا We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make perfect our ending from this dunya and may He grant us an ending where the last words that we utter with our tongues and that we feel in our hearts and are realized in our limbs are لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله وصلى اللهم على سيدنا محمد **[3:33]** وآخر دعوانا والحمد لله رب العالمين بارك الله فيكم والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله ## Other Episodes in "Ramadan Strong" - [Day 30: Farewell, Ramadan | Ramadan Strong](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/ramadan-strong/day-30-farewell-ramadan-ramadan-strong.md) - [Day 28: Practicing Istiqama for the Long Haul | Ramadan Strong](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/ramadan-strong/day-28-practicing-istiqama-for-the-long-haul-ramadan-strong.md) - [Day 27: Meeting the Best Version of Ourselves | Ramadan Strong](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/ramadan-strong/day-27-meeting-the-best-version-of-ourselves-ramadan-strong.md) - [Day 26: A Date with Destiny | Ramadan Strong](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/ramadan-strong/day-26-a-date-with-destiny-ramadan-strong.md) - [Day 25: The Value of Seclusion - Ihtikaf | Ramadan Strong](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/ramadan-strong/day-25-the-value-of-seclusion-ihtikaf-ramadan-strong.md) - [Day 24: When the Night Draws its Curtain —The Importance of Tahajjud | Ramadan Strong](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/ramadan-strong/day-24-the-importance-of-tahajjud-ramadan-strong.md) - [Day 23: Maximizing the Last Ten Days | Ramadan Strong](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/ramadan-strong/day-23-maximizing-the-last-day-days-ramadan-strong.md) - [Day 22: Charity in the Last 10 Nights | Ramadan Strong](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/ramadan-strong/day-22-charity-in-the-last-10-nights-ramadan-strong.md) - [Day 21: Ten Days Ahead, Another Chance? 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