Significance of Blessed Month Ramadan - Page 5

As-Salamu 'alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu 😊

Beautiful post, dear! 👏

There are some things I also would like to share regarding this most blessed month, if you don't mind (they might be not for everyone...) 😳 This is the Month of blessings and forgiveness, a Month that unites Muslims world-wide (no matter their beliefs) and we should embrace the Month of Ramadhan with pure hearts, banishing all resentments and negative feelings and focus on our Imaan and do good to fellow Muslims 😊

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There are many supplications to be recited, especially in this blessed Month (if anyone is interested in du'as, I'd be happy to share some 😳). One such supplication, which should be recited at Sehri time, e.g. in the last hours of the night:

Dua Baha - Supplication of Brilliance

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The Holy Prophet (saww) said, "Do not say: Ramadhan, for verily Ramadhan is one of the names of Allah. Instead say: The Month of Ramadhan". (Kanzul-'Ummaal)

The Month of Mercy

The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny) has said:

It (Ramadhan) is the month, whose beginning is mercy, its middle, forgiveness and its end, emancipation from the fire (of helI). Bihar al-Anwar, Vol.: 93, Pg.: 342

The Month of Ramadhan and Seeking Forgiveness

Imam Ali (a) said:

It is incumbent upon you to seek forgiveness and supplicate excessively, in the month of Ramadhan. As for the supplication, by means of it the calamities are warded off from you, and as for the seeking of forgiveness, it erases away your sins.

AI-Kafi, Vol.: 4, Pg.: 88.

The Night of Qadr

The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny) said:

0' People! Surely, a great and blessed month has enveloped you. A month, in which there is a night; deeds in which are better than that of a thousand months.

Bihar al-Anwar, Vol.: 96, Pg.: 342.

The Spring of Ouran

Imam Baqir (a) said: For every thing there is a (period of) spring and the spring of Qur'an is the month of Ramadhan.

Wasail aI-Shia'h, Vol.: 10, Pg.: 302

The Chosen Month

The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny) said:

Surely, Allah, The Mighty The Glorious, has chosen from amongst the months (and granted preference to), the months of Rajab, Sha'ban and the month of Ramadhan.

Bihar al-Anwar, Vol.: 27, Pg.: 53.

The Burning away of Sins

The holy prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny) has said: Surely, the month of Ramadhan has been named so because the sins get burnt away in it.

Mustadrak al-Wasail, Vol.: 7, Pg.: 484.

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Not sure if anyone shared this alread or not - but this a most beautiful sermon regarding Shahr Ramadhan. Nothing better to show us the beauty of this Months!

The prophet's [s] sermon welcoming the Month of Ramadhan:

The following incident has been narrated by al-Saduq on pp. 84-85 of his Al-Amali thus:

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim says that Ahmed ibn Muhammad-al- Hamadani says that Ali ibn al-Hassan ibn Fadal quotes his father quoting al-Hassan's father Imam Ali bin Musa al-Rida (a) who in turn quotes his father Imam Musa ibn Ja'fer (a) quoting his father the master of martyrs Imam al-Husain ibn Ali ibn Abu Talib (a) saying that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) delivered a sermon once in which he said:

O people! A month has approached you laden with blessing, mercy and forgiveness; it is a month which Allah regards as the best of all months. Its days, in the sight of Allah, are the best of days; its nights are the best of nights; its hours are the best of hours.

It is a month in which you are invited to be the guests of Allah, and you are regarded during it as worthy of enjoying Allah's Grace. Your breathing in it praises the Almighty, and your sleeping adores Him. Your voluntary acts of worship are accepted, and your pleas are answered. Ask Allah your Lord, therefore, in sincere intentions and pure hearts to enable you to fast during it and to recite His Book, for only a wretch is the one who is deprived of Allah's forgiveness during this great month. And let your hunger and thirst during it remind you of the hunger and thirst of the Day of Resurrection. Give alms to the poor and indigent among you; surround your elderly with respect, and be kind to your youngsters. Visit your kin and safeguard your tongues, and do not look at what Allah has prohibited you from seeing, and do not listen to anything your ears are forbidden to hear.

Be kind to the orphans of others so that your own orphans will equally receive kindness. Repent your sins to Allah and raise your hands to Him in supplication during the times of your prayers, for they are the best times during which the Almighty looks with mercy to His servants and answers their pleas when they plead to Him.

O people! Your souls are pawned by your deeds; therefore, release them by seeking Allah's forgiveness. Your backs are over-burdened by the weight of your sins; therefore, lighten their burden by prolonging your prostration. Be informed that the Exalted and Almighty has sworn by His Dignity not to torture those who perform their prayers and prostrate to Him, and not to terrify them by the sight of the fire when people are resurrected for judgment.

O people! Whoever among you provides iftar to a believer during this month will receive a reward equal to one who sets a slave free, and all his past sins will be forgiven.

Having said so, people said to him: "O Messenger of Allah! Not all of us can do that!" He (pbuh), thereupon, responded by saying:

Shun the fire of hell even by half a date! Shun the fire of hell even by a drink of water! O People! Whoever among you improves his conduct during this month will have a safe passage on al-Sirat al-Mustaqeem, (the straight path) when many feet will slip away, and whoever among you decreases the burdens of his slave (or anyone who works for him) will be rewarded by Allah decreasing his reckoning [...]

Note: It is a very long sermon so I didn't post it completely. If anyone's interested in its full version, do let me know 😉

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May this month be full of blessings and happiness for you and your families and all loved ones! And please, do remember all Mu'meen in your prayers and especially pray for those who are suffering world-wide from oppression and many injustices, hunger and loss, whether it be our Muslim brothers and sisters in Palestine, in Yemen, Iraq or Syria, Africa or anywhere else on this world.

May Allah have Mercy on all of us.