SIGNS OF GOODNESS AND HUMILIATION
"I wonder whether the one who during Ramadān was fasting, reciting and reading Qur’an, giving and spending in charity, praying at night, making du’aa’, will he be like that after Ramadān, or will he follow another path, I mean the path of the Shaytān, so that he commits sin and does things that anger the Most Gracious, Most Merciful? If a Muslim continues to have the patience to do righteous deeds after Ramadān, this is a sign that his fasting has been accepted by his Lord, the Most Generous, the Bestower of blessings. If he fails to do righteous deeds after Ramadān, and follows the ways of the Shaytān, this is a sign of humiliation, meanness, lowly status and being deprived of the help of ALLĀH."
{Advice After Ramadān, Islamqa Questions and Answer #10505}
The pious and sincere believer will strive to fear and obey ALLĀH at all times, persisting in his taqwa and always striving to do good. A small action done constantly and regularly is better than a greater action which is done occasionally or done for a certain period then never performed again. ALLĀH's Messenger (ﷺ) said: "The best deeds are those done regularly even if they are few." {Ibn Majah #4240}
How beautiful were the words of Al-Junaid Al-Baghdādī, "If a man worships ALLĀH for one thousand years, and then he turns away from him for one moment, then what he missed in this moment is more than what he gained ˹in the one thousand years of worship˺" {Awakening From The Sleep of Heedlessness, pg. 31}
Our righteous predecessors were very conscious of their time and spent every minute in the obedience of ALLĀH. Janeed bn Muhammad was busy reciting the Qur’an and panting with his breath in his dying bed. His children said: ‘You are exerting too much pressure on your person!’ He answered: ‘And who is more deserving to exertion than me?’
Al-Aswad bin Yazīd (may ALLĀH have mercy on him) used to pray Qiyāmu-layl for the most part of the night. Some of his friends advised him to have some rest, and he said: ‘It is the rest of the Hereafter I’m seeking with my night prayers.’
This is the fulfilment of the words of ALLĀH:
وَٱعۡبُدۡ رَبَّكَ حَتَّىٰ یَأۡتِیَكَ ٱلۡیَقِینُ
And worship your Lord until there comes to you the certainty (i.e., death).
{Al-Ḥijr: Verse 99}
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