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POST RAMADAN & THE NIGHT BEFORE EID UL FITR

Many of us are just Ramadan Muslims:

Many of us both are unfortunately just Ramadan Muslims. We become devotedto our faith for just one month of the year and the rest of the year we spend

chasing our desires with our only or main concern being the worldly and

materialistic life. Why do we desire a life that is so temporary and can end at

any second?

Just for this one month we reach to our top shelves and blow off the dust from

our Qur'an and get the prayer mats out from within our cupboards. MashaAllah

we become so much more practicing during this blessed month than any other

time of the year. We fast, we stand in the night for Taraweeh prayer and even

do good deeds that we have not done or even thought of doing outside ofRamadan. We sit and spend more time with our families. We recite the Quran al

Kareem; do the Dhikr of Allah (subhanahu wa taala) and visit the Masjid so

much more than at any other time of the year.

We feel a wonderful sense of peace and satisfaction in our hearts because we

feel a deeper sense of awareness of Allah (subhanahu wa taala) during this

blessed month than we do throughout the year.

The night before the day of Eid:

The night before the day of Eid, shaytaan gets released from the chains andshackles and runs to see what state we are in after this blessed month. He does

not like what he sees. So straight away he gets to work trying to undo the good

habits we have acquired throughout this blessed month. Then we see that during

the night before Eid, our sisters and brothers return to old habits and return to

our old company.

Narrated by Ibn Umar (RadhiAllahu Anhu): "Whoever imitates a group, then he

is from amongst them"(Abu Dawud, Mishkat)

Back to old habits:

That very same night before Eid the Masaajids are empty! The Isha prayer is

abandoned! We see many of our brothers and sisters blasting music from their

cars busying themselves preparing for Eid day and in doing so abandon the

prayer which is the purpose of our creation! We begged of Allah to forgive us

and we go back to our evils that very night before Eid?

Instead of thanking Allah (subhanahu wa taala) on the night before Eid we

ridicule and mock by going back to the evils we begged of him for forgiveness

for! This month was a chance for us to redeem ourselves and to change our

state but rather than go forward and get closer to Allah (subhanahu wa taala)

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and bring our faith into every aspect of our lives we go backwards again and

back into old and evil habits.

We are Muslim just by name but not by action. Many of us fast and pray during

this blessed month only because we have to or others are doing it and not solely

for the pleasure of Allah or to get closer to him. What a sad state of affairs!

Only 3% of our day on praying:

If we calculate how long it would take to pray 5 times a day then you could sum

it up to around 40 minutes a day. Now there are 1440 minutes in a day and 40

minutes out of 1440 of our day is ONLY 3% of a day and we still can't manage

that? Many of us spend that much time eating, excreting or in front of a mirror

and we can't even spend it praying and fulfilling the very purpose of our

creation?

The men of Allah (subhanahu wa taala) or Awliya practice Ramadan everyday of

their lives even after the month has finished for an ordinary muslim.

Let us not abandon the Qur'an:

Our connection to RasoolAllah (Sallalahu Alayhi WaSalam) is the beloved Quran

al Kareem which was revealed directly to them. The Quran will intercede on

your behalf so use it to your benefit. We should recite from the Qur'an everyday

even if it is a few ayaat. We should read and try to understand the message of

the Qur'an and contemplate and ponder over it and try to implement it into ourdaily lives as that is the purpose of the Qur'an, for it to be used as our daily

guide and not to gather dust on the top shelf. We should establish a close

connection with the best and most favorite place of Allah which is the Masjid and

the gatherings of Dhikr.

Chaand Raat in Islam?

Beware of the novelty concept of Chaand Raat, a misleading attempt to

associate entertainment, melas, shopping festivals etc with what is in essence

one of the most important nights of the Islamic calendar.

According to hadith sharif the true name for the the night is Lailatul Jaiza

which translates as the Night of Reward. The night has been awarded the

same level of rank as Laylatul Qadr, Shab e Baraat, Shab e Meraj and the night

before Eid Ul Adha.

It has been the practice of the Prophet (Sallalahu Alayhi WaSalam) that the

beloved would spend the night before Eid Ul Fitr in prayer rather than sleep.

The Prophet (Sallalahu Alayhi WaSalam) stated: Whoever stands up (in

worship) in the nights preceding the two Eids expecting rewards from his Lord,his heart will not die when the other hearts will die.(Ibn Majah)

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To benefit from this opportunity, one should perform as much worship in this

night as he can with Nafl ibaadat and the remembrance of Allah (subhanahu wa

taala).

May Allah (subhanahu wa taala) enable us to carry the positive changes we

made during Ramadan throughout the rest of the year. Ameen