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The Prophet’s (Prayers and Peace of Allah Be upon him) Sermon on the Last Day of Sha’ban
It has been reported by Bayhaqi, Shu’b-al-Iman Bahaar-e-Shariat that Hazrat Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him) once said that the Holy Prophet Muhammad (prayers and peace of Allah be upon Him) delivered the following sermon on the last day of Sha’ban:
“O people, a mighty month has cast its protective shade to screen you. A blessed month in which there is a night that is better than a thousand months! Allah has made keeping the fast therein an obligatory religious duty and the observance of the night vigil therein a voluntary practice. If someone seeks to draw near [to the Lord] there in by setting just one example of good conduct, or performs just one religious obligation, that person will be exactly the same as someone who discharges seventy religious obligations during all the other months of the year.
It is the month of patient endurance, and the reward for patient endurance is the Garden of Paradise. It is the month of charitable sharing, and it is the month in which the sustenance of the true believer is increased. So, if someone provides a breakfast meal [Iftaar] for a person who is keeping fast, this will result in forgiveness for his sins, and in his emancipation from the Fire of Hell. The benefactor will also be granted a reward equivalent to that earned by the recipient of generosity, but without anything at all being deducted from the reward due to the latter.
Allah will grant this reward to anyone who gives some kind of breakfast nourishment to a person who is keeping the fast, even if it is merely dried dates, a drink of water, or a cup of diluted milk.
It is a month the beginning of which is mercy, the middle of which is a forgiveness, and the last part of which is a deliverance from the Fire of Hell. So, if a slave-holder lightens the burden borne by his slave* in this month, Allah will forgive him and grant him freedom from the Fire of Hell.
Furthermore, if someone provides a satisfying breakfast meal, in the course of this month, for a person who is keeping the fast, Allah (Exalted is He) will give the benefactor a drink from my Basin, after which he will never feel thirsty again.â€
Extracted from IECRC’s Ramadan: The Month of Patience, Empathy and Self Purification (includes essentials prayers related to Ramadan)
*Please note that slavery as understood by the modern world is prohibited in Islam. This refers to anyone who is under one’s payroll providing services.
Dars ul-Quran Fi Shahar-e-Ramadan (Tafsir for each Juz of the Qur’an)
As series of video lectures over the 30 days of the month of Ramadan in the Urdu language covering a summary of each Juz (para) of the Holy Qur’an by Prof. Muhammad Abdullah Qadri
IECRC Holy Quran Conference 2012, Bahrain (under patronage of Pakistan Embassy)
To Register, Visit: http://iecrcholyquranconf2012.eventbrite.com/
Hafiz Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Qadri, a native of Pakistan, has been blind since infancy. However despite this challenge, he is a Muslim scholar of the highest caliber. He has completed the Dars-e-Nizami (18 year traditional Islamic course) and has a Masters in Islamic Studies and Arabic (Fazil Arabic). He is a Hafiz of the Holy Quran and Shaykh-ul-Hadith. He comes from a scholarly family descended from the Bani Hashim and has learned under great teachers whose authentic chains of transmission go back to the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him and his family). He has also accomplished the highest academic achievement in the field of Political Science – Ph.D. His life-long learning was not dependent on Braille; instead it was based on memorization in the companionship of his younger brother, another erudite scholar of Islam, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ahmed Qadri, Founding Director of the Islamic Educational and Cultural Research Center, USA and Canada (www.iecrcna.org). This is how Hafiz Abdullah Qadri accomplished his primary, secondary and higher education up until the post-graduate level. He has committed to memory over 200 books including those of the famous Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. In addition to Arabic and his native language of Urdu, Dr. Abdullah Qadri has expertise in English and Persian. He has been teaching since 1984. He has also served as the Head of the Department of Political Science at University of Karachi teaching students in Political Science and Law. He has students working on their Ph.D. under his guidance and is a Research Director in the Department of Political Science. He has been awarded numerous gold medals and awards in his field and was also proclaimed “Man of the Year” by the American Historical Society in the mid 90’s. Several local & national social organizations have recognized his services. Hafiz Dr. Abdullah Qadri makes frequent appearances on QTV and Shifa TV (www.shifa.tv).
