The prophet saws say when the first night of Ramadan enters upon you know the first thing that Allah does is removes the influences he removes the major devils the most aggressive of the Gin away from you and puts them in Chains so you're on this path now and Allah restrains those from being able to influence you the way that they would be able to influence you throughout the year what does that mean Allah has given you power over the entire year Allah says in the Quran you have no control or authority over my servants
except for those who follow you willingly and the call of the safe on is you will find that most of them will not be grateful people so you have the power to put your safe ons in Chains throughout the entire year figuratively by not obeying them and by reducing them and by sustaining yourself with the Gratitude of Allah for the one who recognizes the blessings of Allah upon him will not find in himself the indecency to sin knowingly and consistently majorly or minorly you won't find that indecency within yourself because you know the Gratitude
you know the blessings of Allah upon you and you're grateful to him for them but in Ramadan, Allah pulls them further back and Allah makes you more aware of your blessings so while Allah feeds you with shukur with gratitude throughout the day through just the very Act of fasting which should increase that gratitude Allah also reduces the influence of the Sheldon so they become weaker than they already are they were already weak but now they're weaker now they're really reduced so if you think about this Jannah is
there it should be counted it should be very uh it should be common sense that if there is Paradise and I need to get to Paradise then no influence should get in the way but the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam mentioned that essentially what keeps us away from Jannah is not a lack of Good Deeds it's our inability to get out of our own way and now we're following another path Allah has already placed us on that path to get back home we just have to make sure that we don't take a detour and get away from that path
so the very first thing the prophet saws mentions here is that the sale team are restrained you have no excuses not you can't blame the influences have been reduced in ways that they will not be reduced throughout the entire year it starts with that and then the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam said this is beautiful the gates of Hellfire are closed and not a single one of their doors will be opened not just the gates of Hellfire are closed and not a single one of its doors will be opened you don't need
to be tempted and if you just think about this by the way the sins that we struggle with and the bad habits that we struggle with in Ramadan are leftovers from that which comes before Ramadan you're not going to be more tempted by sin and disobedience in Ramadan than you are outside of Ramadan what I mean by that is that your urge is to disobey Allah will not increase inside of Ramadan that's not going to happen most people don't suddenly take up a new sin in Ramadan right you don't start doing something
that you weren't doing before in Ramadan in terms of sin that's very unusual and unlikely instead you have a hard time kicking the previous habits so no new door of Hellfire will be opened the doors will not be open for you to sin you just need to properly let go of the old ones and make strides and make a way in Ramadan and the greatest accomplishment in Ramadan that you can possibly have beyond the recitation of the Quran beyond the amount of prayer that you do is to kick those bad habits and that should be the greatest metric
that you have in Ramadan the number one thing you need to ask yourself is how much distance have I put between myself and those sins that were holding me back that is going to be the standard for Success because not fasting long days and praying long into the night is abandoning the Disobedience of Allah abandoning the bad habits everything beyond that is Excellence as a son so this is where you start and this is your standard of success how distant can I make myself from those sins that have had power over me because the influence
they have over me now and the one who tempts me with those influences are more are weaker now than they ever will be so if there is ever a time to completely remove those shackles it's now because they're weaker now than they ever will be foreign.
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