and lead pious lives.

اٰمِیْنْ بِجَاہِ خاتَمِ النَّبِیّٖن صلَّی اللہُ عَلَیْہ ِوَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ

A supplication of the righteous

Allah has mentioned a supplication of intellectual and pious people in the Quran:

رَبَّنَا لَا تُزِغْ قُلُوْبَنَا بَعْدَ  اِذْ ھَدَیْتَنَا وَ ھَبْ لَنَا مِنْ لَّدُنْکَ رَحْمَۃً ۚ اِنَّکَ اَنْتَ الْوَھَابُ (۸)

“O our Lord! Do not cause our hearts to deviate after guiding us, and endow us with mercy from Your Court, indeed, You are the Great-Endower.^[1]

اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه Hearts attain guidance in Ramadan. The number of people   offering salah increases. Reciters of the Quran are greater in number. There is a relative increase in many kinds of worship, such as tarāwīḥ, iꜤtikāf, charity and benevolence towards other Muslims. Certainly, this is guidance. Now we should supplicate wholeheartedly in the court of Allah that He forgives us for all our intentional and unintentional sins, and He allows us to increase in our enthusiasm towards worshipping Him with the same feelings we felt in Ramadan. May He grant us steadfastness in this! 

If we continue to pray in the court of Allah, اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه we will attain blessings and steadfastness upon good deeds.   

An objective of Ramadan: Correcting the nafs al-ammārah 

Dear Islamic brothers! Why did Allah make fasting obligatory upon us during the month of Ramadan? Scholars cite many points of wisdom regarding this, one being that by virtue of fasting, the nafs al-ammārah (evil-